Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
by Abyome Azikiwe, published on Global Research, January 30, 2025 On this year’s annual holiday to commemorate the life, times and contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), news had quickly spread regarding the long-delayed decision to commute the life sentence of American Indian Movement (AIM) leader Leonard Peltier. Peltier was charged in the 1975 killing of two FBI[…]
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by Electronic Intifada, published on Popular Resistance, January 29, 2025 Human rights experts condemn detention of prominent Palestinian journalist. The Electronic Intifada’s executive director Ali Abunimah was deported by Switzerland on Monday after spending two nights in jail. Abunimah described his experience in a statement he made upon arrival to Istanbul airport late Monday. He said that he was “cut[…]
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from The Red Nation, January 20, 2025 After a half-century of unjust incarceration, Leonard Peltier is finally going home!“It’s finally over–I’m going home,” said Peltier in response to the news. “I want to show the world I’m a good person with a good heart. I want to help the people, just like my grandmother taught me.”For decades, the now elder[…]
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by Friends of Aafia Siddiqui, the The Aafia Movement, November 2024 Editor’s note: I have been following Aafia Siddiqui’s case since around 2010. I met her sister Fowzia in Pakistan in 2012, along with her mother and her children. Her father had died shortly before she was abducted with her children and imprisoned. The family is very well educated and[…]
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by Leonard Peltier, published on Workers World, July 6, 2024 The following statement is from political prisoner, Leonard Peltier, in response to the U.S. Parole Commission that denied him parole on July 2, 2024. His parole board hearing is scheduled for 2026. Go to freeleonardpeltiernow.org/s/Leonard_Peltier_June26th_2024.pdf to read the original statement. Greetings my Friends, Family, Loved Ones and Supporters. Go to[…]
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by People’s Dispatch, July 2, 2024 Longest-held political prisoner in United States and Indigenous freedom fighter continues to maintain innocence. The federal Parole Commission has denied Leonard Peltier’s request for parole, Peltier’s legal team announced on Tuesday, July 2. This marks a major setback for the longest-held political prisoner in the United States, who had his first parole hearing in over[…]
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by Stansfield Smith, published on Chicago Alba Solidarity, January 5, 2023 On January 8, 2023 the US has to release one of its many political prisoners, most being fighters against its repression of Third World peoples. Ana Belén Montes, heroic defender of Cuba’s sovereignty, will be freed after over 21 years in a federal military prison. She was a top[…]
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by Roger D. Harris, published on Dissident Voice, April 11, 2022 Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab’s case took a dramatic turn as his legal defense team denounced the US government’s flagrant failure to respect long-standing diplomatic immunity conventions. Saab’s lawyer, David Rivkin, called the US government’s arguments before the 11th Circuit Court in Miami “utterly dangerous.” “The implication,” he added is[…]
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by Chris Hedges, published on ScheerPost, March 25, 2022 LONDON — I am standing at the gates of HM Prison Belmarsh, a high security penitentiary in southeast London, with Craig Murray, British Ambassador to Uzbekistan until he was fired for exposing CIA black sites and torture centers in that country. Inside the prison, Julian Assange and Stella Moris are being[…]
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By Gustavo A. Maranges and Bill Hackwell, published on Resumen, on February 1, 2022 Last Friday, it became known that the 77-year-old Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier was sick with COVID-19. Peltier has been in prison for over 46 years, which makes him the oldest political prisoner in the United States. This fact has brought attention to his case,[…]
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