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- Counterpunch
- Pambazaka, and
- Dissident Voice.
- Black Agenda Report editor and contributing columnist
- Green Party nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2016 election
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Ajamu S. Baraka is an American political activist and former Green Party nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2016 election. Contents. 1 Early ...
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Ajamu Baraka
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About — Ajamu Baraka
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A human rights defender whose experience spans four decades of domestic and international education and activism, Ajamu Baraka is a veteran grassroots organizer whose roots are in the Black Liberation Movement and anti-apartheid and Central American solidarity struggles.
Baraka is an internationally recognized leader of the emerging human rights movement in the U.S. and has been at the forefront of efforts to apply the international human rights framework to social justice advocacy in the U.S. for more than 25 years. As such, he has provided human rights trainings for grassroots activists across the country, briefings on human rights to the U.S. Congress, and appeared before and provided statements to various United Nations agencies, including the UN Human Rights Commission (precursor to the current UN Human Rights Council).
As a co-convener with Jaribu Hill of the Mississippi Worker Center for Human Rights, Baraka played an instrumental role in developing the series of bi-annual Southern Human Rights Organizers’ conferences (SHROC) that began in 1996. These gatherings represented some of the first post-Cold War human rights training opportunities for grassroots activists in the country.
Baraka played an important role in bringing a human rights perspective to the preparatory meetings for the World Conference on Racism (WCAR) that took place in Geneva and in Santiago, Chile as part of the Latin American Preparatory process, as well as the actual conference that he attended as a delegate in Durban, South Africa in 2001.
Ajamu Baraka was the Founding Executive Director of the US Human Rights Network (USHRN) from July 2004 until June 2011. The USHRN was the first domestic human rights formation in the United States explicitly committed to the application of international human rights standards to the U.S. Under Baraka, the Network grew from a core membership of 60 organizations to more than 300 U.S.-based member organizations and 1,500 individual members who worked on the full spectrum of human rights concerns in the U.S. During Baraka’s tenure, the Network initiated the Katrina Campaign on Internal Displacement, after Baraka was the first to formally identify the victims of Hurricane Katrina as internally displaced people (IDPs).
Also while at the Network, Baraka ensured that the Network spearheaded efforts to raise human rights abuses taking place in the U.S. with United Nations human rights processes and structures, including the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the UN Human Rights Committee and the UN Human Rights Council, through its Universal Periodic Review process. By coordinating the production of non-governmental reports on human rights and organizing activist delegations to UN sites in Geneva and New York, the Network gave voice to victims of human rights abuses and provided opportunities for activists to engage in direct advocacy. These efforts resulted in specific criticisms of the U.S. human rights record and recommendations for corrective actions.
Prior to leading the USHRN, Baraka served in various leadership capacities with Amnesty International USA (AIUSA). As AIUSA’s Southern Regional Director, he played a key role in developing the organization’s 1998 campaign to expose human rights violations in the U.S. Baraka also directed Amnesty’s National Program to Abolish the Death Penalty, during which time he was involved in most of the major death penalty cases in the U.S.
In 1998, Baraka was one of 300 human rights defenders from around the world who were brought together at the first International Summit of Human Rights Defenders commemorating the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 2001, Baraka received the “Abolitionist of the Year” award from the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. The following year, Baraka received the “Human Rights Guardian” award from the National Center for Human Rights Education.
Baraka has also served on the boards of various national and international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International (USA), the Center for Constitutional Rights, Africa Action, and the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights.
Baraka has taught political science at various universities and has been a guest lecturer at academic institutions in the U.S. and abroad. A commentator on a number of criminal justice and international human rights issues, Baraka has appeared on and been covered in a wide-range of print, broadcast, and digital media outlets such as CNN, BBC, the Tavis Smiley Show, Telemundo, ABC’s World News Tonight, Black Commentator, Russia Today, the Washington Post and the New York Times. He is also a contributing writer for various publications including Black Commentator, Commondreams, Pambazaka, and Dissident Voice.
He is currently an editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report and a writer for Counterpunch.
Videos
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Race War: Ajamu Baraka - There's Always Been A Race War
The Black Authority
YouTube - Jan 23, 2018
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On Contact: Agenda of Hate with Ajamu Baraka
RT America
YouTube - Aug 27, 2017
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Ajamu Baraka on AFRICOM, Saudi Arabia & INF Treaty
RT America
YouTube - Oct 26, 2018
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Protesting Ajamu Baraka's Apology for Syria's Dictator
strugglevideomedia
YouTube - Jun 3, 2018
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"Put the Brakes on US Empire": Interview with Ajamu Baraka
Popular Resistance
YouTube - Mar 21, 2018
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BAP national organizer Ajamu Baraka... - Black Alliance for Peace
Facebook - Aug 19, 2018
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Walkout at the Left Forum against Ajamu Baraka's Assad apologia
Jo Morales
YouTube - Jun 4, 2018
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BAP National Organizer Ajamu Baraka and... - Black Alliance for Peace
Facebook - Aug 14, 2018
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Ajamu Baraka - Ajamu Baraka #OccupyTheDebates
Facebook - Aug 15, 2018
The Radical Imagination: Imagining a Decolonized America - a Conversation with Ajamu Baraka and Immortal Technique
Manhattan Neighborhood Network - Mar 22, 2018
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The Wild Beliefs of Ajamu Baraka, Jill Stein's Green Party Running Mate
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Aug 17, 2016 - Ajamu Baraka, professorial with kind eyes, was an accomplished human-rights activist before joining the Green Party ticket as Jill Stein's ...
Running Black: 21st Century Politics in America featuring Ajamu Baraka
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Oct 4, 2017 - Our keynote speaker for the Green Party of Minnesota launch of the Black and Brown caucus and panel on Running as a Black candidate in ...
Ajamu Baraka - Woodhull Freedom Foundation
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Ajamu Baraka. Recipient of the 2011 “Vicki” Sexual Freedom Award, Ajamu Baraka is currently working on a book project and, in the fall of 2011, he will be ...
Say NO to Left Forum's Promotion of Ajamu Baraka — Apologist for ...
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Jun 1, 2018 - But the organizers of the Left Forum this year have chosen to honor as a featured plenary speaker Ajamu Baraka, whose solidarity with the ...
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