Green Bay Anti-War

06/02/2026

Over the weekend, members of GBAC attended and hung around a Democratic Party of Brown County event where we could "meet the candidates" in a more personal setting. Though many of us eschew electoral politics, we figured it would be worth going just to hear from candidates regarding their anti-war stance. Many spoke out against the Iran war, the militarization of ICE as the president's personal shock troops, and even the need to reject the Zionist lobby (and this last part from a centrist candidate!)

Unfortunately, Mandela Barnes failed to impress us.

Most people know by now that what's happening in Gaza is a genocide. So why do so many politicians who claim to care about human rights refuse to even say the word? Why do so many seem afraid to fall out of step with lobbying groups for a foreign government?

Here's what Barnes told us:

He first dismissed his J Street connections as insignificant, claiming he had not received money from J Street PAC directly, just from contributors linked with the lobbying group. (A direct lie, a short search reveals his campaign received 482 payments from J Street PAC.)

Despite this supposed complete independence from the pro-Israel donor network, he refused to endorse calls to legally allow Wisconsinites to boycott Israel (it's currently illegal for us to do so) or call the slaughter of Palestinians for what it is: A genocide. Pushing him on this issue caused him to exasperatedly ask for us to stop debating the "semantics" of the issue.

And, surprisingly, he did say he'd sign a repeal of the anti-BDS law if it landed on his desk.

That last part is notable. The rest is of course the language of a careerist who knows which lobby pays him to keep certain positions off limits.

It's sad seeing what a man who used to tweet "Normalize saying Free Palestine" and is named after Nelson Mandela, a fierce supporter of Palestinian liberation, now stays within the small and discredited parameters of the liberal wing of ethnoreligious supremacism.

As our state and our country face an ever-increasing fuel crisis brought on by Israeli geopolitical priorities, and as the position of the Israeli regime becomes more and more untenable, we can only hope we end up with a governor who isn't afraid to say the truth about bad actors when the situation calls for it.

05/22/2026

If you've been seeing the news, you might have seen that the lawsuit the ACLU and Voces de la Frontera brought against multiple sheriffs, including Sheriff Delain of Brown County, is now once again being reviewed by our State Supreme Court here in Wisconsin rather than as a federal issue.

The suit argues administrative detainers (which are not judicial warrants) constitute a violation of peoples' civil rights. It is very much within the realm of possibility that the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which has a liberal majority, agrees.

This would open the county and the taxpayers up to civil litigation from the multitude of people who have been detained by the Sheriff's office on behalf of ICE.

Yet the Brown County Board of Supervisors continues to sit on its hands regarding this matter. We started a petition asking for multiple demands, the first being having their official legal counsel deliver a legal opinion on the risk the county faces regarding civil litigation. Regardless of anyone's personal opinions about immigration policy, we consider this to be more than reasonable as a demand.

The Sheriff should be focusing on county affairs, not federal immigration policy!

The Brown County Board of Supervisors should be providing a modicum of democratic oversight regarding Sheriff's office priorities! Particularly when we're the ones who foot the bill for any future litigation!

Please share and sign our petition and help us reach 500 signatures!

Stop Illegal Detention in Brown County: End ICE 287(g) Cooperation Now

05/21/2026

On Saturday members of GBAC went to St John's park to offer up some breakfast omelets to the people currently suffering from homelessness who congregate there. This is something our organization did every other week last summer and will continue engaging in this year.

With just a few funds and a bit of legwork, we were able to make dozens of omelets for everyone who wanted one. Our intent, beyond just providing immediate reprieve to those on the margins of society, was to demonstrate the capacity to help the dispossessed.

As we've been chanting throughout our various rallies and marches, we want money for jobs and education, not for war and occupation. The war machine that swallows up resources to continue a policy of imperialist aggression does absolutely nothing for the domestic population. It only creates financial kickbacks for rentier elites, pulls us into unwinnable foreign entanglements and denigrates the human condition. Our community has the capacity to meet the absolute most basic needs of everyone that lives here, instead of a system that almost allowed dozens in Green Bay to freeze to death last winter. Housing and work for all is more than reasonable as a societal demand.

If you'd like to lend us a hand covering for ingredients (and hopefully increasing our capacity) you can cashapp us at $GBAntiwar

05/17/2026

Yesterday the Green Bay Anti-War Committee held a rally marking the anniversary of the Nakba, and Palestinian dispossession.

This rally was held at the Brown County Courthouse, to commemorate 78 years of Palestinian exile from their native land, as well as bringing attention to the complicity that our local elected leaders have in apartheid and genocide. Assemblyman Ryan Spaude and Senator Jamie Wall signed into law the bill that would redefine the definition of anti-semitism to include criticism of the state of Israel's fundamental nature. This bill endangers our right to hold events like this, to call for the end of apartheid and to demand the Palestinian right of return.

The Green Bay Anti-War Committee is out here to show that we are not afraid to stand up for Palestine, no matter what is thrown at us.

Much thanks to Fox Valley Advocates for Peace for their support.

From the river to the sea

Credit for photos to Wylde Kites (C.E.)

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05/07/2026

Join the Green Bay Anti-War Committee for a rally marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba and demanding the Palestinian right of return!

May 16, 1pm
Brown County Courthouse

04/22/2026

Join us for our anti-war banner drop TODAY, April 22, at 5:30 pm on the corner of Oneida and Lombardi!

04/15/2026

Taxes for the People
Not for Israel's War

Healthcare
Affordable Housing
Public Transit
Roads
Schools

04/08/2026

TODAY!!!

Join us on the corner of Mason and Main (near T-mobile and Toppers), in Green Bay, to demand a permanent end to the Israeli and American war of aggression.

04/03/2026

The Green Bay Anti-War Committee condemns the unlawful detention by ICE of Milwaukee Palestinian community leader Salah Sarsour, and we join our comrades in the Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine in calling for his immediate release.

Sarsour is a lawful permanent resident of the United States who has been transparently targeted for his pro-Palestinian activism. We have seen this playbook from DHS before, with Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, and many others. The right to protest and the right of free speech are human rights, not rights only for US citizens. This is also part of a broader attack on the free speech rights of pro-Palestinian activists, as exemplified in Wisconsin by Governor Evers signing the dangerous IHRA definition of antisemitism into law last week. These attacks on the anti-war movement are in defense of an apartheid state whose politicians last week celebrated a law mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terrorism by military tribunals (while excluding Israeli settler violence), in a grave violation of international law. Sarsour has been targeted by ICE for standing up for human rights and dignity and his opposition to such cruelty.

End ICE terror, free Palestine, and free Salah Sarsour!

03/31/2026