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UFPJ Applauds Dennis Kucinich for Leading Defeat of Bill in U.S. House of Representatives to Establish Manhattan Project National Park
On September 20, Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich led a successful bipartisan effort to defeat a bill in Congress that would have established a new national park celebrating the technological achievements of the Manhattan Project. The park would include sites in...
THOUSANDS TO CONVERGE AT A NEW NOVEMBER VIGIL AT GATES OF SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS IN FORT BENNING, GA
This year’s Vigil and set of events will mark the biggest anti-militarization gathering after the November presidential elections Columbus, Georgia – During the 16th-18th of November, thousands of people will gather in Fort Benning, Georgia, to demand the closing of...
Solidarity Rallies Abound in Support of Tar Sands Blockade
At lunchtime yesterday in Washington, DC, nearly 50 people gathered in front of the American Petroleum Institute (API) to bring attention to the increased violence against peaceful protesters in Winnsboro, Texas, and the need to halt the construction of the Keystone...
Rein in Profits of Major Pentagon Contractors
In spite of the recession, major military contractors have realized substantial – even excessive – profits throughout the last decade. Spending on procurement from these contractors and others amounted to roughly a trillion dollars between 2001 and 2010.1 Stock prices...
Afghanistan- 11 Years too long!
These New York events are planned for the somber occasion of 11 full years at war in Afghanistan – America’s longest war. Wednesday, October 3 4:30 PM-5:30 PM Rockefeller Plaza, Manhattan 5th Ave. between 49th & 50th Sts. Grandmothers Against the War Vigil for...
Robert Naiman Will Take Your Petition Against Drone Strikes to Pakistan
Next week, Just Foreign Policy's Policy Director, Robert Naiman, is traveling to Pakistan as part of a peace delegation to call for an end to U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan. He plans to deliver a petition from Americans to the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan and to Pakistani...
Trans Canada should be Ashamed!
Yesterday, we learned that Texas police applied sustained chokeholds, violent arm-twisting, pepper spray, and multiple uses of tasers to move two peaceful tar sands protesters—all at the behest of TransCanada employees. On Monday, eight brave people climbed trees on...
Occupy and the Next Big Thing
“This is no winter now. The frozen misery Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move; The thunder is the thunder of the floes, The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring. Thank God our time is now when wrong Comes up to face us everywhere, Never to leave until we take...
One Place to Cut Spending: Kidnapping and Torture
I know it seems like more of a noble sacrifice to cut spending on things people less fortunate than ourselves need, but can somebody explain to me why it wouldn't be at least that noble to eliminate the budget of the CIA, which serves no one? The Washington Post and...
Keep Space for Peace Week: October 6-13, 2012
International Week of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space No Missile Defense End Afghanistan War No to NATO Expansion Stop the Drones Convert the Military Industrial Complex Bring Our War $$ Home No Nuclear Power in Space or on Earth End...
Iran War Weekly September 16, 2012
In 1947 the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists first placed a clock on its cover, with the hands at seven minutes before midnight. Nuclear war was that close, the atomic scientists thought. And over the past 65 years the hands of the clock have moved back and forth,...
“Peace Makers” Earn Stripes: Congratulations You Made This Happen!
Sending Congratulations and Many Thanks to the 50,000 peacemakers who signed RootsAction.org petition calling for an end to NBC’s Reality Show “Stars Earn Stripes” -a show that distorted the reality of war. NBC has ended “Stars Earn Stripes” with no intention of...