by UFPJ web | Dec 23, 2023 | Action Alerts, Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
by Mary Hladky, PeaceWorks Kansas City, VP Co-Chair and member of the United for Peace and Justice, Coordinating Committee The Kansas City Nuclear Bomb Plant, officially named the Kansas City Security Campus, is of vital importance in the making of nuclear weapons. ...
by UFPJ web | Mar 24, 2023 | Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Member Group, Military Spending, Poor Peoples Campaign, Top Story
A report from the California Poor People’s Campaign End Women’s Poverty: Invest in Caring Not Killing, an International Women’s Day event on March 8, was spearheaded by the California Poor People’s Campaign (PPC), with UFPJ, CODEPINK and Women’s International League...
by UFPJ web | Feb 24, 2023 | Events & Updates, Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story, Webinars
Photo credit: Jamie Christiani, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists On January 24, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist moved the hands of its iconic Doomsday Clock forward, largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the war in Ukraine. The...
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...