Protest

Mass Opposition to Israel Grows Despite Media’s Distortions

June 15, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Protest

By Betsey Piette, posted on Workers World, June 12, 2025 Even before the historic October 7, 2023, uprising in Gaza, the imperialist media, whether in the U.S. or Europe, gave scant coverage to Palestinian resistance to Israel’s illegal occupation. The corporate media’s clear bias branded Palestinian fighters as “terrorists” and few articles addressed the historic theft of an Indigenous people’s[…]

L.A. fights back: Mass Resistance Erupts Against ICE Raids and Military Occupation

June 12, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Civil Resistance, Immigrants, Migrants, Militarized Police, Protest, Resistance, The War at Home, US Hypocrisy, Violence Against Protesters

by Scott Scheffer, published on Struggle * La Lucha, June 10, 205 For three straight days, furious protests rocked Los Angeles as federal ICE gangs terrorized working-class communities. Sunday saw the largest crowds yet, reflecting mounting outrage among broader layers of the population. President Donald Trump branded Los Angeles a city in “state of rebellion” and federalized the National Guard,[…]

Trump Orders Feds to ‘Liberate Los Angeles’

June 10, 2025 UNAC Editor Civil Resistance, Immigrants, Migrants and Refugees, Militarized Police, Protest, US Government Action, Violence Against Protesters

published on RT, June 9, 2025] This article follows the unfolding of events in LA on twitter. [jb] US President Donald Trump has directed top federal officials to take “all such action necessary” to end days of violent unrest in Los Angeles, ordering the deployment of National Guard troops and vowing to “liberate” the city from what he described as[…]

‘We Promise Each other Liberation’: Columbia Activists Honor Expelled Students at the ‘People’s Graduation’

June 3, 2025 UNAC Editor Civil Resistance, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Protest, Student Activists, The War at Home

By Columbia University Apartheid Divest Coalition, published on Mondoweiss, May 24, 2025 On May 18, 2025 families and friends gathered at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to honor expelled and suspended student protesters during an alternative graduation ceremony titled the “People’s Graduation.” Among those recognized was Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student[…]

No Language Can Describe the Depth of Israeli Terrorism

May 13, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Civil Resistance, Colonialism, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Propaganda, Protest, Racism, The War at Home, US Hypocrisy, War on the Poor

by Susan Abulhawa, published on Workers World, May 8, 2025 The following is Part 2 of a talk given by the author to a meeting of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) on April 24 in Philadelphia. (Trigger warning due to graphic descriptions of rape and torture.) At some point, the boundaries are pushed too far. As a historic example,[…]

Humanitarian Aid Ship Bound for Gaza Hit by Drones off Maltese Coast, Evidence Points to Israel

May 6, 2025 UNAC Editor International Law, Israel, Palestine, Protest, Resistance, War Crimes

by Robert Stevens, published on World Socialist Website, May 4, 2025 Apparently, Israel not only attacked the ship but capitalist forces are making sure the ship sinks. Worse, every effort to secure the ship with appropriate paperwork has failed due to legal inconsistencies, economic [jb] Israel used drones to attack a humanitarian aid ship en route to Gaza in the[…]

Appalled at Funding Genocide, Over 2,000 US Taxpayers Turn to the UN for Redress

April 21, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Genocide, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Protest, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy, US Law

by Marjorie Cohn, published on TruthOut, April 14, 2025 Desperate initiatives by people in the United States to get justice from the system that they have been indoctrinated to believe in have consistently been dismissed by courts under seemingly sympathetic and clearly hostile judges as threats to political power. New approaches to activism will have to circumvent “the system”, which[…]

Trump Exposes the Elite Classes

April 5, 2025 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Civil Resistance, Free Speech, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Protest, Resistance, The War at Home

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 2, 2025 While Trump dedicates himself to making every conservative fantasy come true, millions wonder who will save them from the onslaught of the right wing fever dream. The answer is no one but ourselves. Institutions led by members of the ruling class theoretically have the power to oppose anyone who[…]

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[…]

Stop the Attacks on Palestinian Rights Activists

March 26, 2025 UNAC Editor Action!!, Featured, Immigrants, Palestine, Protest, Resistance, Statement, Student Activists, The War at Home, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, Violence Against Protesters

United National Antiwar Coalition, UNAC Statement Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian born Palestinian and former graduate student at Columbia University, has been detained in a prison in Louisiana and threatened with deportation for his association with pro-Palestine protests at Columbia, where he was a negotiator between the University and the student activists. He is not the only foreign student to[…]