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USCPR Executive Director: “The Fight for Environmental Justice Has No Borders”
USCPR joined a coalition of Palestinian, Indigenous, and other progressive organizations to tell the Sierra Club to cancel their trips that greenwash Israel’s settler colonialism—and at…
USCPR Executive Director on Remembering Trayvon Martin
February 26, 2022 marks 10 years since the murder of Trayvon Martin at the hands of U.S. police. In remembrance and in honor of his…
USCPR Executive Director Ahmad Abuznaid comments on Pegasus hack
An investigation by Front Line Defenders (FLD) revealed that Palestinian human rights activists were targeted by a phone hack using Pegasus spyware, developed by the…
USCPR Executive Director Comments on #StandWithThe6
Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz recently criminalized six prominent Palestinian human rights and civil society organizations in order to shut down their vital work. The…
Racial Justice Organizations’ Statement on Facebook Highlighted in Media
The latest Facebook whistleblower documents revealed that Facebook was aware of the extreme spread of misinformation and hate speech on its platform, but still allowed…
#BlockTheBombs Action Alert Featured in Mondoweiss
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Mark Pocan (D-WI), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) submitted an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would require the…
Washington, DC Protest of Biden’s Naftali Bennett Meeting Highlighted in Media
As President Biden rolled out the red carpet for the new Prime Minister of Apartheid Israel, Naftali Bennett, protesters rallied outside the White House to…
USCPR Executive Director Ahmad Abuznaid comments on Biden administration’s complicity
As President Biden met with Jordan’s King Abdullah II on July 19, 2021, Al Jazeera interviewed USCPR Executive Director Ahmad Abuznaid on the Biden administration’s…