by admin | Jan 22, 2022 | Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Poor Peoples Campaign, Racial Justice, Top Story
In a February 1968 speech, Dr, King declared: “We have played havoc with the destiny of the world and we have brought the whole world closer to nuclear confrontation . . . I am still convinced that the struggle for peace and the struggle for civil rights as we call it...
by admin | Jan 17, 2022 | Action Alerts, Economic Justice, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Poor Peoples Campaign, Top Story
January 22 will mark the first anniversary of entry-into-force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The TPNW prohibits the possession, development, testing, use and threat of use of nuclear weapons for the 59 countries that have so far ratified...
by admin | Dec 14, 2021 | Events & Updates, Poor Peoples Campaign, Top Story
Congress has not yet taken action to pass the Build Back Better plan, protect voting rights, advance immigrant rights, fight for the health of the planet, and more. On December 13, United for Peace & Justice partnered with the Poor People’s Campaign: A National...
by admin | Dec 14, 2021 | Events & Updates, Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security, Top Story
A recording is now available of the Peace & Planet Online International Conference, “Building our Movements & Impacting the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference,” held January 4, 2022. The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) came into effect in...
by admin | Dec 14, 2021 | Afghanistan, Confronting Islamophobia, Member Group, Top Story
Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL), the most vocal congressional champion of closing Guantánamo, chaired a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on December 7. Colleen Kelly a co-founder of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, one of the founding...
by admin | Dec 14, 2021 | Racial Justice, Top Story, UFPJ
United for Peace and Justice’s (UFPJ’s) initial group of emerging activists have now had about two sessions on each on the four big topics of their six-month training program with UFPJ’s National Organizer, George Friday. The topics were chosen to encourage the...
