Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, June 7, 2023 Cop City is an effort to ensure that state violence will bring the most draconian methods to bear against Black people. State violence is also being used proactively, in an effort to end opposition to this creation of Atlanta’s white ruling class and their errand boys and girls who[…]
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by Dianne Mathiowetz, published on Workers World, June 12, 2023 Atlanta Within a day of the massive community turnout at the June 5 Atlanta City Council meeting — where, despite 16 1/2 hours of public comment opposing the over $67 million of taxpayer money to build the militarized police training center in the Weelaunee Forest, the Council approved the expenditure[…]
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by Mark Trahan, published on Fire This Time, Winter Edition 2023 (originally published on the Navajo/Hopi Observer, October 18, 2023) Sadly, though according to this article, Leonard Peltier’s request for Clemency was sent to the President months ago, he remains in prison to this day. Justice delayed is justice denied. Free Leonard Peltier NOW! [jb] Leonard Peltier’s name has[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, February 9, 2022 The mass incarceration state was built to lock up as many Black people as possible and discussion of even modest reforms is shut down. Such was the case in New York where the mayor and police commissioner smeared Manhattan’s district attorney, forcing him to backtrack on his campaign promise[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, October 6, 2021 Police killings of Black people are a feature of American law enforcement and they are deliberately under counted. The New York Times and other outlets report that most police killings in this country are “mislabeled .” The sanitized language is worse than an understatement because it implies that these[…]
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by Workers World Editor, posted to Workers World on July 22, 2020 To put the Police Department’s spasm of slander directed at the Black Lives Matter movement in New York City in perspective, it’s useful to recall an experience from nearly three decades ago. Anti-war forces in 1991 established a popular tribunal to protest the criminal war against Iraq unleashed[…]
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by Mumia Abu Jamal, published on Socialist Action, July 11, 2020 For years — indeed, for decades — we have seen the mirage of reform being presented by neoliberal leaders and their media tools, only to awake too late to ghoulish nightmares of shattered promises and hopes betrayed. For reform is betrayal, a devil’s bargain of better days to come[…]
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By Makasi Motema posted on Workers World, October 8, 2019 Five years after the murder of Michael Brown, the people have achieved an apparent victory: the indictment, conviction and impending imprisonment of a white police officer for the murder of an unarmed Black man. Botham Jean, 26 years old, was gunned down in his own apartment in Dallas, Texas, by[…]
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By Marty Goodman, Published on Socialist Action, July 13, 2019 — UPDATE, July 18 — On the 5th anniversary of the police murder of Eric Garner, July 17, the “Justice Department” announced, as the five-year statute of limitations expired, that they would not prosecute Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who had placed a chokehold on Garner, causing his death. The decision to[…]
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by Marjorie Cohn, published on Truthout, July 8, 2019 Kamala Harris is rising in the polls after dramatically confronting Joe Biden during the Democratic primary debate about his opposition to federally mandated busing for desegregation. The following week, however, Harris backed away from saying that busing should always be federally mandated, calling it just one “tool that is in the toolbox”[…]
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