COVID-19 & US Sanctions:
Sign Open Letter to the Government of the United States and the United Nations

Dear Friends of Peace, Justice and Human Rights Around the World,

The global spread of COVID-19 has exposed the illegal and immoral practice of imposing unilateral coercive measures (economic sanctions) by the United States government against more than thirty nations. The economic war against those nations had already resulted in unimaginable suffering of the people in the targeted nations even before the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the devastation of the global pandemic, the targeted countries — especially Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Syria and Zimbabwe — are finding it prohibitively difficult to protect and save the lives of their citizens in the face of the ongoing global emergency. These sanctions constitute crimes against humanity.

Instead of helping these countries fight the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the government of the United States is now using the public distraction caused by the pandemic to intensify its military actions against the targeted nations. It is increasing its threats against Iran and Syria by engaging in a silent buildup of its military forces in Iraq again, and has dispatched its Naval warships to the shores of Venezuela, demanding the total surrender of the Venezuelan government to the United States.

Only a global wave of popular protest can stop these anti-human policies and actions.

Please use the link provided below to sign the Open Letter to the Government of the United States and the United Nations, addressed to the President of the United States and Secretary General of the United Nations, demanding that all U.S. and UN sanctions against the targeted nations be lifted, and all U.S. military threats and actions against them be stopped immediately.

We are dealing with a global emergency and must act quickly.

Sanctions Kill!

Click Here to Sign the Open Letter
(in several languages)

Tim Anderson, Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies
Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus, MIT; Professor, U. of Arizona
Gerald Horne, Historian, University of Houston, Texas
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research
Cornel West, Harvard University
Iraklis Tsavdaridis, World Peace Council
Bahman Azad, U.S. Peace Council
Ajamu Baraka, Black Alliance for Peace
Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK
Jackie Cabasso, United for Peace and Justice
Nathaniel Chase, International Action Center
Omowale Clay, December 12th Movement
Gerry Condon, Veterans for Peace
Darien De Lu, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom — US Section
Sara Flounders, International Action Center
Miguel Figueroa, Canadian Peace Congress
Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance
Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
Roger Harris, Task Force on the Americas
Chuck Kaufman, Alliance for Global Justice
Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report
Joe Lombardo, United National Antiwar Coalition
Alfred Marder, U.S. Peace Council
Makasi Motema, People’s Power Assemblies NYC
Teri Mattson, CODEPINK
Nancy Price, Alliance for Democracy (US)
Cindy Sheehan, March on the Pentagon
David Swanson, World BEYOND War
Emily Thomas, IFCO Pastors for Peace
Gail Walker, IFCO: Pastors for Peace
Yasemin Zahra, US Labor Against the War
Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance