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We Must Not Surrender to Totalitarianism

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,[…]

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

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[…]

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Elbit Systems Protest Trial in New Hampshire

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[…]

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From the Phony Debate on Gaza to the Uhuru 3: The US/EU Commitment to Human Rights Has Always Been Lie

Margaret Kimberley and Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, September 18, 2024 State repression increases as the so-called democracies continue in a state of crisis. Only a people-centered human rights struggle can bring true justice and peace. “Instead of prosecuting the Ku Klux Klan, the anti-Semites, and reactionaries, the government is arresting anti-fascists.”  (Claudia Jones) Margaret Kimberley: I’m joined[…]

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Is It a Crime to Tell the Truth? The Trial of the Uhuru 3

by Dianne Mathiowetz, published on Workers World, September 11, 2024 Sept. 9, 2024 The trial of the Uhuru 3 — Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party; Penny Hess, chair of the African People’s Solidarity Committee; and Jesse Nevel, Uhuru Movement member — began on Sept. 3 in a Tampa, Florida, federal courtroom. The three are being charged[…]

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Drop the Charges Against Uhuru!

Statement by Black Alliance for Peace, September 4, 2024 Black Alliance for Peace Condemns the Federal Indictments of the Uhuru 3 and Denial of their Fundamental Human Rights to Speech, Association, Information and Political Dissent  Tampa, Florida — The process of jury selection on September 3rd, 2024, will mark the beginning of the federal trial of Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of[…]

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Free Speech Trial of Uhuru 3 Begins in Tampa

by Phil Wilayto, for The Virginia Defender, September 4, 2024 TAMPA, FL, Sept. 4 — The trial of the Uhuru 3 opened this morning at U.S. District Court in downtown Tampa, Judge William Jung presiding. The defendants in the highly politically charged case are facing up to 15 years in prison if convicted of charges that they have been operating[…]

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News Conference Protests Media Silence on Illegal Charges Against Uhuru 3

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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USA Lets Athletes Cheat with Steroids, as it Accuses Russia & China of Violating Anti-doping Rules

by Ben Norton, published on Geopolitical Economy, August 11, 2024 The World Anti-Doping Agency says the US has for a decade allowed athletes in international competitions, including the Olympics, to cheat by using prohibited drugs, while it hypocritically criticizes Russia and China. The United States has for a decade allowed athletes in international competitions, including the Olympics, to use prohibited[…]

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U.S. Rejection of Venezuela’s Democracy Vindicates Trump Contesting the 2020 Election Results

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, August 7, 2024 It cannot be said that the U.S. has free and fair elections. Yet, the country regularly uses the false virtue of democracy to enact regime change when its interests are threatened by a nation seeking sovereignty. In Venezuela, this effort has reached a particular level of absurdity on multiple occasions – this[…]

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