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Webinar: Introduction to the History & Dynamics of U.S. Asia-Pacific Policies
Asia-Pacific Work Group Tuesday January 12 8 p.m. (EST) Register at: Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_235ewCESQAOUgR_B_yjz3Q The newly launched Asia-Pacific Working Group will host at webinar providing background and...
Poor People’s Campaign Launches 14 Policy Priorities for the First 100 Days to Heal the Nation
On December 7, The Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, released a set of 14 policy and legislative priorities for the first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration. The 14 policies priorities are: Enact comprehensive and just COVID-19 relief...
The World Says No to War on Yemen! International Protests, Monday, January 25, 2021
Since 2015, the Saudi-led bombing and blockade of Yemen have killed tens of thousands of people and devastated the country. The U.N. calls this the largest humanitarian crisis on Earth. Half the country's people are on the brink of famine, the country has the world's...
Get Ready for Nuclear Ban Treaty Entry-into-Force Action Day: Jan. 22, 2021
On January 22, 2021, people around the world will celebrate the day that the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) enters into force (EIF Day). Please join the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA), Nukewatch, The Nuclear...
Less Than Six Months From National Parliamentary Elections Protests, Violent Government Repression, and Economic Crisis Engulf Iraq
Anti-government protests in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) escalated and in some cases turned violent over the last two weeks, in the governorates of Sulaymaniyah and Duhok. In Erbil, the third governorate in the KRI, streets in major cities were packed with...
Young Peacemakers
We are at a new moment. The multiple crisis of the COVID 19 pandemic, heretofore unrecognized systemic racism and violence against BIPOC, economic collapse, and the spiraling climate crisis have so laid bare the deep flaws in our country and culture that we cannot...
UFPJ organizer moderates international webinar
On Friday, December 4th UFPJ National Organizer George Friday moderated a webinar sponsored by World BEYOND War, Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom-US Section & Black Alliance for Peace on the United States African Command (AFRICOM) and Human...
The Future of U.S. Immigration Policy: How Much Can Biden Do?
President-elect Joe Biden has promised to undo many of Trump’s immigration policies, including ending the “Muslim Ban,” ending “Zero Tolerance” that separated children and parents, reinstating protections for approximately 650,000 “Dreamers,” and increasing the...
Celebrate Entry-Into-Force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons!
On United Nations Day, October 24, Honduras became the 50th country to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (Ban Treaty), bringing the total number of ratifications to 50 and meeting the threshold for the Treaty’s entry-into force. The Ban Treaty...
In Their Remembrance: It is Time for a Just COVID Relief, a Smooth Transition, and a Moral Agenda Now
On Monday November 23, automobiles plastered with makeshift memorials to COVID victims who died in poverty caravanned through state capitals in: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,...
Iraqi Update: Government in Baghdad Attempts to Forcibly Shut Down Protests As Looming Fiscal Crisis Worsens
Images of protesters who were killed and revolutionary slogans were all that remained in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, on the morning of November 1st, after government authorities forcibly reopened streets surrounding the square and hauled away tents that protesters had...
Reflections on the Election and a Biden Presidency From UFPJ Founders and Movement Activists
Following an election like none other, peace and justice activists face unprecedented challenges as we grapple with the deep divisions in our society, a world that has little respect for the United States, and uncertainty about what the Biden Administration will, or...