Call for Emergency Antiwar Actions – May 9 to May 26 (endorser list follows the call)

US/NATO war moves in Eastern Europe, the Black Sea, and the Baltic Sea – the borders of Russia – are a danger to the whole world. Positioning destroyers and missiles, scheduling war games, and imposing sanctions (an act of war) risk wider war.

We are deeply disturbed by the expansion of the U.S.-commanded NATO military alliance and U.S. recognition and speedy grant of billions in loans to a right-wing coup government in Ukraine, which overthrew the elected government. This illegal government has used fascist violence against all forms of peoples’ resistance in Ukraine.

By more than 2 to 1, the population in the U.S. is against another war and opposed to US military moves or aid to the coup government in Ukraine (4-28-14 Pew/USA Today poll).

We must make our voices heard.

The time to act is now!

We need jobs, health care and social services, not another war.

We urge nationally coordinated antiwar actions across the U.S. and internationally - protests, vigils, teach-ins, antiwar resolutions and visits to offices of elected officials.

From May 9 to May 26 let us act together, in unity, as a powerful voice against the threat of another war.

 

Ukraine National Actions May. 9-26 endorsements (list in formation):

 

National and International groups:

 

United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)

International Action Center

Code Pink

ANSWER Coalition

U.S. Peace Council

Veterans For Peace

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

Alliance for Global Justice,

BAYAN, USA

Black Agenda Report

International League for Peoples Struggles,

Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamel

May 1 Worker & Immigrant Rights Coalition,

Lynne Stewart Defense Committee

Colectivo Honduras USA Resistencia,

Pakistan USA Freedom Forum,

Fight Imperialism Stand Together - FIST,

People's Power Assembly

People's Organization for Progress

WarIsACrime.org

The Move Organization

International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamel

Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox

Swedish Peace Council

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space

Jeannette Rankin Peace Center

US Friends of the Soviet People

Coop Antiwar Café, Berlin, Germany

Contempoeranity & Objective thought, Karkov, Ukraine

Labor Art and Mural Project

Solidarity

AAW France (Americans Against the War)

Middle East Crisis Response

Emergency Labor Network

Granny Peace Brigade

Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO), Vancouver, Canada

Labor Fightback Network

Ukrainian National Committee for Freedom of the Cuban Five Heroes

German Freethinkers Association

American Iranian Friendship Committee

Ohio Labor Party

Folkebevægelsen mod Nazisme FMN (The Peoples Movement Aganst Nazism of Denmark)

International Anti-Imperialist Coordinating Committee (Philippines)

Solidarity Iran – SI

National Students for a Democratic Society

Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Socialist Action

Workers World Party

Party of Communists USA (PCUSA)

 

 

Individual signers:

Ramsey Clark

Medea Benjamin

David  Swanson

Ray McGovern

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report

Cindy Sheehan

Suren Moodliar, Massachusetts Global Action & Green shadow Cabinet

Bishop Filipe Teixeira – OFSJC – CCA

Steve Gillis – Vice Pres. USW local 8751 Boston school Bus Union

Leila Zand, Fellowship of Reconciliation

Joel Kovel

Bruce Gagnon

Kevin Zeese

Prof. Bertell Ollman

Phil Wilayto, Editor, The Virginia Defender

Sandy Fessler, Rochester Against War

Ohio State Labor Party

Paul Pipkin, Delegate to Green Party US from Bexar Co, TX

Rachell Tucker, Co-chair, Bexar Co. Green Party (San Antonio, TX

Antonio Diaz, Co-chair, Bexar Co. Green Party (San Antonio, TX

 

 

Local Groups

Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace (Albany)

Chicago Anti-War Committee

MN Anti-War Committee,

Women Against Military Madness - WAMM,

Minnesota Peace Action Coalition,

Jersey City Peace Movement,

Philly Against War

Peace Action – Manhattan

Michigan Emergency Coalition Against War & Injustice (MECAWI)(Detroit)

Chelsea Coalition on Housing

Women’s Fightback Network – Boston

Rochester Against War

US Friends of The Soviet People (Minnesota Chapter)

Mayday Bookstore

Veterans for Peace (Twin Cities chapter 27)

Massachusetts Global Action

Northhampton committee to Stop Wars

Worcester Unemployment Action Group

Los Angeles Peace Council

Union of Maine Visual Artists

8th Day Center for Justice, Chicago

Veterans For Peace Chapter, Chapter 72

Ann Arbor Coalition against the War

Veterans for Peace, Chapter 147, Saratoga, NY

Veterans for Peace, Chapter 87

Good Friday Coalition

Code Pink, Taos

Peace Action, Staten Island, NY

Neighbors 4 Peace

Columbus Campaign for Arms Control

Nicaragua Center for Community Action

Salem Peace Committee

Dutchess for Peace

Dutchess Greens

Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace

Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality – Virginia

Northeast Philly for Peace and Justice

Peace Action of San Mateo County

Defenders' Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project

Peace Action, Staten Island

Western New York Peace Center

Left Forum of Grand Rapids

United for Justice with Peace Coalition (Boston)

Western Massachusetts International Action Center

People’s Opposition to War, Imperialism and Racism (POWR)

Michigan Emergency Coalition Against War & Injustice

Iowa Methodist federation for Social Action

NW Indiana Veterans for Peace

Chapter 118 Veterans for Peace (Utah)

Rustic Reed Entrancements

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom/ Pittsburgh

Albany Social Justice Center