The US
War Machine Will Rage On
Until We Rise Up to Stop It!
Join
the People’s Mobilization to Stop the US War Machine
The
US War Machine must be stopped, and only we can stop it. That’s why we
are organizing the People’s Mobilization to Stop the US War Machine,
which is organizing and supporting a
series of actions in New York City from September 20 to 23 while the
United Nations General Assembly meets.
At
a time when all of the world leaders gather, we will say we’ve had
enough of the US War Machine.
Schedule
of Events:
Plan to come to New York City for a full weekend of events. Facebook
event page is here
Friday,
September 20 - People's Climate Strike. Starts at Union Square at noon.
We'll bring messages connecting militarism and the climate crisis. For
more info: https://strikewithus.org/nyc/
Saturday,
September 21 - Puerto Rico Independence March starting at 11:00 am at
59th St. Columbus Circle and marching to Dag Hammarskjold Plaza at the
UN. It's time to decolonize Puerto Rico. Click here for rally flyer
Sunday, September 22 - People's Mobilization to Stop the US War Machine
and Save the Planet, Herald Square, 2 pm.
Monday,
September 23 - Forum: "A Path to International Peace: Realizing the
Vision of the United Nations Charter." Location: Community Church of
New York 40 East 35th St., New York City, 10016. Time: 6:30 pm.
You must register in advance. Register at http://bit.ly/RSVPapathtopeace.
At this
event, representatives of several countries under attack by the US will
speak.
For
more information and to endorse the actions: https://peoplesmobe.org/
Support
the Venezuelan Embassy Protectors Collective Defense
Click here
for the latest press release about the case
Please
go to the web site of the defense committee to read more about their
case and to make a much needed donation for their legal
defense. The web site can be found here:
https://defendembassyprotectors.org/home/ .
Troy,
NY
Hear Margaret Flowers &
Kevin Zeese
The James Connolly Forum
7 PM, Thursday, Sept. 5
Oakwood Community Center
313 10th St, Troy, NY
For more info: 518-407-3582 |
Northern California
Hear Margaret Flowers and Kevin
Zeese
Oct. 13 - 16
1)
Saturday,
October 12: Sacramento/Ellen and Darien: Fundraising dinner
2)
Sunday, October 13, 10:30 am, Public Meeting, Niebyl Proctor
Library/Oakland
3)
Sunday,
October 13, 3-6 pm Sonoma Peace and Justice Center/Santa Rosa
4)
Monday,
September 14, 6-9 pm dinner and public forum, San Jose Peace and
Justice Center
5) Tuesday,
September 15, 6-9 pm, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists,
public
meeting
For more
info.: jmackler@imi.net
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Save
the date
UNAC's
national conference will be held in New York City at the People's
Forum, February 21 - 23
Build a movement for Peace and Justice
If you have questions about the conference or suggestions for the
organizing committee, please send them to UNACpeace@gmail.com
More information will follow soon.
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Read the UNAC Blog
https://unac.notowar.net/
Below
are some recent articles.
- The
World Is Uniting For International Law, Against US Empire
- Kevin
Zeese & Margaret Flowers
explain that the US unilateral punitive measures against other
countries violate International law, and more countries are seeing it
that way
- Protest
and Corporate Media
- Margaret
Kimberley looks at the
bias in corporate media which covers some protests and not others,
notes police violence in some cases while overlooking more extreme cases
- What’s
behind Hong Kong protests?
- Sara
Flounders provides context
for the HongBMadden@tampabay.rr.com Kong protests and the heavy
propaganda campaign in the United States
- Trump
Seizes Venezuelan Assets in U.S.
- Marco
Teruggi throws light on
yet another US ploy to steal resources from the starving people of
Venezuela (as they are doing in Syria)
- Jobs,
the Environment, and a Planet in Crisis
- Aviva
Chomsky elaborates the
responses of different political spheres (labor, environmentalists) to
the Green New Deal, which attempts to take a middle course
- Self
Determination for Kashmir
- Ruwan
Munasinghe decries
imperialist Indian aggression against Kashmir, long a 'princely' state
in the region (in other words, a separate kingdom) and explains the
history
- The
New Cold War Against China
- Fred
Goldstein provides a
historical timeline of events that underlies the current situation in
Hong Kong
- Criminal
War Propaganda Directed against Iraq and Syria
- Mark
Taliano confronts the
media message on Iraq and Syria with what he learned from traveling to
Syria and listening to the people there
- FBI
Ranks Black Activists a Bigger Threat than Al Qaeda
- TelesurTV
English reports on a
leaked FBI document
- Manufacturing
Normality
- Caitlin
Johnstone reminds us of
the psychological effects of hearing the same lie as 'truth' over and
over again on multiple frontsBMadden@tampabay.rr.com
- No
Racism, Just Russians
- Margaret
Kimberley writes that
Kamala Harris once again misses the point of events, substituting
anti-Russian propaganda for clarity and responsible analysis
- The
NYT’s Pro-War Arguments Against War WithBMadden@tampabay.rr.com Iran
- Gregory
Shupak analyzes the bias
underlying NYTimes editorials that promote the opposite viewpoint they
seem to assert
- Parallels
Between Black and Palestinian Struggles
- Johnny E Williams
tells us what he learned on his recent trip to Palestine
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