Injustice at Home
U.S. injustice has deep historical roots: the theft of Native American lands, slavery, centuries of racism and anti-immigrant policies, and profound income and wealth inequality. The legacies of these injustices persist and intersect today. The median wealth of a Black or Latinx family is only a small faction of that of a white family. Native American water and lands continue to be devastated by petroleum pipelines, coal and uranium mining. Muslim-Americans have experienced a wave of Islamophobia, while individuals seeking to enter the U.S. at our southern border are denied the right to seek asylum and detained in pens. UFPJ was founded on the principle that there will be no true peace without addressing the myriad injustices of U.S. society.
GTMO UPDATE: Detainee Releases and High-Level Reviews of Guantanamo Policies and Practices
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...
September 21 UN International Day of Peace: “End Racism. Build Peace”
United for Peace & Justice invites you to join us for a special webinar: “End Racism. Build Peace” Wednesday, September 21, the UN International Day of Peace Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on September 21. The United Nations...
June 18, 2022: UFPJ Joins the Poor People’s Campaign Mass Poor People’s and Low Wage Workers Assembly and March on Washington – A Declaration, Not Just a Demonstration!
After months of planning the big day arrived, as United for Peace & Justice joined the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, DC on June 18 for its Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers Assembly and March on Washington and to the Polls. We were represented by our...
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Supports the Legally Required Release of Guantanamo Detainee Majid Khan
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...
Let’s Bend the Arc of Justice on June18!
The June 18, 2022 Mass Poor People and Low Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls will be a generationally transformative gathering of poor and low wealth people, state leaders, faith communities, moral allies, unions and partnering...
Acting on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Full Legacy; All Roads Lead to June 18, Washington, DC!
Acting on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Full Legacy; All Roads Lead to June 18, Washington, DC! On and around April 4, groups around the country honored Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s full legacy by organizing public participatory readings of his seminar speech,...
This April 4: Organize a Public Reading of Dr. King’s “Beyond Vietnam: Speech in Your Community
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...
This April 4: Organize a Public Reading of Dr. King’s “Beyond Vietnam: Speech in Your Community
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...
Mobilizing for The Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls, June 18, 2022
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has launched a national Mobilization Tour leading to June 18, 2022. Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls. The Mobilization Tour will make stops...
The Poor People’s Campaign: Picking up Martin Luther King’s Unfinished Work
In a February 1968 speech, Dr, King declared: “We have played havoc with the destiny of the world and we have brought the whole world closer to nuclear confrontation . . . I am still convinced that the struggle for peace and the struggle for civil rights as we call it...
A Burst of Anti-Nuclear Activity!
January 22 will mark the first anniversary of entry-into-force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The TPNW prohibits the possession, development, testing, use and threat of use of nuclear weapons for the 59 countries that have so far ratified...
Guantánamo: 20 Years of Injustice Must End!
Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL), the most vocal congressional champion of closing Guantánamo, chaired a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on December 7. Colleen Kelly a co-founder of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, one of the founding...