by UFPJ web | Feb 24, 2023 | Afghanistan, Anti-Intervention, Confronting Islamophobia, Member Group, Saudi Arabia, Top Story
Good news and Guantanamo are two ideas not normally associated with one another, but February 2023 has been a month of important positive developments for the men being held at the Guantanamo detention facility and for eventually ending the failed system of military...
by UFPJ web | Dec 18, 2022 | Action Alerts, Afghanistan, Member Group, Top Story
By Terry Rockefeller, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Since UFPJ’s founding, our member organizations—September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, Witness Against Torture, CODEPINK, and many others—have worked to close the illegal off-shore detention...
by UFPJ web | Jul 26, 2022 | Events & Updates, Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
August 6 and 9 will mark the 77th anniversary of the U.S atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As the aging Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bomb survivors (hibakusha) continue to passionately appeal for a world without nuclear weapons based on their conviction that “no...
by UFPJ web | Jun 25, 2022 | Confronting Islamophobia, Events & Updates, Member Group, Top Story
Majid Khan’s sentencing hearing in October of 2021 produced a sea change in the Guantanamo military commissions. These proceedings include the pre-trial hearings of the five men accused of plotting and supporting the 9/11 attacks, which have hopelessly faltered after...
by UFPJ web | Jun 25, 2022 | Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
John Burroughs, Senior Analyst, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy Threats to use nuclear weapons made this year by the Russian government have surfaced a reality long suppressed in the media and public sphere: the incredible peril posed by ongoing reliance of...
by UFPJ web | Apr 22, 2022 | Events & Updates, Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story, Ukraine
by Gerry Condon The historic anti-nuclear sailboat Golden Rule is being prepared for an epic voyage throughout the Midwestern, Southern and Eastern U.S. In September the 34-foot wooden ketch will be transported by truck-and-trailer from San Francisco Bay to...
