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To: CEOs of Aetna Inc., American International Group, Lloyd's of London, New York Life Insurance Company, Southern Mutual Insurance Company, FleetBoston Financial Corporation (Bank of America), AFSA Data Corporation, Brown Brothers Harriman, JP Morgan Chase Manhattan Bank (Bank One), Lehman Brothers, RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, Brown and Williamson, Liggett Group Inc., Loews Corporation (Lorrilard), Canadian National Railway, CSX Corporation, Norfolk Southern Corp., Union Pacific Railroad, and Westpoint Stevens Inc.
We, the undersigned members of the consuming public, are outraged to learn that you, through your predecessors in interest, played a role in the enslavement of African people.
According to reports, you are accused of benefiting from: stealing African people from their homelands, torturing them to keep them enslaved, stealing their labor, raping African women, and breeding humans like cattle. All of this was done for your economic gain.
Some of you have chosen to lie to the consuming public, on your websites and in other public communications, about the roles you played in slavery. We find this behavior disgraceful.
Today you are multi-billion and trillion dollar entities, while African Americans are still struggling to overcome the vestiges of slavery -- discrimination in housing, employment, education, economic development opportunities, and healthcare opportunities, to name a few. All this, while you continue to grow richer off the fruits of their enslaved African ancestors’ labor.
We demand that you take responsibility for your present consumer fraud, and your historical crimes against humanity.
We urge your institutional investors to demand that you do the same.
Tell the Truth! Pay the Debt! Reparations Now! |
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PART I OF THIS PETITION: http://www.ipetitions.com/peti...
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Slave Descendants' Fraud Claims Against Major Banks, Insurers
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/20...
Bank of America, JPMorgan Slave Trade Cases Reinstated by Court http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/...
Link to Decision (click on Opinion): http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/fd...
Blacks In Government Demand Slavery Restitution From Aetna http://www.blacknews.com/pr/bl...
Slave Descendant Pushes Aetna Boycott
http://www.nysun.com/article/4...
Video: Boycott Announcement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Audio: Reparations Lawsuit Oral Argument, September 27, 2006
http://rsgincorp.zoomshare.com...
Video: Appeals Court to Hear Arguments for Reparations - CBS2Chicago
http://cbs2chicago.com/video/?...
Court Hears Appeal of Slavery Reparations Case - Chicago Sun Times
http://www.suntimes.com/news/m...
Descendants of Slaves Defend Right to Sue - Contra Costa Times
http://www.contracostatimes.co...
Court Asked to Reinstate Slavery Reparations Case - Hartford Courant
http://www.courant.com/busines...
Banks Named in Reparations Lawsuit - Dow Jones Market Watch http://www.marketwatch.com/new...
Boycott JP MorganChase Student Loans -- One Student Campaign, www.onestudent.us
Activist Vows to Appeal Dismissed Slavery Lawsuit, http://www.participate.net/nod...
Reparations suit tossed, 7/6/05
http://www.suntimes.com/output...
Restitution Town Hall Meetings
http://www.rsgincorp.com/townh...
Seeking More Than Just Apologies for Slavery
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Wachovia Apologizes for Predecessor's Links to Slavery
http://www.wachovia.com/misc/0...
JP Morgan Chase To Pay $5 million in restitution
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/bus...
INFORMATION ON REPARATIONS
LAWSUITS AGAINST CORPORATIONS:
Appeal filed 8/3/05
Appeal Name: Farmer-Paellmann, et al v. Brown & Williamson
United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit
219 S. Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60604
Judges: Posner, Easterbrook, and Manion
Appeal Number: 05-3265 and 05-3266
Appeal argued: 9/27/06
Case Reversed and Remanded W/O Prejudice: 12/13/06
Case Number: 05-3266 and MDL 1491
Case Name: Farmer-Paellmann v. Brown & Williamson
US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit
Dirksen Building
219 S. Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60604
Judge: Norgle
Amended Complaint Filed 4/5/04
Case Dismissed With Prejudice: 7/6/05
News Articles -
Judge rejects lawsuit seeking reparations
http://www.usatoday.com/money/...
Court Order Dismissing Lawsuit Without Prejudice
http://www.aetna.com/legal_iss...
ABC News Nightline Segment
Featuring the Lawsuit
http://abcnews.go.com/Business...
Reparation Supporters Seek
Damages http://www.blackenterprise.com...
Lehman Brothers acknowledges ties
to slavery
http://www.wqad.com/global/sto...
CNN Coverage of Lawsuit
Filing
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/03...
Original Complaint Filed Against
Corporations http://www.aetna.com/legal_iss...
USA Today Article About
Several "Slave Money"
Corporations
http://www.usatoday.com/money/...
CORPORATE DISTORTION OF SLAVE LABOR PAST:
Blood On The Tracks -- About
Canadian National Railway
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issu...
Chase's Historical Ledger http://www.thenation.com/doc.m...
The Target Companies
And Why They Were Chosen http://www.thenorthstarnetwork...
RESTITUTION STUDY GROUP PRESS:
Corporate Apologies for Slavery Fall Short
http://www.usatoday.com/news/o...
Blacks Demand Equal Justice from
New York Life Insurance Company
http://www.emediawire.com/rele...
Reparations Activists Working to Prevent Bank Merger
http://www.amsterdamnews.org/N...
Federal Reserve Hearing Testimony on FleetBoston Merger with Bank of America (see section .0199)
http://www.federalreserve.gov/...
Conference by White Supporters of
Black Reparations a Great Success!
http://www.globalblacknews.com...
Ndaba: A great sitting-down
http://www.finalcall.com/artma...
Should Corporate America Pay?
Report on Scholars Meeting on
Reparations Case
http://www.prweb.com/releases/...
Statement Applauding President Bush's
Speech at Goree Island, Senegal
http://releases.usnewswire.com...
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The Restitution Study Group,
Inc. is a not-for-profit
organization pursuing restitution
for injuries inflicted upon
oppressed people.
501(c)3 status is pending.
CONTACT: rsgincorp@yahoo.com or 917-365-3007
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