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“A Mighty Lion has Fallen”
United for Peace & Justice is deeply saddened by the passing of Rev. Jesse Jackson, and we express our condolences to his family and loved ones. Many movements for peace and justice have lost a visionary, a mentor, and a moral leader, but we will carry on the...
The Shameful 24th Anniversary of the Opening of the Military Detention Facility on the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
The day before Camp X-Ray was revealed to the American public in 2002, the Bush Administration prison commander at Guantánamo claimed the inmates would be “the worst of the worst.” On January 19, 2026, the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) assured the American...
UFPJ Groups Condemn U.S. Attack on Venezuela
United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) unequivocally condemns the massive deployment of U.S. naval, ground, and aerial forces in the Caribbean, the violent, illegal, and immoral U.S. attacks on Venezuela, and the abduction of its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, in...
Trump’s Dangerous Nuclear Testing Rhetoric
By Jackie Cabasso, Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation Photo: U.S. government As the UN Secretary General warned on the September 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, “nuclear testing threats are returning, while nuclear...
Environmental Review Begins of Massive Project to Produce Plutonium Cores of Nuclear Weapons
By John Burroughs, Senior Analyst, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, and Board Member, Western States Legal Foundation The United States is now planning to establish an infrastructure capable of producing at least 80 plutonium pits for nuclear weapons per year. The...
“No more Hiroshimas. No more Nagasakis. No more war. No more hibakusha”
by Jackie Cabasso, Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation; National Co-convener, United for Peace & Justice; Mayors for Peace North American Coordinator photo: the Nagasaki Peace Statue August 6th and 9th marked the 80th anniversaries of the U.S....
#HumanRaceNotArmsRace
As we approach the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, authoritarian nationalists now hold state power in seven of the nine nuclear-armed states. Even limited progress towards arms control and disarmament has...
First They Bombed New Mexico
August 6 and 9, 2025 will mark the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But before the U.S. bombed Hiroshima, on July 16, 1945, it bombed New Mexico, conducting the very first test explosion of a nuclear weapon at the White Sands...
9/11 Case at Guantanamo is Again Without a Presiding Judge—but the Judge who Retired Issued a Momentous Ruling Before His Departure
On June 1, Air Force Colonel Matthew McCall, the fourth judge to preside over the 9/11 Military Commission pre-trial hearings at Guantanamo retired, as he had long ago announced he would. His final significant ruling in the hearings, which in May entered their 13th...
Abolition 2000 at the NPT PrepCom – Lighting the Way to Peace!
Photo credit: Alyn Ware From April 28 – May 9, 2025, states parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) met at United Nations headquarters in New York City for the third Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) meeting for the 2026 NPT Review Conference. The NPT...
MLK’s “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” – Now More Than Ever
Photo: Oakland, CA Beyond Vietnam readers; photo credit: Sandy Thacker In his prophetic speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” delivered on April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his tragic and untimely assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared:...
Abolition 2000 – Live From the NPT PrepCom
From April 28 – May 9, States parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) will meet at the United Nations in New York for the third Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) meeting for the 2026 NPT Review Conference. The NPT represents the only binding commitment to...