Black Alliance for Peace

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FoundedApril 2017 (2017-04)
United States
Location
  • United States
FieldsAdvocacy, Media attention, Direct-action campaigns, Coalition & movement building
Black Alliance for Peace
FoundedApril 2017 (2017-04)
United States
Location
  • United States
ServicesHuman rights, Anti-war, Anti-imperialism
FieldsAdvocacy, Media attention, Direct-action campaigns, Coalition & movement building
Websiteblackallianceforpeace.com

Black Alliance for Peace (also referred to as BAP) is a people(s)-centered human rights project against war, repression, and imperialism. Community Movement Builders is the fiscal sponsor of the formation.

The mission of the organization is "to recapture and redevelop the historic anti-war, anti-imperialist, and pro-peace positions of the radical black movement."[1]

Founded in April 2017 by Ajamu Baraka, the Black Alliance for Peace is part of the renewed effort to organize the anti-war movement based within the Black community in the United States. The organization's founding members agreed to ten points of unity: the right to self defense; self determination; anti-imperialism; working-class foundation; intersectionality; anti-patriarchy; decolonization; prisoner support; black unity; and southern roots.[2]

Coordinating Committee

The Coordinating Committee of the Black Alliance for Peace currently consists of sixteen representatives of BAP internal structures and member organizations. Ajamu Baraka chairs the committee, and is joined by Erica Caines as Vice-Chair, Margaret Kimberley as treasurer, Austin Cole as secretary, Dedan Waciuri of Black Workers for Justice, Jacqueline Luqman of BAP-DC, and Jaribu Hill of the Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights. Other members on the coordinating committee are Jemima Pierre of BAP Haiti/Americas Team, Julie Varughese and Matt Almonte of the BAP Solidarity Network, Netfa Freeman of Pan-African Community Action (PACA), Nnamdi Lumumba of the Ujima People's Progress Party, Noah Tesfaye of the BAP Research and Political Education Team, Paul Pumphrey of Friends of the Congo, Rafiki Morris of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP), Tunde Osazua of the BAP Outreach Team, and Yasmin Forbes of BAP-Atlanta.

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