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87% of COVID-19 vaccines have gone to the wealthiest countries, while low-income countries received just 0.2%. This vaccine apartheid will continue to cause hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths of people across the world. A prime example of this capitalist-produced vaccine apartheid is in India, which has set world records for daily COVID infections in the past several weeks, despite the existence of billions of doses of vaccines across the world. India is one of the world’s top pharmaceutical producers, yet without key imports from the U.S., it cannot produce what is needed to vaccinate its 1.3 billion people. Meanwhile, over 220,000 people in India have died and the death rate continues to soar.

Vaccine inequality is perhaps most stark in occupied Palestine. Israel has fully vaccinated almost 60% of its population, giving it the world’s highest vaccination rate, yet the Palestinian Health Authority reported that less than 3% of Palestinians are immunized due to vaccine shortages. The Biden Administration and other imperialist countries promise to share their vaccines. The US alone controls over quarter of the world’s short-term supply of vaccines. Yet the US and others continue a policy of vaccine nationalism, prioritizing the lives of those inside the imperialist countries over those in oppressed nations. A few pharmaceutical monopolies limit the means for making more vaccines, while taking in billions of dollars of public subsidies. Property rights are in direct conflict with human rights to health care.

Join Vijay Prashad, an Indian historian, editor and journalist who writes on vaccine nationalism and the need for a people’s vaccine as we discuss how to fight vaccine apartheid. Vijay is the author of Red Star Over the Third World (LeftWord, 2017) and the Chief Editor of LeftWord Books. His latest book is Washington Bullets, with an introduction by Evo Morales Ayma.

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Audio from a webinar sponsored by the United National AntiWar Coalition

Speakers are (in order of appearance) James Jordan of the Alliance for Global Justice, Charo Mina-Rojas (a Colombian human rights organized and activist in the Colombia Black community), William Camacaro of the Bolivarian Circle of New York, and Ajamu Baraka (speaking from Colombia) of Black Alliance for Peace and the UNAC Administrative Committee. The webinar is moderated by Margaret Kimberley of BAP, The Black Agenda Report and the UNAC Administrative Committee.

United National AntiWar Coalition: https://www.unacpeace.org

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Audio from a webinar sponsored by Workers World Party.

Part of the globally coordinated actions from September 18-26 defending Palestinian refugees’ right to return to their homes and lands throughout Palestine, reclaim their properties and ensure restitution and reparations.

These days of action will mark the commemoration of the Sabra and Shatila massacres, the September 1970 massacres in Jordan, the signing of the Oslo agreements and the continuing attacks, including the current farce touted as a “peace initiative”, against the rights and struggle of Palestinian refugees for return and liberation. All of these U.S. supported efforts promote militarism and delay the potential for true peace in the region–peace based on justice and human dignity.

A statement signed by more than 50 organizations raised international solidarity with the demand: No Normalization with Occupation and Colonization. This webinar will discuss the ongoing struggles of the Palestinian people and how we can build solidarity together for the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.

Featuring (In order of first appearance):

Ted Kelly - An organizer with Workers World Party and active in Solidarity with the Palestinian Struggle

Susan Abulhawa - Palestinian novelist, poet, and member of WWP and US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

Khaled Barakat - Palestinian writer and activist whose work in Arabic and English has been widely published in a number of outlets, International Coordinator of the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat

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Audio from a webinar called No to the New Cold War, The organizers describe the webinar as “an international meeting in opposition to the US-led New Cold War on China.”

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Speakers: Jenny Clegg, Carlos Martinez, John Ross, Medea Benjamin, Margaret Kimberley, Wang Wen, Vijay Prashad, Max Blumenthal

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Audio from a webinar sponsored by Workers World Party, a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist political party that supports the struggles of all oppressed peoples.

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Panelists: Sara Flounders, Monica Moorehead, Siu Hin Lee, Calvin Deutschbein, Dr. Sharat G. Lin, Dave Welsh

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A panel from the 2020 UNAC conference. UNAC, the United National AntiWar Coalition, held their 2020 national conference at the People's Forum in New York City (Feb 21 - 23).

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With intro and commentary by moderator Margaret Flowers of Popular Resistance: https://popularresistance.org/

Also includes a guest appearance by Nancy Hollander, who was the attorney for the Holy Land Five, and lead defense counsel for Chelsea Manning.

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Audio from the first in a planned weekly series of webinars sponsored by Workers World Party, a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist political party that supports the struggles of all oppressed peoples.

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Featured Presenters (in order of appearance): Sara Flounders, Nate Chase, Makasi Motema, Larry Holmes, Taryn Fivek, Monica Moorehead

Many thanks to Scott Williams for setting up the webinar and handling the technical details.

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A panel from the 2020 UNAC conference. UNAC, the United National AntiWar Coalition, held their 2020 national conference at the People's Forum in New York City (Feb 21 - 23).

Featuring talks by Nuri Ronaghy (Iran), Maria Zaharenko (Ukraine), and Jill Clark-Gollub (Nicaragua), with an intro and outro by Kevin Zeese

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A panel from the 2020 UNAC conference. UNAC, the United National AntiWar Coalition, held their 2020 national conference at the People's Forum in New York City (Feb 21 - 23).

https://www.unacpeace.org/

Moderator: Sara Flounders

Panelists: Juyeon Rhee, Roger Wareham, Medea Benjamin