Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
The Demand For a Ceasefire is Necessary But Not Sufficient: The Demand Must Be for Decolonization and Palestinian Self-Determination by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, November 8, 2023 “The nightmare in Gaza is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a crisis of humanity,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told reporters in New York, adding that the need for a ceasefire[…]
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by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, October 31, 2023 On Friday, October 27, the nations of the world voted in the UN General Assembly, by a vote of 120 to 14, for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities” in Gaza. The resolution was sponsored by the government of sometime U.S. ally[…]
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by Joe Lombardo, UNAC Coordinator, November 3, 2023 This is a brief report on the international peace conference that took place in Rome on Oct. 27 – 28. There were 6 of us at the conference from the US. The conference was attended by about 200 people. People came from 25 countries representing 40 different organizations. Delegates from Iran, Afghanistan[…]
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Veterans for Peace Statement, published on VeteransForPeace.org, October 24, 2023 On October 12, Veterans For Peace issued this statement about the conflict between Hamas and Israel, in which we condemned the horrific violence on both sides, particularly the killing of civilians. We added our voice to the many calls for a ceasefire and negotiations toward a political solution because there is no military one.[…]
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by Yves Engler, published on The Canada Files, October 20, 2023 Israel wants Canada to criminalize growing displays of solidarity with Palestinians. In a bid to amplify calls to ban Palestine solidarity marches, Israel’s ambassador Iddo Moed told the Canadian Press on Thursday, “I don’t think that democracies allow people to hate and to incite, and I think that that is something that is[…]
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by Alex Lantier, published on Countercurrents, October 17, 2023 This article is from nearly a week ago. Things are much worse now. This is not an issue of the ‘Netanyahu’ government, though they play their part. This is expectable outcome of settler colonialism. The latest “plan” is to drive the Palestinians from Gaza into the Sinai. This is ethnic cleansing.[…]
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by Tareq S. Hajjaj, published on Mondoweiss, June 24, 2023 Ahmad Ayyesh, 41 and a father of six children, is standing in a protest in the midday heat on Tuesday afternoon outside the large doors of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in Gaza City. He joined the protest to raise his voice and demand that the agency’s[…]
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by Rev. Dr. Don Wagner, published on Mondoweiss, June 13, 2023 Forty-one years ago, I was in Lebanon leading a group of ten U.S. relief and development directors hoping to introduce them to the extensive needs of impoverished Lebanese and Palestinian refugees. On June 4, 1982, around 3:00 p.m., we were on our way to the crowded Fakhani district of[…]
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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[…]
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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[…]
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