by UFPJ web | Aug 20, 2020 | Action Alerts, Member Group, Racial Justice, Top Story
BlackRock loves to make a killing on killing: Over a thousand Americans have been killed by Tasers — 32 percent of them are Black Americans. Tasers are made by the colossal law enforcement supplier Axon Enterprise, based in Arizona. One of their top shareholders...
by admin | Aug 19, 2020 | Anti-Intervention, Iraq, Top Story
Iraq’s Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, who formed a government in May, five months after the resignation of the previous prime minister in the face of unprecedented popular protest, will be at the White House on August 20. Al-Kadhimi faces a multitude of...
by admin | Jul 27, 2020 | Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
Mayors for Peace, an international organization, founded in 1982 and led by the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is working for a world without nuclear weapons and for safe and resilient cities as essential measures in order to realize lasting world peace. As of July...
by admin | Jul 25, 2020 | Events & Updates, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings – Deconstructing the Myths and Promoting a Nuclear Weapons-Free and Just World. Held on July 13, this webinar featured Sueichi KIDO, the General Secretary of Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- & H-Bomb Sufferers...
by admin | Jul 25, 2020 | Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
#75 Years of Resilience. The hibakusha, those who survived the U.S. nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are the best-known nuclear survivors, but they are not the only ones. Downwinders were exposed to America’s nuclear testing and production sites in places...
by admin | Jul 25, 2020 | Action Alerts, Events & Updates, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
As we approach the 75th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th, let us be aware that today, nearly 14,000 nuclear weapons, most an order of magnitude more powerful than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and...
