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Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations Rebellion Groundings with our Ancestors, Ourselves and Posterity

Theme: Uniting to Stop the Maangamizi for Our Very Survival - Planet Repairs Now!

Saturday 1st Mosiah (August) 2pm Parliament Sq.
(Leaving from Windrush Sq.12 noon)

Reparations Rebellion Groundings includes: Speakers Corner, Arts & Culture Groundings Space, Family Groundings Space, Personal & Planetary Wellbeing Space.
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The meaning of groundings as popularised by Afrikan Guyanese scholar-activist historian, Dr Walter Rodney is explained in the following response provided in a dialogue between ‘Stop the Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide! Campaign activists on the question What are Groundings?

‘Groundings’ are popular education sessions with grassroots forces, including socially marginalised groups, workers, women, youth (including those in street organisations) for organising cells of resistance and action towards the concrete struggle for a new society and another World. The notion of Groundings are reflected in Rodney’s classic work ‘The Groundings with my Brothers’ chronicling first-hand reports of his mass movement organising, public lectures and reasonings in Jamaica and Canada; which was published by the London-based Bogle-L’Ouverture independent Black publishing house in 1969. These reasonings offered a powerful corrective to Eurocentric assumptions regarding what it meant to be ‘educated’ by breaking down the division between teachers and students (as co-producers of knowledge), at the heart of educational hierarchies.

Rodney’s ideas were deemed so dangerous by the Jamaican government that they declared him persona non grata and he was immediately dismissed from his position at the University of the West Indies in 1968. Both acts sparked violent protests in Jamaica in support of Rodney. Rodney took the view that institutional based scholars had to not only challenge the status quo of establishment academia but also engage in the mutual exchange of knowledge with those from struggling on the ground. To truly ‘ground’, Rodney praxis demonstrated that the revolutionary intellectual must go anywhere to reason with their people. This, of course, included going to places that most intellectuals of his stature would not have set foot in. Rodney, considered study and struggle inseparable (he exemplified how to bridge the gap between theory and praxis in a people's quest for liberation, hence the notion of 'guerrilla intellectualism' and warrior-scholarship in movement-building). So, with Groundings, the mutual production and dissemination of emancipatory ideas, has to also be accompanied by mass movement organising, led from the grassroots, in furtherance of building the capacity to usher in a new World, by our own People's Power! '

Groundings' are therefore a revolutionary notion because of the commitment to anti-imperialist, Afrikan socialist orientated mass-action which is geared towards bringing about the fundamental transformation of society and the class-based people stratification systems which necessarily involves challenging exploitative and oppressive systems of Power.

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