Shireen Al-Adeimi is a native of Yemen, an Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. Ollie is a member of About FACE, a veteran and active-duty military member anti-war organization.

People and organizations across the world are uniting to call for an end to the famine and destruction of this war on January 25. Amid mounting pressure, Joe Biden has said he would end support for the war. At the same time he has filled his cabinet and transition team with war hawks, and his nominee for secretary of the Department of Defense, General Loyd Austin, has been on the Board of Directors of the Raytheon Corporation (the top profiteer from the war) since 2016!

Since the movement against the Vietnam war, there has not been a broad and powerful anti-war movement in this country. Currently, the US is playing a key role in the Saudi Arabia-led war on Yemen, creating what the United Nations calls the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. The fight against this outrage is hence an important part of the larger effort to mobilize people in the US against the war-machine more broadly.