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AFRICANS IN
AMERICA
SUPPORT ZIMBABWE
The following Press Release is being sent out
worldwide to firmly plant
African and progressive people's feet on the side
of President Mugabe and
the Zimbabwean people's right to land reform, and
against the Western
(Britain & US) led conspiracy to engineer regime
change of the
democratically elected government of Zimbabwe. To
sign on write to
Info@ZimbabweFriends.org
PLEASE FORWARD THIS PRESS RELEASE TO ALL CONTACTS
AND
MEDIA.
Press Release:
June 10, 2003
New York City, New York
Open Letter to the People of Zimbabwe
First and foremost, our greetings to you must
begin with a thank you
Zimbabwe! Thank you for your leadership and
courage in your land
redistribution program. On behalf of the millions
of Africans in the United States,
we are proud and closer to freedom
because of you.
We are writing today to declare our full and
continued support for your
efforts to correct the historical and criminal
injustices of British
colonialism, which stole the lives, labor and
land of the people of
Zimbabwe. The Freedom Fighters of Heroes Acre
have nurtured the Zimbabwean
nation, its unity and its right to sovereignty.
No one gave Zimbabwe its
freedom, and no one has the right to dictate with
remote control the path of
its development or independence.
Today, under the leadership of its democratically
elected President Robert
G. Mugabe, Zimbabwe has completed the largest
return of indigenous land in
the history of Africa and, in fact, of most parts
of the world.
AFRICA IS NOT AN EXTENSION OF EUROPE, BUT SOME
AFRICANS ARE……
President Mugabe declared that "Africa is not an
extension of Europe";
however, it should be pointed out that some
Africans behave as if they are
in fact an extension of Europe and its policies
for re-colonization of
Africa.
Zimbabwe's wars of national liberation against
Rhodesia were for fundamental
change --change from colonialism to sovereignty,
indeed independence. The
foreign enemies of Zimbabwean independence will
continue to try to separate
the Zimbabwean people from the elected government
of President Robert Mugabe
and its leading party, ZANU-PF. They have created
and funded the Movement
for Democratic Change to accomplish this mission.
Similarly, we Africans in
America have also seen some of our own people
take up political, and even
armed struggle against the interests of the many
for their own selfish
gains.
We want to make it clear that those individuals
and organizations wishing to
align themselves with the foreign policies of
Tony Blair and George
Bush
through propaganda films, articles and letters in
many instances;
Have extensive relations with the US State
Department, Council on Foreign
Relations and intelligence agencies;
Represent themselves, and not their
organizations; they lack constituencies
and have never represented the interests of the
overwhelming majority;
Receive funding from the US Government as well as
from multinational
corporations, private foundations or conduits for
such.
These individuals claim to have "a long history
of work in the struggle for
African Liberation." This claim is belied by
their actions. However stated,
they support the goal of Blair and Bush for
regime change and for the
intervention and destabilization of the
Zimbabwean economy.
It is no accident that these various forms of
propaganda do not mention that
MDC has openly called for the overthrow of the
duly elected government of
President Mugabe. By any national standard
(especially that of the United
States), this position is generally viewed as an
act of sedition. Nor is
there any mention of armed attacks, murder and
the destruction of property
in Zimbabwe.
Factually, under the leadership of President
Mugabe, it was the government
that sought and received diplomatic solutions to
the crisis in Zimbabwe. It
sought intervention on the part of African
countries and Presidents,
specifically the African Union, the Non-Aligned
Movement, and SADC. They in
turn have given their support to the government
of President Mugabe. The
Presidents of South Africa,
Nigeria
and Malawi
have already indicated that
Zimbabwean People must resolve the issues in
Zimbabwe.
Clearly, the issue of land reform is in fact the
center of all motion,
propaganda and treasonous acts against Zimbabwe.
Moreover, the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Stan Mudenge, said, "Let no one
suffer from any illusions
that the people of Zimbabwe as well as the forces
of law and order will ever
tolerate a retrogression of land reform."
We of the African Diaspora will continue to
wholeheartedly support the duly
elected government and the leadership of ZANU-PF,
as we continue to build
support on behalf of land reform.
On behalf of clarity,
December 12th Movement - Africans Helping
Africans - Black Veterans for
Social Justice - Blacks Against the War - Elombe
Brath - CEMOTAP - Coltrane
Chimurenga - Betty Dopson - Friends of Zimbabwe -
Joan Gibbs - Harriet
Tubman-Fannie Lou Hamer Collective - Prof.
Leonard Jeffries - Bob Law ––Rev.
Herbert Daugtry - Dr. Arthur Lewis - Masses
United for Human Rights - Dr.
James McIntosh - Millions for Reparations -
National Black United Front -
Patrice Lumumba Coalition - Viola Plummer - Prof.
James Small - The Code
Foundation - Jitu Weusi - List still growing...
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