September Weeks of Action Against US Military Bases!
The US’s network of military bases and facilities still spans the entire world, and while its main fronts of war strategically focus on Asia and the Pacific, West Asia, and Eastern Europe against its key rivals, regional wars of aggression and violent counter-insurgency campaigns exist throughout Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean as well. New bases are even breaking ground in the Arctic to prepare for war in the open wilderness of the North. Meanwhile, the wide network of US aircraft carriers and submarines make whole oceans terrain for these mobile military bases, while more and more air bases are beginning to be purposed with rocket launchpads for the militarization of space.
US military bases have devastating impacts on people all over the world. These bases are the staging ground for wars of aggression, and that brings the countries that host these bases directly into the wars that the US provokes. The US uses its bases to surveil countries which refuse its imperialist policies. Overseas military bases function as centers where American soldiers violently abuse countless women and extrajudicial killings are endemic around US bases. These overseas installations commit environmental destruction and disrupt the lives of civilians in and out of the bases. Bases dump toxic chemicals that harm the health of residents and destroy the source of livelihood of millions of people.
Yet, foreign bases are not invincible, the people have blocked bases from being built in Korea and Japan, or expelled the US military through mass struggle in cases like Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Air Force base in the Philippines, the US Navy in Vieques and Culebra in Puerto Rico, refusal of the renewal of the US military base lease in Ecuador, and the recent ouster of French and US bases from Senegal, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
In the spirit of these historic fights against US military bases and with the militant rage of the people against the ongoing US-Zionist genocide of Palestine, ongoing attempts at US intervention in Venezuela, and many other flashpoints of imperialist war, that the below-signed organizations call for global weeks of action this September 2025!
Watch the Launch Video
Watch the Informational Introduction to the Weeks of Action
Signatories
- International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS)
- ILPS Commission 1 (on national liberation)
- ILPS Commission 4 (on war and peace)
- Resist US-Led War Movement
- Resist US-Led War Asia-Pacific Campaign
- Asia Pacific Research Network
- International Women’s Alliance
- Bayan Philippines
Endorsers
- Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (Pakistan)
- Union des Africains du Quebec et Amis Solidaires de l’Afrique (Canada)
- Veterans for Peace (USA)
- Women for Peace (Sweden)
- Madres Contra la Guerra (Puerto Rico)
- Malaya Movement Florida (USA)
- Työväen antimilitaristit (Finland)
- Diaspora Pa’lante Collective (Puerto Rico)
- San Diego Veterans For Peace (USA)
- Montreal for a World BEYOND War (Canada)
- Prutehi Guåhan (Guam)
- SENADO – Union of employees in the Senate of the Philippines
OBJECTIVES
- Expose the role of US bases in occupation, war, launching pad for intervention, overall US military strategy and its primary fronts of war
- Educate and agitate people on how US bases are connected to broader issues of imperialism and militarism, such as the genocide in Gaza, escalating aggression toward Venezuela, etc.
- Educate on the impact of US bases on people and the environment in the countries they are in
- Coordinate decentralized actions and activities around the world that target US bases and combine efforts on global action days through shared planning and prop
- Produce joint educational and prop materials that can continue to be used after the weeks of action
CONCEPT
Events and days of action will be called for between September 14 and September 30. This will be an open call where any organization can initiate their own actions or activities related to the theme and objectives. There will also be joint days of action (i.e. mobilizations) and joint activities (i.e. social media actions, collaboration on shared educational materials) decided upon by the convening organizations. Each major activity, both decentralized and joint, will be propagated as part of the weeks of action. Actions held during these weeks should expose or target US military bases or key aspects of US military power and alliances.
While any organization can particularize the weeks of action to their own campaigns, the overarching call of the month will be Resist US Military Bases! Fight for Land, Liberation, Sovereignty, and Just Peace! US Out of Everywhere!
Types of activities can include:
- Protest mobilizations
- Photo actions
- Educational discussions
- Film screenings
- Production of primers and other educational materials
- Shared prop – graphics, statements, brochures, etc.
- Possible joint 24-hour activities in different time zones, to be coordinated on zoom and in person
JOINT DAYS OF ACTION
- 9/14 – Launch of the weeks of action
- 9/18 – Online photo action day for all participants
- 9/21 – International Peace Day and global day of action for the Philippines
- 9/29 – Solidarity Media Forum for Venezuela
Printable placards (click to download)
Download and print the blank placard template to the left and write your own slogans on it. Or download one of the pre-made placards below.
Use the placards to take part in the photo day of action on September 18th, or write your own with these slogans. Instructions for the days of action are included on the graphics below.
Post your picture to your social media account on September 18th and include the caption:
I am participating in the weeks of action to resist US military bases, fight for land, liberation, sovereignty for all peoples, and just and lasting peace! US out of everywhere!
Join the fight at http://peoplesstruggle.org/resist-bases/
Upcoming Events
Register your own event by filling out the endorsement form below!
On the resistance of the Filipino people against US military bases in the Philippines
September 13: Stills of Resistance Photo Exhibit and “Bases of Corruption: Imperialism and the Philippine State” by CONTEND
September 16: BAYAN Forum on Military Bases
Events held at UP Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
MacDill Fuels Genocide
September 18: 8:30am Eastern Time
MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida is host to US Central Command, which directs military operations in West Asia, including supporting “Israel’s” genocide.
Join for a press conference with US military veterans outside the base to denounce US war crimes.
Piquete No al las Bases
September 21: 3pm Puerto Rico Time
Join Madres Contra La Guerra for a mobilization outside Roosevelt Roads, former US Navy Base.
NO US military bases in Puerto Rico! We want independencia! No invasion of Venezuela!
Wars Rage as the World Burns: Events during the protests of the Miramar Air Show
September 26: The Ecological Impact of War and Militarism
Panel Discussion at eh Church of the Brethren – San Diego, USA
September 27: Earth’s Greatest Enemy
Film screening at First UU Church – San Diego, USA
Women Resisting US Military Bases
September 27: 5am Los Angeles | 7am Ecuador | 8am Puerto Rico | 2pm Netherlands | 5pm Pakistan | 8pm Philippines
Webinar of the International Women’s Alliance as part of the global weeks of action against US military bases
US Out of Our Homelands!
September 27: 4pm Pacific | 7pm Eastern
Join ILPS-US in a webinar to hear lessons and experiences from the frontline struggles against fascism and US imperialism!
Visit the UN week of action page
Launch of the International People’s Tribunal for Palestine
September 28: 4pm Central Europe Time (register to view your time zone)
Part informational session, part campaign launch, this online activity will give you everything you need to know to start preparing for the International People’s Tribunal this November!
The Fight Against US Bases and Imperialist Plunder
September 30: 8am Puerto Rico | 12pm Mali | 8pm Philippines
Webinar as part of the Land and Liberation education series of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle, featuring speakers from the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Mali on the successful fight against imperialist military bases
Articles and Publications
Additional Resources
Endorse the weeks of action
Endorsement of the weeks of action has the minimum ask of:
- Sharing the calls to action with your membership
- Sharing official posts and updates on the events of the weeks of action with your membership and contact base as appropriate
- Having your organization’s name listed publicly as an endorser
Other forms of endorsement can be committed to in the form below. Please sign the form to endorse your organization onto the month of action.
