Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!
All articles represent the opinions of the authors – not UNAC Positions
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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by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas S. J. Davies, August 22, 2021 America’s corporate media are ringing with recriminations over the humiliating U.S. military defeat in Afghanistan. But very little of the criticism goes to the root of the problem, which was the original decision to militarily invade and occupy Afghanistan in the first place. That decision set in motion a[…]
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by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, January 4, 2020 The arrogance of U.S. imperialism knows no bounds. And nowhere has it been more destructive in recent decades than in the countries of the area dubbed the Middle East. A humiliating message to the U.S. imperialists was delivered in Baghdad, Iraq – on the very last day of 2019. On[…]
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by Ed Kinane, published on Truthout.org, December 22, 2019 “All human beings possess the basic right under international law to engage in non-violent civil resistance activities for the purpose of preventing, impeding, or terminating the ongoing commission of [international crime].” — International law expert Francis Boyle Nonviolent civil resistance against international crime is about effectiveness and persistence. Or as Dorothy[…]
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by Ajamu Baraka and Bahman Azad, published on Popular Resistance, December 15, 2019 On Friday, December 13, Judge Beryl A. Howell, the chief judge of the US District Court, denied the discovery motions requested by the four embassy protectors who were arrested on May 16 after staying in the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC for 37 days to prevent it[…]
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by Barry Weisleder, Published on Socialist Action, June 15, 2019 On Saturday, May 18, the first Pan-Canadian Day of Action for Palestinian rights took place. In Toronto, close to 500 people rallied and marched to demand justice for the Palestinian people. Shortly after 2 p.m., the gathering at Yonge and Dundas heard the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, listened to music,[…]
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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[…]
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Memorial service on 10 May 2014 in honour of those who died in the clashes on 2 May, outside the burnt Trade Unions House ~HOBOPOCC, Flikr by Joe Lombardo, UNAC I am in Kiev, Ukraine with Pippa Bartolotti, a UNAC supporter from Wales, on our way to Odessa where there will be a mobilization to remember the massacre of more[…]
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