Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Statement by The Red Nation, published on Workers World, November 13, 2023 The following speech was delivered to 300,000 pro-Palestine marchers by The Red Nation co-founder Dr. Melanie Yazzie and was written by members of The Red Nation. The speech is also available in Arabic and Spanish at therednation.org. Video of the speech is posted at The Red Nation’s[…]
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by Caitlin Johnstone, published in Caitlin Johnstone’s Newsletter, November 13, 2023 One problem Israel keeps running into is how the institutionalized dehumanization of Palestinians which keeps the apartheid state operational also causes Israelis to say things that non-Israelis will find extremely shocking, which hurts Israel’s PR interests. We saw this illustrated in a recent New Yorker interview with Daniella Weiss,[…]
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Press Release, published on Workers World, November 12, 2023 Susan Abulhawa: +1.267.391.5386, Suzanne Adely: +1.773.510.7446. UNAC AC member Sara Flounders is in Egypt with this group, working to get aid into Gaza through the Rafah crossing. Hopefully we will have a report-back from the scene very soon. We are an international delegation of writers, lawyers, journalists, activists, students and organizers[…]
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by Tarak S. Hajjaj, published on Mondoweiss, November 13, 2023 This dispatch was relayed by Mondoweiss Gaza Correspondent Tareq Hajjaj via voice note. Two days ago, the injured left Al-Shifa Hospital with wounds still bleeding, some on wheelchairs, some pulled by cart. Those who arrived in the south a few days ago reported that Al-Shifa Hospital’s administration had urged them to flee[…]
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by Paul Larudee, published by Syria Support Movement, November 11, 2023 Israel is losing the battle. They cannot afford to remain fully mobilized this long, even with unlimited US financial support. It is estimated that despite limited commercial flights, more than a quarter million Israelis have left the country. This is also the number that have evacuated settlements in both[…]
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by The Virginia Defenders of Freedom, Justice and Equality, published in the Virginia Defender, October 8 , 2023 (Autumn 2023 Edition) This Nov. 2 marked 106 years since one Englishman gave another Englishman the right to establish a “homeland” for his people. The first Englishman was Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, the second was Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British[…]
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by Julia Wright, published on Workers World, November 3, 2023 African American diplomat Linda Thomas Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, arrived at the Security Council Oct. 18 dressed to the hilt and prepared to raise a war-mongering hand that will go down in history. The resolution would have allowed “humanitarian pauses in the conflict between Israel and Hamas[…]
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by M.K. Bhadrakumar, published on Popular Resistance, November 10, 2023 An analysis of developments in the past few days. Including the U.S. announcement that it is deploying a huge nuclear submarine near the war zone. The announcement late Sunday night by the U.S. Central Command headquartered in Doha about the arrival of an Ohio-class U.S. nuclear submarine in its “area[…]
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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 Ramzy Baroud, published on Countercurrents, November 9, 2023 On October 20, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, stood on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing, between Egypt and besieged Gaza. Guterres was not the only international figure to travel to the Gaza border, hoping to mobilize the international community in the face of an ongoing genocide, in[…]
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