The PRALER Fund: The right to just restitution and redistribution
The PRALER Fund comes out of the efforts of various networks to consolidate a fund for the Just Restitution of resources to support frontline efforts of communities for reparatory justice.
The vast majority of wealth and resources in the Global North have ended up here through crimes against humanity which we need to repair. However, the question of reparations has been seriously co-opted by elite institutions and neo-colonial governments to only be about financial compensation for crimes committed without addressing underlying systemic issues.
A core part of reparatory justice understood in International Law, as outlined by the United Nations, is the question of restitution, of returning that which was stolen, which includes the vast amounts of money stolen through neocolonialism every year. Campaigns particularly from the International Social Movement of Afrikan Reparations (ISMAR) champion guarantees of non-repetition, and stopping the harm.
Join The PRALER Fund Campaign:
We are a fully grassroots initiative supported by contributions from individuals and communities, and welcome people of conscience from all backgrounds to get involved.
The campaign is a reparatory justice initiative focused on stopping the ongoing harm and challenging co-optation of genuine peoples claims for sovereignty and reparatory justice, through practices of Just Restitution of resources; including financial contributions, hardware, skills sharing, and the histories of past internationalist solidarity movements.
Contributor-Advocates are contributing with the financial and other resources available in their communities, and advocating for the Just Restitution of resources in their community centres and gardens, schools, universities, places of worship, trade unions and workplaces.
Make a financial contribution and sign up as a Contributor Advocate below:
What And How We Fund:
Our emphasis is on movement building work and the development a Glocal Planet Repairs economy. The fund supports communities and institutions participating in PRALER to develop their own ways of resourcing their work, such as the organisation of glocal fundraising events, as well as engaging with funders and wealth holders who see the need for reparatory justice.
The funds raised go directly into this grassroots movement work including through:
- Educational activities such as The Decolonial Open Communiversity
- Supporting funding for capacity and logistical needs of indigenous and other colonised communities working for reparatory justice
- Establishing monitoring and communications networks through the Planet Repairs Internationalist Observatory which supports grassroots processes such as the Ghana in Planet Repairs Action Dialogue, and is developing monitoring of Earth Defenders and Indigenous activists
- Supporting the campaign for Pan Afrikan Unity for the Sahel through selling arts and crafts to support the work of PARISC.
Funds are being allocated in the following way:
- 70% of funds raised will go towards Global South communities to develop their own capacity to cooperatively resource themselves through Planet Repairs initiatives
- 10% of funds will be going towards supporting infrastructure shared by grassroots organisations working towards Planet Repairs
- 10% of funds will go towards material costs like stickers and banners for movement building activities in the Global North
- 10% of funds will be allocated towards supporting specific community institutions in the Global North which are participating in the PRALER process.
Legal information:
- The PRALER Fund is a trading name of the not-for-profit company Compassionate Revolution XRBTC Ltd
Download and read our pamphlet and fund policy below to learn more about our work
Updates:
The launch of Afrecycle
Three of us launched Manchester for Planet Repairs in the Summer to bring the PRALER process to the third largest city in England. We wanted…
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PRALER Fund Report – 2022-2024
With these resources now in the ownership of Communities of Resistance we have been able to fund and host the the launch of the Decolonial…
Keep readingHistorical examples:
“ The flowing tide of Afrikan Nationalism sweeps everything before it and constitutes a challenge to the Colonial Powers to make a Just Restitution for the years of injustice and crime committed against our continent. But Africa does not seek vengeance, it is against our very nature to harbour malice. Over 2 million of our people cry out with tremendous power, and what do they say: we do not ask for death of our oppressors, we do not pronounce wishes of ill-faith for our slave masters, we need an accession of a just and positive demand…and it calls out for the freedom of Afrika. Afrika wants its Freedom, Afrika must be Free. It is a simple call […]” – President Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Address to the United Nations, September 1960
The PRALER Fund seeks to learn from internationalist solidarity movements past and present which have sought to invest themselves into Global South freedom struggles, including the Liberation Support Movement, the International Defence and Aid Fund, the United NLF Groups and many more. We believe that its only through locating ourselves within a lineage of struggle that we will be able to learn whats needed for the times that we find ourselves in.
The story of the International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) is a powerful example of what can be achieved through internationalist solidarity fundraising which we seek to learn from for our work in building the PRALER Fund. IDAF succeeded in channelling millions of pounds to liberation movements resisting Apartheid: