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Bring the war dollars home By Betsy Crites Herald-Sun guest columnist The withdrawal from Iraq is to be celebrated like a migraine that finally subsides. It is what the majority of Americans have [...]

On this day last year, I was glued to CSPAN’s live feed of the Senate floor. Late in the evening, they finally started to vote on ratification of the New START Treaty, and I realized that [...]

(An abridged version of this piece by Coalition for Peace Action’s Executive Director Bob Moore was published today, with a nice photo, in the Trenton Times, the second letter). While most [...]

Today, the Iraq war officially ends. Three years ago, Americans elected a president who rose to prominence on the basis of his opposition to the war. Now, after sustained grassroots pressure, [...]

By years’ end, the US war and occupation of Iraq will be over. Opposing the war from the start, Peace Action participated in the February 2003 protest where tens of millions around the world [...]

by Peter Deccy, Peace Action Development Director The occupy movement has strengthened the demand for corporate and government accountability. It is a rare moment in history where crisis and [...]

For the past year, Peace Action has collaborated with civil rights, labor and community groups to fight for The Dream that Dr. Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement fought for. The [...]

In 2001, when Congress authorized an open-ended “war on terror,” there was only one member of Congress brave enough to stand up and say “no.” That’s why it’s [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q9LdLN42WJ4] The Senate spent much of this week debating the 2012 Defense Authorization bill, plowing through a slew of [...]

The Senate voted by voice vote this week in favor of Senator Jeff Merkley’s (D-OR) bipartisan amendment  on behalf of 21 Senators to the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year [...]