by UFPJ web | Jun 25, 2022 | Action Alerts, Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Poor Peoples Campaign, Racial Justice, Top Story
After months of planning the big day arrived, as United for Peace & Justice joined the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, DC on June 18 for its Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers Assembly and March on Washington and to the Polls. We were represented by our...
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 | 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...
by UFPJ web | Mar 26, 2022 | Action Alerts, Economic Justice, Military Spending, Poor Peoples Campaign, Ukraine
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 admin | Feb 20, 2022 | Action Alerts, Anti-Intervention, NATO, Top Story, Ukraine
United for Peace and Justice is a network of organizations, and there is some diversity of views regarding the nature of the current crisis. But all agree in their opposition to the threat or use of force as a means to resolve international conflict. Our new resource...
