Korea Peace Network
The Korea Peace Network is coordinated by UFPJ’s member group, Peace Action. The Network is a U.S.-based alliance of peace, social justice, human rights, faith, veterans and Korean-American organizations and activists working together to promote peace and diplomacy on the Korean peninsula.
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...
Human Rights Versus Nuclear Weapons
We are witnessing a resurgence of interest in the application of international human rights law to one of the principal threats to the human future: nuclear weapons. A general comment issued by the UN Human Rights Committee in 2018 finds the threat or use of nuclear...
Take Action to End the Korean War and Divest From the War Machine!
The coronavirus pandemic highlights the urgent need to reprioritize US foreign policy toward global cooperation and peace. Join UFPJ member groups and affiliates for these exciting actions and webinars. 1) National Action to End the Korean War: June 1 – 5,...
Subject: End All Endless Wars, Korea Peace Now!
National Action to End the Korean War March 15-17, 2020; Washington DC Deadline for registration: March 1, 2020 70 Years Too Long! The Korean War (1950-53) never ended. It was merely suspended by an armistice agreement between North Korea and the United States. While...
A Path to Peace in Korea
Korea needs peace, and the world needs Korea to achieve peace. Here are the critical steps that are needed. We are asking people everywhere on Earth to sign this petition to U.S. President Donald Trump: We urge you to conclude a binding peace agreement constituting a...
Korea Summit: a Breakthrough and a Beginning
A cruel Trump Administration policy of splitting up immigrant families at the border and the groundswell of protests against it pushed the Summit on Korea off the front pages. The respite did not last long. Already, according to The Guardian (UK) of June 23, “Donald...
Where is the Memorial Day for Civilians Killed in Wars?
Memorial Day, formerly Decoration Day, is a day to remember those who died while serving in the armed forces. Decoration Day began as a way to remember the Civil War dead, more than 700,000, by placing flowers and flags on their headstones. Today, in our time of...
A Critical Time for the Peace Movement
All of us who value and work for peace and justice in all forms recognize the critical need for us to step up our game in the face of national and international acts of aggression and escalating violence. It’s up to us to conduct and promote political education that...
Call for Olympic Truce Actions – Diplomacy NOT War!
Another war with North Korea would be disastrous. It could easily go nuclear. It should be unthinkable. For South Korea, which would bear the brunt of any conflict, there is NO military option. As 58 retired US military leaders acknowledged in a letter to Trump,...
Stop War with North Korea: Take Action on Veterans/Armistice Day Nov. 11
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month was the day that the Armistice between WWI Allies and Germany went into effect in 1918. World War I or the War to End All Wars was fought from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918 mobilizing 70 million military...
Action On Armistice Day
By Thea Paneth,UFPJ Coordinating Committee Member & Boston Area OrganizerThe eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month was the day that the Armistice between WWI Allies and Germany went into effect in 1918. World War I or the War To End All Wars was...