BLACK IS BACK COALITION TO HOST A NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WARS THAT ARE UNRECOGNIZED BY THE TRADITIONAL PEACE MOVEMENT
The “National Conference on the Other Wars” will allow the Black is Back Coalition to intervene in the general political discussion around the issues of war and peace and what wars are important and what wars are not.
WASHINGTON, DC, February, 7, 2011 -- The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations (BiB) has decided that on March 26, 2011 it will intervene politically in the peace movement because it is unwilling to allow the white left to continue its monopolization of the definition of what the struggle for peace is about.
The BIB regards the white left as a movement that strives toward an imperialist peace, one that does not disturb the relations of power between the oppressed and the war-mongering imperialist oppressor.
The BIB is also of the view that the U.S. white left has been generally incapable of supporting any struggles anywhere that did not benefit the leftists organizationally and/or politically or that did not revolve around issues that appear to present an immediate or future challenge to their material interests as U.S. North Americans.
The BIB, however, is totally opposed to “imperialist peace” and holds the position that the essential wars that imperialism has been making has been against the black and the non-white world. Tragically, these wars have, for the most part, gone unrecognized by the so-called peace movement.
Millions of Africans have been dying in the Congo, most recently since 1998. There has also been bloody U.S.-induced deadly mayhem in Somalia, Sudan, Ivory Coast and other places throughout Africa.
Haiti, since 2004, has been experiencing a brutal occupation of UN-led forces backed by the imperialist powers.
Mexicans are suffering U.S. settler colonialism within the U.S. and the Native people or “Indians”, like the Mexicans, suffer the consequences of settler colonialism.
Meanwhile, the war against the African population in the U.S. is historical. A form of warfare has characterized that group’s relationship with the U.S. since it first encountered the Europeans who assaulted Africa and brought them to the U.S. against their will.
The “National Conference on the Other Wars” which will be held in Washington, DC on March 26, 2011 is intended to highlight that there are wars happening in the world that the traditional white left does not recognize, though they are the very struggles that have critical significance for the continued survival of imperialism.
Topics to be addressed at the “National Conference on the Other Wars” include: The Permanent War Against Africa; Haiti Under Attack; Reparations/Payment for war crimes; U.S. Aggression in Colombia/Africans Under Fire; War at the Borders; War on U.S. Streets/Police terror and murder; Economic Warfare/Sub-prime mortgages, foreclosures and gentrification; Nation behind Bars/Mass Incarceration and Political Prisoners; and Why We Must Resist.
Presenters include, among others, Luwezi Kinshasa - APSP, Glen Ford - Black Agenda Report, Queen Mother Yaa Asantewa - NCOBRA, Eugenia Charles - APSP, Efia Nwangaza - Malcolm X Center for Self Determianation, Rich Piedrahita - APSP, Nellie Bailey – Harlem Tenants Council, and Diop Olugbala - INPDUM.
The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations was formed on September 12, 2009. Its members include a wide sector of the African movement from a variety of political and ideological persuasions whose objective is to forge a common anti-imperialist agenda. It is headquartered in Washington, DC.
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For more information about this Conference, or to schedule an interview with Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the Black is Back Coalition, please call Charo R. Walker at 1.242.357.3400 or e-mail Ms. Walker at charowalker@gmail.com.
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