Global Zimbabwe Forum USA network
Let Robert Mugabe and ZANUPF pay a heavy price at the next elections for destroying Zimbabwe and for atrocities against the opposition movement.
Global Zimbabwe Forum
Strategy meeting conference call
Date: Monday, August 4
Time: 7 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time)
Number to call: 1-605-475-6000
Access code : 937832
Agenda.
UNITE HERE report back
GZF structure (NGO registration, membership, T shirts, IDs, etc.)
Observer mission to the UN proposal
Radio broadcast project report
GZF website launch date
Fundraiser
Other activities
AOB
Global Zimbabwe Forum
Multimedia Zimbabwe Initiative
Inaugural meeting
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Saturday. May 10, 2008
Draft agenda
Saturday. May 10, 2008
Noon - 6 p.m.
Technical activities. Individuals invited to make their presentations will record samples.
6 – 7 p.m.
Dinner
7 p.m. Plenary
1. Welcome and introductions.
2. Global Zimbabwe Forum and Multimedia Zimbabwe
3. Discussion
8 p.m.
1. Establishing Multimedia Zimbabwe structure
2. Presentations. Presenters limited to 10 minutes each. For a fuller presentation it is assumed presenter will have recorded between 12 and 6 p.m.
- MS. JENNIPHER NYEMBA -- gender issues in liberation and independence
- DR. FARAI BERE - role of culture, drama and music in human socioeconomic
development- DR. STAN MUKASA - mass media and communication in human socioeconomic
development- MS.ALYCE MURAMBIWA -- beauty, fashionable, and health
- MS. MERILYN MAKUWATSINE - nutrition and health
- MS. FUNGISAI CHIKOWORE -- money matters
- MR. DAN THEMBO – starting and maintaining a business
- MR. NICK ZEMURA -- role of film in development
- *MR. MUFUME -- what funding agencies are looking for in a proposal
- MR. JAMES MASABUNE – role of books in human socioeconomic development
- *DR.HANDEL MLILO – What Zimbabwe needs in the post-Mugabe era
- *MR. BRIGGS BOMBA –Partnerships and networking in development projects
- *DR.FRENK GUNI-- what funding agencies are looking for in a proposal
- NICK MADA -- Community Organizing and activism
- CRISPEN MASUKU -- Photography, culture and music in human socioeconomic development
*Not confirmed
11: 30 SOCIAL
Sunday. May 11, 2008.
Breakfast
RESOLUTIONS
MEETING ENDS
Global Zimbabwe Protest details
Global Zimbabwe Press Statement
GZF Petition
GZF appeal
Global Zimbabwe Forum USA and North American branches of the Movement for Democratic Change are collaborating towards the establishment of Multimedia Zimbabwe, an NGO for the Diaspora.
Multimedia Zimbabwe will spearhead a multifaceted project aimed at disseminating information, knowledge and communication (IKC) to Zimbabweans and to promote in a practical way human socioeconomic development.
You are all invited to the conference call scheduled for Saturday, April 26 starting at 9 p.m. This will be a stategy session to lay out the agenda for a conference scheduled for May 3 in Allentown, Pa.
Call details: 1 605 475 6000
Access code 212928
Global Zimbabwe Forum
Strategy meeting conference call
Date: Tuesday, April 15
Time: 9 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time)
Number to call: 1-605-475-6000
Access code : 937832
Agenda.
1. To issue a statement condemning the rampant violence under Operation Wakavhotera Papi. The statement will be distributed widely.
2. "Zimbabwe museum of torture" road show. I want to put together pictures of atrocities perpetrated by Mugabe and have a public showing in various places where our GZF members are based. We will need to ask for a place where the temporary museum of torture can be located.
3. News conference in DC. I am working on arrangements for a news conference.
4. Any other business. Membership drive
Formation of the Global Zimbabwe Forum – USA
February 27, 2008
Following its successful and widely publicized demonstration outside the Zimbabwe embassy last week Global Zimbabwe Forum Working Group was formed on February 27, 2008.
The purpose of the working group is to spearhead a campaign to bring awareness of the plight of the Zimbabweans to grassroots America.
In the next two weeks GZF-USA Working Group members will take an inventory of organizations in their communities that we might approach to discuss the situation in Zimbabwe.
This grassroots initiative is one of the plans proposed at the Strategy Session on Zimbabwe and organized by Africa Action and Trans Africa in Washington, DC, recently.
It is hoped GZF-USA will work collaboratively with Africa Action.
Addressing the strategy session on February 16 GZF representative for USA Dr. Stanford Mukasa mapped out two key areas of concern on the situation in Zimbabwe, namely, crisis of governance and the humanitarian situation in the country.
Dr. Mukasa said a non partisan action was needed to (a) bring pressure to bear on the Mugabe regime to allow Zimbabweans their basic human and democratic rights and (b) to send badly needed humanitarian relief to the embattled Zimbabweans.
Global Zimbabwe Forum
Strategy meeting conference call
Date: Wednesday, February 27
Time: 9 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time)
Number to call: 1-605-475-6000
Access code : 937832
Agenda.
- GZF structure
- GZF activities. See previous emails
Would anyone volunteer to be secretary and take notes? I will give a report of our demo outside the Zim. embassy See: http://www.zimaction.com/LFAFEB2508.htm
Protest banners
GZF-NAP strategy meeting proposed for February 27
Thanks to all who attended the Diaspora vote protest on Friday. We want to plan a series of activities this year. Can we have a strategy session and talk about things we can do this year?
I also want to discuss an organizational and collaborative structure between Global Zimbabwe Forum and North American Province of the MDC.
Can we have a conference call on Sunday, March 2 at 8 p.m.? Please let me know whether you are able to attend so I can keep a list in my records.
Here is a tentative agenda. All the items are subject to DISCUSSION and AGREEMENT. If you have other ideas please send them to me and I will include them in the agenda. In order not to waste time please come with SPECIFIC proposals.
- Review of protest on Feb. 22
- Organization and collaborative structure between GFZ and NAP
- Establish GFZ-NAP committee. (3 - 4 people)
- Establish website, address, phone, and fax for GFZ-NAP
- Establish Diaspora listserv
- Program of action
- Fundraising ideas to support our program.
Zimbabwe diaspora vote protest rattles Mugabe embassy in Washington DC.
Calling ALL the Zimbabweans in Diaspora
Join the PROTEST for the right to vote in the elections
Zimbabwe Diaspora Vote Protest
No Diaspora Vote, No Free, Fair or Credible Elections in Zimbabwe
Washington DC February 21 - 22
21 February
6 p.m. – 10 p.m. Zimbabwe consultation and social
Venue : Safari. 4306 Georgia Ave NW
Washington, DC 20011
(202) 722-7701
Speaker :
Farayi Bere
"Situation in Zimbabwe"
Contact persons:
Briggs Bomba
22 February --
9. 30 a.m. Arrival at Lafayette Park 1608 H St NW, Washington DC
10:30 a.m. March from Lafayette Park
11:30. Arrive at Zimbabwe Embassy.1608 New Hampshire Ave
Washington,
Moment of reflection for victims of politically motivated violence
Demonstration. Speakers:
Ralph Black
Handel Mlilo
Ruzvidzo Zvidzai
Nassar Rusike
Alyce Murambiwa
Farayi Bere
HANDING PETITION: protest organizers to present petition to Ambassador or his staff.
DIASPORA VOTE. Diaspora will cast votes in a ballot.
News conference : Media will be invited to ask questions.
3 p.m. Gathering at a venue to be announced for the termination of the protest
Contact persons
Canaan Mhlanga 604 461 3072
Zvidzayi Ruzvidzo 614 622 0427
Stanford G. Mukasa 724 467 0001
Handel Mlilo 240 505 0179
