[unac] Close US Foreign Military Bases and more




US Foreign Military Bases Must Be Closed!


UNAC, along with other peace and justice organizations, has helped initiate a new coalition against US foreign military bases. Please click the link below to read and endorse the Unity Statement:

http://NoForeignBases.org

For more information on the coalition: [email protected]

The coalition will also host a conference in January. More information on the conference will be available soon.

Read a paper on U.S. Foreign Military Bases delivered by UNAC at the Fourth International Seminar for Peace and the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases held in Guantanamo, Cuba:

http://nepajac.org/basespaper.htm





Speaking Tour for Stephen Gowans

UNAC, along with the Hands off Syria Coalition and other groups, sponsored a 3 city speaking tour of Stephen Gowans, author of “Washington’s Long War on Syria.”

To see a video of the New York City talk, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVBQ...ature=youtu.be

+ YouTube Video
ERROR: If you can see this, then YouTube is down or you don't have Flash installed.


For more information on the Hands off Syria Coalition: http://handsoffsyriacoalition.net




Please join UNAC at this important conference
International League of People's Sturggle
Solidarity & Fightback: Building Resistance to US-led War, Militarism
August 5 - 8
Toronto, Canada
For more information, click here




Saturday, August 12 at 7 PM

An evening of music, culture and struggle to honor Palestinian icon Rasmea Odeh. With keynote address by former political prisoner Angela Davis. The event will be held at:

International Union of Operating Engineers
2260 S. Grove Street
Chicago, IL 60616

Space is limited. Buy your tickets today by visiting bit.ly/Rasmea1 or by calling (312) 899-6392

For more information: justice4rasmea.org or uspcn.org or stopfbi.org
Sponsored by the Rasmea Defense Committee

Aug. 12 in Charlottesville: All Out to Oppose the Right!

The university town of Charlottesville, Virginia, has become ground zero in the fight against the post-election resurgence of white-supremacist organizations. A national gathering of “alt right,” neo-Nazi and other far-right groups is scheduled to take place there on Saturday, Aug. 12.

Local anti-racist organizations are calling for a national anti-racist mobilization. Charlottesville is one of the cities that has decided to take down its statues of Confederate figures, in this case generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. In response, national “alt-right” groups staged a torch-lit rally May 13 next to the Lee statue. The next day there was a large protest.

On July 8, about three dozen KKK members held a rally next to the Jackson statue - and were met by more than 2,000 anti-racist protesters.

Now hundreds of right-wingers are expected to come to the city for a weekend of activities, capped by a rally on Aug. 12 at Emancipation Park, formerly Lee Park.

UNAC strongly urges all its affiliates, allies and supporters to come to Charlottesville to support the local anti-racist movement.

A statement by Black Lives Matter-Charlottesville is HERE.

UNAC affiliate Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality is helping to mobilize regionally. For more information, contact the Defenders at 804-644-5834 or Defe
UNAC affiliate: International Action Center (www.IACenter.org) and others will be sending people from a number of cities.




‘UKRAINE AFTER MAIDAN’ - New website shines much-needed light on state & right-wing repression

UNAC’s Odessa Solidarity Campaign staff members and friends have launched an important new project to keep the world informed about developments in Ukraine, a critical country in the developing crisis between the U.S. and Russia. The website Ukraine after Maidan: Right Wing Violence & State Repression tracks violence and intimidation carried out by right-wing radical groups in Ukraine, as well as repression against basic civil liberties and the persecution of the opposition by the Kiev government. The site features translations of articles, full or partial, from local Ukrainian media outlets. “Ukraine after Maidan” can be accessed from the Odessa Solidarity Campaign website under “Ukraine News.”



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

To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [email protected]