In this segment, we have special coverage of the recent launch of the Black Alliance for Peace Zone of Peace campaign. The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP), along with key partner organizations, is leading an effort to activate the popular movements in this region in support of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) 2014 call to make the Americas region a “Zone of Peace.”
We have portions of the Black Alliance for Peace Zone of Peace launch press conference, and an interview with BAP Coordinating Committee chairman Ajamu Baraka. But we begin with Margaret Kimberley's keynote address at the Chicago Area Peace Action summit.
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Langston Hughes’s 1943 poem against fascism is precise, droll, and eternal.
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