Injustice at Home
U.S. injustice has deep historical roots: the theft of Native American lands, slavery, centuries of racism and anti-immigrant policies, and profound income and wealth inequality. The legacies of these injustices persist and intersect today. The median wealth of a Black or Latinx family is only a small faction of that of a white family. Native American water and lands continue to be devastated by petroleum pipelines, coal and uranium mining. Muslim-Americans have experienced a wave of Islamophobia, while individuals seeking to enter the U.S. at our southern border are denied the right to seek asylum and detained in pens. UFPJ was founded on the principle that there will be no true peace without addressing the myriad injustices of U.S. society.
Stop the War on the Poor: Combating U.S. Military and the War Economy
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are...
Online World Conference 2020: Abolish Nuclear Weapons; Resist and Reverse Climate Change; For Social and Economic Justice
April 25, 2020; 9 – 11 am EDT. Video of the World Conference can Now be watched here. Humanity faces two existential threats: increasing dangers of nuclear war and climate disruption, with its impact on world health. Human beings created these threats, which can only...
Poverty Amidst Pandemic: A Time to Break Silence
April 4, 2020 will mark the 52nd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s tragic and untimely assassination, and the 53rd anniversary of his prophetic speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” In the years following the September 11, 2001 terrorist...
The We must Do MORE (Mobilize, Organize, Register, and Educate) Tour.
The Poor People's Campaign We must Do MORE Tour is moving across the country to highlight 1) Poverty and Inequality 2) Systemic Racism 3) Ecological Devastation and 4) War and Militarism. Hear powerful testimonies, and share a moral vision for what this nation can...
Poor People’s Campaign Mobilization Meeting in Washington, DC February 22 2020
Dear UFPJ supporter, United for Peace & Justice (UFPJ) has signed on as a mobilizing partner of the Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington on June 20, 2020. We understand that the interconnected injustices of poverty, systemic racism,...
An Opportunity to Raise Your Voice for Environmental and Racial Justice!
We know that the Climate and the Environment are the biggest casualties of war, and that the Pentagon has the single largest carbon footprint in the world. UFPJ holds the health of our environment as part of the world with Peace and Justice we strife to manifest. As...
Coming to DC Soon – the Poor People’s Campaign MORE Tour
The Poor People’s Campaign MORE Tour will be in Washington DC soon. The We must Do MORE (Mobilize, Organize, Register, and Educate) (the Tour) began in September traveling to 22 states highlighting examples of 1) Poverty and Inequality, 2) Systemic Racism, 3)...
Poor People’s Assembly and March on Washington, June 20, 2020
United for Peace and Justice is an endorsing partner of the Poor People's Campaign, an innovative effort to connect issues of of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation and the war economy. The Poor People's campaign recently announced an assembly and march...
Poor People’s Campaign National Tour comes to San Francisco December 11
The We Must Do MORE: Mobilize, Organize, Register and Educate National Tour is coming to San Francisco as part of a 25-state tour. We invite you to join us on Wednesday December 11 at 5:45 for a moral march and mass meeting. Who: California Poor People's Campaign: A...
Unite Again for Peace and Justice
There has been a sea change in the last few weeks, a deepening of the crisis of racial and cultural division is this country, instigated by the President of the United States. It began with his attacks on four women of color, all members of the United States Congress....
Poor People’s Campaign Petition asking for Presidential debate Forum on Injustice
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...
The Poor People’s Campaign makes an Impact in DC!
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...