by UFPJ web | Jul 26, 2025 | Action Alerts, Events & Updates, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
As we approach the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, authoritarian nationalists now hold state power in seven of the nine nuclear-armed states. Even limited progress towards arms control and disarmament has...
by UFPJ web | May 25, 2025 | Events & Updates, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
Photo credit: Alyn Ware From April 28 – May 9, 2025, states parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) met at United Nations headquarters in New York City for the third Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) meeting for the 2026 NPT Review Conference. The NPT...
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...