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...
by admin | Nov 8, 2020 | Anti-Intervention, Military Spending, No Foreign Bases, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
by Gerry Condon November 11 is Armistice Day, marking the 1918 armistice that ended the First World War, on the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.” Horrified by the industrial slaughter of millions of soldiers and civilians, the people of the...
by admin | Oct 25, 2020 | Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
On United Nations Day, October 24, Honduras became the 50th country to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), bringing the total number of ratifications to 50 and meeting the threshold for the Treaty’s entry-into force. With entry-into-force...
by admin | Oct 24, 2020 | Events & Updates, Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story, UFPJ
On September 26, the UN International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, UFPJ took part in a 10 hour Nuclear-Weapon-Free World global civil society program with presentations, video messages, art, music, workshops and panels. Click here to read the full...
by admin | Oct 24, 2020 | Member Group, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
UFPJ welcomes a new member organization, the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament & Common Security (CPDCS). After more than four decades with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the last 36 years of which he served as Director of the Peace & Economic...
by admin | Sep 27, 2020 | Events & Updates, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
A reflective reunion of the Plowshares Eight was held on September 9, 2020. One hundred forty people joined Zoom with the understanding that humanity still lives under the threat of nuclear weapons. A moment of silence began the gathering to recall Fr. Daniel...
