Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
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Statement by Black Alliance for Peace, December 16, 2024 Members of the Uhuru Movement, Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess, and Jesse Nevel – the “Uhuru 3” – were sentenced to three years probation and community service after being convicted in September 2024 of supposedly conspiring with the Russian government to interfere in U.S. elections. The Black Alliance for Peace recognizes that[…]
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by Julian Assange, Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, October 1, 2024 Julian Assange: “I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism. I pled guilty to seeking information from a source. I pled guilty to obtaining information from a[…]
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Margaret Kimberley and Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, September 18, 2024 State repression increases as the so-called democracies continue in a state of crisis. Only a people-centered human rights struggle can bring true justice and peace. “Instead of prosecuting the Ku Klux Klan, the anti-Semites, and reactionaries, the government is arresting anti-fascists.” (Claudia Jones) Margaret Kimberley: I’m joined[…]
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by Dianne Mathiowetz, published on Workers World, September 11, 2024 Sept. 9, 2024 The trial of the Uhuru 3 — Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party; Penny Hess, chair of the African People’s Solidarity Committee; and Jesse Nevel, Uhuru Movement member — began on Sept. 3 in a Tampa, Florida, federal courtroom. The three are being charged[…]
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by Janiah X, published on The Final Call, September 16, 2024 MIAMI—For at least two years, the U.S. government said the Uhuru Movement has been fighting for Russia. But during the federal trial in Tampa, Florida, prosecutors failed to prove the four defendants worked as agents of Russia. The Department of Justice alleged Russians “recruited, funded and directed U.S. political[…]
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by Phil Wilayto, for The Virginia Defender, September 4, 2024 TAMPA, FL, Sept. 4 — The trial of the Uhuru 3 opened this morning at U.S. District Court in downtown Tampa, Judge William Jung presiding. The defendants in the highly politically charged case are facing up to 15 years in prison if convicted of charges that they have been operating[…]
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by Ajamu Baraka and Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, September 4, 2024 BAR Executive Editor Margaret Kimberley talks to Ajamu Baraka, BAR Editor and Columnist about the upcoming presidential election and how the outcome will impact international and domestic policy. Ajamu provides his analysis on Palestine, the Ukraine/Russia war, U.S. imperialism in Africa, police militarism, and the federal[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 28, 2024 What does democracy mean if elections are ignored and journalists are charged as criminals? That is the case today, as western countries descend into crises of their own making and are more blatant in their disregard for the norms they claim to adhere to. They are only devoted to[…]
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by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, August 28, 2024 The struggle to struggle in today’s hyper restrictive environment played out in Chicago where protesters fought legal and popular battles to be allowed to express their rejection of politics as usual and support for the people of Palestine. [jb] DNC protest organizers kept Democrats’ responsibility for the Gaza genocide[…]
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by Brenda Ryan, published on Workers World, August 19, 2024 New York~ Representatives from several organizations held a rousing news conference in front of the New York Times building in this city on Aug. 14 to demand that the U.S. government drop the bogus charges against Omali Yeshitela, chairperson of the and leaders of the Uhuru solidarity movement and that[…]
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