Save Our Youths, Save Africa

This years event will continue to reach, teach, unite and inspire our African people. The Pan-African Congress Movement (PACM) wishes to extend their invitation to all African people where ever you are either on the continent or within the diaspora (AU 6^th region), to join in the celebration of freedom and emancipation from mental slavery.

The celebration to be held at the Camp Lane Conference Centre, Raleigh Industrial Estate, 176 Camp Lane, Handsworth, Birmingham, B21 8JA, West Midlands.

For all stalls and booklet advetisement please contact PACM on Birmingham – 0121 554 2747⁄07940709311, Manchester – 07592421208, Bristol – , London – 02088010205, Nottingham – 0795 236 9112, Leicester – , Oxford – , Wolverhampton – 0785 587 8322, altenatively please email us with your enquiry.

History

Speakers For ALD 2012
	Bro. Julius Malema
POLITICAL ACTIVIST AND FORMER ANC YOUTH LEADER - SOUTH AFRICA Julius Sello Malema (born 3 March 1981, in Seshego) is a South African politician, and the former president of the African National Congress Youth League. Malema occupies a notably controversial position in South African public and political life; having risen to prominence with his support for African National Congress president, and later President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma. He has been described by both Zuma and the Premier of Limpopo Province as the "future leader" of South Africa.
	Bro. Amon Rashidi
COMMUNITY AND POLITICAL ACTIVIST - USA When several ex-gang members recently heard that Amon Rashidi would be sharing the stage with Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige, Mos Def, and Tom Joyner as an honoree at the 2003 ESSENCE Awards, their response was, “IT’S ABOUT TIME” Mr. Rashidi’s innate ability to speak to the needs of youth on many occasions have stopped otherwise planned drug deals or gang hits from being executed. He has conducted extensive research on Gang Violence - Causes, Effects and Solutions, and has mediated hundreds of rival gang conflicts. In 1987 Amon Rashidi founded Project J.A.M.S. (Just Another Means of Success), a community and youth development organization dedicated to offering positive, life-changing options to families and children. Through Project J.A.M.S., Amon developed a gang prevention/intervention program entitled “Journey, The Gang Alternative,” recruiting gang members from the community to leave their urban environment and spend time at a rural east Texas campsite.
	Bro. Cecil Gutzmore
HISTORIAN AND POLITICAL ANALYST - JAMAICA
	Sis. Sarudzayi Barnes
JOURNALIST AND PUBLISHER - ZIMBABWE Sarudzayi Elizabeth Chifamba-Barnes was born on 23 December 1969 in Zimbabwe. She went to Domboramavara School in Chivhu, Monte Cassino Mission (Macheke) and Harare High School for her primary and secondary education before going to the University of Zimbabwe in 1992 where she graduated with a BA degree. In 1995 she worked as a teacher for six months at Mavhuradonha High School in Mt Darwin, and later joined the National Archives of Zimbabwe as an Audiovisual Archivist in the same year until November 1999. Whilst at the National Archives of Zimbabwe she helped a lot of film producers who were making Zimbabwean documentaries. She wrote professional articles which were published in the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archivists (IASA) journals, highlighting the plight of preserving audiovisual materials in hot climates with minimal financial resources.
	Hon. Anna Magowa
DISTRICT COMMISSIONER OF TABORA - TANZANIA
	Bro. Makola Libango
AFRICAN PEOPLE'S SOCIALIST PARTY - USA
	Sis Afryea Adofo
LAWYER AND COMMUNITY ORGANISER
	Bro. Chukwu Eneka Ouagadou-Quamina
ALKEBU-LAN REVIVALIST MOVEMENT

On April 15, 1958, in the city of Accra, Ghana, African leaders and political activists gathered at the first Conference of Independent African States. It was attended by representatives of the governments of Egypt (which attended as part of the United Arab Republic), Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and representatives of the National Liberation Front of Algeria, and the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon. The conference was significant in that it represented the first pan-African Conference held on African soil.

The Conference called for the founding of African Freedom Day, a day to “mark each year the onward progress of the liberation movement, and to symbolize the determination of the People of Africa to free themselves from foreign domination and exploitation.”

Five years later, after the First Conference of Independent African States in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, another historic meeting occurred. On May 25, 1963, leaders of thirty-two independent African States met to form the Organization of African Unity (OAU). By then more than two thirds of the continent had achieved independence, mostly from imperial European states. At this meeting, the date of Africa Freedom Day was changed from April 15 to May 25, and Africa Freedom Day was declared African Liberation Day (ALD).

African Liberation Day as an institution within the Pan-African movement reflects the growth and development of Pan-Africanism. When Pan-Africanism was faced with fighting colonialism, the focus of African Liberation Day was on the anti-colonial struggle and the fight for national independence. As Pan-Africanism grew stronger and developed into a more mature objective, African Liberation Day activities reflected this maturation.

African Liberation Day has contributed to the struggle to raise the level of political awareness and organization in African communities worldwide. It has further been used as a tool to provide a platform for many African and other oppressed peoples to inform the African masses about their respective struggles for true liberation and development. Particularly for Southern Africa, African Liberation Day played a critical role in the defeat of colonialism and apartheid. It inspired others to support through various progressive organizations, liberation committees and movements both in Africa and the socialist countries around the world, the building of anti-colonial and national liberation movements by generating arms for the freedom fighters, offering a platform where the world could receive political education on the nature of the struggle, and providing a mass assembly where the spirit and moral of the freedom fighters could be reinvigorated.

African Liberation Day has helped to expose U.S. led imperialism, Zionism and colonialism as enemies of Africa. Imperialists for decades have attempted to distance African Liberation Day (and the African Revolution in general) from the struggle for socialism. Remember that it was, and is, capitalist Europe, and not the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, China or Vietnam which occupied, colonized and exploited Africa. Several states in Africa today stand independent because of military and other assistance from socialist countries.

From the first ALD held in Accra, Ghana where Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah planted the first seed to the hundreds of African Liberation Day observances which have occurred all over the world. African Liberation Day stands committed to the struggle for national independence, African redemption, African liberation, African unification and scientific socialism. Today African Liberation Day activities are being organized throughout Africa and all over the world where African people are living and struggling. The journey down the Revolutionary path can only be accomplished by joining a revolutionary organization working for the people. The freedom of Africa and African people demands revolutionary action through revolutionary organization. …site The Talking Drum

Programme

Sunday 03^rd June 2012 12PM

Monday 04^th June 2012 12PM

ALD 2012 Stall Application Form