The Trump regime’s illegal attacks on Iran this weekend thrusts the U.S. into a new imperialist war that will lead to death, devastation, and destruction for people in Southwest Asia and in the U.S., while the weapons industry makes a killing, figuratively and quite literally.
As a national alliance of grassroots organizations committed to demilitarization at home and abroad, we call on all people of conscience to demand of our elected officials in the U.S. — No war on Iran! End the U.S.-backed genocide in Palestine! Divest from death, invest in life!
Take action:
- Individuals and progressive organizations: Endorse this letter from The Rising Majority, share it broadly.
- Text NO WAR to 30403 or call 771-203-5563 to reach your representative’s office and demand they sign on to the War Powers Resolution to put a stop to U.S. involvement in yet another senseless war. Send an email to your congressional representatives now to demand they take immediate action and to hold the Trump regime
accountable for an unauthorized act of war.
- Plan or attend a local demonstration to express your community’s solidarity and join the calls for an end to war and genocide, an end to U.S. military and financial support to Israel, and an end to the militarized occupation of U.S. cities.
The attacks by the U.S. follow unprovoked attacks by Israel on Iran, upending diplomatic negotiations between the U.S. and Iran for a nuclear peace agreement.
While the media echoes the concerns of U.S. politicians on Iran’s nuclear capabilities, it is Israel — with U.S.-supplied bombs — that dropped what some experts say [1] is the equivalent of six nuclear bombs on Gaza.
The U.S. continues to back the Israeli occupation’s spiraling violence in the region, from the occupation’s ongoing displacement of Palestinian people across the West Bank to murdering, starving, and displacing hundreds of thousands of people (killing at least 55,000 [2] people and starving nearly 2,000,000 more [3]) in its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
U.S. wars and military interventions around the world are enabling state violence with impunity at home, especially harming vulnerable communities. The Trump regime is deploying military troops to suppress political dissent in our communities, mobilizing ICE and border agents to kidnap people and break apart families, and expanding surveillance with the abetting of big tech like Palantir.
The U.S. military budget has ballooned to $849.8 billion while lifeline resources are slashed from education, health care, housing, public parks and lands, and social goods.
We call on our government to divest from economies of death and invest in care, resilience, and life.
“As post-9/11 anti-war veterans, we are against all wars because we have seen the horrors of war — not only because we participated in inflicting these horrors, but also because we have seen the cost of war when we return home to our disinvested communities, to see public schools shut down, to see rising homelessness among veterans and those who can no longer afford basic necessities. Additionally, as post-9/11 veterans, we remember the lies that led us to a tragic and unnecessary war and invasion of Iraq.
"We were told the same lies that are being peddled now — the exact same lies being used right now to manufacture consent for an illegitimate and unnecessary war with Iran — a war that will continue U.S. support for the genocide in Palestine, expand U.S. militarism and imperialism abroad, and line the pockets of defense contractors and the one percent who benefit from the politics of militarism and death.”
—Arti Walker-Peddakotla, Board Chair of About Face: Veterans Against the War and GGJ Action Fund Board Member (Read full statement.)
“In the aftermath of Trump’s bombing of Iran, we say what we’ve always said: We will not be silent while the U.S. empire trades in death to consolidate power. This is not freedom. This is not a defense of democracy. This is an attack. This is an act of war. The bombing was an escalation — of violence, of instability, of decades of U.S. aggression.
"We know the cost is never paid by the people in power. It’s paid in blood by civilians, by working-class people, by children and the elderly — in Iran, Palestine, across Southwest Asia, in Haiti, Sudan, and DR Congo, and here at home.”
—The Rising Majority (Read full statement and sign on individually and organizationally.) | 
