by admin | Aug 28, 2021 | Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Poor Peoples Campaign, Racial Justice, Top Story
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has just wrapped up A Season of Nonviolent Moral Direct Action to Save Our Democracy, focused on four demands of U.S. Senators:1) End the filibuster NOW; 2) Pass ALL provisions of the For the People Act; 3)...
by admin | Aug 28, 2021 | Events & Updates, Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
—Hiroko Komiya, left, with Keiko Baker, preparing to speak.—Photo by Jim Hannah By Kristin Scheer On the evening of Aug. 8, PeaceWorks Kansas City gathered more than 50 people—anti-nuke activists, members of the Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council, along with Vets...
by admin | Aug 28, 2021 | Events & Updates, Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
On August 6, the 76th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, UFPJ member groups including Western States Legal Foundation and Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment (CAREs) held a “hybrid” live/virtual rally at the Livermore Nuclear...
by admin | Aug 28, 2021 | Events & Updates, Member Group, Racial Justice, Top Story
In summer 2020, people in the United States were forced to acknowledge and grapple with the violence, systemic injustice and inequity that Black Americans have been subjected to in this country. With the death of George Floyd being recorded and shared all over the...
by admin | Jul 17, 2021 | Action Alerts, Events & Updates, Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
We celebrated the entry-into-force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on January 22, 2021, but just six days later, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced it is keeping the hands of its Doomsday Clock at 100 seconds to midnight, the closest...
by admin | Jul 17, 2021 | Action Alerts, Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Poor Peoples Campaign, Racial Justice, Top Story
On Monday, July 5, 2021, Bishop William J. Barber II, Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, delivered an impassioned Moral Monday Message to the Nation, declaring, “Democracy vs. autocracy is the battle of our time. We must engage...
