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Reparations & Digital Currency

The Reparations Labor Union was founded in 2013 by black Jews who were members of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, the only predominantly white synagogue remaining in Detroit. The white Jews returning to Detroit, Jews for Peace, are viewed by their majority-black neighbors as reparations allies as opposed to gentrifiers.

A worldwide pandemic slowed Detroit's gentrification and recolonization. A city still 80% black voted to pay reparations. The Detroit reparations process has been plagued by a Michigan Democratic Party that is pushing Japanese-styled reparations upon blacks in the form of a version of the Evanston Plan. Specifically, survivors of America's detention camps for the Japanese received a one-time payment of $20,000 for their three years of suffering. The Evanston Plan, enacted by a city 80% white, decided to give a couple dozen blacks reparations in the form of a one-time payment of $25,000 in home ownership assistance. Not even cash.

As a black Jews, the founders of the Reparations Labor Union are aware that some of our co-religionists have family members who still receive reparations from a Holocaust that ended 80 years ago. Why can't black Jews, and all blacks, have the same sort of reparations for more than 400 years of slavery and slaughter? Why can't blacks have a business that generates reparations revenue like the indigenous in Michigan generate monthly income for their nation members?

The Reparations Labor Union seeks members who are ready to buy a business like TikTok and use it to pay blacks reparations. If whites make it illegal to pay ourselves reparations in cash, then let's use digital currency.

A group of people stand outside a building under a striped awning. The group consists mostly of men, with one woman visible. The men are dressed in casual, working-class clothing typical of the early 20th century. One man in the foreground is posing with his hand on his hip, looking confident and possibly engaged in a conversation or speech. The sign above reads 'Organized Labor,' suggesting the gathering is related to labor rights or union activity.
A group of people stand outside a building under a striped awning. The group consists mostly of men, with one woman visible. The men are dressed in casual, working-class clothing typical of the early 20th century. One man in the foreground is posing with his hand on his hip, looking confident and possibly engaged in a conversation or speech. The sign above reads 'Organized Labor,' suggesting the gathering is related to labor rights or union activity.

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Reparations Awareness Day
Reaching and Teaching the Children

Imagine a video game that teaches reparations and pays digital currency. Would our children pay more attention in school if we paid them reparations in digital currency? Let's disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline! Click the photo above for the Indiegogo link.

Braxton Vanzant and Anita Belle with Malik Z. Shabazz, Conductor of the Afrodescendant Nation Braxton Vanzant and Anita Belle with Malik Z. Shabazz, Conductor of the Afrodescendant Nation
Afrodescendant Nation

Reparations Labor Union is the majority shareholder of Melanin Biotech Productions, the producer of the "Exodus to Mars" comic strip series and video game. The Exodus to Mars Show stars Braxton Vanzant and Anita Belle crowned Harriet AbuBakr and Silas Muhammad of the Afrodescendant Nation during the National Reparations Convention in Washington, DC.

Reparations Plebiscite

The International Decade for People of African Descent began in 2015 with a UN demand to then-President Barack Obama that the US pay reparations. Ten years later, the decade closes with the US continuing to defy the UN. Nevertheless, the Afrodescendant Nation continues the decade by giving African Americans an opportunity for self-determination. Cast your ballot for reparations through the Reparations Plebiscite. Click the above photo for the link.

NCOBRA Detroit co-sponsored an annual Reparations Awareness Day on February 25th. The keynote speaker for 2024 was Democratic Presidential Candidate and long-time reparations ally Marianne Williamson. Click the photo above to watch the YouTube video swinging down chariots.

Juneteenth

Having a heatwave blast at Umoja Village in Detroit. Our reparations message to the Democrats: Earn Our Vote!

African World Festival

The King of Mars and the Queen of the Sky from "Exodus to Mars" staffed the reparations booth at Detroit's African World Festival at Hart Plaza.

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Braxton Vanzant, as Marcus Garvey Heru, poses with Rashad Singleton, National Reparations League
Braxton Vanzant, as Marcus Garvey Heru, poses with Rashad Singleton, National Reparations League