Within the framework of ROV’s Peoples’ University of Lifelong Learning, we are planning to channel many of our educational activities and work in partnership with other organisations interested in alternative educational approaches. We have also developed our programme around dates and months in the year which are significant to the African community, and which are already marked annually by Africans around the globe. The following is our proposed calendar and further information will be added over the next months:

2006

21 March 2006 - International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Launch of Youth SilenceBreakpower at YAROPS (Youth Anti-Racist Open Parliamentary School)
Preparatory event towards the 2007 Youth Internationalist Parliament of Humanity

29 March 2006 - 2007 Cross-Community Forum on Visual representations of Enslavement and Abolition

1 May 2006 – Afrikan Liberation Awareness Month Launch and International Workers’ Day Celebration. Open public workshop to support the development of a touring exhibition and publication on unsung heroes and sheroes for 2007.

12 July 2006 - 2007 Cross-Community Forum on Education and Mis-Education in relation to Enslavement and Abolition

1 August 2006 – Maangamizi Awareness Month Launch and Emancipation Day Commemoration. ROV-PULL Day School of films and talks. Organised together with State and Civil Society Diplomatic Representatives of Africa, Europe and the Americas, including the Caribbean.

23 August 2006 – UNESCO’s International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition Stories of resistance from the Haitian Revolution. Lessons learnt from overthrowing the system of Chattel Enslavement and the human stories depicting the strengths and weaknesses of both the Enslaved and the Enslavers. Selected readings and narratives.

10 Sept 06 – Racial Justice Sunday
Martin Luther King lessons in striving for Racial Justice towards the 2007 Bicentenary.

October 2006 Black History Month
ROV-PULL SANKOFA Festivities Programme

25 October 2006 – Black History Month
2007 Cross-Community Forum on Global Justice

2007

Dec 2006 – Jan 2007 – Kwanza Ceremonial Opening of Bicentenary
Commemorative Year’s Eve Preparatory Fruits Gathering and Sharing event

21 March 2007 - International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Pre Youth Internationalist Parliament of Humanity event. An opportunity to inform and invite participants or observers to the Youth Internationalist Parliament of Humanity, taking place in July 07.

March 2007 - 2007 Cross-Community Forum on the legacy of Enslavement in Community Empowerment, Integration and Cohesion.

1 May 2007 – African Liberation Awareness Month Launch and International Workers’ Day Seminar with Trade Unionists and community activists on how the issues of Historical and Contemporary Enslavement and Abolition are relevant to the current day movement in defence of Labour Rights as an integral part of Human and Peoples’ Rights.

July 2007 - Youth Internationalist Parliament of Humanity Event. This internationalist youth platform will bring together young people from all over the world to debate topical and priority issues for the 2007 Commemorative year.

July 2007 - 2007 Cross-Community Forum on Education and Mis-Education – teaching and learning about Enslavement and Abolition.

1 August 2007 – Maangamizi Awareness Month Launch and Emancipation Day Commemoration. A ROV-PULL Day School on the role of Peoples’ Diplomacy in Struggles against Historical and Contemporary Enslavement. Organised together with State and Civil Society Diplomatic Representatives of Africa, Europe and the Americas, including the Caribbean.

23 August 2007 – UNESCO International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
Narratives and stories brought alive to a public audience.

9 Sept 07 - Racial Justice Sunday. Multi-faith event.

October 2006 - Black History Month. ROV-PULL SANKOFA Festivities Programme

Oct 2007 – Black History Month
2007 Cross Community Forum on the role of faiths in Enslavement and Abolition

Dec 07 – Kwanza Event
Ceremonial farewell to the Commemorative Year.