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Articles by members and friends of UNAC. The views, opinions and positions expressed on this blog are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the positions of UNAC.
Normally I wouldn’t post a webinar, but this is special. Friends of Latin America produced this webinar where 3 women from Nicaragua speak about their experiences with Community policing. Ajamu Baraka comes in after they speak and talks about how their experiences relate to what is happening now in the United States where people are demanding community supervision of police[…]
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by John Catalinotto, published on Workers World, October 15, 2020 National elections are scheduled to take place in Bolivia on Oct. 18. They are the first to be held since November 2019, when a Washington-backed coup overthrew the legal government of President Evo Morales. The coup regime, guilty of repression, massive corruption and a mangled response to COVID-19, is facing[…]
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by Maya Evans, published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence, October 14, 2020 The NATO & US backed war on Afghanistan was launched 7th October 2001, just a month after 9/11, in what most thought would be a lightning war and a stepping stone onto the real focus, the Middle East. 19 years later and the US is still trying to[…]
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by David Swanson, published on World Beyond War, October 12, 2020 “We’re number one!” The United States famously fails to actually lead the world in anything desirable, but it does lead the world in many things, and one of them turns out to be the poisoning of the Pacific and its islands. And by the United States, I mean the[…]
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By Brett Wilkins, published on Common Dreams, October 5, 2020 In a little-noticed development last week that drew ire after being reported Monday, the Trump administration’s EPA granted the state of Oklahoma wide-ranging environmental regulatory control on nearly all tribal lands in the state, stripping dozens of tribes of their sovereignty over critical environmental issues. The Young Turks which first reported[…]
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By Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, October 11, 2020 This weekend, celebration of Indigenous People’s Day will replace the federal holiday, Columbus Day, in at least eight states and over 130 cities in 34 states. Along with the toppling of Columbus statues and the removal of a racial slur as a name for a major football team, this signals[…]
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by Danny Haiphong, published on Black Agenda Report, October 7, 2020 Trump and Biden avoided policy because neither had anything to offer the masses of people. “Zero policy prescriptions were offered to the tens of millions of unemployed people in the United States.” There wasn’t much to learn from the first presidential debate of the 2020 general election. Trump did[…]
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by Brett Wilkins, Posted on Antiwar.com October 7, 2020 Opposition to drone warfare and targeted assassination peaked several years ago and was subsequently purged from the mainstream media and Google search engines (where you used to be able to track drone activity in foreign press reports), but these activists persevere in resisting a truly disturbing form of global policing which[…]
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by Dan Kovalik, published on MLT, September 29, 2020 As clamor grows for Cuban doctors to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their international work during the pandemic, the US continues to oppose their efforts. It cannot be seen to endorse the idea that the socialist system works. In his book, In Cuba, the late Liberation Catholic priest Father Ernesto Cardinal[…]
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by Professor Dr. Wang, December 12, 2018 “Information Clearing House“ – Published on Popular Resistance, December 13, 2018 No, they didn’t. CFO Meng Wan Zhou was arrested supposedly for “violating Iran sanction”. This has to be the most grotesque distortion of justice. After all, the United States was the country which unilaterally pulled out in VIOLATION of an agreement they had[…]
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