by admin | May 20, 2021 | Action Alerts, Confronting Islamophobia, Top Story
United for Peace and Justice supports the ongoing struggle for Palestinian freedom and joins with all groups calling for an arms embargo on Israel and a ceasefire of current attacks. UFPJ encourages all UFPJ member and affiliated groups to join or organize protests in...
by admin | Mar 20, 2021 | Action Alerts, Anti-Intervention, Iraq, Top Story
On 16 February, the Second Erbil Criminal Court, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, sentenced five journalists—Sherwan Sherwani, Guhdar Zebari, Hariwan Issa, Ayaz Karan, and Shvan Saeed—to six years in prison following a blatantly unfair trial. All five of the men were...
by admin | Feb 1, 2021 | Action Alerts, Events & Updates, Top Story, UFPJ
On Saturday, January 30, United for Peace and Justice held a member group meeting via Zoom. Representatives of member groups from around the country joined. Several made announcements of upcoming events; links to those events are provided in the title graphic here. ...
by admin | Jan 22, 2021 | Action Alerts, Anti-Intervention, Member Group, Top Story, Yemen
Join the Global Day of Action to end the war in Yemen, January 25, 2021, which has killed 250,000 people and created what the UN has pronounced “the worst humanitarian crisis anywhere in the world.” This protest is timed to take place just days after the inauguration...
by admin | Dec 14, 2020 | Action Alerts, Events & Updates, Saudi Arabia, Top Story, Yemen
Since 2015, the Saudi-led bombing and blockade of Yemen have killed tens of thousands of people and devastated the country. The U.N. calls this the largest humanitarian crisis on Earth. Half the country’s people are on the brink of famine, the country has the...
by admin | Nov 21, 2020 | Action Alerts, Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Poor Peoples Campaign, Top Story
On Monday November 23, automobiles plastered with makeshift memorials to COVID victims who died in poverty caravanned through state capitals in: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,...
