the international arena for violation of our people’s human rights and the commitment of genocide on our people through police terror, poisoning our water and food supply, criminalizing our blackness and daily activities as an excuse for police murder and incarceration, and creating other conditions which make the daily living and pursuit of a good life impossible for our people. We invite you to focus on our struggle and fight for reparations and repairing of our communities not only for the international crime of slavery which has no statute of limitations, but for the ongoing genocidal war against our people since the end of slavery, through Jim Crow and the civil rights/Black Power era up until today. These reparations should include not only money but also land, medical and mental health support, as well as 7 self-determining discussions among us for self-governance and autonomy. We encourage you to join the fight for the freedom of our remaining political prisoners who fought for our freedom and an end to the prison system which locks up millions of potentially productive Black men and women in U.S. prisons. We also will be fighting in 2020 for total social justice and equality for all Black people regardless of their gender, sexuality or sexual expression. We will be fighting for an end to sexist oppression among our people and the full inclusion of all of the people into the fight for self-determination.
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Our Focus for the Year 2020 So how should we be fighting in the coming year? Wherever our people are organizing in the coming year, we will focus our work on the demand for recognizing our right to self-determination which would be our people being able to discuss, debate, and plan a political agenda in the interest of Africans in America without interference from political agencies working in the interest of the U.S. or other parties. This will be a political agenda for Black power. We will wage this fight through five political objectives. People’s Assemblies and organizing for political power We will organize our people in local areas into people’s assemblies through which the people can discuss, learn and plan for political power in their locales, build political campaigns, register 7
https://jxnpeoplesassembly.org/