Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Washington’s (not so) Strong Man in Seoul is Defying Arrest

by In Jeong Kim, published on DropSite News, January 3, 2025 Editor’s Note: Actually, he was finally arrested yesterday, January 17.  So, it took me two weeks to get to this but it’s still critical to understand the political morass in South Korea. On January 3, three days after a South Korean court issued an arrest warrant for suspended president[…]

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Taxpayers Suing Congress members For Funding Genocide Speak Out

by Marjorie Cohen, published on Popular Resistance , January 4, 2025      (originally published on Truthout) Editor’s Note: Our elected officials ignore our concerns, and dismiss our demands.  Time to up the ante!  The issue of genocide is too big to let them off. “We Have to Act.” Plaintiff Tarik Kanaana says the lawsuit “has given people something to rally[…]

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A Christmas Reminder: This is What Genocide Looks Like

The Upstate Drone Action group is composed of old hands who have been protesting war and imperialism, and doing civil resistance for their entire lives, which in most cases, is a long time.    Their actions are creative and visceral.  I you want to see more examples, go to their website. Lately, Hancock Air National Guard Base outside Syracuse New York,[…]

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The Election is Finally Over ORGANIZE RESISTANCE

Editorial, Workers World, November 6, 2024 The November 5 election has happened, and the outcome is known worldwide. The most vile, disgusting, white supremacist, xenophobic, transphobic, ableist, misogynist, rapist, neofascist — the list goes on — will return to the White House in January. These results have no doubt produced a wide range of emotions, be they despair, demoralization, frustration,[…]

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Fascism and War Cannot Be Voted Out

by Ellen Isaacs, published on Countercurrents, September 23, 2024 Editor’s Note: Another much needed perspective that has been in the queue for too long. [jb] Many progressive friends declare they will “hold their nose” and vote for Harris, if only to prevent Trump from instituting fascism. “Bad as she is” – intolerable on Palestine, flipflopping on the environment and health[…]

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Elbit Systems Protest Trial in New Hampshire

by Bruce Gagnon, published on Organizing Notes, October 3, 2024 On Monday eight of us stood trial before a judge in a New Hampshire District Court. The nature of our charges (Trespass and Resisting Arrest) under N.H. law do not allow a jury trial. The first several hours of the trial were dominated by local, county and state police officers[…]

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Cornell Student Nick Wilson on Pro-Palestine Activism

I Was Just Suspended by Cornell University. Here’s My Story. by Nick Wilson, published in the Cornell Sun, April 27, 2024 My name is Nick Wilson, I am a second-year undergraduate in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and yesterday I was temporarily suspended from the University for participating in a nonviolent encampment on the Arts Quad. I was suspended[…]

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Takeover! A Human Rights Approach to Housing

TAKEOVER! A Human Rights Approach to Housing is a beautifully written book about poor and homeless people choosing to live and refusing to die. by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, September 11, 2024 I can’t recommend TAKEOVER! A Human Rights Approach to Housing, by Cheri Honkala and the Poor People’s Army, enough. Most people don’t like to think[…]

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Meeting Palestinian hero Leila Khaled

by Saher al Khamash, published on Workers World, August 12, 2024 During our trip to Nicaragua, we never thought we would meet Leila Khaled. However, her visit during this time in July is actually no surprise to those familiar with the details of her life and the parallels between the Palestinian and Nicaraguan liberation struggles. Palestinian revolutionary, socialist and guerrilla[…]

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