The cold-blooded murder of a black citizen, an african american, by a white, euramerican policeman, perpetrated in plain daylight in a street of Minneapolis (Minnesota) is an ordinary occurrence which tragically reminds us of the lynchings of a not too remote past of slavery and segregation in America unanimously condemend by history. This cold and cruel killing of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin, covered for and assisted by his policemen colleagues on the grounds of a counterfeit twenty- dollar bill, will, undoubtedly, have unprecedented far-reaching consequences in the USA and the rest of the world.
The unbearable and ignoble racist crime was constinuously broadcast the world over thus generating emotional outcries and dismay. Those unbearable footages immediately kicked off massive reactions of anger and indignation in Minneapolis itself, in major US cities before spreading all over the world. Those unpunished anti-black violences from the police forces resulting from systemic, institutional and structural racism were followed by, for some time, uncontrolled riots in some parts of the country that translate two new realities : on the one hand the significant andn in some cases, overwhelming presence of white protesters – and particularly of young people and women – in the various demonstrations and sit-ins stretching up to the gates of the White House, and on the other, the international support for the struggle against racism and for equal justice, and specially for black people to be endowed with the sacred right to live and breathe.
The tidal wave of popular protests is growing the United States.
Africa cannot remain passive or speechless while witnessing the sufferings of her Diaspora. It is worth noting and hailing the courageous stance of the Chairman of the African Commission and that of the President of Ghana, who denounced and condemned the racist violences meted on the people of the sixth region of the African continent. African women and men must resolutely and permanently stand up against torture, the cruel, inhuman and degrading treatments meted on the community of african decendants by the american government : in particular, the unpunished murderous police brutalities, the mass incarceration of young balcks and the biased judiciary, which all deny them their civic rights.
The effective abolition of all forms of slavery, direct or indirect colonialism and disguised or blatant apartheid requires the definitive wiping out of azl forms of inequality among humans. It is imperative to apply the same law to all citizens, regardless of race or ethnicity, gender or religion, origin, status or nationality. This is the main objective of the fight for the emancipation of the african peoples on the mother land and in the diasporas in solidarity with all the other peoples in the world.
The organizations signatory to this Declaration call on all Africans and all democrats the world over, all concerned and interested associations and groups to rally, on Tuesday June 9 at 5pm, at the Goree-Almadies Memorial(Dakar West Corniche).
The same organizations call for the holding of :
-peaceful gatherings to condemn the ignoble immolation and murder of George Floyd and racial hatred all over the world ;
– burial ceremonies for our common martyr George Floyd to rest in peace.
#I CAN’T BREATHE
Dakar, June 8, 2020
The AFRICA-USA solidarity Group
HAVE SIGNED
– ALIOUNE TINE/AFRIKAJOM CENTER
– Professeur Babacar DIOP dit Buuba/PAALAE
– AMADOU LAMINE SALL/MAISON AFRICAINE DE LA POESIE INTERNATIONALE
– FATOU SOW SARR/Femmes leaders pour la Parité
– SADIKH NIASS/ SG RADDHO
– Professeur Ousmane SENE/Directeur WARC
– Abbé Alphonse NDOUR /Archidiocèse de Dakar
– Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane SY Al amine/Cadre unitaire de l’Islam au Sénégal
– Professeur Oumar NDONGO/UCAD
– Sérigne Fallou DIENG/Président du Cercle des intellectuels Soufis
– ALASSANE SECK/LSDH
– MAMADOU MIGNANE DIOUF/FORUM SOCIAL SENEGALAIS
– Fatou Jagne SENGHOR/Article19 Sénégal/Afrique de l’Ouest
– Demba Seydi /Plubiez Ce Que Vous Payez
– Birahim SECK/Forum Civil
– Bakary SAMB/Timbuktu Institute
– Aby DIALLO/ AJS
– Ogo SECK/Association des Juristes Africains(AJA)
– Aliou SANE/ SG Y en A marre
– Abdourahmane SOW/REVOCAP
– Cheikh FALL/ Africtivistes
– Pape DIALLO/ Coalition des centrales syndicales
– Bougane GUEYE Dany/Groupe D-Média
– Babacar TOURE/Groupe Sud Communication
– Madiambal DIAGNE/Président de l‘Union international des journalistes francophones
– Mamadou Thierno TALLA/DG Fondateur de l’INFO
– Amadou BA/DG Du Quotidien l’AS
– Baïdy AGNE/Secteur Prive
– Babacar NGOM/ Président SEDIMA Groupe
– Pierre GOUDIABY ATEPA/PDG Groupe ATEPA
– Abdou Khadre LO/ Directeur Afrique d’Access Partnership
– Doudou DIA/ Institut de Gorée
– Mamadou Moustapha DIOUF/Professeur de sociologie Université de Vermont
– Bamba KASSE/SYNPICS
– Didier AWADI/ Artiste Musicien
– Mamadou Mouth BANE/Dakar times
– Ahmedou Moukhtar MBODJ/ CNCR
– Alla DIENG/UNACOIS Yessal
– Cheikh GUEYE/Rapport alternatif sur l’Afrique (RASA)/Enda Tiers Monde
– Ndioro NDIAYE/Observatoire sahélien de la migration
– Penda SECK/Plateforme Eutu Jaamm
– Penda Seck DIOUF/Comité de lutte contre les violences faites aux femmes (CLVF)
– Elène TINE/ MSET
– Ngone DIA/RASEF
– Ndèye Marie THIAM Plateforme des femmes de la Casamance
– Djibril Aziz BADIANE/ONDH
– Ibra niokobaye DIOUF/ SG ADES et CDTS
– Dr. Jacques Habib SY/ Professor of communications Director Aid Transparency
– Yacine FALL/ Economist, Politician, Africa Woman leader
– Rokhy GASSAMA/ COSEF
– Gaspard ONOKOKO/GRA-REDEP
– Babacar GUEYE/Plateforme des Acteurs Non Etatiques
– Cheikh Oumar SY/OSIDEA
– Moundiaye CISSE/ONG 3D
– Valdiodio NDIAYE/COSCE
– François MENDY/ CAEDHU
– Mbeinda Lamotte DIOP/ COSAPERE
– Safiétou DIOP/Réseau Siggil Jiggen
– Seynabou MALE/USOFORAL
– Martine NDIAYE/”Films Femmes Afrique”
– Ndèye Arame NIANG/Association des sénégalaises de retour (ASER)
– Ndèye Gaye CISSE/Membre PDS
– LD Debout
– Collectif pour la justice et contre les violences policières
– Comité international d’initiatives pour le collectif de la Diaspora sénégalaise (CIIP-CDS)
– REPSFECO
– Yeumbeul va mal
– Nittu Dëgg Valeurs
– Forces démocratiques du Sénégal
– Vision citoyenne
– Collectif de Kiniabour et Sindia
– Union des jeunes réformistes de la zone nord
– Gilets rouges
– Sénégal Notre Priorité
– FRAPP
– ARCOTS
– CONEES/Pour la promotion du livre et la valorisation des auteurs
– Réseau Régional Paix et Sécurité pour les Femmes de l’Espace CEDEAO (REPSFECO)
– Professeur Moussa SEYDI / Chef du dervice des maladies infectieuses de l’Hôpital Fann
– Gilles YABI / WATHI
– Cheikh Tidiane DIEYE / Plateforme Avenir Sénégal bi nu bëgg
– Elimane Haby KANE / Legs-Africa
– Coalition Jotna, les Patriotes
– Mamadou Ibra KANE / Groupe E-Media INVEST
– Serigne Bamba GAYE / Chercheur, Consultant
– Mamadou Wane / DG Enquête