by UFPJ web | Mar 24, 2023 | Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Member Group, Military Spending, Poor Peoples Campaign, Top Story
A report from the California Poor People’s Campaign End Women’s Poverty: Invest in Caring Not Killing, an International Women’s Day event on March 8, was spearheaded by the California Poor People’s Campaign (PPC), with UFPJ, CODEPINK and Women’s International League...
by UFPJ web | Mar 24, 2023 | Action Alerts, Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Military Spending, Poor Peoples Campaign, Racial Justice, Top Story
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 UFPJ web | Feb 24, 2023 | Events & Updates, Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story, Webinars
Photo credit: Jamie Christiani, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists On January 24, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist moved the hands of its iconic Doomsday Clock forward, largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the war in Ukraine. The...
by UFPJ web | Sep 24, 2022 | Events & Updates, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story, Webinars
We are living in a time of extraordinary nuclear dangers. With Russia’s illegal war of aggression on Ukraine, which could eventually draw the militaries of the U.S., its NATO allies and Russia into direct conflict, Russia’s repeated threats to use nuclear weapons, and...
by UFPJ web | Sep 15, 2022 | Briefing Call, Events & Updates, Racial Justice, Top Story, Webinars
United for Peace & Justice invites you to join us for a special webinar: “End Racism. Build Peace” Wednesday, September 21, the UN International Day of Peace Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on September 21. The United Nations...
by UFPJ web | Jul 26, 2022 | Events & Updates, Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
August 6 and 9 will mark the 77th anniversary of the U.S atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As the aging Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bomb survivors (hibakusha) continue to passionately appeal for a world without nuclear weapons based on their conviction that “no...
