JaRM FUNDAMENTAL OBJECTIVES
We, Jamaican descendants of slaves, join in the struggle of all international
movements for a new and just world.
Accordingly, we Jamaican descendants of enslaved Africans have united as the Jamaica Reparations Movement (JaRM) with the following objectives:
*To raise public awareness, education and participation in the issue of African Reparations;
*To establish Reparations Committees in each Parish, coordinated by a Steering Committee, to carry out the work of public awareness, education and participation;
*To develop a Jamaican Reparations Document which will be a comprehensive report on the issue, including the historical, numerical and financial facts and the desired forms of such Reparations;
* To gather signatures on a national Reparations Petition;
* To link with Reparations committees, groups and individuals across the African Diaspora;
* To continue interaction with the United National Commission for Human Rights and its follow up to the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Intolerance and Xenopobia;
INTERIM STEERING COMMITTEE
Patron: Ambassador, Hon.
Dudley Thompson - Pan-Africanist and member of Group of Eminent Persons (GEP)
Co-Ordinator: Barbara Makeda Blake Hannah, NGO Delegate to UN-WCAR
Chair, History Committee: Professor Verene Shepherd, UWI Department of History
Chair, Media Committee: Mrs. Andrea Williams-Green, Producer, IRIE-FM
Conference Secretary: Sister Beulah Davis.
Honorary Members: Hon. Pearnel Charles; honorary African Chief; Lord Anthony Gifford, Q.C., attorney-at-law; Mrs. Sheila Monteith, Overseas Liaison Desk, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.