Black Alliance for Peace

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]

The Coordinating Committee of the Black Alliance for Peace currently consists of sixteen representatives of BAP internal structures and member organizations.

Current members:

• Ajamu Baraka, Coordinating Committee Chairperson and former National Organizer
• Erica Caines, BAP-Baltimore and Coordinating Committee Vice-Chair
• Margaret Kimberley, BAP Africa Team and Coordinating Committee Treasurer
• Austin Cole, BAP Haiti/Americas Team and Coordinating Committee Secretary
• Dedan Waciuri, Black Workers for Justice
• Jacqueline Luqman, BAP-DC
• Jaribu Hill, Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights
• Jemima Pierre, BAP Haiti/Americas Team
• Julie Varughese, BAP Solidarity Network
• Matt Almonte, BAP Solidarity Network
• Netfa Freeman, Pan-African Community Action (PACA)
• Nnamdi Lumumba, Ujima People’s Progress Party
• Noah Tesfaye, BAP Research and Political Education Team
• Paul Pumphrey, Friends of the Congo
• Rafiki Morris, All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP)
• Tunde Osazua, BAP Outreach Team

The organization is simultaneously campaigning on nearly a dozen various issues, with a focus on peace, people-centered human rights, and anti-imperialism education.[3]

Domestically, BAP opposes Israeli training of American police forces and the Department of Defense's 1033 program that allows military grade equipment to transfer into the possession of civilian police departments.[3][4] In addition to calling for accountability for police brutality and the elimination of Operation Relentless Pursuit, the organization is calling for a 50% reduction in the U.S. military budget to finance the human-rights needs of the American public.[3][5] The organization is calling on the U.S. Congress to pass legislation in support of the abolition of nuclear weapons.[6]

On foreign affairs, BAP's primary campaign is its demand to shut down the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and end all U.S. intervention on the continent of Africa.[7] This is reinforced by BAP's other aims to abolish NATO, close the 800+ U.S. foreign military bases, end all foreign interventions and illegal sanctions, and to uphold global norms by complying with international law.[3]

• Anti-war movement
• List of anti-war organizations
• Black Panther Party
• Racism in the United States