Marco Rubio - Ultrafascist Not Welcome in The Dominican Republic

MARCO RUBIO - ULTRAFASCIST NOT WELCOME IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

A Statement by Community Organizations of the Dominican Republic

On February 6th, 2025, social, political, and community organizations in the Dominican Republic held a press conference and read a statement denouncing the presence of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in their country. Calling for 'U.S. Out of the Dominican Republic'. In addition to rejecting Rubio's presence, the groups call for Dominican President Luis Abinader to stop selling out the Dominican people and their lands to U.S. imperialism. They issued the following call to their fellow Dominicans: 'We call on the Dominican people to remain steadfast in defending their country’s independence, sovereignty and dignity, and to demand the implementation of integrationist policies with our sister countries within CELAC and ALBA-TCP. These alliances promote peace in Latin America and the Caribbean based on respect for each nation’s sovereignty and the well-being of the region's people. We demand that the United States end the arms trafficking that supports the paramilitary groups in the Republic of Haiti, end the destabilization of our neighbor, and respect Haiti’s sovereignty.'

The statement and press conference clips are available on Instagram (@afrodominica). The English translation can be found by clicking the button below:

Banner photo: Representatives of organizations from the Dominican revolutionary left and progressive sectors express their repudiation of visit by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, courtesy Prensa Latina.

Police Repress Protests in Panama!

Movement News - Panama - 2/10:
"Amidst the Trump administration's assertion of claim over the Panama Canal, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit to Panama was met with protests organized by workers' unions and students from Juventude Revolucionarios These protests were held throughout the city in defense of Panamanian sovereignty. The police reacted to this with violence, threats, and attacks on organizers. Organizers in the University Reform Student Association of the University of Panama [Asociación Universitaria Reforma Estudiantil] are asking for attention and support in calling out government repression and U.S. imperialist machinations (English translation below). BAP member organization AfroResistance and several Panamanian organizations have also expressed solidarity with student organizers."

Banner photo: Man holding Panamanian flag with fist other fist high in the air, courtesy Roberto CISNEROS / AFP.

The Black Alliance for Peace Welcomes New Leadership!

New National Coordinators, Austin Cole, Erica Caines, Tunde Osazua, and new Coordinating Committee Chaitperson, Jacqueline Luqman

Dear comrades and supporters,

The Black Alliance for Peace is proud to announce that we are entering a new stage in our struggle to defeat the war on Africans/Black people in the U.S. and abroad!

Beginning on March 1, 2025, BAP will experience a new change in leadership. We are honored to have a new BAP Coordinating Committee Chair, Jacqueline Luqman; Coordinating Committee Vice-Chair, Jaribu Hill; and our new National Co-Coordinators, Erica Caines, Austin Cole, and Tunde Osazua!

Please join us as we congratulate our new BAP leadership!

Jacqueline Luqman – Coordinating Committee Chair

“No compromise, no retreat must be more than just a slogan. It must become a mindset and a guide along with our Mission and Principles of Unity. These will keep us on the path to ultimate victory over imperialist domination and liberation for our people.”

Jaribu Hill – Coordinating Committee Vice Chair

"I am honored to be selected to serve as co-chair of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP). BAP's work as a revolutionary, anti-imperialist formation is exactly what we need to move our struggle for liberation forward. As an elder in this movement, I am inspired by BAP's inter-generational leadership model. I look forward to working with my comrades to advance our work that stands in opposition to all unjust wars and global oppression."

Erica Caines – National Co-Coordinator

“The Pan-European war on Africans can only be combatted through organization against systemic oppression rooted in colonialism, racism, and economic exploitation. We are organizing for Peace, which is not the absence of conflict but rather the achievement—through popular struggle and self-defense—of a world liberated from the interlocking systems of global injustice. True liberation demands collective action and our unwavering resistance.”

Austin Cole – National Co-Coordinator

"With the escalating crisis of U.S.-led imperialist capitalism across the globe, the need for Black radical unity has possibly never been so urgent. Meeting this moment requires not only struggling toward ideological clarity, but also sharpening our individual and collective organizational practices so that we can build real power and fight together more effectively in this generational struggle for Black/African and collective liberation."

Tunde Osazua – National Co-Coordinator

"The anti-colonial Black radical tradition, rooted in resistance, self-determination, and the fight against imperialism, is a guide for our liberation struggle. Reviving this tradition means rejecting reformist illusions, organizing for power, and forging unity among African people across the planet to defeat the systems that oppress us. Our future depends on it."

We are excited by these changes and the future of the Black Alliance for Peace.

“This marks an incredible moment in the continuation of the formation and the commitment to intergenerational revolutionary leadership.” (Ajamu Baraka, Founder and Coordinating Committee Chair)

The Coordinating Committee would like to acknowledge brother Ajamu Baraka for his many years of service to African people, the working class, and all colonized people, and his leadership in this revolutionary organization. That work will continue as Ajamu will continue as a member of the Coordinating Committee as the Director of The North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights.

Some members of the BAP Coordinating Committee and professional Meeting Facilitator, Janvieve Williams

The Lobito Corridor: US imperialism's latest plot against the Democratic Republic of Congo

The Lobito Corridor: US imperialism's latest plot against the Democratic Republic of Congo

“…The latest imperialist scheme against the DRC is the Lobito Corridor also known as the Lobito Atlantic Railway. This railway was originally built between 1902 and 1929 by the colonial governments of Belgium and Portugal to transport copper and cobalt stolen from the DRC and Zambia towards Europe. In September 2023, at the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, the U.S. government and the European Union signed an agreement to revive this old colonial railway linking the DRC to Zambia and the port of Lobito in Angola, to export critical minerals to Europe via the Atlantic Ocean.”

International Organizations Condemn the Ecuadorian Government in the Guayaquil Four Case

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International Organizations Condemn the Ecuadorian Government in the Guayaquil Four Case

Justice and Reparations for Steven, Josué, Ismael, and Nehemías“…We are like the straw on the moor that is pulled out and grows back.” Dolores Cacuango

The Solidarity Roundtable for the Guayaquil 4 (MSL4 GYE), is a space created by the National Ecuadorian Afro-descendant Movement (MANE), the Permanent Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CDH), the Pueblo Negro organization, the Center for Rural Promotion (CPR), the Association of Popular Artists, and countless civil associations, community organizations, and individuals are the signatories of this international complaint.
The MSL4 GYE denounces before an international audience the arbitrary detention and then the subsequent extrajudicial execution of the 4 children from Malvinas, Guayaquil, on December 8, 2024.

The MSL4 GYE demands from the Ecuadorian State, before international opinion, total transparency in the handling of the case and of the 16 detained military personnel as the material authors of the detention and subsequent execution of the four children from Malvinas, Guayaquil, Ecuador - Steven, Josué, Ismael and Nehemías.

The MSL4 GYE demands justice, transparency, and a speedy trial that is being carried out, and demands that the intellectual authors of the detention and subsequent extrajudicial death of the four children from Malvinas, Guayaquil, Ecuador - Steven, Josué, Ismael and Nehemías be identified.

The signatories of this document fully support what is expressed, and adhere with their signature to this international denunciation and to the Manifesto for the four children of the Malvinas, Guayaquil, Ecuador.

[See those signed on below]

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Organizaciones Internacionales Denuncian el Gobierno Ecuatoriano en el Caso de los Cuatro de Guayaquil

“Justicia y reparación para Steven, Josué, Ismael, y Nehemías.”

“… Somos como la paja del páramo que se arranca y vuelve a crecer.”  Dolores Cacuango.

 La Mesa de Solidaridad por los 4 de Guayaquil (MSL4 GYE), es un espacio creado por el Movimiento Afrodescendiente Nacional Ecuatoriano (MANE), el Comité Permanente por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos (CDH), la organización Pueblo Negro, El Centro de Promoción Rural (CPR),  la Asociación de Artistas Populares, y un sinnúmero de asociaciones civiles, organizaciones comunitarias, y personas naturales son los firmantes de esta denuncia internacional.

La MSL4 GYE denuncia ante la opinión internacional la detención arbitraria y luego la posterior ejecución extrajudicial de los 4 niños de las Malvinas, Guayaquil, el 8 de diciembre del 2024.

La MSL4 GYE exige al Estado Ecuatoriano, ante la opinión internacional, total transparencia en el manejo del caso y de los 16 militares detenidos como los autores materiales de la detención y posterior ejecución de los cuatro niños de la Malvinas, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Steven, Josue, Ismael y Nehemias.

La MSL4 GYE demanda justicia, transparencia, y celeridad, en el juicio que se está llevando a cabo, y exige que se identifique a los autores intelectuales de la detención y posterior muerte extrajudicial de los de los cuatro niños de la Malvinas, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Steven, Josue, Ismael y Nehemias.

Los firmantes de este documento están en total apoyo de lo expresado, y se adhieren con su firma a esta denuncia internacional y al Manifiesto por los cuatro niños de las Malvinas, Guayaquil, Ecuador.  

Firmado | Signed on

Black Alliance for Peace / La Alianza Negra por La Paz

Diáspora Pa’lante Collective - Puerto Rico, EEUU

Movimiento Evita - Argentina

AfroResistance - Panama, EEUU

Red de Organizaciones AfroVenezolana - Venezuela

Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration - Barbados, Caribe

Assembly of Caribbean Peoples - Trinidad & Tobago, Caribbean

Oilfields Workers Trade Union - Trinidad & Tobago

Kallpawan - EEUU, Perú

Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos - México, regional

Acción Afro-Dominicana - Dominican Republic, regional

Red Barrial Afrodescendiente - Cuba

Alliance for Global Justice

Organization for Caribbean Empowerment

World Beyond War/Un Mundo Más Allá de la Guerra - regional

Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN) - Colombia

Coordinadora Política de Mujeres Cotopaxi - Ecuador

Frente de Migrantes Organizados de la Republica de Argentina - Argentina

Mujeres Luminosa de Napo - Ecuador

SOS Violencia Loja - Ecuador

Red de Guardianes del Patrimonio Cultural y Natural de Manabí - Ecuador

Asamblea de los Pueblos - Argentina, regional

Federación de Estudiantes Secundarios del Ecuador - Ecuador

Fundación Rehabilitación Desde El Corazón - Ecuador

Comuna Rio Santiago Cayapas - Ecuador

Colectivo Entretejidas - Ecuador

Fundación Servicios Integrados para el Desarrollo SIDE - Ecuador

Asociación Madre Sabia - Ecuador

Esmeraldas Libre - Ecuador

Fundación Semillas hacia el Futuro - Ecuador

grupo cultural ORISHA la bomba - Ecuador

Equipo Docentes, Capitulo Ecuador - Ecuador

Junta Patriótica del Ecuador - Ecuador

La Cubeta Batucada Feminista - Ecuador

Fundación Chapil - Ecuador

Centro de Documentación en Derechos Humanos "Segundo Montes Mozo S.J." (CSMM) - Ecuador

Nina sonkoy musica andina - Argentina

Comuna Ancestral Afrodescendientes e Indígena de Tapiapamba  - Ecuador

Colectivo Mujeres de Asfalto  - Ecuador

Observatorio Ciudadano de Servicios Públicos - Ecuador

Red Nacional de Feministas por kos derechos Humanos, Ecuador - Ecuador

Asociación de Artistas de la Economía Popular y Solidaria - Ecuador

Fundación Educativa Ecuador Sisakuna - Ecuador

Tejido Violeta Galápagos  - Ecuador

Acción Antiprohibicionista Ecuador  - Ecuador

Batuka Candelabras Galápagos  - Ecuador

La María Verde - Ecuador

Coordinadora Política de Mujeres Ecuatorianas de Chimborazo - Ecuador

FUNTUVRISA Ecuador F.Talentos Unidos por la Vida y la Familia RISA - Ecuador

Transformar Argentina - Argentina

Maestros por la Revolución - Ecuador

Movimiento de Mujeres de El Oro - Ecuador

Hood Conmunist Blog - United States

Asamblea Nacional Ciudadana-Guayas-Ecuador - Ecuador

ANC Santa Elena - Ecuador

Red de Maestros y Maestras por la Revolución Educativa  - Ecuador

Fundación Ali Primera por la Patria Buena - Venezuela

Bolivarianos Alfaristas de la RC5 - Ecuador

Frente de Defensa Petrolero Ecuatoriano - Ecuador

Partido Comunista del Ecuador - Ecuador

Instituto Cultural Nuestra América - Ecuador

Centro de Promoción Rural  - Ecuador

Unión Nacional de Periodistas Núcleo del Guayas  - Ecuador

Observatorio Sociolaboral y del Diálogo Social en el Ecuador OSLADE  - Ecuador

Foro del agua Santa Elena - Ecuador

La Esquina de la Resistencia - Ecuador

Arte Por La Vida - Ecuador

Casa de la Abuela Jaguar - Ecuador

Comité Proparroquialización de Monte Sinahí  - Ecuador

Colectiva de Mujeres Tejedora Manabita  - Ecuador

Mujeres Luna Creciente Ecuador - Ecuador

Fundación e-comunicar - Ecuador

Consejo Consultivo de Diversidades Sexo-genéricas del DMQ - Ecuador

Mesa Autónoma Representativa MAR LGBTIQ sede Quito DM  - Ecuador

Revolución Cultural - Ecuador

Centro Cultural Café Galeria Barricaña - Ecuador

Colectivo de Unidad Democrática  - Ecuador

Fundación Derecho al Buen Vivir - Ecuador

Danza Zoomorfa Ancestral - Ecuador

Colectivo Cultural la Vereda - Ecuador

Consejo Nacional de Derechos Humanos y de la Naturaleza del Ecuador - Ecuador

Colectiva de Antropólogas del Ecuador  - Ecuador

MUCT - Ecuador

Colectiva de Antropólogas del Ecuador - Ecuador

Confederación Comarca Afro ecuatoriana del Norte de Esmeraldas - Ecuador

Fundación Semillas hacia el Futuro (ORISHA)

Firmantes individuales

Marjorie Lopez Merchan - Ecuador

Marco Vargas - Ecuador

Gloria Zabala - Ecuador

Piedad Ortiz - Ecuador

Dr. Cinthia M. Campos-Hernandez - EEUU

Luis Vicente Pachacama Guallichico - Ecuador

Dolores Bolaños - Ecuador

Isabel Iturralde - Ecuador

Janneth Moreano - Ecuador

Byron Joel Castillo Tenorio  - Ecuador

Network of Afro-Venezuelan Organizations Reaffirm Sovereignty with President Nicolás Maduro

Statement from the Network of Afro-Venezuelan Organizations (ROA)

Reaffirming Our Sovereignty with President Nicolás Maduro

Today, January 10, 2025, President Nicolás Maduro Moros is sworn in as the leader of all Venezuelans.

We denounce the climate of tension deliberately created by racist, Zionist, and fascist elements within the national and international opposition. These forces, acting against the will of the Venezuelan people, have sought to destabilize our nation since July 28, 2024, when President Maduro was democratically reelected in accordance with the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. His victory was legally reaffirmed by the Supreme Court of Justice, the same institution tasked with resolving electoral disputes in Venezuela and elsewhere, as recently demonstrated in Mexico.

Since its founding in June 2000, the Network of Afro-Venezuelan Organizations (ROA) has stood in steadfast support of the Bolivarian Process initiated by Commander Hugo Chávez Frías and continued by President Maduro. We remain unwavering in our commitment to defending Venezuela’s sovereignty.

Today, we confront the geopolitical ambitions of American imperialism, its complicit governments in Latin America and the Caribbean, and certain sectors of Europe. These entities seek to seize our nation’s resources and undermine the most sacred principles of any nation: sovereignty and dignity.

Our Call to Action:

We urge the Afro-Venezuelan people and our sister organizations to resist any attempt to delegitimize our sovereignty. At the same time, we encourage active participation in the Constitutional Reform process, as announced by President Maduro. This reform aims to ensure the inclusion of Afro-descendants for reparative justice, a historic step toward recognizing and addressing centuries of oppression.

We also raise awareness about Zionism, which we identify as a form of 21st-century colonialism, and call for vigilance against its influence.

Our Commitment:

ROA will continue its work across the regions of Caracas, Miranda, Yaracuy, Carabobo, Sucre, Vargas, Zulia, Guárico, Falcón, and Aragua, while maintaining strong ties with Afro-descendant organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean, including in the Dominican Republic, Curaçao, Colombia, the United States, Bolivia, Ecuador, Haiti, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Cuba.

Together, we stand firm in defense of our sovereignty, justice, and dignity.

ROA - Network of Afro-Venezuelan Organizations

Articulation of Afro-descendants of Latin America and the Caribbean

El Chorrillo: Living memory and Black resistance 35 Years after the U.S. invasion

The Author, Argelis Wesley, Circa 1989

El Chorrillo: Living memory and Black resistance 35 Years after the U.S. invasion

“December 20, 1989, is a date I will never forget. It was a Tuesday, an ordinary day, until something in the air warned me that the calm was about to shatter. After an appointment with the dentist, I noticed birds flying erratically, making strange noises. I wondered, Why are they so restless? What are they foretelling…?”

Banner photo: Black and white photo of White male soldier frisking a Black man with a line of more Black people fo follow him. (Courtesy afroresistance.org)

Western Powers Have Exposed Human Rights and International Human Rights as a Sham

Western Powers Have Exposed Human Rights and International Human Rights as a Sham

What is Needed is a new framework – a Non-Western, People(s)-Centered Human Rights Framework

For Immediate Release

Media Contact
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December 10, designated as International Human Rights Day has become a hackney, disingenuous ritual in which the United States and European imperialist powers, the main violators of human rights globally over the last five hundred years, speciously proclaim their commitment to human rights and what they define as “freedom” while simultaneously and continuously subverting democracy, starving, torturing, burning, raping, and imprisoning human beings around the world.

Baraka Obama referred to the United States as an “exceptional nation,” and it is. Exceptional as the nation responsible for engendering more egregious human suffering than any other nation or empire in human history. Yet, leaders of the United States, in their psychotic delusions, believe that the brutal history of U.S. conquest, slavery, subversion, wars, and racist violence visited on its own citizens, and countless peoples world-wide, somehow would not be noticed. But it was noticed, because U.S. policies have harmed so many around the world. So, with quiet bemusement around the world people would listen to the surreal declarations by U.S. politicians on their unwavering commitment to human rights and something they called democracy – until the genocide in Gaza, which lifted the veil and changed everything.

The images of Israeli atrocities, in what could only be honestly described as a savage rampage against humanity, has been justified by U.S. lawmakers with the most execrable, racist language that generated nods of agreement from their vile, racist allies in the government and across all institutions of “America,” finally stripped away any semblance of respectability for the white West, while also revealing the moral bankruptcy and hypocrisy that has always been at the core of its civilizational project.

At that moment of degenerate moral convergence, the Western human rights project expired. In its place, quietly but with a fierce determination to transcend the limitations and contradictions of the false universalization of Western human rights, activists and revolutionaries grounded in the Black radical tradition were producing an alternative approach to human rights. A decolonized, and therefore, relevant human rights framework for individuals, collectives, peoples and nations able to envision and work toward a new humanity guided by the highest ethical standards and principles.

“…liberated from the liberal, individual, legalistic, and state-centered apparatus that emerged at the conclusion of World War II as a ‘Western’ human rights regime that became, and continues to be, a conservative weapon for enforcing the geopolitical interests of Western imperialism… rejecting the ideological mystification of a neutral and objective human rights framework, the Project, through educational activities, building transnational cooperative structures and supporting popular struggles, will link oppressed communities, classes and peoples from the Global North and South that are moving toward developing movements committed to national and global anti-capitalist, de-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles for social justice, ecological sustainability, national liberation and authentic self-determination.” (taken from the mission of North-South Project)

The institutional and political systemization of this approach is the mission of BAP’s North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights.

“For those of us fighting from the margins for a new social reality in the U.S. and globally, we declare without apology that it is only through the radical transformation of society based on an alternative set of ethics and social relationships that the full potential of the human rights idea can be realized. For us, the fight for human rights is a life and death struggle with the future of our communities and peoples at stake. It is a fight that we have no other choice but to wage and to win, knowing that we are on the right side of history and in reciprocal solidarity among people around the world who understand that human rights and dignity are not granted but lived.”
(Ajamu Baraka, Project Director)

Therefore, unlike the phony proclamations of the fidelity to human rights led by the nations of the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination, let this December 10 th be the day that the people reclaim the idea of human rights and refashion this idea into a theoretical weapon that completes a new dialectic of revolutionary human rights praxis, for the people and centered by the people.

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African Stream coverage of the Africans In Solidarity With Sahel Revolutions At Niger Conference

During 19-21 November, Pan-Africanists, anti-imperialists, and friends of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) flocked to Niamey, Niger, for the Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel.

The AES is a revolutionary confederation consisting of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, West African countries that have made enormous strides toward ending neo-colonialism in recent years since their people-backed military coups d’état.

The conference, organized by the West Africa Peoples Organization, Pan-Africanism Today and Nigerien civil society organizations, marks a turning point for global solidarity with Africa’s new self-determining bloc. Delegates representing political and workers’ organizations came from Zambia, Kenya, Ghana, Brazil, Cuba, Venezuela, the US, India, China and other countries.

From day one, African Stream was on the ground in Niamey to interview Nigerien locals, those involved in organizing the event and foreign delegates. In this video, we hear from people after the event’s opening ceremony.

PART 1 from African Stream

PART 2 from African Stream

DROP THE CHARGES AGAINST UHURU!

Black Alliance for Peace Condemns the Federal Indictments of the Uhuru 3 and Denial of their Fundamental Human Rights to Speech, Association, Information and Political Dissent

 Tampa, Florida — The process of jury selection on September 3rd, 2024, will mark the beginning of the federal trial of Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP); Penny Hess, Chair of the African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC); and Jesse Nevel, Chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement (USM), together known as the Uhuru 3.

The Uhuru 3 were indicted by the U.S. government in April 2023 on the absurd charges of being “agents of a foreign government.” — charges very similar to the indictment of W.E.B. Dubois, the internationally known Black scholar and human rights defender. Dubois was eighty-one at the time of his indictment as a supposed agent of the Soviet Union for his anti-nuclear and pro-peace advocacy. Omali Yeshitela is similarly eighty-one with an international standing as a human rights and anti-imperialist fighter for more than 60 years. The African Peoples’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement that he helped to found have been organizing and advocating for African people and colonized peoples for over 50 years. 

Ajamu Baraka, Chair of the Black Alliance for Peace’s (BAP) Coordinating Committee who will be an official observer of the trial states that: 

“It is only in the imagination of white supremacists that African people would need smart white people from Russia to guide our people and movement to oppose the U.S./EU/NATO proxy war against Russia and analyze and comment on all aspects of U.S. foreign policy. Internationalism has always been a core principle of our movement from the Garvey Movement and anti-fascist struggles of Africans in America and in Spain in the form of the Abraham Lincoln Brigades, as well as the International Friends of Ethiopia that opposed the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, to our support for the liberation movements in Cuba, Haiti, Africa, Central America, and Vietnam. 

Omali Yeshitela is an outstanding product and an example of that tradition, which, among many other reasons, is why BAP gives its inexorable support to chairman Yeshitela, as well as to Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel, who embody the highest example of revolutionary solidarity with African people. Hess and Nevel have stood with us, and we intend to stand with them against the criminal repression that the Uhuru 3 are targets of.”

BAP recognizes that the ridiculous charges leveled at the Uhuru 3 represent a shot across the bow of the radical Black movement. The U.S. understands that if it is successful in containing Black opposition to the increasingly aggressive militarism abroad and repression within the borders of the U.S., the broader movement in the U.S. will be more easily controlled.

BAP and our movement will not be intimated. We recognize that the complete abandonment of constitutional and human rights by the U.S. and other Western states represents an irreversible crisis of legitimacy. We will continue to stand in support of the right to resist as a core human right.