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We cannot under estimate the tremendous obstacles and dangers that we must confront in the coming four years. Please contribute to UFPJ today, so that our network can continue to inspire and organize local and national peace and justice organizations to respond and...
Webinar Recording: Ending the ‘American War’ in Vietnam: The Impact of the Antiwar Movement and Lessons for the Present
Sep 19, 2024 5:00 PM PDT, 8PM EDT View the webinar here This webinar features Dr. Carolyn “Rusti” Eisenberg discussing her new book, Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger and the Wars in Southeast Asia. Drawing on documents declassified in recent years, the book explores...
9/11 Pre-Trial Hearings at Guantanamo Enter Unchartered Legal Territory
Actions in the Guantanamo 9/11 Military Commissions, which have since the arraignment of five men accused of planning and supporting the 9/11 terrorist attacks been unable to even begin a trial, appeared to advance toward resolution and then with near lightening speed...
Hearings in the 9/11 Case at Guantanamo Move Closer to Crucial Decisions on Admissibility of Key Government Evidence
From April 21 to May 17, the 9/11 military commission at the Guantanamo Naval Base held its first-ever, five-weeklong set of pre-trial hearings. The accelerated pace of the proceedings is a clear sign that the current judge, Air Force Colonel Matthew McCall (the...
What People Need to Know about the Kansas City Nuclear Bomb Parts Plant
By Mary Hladky, PeaceWorks Kansas City. Kansas City Missouri is literally at the center of the 2lst century new nuclear arms race. Kansas City MO is home to one of the 8 major sites that make U.S. nuclear weapons. It has an innocuous name, the Kansas City National...
This April 4: Organize a Public Reading of Dr. King’s “Beyond Vietnam: Speech in Your Community
On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his tragic assassination, in his prophetic speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on...
Gaza, Protest, Repression and Germany’s Conundrum
Web Meeting: Gaza, Protest, Repression and Germany's Conundrum A two-hour panel and discussion featuring grassroots insights from movement leaders in Germany and the U.S. The global wave of protest against Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza has drawn crackdowns on...
Suggestions for Talking about Gaza and Other Wars
Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging...
Guantanamo at 22: Continuing Violations of Human Rights and the Growing Challenges and Harms Experienced by Former Detainees
The Detention Facility on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base marked its 22nd anniversary on January 11th, and while the number of detainees has dwindled to 30 there is a growing awareness of the enormity of the on-going damages and human rights violations the 780 Muslim...
Some Reflections on the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Jackie Cabasso, Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation; National Co-convener UFPJ* The Second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) took place from November 27 – December 1, 2023 at United Nations...
Germany’s All-Out Assault on Palestinians & Jews In-Real Time
by MaTT De Vlieger, Facilitator, Ceasefire Action Committee, Berlin, & Former UFPJ Coordinator Something very bad is happening socially and politically in Germany. Something that feels both old and new to me, after 20 years in the peace movement. (My first...
Kansas City, MO: Critical Node of the New Arms Race – RESIST
by Mary Hladky, PeaceWorks Kansas City, VP Co-Chair and member of the United for Peace and Justice, Coordinating Committee The Kansas City Nuclear Bomb Plant, officially named the Kansas City Security Campus, is of vital importance in the making of nuclear weapons. ...