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Two weeks ago – hours after Peace Action endorsed Bernie Sanders for President – I was asked if I had any interest in going to Nevada to join the campaign for a week, from Sunday through the [...]

Peace Action President Kevin Martin’s letter to the editor calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

Peace Action Board Co-Chair Lawrence Wittner’s op-ed on Peace Action’s endorsement of Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Presidential Primary.

Peace Action President Kevin Martin and the Middle East Program Director for American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Jennifer Bing’s co-authored op-ed on the 25 anniversary of the first [...]

In March 2015, a 10-nation coalition led by Saudi Arabia began bombing Yemen, and has been ever since. As the world’s attention has focused on the Syrian Civil War, which absolutely deserves our [...]

At the end of 2013, shortly after a temporary deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief was signed, a bill was introduced that would have increased sanctions on Iran. [...]

In a remarkable political turnaround, the omnibus spending bill that was posted online yesterday has no language blocking refugees from Iraq and Syria from entering the country, despite the fact [...]

Yesterday, 112 House Representatives sent a letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Appropriations calling for increased funding to address the greatest humanitarian [...]

In 2013, the federal government shutdown for 16 days because the GOP added language to a spending bill that would have defunded the Affordable Care Act. In the end, Republicans actually had to [...]

Peace Action Executive Director Jon Rainwater’s op-ed scolding Congress for advancing legislation that would create insurmountable hurdles for refugees from Iraq and Syria to enter the [...]