Colonialism

Threat of More U.N. Sanctions on Haiti

January 16, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Economic Collapse, France, Haiti, Indigenous peoples, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, January 6, 2023 While the huge social, economic and political problems of Haiti have slipped out of the news, if anything they have intensified over the past few months. According to Helen La Lime, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Haiti and Head of BINUH (U.N. Integrated Office in Haiti), “Close[…]

MLK Beyond Vietnam Speech Relevant To War & Justice Today

January 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Racism, U.S. Aggression, White Supremacy

by Staff at UnitedForPeace.org, published on Popular Resistance, January 19, 2019 The People Of The United States Must Still “Break The Silence” Since this is a few years out of date, let me remind you of what Dr. King had to say about the next war, and the one after that: The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of[…]

Daniel Ortega: “What We Are Faced With Is a Gang of Assassins”

December 5, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Imperialism, Nicaragua, Resistance, Revolution, Statement

by Daniel Ortega, published by Chicago Alba Solidarity, November 18, 2022 It’s great when the global south has a well informed, articulate and passionate spokesperson. We need to listen to them in their own words on occasion. Of course looking in this dark mirror can be diquieting, but it is necessary all the same. [jb] I want to conclude by[…]

‘We Have Survived and Flourished’: Massive Turnout on National Day of Mourning

December 2, 2022 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Genocide, Native Americans

By Will Hodgkinson posted on Workers World, November 29, 2022 Kisha James (Aquinnah Wampanoag and Oglala Lakota), co-leader of United American Indians of New England (UAINE), opened the rally by telling the history of NDOM, which was founded in 1970 by her grandfather, the late Wamsutta Frank James. Kisha James quoted an account of the first NDOM by Russell Means[…]

Indigenous People Push Back Against US ‘Thanksgiving Mythology’

November 25, 2022 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans

The United American Indians of New England and allies gathered at noon Thursday at Cole’s Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts for the 53rd National Day of Mourning—an annual tradition that serves as “a day of remembrance and spiritual connection, as well as a protest against the racism and oppression that Indigenous people continue to experience worldwide.” “We don’t have any issues[…]

UTIER, Independent Puerto Rican Electrical Trade Union Fighting US Neoliberal Privatization

November 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Austerity, Capitalism, Colonialism, Labor Struggles, Lawfare, Puerto Rico

Statement by Jeanette Graulau, published on Labor Today, November 2022 While some Western countries are planning to re-nationalize their energy industries, the U.S. imposes upon its colony of Puerto Rico a privatization plan to ‘unbundle’ the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), one of the oldest and fully operational electric power corporations of Latin America. Since 2020, LUMA Energy, a[…]

#HandsOffHaiti #USOutOfHaiti

October 27, 2022 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Featured, Haiti, Statement, U.S. Aggression, United Nations

Statement by United National Antiwar Coalition, October 17, 2022 The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) rejects any and all calls for new occupations of Haiti. United States and Canadian military are already on the ground in the capital of Port-au-Prince under the guise of providing security from gangs when they are in fact repeating the same old playbook, asserting control[…]

Haiti and the Debt of Independence

October 23, 2022 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Democracy and Consent, Economic Collapse, Haiti, Imperial greed, Indigenous peoples, International Aid and Debt, Racism

by Yves Engler, published on Countercurrents, September 4, 2022 In the vast history of imperialist exploitation few episodes match the depravity of Haiti’s debt of independence. Military blackmail of a small country by a superpower, prioritizing “property rights” over human rights, racial capitalism, a sellout “light skinned” local bourgeoise and the way our past haunts the present are all part[…]

The “Leftism” of the Americas Collapses at the Door of Haitian Sovereignty

October 11, 2022 UNAC Editor Collapsed States, Colonialism, Haiti, Latin America

by Jemima Pierre, published on Black Agenda Report, September 28, 2022 While many are celebrating the potential rise of another “Pink Tide” in Latin America and the emergence of a truly multipolar world, it seems clear that the fight for Haitian sovereignty will continue to be outside of “leftist” imaginations. It is an exhilarating time for the “leftists” of the[…]

Israel kills 4 teens in rampage across West Bank

October 11, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine

by Tamera Nassar, published on Electronic Intifada, October 9, 2022 If you let this article sit open for a bit, all kinds of images and videos appear in the tweets. [jb] A Palestinian resistance operation in occupied East Jerusalem killed an Israeli soldier and injured several others on Saturday evening. The person who carried out the shooting at a military[…]