ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) is an anti-war and social justice coalition with organizing centers across the country. IG: @/answercoalition
Joined March 2010
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🇨🇺As the annual UN resolution vote to lift the blockade on Cuba approaches, we must stand in solidarity with Cuba. Solidarity is not a crime the blockade is!
The Trump administration, Marco Rubio, and ultra-right interventionists want you to believe their genocidal lies. The only threat to the lives of millions of Cubans is the blockade, which blocks food, medicine, and fuel and disrupts everyday life—it is a silent war.
Cuba is not a threat, the blockade is. We say no to the blockade and no to war. Let Cuba Live!
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Last night, Chicagoans took the streets to demand justice for Nolan Wells.
Young Black Americans should not be robbed of their futures. From Chicago to Mississippi, we will continue to fight for justice for Nolan Wells and an end to the war on Black America!
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TODAY: Protesters march by the Minnesota Governor’s Mansion demanding justice for Kohen Wiley and all victims of racist police terror. End the war on Black America! ✊🏾
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Nolan Wells didn’t drown –– and the capitalist state is covering it up. We need a system that fights racism, not protects it.
All across the country, students have been holding walkouts to demand justice –– because his death and the mishandling of it exposes the ongoing war on Black America.
We’ll stay in the streets until the case is reopened, his killers are locked up, and the racist, capitalist system is dismantled. Justice for Nolan Wells!
Read more ➡️ liberationnews.org/how-the-d…
The Pentagon is deploying 600 U.S. troops to Panama, Colombia and Honduras under the guise of fighting a renewed “War on Drugs”.
The U.S. military has no business intervening in Latin America, where it has a history of training death squads, massacring indigenous peoples, and overthrowing sovereign governments. This latest attempt by the U.S. empire to expand control over the Latin American region will not prevail!
U.S. OUT OF LATIN AMERICA!
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🇨🇺 Solidarity is not a crime, the inhumane U.S. blockade on Cuba is. The blockade is a silent genocide, a decades-long war designed by the U.S. government. It is collective punishment aimed at inflicting maximum damage on the island, its people, and their everyday lives.
Last month, during UN General Assembly week, hundreds of peace activists, progressive leaders, and artists filled the Schomburg Center in Harlem for Voices for Peace: Cuba Is Not A Threat. We stood with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez and a powerful lineup of speakers — including Rosemari Mealy (former Black Panther Party member), Rachel Domond (ANSWER Coalition), Dailyn Briñas (Cubans4Cuba), and NYC Council Member Alexa Avilés — to demand an end to the U.S. blockade and its unending threats against Cuban sovereignty.
Together, we declared: the blockade must end. Let Cuba live. Solidarity is not a crime the blockade is!
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🧵 It’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Here’s a list of treaties being violated by the U.S. government:
· 1778 – Treaty with the Delawares
· 1784 – Treaty of Fort Stanwix
· 1785–86 – Treaty of Hopewell
· 1794 – Treaty of Canandaigua
· 1795 – Treaty of Greenville
· 1805 – Treaty with the Sioux
· 1809 – Treaty of Fort Wayne
· 1830 – Indian Removal Act
· 1835 – Treaty of New Echota
· 1836 – Treaty with the Potawatomi
· 1851 – Fort Laramie Treaty
· 1851 – Treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota
· 1852 – Apache Treaty
· 1855 – Treaty of Washington
· 1863 – Nez Perce Treaty
· 1867 – Medicine Lodge Treaty
· 1868 – Fort Laramie Treaty
· 1868 – Navajo Treaty (Long Walk)
· 1877 – Sioux Act (Sell or Starve Act)
· 1887 – Dawes Act
· 1893 – Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii
· 1898 – Annexation of Hawaii
· 1898 – Treaty of Paris (Guam)
· 1898 – Treaty of Paris (Puerto Rico)
· 1900 & 1904 – American Samoa Deeds of Cession
· 1903 – Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock
· 1903 – Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty (Panama Canal Zone)
· 1916 – Treaty of the Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands)
· 1947 – Military Bases Agreement (Philippines)
· 1947–1994 – Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
· 1953 – Public Law 280
· 1975 – Covenant with the Northern Mariana Islands
· 2016 – Dakota Access Pipeline
· 2018 – Keystone XL Pipeline
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The racist deportation machine is bipartisan funded. So how do we end ICE terror for good?
Time and time again, Democrats have failed to deliver comprehensive immigration reform, leaving millions of workers in limbo and vulnerable. Now, Trump and his team of billionaire bigots are empowered to unleash state-sanctioned violence against immigrant communities — threatening the rights and safety of us all.
We won't end ICE terror by relying on the same politicians who built and continue to fund the deportation machine. We need a mass movement powerful enough to dismantle it and win permanent, full and equal rights for all immigrants.
Immigrant workers keep this country running — not billionaires! Abolish ICE!
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HAPPENING NOW: New Yorkers are demanding ICE off their streets after an agent shot a man in the Bronx Thursday afternoon.
The extent of the unidentified man's injuries is unknown. He reportedly had a five-year-old in the car when he was shot.
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TODAY: Chicagoans rally to demand the off-duty CPD officer who shot two people and fired into a crowd be named, charged, and arrested.
COPA reported today that the officer fired two guns at the same time, with some bullets going into people’s homes.
Little Village is at the front lines of state terror from ICE, Border Patrol, and CPD. We need killer cops off our streets, and money instead going to people’s needs!
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VICTORY: A federal judge has dismissed the Trump DOJ’s FACE Act lawsuit against PSL New Jersey and other pro-Palestine protesters!
The court ruled that a social media post calling for protest was protected First Amendment speech—a call to assemble—not a threat of violence.
As U.S. forces leave Iraq, we reflect on the words of anti-war veteran Mike Prysner: “Our enemies are not in the poorest countries on the planet, but right here in the richest one!”
The war on Iraq was a failure—the U.S. was never able to subdue the Iraqi people, who resisted the U.S. invasion until the last day. Bush, Cheney and the architects of the war will be remembered as criminals by people in the U.S. and across the world, who took to the streets in the millions to stand on the side of peace and justice.
From Iraq, to Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine, Yemen, Lebanon and Libya, the U.S. war machine has left a trail of blood across West Asia, waging war after war against sovereign peoples with our tax dollars. It is the responsibility of all people of conscience to fight for a world where our resources are no longer used to wage war, genocide, and occupation!
Continue building the anti-war movement with us: answercoalition.org
ANSWER Coalition retweeted
“They lied about Iraq. They lied about Afghanistan. They lied about Libya. They lied about Palestine. And for more than 6 decades, they have lied about Cuba in order to justify an escalating war.”
- Rachel Domond, @answercoalition
LIVE: youtube.com/live/epdOrAfZd7I
“The people of the U.S. have much more in common with the people of Cuba than we do with the genocidal war hawks and corporate executives in the White House. Cuba is not a threat!”
The people of the United States stand with Cuba against the silent genocide being carried out by our criminal government. Watch the full remarks here: youtube.com/live/epdOrAfZd7I…
🪧 Netanyahu took the podium at the UNGA, so New Yorkers took to the streets!
🇵🇸 Free Palestine and arrest Israeli war criminals!!
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Today marks 25 years since the formation of the ANSWER Coalition (@answercoalition). In the years since its founding, organizers have dedicated two decades to the fight against racism, militarism and war.
Right now, Trump desperately seeks to reassert unipolar dominance in a new era of geopolitics. The U.S. is no longer the world hegemon but that has not softened the brutality and rugged imperialism of the far-right’s agenda.
Read the reflections from Brian Becker (@BrianBeckerDC), a co-founder of the ANSWER Coalition, on the 25th anniversary of its founding.
liberationnews.org/reflectio…
THE ANSWER COALITION: 25 YEARS OF ORGANIZING AGAINST WAR AND RACISM
On September 14, 2001, just three days after the September 11 attacks that killed over 3,000 civilians, a group of organizers formed the ANSWER Coalition, which dedicated itself to relaunching an antiwar movement in the United States.
25 years later, the ANSWER Coalition is committed to continuing to fight against U.S. empire and militarization, at home and abroad!
Read the full statement ➡️ answercoalition.org/25years
In response to the September 11 attacks, the Bush Administration launched an all out campaign inside the US against Arab-Americans, Iranian-Americans, South Asian communities, and Muslim-Americans. Thousands of people were detained not for what they had done but because of who they were. Arab communities were viciously demonized and targeted.
The FBI sent agents into mosques around the country. People were recruited as spies against their own communities rather than be sent to prison on trumped up charges. Twenty five years later it is hard for people who were not there or who were too young or maybe not yet born to understand the gravity of the anti-Arab hysteria that was generated inside the US by the “War on Terror.”
Because the ANSWER Coalition prioritized campaigns against racism and linked them to the larger war drive the Coalition built a bridge between the US antiwar movement and the besieged communities that continues to this day.
ANSWER has played a major role in integrating these communities into the larger antiwar movement rather than allowing them to stand alone in the face of a racist assault against their basic democratic rights.