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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" width="625" style="width: 468.75pt;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" style="padding: 1.5pt;" class=""><div align="center" class=""><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width: 607px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="padding: 1.5pt;" class=""></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: red;" class=""><img class="" apple-inline="yes" id="C7423285-24D0-4531-B708-B9B4FF9608A8" height="232" width="520" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D5E4FB.19347490"></span></b><b class=""><span style="color: red;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif; color: red; background-color: rgb(227, 225, 210); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><a href="http://nepajac.org/unac_021420.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;" class="">Click here to read this email in your browser</span></a><br class=""><br class=""></span><span style="color: red;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width: 607px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" style="padding: 1.5pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">The UNAC conference is less than one week away</span><br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">"<b class="">Rise Against Militarism, Racism and the Climate Crisis - Building Power Together"</b><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">February 21, 22, 23, People's Forum in New York City<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""> 320 W. 37th St. (Between 8th & 9th Avenues), New York City<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br class=""><a href="https://www.unacconference2020.org/registration/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Click here to register now</a><br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.unacconference2020.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Click here for the conference web site</a><br class=""><br class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="">If you have questions, send to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:UNACpeace@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">UNACpeace@gmail.com</a></span><br class=""><br class=""><img class="" apple-inline="yes" id="B2DF4979-A97B-4DC5-8DEF-1135F1D3DC3F" height="200" width="300" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D5E4FB.19347490"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">Leading activists from across the country will be at the conference. There will be panels, workshops, presentations and discussions on a number of topics relating to the wars abroad and at home, and related issues such as the climate change crisis, racism, and the migration crises with plenty of discussion as well as music and more. Meet people, exchange ideas and build our movement. Join us!</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: red;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class=""><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width: 607px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" style="padding: 1.5pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: red;" class="">Victory in a DC court. The prosecution of the 4 Venezuelan Embassy Protectors ends in a hung jury.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="" class=""><br class=""><img class="" apple-inline="yes" id="BDDEDCD9-BE6A-4CD0-BB47-025891236529" height="250" width="469" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D5E4FB.19347490"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">Our movement won an important victory on February 14, when a 12-person jury was deadlocked and a mistrial had to be declared in the case of the 4 Venezuelan Embassy Protectors in Washington, DC. The embassy protectors – Adrienne Pine, Margaret Flowers, Kevin Zeese, and David Paul – had been charged with “interfering with the protective functions” of the US State Department after spending 37 days in the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC to keep it out of the hands of the US-backed supporters of Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaido. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">The judge in the case refused to let the defense attorneys conduct a proper defense by narrowing their ability to even discuss why they were in the embassy including the international laws that supported them being there. This simply left jurors confused and led to a hung jury.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">This may not be the end or the case, since the prosecution can decide on a retrial. Each of these trials in themselves is a violation of the defendants’ rights and amounts to harassment of the defendants and our movement. While the prosecution has all the money and time they want to prosecute these cases, the defendants have had to raise tens of thousands of dollars for their defense. However, the defense was able to use their fundraisers to not only speak about their unjust prosecution, but also to speak about Venezuela and the US attempts to overthrow the legitimate government of Nicolas Maduro. So the stronger our defense, the better chance there is that the US government may decide to end the prosecution of the four Embassy Protectors rather than having their policies further exposed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, two of the Embassy Protectors, have been on the committee to organize the UNAC conference. Please join them there on February 21 – 23 where their cases and other defense cases such as those of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and that of the Kings Bay 7 will be discussed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="" class="">Please go to the defense web site for information and to continue your support for this important case:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://defendembassyprotectors.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: red;" class="">https://defendembassyprotectors.org/</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: red;" class=""><br class=""></span></b><strong class=""><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: red;" class="">Sanctions Kill</span></strong><b class=""><span style="color: red;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">UNAC has joined with many other organizations to organize a coalition against U.S. sponsored Sanctions. Sanctions are a form of economic warfare that the U.S. is using against 39 countries causing millions of deaths.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: red;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><img class="" apple-inline="yes" id="7661DA85-94C3-4D78-B665-C56332300FB9" height="113" width="457" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D5E4FB.19347490"></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: red;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">The coalition has called for action on the weekend of March 13 - 15<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Please endorse the call here:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://sanctionskill.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: red;" class="">https://sanctionskill.org/ </span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: red;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class=""><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width: 607px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" style="padding: 1.5pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 16.8pt; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: red;" class="">Read the UNAC Blog</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><a href="https://unac.notowar.net/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://unac.notowar.net/</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: red;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: red;" class=""><br class=""></span></b><b class=""><span style="" class=""><br class=""></span></b><b class=""><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;" class="">Please make a contribution to UNAC: </span></b><b class=""><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; 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