Provisional means ‘temporary’ or ‘pre-independence.’ It was established by a national convention (founding commission) in Detroit, Michigan, Sunday night, March 31, 1968. Over 100 Black people, working together, signed a Declaration of Independence, creating the Black government for the nation of Black people brought captive as slaves to the shores of the ‘united states’, naming our nation—the Republic of New Afrika. It was signed in the Derby Room of the black-owned Twenty-Grand Motel.
Since 1968, the Provisional Government has worked to bring into existence a powerful and independent new Afrikan state in North America. New Afrikan Nation Day is the annual Celebration of that historic event that is celebrated in March.
It began forming in 1660 and evolved by the time of the Civil War. This is work that actually began nearly two hundred years ago by the revolutionaries Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser and Denmark Vesey. Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Queen Mother Moore and El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Omowale (Malcolm X) carried this work into the 20th Century. Malcolm X is viewed as a Founding Father of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika.
We are “New Afrikans” because WE are an Afrikan people who have evolved from not one, but several Afrikan nations from 1660 and 1861. The land, the people, and the government, TOGETHER, are the REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA (RNA).
Why do we say “FREE THE LAND?” FREE THE LAND is the PG-RNA’S battle cry meaning that our New Afrikan nation is still not yet free. We do not control our land. We do not have international recognition, like Mexico and Canada. Because land is the basis of all power. Our purpose is to provide our people with a real path to world dignity and respect. Our purpose is to secure for our people an overall better life. Our purpose is to do this by working to establish and winning state power and sovereignty for New Afrikan people over the territory of the five ‘u.s.’ states of the Black Belt South, presently known as—Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.
Our recent work challenge has as its focus a presence in Mississippi through “OUR” building purchase; “OUR” structuring for the plebiscite or independence vote of “OUR” people; and directing, for “OUR” people, the campaigns for reparations and a voice in the United Nations.
The ‘united states’ has opposed this work. In 1971, they attacked us in Mississippi with arms. When one of them died in that attack and two others were wounded, the ‘united states’ and Mississippi sent the RNA-11 to jail for a long time. But the work has resumed in earnest, particularly in the Black counties of Mississippi and Louisiana.
All of us, as New Afrikan people, should take this opportunity to advance the work for independence, for land and power and a better life. Voting in the New Afrikan elections is one way you can do this. We need you to join our team of pro-action, goal-driven minded people who are dedicated to winning independence and power.
All the policies of the Government from its founding until this date have been designed to solve these two problems:
(1) To let all Black people know about the new nation and their right to be citizens in it, and:
(2) To free the land.
New Afrikan Nation Day, March 28-29 2008, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS
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