by UFPJ web | Aug 3, 2018 | Events & Updates, Member Group, Military Spending, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security
From the Korean Peninsula, to the South China Sea, to the Middle East and South Asia, all the nuclear-armed states are engaged in unpredictable conflicts that could catastrophically escalate out of control. Tensions between the United States and Russia have risen to...
by admin | Nov 25, 2016 | Action Alerts, Climate and Environmental Justice, Events & Updates, Top Story, UFPJ
Militarized police (from Indiana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Wyoming) have taken a side and are organizing with DAPL and the National Guard to suppress Indigenous Peoples and their supporters, initiating unwarranted violent force against...
by admin | Oct 29, 2013 | Action Alerts, Afghanistan, Top Story, UFPJ
After 12 years in Afghanistan, the longest war in U.S. history, it is time for our troops and contractors to come home now – leaving no one behind. Secretary of State John Kerry and President Hamid Karzai are finalizing negotiations to keep as many as 10,000 troops in...
by admin | May 21, 2012 | Legislative Working Group Posts
by Carolyn Eisenberg and Gael Murphy Some readers probably heard on the news how the Democrats were hopping mad when the House Republicans voted recently to overturn the “sequester” on the Pentagon budget, enacted at the end of the year as part of the deficit...
by admin | May 21, 2012 | Action Alerts, Legislative Working Group Posts
Last week for the first time, the majority of Democrats voted in favor of the Lee Amendment limiting funding for the Afghanistan War to the safe and orderly withdrawal of US troops and security contractors. (101 ayes, 79 Noes). This represents a sea-change of opinion...
