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USPC Statement on APSP / Uhuru Movement

admin — July 28, 2023 add comment

As the July 29 one-year anniversary of the FBI raids on properties belonging to the African People’s Socialist Party, its solidarity committee and the Uhuru Movement passes, the US Peace Council condemns... Read more »

International Fund Drive in Support of Earthquake Victims in Syria

admin — March 20, 2023 add comment

The U.S. Peace Council (USPC) and the World Peace Council (WPC) have started a joint international fundraising campaign in support of the victims of the recent catastrophic earthquake in Syria, who are... Read more »

STATEMENT by the MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS of Cuba, BRUNO RODRÍGUEZ, at the High-Level Segment of the 52nd Regular Session of the Human Rights Council. Geneva, 28 February 2023

admin — February 28, 2023 add comment

(Unofficial translation from Spanish) Mr. President, Far from encouraging the construction of a more solidary and cooperative world, inequalities, poverty, hunger and exclusion are multiplying. A tiny minority enjoys the exponential increase... Read more »

Ukraine War: Those Who Fail to Call for Negotiations, Fail to Understand the Dangerous Predicament That Faces the Planet!

admin — January 25, 2023 1 comment

U.S. Peace Council, January 25, 2023 — At no time since the Cuban missile crisis has our world has been so close to disaster. As the war in Ukraine approaches its first... Read more »

Speech at the WPC’s Hanoi Peace Conference — November 25, 2022, Hanoi, Vietnam

admin — December 1, 2022 add comment

Bahman Azad President, U.S. Peace Council, Coordinator, Global Campaign Against US/NATO Military Bases Fraternal greetings to all of our comrades and friends. Thanks to the World Peace Council and our respected sister... Read more »

The Crisis of Western Imperialism and the Imperative of War and Repression

admin — December 1, 2022 add comment

Presentation at World Anti-Imperialist Conference Ajamu Baraka, Member of Secretariat, U.S. Peace Council Hanoi, Vietnam, November 25, 2022 History demands: Turn Imperialist wars into wars against imperialism Comrades, brothers, and... Read more »

Stop Using Human Tragedies to Instigate “Velvet Revolution” in Iran!

admin — October 3, 2022 3 comments

U.S. Peace Council October 2, 2022 The United States Peace Council is deeply concerned about current events in Iran and the international reaction to them. As an initial matter, the USPC unequivocally... Read more »

Stop All Provocations Against China!

admin — August 5, 2022 3 comments

The U.S. Peace Council condemns in strongest terms the latest U.S. government provocation against the People’s Republic of China and against peace in the world. Read more »

Open Letter to the Government of the United States and the United Nations

Open Letter to the Government of the United States and the United Nations

Mr. Joseph R. Biden Jr.
President of the United States

Mr. António Guterres
Secretary General of the United Nations

The global spread of COVID-19 has exposed the illegal and immoral practice of imposing unilateral coercive measures (economic sanctions) by the United States government against more than thirty nations. The government of the United States is now using the public distraction caused by the pandemic to intensify its military actions against the targeted nations.

The economic war against those nations had already resulted in unimaginable suffering of the people in the targeted nations even before the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the devastation of the global pandemic, the targeted countries — especially Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Syria and Zimbabwe — are finding it prohibitively difficult to protect and save the lives of their citizens in the face of the ongoing global emergency. These sanctions constitute crimes against humanity.

As a concerned citizen of the world, I call upon the United States government to:</p>

End its economic sanctions against all targeted countries immediately.
Unfreeze the financial assets and bank accounts of the targeted countries so that they can purchase and receive the necessary food, medicine and medical equipment and supplies needed to combat the pandemic.
Stop all military threats and actions against the targeted countries, including the removal of U.S. Navy warships dispatched to Venezuela under the false pretense of “War on Drugs.”
Drop the baseless charge of “Drug Trafficking” against the President Nicolás Maduro and other officials of the government of Venezuela.
Respect the call issued by the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, for a global ceasefire.

I call upon the Secretary General of the United Nations and the leading bodies of the United Nations to invoke the articles of the UN Charter to demand respect for international law by the government of the United States.

I also call upon the UN Security Council to lift all UN-imposed sanctions against the targeted countries as well.

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Sign the USPC Petition: Cut the Runaway Military Budget!

CUT THE MILITARY BUDGET!
REDIRECT FUNDS TO GREEN JOBS AND TO OUR COMMUNITIES!

We are appalled by continues pouring of our national treasure into the wasteful and destructive military budget. Throwing our resources into promoting war and militarism steals resources needed for ourselves, our neighbors and our communities and prevents creating jobs that produce goods and services desperately needed by the American people.

We call on Congress to fully reject this military budget. We call on Congress to reverse course, to significantly reduce the military budget, ensure the livelihood of workers in the war industries and redirect the money saved to all human needs — green jobs, health care, education, food security, clean air and water and veterans benefits, among others.

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