mission

Our position is that Operation TRUTH 2007 is a Pan Afrikan, Afrikan led campaign to highlight objections to any activities which recognises and endorses the year 1807 as being positively significant to people of Afrikan descent. We seek to mobilise our community to oppose these commemoration plans.

Our mission is to ensure that an Afrikan perspective is promoted widely within our community so that we as a people are armed with information generated through our eyes and not the eye view of those who do not have our interests at heart. If they really cared, they would not do it but Operation TRUTH 2007is fully aware that ‘The masters tool will never dismantle the masters house’ so we have take our freedom to another level in 2007 as it will never be given any more than it was ‘given’ in 1807.

Aims
1. To raise awareness of the objection to Local (Bristol) and national plans for the commemoration acknowledging 200 years since the 1807 abolition of the ‘slave trade’ and the reasons for the objection (see Position Statement)

2. To raise awareness of the enslavement of Afrikan Caribbean people as being a current affair not a matter for history! The situation may look or even feel better in 2007 but little has changed. For further insight into our current situation visit www.ligali.org

3. To raise the consciousness of people of Afrikan descent (also labelled as Afrikan Caribbean, Black British, West Indian etc..) with a view to publicly encouraging non participation in local and national plans that are organised around this ‘theme’

4. To encourage the Afrikan descent community to act in Unity in opposing the Wilberfarce/Abolition 200 fiasco and alleviate fears acquired through our conditioning that non participation will be to our detriment as opposed to being beneficial to our mental liberation

5. To encourage a free thinking Afrikan mindset within our community which recognises that the Abolition 200 commemoration plans are a mere smokescreen that seeks to persuade us that we will be better off as a people if we take part in it.

Objectives
Promoting Operation Truth 2007 and Truth 2007 as leading campaign, education and resource sites reflecting the voice of Afrikan people in the UK.

The organising, support and promotion of Africentric events that educate the community about the Maafa from an Afrikan perspective. All such events will be devoid of the inaccurate and disingenuous cultural propaganda that the government and their affiliates will be pushing for Wilberfest 2007.

- Institutional recognition of the name ‘Maafa’ to refer to the centuries of hostile invasion, oppression, exploitation and dehumanisation of African people. The Maafa does NOT begin with european enslavement and end with the British parliamentary abolition of the slave trade Act in 1807. It begins with the enslavement by Arabs c 625 and continues to this very day.

- Institutional recognition of African Remembrance Day in August. African Remembrance Day has been celebrated for several years. It is a day where African people come together to reflect on the Maafa and remember our ancestors who have fought and died for self-determination, justice and social revolution and the African people and culture lost through enslavement, colonialism and racism. The day fuses the past with the present and future to enable us to form practical solutions for community empowerment. OT07 demands that employers, institutions and unions recognise the need for Afrikan people to be granted special leave above any annual entitlement.

- The on-going celebration of the government sponsored Wilberfest 2007, which focuses on the myopic and inaccurate mythical history created predominantly by europeans must end immediately. For the sake of the moral conscience of Britain, those complicit with this agenda must seriously re-evaluate the plans to marginalise African people from their re-telling of their story. The systematic and continuous undermining of community organisations is utterly transparent given the lack of qualitative consultation with and the last minute scrambling to get us to accept and endorse an agenda that perpetuates historical inaccuracies at the expense of the Truth.

If you support our objectives and would like to become part of a dynamic movement for change and Truth, please contact us and sign our petition

*The MAAFA is a Kiswahili (a language widely spoken in East Afrika) word meaning great disaster. We use this in preference to the term ‘slave trade’. The term ‘trade’ implies a business transaction from which both parties benefit. We sure did NOT! The term slave does not identify the people in question so diminishes their history and identity. The Maafa was legalised genocide of Afrikan people through a process of mental and physical enslavement known as chattel slavery. Visit our sister site TRUTH 2007 for further advice on terminology