Organizing

Message to DNC: Stop the Genocide!

August 14, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Israel, Occupation, Organizing, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements

Editorial, published on Workers World, August 13, 2024 When Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic presidential candidate, announced her running mate on Aug. 6 — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — there were probably more than a few sighs of relief. At least she didn’t pick Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a virulent Zionist who boasts of having once served in the Israeli[…]

The Distortion of Campus Protests Over Gaza

May 9, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Censorship and Propaganda, Civil Resistance, Free Speech, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Organizing, Palestine, US Hypocrisy, US Politics, Zionism

How the Right Has Weaponized Antisemitism to Distract from Israel’s War by Helen Benedict, published on Tom Dispatch, May 2, 2024 Helicopters have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are lined up along side streets and Broadway. Outside[…]

A Peoples’ Victory — Alex Saab is Free and Home in Venezuela!

December 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Hybrid Warfare, International Law, Organizing, Political Prisoners, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Government Action, Venezuela, War on the Poor

bu Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, December 21, 2023 Alex Saab is free and home in Venezuela. For three and a half years (1,280 days), Saab, a Venezuelan diplomat, had been held in torturous conditions by the U.S. government. (The author traveled to Cabo Verde in June 2021 in a delegation with Roger Harris and Bishop Felipe Teixeira in[…]

New Mood In The World Will Put An End To The Global Monroe Doctrine

November 29, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Imperialism, Latin America, Monroe Doctrine, Organizing, Palestine, Resistance, Revolution

by Vijay Prashad, produced by Tricontinental, November 24, 2023 Every day since 7 October has felt like an International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, with hundreds of thousands gathering in Istanbul, a million in Jakarta, and then yet another million across Africa and Latin America to demand an end to the brutal attack being carried out by Israel (with the collusion of the[…]

Movement Growing Worldwide to Demand a Ceasefire Now!

November 14, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Free Speech, Genocide, Imperial Wars, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Organizing, Palestine, Political Analysis, Resistance

Statement from Chicago Antiwar Coalition (CAWC), November 13, 2023 As of November 13, the number of people killed in Gaza since the beginning of the Zionist regime’s devastating genocidal campaign on October 7 is 11,078 people, including 4,506 children and 3,027 women. A child is killed on average every 10 minutes in the Gaza Strip, the Director-General World Health Organization[…]

Rome Peace Conference Declares: U.S., Allies Provoked War in Ukraine, Stop NATO!

November 10, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Human Rights, Hybrid Warfare, Imperial Wars, Imperialism, NATO, Neocolonialism, Organizing, Terrorism, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine, US Meddling in Europe

Statement published on Workers World, October 28, 2023 Delegates from 40 organizations and individuals from 25 countries gathered in Rome on Oct. 27 and 28, 2023, to discuss the causes of the current war in Ukraine, the war’s impact on international peace, the dangers facing our people and the tasks of the movement for a fair and permanent peace. The[…]

Why Don’t Palestinians Protest Non-Violently?

October 26, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Censorship and Propaganda, Civil Resistance, Nonviolence, Occupation, Organizing, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation

Yes, what was going on in Gaza before the October 7 Hamas revolt, and “Why didn’t the Palestinians Protest Non-Violently?” Actually, a friend asked me this question today, after expressing horror at the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israeli citizens. It’s an important question and the vast majority of people in the United States don’t know the answer. The short[…]

Richmond Turns Out for Palestine

October 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Organizing, Palestine

by Phil Wilayto, published on The Virginia Defender Facebook Pg, October 16, 2023 RICHMOND, VA, Oct. 15 — As the Israeli military prepares to launch a massive invasion of the Gaza Strip, where some 2.3 million Palestinians are trapped in what has been called the world’s largest open-air prison, more than 1,000 people marched today in Richmond to demand an[…]

Coalition Calls on the City of Chicago to Grant Permits for March on Democratic National Convention

September 26, 2023 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Organizing, The War at Home

by Zhenya Polozova, published on Fightback News, September 20, 2023 Chicago, IL – The Coalition to March on the DNC hosted a press conference at Chicago City Hall the morning of September 19, calling on the city to issue a previously-denied permit recognizing the right of working and oppressed people to march within sight and sound of the August 2024[…]

The Left’s Reaction To The BRICS

September 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, BRICS, Economics, Global Alliances, Organizing

by Manuel Raposo, published on Workers World, September 8, 2023 (translation: John Catalinotto) Unable to stop the expansion of the BRICS [Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa; Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates are scheduled to become members on Jan. 1, 2024] and the growing prestige that the organization has gained in the dependent[…]