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Less Than Six Months From National Parliamentary Elections Protests, Violent Government Repression, and Economic Crisis Engulf Iraq
Anti-government protests in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) escalated and in some cases turned violent over the last two weeks, in the governorates of Sulaymaniyah and Duhok. In Erbil, the third governorate in the KRI, streets in major cities were packed with...
Young Peacemakers
We are at a new moment. The multiple crisis of the COVID 19 pandemic, heretofore unrecognized systemic racism and violence against BIPOC, economic collapse, and the spiraling climate crisis have so laid bare the deep flaws in our country and culture that we cannot...
UFPJ organizer moderates international webinar
On Friday, December 4th UFPJ National Organizer George Friday moderated a webinar sponsored by World BEYOND War, Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom-US Section & Black Alliance for Peace on the United States African Command (AFRICOM) and Human...
The Future of U.S. Immigration Policy: How Much Can Biden Do?
President-elect Joe Biden has promised to undo many of Trump’s immigration policies, including ending the “Muslim Ban,” ending “Zero Tolerance” that separated children and parents, reinstating protections for approximately 650,000 “Dreamers,” and increasing the...
Celebrate Entry-Into-Force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons!
On United Nations Day, October 24, Honduras became the 50th country to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (Ban Treaty), bringing the total number of ratifications to 50 and meeting the threshold for the Treaty’s entry-into force. The Ban Treaty...
In Their Remembrance: It is Time for a Just COVID Relief, a Smooth Transition, and a Moral Agenda Now
On Monday November 23, automobiles plastered with makeshift memorials to COVID victims who died in poverty caravanned through state capitals in: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,...
Iraqi Update: Government in Baghdad Attempts to Forcibly Shut Down Protests As Looming Fiscal Crisis Worsens
Images of protesters who were killed and revolutionary slogans were all that remained in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, on the morning of November 1st, after government authorities forcibly reopened streets surrounding the square and hauled away tents that protesters had...
Reflections on the Election and a Biden Presidency From UFPJ Founders and Movement Activists
Following an election like none other, peace and justice activists face unprecedented challenges as we grapple with the deep divisions in our society, a world that has little respect for the United States, and uncertainty about what the Biden Administration will, or...
What do you think of these 10 Challenges for Biden?
How are you feeling after this nail-biting election? Relieved? exhausted? apprehensive? That’s where we—the peacemakers— come in. Just as grassroots groups around the country are pushing Biden to embrace visionary policies such as a Green New Deal and Medicare for...
Celebrate Armistice Day – Wage Peace with Renewed Energy!
by Gerry Condon November 11 is Armistice Day, marking the 1918 armistice that ended the First World War, on the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.” Horrified by the industrial slaughter of millions of soldiers and civilians, the people of the...
AFRICOM & Human Rights in Africa
Friday, December 04, 2020 • 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM • Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00) Host Contact Info: Greta, greta@worldbeyondwar.org Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom-US Section, Black Alliance for Peace, & World BEYOND War...
Election Protection 2020
In case of a disputed election, protracted counting of votes or a coup attempt, protests are being organized nationally, to protect the results. A number of organizations have signed onto this effort, including: Indivisible, 350.org, SURJ, SEIU, Shut Down DC, Sierra...