The December 12th Movement’s 35th Anniversary Celebration will be held on Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, at 6:30 p.m. at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, Skylight Gallery, 1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn.
The December 12th Movement is a Black human rights organization based in New York City that has organized political actions leading to local and national mass mobilizations about racism, self-determination, reparations, quality health care, housing, criminal justice and education. Their signature dynamic street rallies, marches and forums have included the NYC “Days of Outrage,” annual Malcolm X “Shut ’Em Down” marches in Harlem on May 19, the Million Youth March in partnership with the late Dr. Khalid Muhammad, and the first U.S. National Reparations Rally/“Millions for Reparations” rally in Washington, D.C.
The Movement’s decades-long struggle in the local, national and international arena has set an extraordinary example of the persistent and relentless fight for human rights for African people, grounded in the vision and hard work of its founders—Sonny Abubadika Carson, Elombe Brath, Viola Plummer, Coltrane Chimurenga and Father Lawrence Lucas; its members; and the people. The December 12th Movement International Secretariat is established as a non-governmental organization with consultative status at the United Nations. The organization has participated in the Human Rights Council since 1989, representing 40 million Africans in the United States on issues and by hearings on racism, human rights, political prisoners, police terror and reparations. The Secretariat has established firm ties and alliances with nations and international organizations around the world. Their Pan-African fight to “support the right of the Zimbabwean people to recapture their stolen land has broadened the understanding of the African revolution that you cannot sustain political independence without economic self-determination.”
The Secretariat was also instrumental in the call for the third United Nations World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) 2001 in Durban, South Africa, and led the largest U.S. delegation in history, dubbed the “Durban 400.” The WCAR’s final declaration stated that “the trans-Atlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity” and called for reparations.
For more information about the 35th Anniversary Celebration, call 718-398-1766 or go to D12M.com. Admission is free.