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Afghanistan and Perpetual War: Everyone Loses.
October 7th is a grim reminder of 17 years of war in Afghanistan – a war that has brought death, destruction and grievous injury to so many, with little, if any, success and no conclusion. Most Americans cannot explain why we are currently at war in seven countries–...
Divest Your Tuition Dollars from War
With the end of summer upon us, 16 million students in the U.S. have headed off to campus to begin their fall semester of college. As colleges and universities welcome their students, we’re asking the question: how many institutions are using our tuition dollars to...
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...