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UFPJ presents: The Costs of War at Home Thursday, November 18, 2021; 5 pm PST/8 pm EST
Our webinar will highlight UFPJ member groups’ and allies’ work to raise awareness of the impacts of war industries in communities around the U.S., including approaches ranging from focusing on particular armament companies to the use of local resolutions to educate...
GITMO’s 20th Anniversary Approaches and the Policies of Endless War Persist
Under the George W. Bush Administration at least 780 Muslim men were brought to the prison facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, which was opened on January 11, 2002. Today, as GITMO’s 20th anniversary approaches, 39 men remain. Ten have been charged but are...
President Biden and Congress: Listen to the Poor People’s Campaign!
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is keeping up the pressure on President Biden and Congress to pass the Build Back Better Act and voting protections to save our democracy from coordinated attacks across the country. The largest investment...
Poor People’s Campaign Moral Monday: Build Back Better From the Bottom Up!
Get on the Bus! Congress is coming back to DC on Monday, Nov 15 and we need to meet them there to demand they Build Back Better from the Bottom Up and pass voting protections to save our democracy from coordinated attacks across the country. All hands on deck!! This...
UFPJ Seeding Peacekeepers Launched
On October 18th UFPJ’s initial group of emerging activists began our six-month training program with UFPJ’s National Organizer, George Friday. Between now and the end of the year participants sponsored by UFPJ groups from Western Massachusetts (Springfield No One...
Poor People’s Campaign: 2020 Election Study Shows Low Income Voters Can’t be Ignored
According to a study released by the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival at an online national press conference on October 15, poor and low-income people accounted for more than a third of all voters overall in the 2020 presidential election, and...
Join the movement to #CutThePentagon for People, Planet, Peace, and a Future!
In 2021, the United States will spend $740 billion on the Pentagon budget which is equal to $1.4 million a MINUTE. With just 10% of the Pentagon budget, we could END homelessness in the United States, yet we’re told time and time again that we just “can’t afford”...
Never Forget: 9/11 and the 20 Year War on Terror
On the 20th anniversary of September 11, CODEPINK and Mass Peace Action hosted the webinar: Never Forget: 9/11 and the 20 Year War on Terror. September 11th, 2001, fundamentally altered the culture of the United States and its relationship with the rest of the world....
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...