by UFPJ web | Mar 23, 2024 | Action Alerts, Anti-Intervention, Poor Peoples Campaign, Top Story
On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his tragic assassination, in his prophetic speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on...
by UFPJ web | Mar 13, 2024 | Anti-Intervention, Israel and Palestine, Top Story
Image: Rousseau Diderot, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons United for Peace and Justice here provides statements, analysis, and commentary from a variety of organizations, news sources, and analysts, including statements from United for Peace and Justice member groups...
by UFPJ web | Mar 8, 2024 | Events & Updates, Israel and Palestine, Top Story, Webinars
Web Meeting: Gaza, Protest, Repression and Germany’s Conundrum A two-hour panel and discussion featuring grassroots insights from movement leaders in Germany and the U.S. The global wave of protest against Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza has drawn crackdowns...
by UFPJ web | Jan 27, 2024 | Israel and Palestine, Top Story, Uncategorized
Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging...
by UFPJ web | Jan 27, 2024 | Afghanistan, Confronting Islamophobia, Events & Updates, Top Story
The Detention Facility on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base marked its 22nd anniversary on January 11th, and while the number of detainees has dwindled to 30 there is a growing awareness of the enormity of the on-going damages and human rights violations the 780 Muslim...