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The War in Afghanistan is Over, It’s Time to Face the Truth
While the words that we spoke may have promised a hopeful cooperative future, our bombs, drones, and night raids drowned out those words. Our commitment to violence buried Afghan hearts and minds beneath paralyzing fear, generational trauma, and the crushing emotions...
Time to Declare: “There Can Be No Successful War on Terror”
by Terry Kay Rockefeller, founding member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows’ response to the events in Afghanistan, barely two weeks old, calling for “an immediate and continuing ceasefire and for all...
The Poor People’s Campaign: A Season of Nonviolent Moral Direct Action to Save Our Democracy
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has just wrapped up A Season of Nonviolent Moral Direct Action to Save Our Democracy, focused on four demands of U.S. Senators:1) End the filibuster NOW; 2) Pass ALL provisions of the For the People Act; 3)...
We remember the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
—Hiroko Komiya, left, with Keiko Baker, preparing to speak.—Photo by Jim Hannah By Kristin Scheer On the evening of Aug. 8, PeaceWorks Kansas City gathered more than 50 people—anti-nuke activists, members of the Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council, along with Vets...
Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change: Shine a Light, Stop the Hate, Lower the Heat
On August 6, the 76th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, UFPJ member groups including Western States Legal Foundation and Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment (CAREs) held a “hybrid” live/virtual rally at the Livermore Nuclear...
“ACTS of Reimagining” Workshop Compares “George Floyd Justice in Policing Act” and the “People’s Response Act”
In summer 2020, people in the United States were forced to acknowledge and grapple with the violence, systemic injustice and inequity that Black Americans have been subjected to in this country. With the death of George Floyd being recorded and shared all over the...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Never Again!
We celebrated the entry-into-force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on January 22, 2021, but just six days later, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced it is keeping the hands of its Doomsday Clock at 100 seconds to midnight, the closest...
Poor People’s Campaign Announces a Season of Nonviolent Moral Direct Action
On Monday, July 5, 2021, Bishop William J. Barber II, Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, delivered an impassioned Moral Monday Message to the Nation, declaring, “Democracy vs. autocracy is the battle of our time. We must engage...
Seeking Peace in Afghanistan: September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows’ Webinar Explores Prospects for Afghan Civil Society
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows was organized after four of its founding members returned from Afghanistan in January of 2002 having witnessed the devastating levels of civilian casualties caused by the military activities of the U.S./NATO coalition....
How Do We Move from a Dysfunctional World to a World Without Nuclear Weapons?
The 26th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons took place on June 19, 2021. This was the second year the AGM was held virtually due to the ongoing pandemic which continues to devastate countries and populations...
Golden Rule Peace Boat Arrives From Honolulu To San Francisco: Historic Sailboat Tried to Stop Nuclear Bomb Testing in 1958
by Gerry Condon “They are here! They are here! The Golden Rule is sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco Bay.” These were the excited shouts of supporters on Tuesday, June 1, when the historic Golden Rule anti-nuclear sailboat arrived in SF Bay,...
Guantanamo Update: Evidence about Torture is Out; Statements Obtained by Torture are In
Although President Biden has announced his intention to close the detention facilities at the Guantanamo Naval Base there have been some recent, deeply troubling developments in the ongoing military commission hearings at the base. A decision last month in the case of...