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Webinar: How to Make this the Decade of Building Power, Movement Fusion, and Action!
Lisa Fithian, prominent long time organizer and former UFPJ Co-Chair, recently shared lessons from her new book Shut it down; Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance about how we move forward together in this new decade in a UFPJ Webinar. You can listen to a...
KKFI 90.1 Kansas City, Mo interview with Mary Hladky, Military Families Speak Out, and Margot Patterson, Code Pink KC
This episode of KKFI 90.1 Community Radio in Kansas City, Missouri Radio Active Magazine interviewed Margot Patterson with Code Pink KC and Citizens for Justice in the Middle East and Mary Hladky with Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) and PeaceWorks Kansas City. ...
Poor People’s Campaign Calls on UN to Hold U.S. Accountable for War Crimes
United for Peace and Justice is an endorsing partner of the Poor People’s Campaign, an innovative effort to connect issues of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation and the war economy. UFPJ endorses the PPC’s request below asking the UN to hold the U.S....
Short Notice: Tomorrow, Jan 9, Join a Peace with Iran Rally in Your City
In Solidarity with CODEPINK, the United for Peace & Justice Coordinating Committee supports their message below: Last night bombs were falling and it seemed like another major Middle East war was breaking out. But Iran intentionally didn’t cause any...
A week of witness against Guantanamo and all it represents
Witness Against Torture will begin to gather on Tuesday evening, January 7th, to embrace the 40 Muslim men still locked up in Guantanamo and the hundreds of others forever scarred and haunted by the trauma of having been there. We will remember, we will witness and we...
Prevent Trump from Waging War on Iran
United for Peace & Justice is tremendously concerned about the ramifications of the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s most senior military leader, ordered by President Trump. The assassination authorized by Trump, without consultation with Congress, places...
U.S. Troops Out of Iraq: National Day of Action Jan 4!
In response to the massive protests in Iraq following the latest U.S. aerial assault that killed scores of Iraqis, Donald Trump has ordered 750 more U.S. troops to the Middle East and potentially 3,000 more. This is in addition to the 5,200 already in Iraq to push the...
Support UFPJ Today!
The year ahead will be crucial for defending justice and promoting peace. UFPJ has played a vital role in promoting and sustaining grassroots peace and justice activism in the United States since 2002. Please support UFPJ and prepare for action in 2020! Our member...
Poor People’s Assembly and March on Washington, June 20, 2020
United for Peace and Justice is an endorsing partner of the Poor People's Campaign, an innovative effort to connect issues of of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation and the war economy. The Poor People's campaign recently announced an assembly and march...
Poor People’s Campaign National Tour comes to San Francisco December 11
The We Must Do MORE: Mobilize, Organize, Register and Educate National Tour is coming to San Francisco as part of a 25-state tour. We invite you to join us on Wednesday December 11 at 5:45 for a moral march and mass meeting. Who: California Poor People's Campaign: A...
Vietnam War Commemoration Event, Washington, D.C. November 11-15
Our allies at the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee continue to organize events related to anti war history from the Vietnam Era as an antidote to the re-writing of the history. Coming up in the Washington DC area November 11-15: George Washington University...
Urgent Plea From Iraqi Protesters
Massive protests, which have been taking place in Iraq since early October, have entered a new and critical phase. More than 275 protesters have been killed and thousands injured, yet following a break for the religious observance of Arba'een, the protesters have...