Former Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) Coordinating Committee member Vanessa Beck and BAP Coordinating Committee member Erica Caines spoke July 16, 2020, to the National Network for Justice about how the Trump administration's program, Operation Relentless Pursuit, aims to further militarize several U.S. cities, including Baltimore. They also discussed how this program is connected to the broader U.S. agenda to repress colonized communities in the United States and around the world.

This video contains excerpts from the original National Network for Justice webinar.

The Baltimore chapter of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) hosted a webinar June 19, 2020 (Juneteenth), to discuss "Operation Relentless Pursuit," the Trump administration's surge of militarized policing targeting Baltimore and other U.S. cities. The increase in policing—combined with ongoing police brutality, the evolution of surveillance technology and the gutting of social programs—leaves the African/Black working class and poor even more vulnerable and susceptible to state-sanctioned violence. During the webinar, BAP-Baltimore shared information and strategized with those who will be directly affected by this surge.

This panel discussion was livestreamed on our Facebook page on August 18, 2018, in Baltimore's Wallbrook Library. The goal was to educate the public on the U.S. government's use of its vast military power to re-colonize the African continent and to subject Black people within its borders to police repression. This event also included a special performance from hip hop artist and freedom fighter Son of Nun.

Panelists included:
• Tawanda Jones, Justice for Tyrone West
• Brittany Oliver, Not Without Black Women
• Kelly Davis, Team Keith
• Netfa Freeman, Pan-African Community Action (BAP member organization)
• Maurice Carney, Friends of the Congo (BAP member organization)
• Ajamu Baraka, Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) National Coordinator

Moderator: Vanessa Beck, Black Alliance for Peace Coordinating Committee

Endorsers: Ujima People's Progress Party, Not Without Black Women, Pan-African Community Action (PACA), Friends of the Congo (FOTC), Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases,
United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) Baltimore Palestine Solidarity

Learn about the Keith Davis Jr. Legal Defense Fund.

In the war being waged against Black people in our communities, we can have no compromise, no retreat. We must do the work to understand ourselves, and help our local organizing community understand the connections between the local, national and international policies of aggression against Black, Brown and working class people, and organize proactively to protect ourselves and each other. This conversation identified these connections in Baltimore, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Area. During the panel discussion, we heard about the ways these policies and activities of aggression present across the regions.

Black Alliance for Peace-Baltimore also shared the ways they are engaging in political education around these concerns.

This webinar originally took place August 23, 2020 on Zoom.

BAP member Netfa Freeman interviewed BAP National Organizer Ajamu Baraka on the “Blue Lives Matter” bill on May 22, 2018, on Netfa’s radio program “Voices with Vision”. This show airs on Washington, D.C.-based radio station WPFW at 9 a.m., Eastern Time, every Tuesday.