Afrikan Connexions Consortium
About Afrikan Connexions Consortium
We are lobbying group promoting the interest of Afrikan Heritage People in Bristol /South West. Affiliated to the globalafrikanpeoplesparliament.org
Afrikan Connexions Consortium Description
In Bristol, UK following the election of Europe's first Mayor of Afrikan Heritage in May 2016, the Global Afrikan People's Parliament supported organisations to hold a conference in Bristol in July 2016. The purpose was to begin the conversation with the Mayor and other newly elected local political representatives of Afrikan heritage around the needs of Afrikan Heritage communities and how we can work together to realise our vision of substantive Afrikan representation and the Mayors aspirations to lead a power sharing city. The conference voted to establish the Afrikan ConneXions Consortium (ACC) as the vehicle through which this would take place.
The conference organisers and subsequent leadership of the ACC consists of representatives of the following organisations:
The Global Afrikan People's Parliament
African Voices Forum
Bristol Somali Form
Rite Direkshon
The John Lynch Afrikan Education Programme
The Malcolm X Centre
Aims of the ACC
1. To Lobby and Influence in relation to the best political, socio-economic and cultural interests of AHC in and beyond Bristol, with particular reference to our glocal community perspectives informing the UN Decade for People of African Descent.
2. To contribute to knowledge production to identify AHC priorities from Afrikan Perspectives of Self-Determination and Community Self-Empowerment to inform our interface and strategic engagements.
3. To ensure support for the elected Mayor of Bristol in the shaping of Bristol as a power sharing City, inclusive of substantive Afrikan Heritage representation.
4. To work in partnership to progress ACC aims, with political representatives of Afrikan Heritage Communities and those who serve areas significantly populated by Afrikan Heritage Communities.
Reviews
#Glocal this Friday 12 noon ujimaradio.com we talk Afrikan #Reparations, the role of non-Afrikan allies and reveal #OperationPagya and how you can support this dimension of the #StopTheMaangamizi Campaign. Join us and tell yuh fren dem!
#Glocal Fri 21.6.19 #Reparations and the Call for an All Party Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry for Truth and Reparatory Justice into the legacies of Enslavement - A #StopTheMaangamizi Campaign conversation with Sis Esther Stanford-Xosei 12 noon BST Ujimaradio.com
#Glocal Friday 10th May 12 Noon #IAmJudah takeover hour plus the Global Afrikan Peoples Parliament and Stop the Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide Campaign are seeking to amplify the voices of Afrikan Heritage Communities through the candidacy of Kofi Mawuli Klu in the forthcoming European Parliamentary Elections....
Please see below and circulate to your networks this open letter to Bristol City Council regarding the current discussions and round tables being held in relation to Bristol delivering a permanent legacy relating to the do called Transatlantic ‘Slave Trade’.
Please see below and circulate to your networks this open letter to Bristol City Council regarding current discussions and round tables being held on Bristol delivering a permanent legacy in relation to the Transatlantic ‘Slave Trade’.
29th April 2019
OPEN LETTER TO BRISTOL CITY DEPUTY MAYOR CLLR ASHER CRAIG AND HEAD OF CULTURE JON FINCH
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#Glocal - Ujima Radio 98fm Friday 12.4.19 12 Noon with your pilots, Sis Jendayi Serwah and Bro Ajani Jimmy Taylor
This week Afriphobia, Azania and All that! With our guest Sibusiso Tshabalala
Friday 22nd Feb 12 Noon - #Glocal: ujimaradio.com - We salute Omowale #MalcolmX. We explore the roots and mission of Extinction Rebellion and their affinity with the @Stop the Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide Campaign and the Extinction Rebellion Bristol Event this Saturday, co hosted also by Bristol's Afrikan ConneXions Consortium at the Malcolm X Community Centre. Guests from Extinction Rebellion Bristol and the Stop the Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide Campaign. Join us!
In response to the recently publicised news of death threats against Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees and Deputy Mayor Cllr Asher Craig the Afrikan ConneXions Consortium make the following statement:
The Afrikan ConneXions Consortium, a Bristol based Pressure Group, representing Afrikan Heritage Communities in Bristol (Afrikan Caribbean, Afrikan (including Somali), Afrikan (Black) British, wish to express our deepest disgust on hearing of numerous death threats to the Bristol Cit...
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Call it what it is! #Afriphobia! http://labourbriefing.squarespace.com/… /d2dohfiwww2qgqep7b1…
Tuesday 28th Aug on Glocal - Ujima Radio 98fm 2pm we talk Brexit! So what are Black folks doing about this hot mess that we are in? Whether IN/OUT (shake it all about) - are we just letting this happen to us and is this OK?? Join us with Bro Ifayomi Grant, author, social commentator and consultant as we discuss the present and pending scenarios......(lawdahmercy....)
Tuesday 17th July 2pm on Glocal- Ujima 98fm. Bro Kojo Asare Bonsu and Bro Rob Mitchell join us to debate Part 2: Civil Rights Movements V Afrikan Liberation Movements. Are they the same and which do people of Afrikan Heritage Need? Add your voice! Text 07960240198. Referee Pilot: Sis Jendayi Serwah Text in YOUR verdict!
In case you did not get to see this documentary 'Preparation for Reparations' about the 2016 Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March on 1st Mosiah (August) which is narrated through the eyes and perspective of Sis Jendayi Serwah who is the Co-Chair (with Prophet Kwaku) of the Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March Committee (AEDRMC). The documentary is made by - Bristol based producers E-Com Media and was originally broadcast on network TV across various parts of the U...K via the 'Made in Bristol TV ' network .
For more info see: http://www.reparationsmarch.org/ http://www.stopthemaangamizi.com/
Please sign and share the Stop the Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide petition https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-maangam izi-we-charge-geno…
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