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The AWC organizes in the streets against imperialism, political repression & US aid to Israel. Resisted FBI repression with the #Antiwar23. Est. 1998
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DIVEST MINNESOTA FROM APARTHEID ISRAEL!🇵🇸
October 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
🇸🇴‼️SHUT DOWN AFRICOM!

US bombs Somalia for 83rd time this year: news.antiwar.com/2025/10/22/u...
October 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
🇵🇸🚨Sit-in at the State Board of Investment is still going strong!

The SBI has $5.6 billion of Minnesota pensions & public funds invested in Israel & companies profiting from its crimes.

@GovTimWalz chairs the SBI, along with @keithellison, @julieblaha & @MNSteveSimon

DIVEST!
October 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
🇵🇸‼️BREAKING: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN PROGRESS! COME OUT TO SUPPORT ASAP!!

Advocates for divestment from Israel are currently holding an indefinite sit-in at the Retirement Systems Building at 60 Empire Drive in Saint Paul.
October 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🇨🇩🇸🇩📢PROTEST: SHUT DOWN AFRICOM

⏰Sunday, October 19
📍May Day Plaza, 301 Cedar Ave, Mpls

Join us as we protest Africom (US Africa Command) & the US’s secret wars in Africa as part of 5th International Month of Action Against Africom, a campaign by @Blacks4Peace
October 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🇵🇸🚨SBI! YOU CAN’T HIDE!

RALLY FOR DIVESTMENT
⏰Tues 10/21 @ 10am
📍Retirement Systems Building, 60 Empire Dr, St. Paul

The SBI is shutting the public out by holding its quarterly meeting virtually. Join us to make clear that the call to divest MN from Israel isn’t going away.
October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
HOWMET is an aerospace manufacturer that builds parts for the F-35 jets that Israel uses to drop bombs on Gaza.

Pittsburgh BDS & Anti-War Action Network have called for protests at Howmet locations nationwide.

TWIN CITIES:
⏰Thurs, Oct 16 at 5pm
📍10 Old Hwy 8 NW, New Brighton
October 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🇵🇸✊🏽We keep fighting for divestment and an end to U.S. aid to Israel – until Palestine is free.

Photos from the October 7, 2025 march in Minneapolis
October 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🇻🇪🚨TOMORROW:

HANDS OFF VENEZUELA!

⏰10/4 at 2:30pm
📍301 Cedar Ave, Mpls

Trump has deployed warships to the coast of Venezuela, baselessly claiming that Venezuela is a “narco-dictatorship” trafficking drugs.

We say:
HANDS OFF VENEZUELA!
NO WAR FOR OIL!
END U.S. IMPERIALISM!
October 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
⚠️🇵🇸PROTEST: TWO YEARS ON, END THE GENOCIDE!

October 7 is the INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION for Palestine!

THE WORLD IS SHOWING UP! We cannot give up two years into this fight.

📍Federal building, 300 S 4th St, Minneapolis
📆 Tuesday, Oct 7 at 5pm
October 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
🇵🇸🚨TODAY:

PROTEST:
Sabra & Shatila Then. Gaza Now. Stop the Massacres!
⏰9/16 @ 5:30 pm
📍Federal building, 300 S 4th St, Minneapolis

Today marks the anniversary of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre but this year also marks so many deaths in Gaza.
September 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The MN Anti-War Committee stands in full solidarity with the Teamsters on strike at the University of Minnesota. Join us on the picket lines this afternoon from 4-6!

We've always been and always will be PRO-LABOR, ANTI-WAR!!!
September 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
‼️🇵🇸Call @keithellison.bsky.social and tell him that tying Minnesota money to a genocide is a BAD INVESTMENT and a failure of his fiduciary duty.

More info at DivestMN.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
🇵🇸🎥‼️PRESS CONFERENCE & RALLY

GOVERNOR WALZ: YOU CAN’T “POSTPONE” JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE

⏰Tues 8/19 @ 5:30pm
📍Governor’s mansion, 1006 Summit Ave, St Paul

The State Board of Investment postponed its next meeting as soon as we announced plans to pack the meeting room!
August 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🇮🇷📖Educational event on the history of U.S. imperialism in Iran!

We’re hosting Dan Kovalik, author of "The Plot To Attack Iran" for discussion and Q&A. 

Want to read the book? Grab a copy at Mayday Books in Minneapolis.

🗓Thursday, 8/14 @ 6PM
📍Lucy Parsons Center, 4100 28th Ave S, MPLS
August 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
🇵🇸‼️PROTEST FOR GAZA

Starvation. Annexation. DIVEST FROM OCCUPATION!

Every day it becomes clearer that the only way to stop Israel’s genocide is to cut off U.S. support. NO MORE MINNESOTA MONEY FOR ISRAEL’S CRIMES

⏰Sun, 8/3 @ 3pm
📍Governor’s mansion, 1006 Summit Ave, St Paul
August 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🇵🇸💧Saint Paul Board of Water Commissioners is giving an Israeli cybersecurity company access to critical infrastructure — and refusing to hear public comments against renewing the contract.

Israeli tech products are often found to contain spyware and sabotage mechanisms.
July 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
We see you, @amyklobuchar.com

Call Klobuchar now & simply tell her:

“Standing with war criminal Netanyahu does not represent my Minnesotan values. End U.S. aid to Israel now!”

Local office #: 612-727-5220
DC office #: 202-224-3244

Read the full letter: antiwarcommittee.org/open-letter-...
July 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Interested in organizing for Palestine? Want to end US support for wars in the Middle East? Join the Anti-War Committee!

New member meeting:
⏰July 2 at 7pm
📍4200 Cedar Ave S, Minneapolis
July 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🇮🇷🚨ALL OUT AGAINST WAR! HANDS OFF IRAN!

PROTEST & MARCH:

⏰ SATURDAY, JUNE 28 @ 5PM
📍 POWDERHORN PARK, 10TH AVE S & E 32ND ST, MINNEAPOLIS

Organized by the Free Palestine Coalition & Minnesota Peace Action Coalition
June 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
🔔TODAY:

Join the People’s Action Coalition Against Trump (PACAT) for a press conference & rally against right-wing violence and hate.

⏰5:30 PM
📍MN Republican Party HQ, 7400 Metro Blvd, Edina, MN 55439
June 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🇮🇷📸A few photos from yesterday’s protest against the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
June 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
🚨EMERGENCY PROTEST

📣WE HAVE TO SAY NO TO BOMBING IRAN! A full-scale US-Israeli bombardment is on the horizon.

Hundreds of Iranians have already been killed. 

📍Federal Building, 300 S 4th St, Minneapolis
⏰Thursday, 6/19 at 5:30 PM

organized by the Free Palestine Coalition
June 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The SBI has postponed its quarterly meeting for the second time, without an explanation for either cancelation.

The need for divestment from apartheid Israel is urgent. We will continue to provide updates, and we plan to protest and demand divestment whenever the SBI meets next.
June 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
🚨🇮🇷EMERGENCY PROTEST:

NO WAR ON IRAN!

🛑 STOP U.S. INTERVENTION lN THE MIDDLE EAST
🛑 END U.S. AID TO ISRAEL

⏰TODAY, 6/16 at 5 p.m.
📍Mayday Plaza, 301 Cedar Ave S, Minneapolis

Organized by the MN Peace Action Coalition
June 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM