Friday Jul 24, 4pm Honolulu, 7pm Los Angeles, 8pm Ciudad de Mexico
Saturday July 25: 9am Jakarta, 10am Manila, 11am Jayapura, 12pm Melbourne

Register: https://tinyurl.com/resist-july-webinar

Join us for a critical webinar focusing on how U.S. military exercises in the Asia-Pacific under PACOM widely spread repression and violence against people's movements and struggles for self-determination. 

In addition to the well-documented harms to the land and people that U.S. war games bring, speakers will share first hand testimony of the counterinsurgency and suppression tactics of governments that go hand in hand with exercises. People who resist the occupation of their land, genocide and ecocide against their people, are targeted by state counterinsurgency operations, under the name of “security”, “counter terrorism” or “national development” that, in truth, slaughter and massacre civilians and criminalize just resistance.

This repression sparks even more resistance! Our anti-war movements must rally and support people's movements for self-determination and expose these U.S. backed military attacks.

The continued surge in simultaneous multi-front exercises across the region, including the U.S.'s largest-ever Balikatan (Philippines), Valiant Shield (Guam, Hawai'i and Japan), RIMPAC (Hawai'i), Pitch Black (Australia), Super Garuda Shield (Indonesia), Freedom Shield (Korea) reflects a shift toward a more well connected and interoperable alliance architecture designed to wage wars of suppression against the people, while continuing the build-up toward large scale war with China. 

The webinar will advance the ongoing People's Caravan Against War Drills campaign and the call to struggle for sovereignty, while making clear how resisting these exercises is integral to broader liberation struggles.⁩

The Resist US-Led War Movement,  International League of People's Struggles–U.S. and the United National Anti-War Coalition are planning a Peace Forum on May 30, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in the Bay Area. Doors open at 6pm.

Please register by May 25th for further details. The forum will be in person in the Bay Area and online.
RSVP: tinyurl.com/may30-nationalforum 

The aim of this peace forum is to strengthen the anti-war, anti-imperialist struggle in the U.S. against wars of aggression and plunder.

The event is part of a national series of peace forums designed to gather anti-war concerns from across the country; strengthening our local and national fights against war corporations, military bases and exercises, and U.S.-backed puppet governments that commit human rights violations.

Join the Resist U.S.-Led War Movement, ILPS-U.S. and UNAC in the major fights to come!

The forum will feature an international situationer, a panel of activists from the Palestinian, Black liberation, Native, Filipino, and Hawaiian anti-war struggles on current campaigns and tactics, and a open forum for discussion towards unified plans of action.

Speakers will include:

• Honor the Earth
• Ho'opae Pono Peace Project
• Black Alliance for Peace
• BAYAN USA
• Resist U.S. Led War Movement
• Palestinian Youth Movement
• Anti-War Action Network
  

Join us to hear from active anti-war campaigns being waged across the country and learn how you can take further action to escalate and strengthen our fight against the U.S. war machine arm in arm with struggles for liberation. 

We are honored to announce our speakers:

• Krystal Two Bulls, Oglala Lakota/ Northern Cheyenne, U.S. Veteran and executive director of Honor the Earth
  
• Jon Marcantoni Rosa, Puerto Rican U.S. Army Veteran and founder of Flamboyán Theatre, Colorado
  
• Sonia Santiago, founder of Madres Contra la Guerra, Puerto Rico
  
• Coco, National Secretary General, Juventúd Unida por la Independencia, New York
  
• Gerry Condon, Vietnam era GI resister, Board of Veterans for Peace, US
  

The recent joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran expose the true nature of these campaigns as wars of aggression, not defense. Just as the 2003 Iraq invasion was built on the lie of "weapons of mass destruction," current threats against Iran rely on US lies. Leading up to the Feb. 28 strikes, the Trump regime spewed blatant lies about Iran's intention to develop nuclear weapons, in the same vein as the false pretense of "weapons of mass destruction" that was used to justify the 2003 war on Iraq. Trump also fear-mongered that the "Iranian regime seeks to kill" and is an imminent threat to the US.

This is not about protecting American citizens; it is about enforcing U.S. and Israeli dominance in the region through regime change, following a playbook that has already murdered millions of people in Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Libya, Lebanon and Afghanistan. The U.S. narratives of bringing "democracy" to Iran are paper thin - as Trump himself is saying he will decide who the new leader of Iran will be. Trump is appealing to other nations - from Kurdistan to Ukraine to try and wrangle soldiers to send as boots on the ground in another move of desperation. The U.S. has no grounds or right to intervene in, station its military bases in, or bomb other countries to pursue its agenda, using diplomacy as distraction tactics in Geneva to conceal its true, fascistic intentions. The U.S. government’s actions, from unlawful interventions in Venezuela to the blockade of Cuba, prove that it operates as the primary source of terror and instability in the world today.

Our anti-war movements have a clear stance: from veterans, to families of service members, to young people considering enlistment - we will not fight or die in U.S. wars for imperialism and Zionism. There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people in this utterly depraved and criminal US war against Iran, Lebanon and Palestine. Young people are organizing against enlisting in the military knowing full well that they will be used as expendable cannon fodder in these illegal wars. The crisis of our current systems causes extreme poverty, lack of education opportunities - creating a poverty draft and pipeline that funnels the desperate into uniform to die for the profits of foreign occupation of the US elite and war profiteers, especially exploiting Black, brown, migrant and Indigenous poor communities. U.S. veterans who have carried out America's wars from Vietnam to Iraq are campaigning to resist this dangerous and illegal war against Iran. There are legal mechanisms to request conscientious objection, and organizations that can guide those who decide not to participate in acts of war. Soldiers are already coming back to the US draped in American Flags in coffins. Veterans organizations are preparing and calling on GI's to resist illegal orders from Minneapolis to Tehran.

Hear from activists: GI's resisting illegal orders, Conscientious Objectors, Mothers Against the War and Anti-war Youth organizing counter recruitment speaking out against the war on Iran. Historically, these voices together in the anti-war movement have played a critical role to grow the popular dissent against US wars. Let us learn from these lessons and unite to Resist U.S. Endless Wars today!

No War! No Military Build Up! U.S. Out Now!
March 27 4pm PDT | 7pm EDT
Register: tinyurl.com/nowar-nobuildup-part1

On behalf of Resist US-led War Movement, Prutehi Guahan, Diaspora Pa'lante Collective and Juventud Unida por la Independencia, we invite you to our 3 part series:

Facing massive assaults and Trump's new round of strikes and war against Palestine, Lebanon, Venezuela, Iran and Cuba, we aim to expose the U.S. military crimes against our people and unite our struggles against our common enemy of US imperialist aggression.

This conversation-style online forum will highlight grassroots resistance to U.S. wars today, especially the major build up to war between the U.S. and China. Activists from the countries caught in the cross hairs and directly under fire in today’s US-led wars will speak on their resistance to war games, military base expansion, economic strangulation, predatory recruitment, troop and equipment staging and sexual violence. The current wars and the preparation for future wars have devastating impacts on neocolonies from Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Hawai’i to Guahan and the countries asserting independence like Cuba and Venezuela. Today’s liberation struggles worldwide are key in the resistance against US aggression and war. Join us for an online conversation to strengthen our unity and exchange lessons from the struggle. The event will include a facilitated panel of activists, cultural performances and opportunities for discussion.

March 27: Hear from movements in Cuba, Korea, Haiti and Puerto Rico
April 10: Hear from movements in the Philippines Trinidad and Tobago, Okinawa and Guahan
May (date tbd): Hear from movements in Japan, Venezuela and Hawai'i

Español
¡No a la Guerra! ¡ No a Preparativos Militares! ¡Yanqui Fuera!
27 de marzo, 16:00 PDT | 19:00 EDT
Inscripción: tinyurl.com/nowar-nobuildup-part1

En nombre de Movimiento de Resistencia a la Guerra Dirigida por EE.UU., Prutehi Guahan, Diaspora Pa'lante Collective y Juventud Unida por la Independencia, les invitamos a nuestra serie de 3 partes:

Ante los ataques masivos y la nueva ronda de ataques y guerra de Trump contra Palestina, Líbano, Venezuela, Irán y Cuba, nuestro objetivo es denunciar los crímenes militares de Estados Unidos contra nuestro pueblo y unir nuestras luchas contra nuestro enemigo común: la agresión imperialista estadounidense.

Este foro en línea, con formato de conversación, destacará la resistencia popular a las guerras estadounidenses actuales, especialmente la escalada bélica entre Estados Unidos y China. Activistas de los países directamente afectados por las guerras lideradas por Estados Unidos hablarán sobre su resistencia a los ejercicios militares, la expansión de bases militares, el estrangulamiento económico, el reclutamiento militar abusivo, el despliegue de tropas y equipo, y la violencia sexual. Las guerras actuales y la preparación para futuras guerras tienen consecuencias devastadoras para las neocolonias, desde Puerto Rico, Filipinas y Hawái hasta Guam y para los países que proclaman su independencia, como Cuba y Venezuela. Las luchas de liberación que se viven hoy en día en todo el mundo son fundamentales para la resistencia contra la agresión y la guerra estadounidenses. Únase a nosotros en esta conversación virtual para fortalecer nuestra unidad e intercambiar experiencias de la lucha. El evento incluirá un panel moderado de activistas, presentaciones culturales y oportunidades para el debate.

27 de marzo: Aprender de los movimientos en Cuba, Corea, Haití y Puerto Rico.
10 de abril: Aprender de los movimientos en Filipinas, Trinidad y Tobago, Okinawa y Guam.
Mayo (fecha por determinar): Aprender de los movimientos en Japón, Venezuela y Hawái.