January Community Actions 2021, 2022, 2023

January 2021

 

United Black Association for Development Educational Foundation (UEF) organized an online Belizean Community Conversation about the Politics of Black Hair. UEF Chairperson Sista YaYa Marin Coleman hosted 2 community reasoning sessions with Sista Katie Numi Usher “a Black woman making and writing about art in Belize.” Our collective conversation was sparked after another news report of Anti-Blackness and Black Hair Discrimination by a staff of the Belmopan City Council in January 2021.

 

January 2022 

 

UEF organized the first of 1 year of monthly community conversations rooted in  Afrikan Emancipation & Afrikan Reparations with our Pan Afrikan Solidarity Partner Organization in the UK, Stopthemaangamizi We Charge Genocide/Ecocide Campaign (SMWeCGEC) in January 2022. These monthly discussions on Krem Television News Review Talkshow/Krem Sunday Review and live streamed on FaceBook with the hashtag  #bzeafrikanreparationsuef, started with our guest Bredah Kofi Mawuli Klu/Jurisconsult, Activist, and co-founder of  Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe (PARCOE).

 

 

January 2023 

 

United Black Association for Development Educational Foundation (UEF) organized, raised awareness, and advocated for the Government of Belize to ratify the Escazu Agreement in 2022. On Facebook the hashtags #bzeescazuagreementuef and #belizeansdahdienvironment documents UEF knowledge building about this “Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean.”  3 Community Conversations online about the Escazu AgreemenJanuary 2023 Belize Cabinet gave approval for the ratification of the Escazu Agreement