Building our Campaign Machine
Introduction
The New Afrikan Diplomatic and Civil Service Corps (NADCSC) is being built around the Call for the First New Afrikan & Afro Descendant Plebiscite Congress in the United States. It is a grassroots coalition of organizations and individuals who understand their right of self determination. Its approach is a bottom-up mobilization that is inclusive of all Black people in the United States herein referred to as both New Afrikans and Afro Descendants.
NADCSC’s goal is to involve the masses of black people in the functional exercise of self determination and decision-making processes concerning their destiny. We in NADCSC believe that the people are the legitimate owners of the Sovereignty we want to manifest collectively. We believe it to be self-evident that only the New African masses have the true legitimate power to determine our political status - whether we want (1) full and equal US citizenship, (2) return to Africa under our birthright “Right to Return”, (3) emigration to another country or (4) the creation of a New African nation on American soil. We are entitled to all four.
According to Imari Obadele,
“The mechanical steps to independence . . . . We begin with a petition drive. . . . For the key to our legitimacy is consent: the will of the people. The petition simply asserts that the undersigned citizens agree to hold an election, with U.N. participation, to determine whether or not the District (the Afro Descendant colony in the United States) shall be independent of the jurisdiction of the United States. . . . Indeed, along with the petition drive a specific campaign must be conducted . . . to make . . . the world - see that our cause is just under moral law and correct under international law and that the law of the United States is deficient in failing to provide a peaceful formula for the separation of communities seeking their independence.”
Since the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement, the United States has proven its inability to promote the civil, political, cultural, social and economic rights of its Afro Descendant population. A New Afrikan & Afro Descendant Plebiscite will allow black people in the United States to exercise their right to self determination and voluntarily choose a nationality, including a nationality from a newly created New African state. It is self-evident that this is the only way for the descendants of enslaved African people to determine their own future and reach a full measure of dignity enjoyed by all free and sovereign people on planet earth.
It is our conviction that few genuine New Afrikans and Afro Descendant people will doubt that a plebiscite directly expressing the will of the people and recognized by the international community, is the next step in the long process of repairing the dignity and sovereignty that was lost as a result of enslavement and its continuing legacy.
Up until now only a very limited number of Black people in the United States have been involved in this discussion, which was formally advanced at a Black government conference convened by the Malcolm X Society and held in Detroit, Michigan on March 31, 1968. The conference produced a Declaration of Independence (signed by 100 conferees out of approximately 500), a constitution, and the framework for a provisional government. Official repression by the United States government caused the debates on a New Afrikan plebiscite that would have established consent for a New Afrikan government to be abandoned by leadership and the masses of Black people in the United States.
It is important to note that involving the entire population of Black people in the United States in a plebiscite is very crucial for developing the political will of international society to support its outcome. Expressing the will of the entire Black nation internally colonized in the United States - This is a sine qua non condition for the legitimacy, in the eyes of the world.
The Building Our Campaign Machine document has two purposes:
Bring more clarity into the nature of this initiative;
Draw from the the lessons learned from the Pan African Federalist Movement (PAFM) and suggest an efficient and realistic strategy in which an efficient plebiscite campaign machine can be put in place.
To recieve the Building Our Campaign Machine document, you must first complete the Call for the First New Afrikan & Afro Descendant Plebiscite Congress in the United States and take the Initial Plebiscite Survey. Individuals who indicate “Organizer” on the Call form will be contacted to join the NADCSC Plebisicte Exploratory Committee (PEC).
