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By Aqilah Allaudeen<\/strong>
\nMedill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n

Some 70 people rallied in\u00a0 Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago recently to end the war in Yemen. Chicago Area Peace Action, or CAPA, a grassroots organization that works to reduce and eliminate the danger of nuclear weapons and militarism, organized the rally.<\/p>\n

\u2028\u2028Hassan El-Tayyab, the policy and organizing director at CAPA, emphasized the need for citizens to call Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), to urge her to co-sign a bill that would end U.S. military involvement in Yemen.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Senate recently passed a resolution<\/a> 63 \u2013 37 to debate ending U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition\u2019s war in Yemen. The wide margin reflects growing discontent with U.S. involvement in the war, and the Trump administration\u2019s handling of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi<\/a> by the Saudis in the Saudi embassy in Turkey.<\/p>\n

\u201cYemen is the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crisis,\u201d U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in remarks<\/a> in Geneva earlier this year.<\/p>\n

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More than 80 percent of Yemen\u2019s population is in need of humanitarian aid. About 17.8 million Yemenis<\/a> are food insecure, while 16.4 million lack access to adequate healthcare in a country with a population of close to 29 million.<\/p>\n

The coalition – which includes Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco, Egypt and Sudan, amongst others – launched a military campaign in 2015 to defeat the Houthis, who took control of Sanaa, Yemen\u2019s capital, in 2014, and restore Yemen\u2019s internationally recognized government. Yet, after more than three years of escalating conflict, the Yemeni people continue to weather ongoing hostilities and a severe economic decline.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith U.S. military support, Saudi has blocked off the ports of Yemen, stopping their flow of basic necessities like food and clean water,\u201d El-Tayyab said in an interview. \u201cEssentially, we are complicit in war crimes by allowing this to happen. So we are here to get Senator Tammy Duckworth to co-sponsor a bill that will end U.S. military involvement in Yemen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Forty-four backpacks are laid out on the ground to symbolize the 44 Yemeni children who lost their lives when a U.S- made bomb hit a packed school bus on Aug 9. (Aqilah Allaudeen\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Protestors call for peace at the Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago. (Aqilah Allaudeen\/MEDILL) <\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Hassan El-Tayyab encourages protestors to call Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth (D) to ask her to co-sign a bill that will end U.S. involvement in the war. (Aqilah Allaudeen\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Some 70 protestors gather in solidarity with Yemen, and call for the U.S. to back out of the war in Yemen. (Aqilah Allaudeen\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Shireen Al-Adeimi shares tweets she received from the Yemeni people about the war in Yemen during her speech at Loyola University on Dec 1. (Aqilah Allaudeen\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Sam Day, a Chicago-based activist, says that the situation in Yemen and the U.S. involvement in the war is deplorable. \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t be selling out our values for money. We need to break off diplomatic relations with the Saudis till they stop these human rights abuses,\u201d he added. (Aqilah Allaudeen\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n

The U.S. has aided the coalition in the war by training Saudi soldiers, advising Saudi military personnel, and maintaining, repairing and upgrading vehicles and air crafts used. On Aug 9, the U.S.-backed Saudi coalition dropped a U.S. made bomb on a school bus, killing 44 children<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the rally, 44 backpacks were laid out on the ground as a symbol of the suffering endured by the children in Yemen.<\/p>\n

Some \u201c85,000 children have starved to death,\u201d El-Tayyab said. \u201cThe backpacks are already extremely symbolic. They don\u2019t just represent the kids that were killed that day, but those that have been killed since the war started.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eileen O\u2019Farrell Smith, a chaplain and activist present at the rally, said that the war needs to end as the level of injustice evident is insurmountable.<\/p>\n

\u201cI came out here today because the power is with the people,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is important for us to make connections and to build momentum so that things change and in this case, the war can end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shireen Al-Adeimi, an assistant professor of education at Michigan State University and an activist against the U.S.-backed war in Yemen, said that without substantial U.S. support, Saudi cannot continue to wage war on Yemen, at a speech at Loyola University on Dec 1, 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Yemeni people know that it\u2019s the U.S. that\u2019s behind the war, even though for the longest time, the U.S. tried to keep its involvement in the war hidden,\u201d said Al-Adeimi, who is from Yemen, in an interview. \u201cThe bombs all say \u2018made in USA\u2019 on them. It\u2019s also common to hear the Yemeni people say that the war started in Washington. They have always known.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also shared tweets by the Yemeni people on their opinion of the war in Yemen, where many wanted the U.S. to back out of the war.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica and the Saudi regime are committing genocide, while money purchases everyone\u2019s silence,\u201d read a tweet by Yemen resident Gamil Anaam.<\/p>\n

Despite the adversity that the Yemeni people have endured, Al-Adeimi, who still has family in Yemen, emphasized that they would rather die than live under foreign occupation.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are hanging on, and they don\u2019t know how much longer they can hang on for,\u201d she said. \u201cMy cousins have told me that if they have to starve to death, then they will hang on until that happens. But they aren\u2019t giving up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Some 70 people gathered outside Federal Plaza Nov. 30 to rally against U.S. involvement in the war in Yemen. At the rally, 44 backpacks laid out on the ground symbolized of the suffering endured by the children in Yemen.(Aqilah Allaudeen\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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