The War at Home

Largest Union Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza

December 16, 2023 UNAC Editor Israel, Israel-Palestine, Labor, Palestine, Protest, The War at Home

by Rose Lemlich, published on Left Voice, December 2, 2023 The UAW International union has joined calls for a ceasefire and is exploring how to divest from Israel. This is a step which should inspire union activists to take up the fight to bring their union into the fight against Israel’s attack on Gaza and the struggle against imperialism. At[…]

Musings from the Margins #4: Black Lackeys, White Social Democrats, Human Rights and Empire’s Decline

December 16, 2023 UNAC Editor International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, The War at Home, United Nations, US Hypocrisy, US Politics

Black Agenda Report Editor and Columnist Ajamu Baraka has thoughts on Black Misleadership, faux Human Rights, the Decline of the Empire, White Social Democrats and other issues. What makes the white supremacy so incredibly dangerous is what I call the psychopathology of white supremacy. It is a racialized narcissistic cognitive disorder that centers so-called white people’s and European civilization and renders the afflicted with[…]

Court Rules Against Voting Rights—Opens Door to Return of Jim Crow Racist Laws

December 13, 2023 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Lawfare, Political Analysis, The War at Home

by Malik Miah, published on Socialist Action, December 6, 2023 A federal court on November 20 issued a decision that would severely curtail enforcement of the Voting Rights Act,(VRA) that could affect voters of color nationwide and will probably be appealed to the Supreme Court. The decision opens the door wider to a return to Jim Crow laws that once[…]

Charges Dropped on the Tampa 5, Students for a Democratic Society Protesters Walk Free

December 6, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Free Speech, Legal Struggles, Peoples' Movements, Protest, Resistance, Statement, The War at Home

Statement, published on Fightback News, December 5, 2023 Fight Back New Service is circulating the following statement from the Emergency Committee to Defend the Tampa 5. The Tampa 5 are proud to announce a great victory: their misdemeanor and felony charges will be dropped! This victory was made possible by months of mobilizations of people across the state of Florida,[…]

Baltimore & Israel: A Global Gang of Colonizers

November 30, 2023 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Militarism, Militarized Police, Occupation, Palestine, Political Analysis, Poverty, Rights of Opressed Peoples, U.S. Aggression

by Netfa Freeman, published on Black Alliance for Peace, November 17, 2023 From Haiti to Puerto Rico and from the Congo to Baltimore, African (Black) people suffer from colonialism. Current atrocities happening to the people of Gaza and the West Bank clearly show the colonial reality of life and death in Palestine. What we see daily in Palestine is a[…]

54th National Day of Mourning Demands: ‘Land Back, from Turtle Island to Palestine!’

November 29, 2023 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, Rights of Opressed Peoples, The War at Home, US Hypocrisy, White Supremacy

By Workers World Boston Bureau posted on Workers World, November 28, 2023 Plymouth, Massachusetts ~Over 2,000 Indigenous people and their supporters — with thousands more in attendance via live stream — shut down business as usual in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Nov. 23 to commemorate the 54th National Day of Mourning (NDOM). Here — where millions of tourist dollars depend on[…]

A call to free Leonard Peltier After 50 Years in Prison

October 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Lawfare, Native American Genocide, Native Americans, Political Prisoners, Prisoners, Prisons and Prisoners, Racism, The War at Home

by Phil Pasquini, published on Countercurrents, September 14, 2023 On Leonard Peltier’s 79th birthday, September 12 his family members along with hundreds of Native American activists and numerous supporters demonstrated at the White House calling on President Biden to grant him clemency so that he will not die in prison. Peltier, who was convicted in 1977 of killing two FBI[…]

Inside the High-Security “Black Site” Where Leonard Peltier Is Incarcerated

October 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Native Americans, Political Prisoners, Prisoners, Prisons and Prisoners, Racism, The War at Home, Uncategorized

by Silja J. A. Talvi, published on Truthout, September 28, 2023 nbeknownst to most protesters who gathered at the White House on the occasion of Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier’s 79th birthday, Peltier wasn’t able to celebrate, much less receive reports on how the well-attended event was progressing. That’s because Peltier, who is now spending his 48th year in[…]

Treatment of Severe Mental Illness in the U.S. and Cuba – a Comparison

September 27, 2023 UNAC Editor Cuba, Public Health, The War at Home

by Sue Harris, published on Workers World, September 26, 2023 Two hundred years ago, people with serious mental illness (SMI) were often placed in prison because society didn’t know how to care for them. After reformers fought for more humane treatment for the mentally ill, their care moved to mental institutions in the 1800s. However, these large mental asylums were[…]

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[…]