In the run-up to budget discussions, the Trump Administration floated various proposals for a dramatic increase in military spending on top of the already bloated $596 billion Pentagon budget. This, figure doesn’t even represent the true expenditures devoted to war-making and militarism in the $1.1 trillion discretionary side of the national budget. The $596 doesn’t […]
A Voice From the Margins
"The battle lines are being drawn; the only question that people must ask themselves is which side they'll be on."
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The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) seeks to recapture and redevelop the historic anti-war, anti-imperialist, and pro-peace positions of the radical black movement. Through educational activities, organizing and movement support, organizations and individuals in the Alliance will work to oppose both militarized domestic state repression, and the policies of de-stabilization, subversion and the permanent war agenda of the U.S. state globally.
People(s)-Centered Human Rights
What is a people-centered approach to human rights theory and practice?
PCHRs are those non-oppressive rights that individuals and collectives define and secure for themselves through social struggle that reflects the highest commitment to human dignity and social justice for themselves and all humanity. Processo De Comunidades Negras (PCN) in Colombia is one such organization that embodies a PCHR framework aimed at democratizing power and access to land and resources for Africans and Indigenous Communities.
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Statement from Black Alliance for Peace: Oppose the war on North Korea, Reject Trump Budget proposal to increase military spending
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While the Congress debates an appropriation bill this week to keep the government funded for the rest of the year, the Trump Administration called all 100 U.S. Senators to a meeting to discuss the administrations’ plans on North Korea. The opportunism of this public relations stunt could not be more obvious. An important element of […]
50 years later, we must again confront and reject U.S. warmongering
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50 years ago, on April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King reconnected with the radical black tradition by adding his voice of opposition to the murderous U.S. war machine unleashed on the people of Vietnam. For Dr. King, his silence on the war in Vietnam had become an irreconcilable moral contradiction. He declared that it was hypocritical for him to proclaim the superior value of non-violence as a life principle in the U.S. and remain silent as the U.S. government engaged in genocidal violence against a people whose only crime was to believe that they could escape the clutches of French and then U.S. colonialism
Ajamu Baraka @ajamubaraka International human rights activist, organizer, political analyst. National Organizer for @blacks4peace. I do my own tweets.