Yearly Archives: 2020

May 25, 2020—On the 57th anniversary of African Liberation Day (ALD), the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) calls on international civil society and progressive states to “Rise Up to Shut Down AFRICOM.”   “Today, U.S. bases, as well as military-to-military relations between 53 out of the 54 African countries and the United States, characterize the aggressive strategy of the U.S. to preserve the interests of the Pan-European, white supremacist colonial/capitalist project on the African continent,” says Netfa Freeman, organizer with Pan-African Community Action (PACA) and member of BAP’s Coordinating Committee. “The U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) represent an existential threat to African independence because these forces are committed to the use of violence to maintain control over the land,…

April 24, 2020 Steven Hahn, M.D. United States Commissioner of Food and Drugs Food and Drug Administration 10903 New Hampshire Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20993 Mr. Hahn, M.D.: The People’s Organization for Progress and the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations  join the call  for  the FDA to expedite the  review and approval of the Cuban drug, Interferon Alpha 2B  (which Newsweek heralded as a wonder drug) and other medications that the Cuban Medical Brigade employs for the treatment of COVID-19 in the United States. The United States now has the horrific distinction of having the worst numbers of every metric for handling this pandemic, as it leads the world in the total number of infections and the total…