Sacramento Black Agenda
Items of Importance identified at the November
30th 2016 Meeting
1. Working for
greater unity while recognizing our differences - being present for each other,
this idea was also represented by the statement, unity without
uniformity.
2. Recognizing
the importance of young people in promoting social change and social movements
(Black Lives Matter), for example.
3. Pursuing
short-term, mid-term, and long-term agendas.
4. Utilizing
existing organizations as a means of bringing us together
collectively.
5. Developing
a political agenda to achieve power, locally and nationally. Our demands should be a reflection of our
times, not the past.
6. We need to
create our own social safety nets, providing for ourselves, what the government
will not.
7. Education,
Economics, and Politics are the bases for power. Economic power is central for improving our
collective well-being, it is essential to increase our economic
power.
8. We need to
identify the specific issues which will constitute our agenda.
9. It is
absolutely necessary that we mobilize our population.
10. We should all
support Black people throughout the city, not restrict ourselves physically, or
engagement to separate pockets of Black residency and presence.
11. This effort
must be based on collective, not personal, agendas.
12. Results
matter. Our efforts should be oriented
toward producing results, that means we should share a common summation of where
we are, how we got here, and how to proceed for the future.
13. Our unity
should be based on shared principles which we identify specifically as the means
which identify our goals and our means for achieving them.
14. We need to ally
with others who can help us achieve our goals when it is appropriate to do so,
and when such alliances are in conformity with our own shared
principles.
15. We need to
share information with each other, inform each other, as through Saturday
Schools, which do not need to be limited to children.
16. It is time for
us to do something for us.
17. We need to get
into the ghetto. We need to be there to
destroy gangs. They serve no positive
purpose.
18. This effort
must be about concrete collective achievement.
19. We need to
identify what 501 C (3)s are doing, and how we can work with them.
20. We must get
young people involved in what we are doing (see #2 above).
21. We have to
recognize and incorporate into our efforts the importance of
technology.
22. We need to
focus our efforts on specific conditions.
One is Black child deaths.
23. We need to
proceed by beginning with small, strategic, effective steps.
24. Our
self-information (see # 15 above) should include specific topics which will be
effected by the political tsunami which has just taken place.
25. Our focus on
Black economics should include buying property collectively, an activity which
will not only increase our collective wealth, but will also enable us to hire
each other.
26. We should work
on providing opportunities for people who are released from incarceration to
find employment and enable them to lead fulfilling lives.
27. We should
maintain liaisons with elected officials, and we should receive periodic,
regular legislative updates from them.
28. We need to
achieve the 90% marker, a minimum of 90% of Black people vote in
elections.
29. Each of us
should bring more people to the next meeting.
SABC hosted monthly meetings since November 2016 building and renewing
a call for Sacramento Black Agenda for 2017 and 2018.
