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Bob Brown has researched and developed the following Presentations. They are available in 90-minute and 60-minute versions for major events, and in a 30-minute version for classrooms. Bob will also conduct a 30-minute, 20-minute and 10-minute question and answer session, respectively. Handouts will be distributed. Bob’s books and other materials will be available.

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Presentation #1:

“A Conversation with Bob Brown.”

Description: Bob Brown, like tens of millions of other “baby boomers” around the world, was born and grew to maturity at a good and exciting time. World War II had just ended, and disease, death, destruction and dislocation were everywhere, and so too was hope. Veterans were returning home, starting their families and rebuilding their lives. The masses of Oppressed Peoples in Africa, the African Diaspora, Asia and the Middle East, the Americas and Oceania, and Europe were in open revolt, fighting for human and civil rights, national liberation, Pan-Africanism, socialism, and a lasting peace. By the 1960s and 1970s, the “baby boomers,” had become the “shock troops” of these and other social and political movements. They shook the foundations of, and changed the world.

This Presentation will offer a perspective on the “baby boom” generation, and the movements and struggles that they participated in and created. It will assess their legacy, and inspire new generations of youth to continue and improve upon their work. It will present information, some of which has never been publicly presented before, about Bob’s efforts and experiences in these movements and struggles. It will also share information about his current endeavors.

To invite Bob to make this Presentation, fill out our Speakers Request Form!

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Presentation #2:

“Come Back Africa! A Perspective on the Origins, Development and Future of the Pan-African Movement.”

Description: Scholars suggest that Africa is the birthplace of humanity and a cradle of civilization. For more than 5,000-years, since the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt in 3150 BC, the masses of African People in every corner of the African continent, north, east, south and west, struggled, albeit unevenly and unequally in time and space, to develop kingdoms, territorial-states, empires and civilizations. More than 10,000 of these classical African civilizations were in existence when Portugal invaded Ceuta in 1415, and Spain invaded the Canary Islands in 1435, precursor events to the Trans-Atlantic slave-trade. This struggle to build a continental-state, a United States of Africa, continues and intensifies today.

Almost 4,000 years, since the Hyskos invasion of Egypt in 1720 BC, the Continent of Africa has been repeatedly invaded, balkanized and colonized by Asiatic and Euro-American tribes and nations, and hundreds of millions of African People were murdered, stolen, enslaved, and dispersed to the four corners of the world. These crimes against humanity continue and intensify. For more than 3,000 years, the masses of African People, in every corner of the African Continent, and every corner of the African Diaspora, have fought an unyielding nation, class and gender struggle to liberate and unify every inch of the Continent of Africa, and every person of African Descent, no where they are scattered, suffering or struggling in the world. The Pan-African Movement is the successor-in-interest to this 3,000-year old nation, class and gender struggle.

This Presentation will provide a kaleidoscopic view of Africa’s contribution to the birth of humanity and to the development of civilization. I will offer a perspective on the origins and growth, development and future of the Pan-African Movement, which we believe is the oldest, largest and most militant movement that Africa, the African Diaspora, and the world has ever seen. It will offer information of the life and contributions of several of the Pan-African Movements’ foremost theoreticians, strategists, and organizers, especially Kwame Nkrumah, Ahmed Sekou Toure and Kwame Ture, whom you may know as Stokely Carmichael.

This Presentation will introduce the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), and Le Parti de la Revolution Populaire Africaine de Guinee, its sister party in Conakry, Guinea. We believe that they are the inheritors and continuators of the Convention People’s Party of Ghana, the Democratic Party of Guinea, the Black Panther Party, and a host of other revolutionary, mass, political parties throughout Africa and the African Diaspora. It will inspire and encourage a new generation of youth to join and help build the A-APRP (GC) and make their contribution towards the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism. It will ask those cannot join, to support it, in any and all ways that they can.

To invite Bob to make this Presentation, fill out our Speakers Request Form!

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Presentation #3:

“God Made No Slaves in the Womb!”

Description: For more than 2,000 years, conservative forces within the Vatican and the Catholic Church accepted, rationalized, and participated in the slave-trade, slavery, and slave-like practices and conditions. History testifies to the Vatican’s and the Catholic Churches’ unjust enrichment by and through their participation in these crimes against God, these crimes against humanity. History also testifies to the role that progressive forces within the Vatican and Catholic Church played, and continue to play, in the global struggle to prohibit and abolish piracy, the slave-trade, slavery, and slave-like practices and conditions, and the struggle to demand reparations and repatriation (the right-to-return) for the victims of these crimes.

This Presentation will offer a perspective on the history of piracy, the slave-trade, slavery and slave-like conditions and practices. It will present a 2,000 year time-line of the global struggle to prohibit and abolish them, and to declare them crimes against divine and cannon law, against natural and positive law, against the municipal laws and constitutions of Europe, the Americas and Africa, against international custom and law, and against humanity. It will reveal the role that positive forces within the Vatican and the Church played in this historical and continuing struggle against good and evil, against justice and injustice, and in the struggle to create and enforce this prohibition regime. It will prove, once and for all, that God made no slaves in the womb! Never did, and never will.

To invite Bob to make this Presentation, fill out our Speakers Request Form!

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Presentation #4:

“Sugar, Rum and Coke Was and Is Made with Blood!”

Description: Sugar, and its molasses and rum by-products, were responsible for the death and enslavement of hundreds of millions of Indigenous Peoples in the Western Hemisphere and hundreds of millions of Africans in Africa and the African Diaspora. For more than 453 years, from 1435 to 1888, sugar, rum, and slavery were the engines that fueled the rise and growth of the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, British and French Empires, and the capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, settler-colonialism and neo-colonialism that they created and maintained. Today, 572 years later, the sugar industry, and its rum, cola, and other by-products, are responsible for the misery and suffering of millions of people who labor under slave-like practices and conditions throughout Africa, the African Diaspora, and the World.

This Presentation will outline the origin, growth, development, and current realty of the sugar, rum and cola related industries, and identify its major stakeholders, historically and currently. It will document the role that the slave-trade, slavery and slave-like practices and conditions played, and continue to play, in the sugar, rum and cola industries’ development and continued existence. It will also document the sugar, rum and cola industries’, and its key companies and families’, unjust enrichment by and through this theft of land, labor and lives, this crime against humanity.

To invite Bob to make this Presentation, fill out our Speakers Request Form!

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Presentation #5:

“Slavery and the Slave-Trade Were and Are Crimes Against Humanity! A Perspective on the Evolution of this Global Prohibition Regime.”

Description: Piracy, slavery, and the trafficking in slaves are prohibited by powerful global prohibition regimes. They were and are recognized by international law, and the municipal laws of most countries, as crimes against humanity. Professor Ethan A. Nadelmann, in his article entitled Global prohibition regimes: the evolution of norms in international society,” analyzes how and why these and other norms … evolved into global prohibition regimes,” into crimes against humanity. He outlines their five stages of development. He suggests that “no international prohibition regime could attain this stage until the nineteenth century…” This presentation disagrees with Nadelmann’s thesis.

Using primary source documentation and Nadelmann’s five stage evolutionary paradigm, this Presentation offers a 2,000-year time-line that documents when and where piracy, the slave-trade and slavery became illegal and was prohibited under divine and cannon law, natural and positive law, the municipal laws and constitutions of countries in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia, and under international custom and law. It documents the role that positive forces within the Vatican and Catholic Church world-wide, from the 400s BC to 1888, played as the primary “moral entrepreneur” in the creation and enforcement of these prohibition regimes. It proves that slavery and the slave trade were illegal and prohibited when and were they were committed against Indigenous and African Peoples, and that reparations and the right-to-return is legally and morally required.

To invite Bob to make this Presentation, fill out our Speakers Request Form!

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Presentation #6:

“Slavery and the Slave-Trade Were and Are Crimes Against Humanity! We Demand Revolution, Reparations, and the Right-to-Return!”

Description: The Trans-Atlantic slave-trade, slavery and slave-like practices and conditions, including colonialism and settler-colonialism, segregation and apartheid, and neo-colonialism were and are the greatest theft of land, lives and labor the world has ever seen. For 2,000 years, Asia and Europe raped, balkanized and colonized Africa, and drained it of its human and material resources. These crimes against humanity continue and intensify today.

This Presentation argues that the Reparations Movement began, dialectically, at the very moment that the slave-trade, slavery and slave-like practices began. It will offer a two-thousand year time-line that documents when and where these crimes were committed, and who, which countries, churches, companies and families, committed them. It will document their unjust enrichment by and through their historical and continuing participation in these crimes. It will demand reparations for these historical and continuing crimes, including the right of all Oppressed Peoples to return to, and reclaim their ancestral lands. It will suggest that this demand can only be won, ultimately, through revolution, through a radical transformation and redistribution of wealth and power in Africa, the African Diaspora, and the World. It will inspire a new generation of youth to join the Reparations Movement!

To invite Bob to make this Presentation, fill out our Speakers Request Form!

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Presentation #7:

“Did you hear the Thunder? Did you see the Lightning? Did you feel the Rain? A Perspective on the Worldwide African Student Movement!”

Description: Academicians, scholars, and movement organizers speak, teach and write about the role that workers, peasants, women, and the church have played, and continue to play, in the struggle for social change. Some even write about the role of college students, but few, very few, speak, teach or write about the role that high school and elementary students have played in the struggle for civil and human rights, national liberation and Black Power, Pan-Africanism, socialism and peace.

This Presentation will outline the origins, growth and development of the African student movement, world-wide, and introduce some of its key participants. It will document and analyze the role that students, especially high school and elementary school students, played in movements since World War II. It will inspire a new generation of African students, especially high school students, to take up the baton, and make their generational contribution to the struggle for justice, equality and lasting peace.

To invite Bob to make this Presentation, fill out our Speakers Request Form!

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