Many of us have been directly impacted by police brutality and violence. Some of us have lost loved ones and friends at the hands of the police, a traumatic and shattering experience that has altered the course of our lives.
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It was with deep regret and indignation that Pan-African Community Action (PACA) learned of the deplorable murder of Sonya Massey at the hands of the Springfield, Illinois, police. We denounce this murder as one more in the persistent war waged on Black people by the U.S. settler state.
Ms. Massey was a 36-year-old Black woman who called 911 to report a potential intruder on July 6, 2024, only to be fatally and senselessly shot in her home by one of the responding officers, Sean Grayson. The other officer on the scene stood idly by as the incident unfolded.
This tragedy is strikingly similar to ...
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By Pan-African Community Action
The "Secure DC” Omnibus bill is the latest attempt by DC’s local government to impose law and order, while ignoring the root issues that lead to street-level crime and advancing the war against the Black working class. After passing unanimously by the DC Council's Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety, the new crime bill was voted on and unanimously passed on February 6, 2024, by the full council. Pan-African Community Action (PACA) contends that Black people in the U.S are a domestic colony, an internal colony that is enforced by a massive police presence...
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A statement by Pan-African Community Action
D.C. Mayor Bowser’s “Draft Racial Equity Action Plan” (REAP) is a public relations document which reflects a continued commitment to the systemic foundations of racial inequities. As a follow-up to the empty gesture of painting the words “Black Lives Matter” on 800 16th Street Northwest, Washington, DC and declaring that space “Black Lives Matter Plaza”, the REAP suggests that the state structures which maintain settler colonialism and capitalism can be a remedy for racial inequity.
“It is our charge and our responsibility to put in place policies that...
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The DC government is deploying COINTELPRO like tactics against organizations and individuals fighting to protect and expand our rights. Of course, this is not news to those who have been engaged in political work here for any amount of time, but now, thanks to one local organizer, there is proof.
Suspecting she was being surveilled by the Metro Police Department (MPD), April Goggans of Black Lives Matter DC (BLMDC) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the documents the DC government had on her. After years of hiding, stalling and lying by MPD, April took the request to court. T...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2022
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The callous execution of Congolese immigrant Patrick Lyoya by a Grand Rapids police officer in Michigan demonstrates the domestic colonial situation African people are faced with inside the U.S. settler state. Lyoya’s case in particular is an example of both the violence the U.S. empire perpetrates against African people domestically as well as abroad. Lyoya had fled the violence of U.S. neocolonialism in the De...
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Dismantle NATO Now! Rescind the $16B US Allocations to the Ukraine War! US Imperialism is the Main Danger to Peace, Sovereignty, and Justice for Peoples all Over The World!
read morePACA organizer Rebecca Bonhomme speaks powerfully about opposition to the US war of aggression against Iran, reading from the Black Alliance for Peace statement, at the January 4, 2020 March Against War in Washington, DC.
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“The system and its minions will never create anything that challenges the function of its police.”
That Community Control Over Police campaigns (CCOP) are essentially neocolonialism is a rather wild claim that avowed abolitionist activists, like Dubian Ade applies to the articulation of CCOP by advocate Max Rameau, an organizer in Pan-African Community Action (PACA) to which this author also belongs. Understandably Ade avoids the rabbit hole of condemning the Black Panther Party as neocolonialist, the progenitors of CCOP.
While the Democratic Party claims championship over congressional approva...
read moreA Reply to Critics of Community Control Over Police By Pan-African Community Action
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