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End corporate rule to end wars and occupations, with Veterans for Peace and Move to Amend
We won't stop oil until we stop the military. We won't stop the military's dominance of our entire government and economy until we have passed Move to Amend’s Amendment. -Timothy Havl
We were lied into the Gaza genocide. Al Jazeera has shown us how, by Jonathan Cook
The establishment media has proved it is not to be trusted. For months it has credulously recited Israeli propaganda in support of a genocide.
“An Apocalyptic Point of No Return.” Matthew Hoh’s Remarks at the UNSC Briefing on Ukraine
NEVER AGAIN! Apartheid, Genocide, Environmental Destruction of War and NEVER NUCLEAR WAR!
TOP STORIES
ACTIVISM
WAMM Newsletter Shorts / Updated 5/7/24: Nuclear Waste Threatens Mississippi, UNAC: Colonization/Imperialism, and Scared of the Bear?
Urgent action needed. Xcel Energy has applied to run its old Monticello nuclear reactor in Minnesota until 2050, when it would be 80 years old. / Why would Russians use a nuclear bomb when they already have demonstrated the capability to shoot down satellites with non-nuclear interceptors? / UNAC Conference: Colonization/Imperialism, held April 5-7, 2024
MEDIA
Glenn Greenwald: Matt Taibbi on How “Free Speech” Turned Into a “Far Right” Slogan
Is Big Tech independent? How and why the mainstream corporate media (MSM) is establishment and what that means.
Caitlin Johnstone: When the Imperial Media Report on an Israeli Massacre
The only difference between our propaganda and the propaganda of a ruthless dictatorship is that the people who live under a dictatorship know they are being fed propaganda, whereas westerners are trained to believe they are ingesting impartial factual reporting.
MILITARISM
Modernizing Nuclear War, by Joel Weisberg
Modern nuclear warheads, which the new delivery systems will be hosting, release far more energy than did the original bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Here’s Why U.S. Elites Support Israel No Matter What
Israel has received 30% of all US foreign aid. Since World War II they get about $4 billion every year and have received almost 300 billion since 1945. When you adjust for inflation which is enough money to end world hunger.
VOICES
Judaism and Zionism, by Sue Ann Martinson
Israel has taken the position that it is innocent of any wrongdoing even though at minimum since Nakba in 1948 they have perpetrated an apartheid neo-fascist state...with use of...tactics borrowed from their previous oppressors in Nazi Germany. And now they have adopted GENOCIDE, as they systematically bomb and destroy Gaza.
Three on Gaza: Minnesota Divest, Communicating with Gaza, Palestinian Bibliography
Not another nickel, not another dime, no more money for Israel’s war crimes!
ECOLOGY
Climate Change: Why Internationalism?
Excellent presentations by Shemona Moreno of Seattle re building solidarity with global movements; Marc Rosenthal from Wisconsin with a focus on pipeines (Enbridge) and cross-border solidarity, May action will include Minneapolis; Ferron Pedro describes the Stop EACOP campaign (East African Oil Pipeline) a pipeline that will cross central Africa (massive crude oil through the heart of Africa, 54 million tons of carbon per year) proposed by France Total (a corporation) and China National Offshore Corporation; EACOP insurers are located in the U.S. Also outdated coal power plants in So. Africa; Daniel Hunter presents 350 international history.
Ecocide in Palestine/GAZA, by Carol Masters
Climate crisis is a reality worldwide but the genocide on Gaza is exacerbating the global climate emergency.
ECONOMY
Billionaires are pillaging America. How do we fight back? | The Chris Hedges Report
This latest attack on the rights of workers is the culmination of a decades-long assault on the working class in the US, which has been caught between an economic system hemorrhaging jobs and a political system that refuses to address their problems.
EQUAL RIGHTS
Leave Africa for Africans, by Mary Beaudoin
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, whom we could expect to be a big fan of coups given how instrumental she was in orchestrating one in Ukraine in 2014, flew to the Nigerien capital, Niamey, on August 6. However, this time she was in opposition to the coup...
POLITICS
SWLRT SNAFU: Southwest Light Rail Train—Situation Normal All “Fouled” Up
The over-budget will be paid exclusively by Hennepin County taxpayers. Hennepin County’s 2023 population was 1,320,307. With a $1,000,000,000 debt that would be about $1,000 of “cost-sharing” owed by each man, woman and child in the county. SWLRT SNAFU: Southwest Light Rail Train—Situation Normal All “Fouled” Up Skybridge pedestrian walkway More
Jeffrey Sachs: The Failures of the Global Economic System, World Warming, Nuclear Age, Peace
There's nothing in the global economic system that automatically protects the environment, How can we cooperate to achieve the objectives.
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Oh, sacred world now wounded,
we pledge to make you free,
of hate, of war, and selfish cruelty,
and here in our small corner
we plant a tiny seed,
and it will grow to beauty
to shame the face of greed.
Pete Seeger
Jane Addams was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Throughout her life, Addams struggled not only for women’s rights, but also for labor and civil rights, free speech and world peace.
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