Lawfare

The Department of Injustice

May 14, 2025 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Political Analysis, Poverty, Prisons and Prisoners, Racism, The War at Home, US Law

by David D’Amato, published on Counterpunch, May 14, 2025 Today, it would be nearly impossible to overstate the extent to which justice for the criminal defendant in the U.S. has been compromised by prosecutorial misconduct of the most serious kinds. A growing body of evidence from journalistic investigations, scholarly studies, and reports from civil liberties groups reveals a startling pattern[…]

I Am In Malta With The Gaza Flotilla Ship ‘Conscience’ Bombed By Israel

May 6, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Economic Blockade, Genocide, Humanitarian Aid, Hybrid Warfare, Israel, Lawfare, Palestine

by Ann Wright, published on Popular Resistance, May 3, 2025 I am in Malta with the group ready to board the Gaza flotilla ship “Conscience” which was bombed by Israel yesterday. As one of the organizers of the US Boats to Gaza and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla coalition, we have been working for months to bring activists from 22 countries[…]

The Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the Face of Trump: ‘Respect our Existence or Expect our Resistance’

April 10, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Civil Resistance, Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Immigrants, Immigration, Lawfare, Legislation, Migrants and Refugees, The War at Home, US Borders, US Hypocrisy, War on the Poor

by Cristóbal Cavazos, published on Socialist Action, March 8, 2025 The unbelievable struggle that the Trump administration’s attack on undocumented immigrants workers has stoked, particularly among Mexican and Central American workers, some with close to the 30 years in the United States, has been as revolutionary as it has been necessary. It could be summed up in one phrase: Respect our Existence[…]

Momodou Taal’s First Amendment Case Against the Trump Administration Heard in Court

March 30, 2025 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Free Speech, Genocide, Lawfare, Palestine, Protest, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy

by Avery Wang and Benjamin Leynse, published by the Cornell Daily Sun, March 26, 2025 SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The legal fight of Momodou Taal, a pro-Palestinian activist and international graduate student, began in court on Tuesday as a federal judge heard the first arguments of Taal’s lawsuit against the Trump administration. At the heart of the hearing was Taal’s possible[…]

Momodou Taal On His Fight Against The Trump Administration

March 29, 2025 UNAC Editor Deportation, Fascism, Human Rights, Immigrants, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lawfare, Palestine, Political Analysis, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, Violence Against Protesters

by D. Musa Springer, published on Popular Resistance, March 25, 2025 ‘This Fight Is Bigger Than Me, And We Can’t Afford To Lose It.’ In an interview with Mondoweiss, Momodou Taal discusses the threat of deportation for his Palestine activism, Cornell’s cooperation with the government crackdown on free speech, and what is at stake in his fight against the Trump[…]

The Biden Administration Fails to Win Imprisonment of the Uhuru 3

December 17, 2024 UNAC Editor Breaking News, Free Speech, Lawfare

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[…]

I Beg Your Pardon! People of Color Say Hunter Biden’s Clemency Represents White Privilege in Overdrive

December 7, 2024 UNAC Editor Lawfare, The War at Home, US Hypocrisy

by Jon Jeter, published on Black Agenda Report, December 4, 2024 As a Senator, Joe Biden pioneered federal laws mandating extreme sentences for possession of crack cocaine and far lesser sentences for possession of cocaine. President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, is viewed as hypocritical to people of color, yet given their experiences is unsurprising. A Chicano[…]

We Must Not Surrender to Totalitarianism

October 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Censorship and Propaganda, Colonialism, Imperialism, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lawfare, Palestine, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, The War at Home, Violence Against Protesters

Statement from Black Alliance for Peace, October 17, 2024 Resistance to Oppression is a Human Right The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) recognizes that we are in a moment of increased and increasingly dangerous political repression. Peoples’ resistance to oppressive, militaristic, and genocidal policies enacted by the U.S. national security apparatus are once again being met with persecution, marginalization, violence,[…]

Solidarity With Samidoun And Khaled Barakat, Designated As ‘Terrorists’

October 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Lawfare, Legal Struggles, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, The War at Home, US Hypocrisy, Violence Against Protesters, Zionism

by Dalal Zainabi and Saheli Chowdhury, published on The Orinoco Tribune, October 16, 2024 Editor’s note: Aside from the domestic political implications of this bizarre decision, we can consider the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, often without charge, brutally tortured in many cases, and suffering unlimited sentences. The one organization that openly supports them across the Western world[…]

Elbit Systems Protest Trial in New Hampshire

October 4, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Civil Resistance, Israel, Lawfare, Weapons Sales, Zionism

by Bruce Gagnon, published on Organizing Notes, October 3, 2024 On Monday eight of us stood trial before a judge in a New Hampshire District Court. The nature of our charges (Trespass and Resisting Arrest) under N.H. law do not allow a jury trial. The first several hours of the trial were dominated by local, county and state police officers[…]