Rhode Island Anti-War Committee

02/23/2026

NO WAR ON IRAN. Tuesday, February 24, 3 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. Let Cuba Live. End the oil embargo. No war on Iran. Stop all U.S. military incursions around the world. We meet every Tuesday and Friday at 3 PM (winter hours) 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/1171323868324013/1171323891657344. Help spread the word.
Compensation. The aim of the Trump administration’s policy towards Cuba is not just to overthrow its government, but to reestablish American ownership and control over key parts of its economy. The U.S. Supreme Court already has cases on its docket that seek compensation for American-owned assets that were taken by Cuban revolutionaries. The Cuban people will be free to live impoverished lives as exploited workers under an American dominated ownership class.
However, compensation can cut both ways. Just as Zionists cling to October 7, 2023 as the start of history in Palestine, right-wing Americans don’t dare to consider any history of the U.S. relevant before a date convenient to their aims; in Cuba’s case 1959. If justice is ever to prevail, compensation must be provided to the descendants of slaves who had their labor and liberty stolen during a 250-year period. In addition, compensation must be provided to the indigenous people of the Americas who had their land and lives stolen by European colonizers.
Free land and free labor got the American ownership class off to a rousing start that has them at the top of the heap that is making life miserable for many in the rest of the world.

02/21/2026

US hands off CUBA! End the blockade! Let Cuba live

02/17/2026

NO WAR ON IRAN. Tuesday, February 17, 3 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. Let Cuba Live. End the oil embargo. No war on Iran. Stop all U.S. military incursions around the world. We meet every Tuesday and Friday at 3 PM (winter hours) 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/1171323868324013/1171323888324011. Help spread the word.
Enough already. It’s getting harder to keep track of all the U.S. military interventions around the world. Some occur without any coverage in the American media. Since the beginning of Trump’s second term, the U.S. military has conducted 150 bombing attacks in Somalia. Who knew? Last Friday, the U.S. began deploying troops in Nigeria. Cutting off the supply of oil to Cuba is an act of war. Taking Venezuela’s oil is another. Supporting Israel’s violations of the ceasefires by their continual bombing of Lebanon and Gaza is a crime. Ignoring Israel’s assault on the Palestinians in the West Bank is cruel and unjust. Threatening war on Iran is criminal.
Now we are about to witness a renewed escalation of the nuclear arms race. All the treaties regulating nuclear arms control have expired. Trump is threatening to resume nuclear testing and an expansion of the American nuclear force. As a NYT op-ed pointed out, the U.S. has already conducted more nuclear weapon tests than all other countries combined. These tests have had devastating effects on people in the Marshall Islands and in the southwest United States. To add to our concerns, recall that Trump once said, “why have nuclear weapons if you don’t use them?”
Americans have had no input on any of these issues. Congress has not been consulted and the Democrats have given up the fight. Join us to publicly call for an end to U.S. war mongering. Oppose imperialism.

02/14/2026

02/14/2026

US hands off CUBA - Saturday, Feb 14, 2026, Park St Station, Boston MA

02/14/2026

Hands off Cuba let Cuba live!

02/13/2026

Stand with Cuba US hands off CUBA!
Saturday Feb 14 noon park st Boston

02/10/2026

LET CUBA LIVE. Tuesday, February 10, 3 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. Let Cuba Live. No more attacks on Lebanon, Venezuela and Iran. We meet every Tuesday and Friday at 3 PM (winter hours) 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/1171323868324013/1171323874990679.
Help spread the word.
The Mad King. Taking Venezuela’s oil. Blowing up boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. Starving Cuba into submission. Threatening Iran with another attack and war without consulting Congress. Dictating to Palestinians what will happen to them without their input and representation. More billions for the genocidal government of Israel. Saying that he wants the U.S. to take control of the Panama Canal, Canada and Greenland. Suing the Federal government to line his pockets with more billions. The NY Times calculated that Trump has added $1.4 billion to his family’s wealth since he took office. Any one of these things would be grounds to impeach Donald Trump, yet the Democrats sit on their hands and hope that something in the Epstein files will do in Trump. Futile and wishful thinking. RESIST.

02/02/2026

JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE. Tuesday, February 3, 3 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 Lebanon, Venezuela and Iran. We meet every Tuesday and Friday at 3 PM (winter hours) 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/1171323868324013/1171323894990677.
Help spread the word.
Insidious. The Trump administration continues to worm its way into the affairs of other countries, always with the threat of military action, but primarily by economic means that can prove to be just as harmful, if not more so.
Last week, after pressure from the U.S., Panama’s Supreme Court annulled the contract of a Chinese company to run the two ports at each end of the Panama Canal. The Chinese government wants to retain some ownership of the ports, but Trump has made it clear that he wants Chinese influence out of Latin America. The Chinese company, C.K. Hutchinson, has been operating the ports since the late 1990s. The struggle for U.S. control of the world’s shipping routes will intensify.
On Monday, India agreed to a deal with the U.S. that it will stop buying Russian oil. In return, the U.S. will drop tariffs on Indian goods from 25% to 18%. India will drop all tariffs on imported U.S. goods. In addition, India pledged to buy $500 billion worth of U.S. goods and increase its purchases of U.S. oil and possibly oil from Venezuela. In both these deals, the U.S. appears to have come out on top. The key to understanding how the U.S. keeps getting the better of its trading partners is that the American share of the world consumer market is 29%. This makes it a highly prized target of exporting countries who are loath to risk losing it.
Last Thursday, Trump signed an executive order that would place tariffs on any country that sends oil to Cuba. The order largely targeted Mexico which was the last country to continue exporting oil to Cuba. The Cuban economy is dependent on imported oil and has suffered greatly since the U.S. successfully cut off the oil that was supplied by Venezuela.
The Trump administration is running the U.S. as if it were a criminal enterprise. Americans have to ask themselves if this is how they want the U.S. to interact with the rest of the world. In seeking economic domination over the world, the U.S. is casting aside any concerns about health, education, renewable energy and other issues that are vital to the sustainability of the planet and its people.