Civil Resistance

Civil Resistance and Mass Protests to Free Palestine

January 23, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Civil Resistance, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Protest, Resistance

Just a few photos of a few protests. There are so many, but this is what I have time for today. On January 8, in New York City, more than 300 protesters were arrested following civil resistance actions that shut down traffic entering and leaving New York during the morning rush hour. Police arrest hundreds after Pro-Palestinian protesters shut down[…]

Civil Resistance is Alive and Well

November 2, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Action!!, Civil Resistance, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Middle East Wars, Palestine, Resistance, US Government Action

Codepink struck on the East and West coasts recently: The vigil outside Nancy Pelosi’s home finally caught her attention when Toby Blome and Lydie Abood laid down under the front wheels of her van: Video by videographer Peter Menchini. Tobey Blome’s elaboration of the moment: A couple of us arrived in the early morning to find several black SUVs (Capitol[…]

U.S. Citizens Join Runway Occupation at NATO Nuclear Air Base Volkel, Netherland

August 9, 2023 UNAC Editor Civil Resistance, Netherlands, Nuclear Weapons, US Foreign Bases

According to Wikipedia: “It is believed that since the early 1960s, USAF nuclear weapons have been stored at Volkel Air Base, to be used by the host nation’s aircraft.” “The USAF 703rd Munitions Support Squadron (703rd MUNSS) is in charge of maintaining and securing the weapons. As of 2008, 22 B61 nuclear bombs are believed to be in storage at[…]

‘Subpoenas’ Served on US Weapons Manufacturers

November 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Drones, Nuclear Weapons, War and Weapons, Weapons Sales

by Brad Wolf, published on Common Dreams, November 11, 2022 What is it like to be so ashamed of the company for whom you work that you cannot bring yourself to admit you work there? Ashamed of the products they manufacture, the innocent people those products kill, the hundreds of billions of dollars of public taxpayer money squandered in a[…]

Organizing Against Racist Murder in Buffalo

May 18, 2022 UNAC Editor Civil Resistance, Racism, Resistance

by Sam Marcy, published on Workers World, May 17, 2022 On May 14, a white supremacist in military gear launched an attack on people in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, killing 10 and wounding three. For a militant anti-racist answer to such attacks, here is a strategy statement from Sam Marcy, the late Chairperson of Workers World[…]

Digging for Peace- Resisting Nuclear Weapons

November 19, 2021 UNAC Editor Nuclear Weapons, US Meddling in Europe, War on the Earth

by Brian Terrell, published on Countercurrents, November 18, 2021 On Wednesday, October 20, I joined “Vrede Scheppen,” “Create Peace,” about 25 peace activists from the Netherlands, Germany and Austria at the airbase at Volkel, Netherlands, making a plea for an end to nuclear weapons. This base is home to two Dutch F16 fighter wings and the United States Air Force[…]

Anti Nuke Activism in the Netherlands

November 13, 2021 UNAC Editor Action!!, Civil Resistance, Nuclear Weapons

By Ann Wright and Brian Terrell, published on Ann’s FB Page The great peace and anti-assassin drone activist Brian Terrell is back on the farm in Iowa after three weeks in the Netherlands and Germany. This is a brief report on his trip to bring attention to US nuclear weapons in the Netherlands and assassin drone connections in Germany: In[…]

U.S. role exposed Masses resist Sudan coup

November 5, 2021 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Austerity, Civil Resistance, Economic Collapse, International Aid and Debt, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Sudan

by Sara Flounders, published on International Action Center, November 2, 2021 Incredible exposure of U.S. actions to humiliate and impoverish the Sudanese people and destabilize Sudan. And the hypocrisy of it all. The U.S. wants Sudan to pay sanctions to U.S. victims of their wars when they don’t have money to eat. Of course the US would never consider doing[…]

Israeli Apartheid Profiteering Zim Ship Forced Out of Oakland

June 8, 2021 UNAC Editor Action!!, Civil Resistance

Staff, published on BlockTheBoat.org, June 6, 2021 Oakland and the broader Bay Area have once again achieved a historic Boycott, Divest and Sanctions Movement (BDS) victory for Palestine. For a full day on Friday, June 4, 2021, after weeks of organizing, community members mobilized by the thousands to the Port of Oakland to block the Israeli ZIM-operated Volans cargo ship[…]

Who Is Clare Grady and Why Should We Care that She is in Federal Prison?

February 18, 2021 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-War, Civil Resistance, Nuclear Weapons

by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on Covert Action, February 15, 2021 On April 4, 2018—a date symbolically chosen because it is the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination—Clare Grady and six other activists broke into the Kings Bay Submarine base in St. Mary’s, Georgia, the largest nuclear submarine base in the world. They carried hammers and baby bottles filled[…]