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We remember the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
—Hiroko Komiya, left, with Keiko Baker, preparing to speak.—Photo by Jim Hannah By Kristin Scheer On the evening of Aug. 8, PeaceWorks Kansas City gathered more than 50 people—anti-nuke activists, members of the Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council, along with Vets...
Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change: Shine a Light, Stop the Hate, Lower the Heat
On August 6, the 76th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, UFPJ member groups including Western States Legal Foundation and Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment (CAREs) held a “hybrid” live/virtual rally at the Livermore Nuclear...
“ACTS of Reimagining” Workshop Compares “George Floyd Justice in Policing Act” and the “People’s Response Act”
In summer 2020, people in the United States were forced to acknowledge and grapple with the violence, systemic injustice and inequity that Black Americans have been subjected to in this country. With the death of George Floyd being recorded and shared all over the...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Never Again!
We celebrated the entry-into-force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on January 22, 2021, but just six days later, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced it is keeping the hands of its Doomsday Clock at 100 seconds to midnight, the closest...
Poor People’s Campaign Announces a Season of Nonviolent Moral Direct Action
On Monday, July 5, 2021, Bishop William J. Barber II, Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, delivered an impassioned Moral Monday Message to the Nation, declaring, “Democracy vs. autocracy is the battle of our time. We must engage...
Seeking Peace in Afghanistan: September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows’ Webinar Explores Prospects for Afghan Civil Society
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows was organized after four of its founding members returned from Afghanistan in January of 2002 having witnessed the devastating levels of civilian casualties caused by the military activities of the U.S./NATO coalition....
How Do We Move from a Dysfunctional World to a World Without Nuclear Weapons?
The 26th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons took place on June 19, 2021. This was the second year the AGM was held virtually due to the ongoing pandemic which continues to devastate countries and populations...
Golden Rule Peace Boat Arrives From Honolulu To San Francisco: Historic Sailboat Tried to Stop Nuclear Bomb Testing in 1958
by Gerry Condon “They are here! They are here! The Golden Rule is sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco Bay.” These were the excited shouts of supporters on Tuesday, June 1, when the historic Golden Rule anti-nuclear sailboat arrived in SF Bay,...
Guantanamo Update: Evidence about Torture is Out; Statements Obtained by Torture are In
Although President Biden has announced his intention to close the detention facilities at the Guantanamo Naval Base there have been some recent, deeply troubling developments in the ongoing military commission hearings at the base. A decision last month in the case of...
All out for June 21! Poor People’s Campaign National Poor People’s and Low Wage Workers Mass Assembly
On June 21, join poor people, low-wage workers, moral and faith leaders and advocates online simultaneously with a socially distant rally in Raleigh, NC for a National Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers Assembly. The hybrid online/in-person mass assembly will include...
Readathon Calls for End to U.S. Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia and End to Saudi Blockade of Yemen
Saying, “According to Greg Hayes, CEO of Raytheon Technologies, at a shareholder meeting, ‘peace is not going to be breaking out in the Middle East anytime soon,’ but we are here today to say peace and a lifting of the cruel Saudi blockade of Yemen must happen,”...
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...