by UFPJ web | May 27, 2023 | Climate and Environmental Justice, Events & Updates, Top Story, Webinars
Friday June 2, 2023, 1:30pm Eastern time/10:30 am Pacific time From the Inflation Reduction Act to Oliver Stone’s new film, there’s a renewed discussion about the role nuclear energy might play in the climate fight. Join us for an expert briefing drilling down on the...
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 | Feb 24, 2023 | Afghanistan, Anti-Intervention, Confronting Islamophobia, Member Group, Saudi Arabia, Top Story
Good news and Guantanamo are two ideas not normally associated with one another, but February 2023 has been a month of important positive developments for the men being held at the Guantanamo detention facility and for eventually ending the failed system of military...
by UFPJ web | Dec 18, 2022 | Action Alerts, Afghanistan, Member Group, Top Story
By Terry Rockefeller, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Since UFPJ’s founding, our member organizations—September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, Witness Against Torture, CODEPINK, and many others—have worked to close the illegal off-shore detention...
