Poor People’s Campaign

Protests for Palestine at the DNC

September 1, 2024 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Ending War, Free Speech, Hybrid Warfare, Palestine, Resistance, US Politics

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[…]

The Poor People’s Campaign Dishoners Martin Luther King

May 5, 2022 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Cost of War, Identity Politics, Nonviolence, Poverty, Statement, Ukraine

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, May 4, 2022 It is disheartening to hear movement leaders say they are inspired by Martin Luther King while also supporting the U.S. proxy war against Russia. Like all wars it endangers the lives of civilian populations, enriches the military industrial complex, and robs Americans of public resources. Once King chose an[…]

Nonviolence, the Poor People’s Campaign and the Work of Gene Sharp

April 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Nonviolence

Civil Resistance at Hancock Base, 2016 ~photo by Heriberto Rodriguez by Ann Tiffany and Ed Kinane, originally published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence Activist, author and scholar Gene Sharp died this past January 28. Inspired by Gandhi and deeply informed by history, Sharp (b.1928) founded the Albert Einstein Institution in Boston. Back in the 80s, Ed plowed through Sharp’s three-volume,[…]