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Iraq’s New Prime Minister to Meet President Trump
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...
Mayors for Peace Promotes Global Partnership for a World Free from Nuclear Weapons
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...
No More Hiroshima! No More Nagasaki! Some Important Webinars
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...
No More Hiroshima! No More Nagasaki!: Educate Yourself and Others
#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...
No More Hiroshima! No More Nagasaki!
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...
Poor People’s Jubilee Platform launched; A Moral Agenda to Heal America
Following the June 20, 2020 digital Mass Poor People’s Assembly and March on Washington that drew millions of viewers, on July 16, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, held a well-attended Congressional briefing to demand a moral policy...
U.S. Conference of Mayors Calls for Human-Centered Security in a Time of Global Pandemic
At the close of its 88th Annual Meeting, held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on June 30, 2020, the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) Executive Committee unanimously adopted a sweeping resolution “Calling for Human-Centered Security in a Time of Global...
IRAQ UPDATE: Multiple Challenges to Justice, Peace, Democracy and Human Rights
Nine years after U.S. troops “left” Iraq, only to return many times to confront ISIS and the other predictable fallout of the ill-conceived U.S. policy to “democratize” Iraq, Iraq’s national government fails to serve its people. A central issue is how the sectarian...
On Earth Peace
On Earth Peace is a member group of United for Peace & Justice – you may be interested in their upcoming online webinar on July 23. Join Christian Peacemaker Teams and On Earth Peace in a joint webinar on the intersection between nonviolence and undoing...
Strike For Black Lives! July 20, 2020
On Monday July 20th, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is joining a coalition of major labor unions and racial and social justice organizations, including SEIU, the Fight for $15 and a Union, the Movement for Black Lives and many more, for...
Facing History and Ourselves: Full Spectrum Dominance from White Supremacy to Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Societies are a fabric of a whole. The foundations of domestic, foreign and military policies are the same. in his article "Facing History and Ourselves: Full Spectrum Dominance from White Supremacy to Hiroshima & Nagasaki," Joseph Gerson explains that since the...
Protests of the Murder of George Floyd Met with Military Force UFPJ Member Groups and Leaders Respond
The police murder of George Floyd sparked an outpouring of public protest across the nation, and members of UFPJ’s leadership, past and present, joined calls to defund the police and the military, while warning of imminent threats to our democracy. Michael McPhearson,...