Join us for a critical webinar exploring the multifaceted tools of imperialism and their impact on the Americas. This discussion will unpack how sanctions, soft power mechanisms like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and USAID, militarization, and global banking systems are weaponized to uphold U.S. power and undermine sovreignty across the region.

Panelists will analyze the historical and contemporary roles these tools play in destabilizing governments, fostering dependency, and suppressing popular people’s movements for self-determination, highlighting resistance strategies and pathways to combat imperialism and defend sovereignty while building solidarity among peoples and nations in the Americas.

Speakers: 

  • Erica Caines is the Field Operations and Membership coordinator of The Black Alliance For Peace, and a member  of The Black Alliance For Peace Haiti/ Americas Team and the Black working-class centered Ujima People’s Progress Party in Maryland. Caines is also the founder of Liberation Through Reading and co-editor of the Revolutionary African blog, Hood Communist.

  • Gerald A Perreira is a theologian, educator and activist. He has written on a wide range of topics and his articles/essays can be found on international sites including Modern Ghana, Internationalist 360, Black Agenda Report, Countercurrents, Just World, Hood Communist, Pambazuka and Monthly Review. He is chairperson of Organization for the Victory of the People (OVP) based in Guyana www.ovpguyana.org  and is an executive member of the Caribbean Pan-African and Indigenous Movement. He lived in the Libyan Jamahiriya for many years and was a founding member of the World Mathaba under the leadership of Muammar Qaddafi. He can be reached at mojadi94@gmail.com

  • Alenjandro Rusconi is Secretary of International Relations of the Evita Movement of Argentina

  • Nina Farnia is a legal historian and anti-imperialist activist. Her book on modern US imperialism and anti-imperialist resistance and dissent is forthcoming with Stanford University Press in winter 2026. She is a founder of the International People's Tribunal on US Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades and Economic Coercive Measures.

Moderator: Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Alliance for Peace, Haiti-Americas Team