by admin | Feb 19, 2020 | Action Alerts, Climate and Environmental Justice, Events & Updates, Poor Peoples Campaign, Racial Justice, Top Story
We know that the Climate and the Environment are the biggest casualties of war, and that the Pentagon has the single largest carbon footprint in the world. UFPJ holds the health of our environment as part of the world with Peace and Justice we strife to manifest. As...
by admin | Feb 10, 2020 | Climate and Environmental Justice, Events & Updates, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
On January 23, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the metaphorical hands of the “Doomsday Clock” to 100 seconds to midnight. The Bulletin’s advisory group has been assessing the threat posed to humanity by its own activities since 1945. Until recently, that...
by admin | Jan 28, 2020 | Action Alerts, Divest, Events & Updates, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
Tuesday, January 28, the New York City Council will hold a joint hearing on Res. No. 976 and Int. No. 1621. This proposed package of legislation represents a powerful and progressive declaration of NYC’s support for nuclear disarmament and the Treaty on the...
by admin | Jan 8, 2020 | Action Alerts, Anti-Intervention, Events & Updates, Iran, Sanctions, Top Story
In Solidarity with CODEPINK, the United for Peace & Justice Coordinating Committee supports their message below: Last night bombs were falling and it seemed like another major Middle East war was breaking out. But Iran intentionally didn’t cause any...
by admin | Jan 8, 2020 | Events & Updates, Top Story
Witness Against Torture will begin to gather on Tuesday evening, January 7th, to embrace the 40 Muslim men still locked up in Guantanamo and the hundreds of others forever scarred and haunted by the trauma of having been there. We will remember, we will witness and we...
by admin | Dec 18, 2019 | Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Military Spending, Poor Peoples Campaign, Racial Justice, Top Story
United for Peace and Justice is an endorsing partner of the Poor People’s Campaign, an innovative effort to connect issues of of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation and the war economy. The Poor People’s campaign recently announced an...