Antiwar conference draws 400 activists
2015 2015-06Read it in the scan (PDF at ETOL), page 1 →
The words are the paper's own, from its digital file; the division into articles was made by machine, so a box or caption can end up inside the article next to it.
Scan page 1
states gathered in Secaucus, N.J., near New York City, on May 8-10 for a “Stop the Wars at Home & Abroad!”
Antiwar Coalition (UNAC). Founded in 2010, UNAC is now the largest antiwar coalition in the United States, with nearly 120 member organizations opposing U.S. wars in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, South Rights, delivered a stirring call for solidarity with young resentatives from Latin American, Canadian, German, activists. Declaring that resistance to the status quo is the Ukrainian, and other organizations opposing U.S. wars only way forward, she called the youth who rebelled in mestic issues, this one was unique in that it was the first conference that ratified a multi-faceted Action Plan ad dressing both domestic and international issues. The conference was sponsored by the United National America and the Caribbean.
The conference included leading activists from the British-based Stop The Wars Coalition as well as rep around the world.
Conference delegates also included a number of now struggles in their home countries— Colombia, Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Mexico, Palestine, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Syria, and Venezuela.
Solidarity messages were received from Cuba, Ireland, New Zealand and Russia.
A total of 116 organizations partici pated in the conference. There were more than 100 speakers, more than half of whom were people of color and women. There were six plenary sessions, 31 work shops, and a Saturday night “Tribunal on the Militariza tion of the Police & Structural Racism.” While UNAC conferences have always addressed do (Left) Black Agenda Report co-editor Glen Ford speaks at UNAC conference. time a national antiwar gathering so clearly took up the need to op pose the war being waged against oppressed communities and work ing people in the United States. In the opening plenary session, Jaribu Hill, founder of the Missis sippi Workers’ Center for Human Baltimore “young Steve Bikos and Harriet Tubmans.”
(continued on page 11, in “United National Antiwar Coalition Action Plan”)
Scan page 2
illegally manipulated currency, interest and exchangerate benchmarks, illegally sold nearly worthless in surance policies, packaged and sold toxic mortgages, evaded taxes, falsified financial reports, inflated prof its, looted pension funds, and otherwise maneuvered to steal trillions of dollars in the panic that ensued with the 2008 crash. While Rome was burning, these corporate looters didn’t fiddle around!
CCP puts the total figure of government-imposed fines levied on the corporate elite at one-quarter of a trillion dollars, ($250 billion) a pittance to be sure. Bank of America alone was forced to hand over some $137 billion in fines for its role in its associates’ sell ing rotten mortgage-backed bonds to unsuspecting investors. To soften the blow, generous government “regulators” allowed B of A to pay their fines with pretax dollars, thus allowing them to write off the fines as losses and lowering taxable income.
JPMorgan Chase, the modern-day heir to the Mor gan and Rockefeller dynasties, has paid some $70 bil lion in fines since 2008 for a whole series of similarly crooked operations. JPMorgan’s fines represented some one-third of its market capitalization of $220 billion.