by admin | Mar 22, 2020 | Action Alerts, Petition, Poor Peoples Campaign, Top Story
With its broad sweep, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced us into an unprecedented national emergency. This emergency, however, results from a deeper and much longer-term crisis – that of poverty and inequality, and of a society that ignores the needs of 140...
by admin | Jan 11, 2020 | Anti-Intervention, Iran, Petition, Poor Peoples Campaign, Sanctions, Top Story
United for Peace and Justice is an endorsing partner of the Poor People’s Campaign, an innovative effort to connect issues of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation and the war economy. UFPJ endorses the PPC’s request below asking the UN to hold the U.S....
by admin | Sep 18, 2019 | Divest, Member Group, Petition, Top Story
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) manages one of the largest public pension funds in the United States and is recognized globally as a powerful stakeholder. CalPERS has invested millions in General Dynamics, a company which contracts with...
by UFPJ web | Jun 27, 2019 | Economic Justice, Petition, Poor Peoples Campaign, Racial Justice, Top Story
Last week UFPJ National Organizer George Friday, National Co-conveners Jackie Cabasso and Terry Rockefeller, and several UFPJ affiliates, met in Washington, DC at the Poor People’s Campaign Moral Congress which released its Moral Budget. This budget provides a...
by UFPJ web | Jun 24, 2019 | Action Alerts, Economic Justice, Petition, Poor Peoples Campaign, Top Story
Earlier this week UFPJ National Organizer George Friday, National Co-conveners Jackie Cabasso and Terry Rockefeller, and various UFPJ affiliates, met in Washington, DC at the Poor People’s Campaign Moral Congress, which on Monday released its Moral Budget. The Moral...
by UFPJ web | May 30, 2019 | Action Alerts, Member Group, North Korea, Petition, Top Story
Korea needs peace, and the world needs Korea to achieve peace. Here are the critical steps that are needed. We are asking people everywhere on Earth to sign this petition to U.S. President Donald Trump: We urge you to conclude a binding peace agreement constituting a...
