ACTION ALERT: Global Day to Shut Down AFRICOM

The Black Alliance for Peace

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

October 1, 2020 is the 12th anniversary of the launch of the US 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 US soldiers were killed in the small African nation of Niger, even members of the US Congress were unaware of the US military’s presence in the country and the extent of the US military presence throughout Africa.

The International Day of Action on AFRICOM (October 1, 2020) aims to raise the public’s awareness about the US military’s existence in Africa as well as the violence and instability exacerbated wherever US forces find themselves in Africa.

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 US 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 is replicated in Africa by the US global police represented by the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies.

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

The African peoples who find themselves on the receiving end of the violence — because of corrupted African leadership in alignment with the US — are saying to the people in the United States to demand US troops and US 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 neocolonial 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 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 are calling 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 US and Abroad!
Stand with the People — Oppose War and Militarism in Every Part of the World! Close All US and NATO Bases!

ACTION: Click Here to Endorse the Following Statement for the International Day of Action on AFRICOM

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