The ongoing illegal war abroad, and increasing efforts at voter suppression here at home, continue to spark resistance across the nation.
The Guardian is reporting that President Trump has rejected the Iranian response to the US peace proposal and quotes Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu saying the war with Iran must continue as long as it retains a stockpile of highly enriched uranium. Netanyahu told CBS's 60 Minutes that the only way to secure that material was for the U.S. to retrieve it physically as part of a negotiated agreement.
During Trump's first term, at the urging of Netanyahu, the United States tore up the 2015 multilateral deal the Obama administration had negotiated with that included the United Kingdom, France, China, and Russia.
According to the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Israel is widely believed to possess dozens of nuclear warheads and is not a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Aljazeera is reporting that Israeli attacks are intensifying in southern Lebanon, with over 550 people killed since the so-called April 15th cease fire.
As in its scorched earth strategy in Gaza, which killed well over 70,000, including tens of thousands of women and children, emergency medical personnel and first responders continue to be targeted with so-called double tap attacks, a flagrant violation of international law.
Ironically, the New York Times is reporting that the Trump war of choice with Iran and the steep run up of oil prices it has sparked, is actually accelerating the world's transition to renewable energy like wind and solar, something Trump has tried to reverse.
Meanwhile, here in the United States, the multi-billion dollar explosion in Pentagon spending on its undeclared war with Iran comes as cuts to programs like food stamps are kicking in. Simultaneously, the Trump administration continues to try and assert federal control over the 2026 bi-annual Congressional elections, a flagrant violation of the US Constitution.
The Trump junta's efforts to preempt state control of the local election process comes as the US Supreme Court has demolished the 1965 Voting Rights Act setting off a Republican bid in the south to zero out all existing elected Black representation.
This morning we heard from our current events panel with Larry Hamm, founder of the Newark based People's Organization for Progress and Dr. Joe Wilson, labor consultant and historian, biographer of A. Phillip Randolph, the iconic civil rights and labor leader.
In our B Block, we checked in again with our union friends at St. John's University, Professors Chris Denny and Sophie Bell about their fight to hold on to their long established union.
In our second hour, we welcomed back Jonathan Wilson Hargrove Assistant, Director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale University who works so closely with Bishop William Barber, the Poor People's Campaign and Repairers of the Breach.
Later today, in the spirit of Moral Monday, local Leaders will hold Coordinated Peace-Protest Rallies at the White House and State Congressional Offices to Deepen and Escalate Nonviolent Moral Resistance and Opposition to the the undeclared war in the Middle East and the deeply destructive explosion in Pentagon spending.
Jonathan was joined by Rev. Stephen Erich, a pastor in Washington, DC and on the board of Adventist Peace Fellowship. They were joined by Rabbi David Shneyer, who leads the Am Kolel Jewish Renewal Community of Greater Washington, DC. He is the co-founder of Jewish United for Justice (DMV), a member of T’ruah - the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, and a member of Repairers of the Breach Prophetic Council.
In our D Block, we got an update on the push in the New York City Council to make it easier for struggling New Yorkers to access the MTA's Fair Fares program.
We spoke with Danna Dennis, lead organizer with Riders Alliance, and Bishop Mitchell Taylor, with Urban Upbound, about why this program is so important to the one in four New Yorkers living in poverty and so many more who are also struggling week to week to get by.
The panel discusses how fare evasion prosecutions are another example of how New York City actually criminalizes poverty often along racial lines.
