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What People Need to Know about the Kansas City Nuclear Bomb Parts Plant
By Mary Hladky, PeaceWorks Kansas City. Kansas City Missouri is literally at the center of the 2lst century new nuclear arms race. Kansas City MO is home to one of the 8 major sites that make U.S. nuclear weapons. It has an innocuous name, the Kansas City National...
This April 4: Organize a Public Reading of Dr. King’s “Beyond Vietnam: Speech in Your Community
On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his tragic assassination, in his prophetic speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on...
Israel/Palestine October 2023 War: Resources
Image: Rousseau Diderot, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons United for Peace and Justice here provides statements, analysis, and commentary from a variety of organizations, news sources, and analysts, including statements from United for Peace and Justice member groups...
Gaza, Protest, Repression and Germany’s Conundrum
Web Meeting: Gaza, Protest, Repression and Germany's Conundrum A two-hour panel and discussion featuring grassroots insights from movement leaders in Germany and the U.S. The global wave of protest against Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza has drawn crackdowns on...
Suggestions for Talking about Gaza and Other Wars
Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging...
Guantanamo at 22: Continuing Violations of Human Rights and the Growing Challenges and Harms Experienced by Former Detainees
The Detention Facility on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base marked its 22nd anniversary on January 11th, and while the number of detainees has dwindled to 30 there is a growing awareness of the enormity of the on-going damages and human rights violations the 780 Muslim...
Some Reflections on the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Jackie Cabasso, Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation; National Co-convener UFPJ* The Second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) took place from November 27 – December 1, 2023 at United Nations...
Germany’s All-Out Assault on Palestinians & Jews In-Real Time
by MaTT De Vlieger, Facilitator, Ceasefire Action Committee, Berlin, & Former UFPJ Coordinator Something very bad is happening socially and politically in Germany. Something that feels both old and new to me, after 20 years in the peace movement. (My first...
Kansas City, MO: Critical Node of the New Arms Race – RESIST
by Mary Hladky, PeaceWorks Kansas City, VP Co-Chair and member of the United for Peace and Justice, Coordinating Committee The Kansas City Nuclear Bomb Plant, officially named the Kansas City Security Campus, is of vital importance in the making of nuclear weapons. ...
Demand an Immediate Ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza War
We must collectively raise our voices, making it clear to our Congressional representative that we want a Ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war. Ask your representative to add their name, as a co-sponsor, to H.Res. 786. To date only 17 representatives have seen fit to...
Ukraine War Notwithstanding, the Middle East and its Oil will Always be at the Center of U.S. Foreign Policy
by Michael Eisenscher, National Coordinator Emeritus, U.S. Labor Against the War During the last year-and-a-half, the war in Ukraine has commanded the lion’s share of the attention of the U.S. and international antiwar movement – although that conflict has also...
“Oppenheimer” – the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The much-hyped Hollywood blockbuster film, “Oppenheimer,” a biographical drama about the “father” of the atomic bomb, directed by Christopher Nolan, opened July 21. The film focuses on the story of Oppenheimer’s leadership of the team that developed and tested the...