Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Glen Ford, published on Black Agenda Report, June 11, 2020 Having not yet won real power over the police, this is no time for a lull or a truce — it’s time to sharpen our political instruments and deepen the mass movement’s social penetration. “The objective is to seize and exercise people’s power in our communities, and to defend[…]
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No to the U.S. government’s war on the people at home, as well as against people in other countries Onward to further actions to stop this warfare and create a better world. Statement by the Chicago Anti-War Coalition (CAWC) The U.S. government’s various forms of war abroad—for power and profits of the big banks and corporations– is reflected in the[…]
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by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, June 3, 2020 The justice for George Floyd mobilizations today reflected the state’s worst nightmare – a multi-national and multi-racial action initiated by Black people with Black leadership. “A shift must occur away from the focus on individual justice for Floyd back to a critique and opposition to the ongoing structural violence[…]
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by Margaret Kimberley, published on Consortium News, June 5, 2020 The nationwide protests have forced the black quisling class to reveal themselves as agents of the racial and economic status quo. The aftermath of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis police has created a national political crisis. The revulsion caused by this latest killing caught on camera spawned[…]
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Palestinians Stand in Solidarity With Black Americans by Palestinian BDS National Committee, published on Mondoweiss, May 30, 2020 The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian society that leads the global BDS movement, stands resolutely in solidarity with our Black brothers and sisters across the US who are calling for justice in the wake of the latest[…]
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by Chris Hedges, published on ScheerPost, June 2, 2020 The ruling elites no longer have legitimacy. They have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state. What the Roman philosopher Cicero called a commonwealth, a res publica, a “public thing” or the “property of a people,” has been transformed into an instrument of naked pillage and repression[…]
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Defend Black Lives! NO Police State! NO Military Dictatorship! Release all arrestees! NO more attacks on anti-racist protesters! The United National Antiwar Committee (UNAC) stands in solidarity with communities across the country who are rising up in protest against racist police violence. As Donald Trump calls for the deployment of the U.S military in response to these national protests, UNAC[…]
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by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, May 31, 2020 The nationwide uprising sparked by the murder of George Floyd and other recent racially-motivated events is a response to the bi-partisan failed state in which we live. It comes in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic and the largest economic collapse in the US in more than[…]
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By Glen Ford, published on Black Agenda Report, May 27, 2020 George Floyd’s death by Blue Plague in Minneapolis was widely condemned by the same parties that have encouraged and funded the spread of the fatal contagion. “The Blue Plague is a serial killer that dates back to the slave patrols of the pre-Civil War South.” The pathogen that kills[…]
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Statement by Black Alliance for Peace, May 29, 2020 The extrajudicial murders of African/Black people, such as Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, by agents of the U.S. government and armed civilians have sparked urban rebellions in cities across the United States. Such murderous acts cannot be understood outside of the context of the U.S. state’s ongoing assault on[…]
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