United Kingdom: Reparations march
Evening Standard UK
Roads were closed off on 1 August 2016 as hundreds marched from Brixton to Parliament Square calling for reparations to be made for slavery.
The Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March is part of a campaign calling for amends to be made for enslavement endured by generations of African people.
Organisers carried a petition to central London demanding the government acknowledges the historic and ongoing impact of colonisation and slavery.
The petition states: “The blood, sweat and tears of our Ancestors financed the economic expansion of the United Kingdom.
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Video: Emancipation Day March Hundreds calling for slavery reparations Brixton, London . 2016
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Video: Hundreds march on parliament to demand African reparations for colonialism
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Video: March for Africa – London, UK
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Reparations: Martin Luther King Jr. , Barack Obama and America’s apology
https://dilemma-x.net/2013/01/20/2013-barack-obamas-2nd-term-inauguration-martin-luther-king-jr-and-reparations/
August 5, 2016
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