Webinar Recording: Ending the ‘American War’ in Vietnam: The Impact of the Antiwar Movement and Lessons for the Present

Sep 19, 2024 5:00 PM PDT, 8PM EDT View the webinar here This webinar features Dr. Carolyn “Rusti” Eisenberg discussing her new book, Fire and Rain:...

9/11 Pre-Trial Hearings at Guantanamo Enter Unchartered Legal Territory

Actions in the Guantanamo 9/11 Military Commissions, which have since the arraignment of five men accused of planning and supporting the 9/11...

Hearings in the 9/11 Case at Guantanamo Move Closer to Crucial Decisions on Admissibility of Key Government Evidence

From April 21 to May 17, the 9/11 military commission at the Guantanamo Naval Base held its first-ever, five-weeklong set of pre-trial hearings. The...

What People Need to Know about the Kansas City Nuclear Bomb Parts Plant

By Mary Hladky, PeaceWorks Kansas City. Kansas City Missouri is literally at the center of the 2lst century new nuclear arms race. Kansas City MO is...

This April 4: Organize a Public Reading of Dr. King’s “Beyond Vietnam: Speech in Your Community

On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his tragic assassination, in his prophetic speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” Dr. Martin...

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UFPJ’s Statement on Iraq

UFPJ’s Statement on Iraq

United For Peace and Justice was founded in 2002 to oppose the illegal and immoral, pre-emptive invasion of Iraq. Eight years and nine months after “Shock and Awe” U.S. troops have finally left Iraq. For that we must largely thank the Iraqi people, who refused to...

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Revised Detainee Bill Still Fundamentally Flawed

Revised Detainee Bill Still Fundamentally Flawed

President Should Veto National Defense Authorization Act (Washington, DC, December 13, 2011) – Reported congressional changes to a defense authorization bill, aimed at averting a presidential veto, fail to address fundamental flaws in the bill’s proposed treatment of...

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Occupy Report 12/13-12/20

The Occupations Report: 12/13 This report includes updates from Occupy sites and related efforts across the country and the globe. It includes big wins, local organizing efforts, protests/events, police activity reports and calls to action where additional support...

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Legislative Working Group

Legislative Working Group

War Funding and More – Legislative Working Group: The challenge of UFPJ's Legislative Working Group is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. (Adapted from Antonio Gramsci) What We Do: Our working group helps to connect people, as well as local...

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Afghanistan Working Group

  UFPJ calls for the U.S. to immediately end the Afghanistan/Pakistan War, bring all troops home, stop employing security contractors, close military bases, and stop drone strikes.   The Afghanistan Working Group connects activists and organizers in UFPJ...

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