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by Peter Deccy Representative Paul Ryan’s ‘Punish the People’ budget proposal was released last week to a symphony of media coverage. This week, the Congressional Progressive Caucus released The [...]

Last week, Katie and I spent the week in Washington, DC, bringing Peace Action West’s priorities to Capitol Hill and connecting with other organizations from around the country that are doing [...]

by Peter Deccy, Peace Action U.S. military leaders are still pressing to keep the bulk of US troops in Afghanistan until 2014, removing only the remaining 22,000 “surge” forces President Obama [...]

By Judith LeBlanc Peace Action and the American Friends Service Committee have initiated a network of peace, faith, economic and racial justice groups to convene a Counter Summit for Peace and [...]

How many billions are outdated weapons worth? It’s the 21st century, yet we are spending more and more money on a Cold War nuclear arsenal every single year. Current plans will have the US [...]

Whew! Hard to keep up with all the great articles being published by grassroots leaders in the Peace Action network. Here are two for you today, both on the lunacy of a war with Iran: National [...]

MARCH 19, 2012 by LAWRENCE S.WITTNER On February 8, 2012, Congressman Edward Markey (D-MA) took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to introduce the Smarter Approach to Nuclear [...]

From Massachusetts Peace Action Communications Director Cole Harrison (and his last point is that we can use this for other transit ads around the country!): Mass Peace Action is posting [...]

When a US soldier killed 16 Afghan civilians, many of them children, we were again shocked by the ever-escalating brutality of this war. This was another in a long line of signs that we need to [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7BK7hVb-w&feature=player_embedded] Last week, two dozen senators led by Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Max Baucus (D-MT) sent a letter to President Obama [...]