by UFPJ web | Jun 25, 2022 | Action Alerts, Top Story, Ukraine
By Matt De Vlieger, former UFPJ National Organizer There’s no easy way to put this, so I’m going to be direct, while providing some personal context. My friend Bryan, a soldier in the Ukrainian army who surrendered at Mariupol, was one of three men recently sentenced...
by UFPJ web | Jun 25, 2022 | Confronting Islamophobia, Events & Updates, Member Group, Top Story
Majid Khan’s sentencing hearing in October of 2021 produced a sea change in the Guantanamo military commissions. These proceedings include the pre-trial hearings of the five men accused of plotting and supporting the 9/11 attacks, which have hopelessly faltered after...
by UFPJ web | Jun 25, 2022 | Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
John Burroughs, Senior Analyst, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy Threats to use nuclear weapons made this year by the Russian government have surfaced a reality long suppressed in the media and public sphere: the incredible peril posed by ongoing reliance of...
by UFPJ web | Jun 25, 2022 | Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
By Matt De Vlieger, former UFPJ National Coordinator, reporting from Vienna From June 21-23 the First Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) was held at the United Nations in Vienna, with friends, allies, and members of...
by UFPJ web | May 21, 2022 | Action Alerts, Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Military Spending, Poor Peoples Campaign, Racial Justice, Top Story
The June 18, 2022 Mass Poor People and Low Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls will be a generationally transformative gathering of poor and low wealth people, state leaders, faith communities, moral allies, unions and partnering...
