prairie fire organizing committee

We are anti-imperialist

We oppose U.S. imperialism and the role the United States plays in the world. The U.S. systematically uses its military, political and economic might to dominate and control the government, people and resources of other nations for its own benefit. The history of the United States is one of imperialist expropriation. Because of this, the United States is not a single nation but an empire, containing multiple nations. The early colonists stole Native American land and killed indigenous people. White settlers enslaved millions of Africans and used their labor to build the U.S. The U.S. government used military force to seize the northern half of Mexico in 1848 and to colonize Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Hawai'i in 1898.

Today, the U.S. is the dominant ideological, economic and political superpower in the world. From Cuba to Iraq to Indonesia, U.S. attempts to control the world know no borders. The U.S. has plundered the resources and weakened the national identities and cultures of nations around the world. For millions of people, the result of U.S. domination is poverty, the violation of human rights and devastated environments. Prairie Fire believes that as long as the U.S. remains an imperial power there can be no justice and there will be no peace.