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Word Sound & Power Collective Elders Support The Word Sound Power Collective started as a group to reason about Rastafari and has grown into a collective livicated to supporting Rastafari Elders. Rastafari Elders have suffered great trials and tribulations. All because they love Haile Selassie I. They were beaten and had their locks dashed off because they raised the Ethiopian flag high. They still continue to be oppressed for their faith. The WSPC chooses an Elder to support and ones and ones make paypal donations until the goal is reached, usually $200(us). Once the goal is reached the strength is forwarded to the choosen Elder. I can personally testify to the strength that these works have been for Rastafari Elders. Many Elders have benefited from these works. It's a great joy to know that ones around the world are rallying around them. Please check the new WSPC profile page for more information and to see how you can help Give thanks! Ras Scott Word Sound Power Collective

Core-Nation Capsule from ricaricha@hotmail.com  "Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess. The man who sets his goals too low and who accepts too little as enough, squanders the talents and abilities with which Almighty God and nature have endowed him." H.I.M. Haile Selassie I (throne speech excerpt, 1963) Since the African Union failed to implement a United States of Africa agenda in Ghana last july, an aligned millennium / core-nation mystique, calls for intensified lobbying from Pan-Afrikanists at home and abroad, in a manner designed to achieve continental unification. It is ironic that, while the west seeks to consolidate it's grip on the planet, there would be AfriKans in power who, probably lured by a pound of dollars, adopt a "gradualist" approach toward continental integration. I dare to say that such 2 speed (slow-stop) lethargic position is folly. It amounts to accepting that 4/5 of a person is progress amidst a de facto 3/5 exclusionary system. The industrialized nations are to maintain much leverage as long as they continue to negotiate separately with dozens of fractured nations resembling the mythical Hydra (see Africa's heads of states). Many of those neo-colonial apologists are positioned to extend huge concessions to ravaging multinational corporations at the expense of a continent and it's people held hostage. If, according to the U.N.'s 2001 declaration at Durban, which holds that slavery is a crime against humanity, how can an AfriKan "leader", in his/her right mind, not resist refined thuggery?, a system that continues to wreak havoc on indigenous cultures everywhere in addition to massive environmental degradation. Today is late, time is now to advance the United States of AfriKa initiative as a front burning issue. One aim, One destiny, One defensive force & currency would appropriately channel the motherland's wealth into developing her people and put domestic and international adventurism in check. Reparations, repatriation, debt cancellation, citizenship rights are all achievable under one unswerving banner of justice, power and respect.

Empress of Zion, Inc - Mission Statemant and Works from Queen Mother Moses Empress of Zion, Inc (EOZ ) is registered as a non-profit organization in the State of Florida with the mission to carry out the Rastafari creed to create and support programs and projects which will enable the hungry to be fed; naked clothed; sick nourished; aged protected; infants cared for and homeless housed and to provide technical assistance to aid the Rastafari Nation of the scattered Almighty Rastafari Kingdom (ARK) to organize, centralize and repatriate.  EOZ has an extensive Collective and Network whose members have been involved in every significant event and activity of the Rastafari Movement, dating back to the 1983 Historic UWI Conference which resulted in the 22 Points of Resolution, and 20 years later, inclusive of the first ever Rastawoman Conference at Howard University, and the Global Rastafari Conference in 2003, at which EOZ was responsible for the documentation/rapporteur. The raison d'être (reason of being) for Empress of Zion, Inc. is to bring to the forefront the role and importance of the the works of Empress Menen, the Empress of Zion, who was personally responsible for the founding and funding of social programs and institutions as the wife of Emperor Haile Selassie I and for the Daughters of Zion, in partnership with the Brethren and Youths of Rastafari, to emulate such works for the uplifting of the Rastafari Nation of the scattered Almighty Rastafari Kingdom (ARK). Programs and projects of the Empress of Zion, Inc. include: The founding of the Empress Menen Learning Center in Kliptown, SOWETO, S. Africa, serving a population which is predominantly AIDS orphans The EMA (Empress Menen African-Centered) Curriculum Developers A Partnership with the Miriam Makeba Center for Girls in Midrand, S. Africa, offering Life-skills training and other activities such as Kwanzaa celebrations A partnership with an Orphanage in Botswana, through our Botswana Chapter A partnership with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Tampa, Florida, through our Tampa Chapter Collaborations with the Women's League of the Ethiopia African Black International Congress (Bobo Shanti) Collaborations with TRON Inc. (Theorcracy Reign Order Nyahbinghi, Atlanta) Collaborations with MOUDF  (Members of Unity Development Foundation) Selassie I Branch in Ghana Collaborations with JRDC (Jamaica Rastafarian Development Community) School in Shashemane, Ethiopia, the recipient of the first funds collected from the 2003 first launch of  EOZ book and most recently, a Train-the-Trainer session with the new Director in September 2007 Collaborations with HABESHA Inc (Helping Africa By Establishing Schools Home & Abroad) Several other collaborations with African-centered organizations such NCOBRA Support of the program and activities of CRO (Caribbean Rastafari Organization) through delivery of presentations and having the Executive Director on the Board of EOZ It is said that a picture is worth more than a thousand words.  Please visit Empress of Zion website