The Answer Coalition and The People’s Forum organized the mobilization, which was supported by Veterans for Peace, CodePink, Party for Socialism and Liberation, United National Anti-War Coalition, Haiti Liberté, Rising Together, Peace in Ukraine Coalition, NYC-DSA Anti -War Working Group, Massachusetts Peace Action and other groups.
The anti-war legacy of Martin Luther King was remembered. They demanded the dissolution of NATO and that war budgets dedicated to the populations.
Thousands of people gathered this Saturday in the American city of New York to demand an end to the participation of the United States (USA) in the conflict in Ukraine and to stop the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Protesters gathered from 12:00 local time in Times Square and marched through midtown Manhattan chanting slogans against US and European Union militarism.
In addition, they demanded that billions of dollars today grease the war machine be dedicated to education, health, employment and other needs of the population.
Prior to the march, Answer coalition national director Brian Becker asserted that decades of US government policy have made conflict in Ukraine all but inevitable.
When evaluating the causes of the confrontations between that country and Russia, which has been deploying a special military operation there since February 2022 to protect the population of Donbas, the activist said that “NATO’s expansion in Eastern Europe, the withdrawal of The US commitment to major arms control treaties and the prospect of Ukraine being a staging ground for NATO’s advanced weapons systems have paved the way for this conflict.
