Rallies/Actions - RISE UP TIMES

Chris Hedges: The Nation’s Conscience and Caitlin Johnstone: Protest And Dissent Can Absolutely Push The Empire To Retreat On Gaza

The protest movements - which have spread around the globe - are not built around the single issue of the apartheid state in Israel or its genocide against Palestinians. They are built around the awareness that the old world order, the one of settler colonialism, western imperialism and militarism used by the countries in the Global North to dominate the Global South, must end.

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We Are Witnessing the Largest U.S. Anti-War Protests in 20 Years

“This is the result of decades of work that we’ve put into this movement, and I think some of it is connected to the [George Floyd protests of 2020]. There was so much racial, social justice, anti-war building in that moment."

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Mass Protests Have Failed To Bring About Social Change. It’s Time for a New Strategy

Occupy Wall Street gets a lot done and does plant the seeds for something good that grows out of it later, kind of precisely because it does not become a mass protest movement, because it doesn’t actually shut down Manhattan in the way that Tahrir shut down Egypt.

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What’s next for Extinction Rebellion after a disappointing success? by Douglas Rogers

The British climate movement’s ‘Big One’ brought out record numbers, but ran into a wall of silence. XR’s new strategy could turn this setback into a new lease on life. Douglas Rogers Waging Nonviolence June 8, 2023 A march during the Big One on April 24. (Extinction Rebellion) It’s been just over a month since More

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The Power-Serving Myth That Anti-War Protests Make No Difference, by Caitlin Johnstone

If you can simply trick a profoundly unfree populace into thinking that they are free, you don't have to waste any further energy wrestling their freedom away from them. But what this means is that the entire power structure which rules over us is entirely dependent on the ability to successfully administer propaganda and maintain the illusion of freedom.

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Chris Hedges: There Are No Permanent Allies, Only Permanent Power

If we do not build left-right coalitions on issues such as militarism, health care, a living wage and union organizing, we will be impotent in the face of corporate power and the war machine.

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Antiwar activist faces repression in Germany, by Phil Wilayto and Nukewatch’s John LaForge faces 60 days in German prison.

Antiwar activist faces repression in Germany: Heinrich Bücker runs Berlin’s popular Coop Antiwar Cafe... (See John LaForge information below.) By Phil Wilayto Original to Rise Up Times December 28, 2022 June 22, 2022, was the 81st anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, and a prominent German antiwar activist took the occasion More

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Veterans Arrested at Protest Condemning US Military’s Role in Climate Crisis. by Jake Johnson

"The money needed to avoid the worst results of climate change, as well as many other social issues that lack adequate funding, is the wasteful and bloated military budget," Joshua Farris, a U.S. Army veteran, said Wednesday.

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Ralph Nader: Weaning the State Department Off War-making

Perhaps, the State Department can host a meeting with Veterans for Peace to remind itself of its original mission.

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Report on the anti-NATO protests in Madrid and US Summit of the Americas fails

The US/NATO is proposing a new alignment that will see it spread its aggression to Asia and around the world. According to information that can be found on the NATO web site, they will project Russia and China as their main enemies. This means that we will see further aggression against major military and nuclear powers that will put the entire world at risk.

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Say No to U.S. Wars

Say No to U.S. Wars, No War with Russia, Wars abroad militarize society: Stop police violence, Funds for housing, health care, COVID relief, not the Pentagon,

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War Industry Resisters Network: Week of Action! April 17th to 24th

Clearly, there are no winners in the terrible war in Ukraine — except one: U.S. and British military contractors who will carry their increased profits all the way to the bank. Big Campaign contributions. 700 lobbyists. Militaristic think tanks. Government advisory boards. Hiring 1700 former Pentagon officials and stacking the government with their own people. These military contractors have numerous ways to determine Pentagon budgets, shape our foreign policy, create war fever, and pick our friends and enemies.

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