by UFPJ web | Apr 25, 2025 | Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Member Group, Military Spending, Poor Peoples Campaign, Racial Justice, Top Story
Photo: Oakland, CA Beyond Vietnam readers; photo credit: Sandy Thacker In his prophetic speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” delivered on April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his tragic and untimely assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared:...
by UFPJ web | Apr 25, 2025 | Action Alerts, Events & Updates, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
From April 28 – May 9, States parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) will meet at the United Nations in New York for the third Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) meeting for the 2026 NPT Review Conference. The NPT represents the only binding commitment to...
by UFPJ web | Mar 22, 2025 | Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Poor Peoples Campaign, Racial Justice, Top Story
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...
by UFPJ web | Feb 22, 2025 | Action Alerts, Events & Updates, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
by MacGregor Eddy February 18, 2025, late at night, a group of seven peace activists gathered at the front gate of Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara county California. They were there both to protest against the test launch of an intercontinental ballistic...
by UFPJ web | Sep 25, 2024 | Events & Updates, Top Story, UFPJ, Webinars
Sep 19, 2024 5:00 PM PDT, 8PM EDT View the webinar here This webinar features Dr. Carolyn “Rusti” Eisenberg discussing her new book, Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger and the Wars in Southeast Asia. Drawing on documents declassified in recent years, the book explores...
by UFPJ web | Sep 1, 2024 | Afghanistan, Confronting Islamophobia, Events & Updates, Member Group, Top Story
Actions in the Guantanamo 9/11 Military Commissions, which have since the arraignment of five men accused of planning and supporting the 9/11 terrorist attacks been unable to even begin a trial, appeared to advance toward resolution and then with near lightening speed...