Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Dr. Karlos Bermann, published on Socialist Action, September 26, 2024 Editor’s Note: Here are more ideas on protesting in the US and ending the US/Israeli war on the Middle East. With Fall Semester beginning, it’s time to turn the tables on campus repression and censorship! Classes are just resuming and in Virginia we’ve already seen VCU students campaigning against[…]
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by Michael Arria, published on Mondoweiss, August 20, 2024 The Democratic National Convention has hit Chicago amid Israel’s unrelenting genocide on Gaza. Protests rage outside the convention, with activists demanding that the Biden-Harris administration end its military support for Israel. “We have accomplished something already. There will be thousands of Black, Asian, Latino and Native people saying the central issue[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 21, 2024 The allegation that only Trump threatens democracy is a useful ruse for the Democratic Party. They continue their support for genocide and ethnic cleansing and fiercely attack anyone who dares to expose them and their very undemocratic ways. “We could have confronted at any time at that convention, but[…]
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by Neal Resnikoff, Chicago Antiwar Coalition (CWAC), July 25, 2024 It was inspiring to see the turnout of tens of thousands and excellent rally and march in Washington, D.C. yesterday against the invitation by the U.S. Congress to have Crime Minister of Israel Netanyahu speak. A goodly number of trade unionists wearing their union t-shirts and carrying logos participated. Many[…]
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from ILPS, published by Workers World, July 15, 2024 The Resist NATO coalition held a People’s Summit, rally and march to condemn NATO’s expansion, its role in military aggression and in resource extraction across the globe. Workers World Party actively mobilized from several cities and aided in publicity and materials with the Resist NATO Coalition to respond to the danger[…]
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by Betsy Piette, published on Workers World, June 11, 2024 Over 75,000 pro-Palestine protesters surrounded the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 8, creating a symbolic two-mile-long “red line” to call out President Joe Biden’s hypocritical rhetoric in May when he said he would withhold weapons to Israel if they launched an assault on Rafah in Gaza. Many people[…]
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by Brenda Ryan, published on Workers World, May 24, 2024 Brooklyn, New York People all over the world demonstrated during the week of May 12 — 19 to commemorate the 76th anniversary of Nakba (“the Catastrophe”), the day on May 15, 1948, when the new Zionist state of Israel culminated its brutal removal of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from[…]
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by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, May 15, 2024 The City of Chicago has inadvertently granted the Poor People’s Army a permit to march to the convention steps of the United Center during the Democratic National Convention. Students are protesting Biden and Netanyahu’s war on Gaza all over the City of Chicago while city, state, and Democratic Party[…]
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by Monica Moorehead, published on Workers World, April 30, 2023 Faced with the ongoing U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in occupied Gaza that has claimed the lives of 34,454 civilians, with 77,575 people injured as of April 28, according to Gaza’s Palestinian Ministry of Health, and caused the displacement of over 1 million people, the solidarity with Palestine is evolving into a[…]
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VCU USES HUNDREDS OF COPS TO BREAK UP PEACEFUL PROTEST by Phil Wilayto, for The Virginia Defenders, April 30, 2024 RICHMOND, VA, April 29 — At about 8:30 this evening, Virginia Commonwealth University put out an alert that a “violent protest” was taking place on the campus of the state’s largest public university. There was violence, but it wasn’t from[…]
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