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Protests on Martin Luther King Jr. Day Raise Hopes For Revitalization of Antiwar Movement

January 26, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-War, Featured, Protest, Resistance, U.S. Aggression, War and Peace

by Dee Knight, published on CovertAction Magazine, January 25, 2023 Demonstrators in 50 cities ( 88 actions in 72 cities ~jb ) invoke King’s legacy in denouncing U.S. war machine It has been a year of nearly unprecedented war hysteria—remarkable in a country that has been gripped in continuous war hysteria for generations. The memories of mainstream media publishing major exposures[…]

Amazon Labor Union to file for election in Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 25

October 25, 2021 UNAC Editor Labor, Labor Struggles

Statement by Workers Assembly Against Racism, published on Workers World, October 23, 2021 After organizing to form an independent worker-led Amazon Labor Union (ALU) for the last six months, workers at Amazon’s Staten Island JFK8 warehouse and the surrounding facilities (LDJ5, DYY6, DYX2) announced they would file for election Oct. 25 at 2 p.m., in downtown Brooklyn, N.Y. Pro-worker organizations,[…]

Ongoing repercussions from the Central Park Five case

June 28, 2019 UNAC Editor Police Corruption, Prisoners, Racism

By Workers World New York bureau posted on June 20, 2019 The four-part Netflix series “When They See Us,” directed by African-American director Ava DuVernay, has set off an avalanche of long overdue repercussions for the high-profile prosecutors who in 1989 framed up five African-American and Latinx youth in New York City. Known as the Central Park Five, the teenagers[…]

With banner drops NYC activists demand justice for Eric Garner

June 14, 2019 UNAC Editor Police Corruption, Political Prisoners, Racism

Photo Banner Drop outside Grand Central Station. ~Henry Luna By Nathaniel Chase posted on Workers World, June 10, 2019 On the morning of June 4, as commuters filed out of Grand Central Station, activists from People’s Power Assemblies New York City dropped two large banners reading “Stop Killing Black People” and “Justice 4 Eric Garner, Abolition Now” over Pershing Square[…]

Protests Bust Up N.Y. Amazon Deal

March 3, 2019 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Corporatism, Labor Struggles

By Marty Goodman, Published on Socialist Action, March 2, 2019 On Feb. 14, Amazon, owned by the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos ($166 billion), announced that it was pulling out of a deal made with top New York Democrats for a second Amazon headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, near Manhattan, due to opposition from local politicians. But the resistance[…]

The Amazon Robbery

November 27, 2018 UNAC Editor Labor, Political Corruption

by Margaret Kimberley, from Black Agenda Report, November 21, 2018 The world’s richest man just pulled a con job on several hundred US cities, which tells us a lot about the (mostly) Democrats that run these towns. “Public officials are the errand boys and girls for the billionaire rulers.” Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is the richest man in[…]

Voices Rising for Yemen – Final Day

November 10, 2018 UNAC Editor Protest, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

Header and photos all from Voices for Creative Nonviolence by Kathy Kelly, published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence, November 8, 2018 Over these past three days, Voices and a coalition of justice-minded organizations have been at and around the United Nations in New York City protesting the ongoing U.S.-Saudi attack on famine- imperiled Yemen. Details are available at www.vcnv.org along[…]