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Guantánamo: 20 Years of Injustice Must End!
Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL), the most vocal congressional champion of closing Guantánamo, chaired a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on December 7. Colleen Kelly a co-founder of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, one of the founding...
Seeding Peacekeepers: Emerging Activists Begin to Prepare Local Projects
United for Peace and Justice’s (UFPJ’s) initial group of emerging activists have now had about two sessions on each on the four big topics of their six-month training program with UFPJ’s National Organizer, George Friday. The topics were chosen to encourage the...
‘Don’t Look Away’—U.S. drones regularly kill civilians throughout the world
No flag is big enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people – Howard Zinn The Ban Killer Drones campaign asked peacemakers to protest drone war on Nov. 29, and PeaceWorks-KC answered the call. Fourteen of us witnessed for peace that day at Whiteman Air Force...
Moral Monday March on Washington Monday, December 13, 2021; 12:00 noon ET Capitol Hill, Washington DC
Congress has not yet taken action to pass the Build Back Better plan, protect voting rights, advance immigrant rights, fight for the health of the planet, and more. United for Peace & Justice is partnering with the Poor People’s Campaign in calling for a...
First Annual Fannie Lou Hamer Branch Human Rights Conference
SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, December 11th, 10AM -2PM Pacific, 1PM – 5PM Eastern Southern Anti Racism Network (SARN) is a new UFPJ member group. The First Annual Fannie Lou Hamer Branch Human Rights Conference, organized by the Fannie Lou Hamer branch of Women’s...
UFPJ Webinar: The Costs of War at Home, recording now available.
Click here for a recording of this webinar. This webinar highlighted UFPJ member groups’ and allies’ work to raise awareness of the impacts of war industries in communities around the U.S., including approaches ranging from focusing on particular armament companies to...
GITMO’s 20th Anniversary Approaches and the Policies of Endless War Persist
Under the George W. Bush Administration at least 780 Muslim men were brought to the prison facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, which was opened on January 11, 2002. Today, as GITMO’s 20th anniversary approaches, 39 men remain. Ten have been charged but are...
President Biden and Congress: Listen to the Poor People’s Campaign!
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is keeping up the pressure on President Biden and Congress to pass the Build Back Better Act and voting protections to save our democracy from coordinated attacks across the country. The largest investment...
Poor People’s Campaign Moral Monday: Build Back Better From the Bottom Up!
Get on the Bus! Congress is coming back to DC on Monday, Nov 15 and we need to meet them there to demand they Build Back Better from the Bottom Up and pass voting protections to save our democracy from coordinated attacks across the country. All hands on deck!! This...
UFPJ Seeding Peacekeepers Launched
On October 18th UFPJ’s initial group of emerging activists began our six-month training program with UFPJ’s National Organizer, George Friday. Between now and the end of the year participants sponsored by UFPJ groups from Western Massachusetts (Springfield No One...
Poor People’s Campaign: 2020 Election Study Shows Low Income Voters Can’t be Ignored
According to a study released by the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival at an online national press conference on October 15, poor and low-income people accounted for more than a third of all voters overall in the 2020 presidential election, and...
Join the movement to #CutThePentagon for People, Planet, Peace, and a Future!
In 2021, the United States will spend $740 billion on the Pentagon budget which is equal to $1.4 million a MINUTE. With just 10% of the Pentagon budget, we could END homelessness in the United States, yet we’re told time and time again that we just “can’t afford”...