The Honorable Marcus Garvey
We
think North American Africans in Oakland should celebrate the Black
Arts Movement Business District with a Marcus Garvey parade down 14th
from MLK,
Jr. Way to Lake Merritt for a rally and festival. King Theo of the
Malonga Center should lead the people with his dancers doing the BAM
BAM (suggested by Dr. Nathan Hare). Videographer Kenny Johnson said,
"We gonna be doin da BAM Thang everywhere."
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King Theo
Sonia Sanchez
We also propose a benefit concert for the Black Arts Movement Business District Trust Fund. The concert will present BAM Founders and showcase the BAM Babies--the next generation of artistic freedom fighters.
YGB, Young, Gifted and Black
lBAM Baby, Mayor Ras Baraka, Newark NJ
Nikki Giovanni
Alice Walker
Askia Toure
The Last Poets
(invited, unconfirmed)Danny Glover
The Last Poets
Sonia Sanchez
Nikki Giovanni
Alice Walker
Avotcja
Askia Toure
Marvin X
Ishmael Reed
Al Young
Mayor Ras Baraka
YGB
Paris
Marc Barmuthi
The BAM Poet's Choir and Arkestra:
Paradise
Kujichagulia
Marvin X and Danny Glover
Universal Negro Improvement Association soldiers. Did you know
there is a Marcus Garvey UNIA Hall in Oakland?
The UNIA Black Cross Nurses. We call upon the Bay Area Black Nurses Association to participate in the BAM Business District Unity parade.
The 200,000 North American African troops were critical to the US winning the Civil War. We call upon Black Veterans to march in the BAM Business District Unity parade.
FYI, BAM/Black Power activists were
patriots who believed in the values of American democracy. We believed
in the American revolution. We quoted the US Constitution in our raps
and principles. We believed in the consent of the governed, yet we
suffered taxation without representation. We suffered a military defeat
by the US Government. We hereby call upon all veterans of the US
military to connect and support the BAM/Black Power veterans, especially
those in need. We call on Black military veterans to reach out and
touch the soldiers in America's domestic war against the freedom and
independence of North American Africans, e.g., Black Panthers, Nation of
Islam, Socialists, Communists, Liberation theologists and others. Now
there are some who completely missed the 60s. They are like the girl who
said Wake up to what? Poor girl doesn't even know she's asleep. But
US military veterans, reach out and touch your brothers in the war for
freedom in America.
We call upon the Nation of Islam to join the BAM Business District Unity Parade.
BAM poets Amiri Baraka and Maya Angelou doing the BAM BAM!
We suggest the Marcus Garvey Unity Parade in honor of the man who taught us Black Unity.
"Up
you mighty people, you can accomplish what you will!" He gave us the
Red, Black and
Green after hearing a racist song, "Everybody got a flag
'cept a Coon!"Let's do the BAM BAM!
For more information about this proposed event, call 510-200-4164
jmarvinx@yahoo.com
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