Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
Statement by Black Alliance for Peace, October 18, 2022 BAP’s Explicit Call for Security Council Opposition Was Heard October 18, 2022 — One day after the Black Alliance for Peace – and other individuals and groups from Haiti and the Haitian diaspora – requested that Russia and China oppose the Biden Administration’s UN Security Council resolution providing cover for another[…]
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Statement from U.S. Peace Council, October 2, 2022 I visited Iran several times a decade ago. Women have it pretty good in Iran. They have about the same ratio of women to men in college as the US (just like us, women do a little better in college and men do a little better in the economy). Women are free[…]
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by Tanya Wadhwa, published on People’s Dispatch, September 8, 2022 Since August 22, under the banner of “Rise Up for Another Independence,” tens of thousands of Haitians have been repeatedly taking to the streets in different parts of the country, demanding the resignation of de-facto Prime Minister and acting President Ariel Henry. Protesters have criticized that during the past one[…]
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by Ann Wright, published on Popular Resistance, July 6, 2022 NATO’S Summit in Madrid and Lessons of War at the City’s Museums. I was one of hundreds who attended the NO to NATO peace summit June 26-27, 2022 and one of tens of thousands who marched for NO to NATO in Madrid, Spain a few days before the leaders of the[…]
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by People’s Dispatch, April 30, 2022 May 1 is Global Labor Day. Only in the US was this important celebration of workers moved to a different day. Working people across the globe are gearing up celebrate International Worker’s Day this May 1. Workers have been participating in monumental struggles since the previous year’s May Day, making this year’s celebration well-deserved.[…]
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by Staff, published on Fightback News, February 27, 2022 Minneapolis, MN – Fight Back! News interviewed Meredith Aby-Keirstead, a founding member of the MN Anti-War Committee, on February 27 for her anti-war perspective on the crisis in the Ukraine and the proxy war developing between the U.S./NATO and Russia. Fight Back!: Why should Americans join with the anti-war movement right[…]
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by Wyatt Miller, published on Fightback News, February 26, 2022 Minneapolis, MN – On February 24, around 30 people demonstrated outside U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar’s office in downtown Minneapolis with signs and banners calling for no war with Russia and an end to U.S. intervention in Ukraine. Held less than 24 hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops[…]
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by Minnie Bruce Pratt, published on Workers World, February 9, 2022 Indigenous peoples regain redwoods forest lands on unceded land of the Onondaga Nation, Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The growing LandBack movement by Indigenous nations won another significant victory Feb. 1, when more than 500 acres of the “Lost Coast” in California was transferred to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council. (sinkyone.org) The[…]
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by Paul Street, published on Counterpunch, November 16, 2021 Well, Street’s prediction was correct. In fact, Kyle Rittenhouse was not convicted on any charges, leaving him free to believe he was in the right when he took 2 lives and nearly a third, with a high power rifle he was carrying with the safety off in a dense and chaotic[…]
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by Monica Moorehead, published on Workers World, November 23, 2021 The Kyle Rittenhouse trial and it’s outcome are indeed frightening. Rittenhouse walked away from the trial without having an understanding that he did anything wrong. On top of that, there were socially well off people lionizing him for his aggression reinforcing his image of himself as a beleaguered hero. It[…]
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