Embassy Protection Collective – Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Showdown at the Venezuelan Embassy

May 16, 2019 UNAC Editor Featured, Protest, Resistance, Venezuela

Photo by Alex Rubenstein by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, from Popular Resistance, May 15, 2019 This article describes a tense showdown and small victory that took place Monday evening between the embassy protectors and federal authorities, and concludes with URGENT ACTIONS people can take to resolve this dispute and stop a US-orchestrated coup. (Writing on Day 36 of the[…]

An Open Letter to District of Columbia Authorities

May 15, 2019 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Breaking News, Featured, Police Corruption, Protest, Resistance, Venezuela

by Rich Whitney, Published on Medium, May 13, 219 In allowing coup supporters to lay siege to the Venezuelan embassy, D.C. Police are violating the First Amendment and District of Columbia law At this writing, a rightwing mob of supporters of Juan Guaido, (the self-described, U.S.-named “interim president” of Venezuela, who has no legitimate, lawful claim to that office) has[…]

An Open Letter to the State Department from the Embassy Protection Collective

May 13, 2019 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Venezuela

To: US State Department Venezuelan Foreign Ministry From: Embassy Protection Collective Re: Exiting the Venezuelan Embassy Date: May 13, 2019 This is the 34th day of our living in the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC. We are prepared to stay another 34 days, or however long is needed to resolve the embassy dispute in a peaceful way consistent with[…]