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Rising Resistance And Solidarity In The Americas

July 21, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance. , , ,
This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of the Sandanista Revolution in Nicaragua. Hundreds of thousands of people celebrated in the streets of Managua Friday night. This past week, mass protests erupted in Puerto Rico over long term corruption and subversion of democracy. A general strike is planned for Monday. This week is the 25th Sao Paulo Forum, a meeting of left political parties and social movements, in Caracas, Venezuela. We participated in a Sao Paulo Forum of Washington, DC in preparation for the upcoming meeting. A delegation of Venezuelan Embassy Protectors is traveling to Caracas to participate in it. Latin America has a long history of resistance to US domination and solidarity with social movements in the United States. This resistance and solidarity is critical to our success in the United States if we are to stop the machine and create a new world.

As Cost Of Climate Crisis Grows, Climate Movement Escalates

July 14, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance , , ,
The warnings of climate chaos are coming so fast they are difficult to keep up with. Storms, heatwaves and climate-related weather disasters are increasing at a rapid pace. The leadership of the two corporate-dominated political parties are trying to keep the climate issue out of the 2020 campaign, but the movement is becoming too big to ignore. Climate justice protests against fossil fuel infrastructure, politicians and the media are also growing. An industry publication describes how activists are "driving pipeline rejections" reporting, "From large, interstate pipelines to small lines connecting towns and neighborhoods...

Stop Immigrant Arrests, Close The Camps, Transform Immigration Policy

July 7, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance , , ,
Public awareness of the brutal repression against immigrants seeking entry to the United States, the reasons for their migration, and terrorism against immigrants living in the US are reaching levels that make them hard to ignore. The current immigration crisis is self-created and bi-partisan. Although the Trump administration's rhetoric is extreme, it reflects policies that have developed over a long period of time. Under Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a person has “the right to leave any country, including his or her own, and to return to his or her country at any time.” Until the twentieth century, immigrants were welcomed into the United States. Immigrant and slave labor built many of the institutions and much of the infrastructure in the US. 

Popular Movements Are The Invisible Hand Of Social Change

June 30, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance , , ,
The political consensus in the United States is changing rapidly. While the corporate media is focused on the Democratic Party presidential debates and Trump's tweets in response, the issues that have been advanced by the movement for economic, racial and environmental justice as well as peace are becoming central to the political dialogue. There is no reason to rejoice yet, as we still have work to do to win the transformation that people and planet need, but the consensus is moving in our direction. Before we further elaborate on this, we want to remind you that today is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion and the ten-year anniversary of the US-led coup in the Honduras. The Honduran coup has led to severe austerity, violence and repression.

As Conflict With Iran Escalates, Path To Peace Can Be Found

June 23, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance , ,
The recent escalation of conflict between the United States and Iran threaten another US military quagmire that creates crisis and chaos in Iran, the region and perhaps, globally as well as costs trillions of dollars in US spending. The US needs to change course -- a deeply wrong course it has been on regarding Iran since the 1950s, escalating since Iran declared its independence in their 1979 Revolution. There is a path out of the Iran quagmire, but it requires leadership from President Trump, which will only come if the people of the United States mobilize to demand it.

US Foreign Policy Exposed

June 16, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance , , ,
In the last week, the realities of US foreign policy have been exposed by a leaked audio tape, a leak about a US attack on the Russian electrical grid, and the US attempts to extradite Julian Assange. All the information points to a foreign policy that violates international law and standards, perpetrates wars and conflict and seeks to undermine press freedom in order to commit its crimes in secret. This is not new information to those of us who closely follow US foreign policy, but these new exposures are broad and are in the mass media where many millions of people can view them and gain a greater understanding of the realities of US actions around the world. Join the People's Mobilization to Stop the US War Machine this September.

Uniting To Protect Venezuela And Stop The US War Machine

June 9, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance , , ,
The US-led coup attempt in Venezuela continues to falter as the US admits the opposition is selfish and divided. Juan Guaido was exposed as relying on Tarot Cards and an astrologer to determine Venezuela's future. Russia and China pledged unified support to Venezuela in opposition to the US-led coup. The US added new sanctions against Venezuela. The effort to protect international law by the Embassy Protection Collective continues in court and needs your help to defend against US government prosecutions. And, a coalition of organizations announces a weekend of actions during the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York City from September 20 to 23: The People's Mobilization to Stop the US War Machine (and Save the Planet). More details below.

Protection Of Venezuelan Embassy Continues, Opposition To US Coup Builds

May 26, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance , , ,
We along with numerous other organizations are organizing toward a national mass mobilization in New York City on September 21 when the United Nations General Assembly is meeting. We are calling it "The People's Mobilization to Stop the US War Machine." It will bring tens of thousands of people together to call for the end of the US coup against Venezuela and stop regime change operations anywhere in the world. It will also oppose unilateral coercive mentions (sanctions), which the US is using against many countries and that violate the UN Charter and other international laws. 

The People’s Memorial Day

May 26, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org , , , ,
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese. War culture runs deep in the United States. You can see the glorification of war consistently once you are aware of it - it is expressed in entertainment, the war memorials that are in every town, and the deference we are expected to show to people in the military, e.g. special treatment at airports. This war culture equates patriotism with worship of the military. And it is on broad display every Memorial Day. Now that we are sixteen years into the "war on terror", even though a war against a tactic is nonsense - especially given that terrorism grows as the US bombs more countries and kills more civilians - this Memorial Day is a good time to question who benefits from war and who pays the price. Highly decorated Marine, Smedley Butler, answered these questions this way: "War is a racket. It always has been."

Embassy Protection Collective: We’re Still Here And We’re Staying

May 5, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance , , ,
The Embassy Protection Collective began on April 10, the day after the Trump administration manipulated the Organization of American States (OAS) to change the rules so they could recognize their puppet, Juan Guaido, as president of Venezuela. The OAS could not get the required two-thirds vote to recognize a government so they changed the rules to a mere majority and barely got that. By then, the US had allowed their Guaido coup forces to take the Venezuelan military attaché building in Washington, DC and their diplomatic building in New York City. The Trump administration has allowed extreme violent right-wing Guaido supporters to blockade the building, but in the last week we had a series of victories over those forces.

If You Oppose US Imperialism, This Is The Place To Be

April 28, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance. , , ,
We are still writing to you from the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC where we are here as the Embassy Protection Collective with the full permission of the Venezuelan government. We have the grave responsibility to hold this space from takeover by the opposition, which will happen with the assistance of US law enforcement, until the Venezuelan government can complete negotiations with the United States over the status of their respective embassies. What hangs in the balance is the possibility of a peaceful and orderly resolution of the end of diplomatic relations, and perhaps an entry to further negotiations, or, an escalation of aggression between the United States and Venezuela...

Solidarity With Venezuela Now! Protect The Embassy

April 21, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance , ,
We are writing to you from inside the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC where we are taking action against a US coup of the independent and sovereign Bolivarian Republican of Venezuela. The Embassy Protection Collective (Colectivos Por La Paz) is here with the permission of the Venezuelan government to show our solidarity with the Venezuelan people. The upcoming week will be a critical one, as we explain below. The opposition, with its illegal, pretend government, say they will attempt to take over the embassy this week after the diplomats leave on Wednesday, as ordered by the US State Department.

The Prosecution Of Julian Assange Is A Threat To Journalists Everywhere

April 14, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance   , ,
The arrest of Julian Assange not only puts the free press in the United States at risk, it puts any reporters who expose US crimes anywhere in the world at risk. As Pepe Escobar wrote "Let’s cut to the chase. Julian Assange is not a US citizen, he’s an Australian. WikiLeaks is not a US-based media organization. If the US government gets Assange extradited, prosecuted and incarcerated, it will legitimize its right to go after anyone, anyhow, anywhere, anytime." The Assange prosecution requires us to build a global movement to not only free Julian Assange, but to protect the world from the crimes and corruption of the United States and other governments. The reality is that Freedom of Press for the 21st Century is on trial.

No To NATO: Time To End Aggressive Militarism

April 7, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance. , ,
This week, the Foreign Ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries met in Washington, DC. NATO was greeted with bi-partisan support from Congress and by protesters who held actions and events from Saturday, March 30 through their meeting at the US Department of State on April 4. US foreign policy is not the fabled "good cop" bringing peace to the world, but rather a policy of domination using military, economic and political power to accomplish aims for US transnational corporations and US empire.

Can The World Unite For The Climate Crisis?

March 23, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance. , ,
A team of researchers at Tufts University recently analyzed over five million scenarios predicting the future of the climate to answer the question of whether or not we can stay within the 2° C increase in temperature that is considered to be tolerable. The answer is uncertain, as most of the scenarios were pessimistic. They report: "The massive analysis shows that meeting that target is exceptionally difficult in all but the most optimistic climate scenarios." They conclude that what is certain is the only hope for a livable future is to take swift action now to achieve "carbon-neutral energy production by 2030."
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