Open Letter to Pope Francis & the Catholic Church #01

Pan-African Roots sends

Open Letter to Pope Francis I & the Catholic Church

Requesting confirmation that:

God Makes No Slave in the Womb!

His Holiness Pope Francis I

Head of the Catholic Church,

Prefect of the Dicastery of Evangelization, and

Grand Master of the Supreme Order of Christ

Vatican City State 00120

Your Holiness and Eminences:

Pan-African Roots, a 501-c3 tax exempt network based in the United States, sends You, and tens of thousands of other stakeholders in every corner of Africa, the African Diaspora and the World, this email and two attached documents: (1) An Open Letter to Pope Francis and the Catholic Church Worldwide and (2) An Incomplete List of Papal Bulls and Related Treaties for and against Exploration and Discovery, Settlement and Colonization, Trafficking and Enslavement, and Forced Conversion.

Similar Open Letters and supportive documents will be sent, over the next few weeks, to other religious, spiritual and irreligious traditions, and to other stake holders throughout Africa, the African Diaspora and the World, especially to the Heads of States and Governments of Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Denmark and the Baltic countries, France, Great Britain, and the United States, and to their former and current Empires. We do not claim to speak for or on behalf of African People; we speak truth to them, and to the powerless and the powerful of the world. We do not compete with those forces who justly make this claim. We are a part of the records and information disclosure movement. We do not seek to build another organization; we demand the fullest and strongest accountability from all of those who exist today and will come into existence.

We are a part of the records disclosure movement. This is not a request for another apology for the crimes committed against hundreds of millions of African People during the genocide committed against, the trafficking in (trading), and enslavement of them from 1307 to 1888, or the crime being committed against 1.5 billion African People today. This is also not another demand for reparations, contracts, or grants of any kind. We do not compete with those forces who make these demands.

We request:

(1)    Confirmation that God Makes No Slaves in the Womb!

(2)    Translation, digitization, and disclosure of the 2000-year-old slavery era, colonial era and neo-colonial era records of the Catholic Church, and related entities, worldwide.

(3)    Inclusion of African and Poor Youth in every corner of Africa, the African Diaspora, and the World in every phase and aspect of this historic archival and scholarly project.

(4)    That you and the Catholic Church worldwide help create a new generation of anti-slavery and anti-trafficker, digital ninjas, digital archivists and scholars, organizers, priests, and lay people.

(5)    That you, the Catholic Church, and those civil society and governmental forces with whom you work, give every young person in the world a library card that enables and empower to access this record breaking and life-changing digital database. Give them also scholarships and the required resources to excel. In short, we request that you galvanize and unleash the fullest extent and power of the Papal Magisterium to meet the above requests. We believe that God and World Humanity will be very pleased. Pan-African Roots thanks you and all who join you in this project in advance for whatever consideration you give to our request.

Sincerely, 

Bob Brown, Director

Pan-African Roots

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Revolutionary Condolences: Omama Amankwa Appiah

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

Condolences to the Family, Children, Confraternities in Assin Asamankese and Friends of

Omama Amankwa Appiah

September 27, 2022

In Remembrance of Omama Amankwa Appiah

(November 14, 1957 – September 20, 2022)

Being an Nkrumahist/Nkrumahist-Toureist is to acquire the feat of understanding the importunacy of discipline. One of Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah’s rule of discipline is to “Always be the servant of the people.” This is one legacy and example that we can take from the life lesson of our Brother Omama Amankwa Appiah. Joining the Pan-African Movement in the late 70s, actively participating in the struggle against Decolonization in Ghana under the banner of the organization, Preparation Against Doomsday (PADD), becoming the Chairman in the late 90s of the Osagyefo Youth Movement (OYM) and later being appointed as the Chairman of the Organizational Committee of the Central Committee of the (CPP) in 2008; he gives us an example and reminds us of the honor of being a Servant of the People by approximately displaying 50 years or more serving the people.

It is here, that the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)/A-APRP (GC) and its women wing the All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (GC)/A-AWRU (GC) pay our respect and gratitude to our Brother Omama Amankwa Appiah reminding us all, particularly our youth/students of today of being a servant of the people is one of the highest role models that, one should strive to become/ be. We give praise to our Freedom Fighter, Nkrumahist and Pan-Africanist Organizer, Brother Omama Amankwa Appiah.

All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (GC)

www.a-aprp-gc.org

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Revolutionary Condolences: Ava Muhammad

Revolutionary Condolences to the Nation of Islam

Upon the Transition of Sister Student Minister Ava Muhammad

September 1, 2022

The All-African Peoples’ Revolutionary Party (GC) and its women’s union, the All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (GC) extends our heartfelt revolutionary condolences to the Nation of Islam upon the transition of Sister Student Minister Ava Muhammad. We understood her to be a stalwart fellow soldier, a warrior in our struggle for justice and peace throughout the world. While we will miss her contributions and work as a fierce advocate for the “least of us” it will continue to help to sustain all who knew and loved her, for many years to come. We in the A-APRP (GC) and the A-AWRU (GC) stand with you in your hour of sorrow and grief, but also celebrate her contributions to the struggles of the masses of African people and of all oppressed humanity. 

Looking Forward,

There Is Victory for Us,

All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC),

All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (GC)

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A-APRP-GC DELEGATION HAS ARRIVED IN COLOMBIA

The People’s electoral victory in Colombia is another example of African, Indigenous, including mestizo, women and youth, workers, farmers and peasants, political prisoners, and former guerillas; anti-repression, anti-oppression and anti-exploitation tides that are, through struggle, sweeping every corner of the world.

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Kwame Nkrumah Day 2022

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The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

is organizing

KWAME NKRUMAH DAY

Sunday, September 18, 2022 – 12:00 PM EST

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Pan-Africanism Must Be the Primary Objective of African Revolutionaries Worldwide

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) inherits, continues, and advances, to the best of our ability, the theory and practices of Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Ahmed Sekou Toure and Kwame Ture. For us, the organization of Kwame Nkrumah Day must become an annual institution by all who claim adherence to the revolutionary struggle for Pan-Africanism and one of its most outstanding ideologues and organizers, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah.

The A-APRP (GC) is opposed to, in principle, any cult of the personality or hero-worship. Kwame Nkrumah Day, therefore, is symbolic of our commemorating and honoring the mass struggles of African people and their Pan-Africanist revolutionary leadership fighting against all forms of oppression and exploitation; settler-colonialism, colonialism, balkanization and neo-colonialism in Africa and the world and for organizing the struggle for Pan-Africanism, including socialism, in all of its various expressions by African people worldwide.

Rampant ideological opportunism and confusion is widespread, particularly among the African intelligentsia, men and women, students, and youth, and within the Pan-African movement by those who claim to be Pan-Africanist and revolutionary, but do not make the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism primary in their political practice. There are those who claim Pan-Africanism, but merely seek reform and do not struggle for Revolution; they deny the validity of scientific socialism and class struggle and do not see themselves as being African and of the African nation; they do not advocate for nor advance the struggle for the unification of Africa nor belong to a Pan-Africanist organization. Kwame Nkrumah correctly taught, “Practice without theory is blind; theory without practice is empty.” The A-APRP (GC) has called for and continues with its energies to intensify the ideological and organizational revolutionary struggle against international imperialism, the oppression and exploitation of women, neo-colonialism, and zionism. The organization of Kwame Nkrumah Day is another effort towards that goal.

This year’s Kwame Nkrumah Day ideological focus is looking to engage in political struggle for greater clarity as to whether it is correct to say that if one claims to be a Pan-Africanist, then Pan-Africanism is the primary objective of African revolutionaries worldwide. The most important A-APRP (GC) goal, with this discussion, is to help cultivate and nurture, through dialog and debate, greater ideological unity, and organizational relationships within the Pan-African movement worldwide, particularly among African women, students and youth and their radical and revolutionary organizations.

Join us for this most important discussion for all of us to better understand the necessary expectations and needs from those individuals and organizations who claim Pan-Africanism.

Web: www.a-aprp-gc.org

Email: info@a-aprp-gc.org

Address: 712 H Street NE, Suite 1320, Washington, DC 20002

Phone: 202-246-4896

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A-APRP (GC) Announces Delegation to Colombia Presidential Inauguration 2022

President-Elect Gustavo Petro & Vice-President-Elect Francia Marquez

The A-APRP (GC)’s Colombia Delegation (July 27-August 11, 2022) Declares Solidarity and Unity with Humane Colombia, President-Elect Gustavo Petro, Vice-President-Elect Francia Marquez and the Colombian Masses!

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) and its women’s union, the All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (GC) declares support and solidarity with Colombia Humana and Pacto Historico (Humane Colombia Coalition); President-elect Gustavo Petro (Patriotic Union); Vice-President-elect Francia Marquez (Alternative Democratic Pole) and the revolutionary forces among the African, Indigenous, European, Palestinian, and other sectors of the heroic Colombian masses and their hard-fought People’s electoral victory. The A-APRP (GC) is unequivocal in its analysis that this election is of critical importance not only as a victory for the People of Colombia, but particularly for Colombians of African descent.

The People’s electoral victory in Colombia is another example of African, Indigenous, including mestizo, women and youth, workers, farmers and peasants, political prisoners, and former guerillas; anti-repression, anti-oppression and anti-exploitation tides that are, through struggle, sweeping every corner of the world. The impact of this victory is also a beacon for what is possible through dedication, commitment, and unyielding struggle for the African masses, those in Africa and those in the rest of the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Asia, Australia, Aotearoa (New Zealand) and the South Pacific Islands. In our sight, this People’s electoral victory also represents another signal of the changing times, another symbol of hope and an additional inspiration for African and other struggling, justice and peace-seeking women worldwide. This election is another encouraging victory for all justice and peace-seeking Peoples worldwide!

Seasoned from years of struggle in the crucible of a demanding and uncompromising revolutionary fight for Human and Civil Rights, National Liberation, the Emancipation of Women and Youth, Black Power, Pan-Africanism and Scientific Socialism and assessing the current state of Pan-African and International affairs today, we have concluded that there are moments in the history of the Pan-African and International Peoples’ struggles that should not and cannot be missed and for us, traveling to Colombia, at this period in history, is one of those moments. This one moment in African and world history compels an A-APRP (GC) delegation, by the dictates of our Nkrumahist-Toureist values and principles, to travel to Colombia and celebrate with the Colombian people their historic presidential inauguration and as important, to reach out and forge greater political understanding and associations. We consciously inherit, continue, and seek to advance the revolutionary traditions and legacy of Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Ahmed Sekou Toure and Kwame Ture. Principled and unyielding Pan-African and International Solidarity and Alliances are a part of these traditions.

Through uncompromising and grueling struggles and sacrifices the Colombian people created this quantitative and qualitative moment in history. The Colombian people decisively have chosen their path and have spoken clearly; they are ready to follow the lead and direction of Humane Colombia and its new government. History has documented that the People are the makers of history, and it is based on the People’s political consciousness and the quality of their organization that they and only they have the veracity to transform an oppressive and exploitative society into one that addresses both their material and immaterial needs and aspirations.

The A-APRP (GC) has studied the history of revolutionary struggles in Colombia and also in Central and South America, the Caribbean, Africa and the larger African Diaspora and the World. We openly believe that this People’s election represents another dialectical indicator of success in the Colombian People’s ongoing struggle to rid Colombia of international imperialism, militarism and domestic exploitation, the oppression of women, political repression and death squads, social injustices, and racism; principally with Colombian women, students and youth, the Indigenous Peoples and Nations, the Palestinian people and with those of African descent. It is our understanding and conclusion that this election represents a genuine opportunity to unite the Colombian people with one voice. In that struggle we are one with Colombia!

 We are joining the celebrations of the Colombian people, in Colombia, as our humble gesture and contribution, with our limited capabilities, to express our solidarity and unity with Humane Colombia, its member organizations and the heroic struggling Colombian masses who are struggling and sacrificing, every day, to bring justice, peace, dignity and prosperity to Colombia.

We send to Humane Colombia, our heartfelt revolutionary salutations, and congratulations! The A-APRP (GC) /A-AWRU (GC) will remain steadfast in its declaration of solidarity expressed in our commitment to work in camaraderie with the People of Colombia and in resilient unity with our Colombian compatriots of African descent.

We thank our Friends, Allies and Supporters for their assistance to help us achieve this political milestone not witnessed since the First Conference of the Latin American Organization of Solidarity (OLAS) July 10—August 10, 1967, to forge organic relationships with women’s organizations, cultural artists and groups, students and youth, university professors, community-based sports organizations and clubs and the radical and revolutionary movements of Colombian society.

All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (GC)

July 20, 2022

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Celebrating the Revolutionary Life of Pan-Africanist Kwame Ture

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Celebrating the Revolutionary Life of Pan-Africanist Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)

Celebratory Theme: “Students Spark Revolution”

To: Africa’s and African People’s Allies, Friends, Supporters and Principally to African Students and Youth,

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC) would be honored to have you join and help us celebrate the revolutionary life of Pan-Africanist Kwame Ture born June 29, 1941. Kwame transitioned to our revolutionary ancestors November 15, 1998. Our celebratory theme was/is one of Kwame’s many axioms, as he unswervingly declared, “Students Spark Revolution.” Kwame, in his own life, was exemplary of this axiom and epitomized its essence as a student who grew and developed into a Responsible of the revolutionary African intelligentsia.

The A-APRP (GC) thinks it an important celebratory theme, in Kwame’s name, to honor him and highlight African students and youth. African students’ role is critical in our revolutionary struggle at this juncture in African and world history. In our thinking, this is a dire period in history in the African and International revolutionary struggle against U.S. led imperialism, zionism, neo-colonialism and the oppression and exploitation of women. Of this there should be no question! The merciless mass suffering and preventable deaths of African and other Peoples, particularly women and children, perpetrated by imperialism and its allies is clear for all to see.

The A-APRP (GC) continues, to the best of its ability, with its African Liberation Day and Palestine (NAKBA) Day 2022 launched ideological and organizational offensive against U.S. led imperialism and for Pan-Africanism—One Unified Socialist Africa. The A-APRP (GC) is reaching out to connect with all like-minded organizations. We are also searching for any African, in Africa or abroad, who are ready for organization and want to work for the liberty and unity of the masses of our People worldwide. Organization Decides Everything! Although the A-APRP (GC) is small with meager resources in the face of the power and resources of imperialist exploitation our voice does not quiver.

We inherit advance and challenge African students, today, those in Africa and those in the African Diaspora, to play this role that Africa has assigned them in the revolutionary struggle for Pan-Africanism. Kwame Ture was taught by Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed Sekou Toure and was clear from his own theory and practice as a student and as a Responsible in the revolutionary African intelligentsia and from the study of African and world history that “The youth belong to the Revolution. . . . On our youth depends the future of Africa and the continent’s total liberation and unity.”[1] This zoom celebration is Sunday June 26, 2022, from 12:00-2:00 pm. All updates and information will be on our website at www.a-aprp-gc.org.

 We are celebrating Kwame’s contributions to the theory and practice of Nkrumahism-Toureism as applied to the objective of the African Revolution, which is Pan-Africanism, properly defined as, the total liberation and unification of African under scientific socialism. Kwame made it, in his words, “crystal clear” that for Pan-Africanism to be achieved this all-African revolutionary led struggle necessitated the building of an all-African mass revolutionary Pan-Africanist political party that demanded and worked tirelessly for the destruction of capitalism, imperialism, zionism, and neo-colonialism and the defeat of its neo-colonial puppets and for the total and complete emancipation of African women. Kwame never wavered on the question of the Nkrumahist-Toureist principles that guided his life.

So, we encourage and hope that you help us celebrate the revolutionary life of Pan-Africanist Kwame Ture. We are clear that Kwame touched many lives. He belongs to the African masses. In celebrating Kwame’s life, we are not just celebrating Kwame, we are celebrating the unbridled and relentless generational struggles of our People in Africa and throughout the African world for liberty, unity, justice, prosperity, and peace. We not only pay homage to his revolutionary past, it is now our responsibility to inherit, to continue and to prepare for our revolutionary future. African Students Are the Spark!


[1] Kwame Nkrumah. The Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare: Strategy, Tactics and Techniques. P. 88

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The Structural and Violent Implications of Sanctions

US & Western Imposed Sanctions are Illegal & Crimes Against Humanity!

End the US & Western Imposed Sanctions on Africa, Latin-America and the World!

Participants discuss the current and historical implications of US & Western imposed sanctions on Cuba, Eritrea, Venezuela & Zimbabwe
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A-APRP (GC) Birthday Cookout for Bob Brown

A-APRP (GC) Birthday Cookout for Bob Brown

The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), its DC and MD, NC, NJ, OH, OK, VA and other Chapters in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora invite you to join us (onsite and/or online) from 3 pm to 9 pm EST on Sunday, 5 June 2022 for our backyard, birthday cookout for Bob Brown. We celebrate his 74th birthday and 68years of participation in The Movement (22 October 1963-2022).

The A-APRP (GC) birthday cookout for Bob will be live-streamed from:

  • 3pm to 7pm EST – By Africa On The Move, Blog Talk Radio. You can join Bob, the A-APRP (GC), AOTM from wherever you are in Africa, the African Diaspora, and the World onsite or online by dialing in at:  323-679-0841 or go online at:  BlogTalkRadio. There will be no call ins from 6 -7 pm EST. You my stay on by phone only and listen in to the program. – for more details.
  • 6pm to 9pm EST – By Perfect Image (Zoom, YouTube and other online platforms). You can join us by clicking on the link (YouTube Zoom Chat).

Please contact the A-APRP(GC) at +1 202) 246-4896 or email us at: paia@a-aprp-gc.org regarding your and/or your organization’s brief message.

The Official Program and Schedule will be posted on the A-APRP (GC) website. This birthday cookout is endorsed and supported by GC’s Cadre, Supporters and Allies, and the Brown and Green Families. See the initial and incomplete list below:

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Honoring Kwame Nkrumah, Sekou Toure & Kwame Ture

AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY/PALESTINE (NAKBA) DAY 2022

PAYS TRIBUTE TO

KWAME NKRUMAH, SEKOU TOURE & KWAME TURE

The A-APRP (GC) is fortunate to have as our Ideological forebears, the immortal Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Ahmed Sekou Toure, and Kwame Ture. These brothers, the Pan-African Champions that they are, struggled exclusively for the Pan-African objectives. They are the ideological foundation on which the A-APRP (GC) is built.

On the question of Pan-Africanism, the total liberation and unification of the African continent, including all her islands is/must be the primary objective of all Pan-Africanist throughout the world, under an all-African socialist government. It is an objective that once it is achieved will significantly and profoundly re-image the people of Africa for the better. Our comrades Kwame Ture, Sekou Toure, and Kwame Nkrumah, understood that this Pan-African objective could only be achieved through the struggle or more precisely through the African Revolution.

They knew our enemies including the forces of capitalism, imperialism, zionism, and its many lapdogs and Neo-colonial assets would wage a life and death struggle to keep the labor and resources they have stolen from Africa and her people. They contemplate the necessity of solidarity and allied struggles with the other oppressed people of the world.

This Iconoclast ideological leadership of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC): Kwame Ture, Sekou Toure, and Kwame Nkrumah, profound strugglers for true Pan-Africanism were conscious of the contradictions that we face as a people. They were especially conscious of the issues that have kept our sisters out of this iconoclast. We, using Nkrumah’s, Sekou’s, and Kwame’s forward-looking ideas, are struggling to immediately rectify these contradictions. Ture, Toure, and Nkrumah all have in common the understanding that the ultimate solution to all the problems that we face as a people is Pan-Africanism under scientific socialism, struggling hand in hand with our sisters.

Any other proposed goals of our struggle currently except Pan-Africanism under scientific socialism are just a criminal waste of our and our people’s time. These comrades taught us there should never, ever be any compromise where principles are involved; and, the importance of serving, suffering, and sacrificing for the liberation of Africa and the suffering humanity.

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