INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION ON AFRICOM

We demand:

-The complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Africa,
-The demilitarization of the African continent,
-The closure of U.S. bases throughout the world, and
-The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) oppose U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and conduct hearings on AFRICOM’s impact on the African continent, with the full participation of members of U.S. and African civil society.

October 1, 2020, is the 12th anniversary of the launch of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), a command structure with bases that are now in dozens of African nations. Yet, the existence of AFRICOM has escaped the awareness of not only the general public in the United States and the world. When four U.S. soldiers were killed in the small African nation of Niger, even members of the U.S. Congress was unaware of the U.S. military's presence in the country and the extent of the U.S. military presence throughout Africa.

The International Day of Action on AFRICOM (October 1, 2020) aims to raise the public's awareness about the U.S. military's existence in Africa, and how the presence of U.S. forces exacerbates violence and instability throughout the continent.

The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) has taken up the task of educating the public on AFRICOM and the extensive basing networks in Africa and throughout the world. Our campaign on AFRICOM is an integral element of our general opposition to U.S. global militarization, with its offensive command structures, approximately 800 to 1,000 overseas bases, and the United States' status as the number one arms merchant on the planet.

We are calling on our friends and allies around the world to join us in calling for the United States to respect the wishes of African people to de-militarize the African continent, so Africa can begin to be a “zone of peace.”

We say the brutality, violence, and systematic degradation of Black life in the colonized zones of the United States against Black people by the domestic police are replicated in Africa by the U.S. global police represented by the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies.

Over $150 billion of the people’s resources are being spent on U.S. bases in Africa and around the world to police people on behalf of the U.S. corporate and the financial elite.

The African peoples who find themselves on the receiving end of the violence—because of corrupted African leadership in alignment with the U.S.—are saying to the people in the United States to demand U.S. troops and U.S. money is withdrawn. It is clear the introduction of AFRICOM has resulted in less security, less democracy, and diminished human rights for African peoples who are in conflict with their own neo-colonial governments.

BAP supports that call and adds the people’s resources that are being squandered to support imperialist adventures must be seized by the people and used to address the human rights needs of African/Black people and other oppressed and exploited peoples for housing, healthcare, education, food and clean water, instead of on war on behalf of the capitalist dictatorship.

We call our friends to endorse this day, as an individual or as an organization. Beyond that, we call on you to organize an educational event on October 1, 2020, for which we have provided materials on this page.

End the War on Africa and African People in the U.S. and Abroad!
Stand with the People – Oppose War and Militarism in Every Part of the World!
Close All U.S. and NATO Bases!

ENDORSING ORGANIZATIONS

AfroResistance

Canadian Peace Congress

Solidarity Committee for Democracy and Peace in Korea

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Proceso de Communidades Negras (PCN) (Colombia)

Group for Research and Initiative for the Liberation of Africa (GRILA)

Popular Resistance

Friends of the Congo

BAYAN-USA and Resist US-Led War Movement

New Afrikan People's Organization/Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute

Kampagne NATO raus - raus aus der NATO

TONATIERRA

Committee of Anti-Imperialists in Solidarity with Iran (CASI)

All-African People’s Revolutionary Party

Movement for People's Democracy

AAPRP New Mexico

Cooperation Jackson

Veterans For Peace (national)

Veterans for Peace, North Texas

Answer Coalition

Global Pan Africanism Network

Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, US Section, Disarm/End Wars Committee

National Lawyers Guild International Committee

Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases

Universal Zulu Nation

University of Ghana

U.S. Peace Council

International Action Center

LYNNE STEWART ORG.

Association of Black Social Workers (ABSW)

NEW ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT, BLACK IS BACK COALITION

New Afrikan Independence Party

United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)

International Committee for Peace, Justice, and Dignity

Friends of the ATC (Nicaragua)

CODEPINK

Green Party

Tom Neilson Music

Our Revolution Central Iowa-Scott Galindez Chapter

SolidarityINFOService

Universal Zulu Nation

University of Ghana

Yeebo Publishers

Sáharafuerte

Drum Majors Alliance

RAPID AFRICA PLAN

Show Up! America

Umoya

Mapinduzi/BWFJ

Mapinduzi Solidarity Committee

Mapinduzi

Environmentalists Against War

Tar river gdc

WILPF

DNA

GW Students Against Imperialism

Jewish Voice for Peace, Atlanta

SolidarityINFOService

Veterans For Peace Linus Pauling Chapter 132 Corvallis, OR

LAUSD

Ghost Town Theatre

World BEYOND War

Maasai Global, LLC

Philly Boricuas

Bike4Peace.com

PLUUF

Pan African Community Action (PACA)

William James Education Legacy

North American Climate, Conservation and Environment(NACCE)

International Action Center

Parable of the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative

http://www.luftpost-kl.de/ 

Rough Edges Art Productions

NewOrleans Workers Group

NEW ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT

The People's Coalition

ITL Productions

Africa United Sports Club

Direct Action Coordinating Committee

Socialist Action

Environmentalists Against War

Our Revolution Central Iowa-Scott Galindez Chapter

Afrikan Black Star

Liberating Library

Workers World Party