by admin | Nov 15, 2021 | Events & Updates, Member Group, Military Spending, Poor Peoples Campaign, Top Story, UFPJ
Click here for a recording of this webinar. This webinar highlighted UFPJ member groups’ and allies’ work to raise awareness of the impacts of war industries in communities around the U.S., including approaches ranging from focusing on particular armament companies to...
by admin | Oct 16, 2021 | Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Member Group, Military Spending, Top Story
In 2021, the United States will spend $740 billion on the Pentagon budget which is equal to $1.4 million a MINUTE. With just 10% of the Pentagon budget, we could END homelessness in the United States, yet we’re told time and time again that we just “can’t afford”...
by admin | Mar 20, 2021 | Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Military Spending, Racial Justice, Top Story
April 4, 2021 will mark the 53rd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s tragic and untimely assassination, and the 54th anniversary of his prophetic speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” In the years following the September 11, 2001 terrorist...
by admin | Mar 19, 2021 | Member Group, Military Spending, Top Story
Tax Day is a holiday of sorts for war tax resisters. Local war tax resistance groups often take to the streets to promote their displeasure with about 50% of the federal budget dedicated to past, present, and future military expenses. (War tax resisters refuse to pay...
by admin | Dec 14, 2020 | Economic Justice, Military Spending, Poor Peoples Campaign, Racial Justice, Top Story
On December 7, The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, released a set of 14 policy and legislative priorities for the first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration. The 14 policies priorities are: Enact comprehensive and just COVID-19...
by admin | Nov 20, 2020 | Anti-Intervention, Member Group, Military Spending, No Foreign Bases, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Petition, Top Story
How are you feeling after this nail-biting election? Relieved? exhausted? apprehensive? That’s where we—the peacemakers— come in. Just as grassroots groups around the country are pushing Biden to embrace visionary policies such as a Green New Deal and Medicare for...
