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Friday, 23 February 2024 — Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio February 23, 2024
This week we hear about the implications of the anti-imperialist struggle in the African nation Guinea-Bissau. We have the second part of a two-part interview on immigration policy and learn that Haitian asylum seekers are targeted for deportation. But first we get an update on and history of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Colonialism, Imperialism, and Conflict in the Congo
Abayomi Azikiwe is the editor of Pan-African News Wire, an international electronic press service. He joins us from Detroit to discuss events in eastern Congo, the role of US backed nations such as Rwanda, and the history of exploitation and imperial control which caused the ongoing humanitarian disaster.

Guinea-Bissau Struggles Against Imperialism
An action entitled “Open the Peoples National Assembly in Guinea-Bissau”
will be held in Washington, on Monday, February 26 at 12pm at the African Union Mission to the US. Rafiki Morris is a central committee member of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP), and a member of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau (PAIGC), and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace Coordinating Committee. He joins us from Washington to explain events in Guinea Bissau and why this action is so important.

Bipartisan Consensus for Punitive Immigration Policies Continues – Part 2
Aly Wane of the Immigrant Justice Network discusses immigration in the second part of a two-part interview. Punitive immigration policies are bipartisan, with groups such as Haitians being targeted for deportation instead of being granted asylum.