Our Work
Get Involved
Latest Updates
Campaign Nonviolence Action Week September 15-23
September has arrived and we're less than a week away from Campaign Nonviolence Action Week, September 15-23, connecting the dots between war, poverty, racism, climate change, and the epidemic of violence. UFPJ has endorsed Campaign Nonviolence as have many national...
Sailing for a Nuclear-Free World and a Peaceful, Sustainable Future
GOLDEN RULE's WEST COAST SAILING TOUR The Golden Rule anti-nuclear protest boat sailed in 1958 toward the Marshall Islands to interfere with nuclear bomb tests. The newly restored ketch has been "Sailing for a Nuclear-Free World and a Peaceful, Sustainable Future"...
September 8 Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice March in San Francisco
"...[G]lobal warming and nuclear war are two different ways that humanity, having grown powerful through science, through production, through population growth, threatens to undo the natural underpinnings of human, and all other, life." - Jonathan Schell, 2007. During...
Aida Touma-Sliman, Arab Member of the Israeli Knesset on Five-City Speaking Tour
Aida Touma-Sliman, Arab Member of the Israeli Knesset will be sharing her analysis of the growth of right-wing extremism in Israel’s domestic and foreign policy, and the realities of Israel’s “New Apartheid Law.” Don’t miss these opportunities to hear directly from...
Seize The Time
by George Paz Martin Every time we view the news in the paper or on television or the internet, we are struck by the tragic politics of our country’s leaders. This, along with the epidemic of violence, poverty, racism and injustice, environmental destruction and...
IT’S NUCLEAR FREE FUTURE MONTH: PROTEST AND SURVIVE!
From the Korean Peninsula, to the South China Sea, to the Middle East and South Asia, all the nuclear-armed states are engaged in unpredictable conflicts that could catastrophically escalate out of control. Tensions between the United States and Russia have risen to...
Exciting New Tool to Divest from the War Machine
UFPJ enthusiastically joined the Divest from the War Machine Coalition, a massive initiative to reel in the U.S. war machine by demanding that our institutions, local governments, faith communities and others divest their money from weapons companies and those who...
Poor People’s Campaign in D.C.: Confronting the Distorted Moral Narrative
United for Peace and Justice is proud to be a partner in the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. On Saturday June 23, UFPJ’s National Co-conveners Jackie Cabasso and Terry Rockefeller joined thousands of people at the U.S. Capitol Mall to let...
Korea Summit: a Breakthrough and a Beginning
A cruel Trump Administration policy of splitting up immigrant families at the border and the groundswell of protests against it pushed the Summit on Korea off the front pages. The respite did not last long. Already, according to The Guardian (UK) of June 23, “Donald...
Everybody Has a Right to Live: 5th week Poor People’s Campaign
The week of June 10th is the fifth week of The Poor People’s Campaign. It’s theme is Everybody Has a Right to Live focusing on Education, Income & Housing. Did you know that while the U.S. economy has grown 18-fold in the past 50 years, wealth inequality has...
Monday, June 4th Rally for the Right to Health and a Healthy Planet
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has been organized to address vast social inequalities, intractable racism, never-ending wars and ecological devastation. During the week of June 3, the Campaign will focus on The Right to Health and a...
Where is the Memorial Day for Civilians Killed in Wars?
Memorial Day, formerly Decoration Day, is a day to remember those who died while serving in the armed forces. Decoration Day began as a way to remember the Civil War dead, more than 700,000, by placing flowers and flags on their headstones. Today, in our time of...