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The People WILL Take Back the Economy and End U.S. Wars
October will mark ten years of U.S. war in Afghanistan - ten years of your taxes paying for war. Congress and the President, the same people who keep us at war, bailed out the banks and Wall Street now want to cut services and programs our communities need. They want to give tax cuts to the rich and balance federal and local budgets on the backs of the poor. We say no! UFPJ needs your support.
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October will mark ten years of U.S. war in Afghanistan - ten years of your taxes paying for war. Congress and the President, the same people who keep us at war, bailed out the banks and Wall Street now want to cut services and programs our communities need. They want to give tax cuts to the rich and balance federal and local budgets on the backs of the poor. We say no! UFPJ needs your support.
From Wisconsin to Wall Street people are mobilizing for economic justice. On May 12, thousands of people, from all walks of life, will make their demands loud and clear in New York City at Wall Street the heart of the financial world . Help UFPJ make this teach-in and protest a huge success.
May 4th: Organizing Meeting With City Wide Allies, Location: SEIU Local 32BJ 101 6th Avenue @ 6:30 pm. Please attend to get the latest information.
May 12: Meet Up, Teach In, Take Back Our City
4:00 pm Orientation at Assembly site: Peace groups will assemble at the Vietnam Memorial, 55 Water Street
* March to Wall Street * Teach Ins Begin * Closing Assembly
Volunteer to help. We need TEACHERS and ORGANIZERS! Follow this link to learn more!
UFPJ Says No to War! No to Greed!
With your help we WILL redirect spending from war to human needs. We WILL make the banks and the millionaires pay their fair share.
For more information call 212 868-5545.
Meet up, Teach-in and Fight Back!
Initiating groups: Alliance for Quality Education, ACT UP/NY, Alliance for Quality Education, Center for Children Initiatives, Center for Working Families, Citizen Action NY, Coalition for Educational,call Justice, Coalition for the Homeless, Code Pink NYC, Common Cause/NY, Communications Workers of America District 1, Communications Workers of America Local 1104, Communications, Workers of America Local 1180, Community Voices Heard, CUNY Mobilization Network, Emergency Coalition to Save Child Care, Good Old Lower East Side, Granny Peace Brigade, Grassroots Education Movement, Greater NYC for Change, Housing Works, Human Services Council, Hunger Action Network of NYS, Judson Memorial Church, Make the Road NY, National People's Action, Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, Neighborhood Family Services Coalition, Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Neighbors Together, New Deal for NY, New York Charter Parents, Association , New York City Parents Union, New York Communities for Change, NW Bronx Community Clergy Coalition, NY Jobs with Justice, NYers Against Budget Cuts, Organization for a Free Society, Peace Action NYS, Picture the Homeless, Professional Staff Congress, Queerocracy, Right to the City Alliance, SEIU Local 32BJ, SEIU 1199 United Healthcare Workers East, Strong, Economy for All Coalition, Teachers Unite, The New York City Coalition Against Hunger, Transport Workers Union Local 100, United Federation of Teachers, United For Peace and Justice, United, Students Against Sweatshops, Urban Youth Collaborative, VOCAL-NY, War Resisters League, Who Cares? I Do. Campaign, Working Families Party, YaYa Network
United for Peace and Justice was founded, in 2003, to build a coalition of local and national peace and justice organizations to prevent the War on Iraq. The conflicts raging around the world today make it clear that the need to work for peace remains more important than ever. That is why UFPJ reorganized, in 2008, as a network and now operates with an all-volunteer Coordinating Committee, supported by one part-time staff member who assists with UFPJ action alerts, campaigns, and organizing. They meet weekly to manage the ongoing communication and administrative requirements of the network.
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'Hope Is Alive!' Mamdani Victory in NYC Seen as Historic Turning Point
"If there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump. It is how we stop the next one."
Nov 05, 2025
Zohran Mamdani was elected the next mayor of New York City on Tuesday in a victory he and his supporters say reflects the hope of a city—and a nation—ready for a new kind of politics that puts the needs of working people at the center after decades of failed leadership that put corporate interests and the desires of the wealthiest first.
Withstanding a barrage of negative ads and fearmongering by the city's elite, the democratic socialist candidate secured 50.4 percent of the vote in a three-way race that saw disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an Independent after losing the Democratic primary to Mandani, nab 41.6 percent, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa just over 7 percent.
"Hope is alive," declared Mamdani in his victory speech from the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn after most major networks called the victory his shortly after 9:30 pm local time.
"While we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together," said Mamdani. "Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair. We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible. And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do."
"This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt." —Zohran Mamdani
Mamdani, a member of the New York State Assembly who ran a campaign focused on making life more affordable for the workers who make the nation's largest city run and thrive, said that while the campaign's unifying and inspiring spirit meant his supporters could express a collective sigh of relief after the election day win, the hard work will now be making that shared vision for the city become a reality.
"This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt," he said. "Central to that vision will be the most ambitious agenda to tackle the cost-of-living crisis that this city has seen since the days of Fiorello La Guardia: an agenda that will freeze the rents for more than two million rent-stabilized tenants, make buses fast and free, and deliver universal child care across our city."
"Years from now, may our only regret be that this day took so long to come," he added. "This new age will be one of relentless improvement."
As progressives and Democrats nationwide took the victory in New York City as a sign of what a populist campaign focused on the needs of working people can accomplish, Mamdani also spoke to the underlying theme of Tuesday's elections across the country, where Democrats claimed major wins in various competitive races and ballot initiatives—outcomes seen as a resounding rebuke to President Donald Trump's scorched-earth second term.
"If we embrace this brave new course rather than fleeing from it," said Mamdani, "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him." pic.twitter.com/mvGcsN01Xt
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 5, 2025
"If there is any way to terrify a despot," he added, "it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump. It is how we stop the next one."
That dynamic was front and center for many who heralded Mamdani's win as historic and called for the Democratic Party leadership to embrace his vision on economic issues and a more populist style of politics to displace the corporate stranglehold on the party.
Alexandra Rojas, executive director of Justice Democrats, called Mamdani's victory "the turning point in this Democratic Party that our movement has been working towards for years: electing leaders with the moral courage to unite our voters to take on Republican authoritarianism, Democratic corporatism, and billionaire greed all at once."
"Zohran Mamdani has never backed down from standing up to Trump and the forces that threaten our democracy,” said Aru Shiney-Ajay, executive director of the Sunrise Movement, a pro-democracy advocacy group focused on the climate crisis. “This is the leadership our democracy, and the Democratic Party, needs to rebuild trust with working people and fight for a future that works for everyone."
Michael Magazine, a campaigner with the group's local NYC affiliate, echoed that sentiment. "Tonight, the people of New York City showed up in force and reminded the world that grassroots power can beat big money," he said. "This is more than a win for Zohran. It’s a win for the movement and for democracy itself. We’ve proven that a bold, people-powered vision can overcome the status quo, and this is just the beginning."
"The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC," said former labor secretary Robert Reich following Tuesday night's victory. "It didn't matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power."
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who proudly endorsed Mamdani, also championed the win.
"Starting at 1% in the polls," said Sander, "Mamdani pulled off one of the great political upsets in modern American history. Yes. We CAN create a government that represents working people and not the 1%."
And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), one of Mamdani's most prominent backers in the race, also heralded his victory as a major turning point, not just for New York City, but for the party.
In her remarks to MSNBC shortly after Mamdani's victory was declared, the New York Democrat said the campaign and the "heroic effort" of its supporters was not only a fight against Trump and Republican destruction but also a battle against the Democratic Party's "old guard," which "essentially led us to many of the perils of this moment."
Mamdani, she explained, "how a two-front war to win, which is what makes his win so deeply impressive" in a broader political context that should be a wakeup call for those in the party resisting the kind of policies and politics that his campaign championed and exemplified.
"We have a future to plan for. We have a future to fight for," Ocasio-Cortez said of the party from now on. "And we're either gonna do that together, or you're gonna be left behind."
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UPS Cargo Plane Crash at Louisville Airport Sparks Massive Fire
Police announced a shelter-in-place order for "all areas north of the airport to the Ohio River."
Nov 04, 2025
This is a developing story… Please check back for updates…
Aerial footage showed plumes of black smoke and flames around the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Kentucky after a UPS plane crashed during its departure on Tuesday evening.
The Federal Aviation Administration said on social media that UPS Flight 2976—a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 bound for Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, Hawaii—crashed around 5:15 pm local time. The agency added that the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate, with the NTSB providing all updates.
The Louisville Metro Police Department confirmed that the LMPD and multiple other agencies were responding to the scene, where there are "injuries reported."
LMPD initially announced a shelter-in-place order "for all locations within five miles of the airport," which was then expanded to "all areas north of the airport to the Ohio River."
The airport—which confirmed that "the airfield is closed" after the crash—is the UPS global hub. The shipping giant said in a statement that there were three crewmembers onboard and "at this time, we have not confirmed any injuries/casualties."
"UPS will release more facts as they become available, but the National Transportation Safety Board is in charge of the investigation and will be the primary source of information about the official investigation," the company added.
As CNN reported Tuesday:
The McDonnell Douglas MD-11F is a freight transport aircraft manufactured originally by McDonnell Douglas and later by Boeing. The aircraft is primarily flown by FedEx Express, Lufthansa Cargo, and UPS Airlines for cargo.
The plane also served as a popular wide-bodied passenger airplane after it was first flown in 1990. The aircraft involved in Tuesday's crash was built in 1991.
As fuel costs increased for the three engine jets many of them were converted to freighters. The plane can take off weighing in at a maximum 633,000 pounds and carrying more than 38,000 gallons of fuel, according to Boeing, which bought McDonnell Douglass.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters said that it "is monitoring this developing tragic event on the ground," and "as this horrific scene is being investigated, prayers on behalf of our entire international union are with those killed, injured, and affected, including their families, co-workers, and loved ones."
Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg said that he and his wife, Rachel, "are praying for victims of the UPS plane that crashed."
"We have every emergency agency responding to the scene," the Democrat added. "There are multiple injuries and the fire is still burning. There are many road closures in the area—please avoid the scene."
Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, who is headed to Louisville for a briefing with the mayor, said, "Please pray for the pilots, crew, and everyone affected."
Republican President Donald Trump's transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, similarly said, "Please join me in prayer for the Louisville community and flight crew impacted by this horrific crash."
During a press conference earlier on Tuesday, Duffy had warned of "mass chaos" if the ongoing government shutdown continues, saying: "You will see mass flight delays. You'll see mass cancellations, and you may see us close certain parts of the airspace, because we just cannot manage it because we don't have the air traffic controllers."
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With Baseless Fraud Claim, White House Says Trump Preparing Anti-Voter Executive Order
Asked to provide evidence supporting her claim of voting fraud in California, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, "It's just a fact."
Nov 04, 2025
President Donald Trump is drafting an executive order aimed at rolling back voting rights, a measure that may include attacks on mailed ballots, a top administration official said Tuesday.
"The White House is working on an executive order to strengthen our elections in this country and to ensure that there cannot be blatant fraud, as we've seen in California with their universal mail-in voting system," Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
“Like any executive order, of course, any executive order the president signs is within his full executive authority and within the confines of the law," she added.
Asked by a reporter what is her evidence of electoral fraud in California, Leavitt replied without evidence that "it's just a fact."
LEAVITT: It's absolutely true that there's fraud in California's electionsQ: What's the evidence of that?LEAVITT: It's just a fact
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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Leavitt's remarks came hours after Trump baselessly attacked California’s vote-by-mail system in a post on his Truth Social network.
“The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM in that the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED,” Trump alleged without evidence. “All ‘Mail-In’ Ballots, where the Republicans in that State are ‘Shut Out,’ is under very serious legal and criminal review. STAY TUNED!”
Trump has previously vowed to ban mail-in ballots, a move legal experts say would be unconstitutional.
The White House's announcement also came as Americans voted in several high-stakes elections, including California's Proposition 50 retaliatory redistricting proposal; the New York City mayoral race between progressive Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Republican Curtis Sliwa; gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia; and a crowded contest for Minneapolis mayor highlighted by democratic socialist state Sen. Omar Fateh's (D-62) bid to unseat third-term Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey.
The announcement also followed a federal judge's permanent blocking of part of Trump’s executive order requiring proof of US citizenship on federal voter registration forms.
Democracy defenders have repudiated Trump's attacks on mailed ballots and claims of voter fraud—a longtime right-wing bugaboo unsupported by facts on the ground.
"Voting by mail as permitted by the laws of your state is legal," ACLU Voting Rights Project director Sophia Lin Lakin says in a statement on the group's website about Trump's order from March.
"In his sweeping executive order, Trump tried to bully states into not counting ballots properly received after Election Day under state law by threatening to withhold federal funding," she continues. "A federal court has temporarily blocked this part of the executive order."
"Trump’s effort to target mail-in voting is a blatant overreach, intruding on states’ constitutional authority to set the rules for elections," Lin Lakin adds. "It threatens to disenfranchise tens of millions of eligible voters and would no doubt disproportionately impact historically excluded communities, including voters of color, naturalized citizens, people with disabilities, and the elderly, by pushing unnecessary barriers to the fundamental right to vote."
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