Repair and remembrance
Route to Repair
Zwart Manifest’s Route to Repair report describes how Amsterdam can move forward after its apology for the slavery past. Carla pressed for the executive’s response, asked about ownership by descendants and a building for the Black community, and co-sponsored an amendment.
What Carla did
Put on the agenda
At Carla’s request, the committee discussed the letter from the National Slavery Monument foundation. She asked when the response to Route to Repair would come.
Committee
On the executive’s response, she asked about a lasting multi-purpose building by and for the Black community, monitoring, and ownership by descendants.
Amendment
Amendment 511 (Bentoumya et al., with Kabamba): 150,000 euros extra in 2026 to start on recommendations from the Route to Repair, such as support for grassroots organisations from Black communities, the pilot for the Culture and making Black history visible. Adopted.
Council
In the council she called it “very much a Kabamba subject”: it shows what the first steps towards justice look like.