Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Scott Scheffer, published on Struggle * La Lucha, June 10, 205 For three straight days, furious protests rocked Los Angeles as federal ICE gangs terrorized working-class communities. Sunday saw the largest crowds yet, reflecting mounting outrage among broader layers of the population. President Donald Trump branded Los Angeles a city in “state of rebellion” and federalized the National Guard,[…]
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by Phil Pasquini, published on Countercurrents, May 18, 2025 A press conference was held on May 14 to introduce a legal complaint filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) by TAG (Taxpayers Against Genocide) a grassroots movement, DAG (Doctors Against Genocide), the National Lawyers Guild, and CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations). The complaint calls for an end to[…]
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published on RT, June 9, 2025] This article follows the unfolding of events in LA on twitter. [jb] US President Donald Trump has directed top federal officials to take “all such action necessary” to end days of violent unrest in Los Angeles, ordering the deployment of National Guard troops and vowing to “liberate” the city from what he described as[…]
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UNAC Statement on the Protests in Los Angeles, June 9, 2025 UNAC supports the spontaneous protests by the Los Angeles communities against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids on workplaces and shopping sites. These raids have caused fear and anger in the Chicano and Mexicano communities but on June 6 the community responded in a massive way. They fought[…]
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By Columbia University Apartheid Divest Coalition, published on Mondoweiss, May 24, 2025 On May 18, 2025 families and friends gathered at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to honor expelled and suspended student protesters during an alternative graduation ceremony titled the “People’s Graduation.” Among those recognized was Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student[…]
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by Viviana Weinstein, posted on Workers World, May 21, 2025 My father Max was an immigrant, a U.S. citizen, Jewish and veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who fought the fascists during the civil war in Spain in the 1930s. Like many Jews who suffered through the years of the Holocaust, he was anti-Zionist. My parents understood Zionism to be[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, May 21, 2025 Israel is starving Gazans to death and continuing its bombing attacks on civilians. Israel also specializes in personal revenge, targeting men, women, and children who might be the subject of international press attention and remind the world of that state’s sadistic nature. There are many accomplices to these crimes, but[…]
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Editorial, by Workers World, May 13, 2025 The movement in solidarity with Palestine had a big win when a court order released Rümeysa Öztürk from a Louisiana detention center. On May 9 she returned to Boston. Mass support developed for Öztürk, whose arrest resembled a kidnapping by a criminal conspiracy. The criminals were from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency[…]
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by Susan Abulhawa, published on Workers World, May 8, 2025 The following is Part 2 of a talk given by the author to a meeting of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) on April 24 in Philadelphia. (Trigger warning due to graphic descriptions of rape and torture.) At some point, the boundaries are pushed too far. As a historic example,[…]
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by Ann Wright, published on Popular Resistance, May 3, 2025 I am in Malta with the group ready to board the Gaza flotilla ship “Conscience” which was bombed by Israel yesterday. As one of the organizers of the US Boats to Gaza and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla coalition, we have been working for months to bring activists from 22 countries[…]
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