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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...
The Poor People’s Campaign Kicks Off 40 Days of Moral Action
This past Monday, May 14, the Poor People’s Campaign launched a multi-issue campaign in 40 states to address poverty, racism, the war economy and environmental devastation. These actions included an expansive wave of nonviolent civil disobedience. The focus of this...
Protest BlackRock with CODEPINK
On May 23rd, BlackRock will hold its annual shareholder meeting in New York City. Meanwhile, CODEPINK is co-sponsoring actions at BlackRock offices across the U.S. to highlight the firm’s investments in weapons, civilian and military alike.BlackRock has billions of...
The Poor People’s Campaign—Find Your Fit and Participate
The Poor People’s Campaign; A National Call for Moral Revival is uniting tens of thousands of people across the country to challenge the evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation and the nation’s distorted morality. This Sunday, May...
A Critical Time for the Peace Movement
All of us who value and work for peace and justice in all forms recognize the critical need for us to step up our game in the face of national and international acts of aggression and escalating violence. It’s up to us to conduct and promote political education that...
No wider war in Syria! Call Congress today. Join protests for peace around the country this weekend.
As happened a year ago, the United States threatens to spark a wider war in the Middle East. Following allegations of a chemical weapons attack in a town near Damascus, Syria, the United States and its allies immediately placed responsibility on the Syrian government,...