The Chicago chapter of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America, in response to a call by the Zapatista communities, will hold a Poetry for Peace virtual protest and mobilization against ALL CAPITALIST WARS currently being waged in multiple corners of the planet. These wars are happening not just in Ukraine, but also in Palestine, Kurdistan, Syria, on the Mapuche people, on all the originary peoples all over the world, and upon so many different emancipatory processes that are attacked, persecuted, murdered, silenced, and distorted. As an instance, the war against the people of the United States has claimed nearly a million lives by COVID assassination in the last two years.

The Zapatistas have encouraged the launch of a global campaign against all capital’s wars, in whatever geography they are waged, consisting of concerts, gatherings, festivals, meetings, and so on, in a campaign of the arts against the wars. Because we recognize the complicity and instigation of war by the United States, we dedicate this reading/performance to address “our own” war-makers in the name of making peace. We will start at home, for how can we accept billions going to war preparation and somehow we can’t guarantee housing and health care here?

“All of our arts, our resistances, and our rebellions against all of the wars!”

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