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…which of course continues through May 14 so there may be more news to come, but Paul and I are back in DC, and most of the other non-New York CIty Peace Actionistas have left the PrepCom. [...]

Kudos to theInternational Committee of Peace Action for their outstanding work at the UN, and for the citizen diplomats from around the country who came to the UN for the NPT PrepCom this week. [...]

NPT Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) May 4, 2009 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called the 2005 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference represented a “disarmament depression”, [...]

I’m at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee meeting at the UN in New York City listening to the mayor of Hiroshima, Tad Akiba. Below is a post from a colleague at [...]

An Open Letter to America: “Now is the time for us to stand up and stand together” By Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. July 1, 2007 My Fellow Americans: The power of our voices against the U.S. [...]

It was twenty-five years ago today, perhaps the largest peace and disarmament rally in US history. A million people gathered in New York’s Central Park, and later marched to the UN, for [...]

by Kevin Martin, Executive Director  Foreign Policy in Focus, an excellent on-line publication of progressive voices on international issues, recently organized an on-line [...]

Last week the president voiced the absurd notion that U.S. forces might remain in Iraq for decades, as in South Korea.  Here is a view from an activist who just recently returned from a peace [...]

by Kevin Martin Executive Director, Peace Action Will the people of Iraq ever forgive us? Every Member of Congress who voted for this is an accessory to quagmire, murder and destruction, plain [...]

by Kevin Martin, Executive Director  Yesterday, Congress showed once again it is tone-deaf to the wishes of the people, with the Senate voting down an amendment to cut off funding for the Iraq [...]