Today in labor history April 28, 1967: Muhammad Ali refused to be drafted to fight in Vietnam. Consequently, he was stripped of his boxing title and threatened with jail. The judge sentenced him, in part, for statements such as this one: “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?”

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/-muhammad-ali-convicted-refusing-vietnam-draft

Today in Labor History April 22, 1996: Peace activists Tom & Donna Howard-Hastings celebrated Earth Day 1996 by cutting down three power poles in Clam Lake, Wisconsin, preventing the launch of the U.S. Navy's first-strike nuclear submarine. They stapled an indictment against nuclear war to one of the poles and signed it "with disarming love, Tom & Donna." The district attorney charged them with criminal damage to property and sabotage. However, a jury found them not guilty of sabotage. This was just the fourth time in 16 years that members of the Plowshares antinuclear movement were acquitted of such charges. From 1980-1995, there had been 57 trials of antinuclear activists on sabotage charges. In northern Wisconsin, these direct actions focused on Extremely Low-Frequency transmitters, known as ELF, used to communicate with submerged nuclear submarines.

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Journalist and anti war activist Dave DeCamp from Antiwar.com, also has a YouTube channel. Very useful if you don't have time to read the news and you like independent press, away from corporate media propaganda. This is it, hope you like it:

https://www.youtube.com/@antiwarnews

To those whose red line is not genocide, those vote blue no matter who white moderates, those politically expedient lesser of two evils liberals-- at least fight against the theft of your soul.

#FreePalestine #humanrights #apartheid #palestine #endtheoccupation #sanctionisrael #genocide #antizionist #antifacist #resistance #fromtherivertothesea #books #warmachine #antiwar #peace #liberal #democrat #VBNMW #democracy
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Today in Labor History April 12, 1935: 150,000 college students protested across the U.S. in the first nationwide student strike against war. Between 1936 and 1939, the movement mobilized at least 500,000 college students (almost 50% of all American college students at the time) in annual one-hour strikes against war.

#AntiWar #Nostalgia...
A few years later, after the invasion of Laos, Cambodia, National Students strike! The moratorium moved to DC and we TRASHED IT. It wuz GOOD. Every reachable by rock window at NIXon's DOJ was broken. Then we moved out to the White House, which was surrounded by city buses that had brought pigs from all over the region.

It was a Riotous good time. Got to warm my hands over a burning pig motorcycle. REAL #Hippies #Riots and save the partying and trips for decompression

@palestine solidarity protest in #WashingtonDC #USA standing against the #genocide of white colonial @israel settlers & #zioNAZI terrorists against the indigenous civilian population, not limited to @gaza ...
https://youtu.be/pJf6ekLym1U

We must speak out against #trumps #donaldBombs #warcrimal #nethanyahu and simultaneously against #genocideJoe #KillaryClinton and the rest of the #militaryindustrialcomplex

#defundWAR #defundPentagon & #ethniccleansing #antiFascism #antiCensorship #antiWAR
#HandsOff #Palestine #Syria #Yemen #Iran

"You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide. Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands. How dare you all celebrate when Microsoft is killing children. Shame on you all."

https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-employee-disrupts-50th-anniversary-over-israel-ai-contracts-2000585448

Solidarity with Ibtihal Aboussad, and everyone brave enough to speak up to those in power.

The growing movement of the working class in #Belgium is developing under conditions of rising opposition to the #militarism which has gripped the ruling class continent-wide.

#GeneralStrike #AntiWar #Protest #Politics #Europe #EUpol
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Today In Labor History April 3, 1917: After the U.S. declared war, sailors, escorted by police, destroyed the IWW building in Kansas City. The action inspired similar attacks in Detroit, Duluth and other towns that had a large IWW presence.

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The story of a former US intelligence office now turned anti-war activist.
17 years in the US military, Trump voter in 2016 and then having to deal with the realization that all of her life was a based on lies.
One quote: "I no longer recognise Israel as a sovereign state"

ps: The interviewer is kinda creepy but she is a good speaker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJA8zNOjCDg&t=124s

So, they are also coming for pro #Ukraine / #AntiRussia students and professors. Evidence that #Trump is SUCKING UP to #Putin! WHERE WILL IT END?! #RESIST!

#KseniyaPetrova, Russian scientist from Harvard Medical School detained in U.S., faces deportation and likely arrest upon return due to #AntiWar stance

The Insider
27 March 2025

"A Russian scientist working at Harvard Medical School has been detained in the United States and placed in immigration detention. According to multiple independent Russian media outlets and the scientist’s friends, she now faces possible deportation to Russia, where she could be subject to political persecution over her anti-war stance.

"The news of her detention was shared on Facebook by her friend and colleague Cora Anderson. Friends of the scientist also launched a GoFundMe campaign, which has already raised over $14,000 to support her legal and living expenses.
'#Kseniia is in danger,' a person familiar with the case told the Telegram channel Mozhem Obyasnit’ (lit. “We Can Explain”).

"Kseniia, a Russian bioinformatics researcher, arrived in Boston from the #RepublicOfGeorgia in the spring of 2023 to work at Harvard Medical School. She had been compelled to leave Russia due to her outspoken anti-war stance, which could have led to criminal charges back home. While her surname was not disclosed in the original posts, Mozhem Obyasnit’ was able to locate her Facebook page, suggesting her name is Kseniya (Kseniia) Petrova, a graduate of MIPT (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology). Her page includes multiple posts criticizing the Russian government and denouncing the invasion of Ukraine. Petrova's page on Linkedin listed her as an associate researcher at Harvard Medical School working in Dr. Marc Kirschner's lab in the Department of Systems Biology.

"On Feb. 16, after returning from a trip to France, she was detained at Boston Logan International Airport, where her visa was revoked. When Kseniia stated that she feared persecution if she were to return to Russia, she was transferred to immigration detention, first in Vermont, then in Louisiana. She is now being held in an ICE detention facility, in a room shared with 80 other women. The exact reason for the cancellation of her visa has not been disclosed by her friends."

Read more:
https://theins.ru/en/news/280037
#Resistance #ResistAuthoritarianism #ResistDOGE #TrumpIsABully #TrumpIsPutinsPuppet #FreeUkraine #FreePalestine #FuckOligarchs #USPol #WorldPol

Today In Labor History March 26, 1918: American anarchist Philip Grosser wrote about being tortured in the prison on Alcatraz Island, while serving time there for refusing to serve in World War I. By 1920, he was the only draft resistor still serving time at Alcatraz. Alexander Berkman referred to him as "one of [my] finest comrades."

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Today in Labor History March 23, 1918: 101 IWW members went on trial in Chicago for opposing World War I and for violating the Espionage Act. In September, 1917, 165 IWW leaders were arrested for conspiring to subvert the draft and encourage desertion. Their trial lasted five months, the longest criminal trial in American history up to that time. The jury found them all guilty. The judge sentenced Big Bill Haywood and 14 others to 20 years in prison. 33 others were given 10 years each. They were also fined a total of $2,500,000. The trial virtually destroyed the IWW. Haywood jumped bail and fled to the USSR, where he remained until his death 10 years later.

Well a bigger #war is #forecast and has been for some time, if France is preparing then all #countries better start as of today...

Charley’s Oorlog - Het einde - Pat Mills & Joe Colquhoun

Russia delivers main ceasefire demands to US - Reuters

No NATO membership for Ukraine

No NATO "peacekeepers" in Ukraine

Ukraine is denazified/demilitarised

The 4 Donbass regions are recognised as Russian territories plus Crimea

https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1900113365630099590

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Today in Labor History March 13, 1979: The Marxist New Jewel movement, led by Maurice Bishop, overthrew the prime minister of Grenada. Bishop led the People’s Revolutionary Government of Grenada until 1983, when he was overthrown and executed in a coup supported by the U.S. Bishop supported anti-racist struggles around the world and the fight to end Apartheid. Under his leadership, Granada gave women equal pay to men and provided paid maternity leave. They also banned sexual discrimination and introduced free public health and literacy programs that brought the national illiteracy rate from 35% down to 5%. In 1983, the U.S. invaded Granada. 19 U.S. soldiers and 45 Grenadian soldiers died in the fighting that ensued. The invasion effectively ended the so-called “Vietnam Syndrome,” where U.S. leaders feared that overt regime change, with U.S. boots on the ground, would spark large antiwar protests, like those that rocked the nation in the 1960s and early 70s. The Grenada invasion paved the way for much more aggressive interventions like Panama, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria.