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PROJECTS

Reparations United is a new organization operating out of Chicago with a local, national and international focus.

As the saying goes, “All politics are local,” we believe that reparations must be driven from the effect of harms felt at the community level.

As such, we begin with the reparations paradigm  emanating from the 2001 World Conference Against Racism  : that crimes were committed for centuries, there in continued impact of the crimes that we now refer to as injuries, thus reparations are obligatory.

Consequently, there will be shared injuries across communities within America, which will allow us to collectively, at the grassroots level,  develop, share and synchronize best practices, projects and proposals. Each community will also have its own unique injuries that must be redressed.

Therefore, through Reparations United  Projects,  we will engage local communities nationally to share and  build  simultaneously around local reparations demands  and focused local reparatory  projects.

Reparations United is embarking on a 15 city tour to united forces in the reparations movement. The tour entitled, “The Mission, the Mandate and the Method” will seek to diffuse the contentions in the movement that distracts us all from our goal of full reparations.  In additionally, Kamm  will hold side meetings in the tour cities to inform and mobilize reparations activists around  two of the  major projects of Reparations United – Reparations as Public Safety  and Enforcing the Slavery Disclosure Ordinance.

A project developed to promote guaranteed basic income as an incentive to move youth and young adults from the informal economy to the formal economy. Lacking an intentional policy to address the many young people locked out of the formal economy, ensures the cycle of violence will continue and the trauma to our families and communities worsen.

This project focuses on non-governmental perpetrators of crimes against our community – corporations and institutions The goal is to get cities to enforce them by mandating a reparations agreement with the community they harmed. In addition, we will assist in crafting new ordinances in cities without existing ordinances.