Activism

Inflation Reduction Act: White Supremacy and Black Farmers

August 19, 2022 UNAC Editor Agriculture, Racism, The War at Home

by Monica Moorehead, published on Workers World, August 15, 2022 Black farmers, fighting white supremacists in the South since Reconstruction to try to keep possession of their land, were dealt another blow in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Wording in that legislation, designed to give loan assistance to Black farmers, was rewritten by Democrats to remove discrimination on the[…]

Cuba Should Be Removed from the U.S. List of State Sponsors of Terrorism

July 19, 2022 UNAC Editor Cuba, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Roger Waters, Vijay Prashad & Manolo De Los Santes, produced by Globetrotter, July 8, 2022 The United States maintains a list of countries that it considers as “state sponsors of terrorism.” There are currently four countries on that list: Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria. The basic idea behind this list is that the U.S. State Department determines that[…]

No to NATO

March 3, 2022 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Featured, NATO, Resistance, Ukraine

by Cassia Laham, published on Fightback News, March 1, 2022 Miami, FL – Events are unfolding quickly surrounding Ukraine. It is therefore imperative that the anti-war movement in the United States mobilize for peace and against any further possible escalation by the United States. This means demanding: no war with Russia, no to NATO expansion, and no to sanctions. It is[…]

The Hypocrisy of the ‘Diplomatic Boycott’ of the 2022 Beijing Olympics

February 4, 2022 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, International Institutions, Racism

by Charles Xu, from Globetrotter, February 2, 2022 Which human rights matter enough to put politics above sports? For decades, the United States and its European allies have gotten to decide the answer at their convenience. On February 4, the 2022 Winter Olympics are set to open in Beijing. With this, the Chinese capital will become the first city to[…]

Can Israel Stop the World from Saying ‘Apartheid’? Concealing the Suffering in Palestine

February 2, 2022 UNAC Editor Action!!, Censorship and Propaganda, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Political Analysis, United Nations

by Vijay Prashad, Globetrotter, February 2, 2022 On January 27, 2022, the Hebrew-language news site Walla published part of the text from a telegram sent by Amir Weissbrod—who is part of the Israeli Foreign Ministry—to Israeli embassies around the world. The telegram warned the Israeli diplomats that in the upcoming 49th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council[…]

How Chicago Police Infiltrated, Spied on Anti-NATO Organizers

April 29, 2019 UNAC Editor NATO, Surveillance

Photograph Source: Asher Heimermann – CC BY 3.0 by Andy Thayer, Published on Counterpunch, April 26,2019 Chicago Police here infiltrated the main anti-NATO summit organizing coalition shortly after its 2011 formation, and maintained that infiltration until shortly after the summit ended in May 2012, according to Chicago Police Department documents recently released under a Freedom of Information Act request. On[…]

One Year Later: Lessons from Charlottesville

August 16, 2018 UNAC Editor Featured, White Supremacy

by Phil Wilayto of the Virginia Defenders, Aug. 13, 2018 This Aug. 12 marked the one-year anniversary of the murderous “alt right” rally in Charlottesville, Va.. The mainstream media have been bursting with commentary, but almost all of it misses the most important lesson from that infamous event: that it was a tremendous victory. On Aug. 12, 2017, some 500[…]

‘Freedom’ Under Attack as it Carries Medical Supplies to Gaza

August 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Featured, Israel-Palestine

Freedom Flotilla Coalition Statement 4 August, 2018 00:05am CEST At 20:06 (CEST) we lost contact with the sailing vessel Freedom, sailing under a Swedish flag, which is on a mission to break the illegal Israeli blockade of the Palestinian people of Gaza. We have reason to presume that the Israeli Occupation Forces has now begun to attack it and that it[…]