[Peace-discuss] Feb 24, 8PM CST UNAC call on Mali [unac] Mali/Africa educational conference call & fact sheet.

Stuart Levy stuartnlevy at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 21:43:32 UTC 2013 

On Sunday, Feb. 24th, 8PM Central time, UNAC (United Nat'l Antiwar 
Coalition) will have an educational conference call on Mali and -- 
speakers to include Glen Ford, Ana Edwards, and Abayomi Azikiwe.   Call 
in if interested.  Phone number etc. below.

(via Chris Gavreau of the UFPJ-Activist mailing list...)
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> *From:* UNAC <unacpeace at gmail.com <mailto:unacpeace at gmail.com>>
> *Date:* February 15, 2013, 1:54:01 PM EST
> *To:* unac at lists.riseup.net <mailto:unac at lists.riseup.net>
> *Subject:* *[unac] Mali/Africa educational conference call & fact sheet.*
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> *Join UNAC for an educational conference call on the situation in Mali 
> and Africa.  There will be short presentation by three UNAC leaders 
> followed by questions and discussion.  The conference call will be at 
> 9 PM (EST) on Sunday, February 24. Speakers will include, Glen ford, 
> Ana Edwards and Abayomi Azikiwe.  To access the call, please dial 
> (218)339-3600 <tel:%28218%29339-3600>. The access code is 342310#. *
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> glen 	Glen Ford is a longtime journalist and executive editor of 
> BlackAgendaReport.com <http://BlackAgendaReport.com>, a weekly journal 
> of African-American political thought and action. Glen is also the 
> vice-chair of the Black is Back Coalition, an antiwar and social 
> justice coalition
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> Ana Edwards is the host of DefendersLIVE a radio show in Richmond 
> Virginia.  She is also a founding member of the Defenders for Freedom, 
> Justice & Equality and the chair of the Sacred Ground Historical 
> Reclamation Project.  Ana recently returned from a trip to Mali
> 	ana
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> abayomi <https://nationalpeaceconference.org/Donate.html>
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> 	Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of the Pan-African News Wire.  He is 
> also a founding member of the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War 
> & Injustice (MECAWI).
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> */The United National Antiwar Coalition says: /*
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> *France and the US out of Africa Now!*
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> *No Resource Wars for the Profits of the 1%!*
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> *Not One More Cent for the new Scramble for Africa!* 	mali
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> The recent French military intervention and the US military and 
> intelligence operations in the region must be opposed by all those who 
> stand in favor of self-determination for African peoples.  Contrary to 
> the self-serving claims of both France and the US that they are out to 
> defend democracy, both nations' military operations in the 
> Sahara-Sahel are in defense of their access to Africa's minerals, oil, 
> gas, and arable land at bargain basement prices. **
>
> The invitation for a French military attack by a Malian coup regime 
> armed by Washington is but a fig leaf for an escalation of already 
> existing efforts to protect the 1%'s plunder of Nigerién uranium, 
> Malian gold, Nigerian oil, Algerian natural gas, Western Saharan 
> phosphates, Cote d'Ivoireâ??s plantations, and more. Africanists liken 
> the current situation to the period in the late 19th and early 
> twentieth century when the European countries carved up Africa between 
> them. In the new "Scramble for Africa," Europe and the United States, 
> are competing for petroleum, minerals, and land to the detriment of 
> the economic well-being of the African peoples.
>
> *The claim that the French intervention, an intervention supported by 
> the U.S., is an emergency humanitarian response to help the people of 
> Mali is belied by the context in which it is occurring:*
>
> â??*Colonialism Redux and Ecological Disaster. *France, who held many 
> colonies in Africa, really never left after granting independence in 
> the 1960's.  France intervened militarily in Africa 19 times between 
> 1962 and 1995 and more recently intervened in Cote d' Ivorie, Chad, 
> and the Central African Republic in order to defend the 1%â??s 
> interests. On January 23, news sources reported that French special 
> forces were sent to protect the French privately owned Areva uranium 
> mining operation in the border country of Niger. Uranium from Niger 
> supplies reactors supplying 75% of Franceâ??s electrical needs.
>
> â?? *National Oppression.* The Tuareg and other Northern peoples were 
> first denied control over their homeland when the colonial map-makers 
> divided their territory between Mali, Niger, Chad, Algeria, and other 
> countries that border the Sahara. Tuareg rebellions, like the one that 
> prompted this French intervention, have challenged Franceâ??s right to 
> extract uranium in a manner that poisons the local populations and 
> decimates their livelihood. At the same time, the Tuareg claims are 
> disputed by other Northern peoples, such as the Songhai, and by 
> Southern groups that feel Mali proper would be weakened by Tuareg 
> independence. Colonialismâ??s legacy of divide and conquer cannot be 
> solved with the colonizerâ??s guns.
>
> â??*Austerity Mandated by the 1%.* The last two decades of IMF and 
> World Bank-imposed economic restructuring in Mali made gold mining so 
> profitable that Mali is now the number three gold producer on the 
> African continent.At the same time, this development has left the 
> majority of Malians living on less than US$1 a day and the peoples of 
> that nation some of the poorest on the planet.US military aid to Mali 
> reinforces this state of affairs.
>
> â??*Competition for* *Oil and Natural Gas.* Nigerian oil, a high 
> quality sweet crude, is a crucial part of the U.S. energy plan and is 
> cited as part of the reason that the U.S. has createdthe Trans-Saharan 
> Counterterrorism Initiative (TSCTI). A 2009 agreement for a $10 
> billion natural gas pipeline from Algeria to a Nigerian port further 
> demonstrates the hydrocarbon basis of the TSCTI and related US 
> military plans for the region. The 2010 budget request for Trans- 
> Saharan Counter Terrorism Partnership//(TSCTP) was $80.3 million.
>
> *â??â??War on Terrorâ?? Funding Used Against the 99%.*Washington 
> recently asked France and Algeria to be sure to include US favored 
> partner Morocco in the unfolding so-called â??War on Terror â??in the 
> Sahara-Sahel.Morocco has been using the USâ??s â??War on Terrorâ?? 
> rhetoric to justify its occupation of Western Sahara and contain the 
> national aspirations of the Sahrawi people organized in the Polisario 
> Front. Africanist Franklin Charles Graham IV, in an article in the 
> /Review of African Political Economy,/ says that it is fair to say 
> that most US aid for counter-terrorism activities in the Sahara-Sahel 
> goes to suppress indigenous rebellions against corrupt and 
> undemocratic regimes.
>
> â??*Elite Rivalries.* The 2008 authorization of AFRICOM, the U.S. 
> Africa Command under whose aegis Washington is sending troops and 
> special forces to 35 African nations is, according to /Concerned 
> Africa Scholarâ??s/ Daniel Volman, a direct response to the growing 
> competition from China and other players for Africaâ??s energy resources.
>
> â??*Looting of Africa.*According to the South African political 
> economist Patrick Bond, development aid and investment in Africa from 
> the imperialist countries since the colonies were granted formal 
> independence has resulted in a growing impoverishment of the people of 
> the continent, leaving more Sub-Saharan people living on less than a 
> $1 a day than in the 1950â??s.Including the loss to the peoples of 
> their raw material wealth, and the ecological damage wrought by its 
> extraction, raises the dollar amount of the plunder to unimaginable 
> levels.
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> *â??War at Home.*Each cent spent for the extraction of profits from 
> Africa for the 1% could be spent at home for the victims of the 
> current economic crisis.Each effort to paint the main threat to the 
> well-being of the African people as terrorism will be accompanied by 
> new threats to civil liberties here in the United States.
>
> /Whatever the exact reality of a new influx of non-Malian Islamic 
> radicals into the Sahara-Sahel, based on the experience of US 
> propaganda and military action in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, 
> and Somalia, those who support self-determination must take any claim 
> by Washington that it is intervening to fight an Al Qaeda threat with 
> a grain of salt.The evidence that resources are the main reason for 
> war in the Sahara-Sahel is too strong.If the recent occupations of the 
> Middle East by the US have taught us anything, it should be that no 
> problem will be solved by US and European military intervention./
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> *Join the United National Antiwar Coalition is its efforts to educate 
> about European and US resource wars in Africa and build a movement to 
> end them.UNAC speakers are available for forums and interviews. See 
> the United National Antiwar Coalition at www.unacpeace.org 
> <http://www.unacpeace.org> *
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> *Some places to look for information on the resource wars in Africa:*
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> /Review of African Political Economy <http://www.roape.org/>/
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> /Bulletin of the Concerned Africa Scholars 
> <http://concernedafricascholars.org/>/
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> /Third World Quarterly <http://journals.academia.edu/ThirdWorldQuarterly>/
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> /Pambazuka News <http://www.pambazuka.org/en/>/
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> /Pan-African News Wire <http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/>/
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> /Black Agenda Report/ <http://blackagendareport.com/>//
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> /New Internationalist <http://newint.org/>/
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> /Jadilyya <http://www.jadaliyya.com/>/
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