The Black Is Back Coalition is Endorsed By the Following:
National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
On behalf of the National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations, we wish to extend warmest greetings on the occasion of your November 7 rally.
The announcement of the formation of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations is welcome news not only for the U.S. antiwar movement but for antiwar forces internationally. The involvement and leadership of Black activists in the struggle for peace, reparations and social justice is indispensable if we are to mount a movement that has the power and muscle to bring the warmakers to heel. We applaud your initiative in calling the November 7 rally and wish you every success in organizing it.
We endorse the action and are donating $100 in solidarity with it. A check in that amount is being sent to your Washington D.C. office.
In solidarity,
Jerry Gordon
Secretary, National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations
The Washington Peace Center
The Washington Peace Center is proud to support the Black is Back Coalition in your endeavor to strengthen the Black-led progressive movement in this country. We welcome the energy, vision and inspiration you bring to anti-war work.
We are excited to see the links being made between the US wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the expansion of US foreign bases (such as AFRICOMS) and social justice issues here at home, such as police brutality and economic disparities. As a multi-issue group ourselves, we know that all these problems are interrelated and must be addressed together if we are going to create the world in which we want to be living.
We will stand in solidarity with you on Nov 7 and have been happy to be able to provide you with many resources to help make the mobilization a success. We will continue to work with you after that to end the wars abroad, address injustices at home and work for peace with justice.
In solidarity,
Sonia Silbert
Coordinator Washington Peace Center
The African People’s Solidarity Committee
The African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) is honored to endorse the November 7 mobilization in Washington DC sponsored by the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations.
As the organization of white people led by the African People’s Socialist Party, APSC unites with the demand to “Stop U.S. occupation inside the U.S. and abroad.”
We salute the recognition by the Black is Back Coalition that the brutal U.S. colonial wars worldwide have a generally unrecognized counterpart in the colonial military containment policies against African and Indigenous communities right here.
Colonial war inside the U.S. is not that different than what the U.S. is carrying out in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere.
In this country we see SWAT teams murdering black people, stop and search policies, massive roundups of Africans into profitable colonial prisons, torture in prisons, removal and containment of oppressed communities through gentrification, theft of community resources through lucrative subprime loans, and a two-tiered school system occupied by military-style police.
We recognize that the U.S. foreign and domestic policies come from the same colonial reality in a country built on slavery and genocide.
We unite with the demand for reparations to African people for hundreds of years of stolen labor, resources and freedom that has created the jobs, opportunity and democracy available for the majority of white people in this country.
We recognize that the Barack Obama is a neocolonial president with the sole purpose of continuing U.S. imperial policies here and abroad.
The African People’s Solidarity Committee unites with the spirit of the Black is Back demands that it is not enough to call for peace without social justice. We support the right of oppressed peoples around the world and inside this country to resist U.S. colonial terror and to fight for the liberation of their people and land.
APSC is contributing $150 towards the Black is Back mobilization.
Uhuru!
Penny Hess
African People’s solidarity committee
Qawem Coalition and the New England Committee to Defend Palestine
Warm revolutionary greetings to our brothers and sisters in struggle from the Qawem Coalition and the New England Committee to Defend Palestine.
We are proud and honored to endorse and support the Black is Back Coalition in their mobilization this November 7th.
We, in Palestine, have known first hand the legacy of colonization and white supremacy that black and brown people have experienced the world over and on this continent: theft of our land and resources, mass incarceration, colonial military violence, police brutality, economic enslavement, and environmental devastation.
We support the efforts of all those fighting against imperialism and white supremacy including the Palestinian, Iraqi, Lebanese, and Afghan resistance as well as our New Afrikan and First Nation brothers and sisters here on this continent.
We are excited to see the formation of a black led movement against imperialism, war, and militarism and look forward to future work together.
This is just the beginning!
In solidarity and struggle,
The Qawem Coalition and the New England Committee to Defend Palestine