“Wow! I don’t know about all of you all on this call, but I’m in tears. The level of scholarship, commitment, insistency, to produce this report, with all those details, weaving this tapestry of incredible observation and study is remarkable . . . is remarkable. . . . I am in awe. Nothing less . . . this brilliance we have just witnessed together . . . You have witnessed something phenomenal.” - Dr. Onaje Muid, NCOBRA Health Commission Co-Chair

“I came here to learn! And I have just been learning and smiling. . . . As someone who sat at the feet . . . of Imari Obadele, it’s just so nostalgic listening to Brother Siphiwe because it sounds like brother Imari reincarnated! . . . Give me marching orders! . . . All this is passed on to y’all’s generation.” -Nkechi Taifa, Executive Director, Reparation Education Project, Inc. and author of Reparations on Fire: How and Why It’s Spreading Across America

“Brother, that’s very powerful and dynamic information. . . . that we need to share with our people to make us more concsious of what our rights and possibilities are, even to help us imagine. I applaud you and salute you on carrying the work of our ancestors to a new level and educating us all.” - Akinyele Omowale Umoja, New Afrikan Independence Movement Strategist and author of the book, We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement

“We will do what is necessary if the international bodies do not do what is necessary.” - Maynard Henry, Esq. Member of NCOBRA International Affairs Committee and Plebiscite Committee Chair

Saturday, May 27, 2023 - The 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐖𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 sponsored by the NCOBRA Health Commission and the NCOBRA Education commission discussed the new opportunities in international forums to pursue reparations and advance Afro Descendant people’s struggle for justice and repair using the interrelated and interdependent arguments derived from genetic testing, transgenerational epigenetic, ethnocide and prisoner of war status under the Geneva Convention.

Siphiwe Baleka, a scholar activist and New Afrikan/AfroDescendant Diplomat, who is fast becoming recognized as the “peoples’ expert” on these issues, presented the first workshop entitled, The Unfinished Business of Malcolm X and Imari Obadele: Taking Our Claim to the International Court of Justice

Outline: 1. Malcolm X and the Unfinished Business at the World Court; 2. What is the ICJ?; 2. Why go to the ICJ?; 3.What is PFPAD?; 4. Why is PFPAD important?; 5. Our Prisoner of War claim under the Geneva Convention; 6. What if we get a favorable opinion? 7. What if we don’t get a favorable opinion?

Future workshops include,

Ethnocide: Genocide’s Twin Sister & Making Your Ethnocide Claim

Transgenerational Epigenetics and Siphiwe Baleka’s Case at the IACHR

Understanding the History and Requirements of a Plebiscite