[News] Grassroots Movement Mobilization and Demands

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Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Grassroots Movement Mobilization and Demand Statement
Tuesday, September 13, 2005

The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), a national New Afrikan (Black) 
human rights organization, calls on every sector of the Black community, 
including civil rights organizations, human rights activists, workers 
organizations, religious communities and civic and cultural groups to UNITE 
in solidarity with Our Sisters and Brothers who have survived Hurricane 
Katrina.

Poor Black people didn't "choose to stay behind," they were intentionally 
left behind.  They were left behind way before Hurricane Katrina hit the 
shores of the Gulf Coast.  The same Black people suffering today as a 
result of Hurricane Katrina, are the same Black people who were 
disproportionately suffering from poverty, police terrorism, inadequate 
healthcare, insufferable housing, hunger and a pathetic education system 
long before the Hurricane occurred.

This is a critical time in the history of New Afrikan (Black) people.  We 
have been presented with an opportunity to rebuild a self-determining 
community, out of what has been a broken existence since our arrival at the 
shores of this land.  The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is committed to 
rebuilding a self-determining Black nation, one community at a time.  We 
must prepare ourselves, and our communities for the "natural" disasters, 
infrastructure breakdowns, and acts of "terrorism" as well as war that are 
occurring with more frequency because of the insatiable drive of United 
States imperialism.

We seek your solidarity and request your support to meet the immediate 
needs of our people - to help save, protect and preserve life, while 
strategically planning for long term self determination. We must connect 
and organize businesses, organizations and institutions into an economic 
and social network to create the social fabric that supports 
self-sustaining communities.

To meet the immediate needs of our people devastated by Hurricane Katrina 
we are making the following demands upon the United States Government and 
the Governments of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and all states 
upon which Survivors have been relocated. We are asking everyone who 
supports these demands to add your name to the petition and spread it far 
and wide to other organizations in and out of our communities to strengthen 
the mobilization of our people and hold the United States government 
accountable.

The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement also stands in solidarity with other 
oppressed peoples affected by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast region, 
including the undocumented, the Mexican and Latino communities, the 
Vietnamese and Asian communities, and the Native American communities. We 
maintain that the demands articulated herein also be unequivocally be 
applied to all of these oppressed peoples.


Immediate Demands:

    * That the martial law applied to New Orleans and various regions of 
the Gulf Coast be lifted immediately.

    * That the curfews in New Orleans, Biloxi and other cities and regions 
in the Gulf Coast be suspended immediately.

    * The immediate removal of all foreign and domestic mercenary and white 
vigilante forces currently terrorizing Black and other oppressed 
communities in the Gulf Coast states, including Texas.

    * The suspension of all of the relief and reconstruction contracts 
unfairly awarded to the cronies of the Bush government like Halliburton and 
its various subsidiaries.

    * Immunity for all survivors charged and/or convicted for crimes of 
theft, property destruction, and assault.

    * Information on the whereabouts and status of all of survivors 
including incarcerated persons, immigrants, persons relocated and deceased 
persons.

    * Community Control over the relief process, including direct oversight 
over the relief operations of FEMA and the Red Cross.

    * The honoring of all insurance claims resulting from Hurricane Katrina 
and its aftermath.

Fundamental Demands:

    * The Right of Return.
q       The Black survivors from the Gulf Coast regions of Louisiana, 
Mississippi and Alabama possess the fundamental human right to their 
homelands, as well as the right to reestablish their lives and rebuild 
their communities as they see fit.

    * The Right to Organize.
q       The Black survivors in the Gulf Coast region possess the 
inalienable right to organize themselves and to control the decision-making 
processes that effect their welfare and livelihoods.
q       The Black survivors have the right to form governing councils, 
labor unions, commercial and community cooperatives, and other institutions 
that serve the political material interests of New Afrikan (Black) people.

    * The Right to an Income.
q       The Black survivors have a right to an income provided by Federal 
and State governments to ensure their overall well being and that of their 
families and communities.

    * The Right to Living Wages.
q       Black survivors have the right to be compensated at living scale 
wages for their labor in the relief and reconstruction processes in the 
Gulf Coast States.
q       Black survivors have the right to be provided a living wage in the 
states upon which they have been relocated.

    * The Right of Access.
q       Black survivors have the right to control the reconstruction funds 
and contracting processes of the Federal and state governments.
q       Black survivors have the permanent right to access all of the lands 
of the affected Gulf Coast region.

    * The Right to Education and Health Care.
q       Black survivors have the inalienable right to free quality 
education and health care including counseling and psychological therapy.

    * The Right of Self-Determination.
q       Black survivors have the fundamental right to determine the 
long-term redevelopment of the Gulf Coast region.


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