by admin | Sep 18, 2019 | Action Alerts, Climate and Environmental Justice, Top Story
We can’t wait any longer to take bold action on climate change. From runaway wildfires, to killer storms, to stark government reports, the dire consequences of inaction around climate are clear. We must act now. Over the last year, youth around the world have led the...
by admin | Aug 26, 2019 | Action Alerts, Climate and Environmental Justice, Divest, Member Group, Top Story
Los Angeles, will you join us in sending a message to Mayor Garcetti that it’s time to divest L.A. from the war machine? Mayor Eric Garcetti became a leading voice on environmental justice in 2019 when he helped pass a Green New Deal for Los Angeles. The ambitious...
by UFPJ web | Jul 29, 2019 | Briefing Call, Climate and Environmental Justice, Divest, Events & Updates, Military Spending, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
Tuesday July 30 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT/8:00 – 9:30 am PDT 5:00 – 6:30pm Central Europe time Click here to Register Over the next ten years the nuclear armed countries plan to spend over 1 trillion US dollars on the nuclear arms race. Those manufacturing the nuclear...
by UFPJ web | Jun 18, 2019 | Climate and Environmental Justice, Military Spending, Top Story
A new report from the Watson Institute at Brown University details the staggering greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. military: 1.2 billion metric tons! This is equal to 257 million passenger car emissions – more than double the number of cars on the road...
by UFPJ web | Oct 29, 2018 | Climate and Environmental Justice, Events & Updates, Military Spending, Racial Justice, Top Story
On November 10-11 in Washington, DC, there will be an historic gathering of groups and people to end US wars at home and abroad. On Saturday November 10 the Peace Congress will bring together advocates for peace and economic, racial, environmental and climate justice...
by UFPJ web | Sep 4, 2018 | Action Alerts, Climate and Environmental Justice, Military Spending, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security
“…[G]lobal warming and nuclear war are two different ways that humanity, having grown powerful through science, through production, through population growth, threatens to undo the natural underpinnings of human, and all other, life.” –...