THE RASTAFARI COLLECTIVE--APRIL ARCHIVES

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H.I.M EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE I THE FIRST

Sunday, April 1, 2001

Saturday, April 7, 2001

Volume 1, No. 19

WEEKLY EDITION

INI MUST REPATRIATE!!!

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THIS WEEK'S FEATURE STORY

VIOLENCE! VIOLENCE! VIOLENCE!

This week has been one of the most violent weeks globally and shows no end in sight. There is so much dissatisfaction amongst the poor and have-not of all people in humankind that it would grieve the heart to know this is what the new millennium brings. Still let the truth be told that this cycle of violence is inevitable. The type of downpression that has been put on the people of the Earth, it had to be expected that they would have to stand up and fight for their rights. Officials like President George W. Bush, NATO, and the hand tying of the UN, serve as more fuel to the fire. As the people worldwide begin to awake and see what has been done to them, past, present, and in the future, their response will only increase. Love has been tortured by the evils of the Earth and is crying out for the blood to stop running. Those that can make justice prevail refuse to because the price is too high. One of the forefathers of America said, after he witnessed the evil put against Blacks, "If there is a just God, we will have to pay for this." The meek wants its inheritance on Earth and will do everything in its power to receive it.

This week we are featuring two stories, one from the brothers and sisters in Dominica and one from Jamaica. The violence of police officers worldwide is an epidemic that is spreading out of control. Again, the people must remember that the police are the long arm for those that fight against equal rights and justice for all.

Greetings brethrens & sistrens.
As sons & daughters of Rastafari INI must stand and demand, in one way or an other from the leaders of these little Islands surrounded by water, where under these brutal laws of colonial powers, rulers try to by both day and night mislead INI people making them live 'out of themselves' by having them worship false concepts and forgetting their Roots 'N' Culture.
One of the concepts INI have to eradicate is the misconception of INI Hila Sacramental Herb. The shitsystem have used all other means trying to mislead INI people and have FAILED!!! Now! Them come fighting against INI Sacrament against INI LIVITY. Them still TRYING and FAILING. For RASTAFARI coming this generation with WORDS, SOUNDS & POWER!
Right hear in Waitikubuli in the 1970's between 1972-1979
the shitsystem tried all ways possible to eradicate and prevent the Uprising Of RASTAFARI. By use of the most Unhuman Act passed in the Caribbean "THE DREAD ACT".
Under this act they used imitate/wolves in lion clothing gave them access to ammunition set them loose in the hills and tarnishing the name of RASTAFARI. After they trad up into INI peaceful hills wiping off nuff of INI peaceful Elders some had no dealings with the shitstem. Over 21 of INI Elders in Waitikubuli were brutally massacred without any apperant reason but killing them desposing of them and having no concern as to how their family would react. Two instances one Elder sistren pregnant was gunned down by a river and two brethren 'on the grounds INI about to erect INI Tabernacle' were gunned down in their sleep, one of them was not more than a hundred feet away from his mothers dwellings.
After all these things they have done in the 70's now the trying to fight against Not only INI Saxremental Rights, also INI LIVITY.
INI protest these acts and asks for INI brethren and sistren to trad the same trad.
Recently having no Raspect for one of INI elders who has come a long way them stop him up take him to them station and want to charge him for HERB when this supposed to as a nation be INI IRITUAL RIGHTS.
RASTAFARI INI could never be guilty for the use or possession of HERBS that is INI Rights.
INI never give up INI LIVITY.
GLORY TO WORDS, GLORY TO SOUNDS, GLORY TO THE POWERS OF INI ALMIGHTY FATHER, INI KING OF KINGS HAILE I SELASSIE I INI FIRST.

At present Amnesty International is calling for an independent inquiry into the killing of seven men by Jamaican police. On March 14 police killed seven people - three of them under 18 - during a raid supposedly intended to arrest suspects.
Jamaican newspapers and Amnesty International quote witnesses as saying the police dragged four men out of the house and beat them, then forced them back into the house, and shot them. Two other men were also dragged into the house and killed by police, Amnesty International said, and a passer-by was also killed.
Jamaican National Security Minister KD Knight was apparently unmoved by the incident and by subsequent protests and has said an internal police inquiry into the killings will be adequate.
But the chances of the police finding any fault with their colleagues' conduct seem slight in a country where last year 140 people died in confrontations with the police. Can we in this country pat ourselves on the back and rejoice in the certainty that such things could never happen here? No way.
We have no tradition of restraining or punishing overzealous police who take the law into their own hands in this way. Even when those who have suffered at the hands of the police seek redress, and the courts rule that they were wrongfully arrested and brutalised, it is the taxpayer who has to pay, while the police officers responsible for it go unpunished.
Stern Action
In separate cases in the Hall of Justice last Friday, two High Court judges awarded more than $100,000 all told to plaintiffs who successfully claimed not only to have been wrongfully arrested, but also to have been tortured by officers in Port-of Spain area police stations.
The court heard that one complainant coughed blood for days after having been repeatedly kicked by police and that the plaits of another had been torn out by thugs too often mischaracterised as "lawmen".
Such court judgments should form the basis of stern disciplinary action to make an example of rogue officers. Police cannot be allowed to feel free to use excessive force and enjoy a complete lack of accountability.
Incidents like these, and the failure to ensure that those responsible are subsequently called to account, may drop from public notice here within a few days, but they do not go unremarked elsewhere.
They are noted by human rights bodies, whose annual reports have an international readership, and they give the region a bad name which is all too often well-deserved.
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JAMAICANS UNITED AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY
For the cold blooded murder of 7 unarmed youth we demand:
(1) The arrest and trial of Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams and his accomplices on a charge of murder.
(2) The immediate firing of Police Commissioner Francis Forbes. He has accepted the ludicrous story of Adams and therefore demonstrates his lack of fitness to lead the police force.
(3) The immediate disbanding of the Crime Management Unit -- set up by none other than Prime Minister PJ Patterson.
(4) The convening of a Commission of Enquiry, with the participation of international jurists, into the operations of the Jamaica Constabulary Force with particular regard to the practice of extra-judicial killings and the role of the state machinery, government, the judicial system and the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions as facilititators of the practice of killing with impunity. A determination to be made of the nature and extent to which the state is liable to the families of thousands who have been killed by the police over the past twenty years.
We are also asking people to call the Jamaican Consulate to register the above demands and to state that unless this is done expeditiously it will be grounds for supporting a boycott of Jamaica as a tourist destination. The telephone number is 212-935-9000 and the Consular General is Basil Bryan.

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Made by InI The People,

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H.I.M EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE I THE FIRST

Sunday, April 8, 2001

Saturday, April 14, 2001

Volume 1, No. 20

WEEKLY EDITION

INI MUST REPATRIATE!!!

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THIS WEEK'S FEATURE STORY

This week, The RastafarI Collective is celebrating Our 43rd Africa Day on Sunday, April 15, 2001. InI livicate this to all the visionaries of past, present, and future.

AFRICA DAY

...It reminds us of the struggle for independence...

It has been five years since every year this day of April 15, was decreed to be celebrated as Africa's Independence Day. This day is celebrated throughout Africa. It reminds Us of the struggles for independence during the last twelve months and of our African brothers and sisters that are still engaged in the fight for freedom.

For several years in the past, as must be remembered a large part of the African continent was under colonial rule. In the course of that time, colonialists have stripped the Africans of their freedom and natural rights, and used their resources for the benefit and prosperity of their own country. Even today, colonial masters speak ill of Africans by exaggerating their poverty in the press. Africans are also blamed for the aid they receive. This aid cannot fill the needs of their peoples overnight. From under such humiliation, Africans rose up to safeguard their right and started to struggle to obtain their independence. This struggle began to bear fruit after World War II.

The first African independent states conference was held in Africa in 1958. The independent states at that time was only 8. Nevertheless, the freedom fight in Africa continued with more vigour and fervour; and today the number of independent states has reached 32. This is four times the size of those independent countries which participated in the Accra Conference. Last year alone Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, and Algeria achieved their independence and became members of the independent African states. Although it had been duly extended at the appropriate time, we will again venture to express our congratulations to these friendly countries.

In our neighbor country, Kenya, a new political trend is taking shape and elections are expected to be held soon. It is our earnest wish that Kenya achieves independence immediately after the conclusion of a successful election. That Kenya obtains her independence without the dismemberment of her regions is the policy that Ethiopia strongly supports. Ethiopia opposes all those who try to dismember Kenya under the claim of tribalism.

Congo has been in turmoil after independence. It has been gratifying to Us to see Katanga reintegrated last year into the central government to form a united Congo Republic. We are especially pleased, because Ethiopia has sent her troops to Congo in the name of the United Nations and made substantial contribution to the unity of that country.

In Central Africa too, political movement is quite encouraging. Under the eminent leadership of Dr. Kamuzu Banda, Nyasaland achieved local government under its nationals and the day of her independence is anxiously being awaited in the very near future. It has also been made clear in a recent London conference that Northern Rhodesia has secured its right secession from the colonialist-run federation, and it is fast marching towards independence.

Meanwhile the fate of Africans in Southern Rhodesia is in a precarious situation. Many Africans and their leaders are found arbitrarily imprisoned and consequently, the country is in chaos. We will not hesitate to remind the British government to make use of its responsibility to hand over authority to the African majority so that Southern Rhodesia will also be independent. Until now the British government has shown wisdom and sound judgment in providing independence for Africans, in a manner constructive and objective.

The South African racial government apartheid policy has deteriorated instead of effecting leniency and improvement. A large number of Africans, fighting for their freedom, are from day-to-day hauled into jails without due process of law, and are made to suffer under severe conditions. Defying world opinion, breaking international laws and disrespecting the United Nations Charter, the South African government continues practicing its atrocious and odious policy. Nevertheless, Ethiopia will not deny assistance to our brother Africans who live in that unfortunate country.

We shall not pass without expressing our regret to the Portuguese government, that the fate of Africans in its colonies has not been up to now improved so as to have prepared them for independence. What We would again remind the Portuguese government, is to prepare Africans in its colonial territories for self government in order to curtail heavy blood-shed. Ethiopia will not refrain from endeavouring to assist in finding solutions by which Africans under Portuguese colonies will obtain independence. In general, we extend our goodwill greetings to all our African brethren and sistren who are still under the yoke of foreign rule, and wish that their struggle for freedom will bear fruit so that they would be masters of their own fate. Our help will also reach them.

Finally, we would like to speak about the May conference of African heads of state to be held here in Addis Ababa. All the 32 heads of state in the entire continent have accepted our invitation and expressed their willingness to participate in the conference. We are specially pleased by the response and co-operation shown by our neighbor sister Somalia for her reconsideration to take part in the conference following our recommendation and advice.

The purpose of this conference is to strengthen African unity. Since Ethiopia's hospitality is historically known, it is the voluntary duty of every individual Ethiopian to extend the usual courtesies to our distinguished guests who will come for the conference. We entrust, therefore, to you all that each one of you extend the best reception to our guests.

Let Almighty God help us in the fulfillment of our wishes.

H.I.M. Emperor Haile Selassie I

April 17, 1963

Originally published by the Imperial Ethiopian Ministry of Information, 1967

AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS:

US AT HOME AND US ABROAD

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H.I.M EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE I THE FIRST

Sunday, April 15, 2001

Saturday, April 21, 2001

Volume 1, No. 21

WEEKLY EDITION

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THIS WEEK'S FEATURE STORY

With all the destruction in the world at this present time, InI found this speech by Marcus Garvey to be very relevant. As InI Ilebrate Africa Day, today, we hope everyone will consider what is being said. For the time has come for decision.

New York, Oct. 16, 1921

My subject for tonight is "The Flight Upward." We have been discouraged in the past by leaders who had no confidence in themselves. We were made to feel and to believe that there is no use trying--nothing can be done. Because of such teaching we have struggled on for fifty-odd years in America and eighty-odd years in the West Indies without being able to evolve an ideal through which we would arrest the attention of serious minded people. The world has been trained to disregard the Negro as a factor--as a force to be reckoned with. Universally, races and nations pay no attention to the action of the Negro because they know it means nothing. They have judged in the past the entire race by the representation of those who have led us, in so much so that the world settled the policy for the Negro, and his limit was industrial education--thus far and no further. The world held up the great hero, Booker T. Washington, as the only leader, and they looked forward to him and his teachings as the leadership of all times, not calculating that the industrially educated Negro would himself evolve a new ideal, after having been trained by the great teacher--the great sage of Tuskegee. The world satisfied itself to believe that succeeding leaders--should Booker T. Washington die--would but follow in the teachings of the great sage of Tuskegee, and all that they were to expect from the Negro was industrial serfdom, industrial peonage and all would be well.

THE NEW NEGRO EVOLVING NEW IDEAL

Unfortunately the world is about to have a rude awakening, in that we have started to evolve a new ideal. The new ideal includes the program of Booker T. Washington, but it does not stop there. The new ideal does not mean to exclude anything that Dr. Booker Washington did or said, but we have taken in all that and have even gone further. And it seems that the world has been slow in appreciating the fact that there is a new ideal. When we started the program of the Universal Negro Improvement Association many of the races and nations of the world impugned the idea and said that it was a crazy dream--it was the work of a visionary who was fit only for the crazy house. Nevertheless, that same world that said it was an idle dream is now realizing that it might be a serious reality.

THE NEGRO THE BALANCE OF POWER

We occupy today a very favorable position among the races and nations of the world. As a race we are regarded as the balance of power--the balance of power in political affairs--and politics rules the world; understand that --not religion; not society; not so much industry, although industry has a great part to play in it. Politics is the science that rules the world; and in politics the Negro is the balance of power. Nobody wins expect the Negro is there. And gradually the world is getting beyond normal. Surely we are not living in a normal world. The world has gone crazy; the world has gone mad; the world is unstable; the world today is next door to chaos, and you form the balance of power between the contending factors who are endeavoring to rule and dominate this world. No one factor can rule the world without the sympathy and the assistance of the Negro. Things have changed wonderfully since Dr. Booker Washington came on the scene. When we came on the scene fifty-odd years ago his vision was industrial opportunity for the Negro. I repeat, the sage of Tuskegee passed off the stage of life and has left behind him a new problem--a problem that must be solved not by the industrial leader but by the political leader.

If Washington had lived he would have had to change his program. No leader can successfully lead this race of ours without giving a correct interpretation of the new spirit of the new Negro, and the new spirit of the Negro does not seek industrial opportunity; it seeks a political voice, and the world is amazed, the world is astounded that the Negro should desire a political voice, because after the voice comes a political place, and nobody thought the Negro would have asked for a place in the political sun of the world, and we have sent our challenge so far that we are not only asking but we are going to demand--we are going to fight for and die for that place. (Applause.) And the world has got to realize it--the world has got to know it, and YOU MUST RISE TO THE OCCASION.

You can only impress this world by demonstrating to it the seriousness of your intention. And the Universal Negro Improvement Association has for four and a half years been endeavoring to impress upon the world the seriousness--the grim determination of the new Negro; and thank God the world seems to be realizing it--realizing it to the extent that overtures have been made and will be made also in the future for a settling of this great problem and this great desire that confronts the Negro.

Those to whom the overtures have been made have been cheap enough to make an effort to subvert the greater cause by originating and fostering counter propaganda and counter programs calling them all kinds of names: some call them Pan-African congresses, and they call them by other names for the purpose of distracting the mind of the new Negro and preventing him from understanding correctly what he wants. Leaders here and leaders there have been sought out to turn the tide of Negro hope--of Negro ambition. But thank God they have not been able to turn the tide of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.

INDUCEMENTS BEING OFFERED

Governments have offered inducements to individual members of our race who have for years stood out prominently among us, so that by positions given to them the ambitions of the people could become satisfied that the powers that be are doing everything to be fair to the Negro--to be just to the Negro. Those are the dangers that we have to avert--the subterfuges that will be handed out as a compromise to prevent your traveling toward the goal you have set for yourselves. Information has been supplied to me not long ago where certain men have been offered big positions so as to turn the tide of the Universal Negro Improvement Association so that this government and that government may be able to say, "What is the use of your discontent? Look what we have done for you! Look what we have done with one of your men! We have made him an attorney general" in the colonies. In some of the West Indian Islands they have started to make Negroes attorney generals; they have started to make some judges in Africa; they have started to hand out certain concessions to certain natives to placate their spirit of discontent and for them to use it is an argument to satisfy the Negroes everywhere that the powers that be are looking after their interests. It is a pity they started so late; but it is too late. They took too long a time to show us what they meant; and now the Universal Negro Improvement Association is not going to be satisfied with a judgeship here and with some Negro occupying a position of attorney general there. We want hundreds of thousands of judges; we want thousands of men of our own race in our own congresses and parliaments, and since we cannot have that in these parts of the world surely we are going to have it in Africa. (Applause.)...

Printed in Negro World, 22 October 1921. The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume IV 1 September 1921 - 2 September 1922, Robert A. Hill, Editor, University of California Press, 1985, pgs.119-122.

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Made by InI The People,

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H.I.M EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE I THE FIRST

Sunday, April 22, 2001

Saturday, April 28, 2001

Volume 1, No. 22

WEEKLY EDITION

INI MUST REPATRIATE!!!

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THIS WEEK'S FEATURE STORY

The RastafarI Collective is proud to give our readers an opportunity to read the words of the Rt. Hon. Prince Emmanuel Charles Edward, King of the E.A.B.I.C. For most, he is known as Dada, The Black Christ, founder of Bobo Hill, the Highpriest Order. He has been championing repatriation since the late 1950's. He is one of a few elder Rastafarians who have physically, spiritually, and mentally done the works of H.I.M Emperor Haile Selassie I as an Ambassador of Ethiopia-Africa.

This writing will complete a Trinity of speeches that were given on the matter of African Unity and African Repatriation.

Black People Forward Home to Afrika

The Black man's time has come now, long live Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey, John the Baptist the forerunner of Jes-us. We are Abraham's seed. Isaac and Jacob, Mary and Martha is our mother, The Black Mary.

"Black Ethiopians in Jamaica and the Western World, everything done, the reaper man pass through and all food is gone now. Jamaica has gone to Sport, no work, that is why the Government has fired over 10,000 people not white but Black. I ask my people what is going on." Marcus Garvey said you would not know yourself till your back is against the wall. It gone through the wall now.

If a man says he loves a people, he would not be killing them off daily. Brother Moses come to take you home when you are alive, not when you die. The world of today is the Black Man own, for only he have a heaven to go. Awake Black people, Zion awake us. We are not beggers nor jabbers but masters of Creation. We are King David's Royal sons and daughters.

Christ say the viler the sinner the richer the blood. Come unto me all that labour and I will give you rest. So give Christ your heart and he will give you his ever-living Kingdom. Food gone, work gone, America gone, Britain going. Only the Black Christ left. Only Black people have a heaven.

Africa is the Bread Basket of the world. Let us find back Africa, before they close the door on us. Remember the words of Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey. "I would rather be poor in Africa, than to be rich in the Western World. And I know we could not be poor for Africa is the wealth of the world. All gold, all diamonds, all goodness come from Africa. Who has more good than the Black House of Israelite, King David's Royal sons and daughters.

The world did Black before the white world. The Black world was before Queen Elizabeth. The Black woman is the mother of Queen Elizabeth and the Black man is her father. This is why they should be obedient to us and give us transportation to take us home. 7 or 9 miles of Black Starliner Ships (Isaiah 52 vs.3).

This is an Ethiopia Magazine coming out of Jamaica. I am asking the people now to see that there are drugs that are destroying people abroad, that the authorit-ies who make it have even banned it, yet Jamaica continues to import it. I therefore ask the people to go back to bush medicine; Go back to roasting a coco and roasting a banana. Hon. Marcus Garvey said the time will come and it is here now. They will pay the shop-keeper to poison the food. Go back and read Deuteronomy 28. The man say him bless you going into the city, for all obedient children and curse for the disobedient.

Black people should look to Africa, for Jamaica is Arawark Indian Land. We Black people belong to Ethiopia Africa. Remember we have a country, we have a continent. I therefore call for famine and pestilence on the land. Israelites prepare to meet your God and Gentile prepare for war.

Remember should there be a war between Black and White, Black would be alien of war. Black men and women where would you put yourself. The right teachment is the teachment of God. The wrong teachment is Satan's.

Hon. Marcus Garvey say, "They will teach the Black man to love other nations and not himself." He said Black people would not know themself until their back was against the wall. You are against the wall now. Happy happy Children of Jerusalem, awake we are not in 1998. When we are going up to the glory of the father, let us see the glory of ourselves.

There were 10 virgins, five were wise and five were foolish. They say we are the foolish because we say God is in flesh. It was for us who say God in flesh that the savior has come for St. John 14, 1st. Eps. John Chap. 4. God came and took us with him. The one who was wise had to go look oil, the oil was Salvation. Like today who is Bull of Bashan say they are wise and they live high above the people, and they don't want to sit in the dust to give Christ his right.

At the time of Repatriation they will not want to go home. Only I and I who they call foolish because we say man is God. We are God, and will continually say the Black Nation is the Royal House of God's. Remember the Sabbath. Africa is our Glory, Africa is our homeland. Africa was Black before the White World, Jerusalem My Happy Home, Jerusalem The Golden when shall I come to thee.

This is our glorious home of Negus our Shepard, let us give our Father the glory. Yet you old, yet you young. The first world was I and I. Christ was the first Dreadlocks man on this earth. This is why they kill him. The politician day is done. Hon. Marcus Garvey said time to come you will have the politician walking the street to do with them as the people see it fit.

Not what the world giveth, but what I Jes-us of Nazareth giveth true Divine Peace & Love.

I am the Rt. Hon. Prince Emmanuel

Charles Edward

The Lord's Servant

The Black Christ in flesh

The man of Justice in flesh

Creational Crown Champion of Human Rights

King of the Rases

President of the E.A.B.I.C.

Representative of United Nations

World Wide Organization Division of Human Rights

I.N.R.I.

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