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UFPJ Seeks Young Peacekeepers
While youth activists in the U.S. are significantly engaged in movements for racial and environmental justice, those who have come of age in a post-9/11 world have known nothing but endless war and are not likely to question our culture of violence and ecological...
Iran’s June 18 Elections: How Much Will Change?
by Leila Zand, Code Pink On June 18, Iranians will cast their votes for their 13th presidential election since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Whatever the result might be, this election will have one loser: the people of Iran. A resilient nation that has been...
Memorial Day Protest and Arrests at Kansas City Nuclear Parts Plant: ‘We spoke truth, we cried, we witnessed, we rejoiced’
By Kristin Scheer This Memorial Day was the first time I was able to join PeaceWorks-KC at the massive National Security Campus, where non-nuclear parts are made for nuclear weapons. It was the 10th annual event and I was moved by the experience. Jim Hannah urged all...
The Poor People’s Campaign: Launching a Third Reconstruction
Emerging from the pain and organizing power of the 140 million people living in poverty or with low wages in this nation, the newly introduced Congressional Resolution for a Third Reconstruction reflects an omnibus vision for a fundamental restructuring of society...
Call for Organizing Peace Marches/Actions in Solidarity with the 2021 Peace March in Japan: May 6 to August 4, 2021
In the historic year when the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force, the 2021 Peace March will start on May 6 from Tokyo, walking towards Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At a new stage that nuclear weapons are prohibited for the first time in...
Please join the Sixth Annual Virtual Korea Peace Advocacy Week July 12-16, 2021
Join hundreds of people across the country in nationally coordinated virtual advocacy meetings to urge your Member of Congress to support: A Peace Agreement to end the Korean War; Life-saving humanitarian assistance; and Other humanitarian issues such as lifting the...
WEBINAR: Asia‐Pacific Elites: Money & Trade, and Foreign and Military Policies.
DATE: Wednesday, June 9, 9 p.m. (EDT) REGISTRATION: http://bit.ly/APElites State foreign and military policies don’t necessarily represent the interests of a nation’s people. In the push-pull between ties with China and the United States, the foreign and military...
The Palestinian Struggle for Freedom Enters a New Phase
United for Peace and Justice supports the ongoing struggle for Palestinian freedom and joins with all groups calling for an arms embargo on Israel and a ceasefire of current attacks. UFPJ encourages all UFPJ member and affiliated groups to join or organize protests in...
Kings Bay Plowshares Win Inaugural Berrigan-McAlister Award
The Kings Bay Plowshares have won the inaugural Berrigan-McAlister Award, given by DePaul University to a person or organization that exemplifies the practice of active Christian nonviolence. The award ceremony will be virtual and supporters may sign up. The award...
Reflections on a debacle—the Afghanistan war
By Mary Hladky* As the mother of an Army Infantry Officer who served for 13 months during Obama’s Afghanistan surge, in the Zhari District of the Kandahar Province, I feel tremendous relief that President Biden is calling the troops home from Afghanistan. I also feel...
Poor People’s Campaign Announces Plans for In-Person Mass Moral March on Washington in June 2022
During the April 19 Moral Monday in Jackson, Mississippi, the Co-Chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, Rev. William Barber II and Rev. Liz Theoharis announced a virtual Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral...
The Enduring Nuclear Threat; A Deeper Look: Webinar Recording
Click here to view a recording of the webinar. See below for text of the presentations from the panelists and for additional resources. The recent entry into force of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons brought a welcome positive moment to a bleak...