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June 22, 2012 at 11 am: Dr. Robinson's Funeral Service Details for Friday June 22, 2012
June 17, 2012: R. I. P. Dr. Ed Robinson (1918 – 2012)
May 28, 2012 1.30 pm: Doug Heller Memorial Service
8/29 at 7 pm: See Daniel Beaty in "Emergency" for only $9
9/24-November 2012: PASCEP Classes at Temple University
10/20/2012: Michael Coard at 5 pm today - Politics and the Law: Election 2012
November 10, 2012 4-6 pm: The African Response to the Election
April 26, 2013 at 5 pm: Alice Walker At Cheyney University Fundraiser: April 26, 2013
M-F , 9-5: Free Computer Training !!!
August 11, 2012: F(ilm) The Police! Stop Police Homicide and Brutality
02/24/2013: Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary FILM
April 1, 2013 from 7-8.30 pm: Gil Scott-Heron Celebration 2013
10/17/2012: Justice of Trayvon Martin Foundation
5/21/2013: MICHAEL COARD'S 2013 PRIMARY ELECTION RECOMMENDATIONS
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ATAC (Avenging the Ancestors Coalition)
ATAC is a broad-based coalition of historians, activists, attorneys, elected officials, religious leaders, media personalities, and other tax-paying voters — descendants of the victims of the greatest holocaust in the history of humankind. ATAC has the active support of Black (and other) elected officials throughout Pennsylvania.
What Have We Done?
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ATAC spearheaded a letter-writing campaign, garnering over 15,000 signatures.
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ATAC held large and vocal demonstrations annually, usually on July 3, from 2002-2007, in connection with the Slavery Memorial/President's House project.
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In October 2003, ATAC helped secure $1.5 million from Mayor John Street of Philadelphia toward funding the Slavery Memorial/President's House project.
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ATAC provided substantial documentation to U.S. House Appropriations Committee member Congressman Chaka Fattah of Pennsylvania who was instrumental in securing an amendment to the Interior Department's 2003 budget requiring the National Park Service to develop plans for the Slavery Memorial/President's House site, including an "appropriate commemoration" of the nine enslaved African descendants there.
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In August 2005, primarily through the efforts of Congressman Fattah along with the assistance of Congressman Robert Brady of Pennsylvania, $3.6 million in federal funding was made available for the site and the commemoration.
Read ATAC Position Paper
This website is the primary reason that ATAC made history so quickly. And Doug Heller- our original and remarkably ingenious webmaster and now one of our most beloved spiritual ancestors- was the brains behind it. We therefore dedicate this website to him. We also thank and acknowledge Zion Baptist Church (Broad and Venango Streets) for allowing us to gather there for our meetings, to organize, and to honor the ancestors.
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PRESIDENT WASHINGTON ENSLAVED 316 BLACK MEN, WOMEN, & CHILDREN IN VIRGINIA & TRANSPORTED 9 OF THEM TO AMERICA’S FIRST “WHITE HOUSE” IN PHILADELPHIA AT THE CURRENT SITE OF THE NEW LIBERTY BELL CENTER AT 6TH & MARKET.
