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, 2023 is the 15th 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, but also of the world. When four U.S. soldiers were killed in the small African nation of Niger, even members of the U.S. Congress were unaware of the U.S. military's presence in the country and the extent of the U.S. military presence throughout Africa.
  
  The International Month of Action Against AFRICOM, launching October 1, 2023, 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 is 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 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 are 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 on our friends to endorse this month as an individual or organization. Beyond that, we are calling on you to organize an educational event that day, for which we have provided materials on our webpage.

• 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!

ENDorsers

Africa World Now Project

Alaigbo Development Foundation

All African People's Revolutionary Party (AAPRP)

Bauchi Human Rights Network

Black Star News

Black Workers for Justice (BWFJ)

Bronx Antiwar Coalition

Citizens Organized for Environmental Justice Inc.

Claudia Jones School for Political Education

CODEPINK

Commission 4 (just peace), International League of Peoples' Struggles

Committee of Anti-Imperialists in Solidarity with Iran

Community Movement Builders

CovertAction Magazine

DSA International Committee

Friends of Latin America

Friends of the Congo

G-REBLS

Groupe de recherche et d'initiative pour la liberation de l'afriqie (GRILA)

Hood Communist Blog

Migrant Roots Media

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO)

Muslims for Social Justice

National Lawyers Guild International Committee

National Lawyers Guild's Military Law Task Force

Pan African Revolutionary Socialist Party

Pan-African Community Action (PACA)

Parable of the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative

Peace Action WI

Pittsburgh Black Socialists Study Group

RESIST US-LED WAR

Rethink New Orleans

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Southern Anti-Racism Network

United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)

Veterans For Peace

Victoria Peace Foundation

Voices With Vision, WPFW 89.3 fm, Wash. DC

Workers Voice Socialist Movement

Workers Voice Socialist Movement, Louisiana

Zimbabwe Movement of Pan African Socialists

Zimbabwe Pan African Pride