Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
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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Staff, published on Fightback News, August 21, 2024 Chicago, IL – On August 19, over 20,000 people marched on the opening day of the Democratic National Convention, demanding an end to U.S. aid to Israel and an end to the genocide in Gaza. The march was the result of over a year of work by the Coalition to March on[…]
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by Barry Sheppard and Malik Miah, published on Socialist Action, May 19, 2024 U.S. intelligence agencies have now openly recognized that the war Israel is ostensibly waging, to eliminate Hamas in Gaza, cannot be won. This is a virtual recognition what the pro-Palestinian demonstrators have been saying, and most of the world knows, that the war is a war against[…]
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by Chris Hedges, published on Socialist Action, May 21, 2024 (Original to Scheerpost) The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point. The May 20 decision by the High Court in London to grant Julian Assange the right to[…]
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How the Right Has Weaponized Antisemitism to Distract from Israel’s War by Helen Benedict, published on Tom Dispatch, May 2, 2024 Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are lined up along side streets and Broadway. Outside[…]
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by Barry Shepard, published on Socialist Action, April 24, 2024 Ever since Israel’s war on Palestinians and increasing destruction of infrastructure and mass killings of the population in Gaza, protests have developed on campuses. The response of supporters of Israel’s war have charged that campus pro-Palestinian demonstrations are anti-Semitic. As the killings and destruction have intensified, so to have many[…]
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by Monica Moorehead, published on Workers World, April 23, 2024 April 22 – The global struggle in solidarity with the Palestinians against the horrific U.S./Israeli genocide since October 7 has become a major focus on U.S. college campuses. Prestigious Columbia University, located in Harlem, New York, has become ground zero in the campaign to divest funds supporting the apartheid Israeli[…]
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by Dr. Binoy Kampmark, published on Countercurrents, January 19, 2024 On February 20, Julian Assange, the daredevil publisher of WikiLeaks, will be going into battle, yet again, with the British justice system – or what counts for it. The UK High Court will hear arguments from his team that his extradition to the United States from Britain to face 18[…]
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