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June 18, 2022: UFPJ Joins the Poor People’s Campaign Mass Poor People’s and Low Wage Workers Assembly and March on Washington – A Declaration, Not Just a Demonstration!
After months of planning the big day arrived, as United for Peace & Justice joined the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, DC on June 18 for its Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers Assembly and March on Washington and to the Polls. We were represented by our...
#SaveBrahim, My Friend, Surrendered Ukrainian Soldier (21) Sentenced to Death
By Matt De Vlieger, former UFPJ National Organizer There’s no easy way to put this, so I’m going to be direct, while providing some personal context. My friend Bryan, a soldier in the Ukrainian army who surrendered at Mariupol, was one of three men recently sentenced...
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Supports the Legally Required Release of Guantanamo Detainee Majid Khan
Majid Khan’s sentencing hearing in October of 2021 produced a sea change in the Guantanamo military commissions. These proceedings include the pre-trial hearings of the five men accused of plotting and supporting the 9/11 attacks, which have hopelessly faltered after...
Meeting of Nuclear Ban Treaty Condemns Nuclear Threats
John Burroughs, Senior Analyst, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy Threats to use nuclear weapons made this year by the Russian government have surfaced a reality long suppressed in the media and public sphere: the incredible peril posed by ongoing reliance of...
TPNW Unites World Governments and Global Abolition Movement at First Meeting in Vienna
By Matt De Vlieger, former UFPJ National Coordinator, reporting from Vienna From June 21-23 the First Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) was held at the United Nations in Vienna, with friends, allies, and members of...
Let’s Bend the Arc of Justice on June18!
The June 18, 2022 Mass Poor People and Low Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls will be a generationally transformative gathering of poor and low wealth people, state leaders, faith communities, moral allies, unions and partnering...
Acting on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Full Legacy; All Roads Lead to June 18, Washington, DC!
Acting on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Full Legacy; All Roads Lead to June 18, Washington, DC! On and around April 4, groups around the country honored Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s full legacy by organizing public participatory readings of his seminar speech,...
Golden Rule Peace Boat to Voyage around “Great Loop” as Ukraine War Raises Concern about Nuclear War
by Gerry Condon The historic anti-nuclear sailboat Golden Rule is being prepared for an epic voyage throughout the Midwestern, Southern and Eastern U.S. In September the 34-foot wooden ketch will be transported by truck-and-trailer from San Francisco Bay to...
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...
Ukraine: Developments at the United Nations
Hearing before International Court of Justice, March 7, 2022, with representative of Ukraine addressing the Court. Russia did not attend the hearing, thus the empty seats on the right. Photo courtesy of International Court of Justice. John Burroughs, Senior Analyst,...
Organize a Public Reading of Dr. King’s “Beyond Vietnam” Speech in your Community
https://www.unitedforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Beyond-Vietnam-speech-in-16-sections.docFifty-Fourth Anniversary of Martin Luther King's Prophetic Speech, Beyond Vietnam: a Time to Break Silence In the years following the September 11 terrorist attacks, peace and justice groups in Oakland, California have organized a number of successful...
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: An Illegal War of Aggression
Statement by Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, UN Office of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms. The Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy strongly condemns Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The Russian invasion is in clear violation of...