OCT. 22, 2021 FRIDAY OPENING CELEBRATION

5pm: REGISTRATION BEGINS!!!

6:10pm: Opening Drums: Nyemba Seales and Company; Prayers with Sekou Odinga, A’isha Mohammad, Jalil Muntaqim, and Jihad Abdulmumit; Libations led by Zayid Muhammad, Malcolm X Commemoration Committee

Prayer led by Lenny Foster (Diné), American Indian Movement Grand Council member; International Indian Treaty Council Board member; Spiritual Advisor to over 2000 Native American prisoners including Leonard Peltier

Emcees and Welcome: dequi kioni-sadiki, Matt Meyer, Emok Quint Concepción, Eileen Weitzman, with Lumumba Bandele, and Najha Zigbi-Johnson, Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Center Memorial and Educational Center

Opening Poetry Selection: Amina Baraka

Mama Charlotte O’Neal, poet/multi-instrumentalist, Tanzania

Jihad Abdulmumit (with Black Panther comrades), National Jericho Movement; Spirit of Mandela coalition

Edwian Stokes, Documentary Producer: Radical Conversations film clip

Pam Africa, International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal

Through the Walls dramatic reading of the works of US political prisoners, Yaa Asantewaa Nzingha, Director

Oscar López Rivera, Puerto Rican patriot, former political prisoner, “Mandela of the Americas”

Closing Music Selections: Featuring

Afro Yaqui Music Collective members Ben Barson and Nejma Nefertiti, with a Sax Quartet Reunion featuring Salim Washington, Mas Koga, and Daro Behroozi

 

OCT. 23 SATURDAY TRIBUNAL

9 am: REGISTRATION OPENS

10 am: Tribunal Call to Order: Introduction of Panel of Jurists—Opening Statements by Chief Judge Magdalene Moonsamy and Deputy Chief Wilma E. Reveron Collazo

Prosecution Opening Statement: People’s Chief Lawyer Nkechi Taifa

Charges Relating to Police Killings

Featuring Expert Witness testimony from Samaria Rice, Melina Abdullah, Ron Hampton, and others

LUNCH BREAK

Charges Relating to Hyper Mass Incarceration and Continued Enslavement

Featuring Expert Witness Testimony from Krystal Rountree, Saleem Holbrook, and representatives of Colorado’s Immigrant Detention Centers, and others

Charges Relating to Political Imprisonment

Featuring Expert Witness Testimony from Johanna Fernandez, Oscar López Rivera, Jalil Muntaqim, Efia Nwangaza, Sekou Odinga, and others

OCT. 24 SUNDAY TRIBUNAL

9 am: REGISTRATION OPENS

10 am: Tribunal Call to Order

Charges Relating to Environmental Racism

Featuring Expert Witness testimony from Rukia Lumumba, Wende Marshall,

Imani Jacqueline Brown, and others

LUNCH BREAK

Charges Relating to Health Inequities

Featuring Expert Witness testimony from Dr. MaryLouise Patterson, Olga Sanabria, Chase Iron Eyes, and others

Closing Arguments: We Still Charge Genocide

OCT. 25 MONDAY DELIVERY OF VERDICT

Outside the Church Center for the United Nations and Livestreamed at the UN Church of the Covenant, 310 East 42nd Street:

Welcome: Dinah Lakehall and Matt Meyer, on behalf of the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders and the International Peace Research Association

Greetings from South Africa and the Tribunal Special Advisory Committee:

Her Honorable Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, Director, Quaker UN Office

Greetings from New York:

Dr. Betty Reardon, founding member of GNWP, IPRA, and the International Institute on Peace Education

Delivery of the Verdict: Group Presentation and Individual Commentary by members of the Panel of Jurists: Magdalene Moonsamy (South Africa), Vickie Casanova-Willis (USA); Kassahun Checole (Eritrea/USA); Sherly Fabre (Haiti/USA); Mireille Fanon Mendès-France (France); Alexander Hinton (USA); Brian Moskwetah Weeden (Mashpee Wampanoag); Binalakshmi “Bina” Nepram (Manipur/Northeast India); and Wilma E. Reveron Collazo (Puerto Rico)

Q&A

Closing Celebration with the Giant Mumia Puppet: Originated, designed, and sculpted by lead builder Jacqueline Wade

THANKS TO ALL PARTICIPANTS!!

Spirit of Mandela Coordinating Committee: Jihad Abdulmumit, Emok Quint Concepcion, Matt Meyer, A’isha Mohammad, Jalil Muntaqim, Sekou Odinga, Eileen Weitzman

For More Information, contact:

https://spiritofmandela.org/ • spiritofmandela1@gmail.com • https://www.tribunal2021.com/