by admin | Feb 20, 2021 | Events & Updates, NATO, No Foreign Bases, Top Story
The World Peace Council, one of UFPJ’s member organizations, is organizing an international webinar on U.S. and NATO military bases as part of the Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases. The webinar will take place on Sunday, February 28, 2021 11:00 AM – 1:00...
by admin | Feb 20, 2021 | Anti-Intervention, Member Group, Saudi Arabia, Top Story, Yemen
We applaud President Biden’s declaration that he will be ending US support for all offensive operations in Yemen. The people of Yemen have endured years of brutal war and a suffocating blockade. The Saudi-led coalition has attacked Yemeni weddings, hospitals, schools,...
by admin | Feb 19, 2021 | Events & Updates, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
With the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock set at 100 seconds to midnight, and the world’s nuclear powers upgrading their nuclear arsenals and dangerously engaging in provocative military “exercises”, activists and advocates around the world are...
by admin | Feb 19, 2021 | Economic Justice, Poor Peoples Campaign, Racial Justice, Top Story
In 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others called for a “revolution of values” in America. They sought to build a broad, fusion movement that could unite poor and impacted communities across the country. Their name was a direct cry from the underside of...
by admin | Feb 19, 2021 | China and Northeast Asia, Member Group, North Korea, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
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...