[Peace] Fwd: [unac] Left Forum and more

Fri May 25 15:56:00 UTC 2018

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Join UNAC at the Left Forum
John Jay College, 899 10th Ave, New York City, June 1 - 3
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UNAC is sponsoring a panel with the Black Alliance for Peace called, "Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad," on Saturday, June 2nd at 10:00 - 11:50 am, room L.76.
This panel will examine the relationship between state sanctioned oppression and violence practiced domestically and U.S. government imperialism carried out abroad.
Speakers: Abayomi Azikiwe, UNAC, Pan-African News Wire
                Ajamu Baraka, Green Party, Black Alliance for Peace
                Bernadette Ellorin, BAYAN, USA, UNAC
                Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report, Black Alliance for Peace, UNAC
                Efia Nwangaza, Malcolm X Center, WMXP
                Joe Lombardo, UNAC (moderator)
For more information: https://www.leftforum.org/events/stop-wars-home-and-abroad
Additionally, UNAC members and friends will be speaking on a number of other panels including:
Closing Plenary, Sunday June 3rd 4:00 PM<https://www.leftforum.org/conference/closing-plenary>
Russiagate: Muzzling the Black Left and the March to War<https://www.leftforum.org/events/russiagate-muzzling-black-left-and-march-war>
Challenges of Peace Activism<https://www.leftforum.org/events/challenges-peace-activism>
<https://www.leftforum.org/events/challenges-peace-activism>
Cuba Speaks for Itself -- The Cuban Revolution and US-Cuban Relations Today<https://www.leftforum.org/events/cuba-speaks-itself-cuban-revolution-and-us-cuban-relations-today>

South Africa: The Class Struggle Deepens<https://www.leftforum.org/events/south-africa-class-struggle-deepens>
<https://www.leftforum.org/events/south-africa-class-struggle-deepens>
Envisioning our Return: 70 Years of Displacement Are Enough!<http://nepajac.org/Envisioning%20our%20Return:%2070%20Years%20of%20Displacement%20Are%20Enough%21>

US Threats and Fake News on North Korea<https://www.leftforum.org/events/us-threats-and-fake-news-north-korea>

Combatting U.S. War and Disinformation on Iran and Yemen<https://www.leftforum.org/events/combatting-us-war-and-disinformation-iran-and-yemen>

Socialism and The Green Party<https://www.leftforum.org/events/socialism-and-green-party>

The Trump Regime’s Expanding Militarism: on-the-ground and in-the-air via drones<https://www.leftforum.org/events/trump-regime%3Fs-expanding-militarism-ground-and-air-drones>

Poetry and the Radical Imagination<https://www.leftforum.org/events/poetry-and-radical-imagination>
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Black Media Matters: Trump, the De-Construction of the Administrative State, and the Rise of the Right<https://www.leftforum.org/events/black-media-matters-trump-de-construction-administrative-state-and-rise-right>

The Left and American Politics: How to Build Independent Political Power<https://www.leftforum.org/events/left-and-american-politics-how-build-independent-political-power>

Rebellion of The "Shithole Countries": Haiti, Africa, and The Caribbean Respond to Trump<https://www.leftforum.org/events/rebellion-shithole-countries-haiti-africa-and-caribbean-respond-trump>

It Was Bad Before Trump: Islamophobia and Muslim Political Prosecutions<https://www.leftforum.org/events/it-was-bad-trump-islamophobia-and-muslim-political-prosecutions>
Join Week 3 of the Poor People Campaign
Tuesday, May 29
End Militarism and the War Economy
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Actions will take place at the capital of each state and in Washingon, DC
For more information: https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/

Peace Group to hold
Int’l Conference near Croughton AFB in UK
Stop the Pentagon takeover of space
This  conference and protest is sponsored by the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.
For more information: http://www.space4peace.org/

Read the UNAC Blog, "End the Wars at Home and Abroad"
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The War at Home: Empathy, Capitulation and Resistance

  *   Lynching, Racial Terror, and Black Liberation Theology<https://unac.papillonweb.net/2018/05/23/lynching-racial-terror-and-black-liberation-theology/>
     *   Peggy Rosenthal ponders the devaluation of black lives in western 'culture'
  *   Black Support for the Police State<https://unac.papillonweb.net/2018/05/23/black-support-for-the-police-state/>
     *   Margaret Kimberley is indignant over the black professional class supporting the police state against innocent (and mostly poor) black men and women
  *   Google, drone murder and the military-intelligence-censorship complex<https://unac.papillonweb.net/2018/05/23/google-drone-murder-and-the-military-intelligence-censorship-complex/>
     *   Andre Damon notes that employees and academics who embraced Google in the days of 'Do No Evil' now find themselves in bed with the Devil himself
  *   How Durham, NC became the first U.S. city to ban police exchanges with Israel<https://unac.papillonweb.net/2018/05/23/how-durham-nc-became-the-first-u-s-city-to-ban-police-exchanges-with-israel/>
     *   Zaina Alsous & Sammy Hanf tell how Durham citizens rose up and blocked police militarization through collaboration with the Zionist entity

The Great March of Return and another Israeli Massacre in Gaza

  *   500 Years of Nakbas<https://unac.papillonweb.net/2018/05/18/500-years-of-nakbas/>
     *   Glen Ford reminds us of the long history of genocidal Nakbas throughout the brutal expansion of western 'civilization'
  *   Finkelstein, Truthteller for Gaza<https://unac.papillonweb.net/2018/05/17/finkelstein-truthteller-for-gaza/>
     *   Aaron Maté interviews Norman Finkelstein on the ongoing slaughter of Gazans and his latest book 'Gaza, an Inquest into Its Martyrdom'. Finkelstein's  meticulous research combine with his deep compassion and honesty to make a very powerful statement.
  *   UNAC Statement on Israel/U.S. War on Gaza’s Nakba Protests at Apartheid Wall<https://unac.papillonweb.net/2018/05/16/unac-statement-on-israel-u-s-war-on-gazas-nakba-protests-at-apartheid-wall/>
     *   UNAC AC  lays out the context for the latest slaughter in Gaza, and calls for action to end Israeli Apartheid and US support for wars of aggression
  *   Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza<https://unac.papillonweb.net/2018/05/16/black-alliance-for-peace-condemns-slaughter-of-palestinians-in-gaza/>
     *   Ajamu Baraka calls attention to the complicity of the 'West' in Israel's genocidal assaults on Gaza and demands action in the name of the Black Alliance for Peace.
  *   #Nakba70: A call to action<https://unac.papillonweb.net/2018/05/14/nakba70-a-call-to-action/>
     *   Cassia Laham states emphatically that we must stand with the Palestinians for their salvation and our own

Facing the brutality of Imperial Interventions

  *   Scourging Yemen<https://unac.papillonweb.net/2018/05/23/__trashed-2/>
     *   Kathy Kelly Laments the lack of international support for tens of thousands of innocent civilian victims in Yemen.   Who will rescue the children of Yemen.
  *   International Solidarity With the People of Odessa!<https://unac.papillonweb.net/2018/05/16/international-solidarity-with-the-people-of-odessa/>
     *   Phil Wilayto describes the resistance of the friends and relatives of the victims of a 2014 massacre by Nazis affiliated with the Ukrainian government that occurred in Odessa, Ukraine shortly after US backed coup, and the breadth of an international movement that stands in solidarity with them.

Latin America: under pressure, but not beaten

  *   My Contra Parents Are Marching For a New ‘Old’ Nicaragua: Are We, Too?<https://unac.papillonweb.net/2018/05/22/my-contra-parents-are-marching-for-a-new-old-nicaragua-are-we-too/>
     *   Melissa Castillo analyzes recent protests in Nicaragua, and challenges the left to examine their values in relation to a new world of facts
  *   Venezuela Heart of America: Maduro YES Trump NO<https://unac.papillonweb.net/2018/05/22/venezuela-heart-of-america-maduro-yes-trump-no/>
     *   An expression of support for the Maduro government of Venezuela and Chavismo from the Dawn News and ALBA Movimientos

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