Indigenous peoples

Who Protects the People From the Human Rights Protectors?

March 3, 2025 UNAC Editor Black Liberation Movement, Europe, Genocide, Human Rights, Indigenous peoples, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Racism, Rights of Opressed Peoples, US Hypocrisy, White Supremacy

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report,February 26, 2025 Can Palestinians get a little Humanitarian Intervention? Of all the ideological mystifications created by the white West to rationalize and justify its brutal exploitation and colonization of the world the last five hundred years, the cruelest hoax ever perpetrated on the colonized and the entire world is the idea that[…]

US Sends Dozens of Venezuelan Migrants to Guantánamo as Relatives Plead Innocence

February 28, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Human Rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, Migrants and Refugees, Prisons and Prisoners

by Ricardo Vaz, published on Venezuelanalysis, February 15, 2025 Caracas, February 15, 2025 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The United States government has sent more than 100 Venezuelans to a US naval base with a history of human rights abuses in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. According to reports, the transfers began earlier this month as part of the Donald Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.[…]

Leonard Peltier is Released, Finally!

February 19, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Breaking News, Native Americans, Political Prisoners, Resistance

Press Release from the NDN Collective, published on Workers World, February 18, 2025 Sumterville, Florida – This morning, Leonard Peltier was released from over 49 years of wrongful incarceration. Mr. Peltier is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and will reside on his tribal homelands in North Dakota. Upon Peltier’s request, NDN Collective is bringing[…]

The Black Alliance for Peace Welcomes the Release of Leonard Peltier and Demands Unrestricted Release of all U.S. Political Prisoners

January 31, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Colonialism, Native Americans, Political Prisoners, Racism, The War at Home, White Supremacy

Statement by the Black Alliance for Peace, January 28, 2025 The immoral life sentence of American Indian Movement freedom fighter, political prisoner and prisoner of war, Leonard Peltier was commuted by the U.S. President Joe Biden, only moments before Biden’s term in office ended. Now 80 years old, Peltier languished for over 50 years in prison after being unjustly convicted[…]

Justice Denied and Delayed—Leonard Peltier Commutation While Marcus Garvey Is Pardoned

January 31, 2025 UNAC Editor Native Americans, Racism, Resistance, The War at Home

by Abyome Azikiwe, published on Global Research, January 30, 2025 On this year’s annual holiday to commemorate the life, times and contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), news had quickly spread regarding the long-delayed decision to commute the life sentence of American Indian Movement (AIM) leader Leonard Peltier. Peltier was charged in the 1975 killing of two FBI[…]

Trump’s Education Agenda for Teachers: Sanitize US History or Leave the Field

January 28, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Native Americans, Racism, Student Activists, The War at Home, US Government Action

by Jesse Hagopian, published on Truthout, January 24, 2025 Teachers fear Trump may use federal funding as a bludgeon to push “uncritical race theory” on K-12 schools and colleges. “Getting critical race theory out of our schools is not just a matter of values, it’s also a matter of national survival,” Donald Trump railed at a rally in the lead-up[…]

Leonard Peltier is Going hHome!

January 20, 2025 UNAC Editor Breaking News, Native Americans, Political Prisoners, Prisoners, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy

from The Red Nation, January 20, 2025 After a half-century of unjust incarceration, Leonard Peltier is finally going home!“It’s finally over–I’m going home,” said Peltier in response to the news. “I want to show the world I’m a good person with a good heart. I want to help the people, just like my grandmother taught me.”For decades, the now elder[…]

Cubans End 2024 with Massive March Against US Blockade

January 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Cuba, Hybrid Warfare, Indigenous peoples, Peoples' Movements, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by W.T. Whitney, published on Labor Today International, January 7, 2025 Cubans numbering in the hundreds of thousands marched on December 20 along Havana’s emblematic Malecon roadway fronting the Florida Straits. President Miguel Díaz Canel and former President Raul Castro took the lead in a massive protest against stepped-up US efforts to immiserate Cubans and bring down their socialist government.[…]

From Gaza to the Trail of Tears to the Middle Passage, We Are All Connected

December 29, 2024 UNAC Editor Genocide, Imperialism, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, Rights of Opressed Peoples, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, War Crimes

by David A. Love, published on LA Progressive, December 19, 2024 Oh, my children, they tried to bury you, but they didn’t know you were seeds. Remember that it’s all connected. We are gathered here today in these last days of the American Empire, and the beginning of the end of late-stage capitalism, to declare that none of this foolishness[…]

Palestinian Youth Movement to National Day of Mourning: LAND BACK from Turtle Island to Palestine!

December 5, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements

by Lea Kayali, published on Workers World, December 4, 2024 Lea Kayali, representing the Palestinian Youth Movement, gave this speech to the National Day of Mourning on Nov. 28, 2024, in Plymouth, Massachusetts. As a Palestinian, every day for the last 419 days has been a day of mourning. In the last 24 hours, we mourned the 101 Palestinians martyred[…]