Eight Year Old Nawar al-Awlaki, Nine Others, Killed by U.S. Forces in Yemen

February 1, 2017 – Today Donald Trump went to an air force base as the remains of a Navy Seal who died in Yemen arrived. That soldier was part of a raiding force of U.S. troops in Yemen. These soldiers were allegedly “gathering evidence”. In their raid they killed at least ten women and children, […]

New York City Bodegas Will Shut Down To Protest The Immigration Ban

Days after New York City cab drivers went on strike to protest President Trump’s executive order on immigration, another community of immigrants central to the life of the city are planning a strike of their own. Bodega owners — a trade where Yemeni Americans are well represented in New York City — plan to close […]

Don’t Think It Can’t Happen Here

My father was born in a small town in Germany, in 1922.  The times were very uncertain and his father, my grandfather Alfred, had trouble finding work, but by the early 1930s Alfred and a partner, a man named Lache, had opened a garage where they fixed cars and motorcycles from England and the United […]

Protesting Trump in London

About 1000 people demonstrated in front of the US Embassy in London as Trump was inaugurated, and then took to the streets of central London in an impromptu unauthorized protest to shut down the streets. The next day up to 100,000 people, a majority women, assembled in front of the US Embassy and then marched to […]

Chicago: Rally to Stop Trump’s #SwampCabinet and to Say #NOBANNOWALL!

Chicago, January 31: About 200 people protested Trump’s cabinet picks, particularly Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos – a Christian fundamentalist who is anti public education. At the end of the rally, over 50 people marched up State St. with chants like “No Muslim Ban, No Border Wall! No Fascist USA!”