Help Stop AFRICOM
Resist AFRICOM is a campaign comprised of concerned U.S. and Africa-based organizations and individuals opposed to the new U.S. military command for Africa (AFRICOM).
With the establishment of AFRICOM, the Pentagon attempts to increase access to Africa's oil and to wage a new front in the Global War on Terror without regard for the needs or desires of African people. Enabled by oil companies and private military contractors, AFRICOM serves as the latest frontier in military expansionism, violating the human rights and civil liberties of Africans who have voiced a strong "no" to U.S. military presence. We reject this militarization of foreign engagement. Instead, our vision is a comprehensive U.S. foreign policy grounded in true partnership with the African Union, African governments, and civil society on peace, justice, security, and development.
ResistAFRICOM coalition and members quoted in an article from the Inter Press Service News and reprinted on AllAfrica.com:
Critics Target U.S. Military Command
Take Action, Call March 12th
President Bush may have created AFRICOM, but that doesn't mean its here to stay. Whether victims of domestic policing or foreign occupation, anti-war activists or liberation fighters, environmentalists or people of faith, citizens must stand united against the military's newest exertion of power.
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Thanks to you and to all those in Africa who have taken action against the new command, we have had some small successes!
There has been increased awareness in the media, on Capitol Hill, and among the broader public; the Pentagon has decided (temporarily) not to headquarter the command in Africa; and the House Armed Services Committee put a note in it's mark-up of the 2009 National Defense Authorization Act about the 'appearance of militarizing U.S. foreign policy on the continent of Africa.' Click below to read more...