Black Alliance for Peace Calls On International Boycott of the 2026 World Cup Games in US

The Black Alliance for Peace’s North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights (the Project) raised the issue months ago of the fundamental inappropriateness of the 2026 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup being hosted in the United States. The Project argued that the U.S. human rights record—including blatant actions globally that constitute crimes against humanity, war crimes, and complicity in genocide, along with the systematic abuse of the human rights of migrants, immigrants, and even U.S. citizens domestically through the unleashing of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE)—renders the United States ineligible to host the games.

The Project called for the tournament to be moved from the United States, a call that was ignored. Now, with the games scheduled to begin in just a few weeks, the Black Alliance for Peace and its human rights project have no other choice but to call on the international community to withdraw all support for the games through an international boycott.

“It is outrageous and obscene that FIFA would allow the United States—a nation operating completely outside the bounds of international law and established international morality—to host the World Cup while providing material and political support for an ongoing genocide; constructing a regime of domestic terror through ICE goons who beat, murder, and disappear people into the vast detention gulags of the United States; invading and capturing a sitting president; attacking Iran; and imposing a humanitarian crisis on Cuba through criminal siege tactics perfected by Israel in Gaza,” stated Ajamu Baraka, Director of the North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights.

BAP is clear: as long as the United States continues its brutal assaults on the humanity and sovereignty of peoples and nations throughout the world in pursuit of full-spectrum domination, it remains an illegitimate and dangerous host for the World Cup.

But even more importantly, we believe it is a moral necessity to reject any attempt to use the World Cup as an instrument for normalizing international lawlessness, marginalizing accountability, and desecrating the memory of the tens of thousands of victims of U.S. criminality around the world.

BAP National Coordinator Erica Caines understands that this is a controversial position that may not be understood, even by people who recognize and oppose U.S. domestic and foreign policies. “We understand the excitement and pride of the nations that qualified and will compete in the World Cup. However, participation in the games while they are hosted in the United States does not uphold the Beautiful Game as it was meant to be celebrated. Instead, it risks normalizing genocide, domestic repression, militarism, and death.”

That is precisely why the Black Alliance for Peace stands firm in the  insistence that this year’s World Cup—and the United States itself—must be boycotted. Conscience and political consistency demand nothing less.

The U.S. agenda for domination is clear, and therefore our response must also be clear. We will not bend to U.S. imperialism or to any of its subordinate international institutions, including FIFA. Our resistance is politically grounded and informs our focused commitment to boycott the World Cup, boycott the United States, and advance the collective struggle for People(s)-Centered Human Rights.

BAP calls on the international community to join us in the fight for authentic human rights grounded in the principles of self-determination, social justice, democracy, and radical social transformation.

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La Alianza Negra por la Paz hace un llamado a la comunidad internacional a boicotear la Copa Mundial de 2026 programada para celebrarse en Estados Unidos

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28 de mayo de 2026 — El Proyecto Norte-Sur para los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos de la Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) planteó hace meses la profunda improcedencia de que la Copa Mundial de la Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) 2026 sea organizada en Estados Unidos. El Proyecto argumentó que el historial de derechos humanos de Estados Unidos —incluyendo acciones flagrantes a nivel global que constituyen crímenes de lesa humanidad, crímenes de guerra y complicidad en genocidio, junto con el abuso sistemático de los derechos humanos de migrantes, inmigrantes e incluso ciudadanos estadounidenses a nivel interno mediante el despliegue de la agencia Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)— hace que Estados Unidos no sea apto para albergar los juegos.

El Proyecto hizo un llamado para que el torneo fuera trasladado fuera de Estados Unidos, un llamado que fue ignorado. Ahora, con los juegos programados para comenzar en pocas semanas, la Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) y su proyecto de derechos humanos no tienen otra opción que convocar a la comunidad internacional a retirar todo apoyo a los juegos mediante un boicot internacional.

“Es indignante y obsceno que la FIFA permita que Estados Unidos —una nación que opera completamente por fuera de los límites del derecho internacional y de la moral internacional establecida— organice la Copa Mundial mientras brinda apoyo material y político a un genocidio en curso; construye un régimen de terror interno a través de matones de ICE que golpean, asesinan y desaparecen personas en los vastos gulags de detención de Estados Unidos; invade y captura a un presidente en ejercicio; ataca a Irán; e impone una crisis humanitaria sobre Cuba mediante tácticas criminales de asedio perfeccionadas por Israel en Gaza”, declaró Ajamu Baraka, Director del Proyecto Norte-Sur para los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos.

BAP es claro: mientras Estados Unidos continúe sus brutales ataques contra la humanidad y la soberanía de pueblos y naciones en todo el mundo en busca de una dominación total, seguirá siendo un anfitrión ilegítimo y peligroso para la Copa Mundial.

Pero aún más importante, creemos que es una necesidad moral rechazar cualquier intento de utilizar la Copa Mundial como instrumento para normalizar la ilegalidad internacional, marginar la rendición de cuentas y profanar la memoria de las decenas de miles de víctimas de la criminalidad estadounidense alrededor del mundo.

La Coordinadora Nacional de BAP, Erica Caines, entiende que esta es una postura controversial que puede no ser comprendida, incluso por personas que reconocen y se oponen a las políticas internas y exteriores de Estados Unidos. “Entendemos la emoción y el orgullo de las naciones que clasificaron y competirán en la Copa Mundial. Sin embargo, participar en los juegos mientras son organizados en Estados Unidos no honra el Juego Bonito tal como debe celebrarse. En cambio, corre el riesgo de normalizar el genocidio, la represión interna, el militarismo y la muerte.”

Es precisamente por ello que la Alianza Negra por la Paz (BAP) se mantiene firme en la insistencia de que la Copa Mundial de este año —y Estados Unidos mismo— deben ser boicoteados. La conciencia y la coherencia política no exigen menos.

La agenda de dominación de Estados Unidos es clara, y por lo tanto nuestra respuesta también debe ser clara. No nos doblegaremos ante el imperialismo estadounidense ni ante ninguna de sus instituciones internacionales subordinadas, incluida la FIFA. Nuestra resistencia tiene fundamentos políticos y orienta nuestro compromiso decidido de boicotear la Copa Mundial, boicotear a Estados Unidos y avanzar en la lucha colectiva por los Derechos Humanos Centrados en los Pueblos.

BAP hace un llamado a la comunidad internacional para unirse a esta lucha por derechos humanos auténticos fundamentados en los principios de autodeterminación, justicia social, democracia y transformación social radical.

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source: Black Alliance for Peace

When Black Power Met Canon Law: An Interview with Father Joe Kavanagh

Father Joe Kavanagh spent three decades on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. His encounter there with the Black Power movement shaped him. Here he talks of his experiences and his view on the relation between religion, politics, and justice.
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If Iran has the Strait of Hormuz, What Can Black People Use for Leverage and Power?

The militant reaction to the Tennessee legislature’s recent obliteration of the state’s only predominantly Black voting district struck an emotional chord with Africans throughout the U.S. Protesters crowded into the legislative chamber, chanting, waving placards, sounding air horns, and leaving no doubts about their anger. State Representative Justin Pearson then eloquently spoke for many when he said:

Today’s vote to redraw the congressional districts in Tennessee set our state back over 150 years. It was a political lynching that violated the rights of every Tennessean. This racist and reckless action was also an attack on Black political power that should appall everyone in the state, whether you are Black or not, a voter or not, live in Memphis or not, or are a Democrat or not.

The emotions fueling the protesters and countless other people across the country are rooted in subconscious if not conscious, memories of the experiences of African elders and ancestors in that state. It was in Tennessee where Diane Nash, John Lewis, James Lawson and many others waged sit-ins and launched freedom rides that prompted violent reactions by white racists, which caused much bloodshed. It was at Fisk University in Nashville that W.E.B. DuBois prepared himself for a phenomenal academic career that was to guide and inform Black resistance for generations. It was in Tennessee that an amazing, successful struggle was waged in the 1970s to prevent the demise of Tennessee State University when there were efforts to merge that HBCU into a predominantly white state university pursuant to desegregation mandates. It was in Tennessee, on a motel balcony in Memphis, that a bullet ended the life of our beloved champion and martyr, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was acting in solidarity with striking Black sanitation workers.

If not placed in a proper historical context, the ruthless attack by the Tennessee legislature on the reforms that elders and ancestors paid for with their blood induces a sense of nauseating dread and even a sense of hopelessness. But hope should spring eternal because the hand of the Lord rests firmly on Africans in the U.S. How else can the Black experience in this country be explained? Few, if any, communities have been the focus of such sustained and vicious attacks that have caused setbacks, but which have never resulted in defeat. In referencing that fact, Pearson boldly declared: “Today, you will take the only Black-majority district from us. But I want you to know: No matter what you do, no matter how much you try to break us and make us bend and quit — we will still be here.”

Beneath the justified bravado is also a haunting question for which many have no ready answer. If the fight must go on, what is the pathway to victory? This is extremely concerning to a community that has invested an inordinate amount of its time, talent and treasure in the electoral process. Because practically all the Black community’s political eggs have been placed in a single electoral system basket, the loss of opportunities for strategic voting is comparable to taking the only available boat from a non-swimmer whose life depends on crossing a lake. In fact, the entirety of sanctioned political options available to Black people are tightly controlled by enemies who stand ready at any time to snatch away anything that might be effectively used to pursue liberation. Why then is there any reason to believe there is a way forward?

There are many who have recognized the political trap set for the Black community and they have not taken the bait. Like oppressed communities around the world they have struggled to become independent from their oppressors. Before his untimely death, Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor Chokwe Lumumba brought his commitment to Black self-determination with him into office, and began the process of implementing his plans for self-governing “people’s assemblies” and a network of cooperative enterprises. In Michigan, the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network works to build community self-reliance through urban agriculture and cooperative buying. Community Movement Builders fights to establish self-determining communities through cooperative economic advancement and collective community organizing. In various parts of the rural south, there are new small farms worked by very young Black people who can sometimes be seen wearing dreads and African print smocks rather than bib overalls. There are also organizations that address many of the community needs that were the focus of the Black Panther Party’s survival programs, including monitoring police operations. But while there is tremendous potential for the Black community to govern itself, ultimately, it lacks a strategy for defending itself from racist, capitalist aggression.

U.S. power is daunting, but the U.S. empire is not invulnerable. Whether in Vietnam, Cuba, the Sahel, or various other places, revolutionary forces with far less resources, power and influence have effectively resisted imperialism. Right now, the U.S. is getting whupped by Iran, and it’s worth examining how they are doing it because there are implications for the Black struggle in the U.S. It hasn’t mattered how many bombs the U.S. has rained down on Iran, it has forced the U.S. into practical submission because of one thing – the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s stranglehold on this vital waterway has given that country a stranglehold on the U.S.

Africans in the U.S. and throughout the world desperately need something comparable to Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz. It need not be control of a waterway, but it must be control of something that can potentially inflict lethal blows on the U.S. political, economic or social systems. It is sad, bordering on pathetic, that within this country, Black people have fought, shed their blood and lost their lives to gain only reforms like the Voting Rights Act that can be, and has been gutted simply because it provided an opportunity for Africans to gain some measure of political influence. If the people are going to risk their liberty and lives for liberation, then it is only right that their struggle yields the capacity to say to all who dare challenge them: “Back off or we will destroy all that you hold dear!”

The idea of gaining true power and leverage for Africans is not new. In 1945, at a Pan-African conference in Manchester, England, serious consideration was given to prospects for the liberation of Africa from foreign control and the unification of the continent under a single socialist government. The realization of that vision would provide opportunities for Africans both on the continent and throughout the world to be able to meet any attack on Black safety, security or stability with a genuine threat to withhold Africa’s vast reserves of oil, gold, coltan, uranium, copper, chromium and much more.

If you think the loss of the Strait of Hormuz is giving the U.S. fits, the loss of access to Africa’s natural resources would cause capitalists everywhere to become positively apoplectic. The African World has been unable to gain control of its resources because western imperialism has been laser-focused on maintaining its greedy grip on the continent. The militarization of Africa through U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has not been a charitable or benevolent enterprise. Likewise, it has been no coincidence that Congo, which may possess the highest concentration of mineral wealth anywhere, has been plagued by perpetual externally induced turmoil, which has made it easy for foreign corporations to engage in plunder with impunity.

As African Liberation Day fast approaches, there will be commemorative events all over the world. These gatherings will provide opportunities to have serious discussions about how to continue the intergenerational struggle to gain for Black people everywhere the leverage and power needed to force oppressors to back off and back down. This is not an objective that will be achieved in the near term. It is nevertheless an imperative, and we need look no further than Iran’s strategic use of the Strait of Hormuz to understand why.

Mark P. Fancher is an attorney and writer. He can be contacted at [email protected].

source: Black Agenda Report

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Philadelphie, 1985 : la terreur d’État s’abat sur une organisation noire

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