Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, August 28, 2024 The struggle to struggle in today’s hyper restrictive environment played out in Chicago where protesters fought legal and popular battles to be allowed to express their rejection of politics as usual and support for the people of Palestine. [jb] DNC protest organizers kept Democrats’ responsibility for the Gaza genocide[…]
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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 Neal Resnikoff, Chicago Antiwar Coalition There have been huge rallies and street marches in recent days in Chicago, New York City and throughout the world opposing the U.S. government-backed Israeli genocidal bombing attacks and blockade of water, food, and electricity on the 2 million Palestinians in Gaza. The demonstrations, made up of Palestinians and supporters of their opposition to[…]
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Statement by the Chicago Antiwar Coalition, August 30, 2023 The Biden Administration is continuing its war against Russia using Ukraine as a proxy despite heavy losses by the Ukrainian forces and them not doing well militarily against the Russian forces. The Biden Administration is now having the U.S. government send another $250 million in military assistance to the Ukrainian government.[…]
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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[…]
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by Jeff Sorel, originally published on Workers World, March 10, 2018 Chicago — The goal of “a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family” is embedded in the federal Housing Act of 1949. Yet, on a single winter night in 2016, according to a federal agency count, “544,084 people experienced homelessness in the United States.” Of[…]
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