UNAC Editor

U.S. Labor March for Palestine

December 27, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Labor, Protest

by Labor Today International, December 22, 2023 On Thursday evening 12/21/2023 2- 3,000 people rallied in New York City for a ceasefire in Palestine. LTI was there! What follows is the publicity for that march. We will bring you more information as it becomes available. Solidarity forever! Joseph F. Hancock, Editor Abdel Honorio García, Assistant Editor and Treasurer Dr. Frank[…]

Ceasefire Fasters Call on U.S. Attorney for Massachusets to Enforce Leahy Law

December 27, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Palestine, Protest, US Government Action, War and Weapons

CONTACTS: Nick Mottern – (914) 806-6179 – Rev. Dr. Peter Kakos – – (email only) CEASEFIRE FASTERS CALL ON U.S. ATTORNEY FOR MASSACHUSETTS TO ENFORCE LEAHY LAW Three members of the peace community in Western Massachusetts who have been fasting for two weeks to stop the slaughter of Palestinians, today called on Joshua Levy, Acting U.S. Attorney for[…]

US pushing Red Sea Into War Zone to Protect Israeli Genocide in Gaza

December 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Global Economics, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Yemen

by Al Mayadeen English, December 19, 2023 French shipping and logistics giant CMA CGM announced on Monday that it would reroute some of its vessels through the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa due to increased Yemeni operations in the Red Sea. “The CMA CGM Group remains deeply concerned about the attacks on commercial vessels unfolding in the Red[…]

Organized Labour In an Imperial Warzone

December 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Fascism, Imperialism, Labor, Ukraine

Speech given by Ken Stone at a Rally outside the Ontario Federation of Labour Conference, November 22, 2023 Brothers and Sisters, I wish to thank the Toronto Coalition Against NATO for inviting me to speak on this occasion. Organized labour has an important role to play in the political discourse in Ontario and Canada and we wish the Ontario Federation[…]

A Peoples’ Victory — Alex Saab is Free and Home in Venezuela!

December 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Hybrid Warfare, International Law, Organizing, Political Prisoners, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Government Action, Venezuela, War on the Poor

bu Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, December 21, 2023 Alex Saab is free and home in Venezuela. For three and a half years (1,280 days), Saab, a Venezuelan diplomat, had been held in torturous conditions by the U.S. government. (The author traveled to Cabo Verde in June 2021 in a delegation with Roger Harris and Bishop Felipe Teixeira in[…]

Southern Human Rights Organizing and the Amazon Workers Struggle

December 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Labor, The War at Home

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, December 20, 2023 Jennifer Bates is an organizer with the BAmazon Union , the effort to organize Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama. BAmazon Union is affiliated with the Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union (RWDSU). I spoke to Ms. Bates at the Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference (SHROC) which was recently[…]

Guyana-Venezuela Dispute: Understanding the background and Opposing war

December 23, 2023 UNAC Editor Guyana, Latin America, Lawfare, Legal Struggles, Paths to Emancipation, Resource Wars, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela

by Francisco Dominguez, published on Countercurrents, December 18, 2023 If there were any misgivings about the actions undertaken by the government of Venezuela around the territorial dispute with Guyana, the joint military exercises between Guyana Defence Forces (GDF) and the US Southern Command (SouthCom) explain what really lies behind things. Venezuela’s claimed territory, also known as Guayana Esequiba, is 159,500 square kilometres[…]

Aafia Siddiqui Still Languishes in Prison After 20 Years

December 23, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Lawfare, Pakistan, Political Prisoners, Terrorism

by Judy Bello, December 22, 2023 Aafia Siddiqui, a young Pakistani woman from an upper middle class family in Karachi, came to the U.S. to attend the University of Houston where her brother was already a student, received her bachelors degree from MIT, and a doctorate from Brandeis University in neuropsychology. Her father, a doctor, had worked in Africa as[…]

In the Face of Repression, Resistance Thrives

December 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Israel, Palestine, Protest, US Hypocrisy, White Supremacy, Zionism

Statement by Students for Justice in Palestine at George Washington University and George Washington University Student Coalition for Palestine, published on Mondoweiss, December 15, 2023 It has been over two months since the beginning of the Zionist regime most recent stage of genocide against the steadfast people of Gaza, in which almost 20,000 of our people have been slaughtered by[…]

How the Campaign to Free Venezuelan Political Prisoner Alex Saab Succeeded

December 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Diplomacy, Political Prisoners, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy, Venezuela

by Roger D. Harris, published on Dissident Voice, December 21, 2023 Alex Saab was freed from US captivity in what Venezuelan Prof. Maria Victor Paez described as “a triumph of Venezuelan diplomacy.” The diplomat had been imprisoned for trying to bring humanitarian supplies to Venezuela in legal international trade but in circumvention of Washington’s illegal economic coercive measures, also known[…]