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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...
Global Day of Action Against Military Spending Briefing Calls
Recordings of these calls are now available at the links below: March 25 Call March 19 Call Join Shailly Gupta Barnes of the Kairos Center and environmental attorney Mark Dunlea for the second of two national calls on Global Days of Action on Military Spending...
Bolivia’s Struggle for Democracy Continues
2020 began with protests and government repression in Iraq and Iran, atop the many existing “forever“ wars. As the U.S. peace movement grappled with this growing number of crises, soon the events of November 10, 2019 in Bolivia and the removal of President Evo Morales...
The We must Do MORE (Mobilize, Organize, Register, and Educate) Tour.
The Poor People's Campaign We must Do MORE Tour is moving across the country to highlight 1) Poverty and Inequality 2) Systemic Racism 3) Ecological Devastation and 4) War and Militarism. Hear powerful testimonies, and share a moral vision for what this nation can...
Subject: End All Endless Wars, Korea Peace Now!
National Action to End the Korean War March 15-17, 2020; Washington DC Deadline for registration: March 1, 2020 70 Years Too Long! The Korean War (1950-53) never ended. It was merely suspended by an armistice agreement between North Korea and the United States. While...