by admin | Jun 11, 2021 | Action Alerts, Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Poor Peoples Campaign, Racial Justice, Top Story
On June 21, join poor people, low-wage workers, moral and faith leaders and advocates online simultaneously with a socially distant rally in Raleigh, NC for a National Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers Assembly. The hybrid online/in-person mass assembly will include...
by admin | Jun 11, 2021 | Action Alerts, Member Group, Top Story, UFPJ
While youth activists in the U.S. are significantly engaged in movements for racial and environmental justice, those who have come of age in a post-9/11 world have known nothing but endless war and are not likely to question our culture of violence and ecological...
by admin | May 22, 2021 | Action Alerts, China and Northeast Asia, Events & Updates, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
In the historic year when the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force, the 2021 Peace March will start on May 6 from Tokyo, walking towards Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At a new stage that nuclear weapons are prohibited for the first time in...
by admin | May 22, 2021 | Action Alerts, China and Northeast Asia, Events & Updates, North Korea, Top Story
Join hundreds of people across the country in nationally coordinated virtual advocacy meetings to urge your Member of Congress to support: A Peace Agreement to end the Korean War; Life-saving humanitarian assistance; and Other humanitarian issues such as lifting the...
by admin | May 20, 2021 | Action Alerts, Confronting Islamophobia, Top Story
United for Peace and Justice supports the ongoing struggle for Palestinian freedom and joins with all groups calling for an arms embargo on Israel and a ceasefire of current attacks. UFPJ encourages all UFPJ member and affiliated groups to join or organize protests in...
by admin | Mar 20, 2021 | Action Alerts, Anti-Intervention, Iraq, Top Story
On 16 February, the Second Erbil Criminal Court, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, sentenced five journalists—Sherwan Sherwani, Guhdar Zebari, Hariwan Issa, Ayaz Karan, and Shvan Saeed—to six years in prison following a blatantly unfair trial. All five of the men were...
