In this segment, we have special coverage of the recent launch of the Black Alliance for Peace Zone of Peace campaign. The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP), along with key partner organizations, is leading an effort to activate the popular movements in this region in support of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) 2014 call to make the Americas region a “Zone of Peace.”
We have portions of the Black Alliance for Peace Zone of Peace launch press conference, and an interview with BAP Coordinating Committee chairman Ajamu Baraka. But we begin with Margaret Kimberley's keynote address at the Chicago Area Peace Action summit.
Assata Shakur wrote the introduction and this poem for the 1990 book Hauling Up the Morning: writings & art by political prisoners and prisoners of war in the U.S.
They called Assata Shakur a fugitive; we claim her as a compass. Her work and her words will continue to chart the path toward our liberation.
The empire has a new plan for Haiti, a return to military occupation dressed up as humanitarianism. Like past occupations, it will only increase the suffering of Haiti's people.
While Gaza burns, a collaborationist class is being handed the keys to a prison and calling it a state, all in service to western imperialism.
Western nations complicit in occupation and genocide offer a fig leaf of sovereignty by recognizing a Palestinian state that in reality would still be occupied.
