Bulletin #1 Our Afro-America: Crisis, Afro-descendants, movements
CLACSO Working Group: Civilizational Crisis, Reconfigurations of Racism, Afro-Latin American Social Movements
Our Afro-America Bulletin: Crisis, Afro-descendants, movements
Year 1 – Issue #1 «Polyphony for life: from the corona crisis to the ebony spring
June 2020
Table of Contents
Introduction. Polyphony of Our Afro-America.
From the corona crisis to the ebony spring
Agustín Laó-Montes
I. MANIFESTOS AND REPORTS
- ARAAC Manifesto.
Civilizational crisis, pandemic and racism.
Regional Articulation of Afro-descendants of the Americas and the Caribbean – ARAAC (Regional) - Anti-racist manifesto.
Feminist Collective in Construction (Puerto Rico) - The state of collective rights in black communities and the deepening of the humanitarian crisis in the context of Covid.
Process of Black Communities (PCN / Colombia)
II. SHORT WRITINGS OF ANALYSIS
- From the United States to Argentina.
This is what Creole racism looks like.
Federico Pita - By João Pedro até George Floyd
Juliana Góes - Quilombola
Brief story about the lutta process in Santa Rosa dos Pretos
Joercio (Leleco) Pires da Silva - The meanings of George Floyd's violent death within anti-drug capitalism
Claudia Mosquera - Those deaths that leave us breathless
Racism and intersectionality in the times of Covid-19
Mara Viveros Vigoya - The racial phenomenon itself is not the problem; the problem is the unwillingness to accept it.
The Afro-Cuban Neighborhood Network and COVID-19
Maritza López McBean, Geoffroy de Laforcade - We Will Not Stop!
Roberto Zurbano - Racism is the longest-lasting pandemic in human history.
Jesus “Chucho” Garcia
III. OPEN LETTERS, STATEMENTS AND DECLARATIONS
- Saving lives and guaranteeing the rights of the black population
National Coordination of Black Entities (CONEN / Brazil) - Open letter
National Meeting of Povos de Terreiro EGBE (Brazil) - Open letter for the Santa Rosa dos Pretos quilombola community against genocide, the right to prior consultation, and religious rights
Association of Rural Producers. Quilombolas of Santa Rosa dos Pretos (Brazil) - Statement. Against the detention of Afro-Dominican women leaders
Latin American Group for Feminist Studies, Training and Action (GLEFAS / Dominican Republic) - Statement. Against the detention of Afro-Dominican women leaders
Caribbean Commune Puerto Rico / Dominican Republic / Haiti - Statement. The pandemic is the exception, racism the rule.
African Diaspora of Argentina (DIAFAR, Argentina) - Statement. Support for the wave of anti-racist protests
Racial Unity Alliance (Cuba) - Statement. In the face of the pandemic and the struggles against racism
The Espendrú Club (Cuba) - The murder of George Floyd is a crime of the white supremacist imperialist state of the United States
PCN in solidarity with the black people in the United States
Process of Black Communities (Colombia) - Statement. Regarding the situation of the Afro-Peruvian population during the current COVID-19 health emergency
Afro-Peruvian Organizations (Peru) - Statement. Afro-Carabobo residents against racism in the US
Venezuela - Statement. The racist Venezuelan opposition wants to import Trump's model of racial extermination to Venezuela.
Juan Ramón Lugo Afro-Revolutionary Movement (Venezuela) - Statement. In light of the murder of George Floyd and the wave of anti-racist protests
Afro-America (Mexico and Regional) - Declaration of Anti-Racist Women
Ilé Collective (Puerto Rico) - Statement. Regarding the anti-racist wave unleashed by the murder of George Floyd on May 25th
International Relations Department of Casa de las Américas (Cuba) - Statement. Regarding the murder of George Floyd
CLACSO Working Group “Civilizational Crisis, Reconfigurations of Racism and Afro-Latin American Movements” (Regional) - Symphony of Liberation
Ashanti Dinah
