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Shashamanie City CD - Order 718-277-1547  .
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Our organization has been honored and blessed by the support of Brother Denroy Morgan, founder of performing group, Morgan's Heritage. Along with Morgan's Heritage and other artistes, he has produced a CD for The Ethiopian World Federation to raise funds for the Federation and the Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church of North & South America. "Shashamanie City" is now available and can be ordered from all local branches of the Ethiopian World Federation. For orders and information, call the New York Local Number One office - 718-277-1547. Locals interested to raise funds by selling and promoting the CD, please call Headquarters.
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ORDER TODAY:
2-HOUR MORGAN HERITAGE, LMS VIDEO TAPE
(with cameo appearance by Warrior King)
CAUGHT LIVE AT SOB'S IN NEW YORK CITY - FEB. 13
call EWF 718-277-1547
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NEW YORK LOCAL #1
PUBLIC MEETINGS
SUNDAYS 3:00 - 7:00 P.M.
PAUL ROBESON CENTER
54 GREENE AVENUE
(Corner Adelphi Street)
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
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Chat with our members, friends and visitors at
www.delphiforums.com/Rastaforum/start
The Rastafarian Forum and Chat Room set up for the use of those EWF members and visitors to the EWF website who share an interest in Ethiopia and her sovereignty.
These are times to share your thoughts about the status of our race. What are your views on Repatriation? Reparations? Re-development and Resettlement of Africa? What about Sept. 11 and the ensuring war in Afghanistan? Discussions on Culture, business, relationships and life in general from a black, Ethiopian or Rastafarian perspective.
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E-mail address for The Ethiopian World Federation Local No. 1 is
Headquarters & International Executive Council e-mail:
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Purchase your copy of this 700-page volume of H.I.M.Speeches
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THE BOOK: "SELECTED SPEECHES OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY HAILE SELASSIE I" (700 pages)
Please click our Contributions/Gifts page to see how you can help.
Call 718-277-1547 E-mail:
Click here for Excerpts from the Selected Speeches of H.I.M. Haile Selassie.
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OUR ORGANIZATION
 Photograph of Ras Solomon Wolfe, revered Elder of the Ethiopian World Federation, President of Jamaica Local 43, who was personally appointed by His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie I to be the administrator of the Shashamanne Land Grant which His Majesty gave to black people of the West who desired to return home to Africa. The Ethiopian World Federation has the responsibility of administering the Land under the guidance of our wise and beloved elder.
OUR ORGANIZATION
The Ethiopian World Federation is a world-wide, not-for-profit, tax exempt, 105 C4 non-political membership organization which was organized and incorporated in the center of Black culture - Harlem, New York in 1937. (The Headquarters remains in New York as required by the organization's constitution.) At that time Italy had invaded Ethiopia and Emperor Haile Selassie I was in exile in England. Throughout North and South America and the Caribbean, black individuals and organizations deprived themselves and raised much needed funds to help Ethiopia in its war effort. It was out of the coming together of the Black community in the west to aid Ethiopia in its time of need that the organization was formed under the auspices of the Emperor.
The list of prominent black Harlemites who traveled to England to meet with His Imperial Majesty which led to the formation of the EWF included:
The Emperor's emissary to Black America, his cousin and personal physician, Dr. Malaku E. Bayen, with the help of citizens in Harlem, incorporated the organization on August 25, 1937 in New York State and formed the first branch (Local #1). The original incorporators were:
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Reverend William Lloyd Imes, pastor of the prestigious St. James Presbyterian Church |
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Philip M. Savory, chairman of the Victory Insurance Company and co-owner of the New York Amsterdam News |
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Cyril M. Philp, secretary of the United Aid for Ethiopia |
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Goulbourne M. Blackett |
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Matthew E. Gardner |
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Dorothy H. Bayen |
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Aidah Bastion |
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Eudora Paris |
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Warren Harrigan and |
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Louis Paul |
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The Ethiopian World Federation Incorporated gives thanks to those black Americans who helped to lead the way by organizing and centralizing the affairs of the black race, which we must now address at the highest levels of government.
The Federation's idea of improving race relations in the United States and around the world is to revisit the event that caused the rupture in the human family. That event, known as the TransAtlantic Middle Passage/Slave Trade, should be revisited so that all sides involved can be rehabilitated - some for material restitution and others for moral restoration.
EWF Local #1 Inc., the creators of this website, asks that all visitors to the website make a contribution - no matter how small toward our Educational and Development Fund which is geared towards the following objectives:
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Rebuilding our arsoned building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, which is to serve as a Cultural Center of Learning featuring: |
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Day care center |
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Computerized Academic Center |
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After School programs |
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Medical Health Services and |
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a Music School |
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The Dispatching of an engineering delegation to visit the Ethiopian government to discuss our desire to further assist in the ongoing redevelopment and resettlement of the Continent for the social betterment of the Race everywhere.
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Please click our Contributions/Gifts page to see how you can help. A voluntary contribution is appreciated at any time. Weekly dues for members have always been only 10c since the inception of the EWF in 1937 and remains so to this day.
Presently, members meet on Sundays and Wednesdays each week in Brooklyn. Please call or e-mail us for further information.
Because of the responsibility given to the EWF for the Land Grant in Ethiopia (Shashamanne) by His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, we think our organization has an integral role to play in the future of the black race throughout the world, and especially in the diaspora. For this, we need and ask for the support of each and every black person.
His Majesty personally appointed Ato Solomon Wolfe, then the President of the EWF Local in Jamaica, as the Administrator of the Land Grant. Ato Solomon Wolfe resides for the most part in Ethiopia and visits the United States and other locations regularly. As a Senior Elder in the organization, his wisdom and personal knowledge of His Majesty and Ethiopia makes him a treasure to the organization. You are invited to meet with Ato Solomon Wolfe during his visits in your area. Call to arrange a visit by Ato Wolfe in your area. For more information call us at (718) 277-1547.
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