From Black Lives Matter to a Black Liberation Movement Official Launch of the IBFA
For press release date of July 7, 2020
Ferguson, Mo. --- Black people are facing an unprecedented moment of oppression at the hands of White Supremacy. Along with the 500 years of injustice, this contemporary moment consists of the disproportionate killings of Black people due to COVID-19, heavily covered police and vigilante killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd in the media, and at least 5 lynchings. In response to the overt and covert destructive actions of White Supremacy against Black people, a world wide declaration proclaims that Black lives matter and that the world needs to change. While the world chants “Black Lives Matter,” the popular narrative incorrectly identifies this contemporary movement as the Black lives matter movement. With some of its founding members coming out of Ferguson, the IBFA is an international organization that will shift the narrative to focus on a pan-African movement for freedom by African peoples all over the world.
Now is the time to build a global freedom fighting organization that is strong on the ground with the general masses of Black people. The IBFA believes that the revolution must happen at the grassroots level, not with celebrity activists or those who profit off of Black people’s pain. They have the blueprint and the organizational structure to bring together Black freedom fighters around the world in order to dismantle White Supremacy. This Black led and Black operated organization believes that Black people have the skills, talents and abilities to obtain their own freedom.
The International Black Freedom Alliance started to take shape at a pan-African conference in Africa in 2016 when a group of elders challenged freedom fighters to build a global movement. After returning back from this conference, an attendee brought the challenge to freedom fighters in Ferguson, MO. The organization fully formed after several additional meetings in the diaspora and on the continent in South Africa. Their mission is to bring together the masses of Black people around the globe, to push for internationally recognized and respected rights, for Black people everywhere. It is not another non-profit 501C3 or Black social organization, rather the IBFA is a freedom fighting alliance that will dismantle White Supremacy.
The IBFA is calling out those who are ready to get to work and other Black freedom organizations and groups. Let us unify and fight together in the Black freedom struggle. The Director of Black Power, “Mama Julia” Davis says it best: “we must rise together.”
