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Every year, on August 6th and 9th, thousands of people around the world gather for solemn commemorations of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But remembrance is more than [...]

Thanks to your help, we flooded Congress with opposition to the F-22 fighter jet, and both the House and Senate voted to cut wasteful funding for planes even the Pentagon doesn’t want [...]

US ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the international treaty that bans nuclear explosive testing, would be a smart step foward as part of a global effort to reduce the threat [...]

August 6th and 9th are the 64th anniversaries of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where an estimated 200,000 people were killed. Grassroots groups around the country will be [...]

On Monday of last week (7/20), I attended a meeting of US the House Leadership and their allies on Capitol Hill. At the meeting, we learned that the Senate planned planned debate cuts in funding [...]

Please join me this Sunday to hear about my recent grassroots diplomacy trip to Iran and how together we can use what I’ve learned to build support for diplomacy and pressure Congress to [...]

Join Peace Action West, Amnesty International, and thousands of your peers on July 25 in a global day of action calling for basic human rights in Iran. Come and join Peace Action West in standing [...]

The Senate voted this week to accept the Levin-McCain amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.  The Amendment (passed 58-40) will eliminate the $1.75B slated for the development of [...]

JOBS AND THE F-22 JET Myths vs. Facts Lockheed Martin lobbyists have stressed and claimed loss of jobs, especially “union jobs,” and national security needs, to justify purchasing additional F-22 [...]

OBAMA’S WARS IN AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN: New challenges for the US Antiwar Movement As US troops depart Iraq’s cities, President Obama and the Democratic Congress have now escalated [...]