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Move the Nuclear Weapons (and Fossil Fuel) Money
International webinar: April 21, 2020. Held in conjunction with Earth Day 2020 and the Global Days of Action on Military Spending, April 10 – May 5, 2020. Watch the video here. The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the need for governments and the international...
Abolition 2000 Statement Addressing the Threats to Planetary Survival
This 50th anniversary of Earth Day finds the planet facing existential threats like never before in human history. On this historic anniversary, the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons has issued a Statement Addressing the Threats to Planetary...
Stop the War on the Poor: Combating U.S. Military and the War Economy
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are...
April 22: on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, Divest from the War Machine
April 22 2020 is officially the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Addressing the climate crisis is one of the most important challenges of our time. The U.S. military is the world’s largest consumer of oil and causes more greenhouse gas pollution than 140 nations...
Online World Conference 2020: Abolish Nuclear Weapons; Resist and Reverse Climate Change; For Social and Economic Justice
April 25, 2020; 9 – 11 am EDT. Video of the World Conference can Now be watched here. Humanity faces two existential threats: increasing dangers of nuclear war and climate disruption, with its impact on world health. Human beings created these threats, which can only...
Open Letter to the United Nations and the Government of the United States to Lift Sanctions
The global spread of COVID-19 has exposed the devastating humanitarian impacts of unilateral coercive measures (economic sanctions) by the United States government against more than thirty nations. The economic war against those nations had already resulted in...
COVID-19 is Our Common Enemy: Sign the Call for a Global Ceasefire
On March 23, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres declared: “Our world faces a common enemy: COVID-19. The virus does not care about nationality or ethnicity, faction or faith. It attacks all, relentlessly. Meanwhile, armed conflict rages on around the...
Poverty Amidst Pandemic: A Time to Break Silence
April 4, 2020 will mark the 52nd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s tragic and untimely assassination, and the 53rd anniversary of his prophetic speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” In the years following the September 11, 2001 terrorist...
United For Peace and Justice endorses initiatives for peace and economic justice
UFPJ regularly signs onto letters initiated by other groups dealing with a broad range of important peace and justice issues. Here's a recent sampling: --UFPJ joined more than 350 groups signing onto an urgent letter, initiated by the Nuclear Information and Resource...
The Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington Goes Digital!
The Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington is going digital! On June 20th, we will hold the largest digital and social media gathering of poor and low-wealth people, moral and religious leaders, advocates, and people of conscience in this nation’s...
The Breakdown of the Iran Deal – Global perspectives
On October 2, 2019, the International Day of Nonviolence, the Abolition 2000 Global Network for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons held its fourth webinar on issues related to its goals of eliminating nuclear weapons and nuclear power, this time on the crucial issue...
Poverty Amidst Pandemic: A Moral Response to COVID-19
With its broad sweep, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced us into an unprecedented national emergency. This emergency, however, results from a deeper and much longer-term crisis - that of poverty and inequality, and of a society that ignores the needs of 140 million...