Rhode Island Anti-War Committee

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4. Ban all nuclear weapons.
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RI Antiwar Committee points of Unity
Rhode Island Antiwar Committee (RIAC)
1. and NATO military operations and interventions on foreign soil.
2: End all US aid to Israel. Solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for full human rights and self determination.
3. End U.S. economic sanctions against sovereign nations.
6. End the embargo/blockade against Cuba. Close the U.S. prison in Guantánamo.
7. Su

pport and fully implement the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Abide by international law.
8. Restore civil liberties; Repeal the Patriot Act, end mass surveillance including the weaponization of Artificial Intelligence.
9. Free all political prisoners.
10. We don’t believe that the ruling classes should dominate the world or make the rules.
11. Militarism is a huge financial burden. Convert the war economy to programs supporting human needs such as universal health care and free education.
12. Support a multi-polar world not dominated by any one nation.
13. Close all U.S. military bases across the globe.
14. Unlike the current United Nations, no powerful countries should have veto power. Equal rights are needed. RHODE ISLAND
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Ending endless US wars!
06/05/2026

Ending endless US wars!

06/04/2026

PROTEST U.S. WAR ON IRAN. Friday, June 5, 4 PM in Providence.
Join with the RI Anti-War Committee to stand against American militarism. Demand a permanent end to the U.S./Israel war on Iran. Stop the oil embargo on Cuba. No more aid to Israel and support self-determination for the Palestinian people. Call for the U.S. to sign on to the UN Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons. We meet every Tuesday and Friday at 4 PM at the intersection of Francis and Gaspee Streets across from the Providence Place Mall. Bring friends, signs and banners. Share our Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1652836472530226/1652836499196890. Help spread the word. We need your help.
State of Affairs in Gaza. In May, the High Representative in Gaza for Trump’s Board of Peace met with the media. He reported that in February the Gulf states pledged $7 billion for reconstruction in Gaza while the U.S. pledged $10 billion over 10 years. Last year Egypt estimated that about $60 billion would be needed to rebuild Gaza. He also said that Israel has ramped up its attacks on Gaza since the ceasefire with Iran began. Israel has killed 120 Gazans during this time. Since last October, Israel has killed over 900 Palestinians in Gaza. Israeli attacks in Gaza rose 35% in April compared to March.
While the Board of Peace has grown frustrated with Hamas’ refusal to disarm, the High Representative, Nickolay Mladenov, stated that Israel has not met its ceasefire obligations under Trump’s plan either. They include humanitarian access to Gaza, an end to Israeli strikes on Gaza and an unfettered opening of the Rafah crossing. At the beginning of the Israeli/U.S. war on Iran, the Rafah crossing was closed and no aid was allowed into Gaza. Now an average of 250 aid trucks are allowed into Gaza daily instead of the 600 trucks that were allowed in before the war. Israel also restricts materials that it considers “dual-use” (that Hamas could use militarily). These include fuel, medical equipment, tents and building materials.
On weekdays, Israel allows 150 sick and wounded Gazans to cross into Egypt for treatment and it allows the same number to re-enter Gaza, but it won’t let more people into Gaza than leave it. At the start of the Israel/Hamas ceasefire last October, Israel controlled 53% of Gaza. Now Israel controls about 60% of Gaza and intends to continue its expansion of control and squeeze the Palestinians into an even smaller area.
In an effort to entice Hamas to disarm, the Board of Peace made an offer that stated Hamas wouldn’t have to disarm until the militias comprised of Palestinian clans that are armed and supported by Israel also disarmed. Meanwhile the Board has been recruiting Gazans to make up a new police/security force. Police officers who have worked under Hamas would be allowed to enlist in the new force. However, officers recruited for this new force need to be trained in Egypt or Jordan and Israel will not allow that.
(information for this post came from Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper)

No wars on the global south - free Palestine, no war on IranRI Antiwar Committee at RI statehouse
06/02/2026

No wars on the global south - free Palestine, no war on Iran
RI Antiwar Committee at RI statehouse

06/01/2026

PROTEST U.S. WAR ON IRAN. Tuesday, June 2, 4 PM in Providence
Stand with the RI Anti-War Committee to demand that the U.S. end its war on Iran. Let Cuba live. End the oil embargo. Call for a halt to U.S. aid to Israel and instead, provide sufficient humanitarian aid for the Palestinians. Stop all U.S. military incursions around the world. We meet every Tuesday and Friday at 4 PM at the intersection of Francis and Gaspee Streets across from the Providence Place Mall. Bring friends, signs and banners. Share our Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/979603801563634/979603818230299.
Help spread the word.
China’s Gain in Biotech Raises Alarm. This is the headline from a recent NYT article. A reader could be forgiven for thinking China has developed a new biological weapon that will soon be released on innocent Americans. But no, the article is actually about China’s rapidly developing biotechnology industry. The threat referred to is actually to the dominance of American companies in the biotechnology field. Once lagging far behind in the development of new drugs, China is now a powerhouse in creating and testing cutting-edge medicines. U.S. officials and pharmaceutical executives are concerned that America will lose its position as the leader in biotechnical development. U.S. biotech companies say that they are having trouble keeping up with Chinese companies’ rates of producing research papers, patents on new drugs and clinical trials. Thus, it is not a concern about the health of the American people, but a worry about maintaining the huge profits of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry.
Once again, we see China overtaking the U.S. in an important economic sector. They have achieved a lead in the fields of renewable energy and now seem ready to do the same in biotechnology. The Trump administration continues its strategy of trying to dominant China and curtail its development. It doesn’t seem to be working. Trump may want to reconsider his attacks on and suppression of universities and scientific research.

05/29/2026

PROTEST U.S. WAR ON IRAN. Friday, May 29, 4 PM in Providence
Join with the RI Anti-War Committee to stand against American militarism. Demand a permanent end to the U.S./Israel war on Iran. Stop the oil embargo on Cuba. No more aid to Israel and support self-determination for the Palestinian people. Call for the U.S. to sign on to the UN Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons. We meet every Tuesday and Friday at 4 PM at the intersection of Francis and Gaspee Streets across from the Providence Place Mall. Bring friends, signs and banners. Share our Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1652836472530226/1652836495863557.
Help spread the word.
A.I. vs Labor in China and the U.S. A recent court ruling in China said that a company had illegally laid off a worker who was replaced by A.I. software. Along with other rulings by Chinese courts the message to companies is that the growing use of A.I. must be balanced by recognition of workers’ rights and interests. This is a far cry from the policies of the U.S. government which prioritizes increasing the benefits and wealth of the rich rather than the interests of the working class. A Chinese arbitration panel ruled that as companies benefit from increasing the use of A.I., they must also protect workers’ rights. This is only the start of a long struggle as the growth of A.I. threatens to increase joblessness, but China is trying to deal with the issue while the U.S. government continues to ignore it.
Ceasefires no longer mean what they used to. Over 900 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed by Israel since the current ceasefire was declared last October. During this time only 4 Israelis have been killed in their occupation of Gaza. In Lebanon, over 3,000 people have been killed by Israeli bombings while about a dozen Israeli soldiers have died since a ceasefire was engineered by the Trump administration. Yet Trump wants the Arab world to embrace Israel and normalize relations. Truly these are strange, dark times.

Graduation for Palestine @ Brown University, Providence RI
05/23/2026

Graduation for Palestine @ Brown University, Providence RI

RI Anti war committee- NO US war on CUBA, Iran, Lebanon, Russia, Venezuela, China. Defeat the war mongers
05/22/2026

RI Anti war committee- NO US war on CUBA, Iran, Lebanon, Russia, Venezuela, China. Defeat the war mongers

05/21/2026

PROTEST U.S. WAR ON IRAN. Friday, May 22, 4 PM in Providence
Join with the RI Anti-War Committee to stand against American militarism. Demand a permanent end to the U.S./Israel war on Iran. Stop the oil embargo on Cuba. No more aid to Israel and support self-determination for the Palestinian people. Call for the U.S. to sign on to the UN Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons. We meet every Tuesday and Friday at 4 PM at the intersection of Francis and Gaspee Streets across from the Providence Place Mall. Bring friends, signs and banners. Share our Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1652836472530226/1652836489196891.
Help spread the word.
America’s Folly. President Trump has never been so unpopular, yet he maintains a strangle hold on the Republican Party. Recent primary elections showed that Trump can unseat nearly any congress member who he opposes. He had the audacity to get a $1.8 billion slush fund created so that people who felt they were “persecuted” by the Biden administration could get financial compensation. Now it looks like he has backed himself into a corner where he will have no choice but to restart the war against Iran. Netanyahu, who needs the war for his political survival, has been urging Trump to attack.
Is his upping the pressure on Cuba a ploy to distract attention from his failures in dealing with Iran? Trump seems to think regime change in Cuba will be as easy as the kidnapping of Maduro from Venezuela was. Americans are about to be snookered again. The U.S. government has indicted Raul Castro for the shooting down of two planes 30 years ago at the same time it conducts a murderous campaign of blowing up boats in international waters that has killed nearly 200 people.
How was this man elected?

05/18/2026

PROTEST U.S. WAR ON IRAN. Tuesday, May 19, 4 PM in Providence
Stand with the RI Anti-War Committee to demand that the U.S. end its war on Iran. Let Cuba live. End the oil embargo. Call for a halt to U.S. aid to Israel and instead, provide sufficient humanitarian aid for the Palestinians. Stop all U.S. military incursions around the world. We meet every Tuesday and Friday at 4 PM at the intersection of Francis and Gaspee Streets across from the Providence Place Mall. Bring friends, signs and banners. Share our Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/979603801563634/979603811563633.
Help spread the word.
Israeli Bases, U.S. Debt, and the Question.
Unbeknown to the U.S. and Iraq (really?), Israel constructed two bases in the southwest desert of Iraq over the last year. They were used as forward operating sites for Israel’s attack on Iran. One base was accidently discovered by an Iraqi Bedouin in his pickup on his way to pick up supplies. He was chased away by gunfire, and then by a helicopter gunship which eventually killed him and torched his truck. The killing was witnessed by fellow Bedouins. Upon investigation, Iraqi officials said that, yes, there was a second base as well. This is like the Old West on steroids. There are no rules, morals or standards of behavior. Might makes right, and if you don’t like it, well, that’s too bad.
In case you missed it, the U.S. federal debt just surpassed the U.S. total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for a twelve-month period. This is only the second time since WWII that this milestone has been reached. The first was for a very short time in 1946. What is noteworthy this time is that the federal debt is projected to continue to increase. By 2056, the Congressional Budget Office expects the federal debt to reach 175% of the U.S. GDP. What this means is that the federal government has to issue Treasury Notes just to pay for the interest on the debt which alone now exceeds the defense budget. Note that Hegseth has asked for $1.5 trillion for defense in the coming budget year. Other causes for the increasing federal debt include paying for the 2008 fiscal crisis, the growing expense for caring for an aging population and the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy. Hold on to your hat.
Last week Trump already had answered the Question (why can’t Iran have a nuclear weapon). He said that it’s because the “Iranians are crazy.” This from a self-certified genius who has bragged about passing several cognitive tests. If any country is a danger to use a nuclear weapon, it’s Israel and the U.S., who’ve shown no reluctance to attack other countries. The only solution to nuclear weapon proliferation is world-wide nuclear disarmament. A good place to start is for the U.S. to get onboard and sign the U.N. Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons.

At screening of Nakba film with PSL
05/16/2026

At screening of Nakba film with PSL

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