{"id":1686,"date":"2021-02-03T05:01:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T05:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gpnj.org\/test-gpnj\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2021-02-03T05:01:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T05:01:58","slug":"black-alliance-for-peace-demands-biden-administration-abolish-1033-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnj.org\/test-gpnj\/uncategorized\/black-alliance-for-peace-demands-biden-administration-abolish-1033-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Alliance for Peace Demands Biden Administration Abolish 1033 Program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Black Alliance for Peace Demands Biden Administration Abolish 1033 Program<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021\u2014The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) calls U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s executive order to alter the Department of Defense\u2019s 1033 program because of his supposed commitment to racial justice an affront. The gratuitous militarization of police forces across the United States through this program has helped to turn these agencies into brutal weapons of repression. Therefore, nothing short of complete abolition of this program is acceptable.

BAP has demanded abolition of the 1033 program since BAP\u2019s 2017 founding. It now asks the public to sign a\u00a0petition<\/a>\u00a0demanding the Biden administration and Democrats commit to abolishing this racist and brutal program. \u00a0 \u00a0

\u201cHere in the belly of the Deep South beast, we understand the harsh and irreversible effects measures like 1033 have had and continue to have on those who languish in poverty, forced to live in shanty shacks and tenements,\u201d according to Jaribu Hill, executive director of the Mississippi Workers\u2019 Center for Human Rights and member of BAP\u2019s national Coordinating Committee. \u201cOur communities are under siege and on dusty back roads, we are accosted and brutalized by the military militia known as the police.\u201d

\u201cWeapons of destruction are used to terrorize our people,\u201d Hill said. \u201cTherefore, we cannot accept band-aid solutions to institutionalized terror under the color of law.\u201d\u00a0

The National Defense Authorization Act of 1997 that then-Senator Joe Biden (D-Delaware) supported and President Bill Clinton (D) signed into law created the 1033 program by expanding on a previous program.\u00a0

Responding to outrage about the heavily militarized police response to protests after Michael Brown\u2019s murder in Ferguson, Missouri, President Barack Obama enacted a policy in 2015 that appeared to limit the program, but made little difference in any department\u2019s ability to acquire and use military weapons.

Even with the scale-back, the Obama administration managed to transfer a $459 million arsenal to police agencies.\u00a0

In fact, during the Obama administration, the 1033 program expanded 24-fold (2,400%).

President Donald Trump came into office and reversed Obama\u2019s cosmetic changes. What the Biden administration is now proposing by reversing Trump\u2019s reversal to the Obama policy is not enough, as reverting the policy to Obama\u2019s altered version is not justice.\u00a0

BAP National Organizer Ajamu Baraka says what is needed is \u201cdemilitarization and an end to the police occupation of colonized Black and Brown communities.\u201d

The Biden administration and Democrats do not admit this program is the latest form of militarized repression deployed to control and contain the Black and Brown colonized and working classes of the United States. If Biden and Democrats were really committed to racial justice, they would support abolition of the 1033 program.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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