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Rhode Island Anti-War Committee holds events weekly. Please like and follow our page to stay updated. Oppose all U.S. Disband NATO.
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. Support 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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11/02/2025

To Every Orange Tree in Palestine art exhibit at AS220 Nov 1-28, 2025. Piece is by our comrade, Michel Schtakleff. Name: FENCE
Exhibit is curated by RISD Students for Justice in Palestine

10/30/2025

JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE. Friday, October 31, 4 PM in Providence
Join with the RI Anti-War Committee to stand against American militarism and call for an end to U.S.-backed wars. End aid to Israel and support self-determination for the Palestinians. No attacks on Venezuela, Iran or any other country. 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. Help spread the word.
On Again, Off Again. That could refer to Trump’s tariffs or Israel’s adherence to the ceasefire plan. In either case, Trump’s vacillations, inconsistencies, and plain foolishness are causing confusion at best and needless deaths at worse. What is a ceasefire worth if Israel can unleash its powerful military and kill over 100 Palestinians overnight, including many women and children, when one Israeli soldier is killed? It’s not a level battlefield when a militant, possibly acting on his own, shoots an Israeli soldier and the Israeli government retaliates with its jet fighters and artillery to slaughter Palestinian civilians. After all, Hamas has admitted that it is not in contact with many of its fighters while Israel with its ministers having at their disposal tanks, drones and advanced communication abilities makes conscious decisions to kill and destroy. By the way, Israel is still bombing and shelling Lebanon despite a truce being in force there.
As far as Trump’s tariff wars go, the U.S. is pretty much back where it was several months ago when Trump started this round of trade conflict with China. The Chinese have shown that they are willing to go toe-to-toe with the U.S. and stand up to Trump’s bullying. By withholding their rare earth minerals and magnets, China has shown it has cards to play. Trump is claiming a win by gaining a one-year moratorium on China’s restrictions on the export of rare earth resources, but it may be short-lived. Analysts say it will take the U.S. at least five years to develop its own rare earth industry. So who is ahead? Let’s see. China has the lead on battery technology, affordable electric vehicles, green energy development, high speed trains and secure satellite transmissions. The U.S. has its guns, bombs and a declining standard of living.

10/27/2025

JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE. Tuesday, October 28, 4 PM in Providence
Stand with the RI Anti-War Committee to demand that the current CEASEFIRE holds in Israel’s assault on Gaza. Call for a halt to U.S. aid to Israel and instead, provide sufficient humanitarian aid for the Palestinians. No more attacks on Yemen, Lebanon, Venezuela and Iran. 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. Help spread the word.
“We’ll kill them.” That’s the illustrious President Trump on the U.S. policy of destroying boats in the Caribbean that are suspected of carrying illegal drugs. So far at least 30 people have been killed by the U.S. military without any evidence that they are indeed carrying drugs. It was up to Senator Rand Paul to declare that the killings were extrajudicial and illegal. He further stated that if the U.S. intends to go to war with Venezuela, the Trump administration should seek authorization from Congress. Trump is behaving like a thug running a criminal enterprise. No laws, no principles, no humanitarian values at all are guiding U.S. policy. It’s all about how the U.S. elite can enhance their wealth and power. While many countries are caving in and trying to placate Trump’s mania, there are some that are rethinking their relationship with the U.S. Vietnam, for example, is beginning to turn to Russia and China for military and economic relations and turning away from the United States.
As for Venezuela, it’s hard to see how overthrowing Maduro will benefit the people in that country, particularly the workers and the poor. In the last year, their economy started to turn around and improve. Inflation was reduced to 50% from the triple digits that the country had been experiencing. Now with new U.S. sanctions and restrictions on Chevron’s ability to extract Venezuela’s oil, inflation is expected to increase once again. The fact that Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world is more likely what is motivating Trump’s actions than a desire for any democratic reforms.

10/23/2025

JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE. Friday, October 24, 4 PM in Providence
Join with the RI Anti-War Committee to stand against American militarism and call for an end to U.S.-backed wars. End aid to Israel and support self-determination for the Palestinians. No attacks on Venezuela or any other country. 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. Help spread the word.
How Many Died? Israel’s assault on Gaza was carried out with U.S. weapons, money and diplomatic support. Thus, it behooves Americans who supported Israel to discount the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza. They would say either the Hamas-run Ministry of Health exaggerated the number of those killed, or that it inflated the number of deaths by including the fighters who died. However, experts who specialize in counting those killed and wounded in wars say that the Ministry of Health’s numbers are reliable and can be verified. The toll of those killed by Israel in Gaza includes names, ages, s*x and identification numbers. The experts consider the numbers of those killed and wounded in Gaza are more reliable than those of other wars. To date, 68,229 Palestinians have been killed. Michael Spagat of the University of London conducted a study of 2,000 Gazan households and estimated that the number of Palestinians killed was undercounted by about 39%. If true, this would bring the number of those killed in Gaza to 112,000.
In addition, the number of women, children and the elderly killed in Gaza represented 56% of the total. Surely, they were not fighters. Additionally, these numbers don’t include “indirect” deaths; those who died from hunger and disease. Famine in Gaza was orchestrated by Israel this year as a means of putting pressure on Hamas. International aid was blocked by Israel from entering Gaza for at least 11 weeks this year. Even with the ceasefire, only 100 trucks of food and supplies are being let into Gaza each day by Israel according to the United Nations. This is a far cry from the 600 trucks per day that were agreed upon to be let into Gaza under the U.S. peace deal.

10/20/2025

JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE. Tuesday, October 21, 4 PM in Providence
Stand with the RI Anti-War Committee to demand that the current CEASEFIRE holds in Israel’s assault on Gaza. Call for a halt to U.S. aid to Israel and instead, provide sufficient humanitarian aid for the Palestinians. No more attacks on Yemen, Lebanon, Venezuela and Iran. 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. Help spread the word.
It’s Not Over. On Sunday, Palestinian militants in Rafah fired an anti-tank missile at Israeli forces that killed two soldiers. Hamas quickly disavowed the attack. Nevertheless, the Israel military responded with bombings throughout Gaza that killed 44 people. Israel also suspended relief aid deliveries that had already been reduced by half earlier in the week. The deliveries were resumed Monday morning. Hamas has reported that they have lost contact with their fighters in the southern area around Rafah. They acknowledged that they have no idea if any of their fighters in the Rafah area are still alive. Hamas remains committed to maintaining the ceasefire and continues to search for the deceased Israeli hostages.
Last week Israeli forces destroyed a car that they said had strayed too close to their “yellow line” behind which the Israeli military had withdrawn. That attack killed 9 Palestinians including some children. A former Israeli expert on Palestinian affairs, Michael Milshtein, who worked for the Israeli military said that the “yellow line” is unmarked and difficult for Palestinians to determine where it is. He also said that Hamas has not been defeated. “They still exist, and they’re the dominant player in Gaza.”

10/19/2025

Free Palestine - No Kings Rally, 10-18-25, Providence RI
Awesome global day of protesting for our rights

10/16/2025

JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE. Friday, October 17, 4 PM in Providence
Join with the RI Anti-War Committee to stand against American militarism and call for an end to U.S.-backed wars. End aid to Israel and support self-determination for the Palestinians. No attacks on Venezuela or any other country. 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. Help spread the word.
Full spectrum dominance. It’s a U.S. military concept developed in the early 2000s that described a notion that the American military would maintain superiority over any other country or combination of countries in conventional or non-conventional combat. Under the Biden administration the concept was broadened to include economic dominance as well. It led to the restrictions placed on companies that prohibited them from selling advanced computer technology to China. It included foreign companies as well. Any company selling the most powerful, advanced semiconductors or the machines that make them to China would be sanctioned and barred from the U.S. market. It’s been an expensive policy that now costs the American taxpayers one trillion dollars a year for the military alone and now billions more for the tariffs American consumers will be paying.
Now we see that two can play this game. China has announced policies that will restrict the sales of rare earth minerals and magnets along with battery technology to the United States. These items are widely used in American manufacturing including cars, computers and appliances as well as military weapons. Whereas China has shown it can develop its own semiconductor technology and is closing the gap with American designed chips, analysts believe it may take years for the U.S. to restart and develop its own rare earth mining and processing ability.
Where has this U.S. insistence on being the lone, most powerful nation gotten us? Certainly not peace and prosperity. Russia has taken a page from the U.S. playbook and is conducting military action as it sees fit, ignoring pleas for a ceasefire in Ukraine. China is not backing down from the Trump administration restrictions on developing its own economy and trade. Israel, with the full backing of the U.S., has become a rogue nation that attacks other countries at will and defies international law in its subjugation of the Palestinian people.
There has to be a better way if humanity is to survive. Cooperation instead of domination. Maintaining the most powerful military in the world and a tariff war that will hold back trade and the development of countries worldwide will become too expensive for America to afford, if not impossible to achieve.
How about nuclear disarmament instead of retooling the U.S. nuclear force to achieve first strike potential. What about following and developing international law instead of the American dictated “rules-based order.” America First is a dead end game.

10/13/2025

FOR A PERMANENT CEASEFIRE. Tuesday, October 14, 4 PM in Providence
Stand with the RI Anti-War Committee to demand the current CEASEFIRE holds in Israel’s assault on Gaza. Call for a halt to U.S. aid to Israel and instead, provide sufficient humanitarian aid for the Palestinians. No more attacks on Yemen, Lebanon and Iran. 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. Help spread the word.
What’s Good for the Goose. Since the early days of the Biden administration, the U.S. has blocked China from acquiring the most advanced, powerful semiconductors (chips) that are essential for artificial intelligence, military weapons and modern manufacturing. This strategy has continued under Trump and has been largely successful in keeping these advanced chips out of China’s hands. Thus, it was somewhat amusing to see Trump flip out and impose an additional 100% tariff on Chinese goods because China is starting to restrict exports of its rare earth minerals and magnets (vital to many manufacturing uses). The U.S., both Democrats and Republicans, are determined to keep China down and remain the world’s richest economy and most powerful military. Can this strategy succeed for much longer?
The NY Times used two of its issues to publish long articles on China’s development of renewable energy. While Trump is pushing countries to buy more oil, gas and coal from the U.S., China is strengthening its dominance in the renewable energy sector. They have built 162 square miles of solar panels (seven times the area of Manhattan) on the Tibetan Plateau in the western province of Qinghai. The plateau is at an altitude of 10,000 feet and the solar panels take advantage of the thinner air to absorb the stronger sunlight. They also constructed wind turbines that supplement the solar panels at night. Dams have been built to harness the power of the rivers that flow down from the plateau. Since China’s population is concentrated in the east, they have built ultra high-voltage electric lines to carry the power generated in the west to where it is utilized in the east. The distance is equivalent to transmitting power from Idaho to New York. While China has 41 ultra-high voltage lines, the U.S. doesn’t have any lines that qualify as ultra high-voltage. Wind and solar power make up one-fourth of the electricity produced in China. It helps power 30,000 miles of high-speed rail service and half of the nation’s electric cars.
While the Trump administration is leading America back to using early 20th century fossil fuel technology, China is poised to become the world leader in the use of renewable energy. It already has stopped burning coal to produce electricity. The Chinese leadership has made commitments to continue to develop renewable energy and has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions.
China is playing it smart by not giving in to Trump’s bullying tactics over tariffs like many of America’s allies have. For years, China has been developing a self-reliant strategy and growing trading partnerships with countries other than the United States. China is already a leader in battery and electric car technology. It’s achievements in renewable energy technology is another feather in its cap.

10/09/2025

NO MORE WARS. Friday, October 10, 4 PM in Providence
Join with the RI Anti-War Committee to stand against American militarism and call for an end to U.S.-backed wars. End aid to Israel and demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. No military attacks on Venezuela. 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. Help spread the word.
Not Another War. There are growing signs that Trump intends to use the U.S. military to attack Venezuela and depose Nicolás Maduro as president. The U.S. Justice Department has indicted Maduro for drug trafficking and corruption. Marco Rubio, the U.S. Secretary of State, has called President Maduro an illegitimate leader and Trump has demanded that Maduro give up power. The Trump administration has offered a $50 million reward for the capture of Maduro and calls him a fugitive from U.S. justice. Several of Trump’s aides, including Rubio, Steven Miller and John Ratcliffe, have called for a military operation to remove Maduro from power. At least two opposition leaders to Venezuela’s government have said that they are making plans to take control of the country when Maduro is deposed. According to the NY Times the U.S. military has drawn up plans for strikes inside Venezuela.
For several months Richard Grenell, a special presidential envoy, has been leading negotiations with the Venezuelan government to avoid a war and give American companies access to Venezuelan oil. Last Thursday Trump ordered all diplomatic efforts to cease. In September President Maduro had written a letter to Trump denying that Venezuela was involved in drug trafficking and expressed a desire to continue negotiations with the U.S. over this issue. American intelligence agencies reject the claim that Trump has made that Venezuela is involved in “narco-terrorism.” They have pointed out that overdose deaths in the U.S. have resulted from the use of fentanyl which comes from Mexico, not Venezuela. Furthermore, the term “terrorism” is usually reserved for groups motivated by ideological reasons, not illegal monetary gain. Also noteworthy is the fact that Congress has not authorized any armed conflict by the U.S. military. Any attempt to expand an anti-narcotics campaign into Venezuela risks involving the U.S. in a wider war.

10/07/2025

Vigil RI Statehouse 10-3-25

10/06/2025

LET GAZA LIVE. Tuesday, October 7, 4 PM in Providence
Stand with the RI Anti-War Committee to demand a permanent CEASEFIRE in Israel’s assault on Gaza. Call for a halt to U.S. aid to Israel and instead, provide sufficient humanitarian aid for the Palestinians under attack. No to attacks on Yemen and oppose war on Iran. 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. Help spread the word.
Promising? On Friday, when Hamas announced that they would release the hostages, it seemed as if they had gained the upper hand against Trump and Netanyahu. If the hostages were of foremost importance to Israel and the U.S., Hamas was saying we’ll let you have them. In return will you now let up on your campaign to destroy the Palestinian people? The brilliance of the strategy of turning the tables on the U.S. and Israeli and putting the onus on them to end the violence was soon tarnished by the tired return to the negotiating table.
It was a very risky strategy. For two years Hamas had used the hostages to prevent Israel and the U.S. from using their firepower to kill hundreds of thousands of Palestinians instead of just tens of thousands. Without the hostages, Hamas is leaving itself open to a full-on horror show of Zionist terror. It would leave only world public opinion to shield Palestinians from Israel’s genocidal mania. The huge demonstrations we’ve seen around the world in support of the Palestinians is certainly helpful, but the relative dearth of pro-Palestinian sentiment in the U.S. has only emboldened Netanyahu to continue his campaign to wipe them out.
Trump is unpredictable, but we know he wants the Noble Peace Prize. Reports indicated that he told Netanyahu that if Israel didn’t take this opportunity to end the war on the Palestinians, Trump would abandon him and hang him out to dry. Maybe that’s too much to wish for.

10/02/2025

LET GAZA LIVE. Friday, October 3, 4 PM in Providence
Join with the RI Anti-War Committee to stand against American militarism and call for an end to U.S.-backed wars. No to the U.S./Israeli attacks on Iran. End aid to Israel and demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. 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. Help spread the word.
Trump’s Peace Plan. Will it achieve basic human, political and national rights for the Palestinian people? Or will it simply allow the world powers to turn their backs on and resume ignoring the plight of the Palestinians in exile and under Israeli occupation? Before October 7 there was hardly a word from any politician or political commentator about Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians under its military rule. Now the world can’t help but see the horrific suffering of Palestinians in Gaza with 66,000 killed (mostly women and children which number about 70% of the total), hundreds of thousands injured, famine and lack of health care. Now there is talk of Palestinian statehood, but with conditions.
Conditions with a capital C. No self-determination for Palestinians. Their government must be chosen and approved by their oppressors. No right of return for refugees which is codified in international law and conventions including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. No guarantees that Israel must adhere to any points in the peace plan. No consequences if Israel renews its attacks on Gaza or fails to withdraw its military forces. Will the rich and powerful countries come through with the cash (about $60 billion) that will be needed to rebuild Gaza? Will Palestinians who need to seek health care in other countries really be allowed to return to their homeland?
If there is truly a ceasefire in Gaza, the West Bank and elsewhere in the Middle East, will Trump maintain an interest in what goes on there? Will the European powers still insist on Palestinian statehood? Will the promise of humanitarian aid be fulfilled? Stay tuned. Don’t assume the oligarchs are as benevolent and peace loving as they claim.

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