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UNAC: Stop the U.S. Bombing of Syria and Afghanistan! Hands off North Korea! U.S. Out of Syria, the Middle East and Asia Now!

UNAC Statement on the missile attack on Syria

On Thursday, April 6, the Trump administration launched 59 Cruise Tomahawk missiles from its offshore Mediterranean warships at Syria’s al-Shayrat military airfield near Homs, Syria’s third largest city. The U.S. strikes obliterated substantial portions of Syria’s military capacity there. Trump’s action came a day after Democrat Hillary Clinton urged the U.S. bombing of Syria [read more]
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Join the Peace Movement at the March for Climate, Jobs and Justice

Saturday, April 29, 2017 – The Peace Hub will hold a rally and will march as a contingent.  We will assemble at 11:00 am at Madison Dr. and 3rd Street SW, south of Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC

UNAC has helped organize the Peace Hub for the climate march.  Please join us.
For more information on the march and sister actions around the country, please go here:
https://peoplesclimate.org/

Web site for the Peace hub: https://peace.peoplesclimate.org/

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UNAC groups and others have joined with immigrant and worker’s rights organizations to organize May Day actions around the country..  Please join an action in your area.

Click here for a partial list of actions around the country

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Report on the International Day of Solidarity with the People of Odessa

On April 10, 2017, more than two dozen organizations in 20 cities in 13 countries across Europe and North America together issued these demands of the government of Ukraine: Immediately release all political prisoners and end the current wave of repression against relatives of the victims of the fascist-led massacre at Odessa’s House of Trade Unions on May 2, 2014. UNAC’s Odessa Solidarity Campaign thanks everyone who participated in this effort and we look forward to working more closely with you in the future. For the full report, please CLICK HERE. Also, UNAC has received a LETTER from the Council of Mothers of May 2 in Odessa thanking everyone who participated in the International Day of Solidarity with the People of Odessa.

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Nine Arrested at Good Friday Protest at the Hancock Drone Base

Nine non-violent civil resisters of Upstate Drone Action were arrested at the main gaate of Hancock Air National Guard Base protesting the extrajudicial drone killings perpetrated from the base. Three people hung on drone crosses representing victims of US drone strikes from seven majority Muslim countries. Eleven others carried smaller drone crosses bearing words, “Drones crucify: Children, Families, Love, Peace, Community, the US Constitution, the UN Charter, the Rule of Law, US Treaties, Due Process, and Diplomacy. [read more]

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Justice for the Jacksonville 5

On April 7, 2017 five anti-war activists were brutalized and unjustly arrested in a violent attack by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) during a peaceful demonstration against the United States’ war in Syria. UNAC stands unequivocally in solidarity with the five who were targets of state repression: Dave Schneider, Connell Crooms, Willie Wilder, Kristina Kittles, and Tom Beckham. [read more]
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Join us at the UNAC National Conference

Richmond, VA Conference Center, June 16 – 18

The place where the movement will be coming together this Spring to map strategy during this time of war and repression.

Join:

  • Bahman Azad – U.S. Peace Council
  • Abayomi Azikiwe – Pan African News Wire
  • Ajamu Baraka, National Spokesperson and Founder of Black Alliance for Peace and V.P. Candidate for Green Party in 2016
  • Brian Becker – ANSWER Coalition
  • Medea Benjamin – CODEPINK
  • Maurice Carney – Friends of the Congo
  • Glen Ford – Black Agenda Report
  • Ana Edwards – Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project
  • Pat Elder – National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy
  • Bernadette Ellorin – BAYAN-USA
  • Sara Flounders – International Action Center
  • Bruce Gagnon – Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
  • Tamara Hansen – Mobilization Against War & Occupation (MAWO)
  • Jaribu Hill – Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights
  • Jonathan W. Hutto, Sr. – Co-Founder, Appeal For Redress from the Iraq & Afghanistan Occupations (2007-2009); author, “Anti-War Soldier”
  • Margaret Kimberley – Black Agenda Report
  • Cassia Laham – People’s Opposition to War, Imperialism, and Racism (POWIR)
  • Joe Lombardo – UNAC Co-Coordinator
  • Jeff Mackler- Socialist Action
  • Ray McGovern – Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
  • Charo Mina-Rojas, Proceso de Comunidades Negras en Colombia (PCN) and Colombian Ethnic Commission for Peace
  • Adria Scharf – Richmond Peace Education Center
  • David Swanson – World Beyond War
  • Phil Wilayto – Editor, The Virginia Defender; Coordinator, Odessa Solidarity Campaign
  • Ann Wright – Retired U.S. Army Colonel & former diplomat.
  • Kevin Zeese – Popular Resistance Representative – Raise Up / Fight for $15

And other national and international guests

Registration: http://www.unacconference2017.org/p/registration_7.html

Facebook event (please share): https://www.facebook.com/events/1208020632638814/

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Please contribute to UNAC:  https://www.unacpeace.org/donate.html

If your organization would like to join the UNAC coalition, please click here: https://www.unacpeace.org/join.html

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