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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 [...]

November 17, 2011, the 2-month anniversary of the start of the 99% movement, people have hit the streets in hundreds of cities across the country. This morning, thousands surrounded the New York [...]

You can’t evict the 99%. Agnes from Community Voices Heard, an East Harlem based organization of low-income people, working to improve the lives of the community said,  “Don’t [...]

Less than 1% of the nation serves in our Armed Forces, and like many of you mentioned in your comments on the Iraq War, we are deeply gratified that many of them are returning home this winter. [...]

NEW Peace Action Move the Money Toolkit  The US Labor Department announced that the economy created 80,000 jobs in October.  Economists say that twice that number of jobs need to be created every [...]

A vote was set on a non-binding resolution that would have put the County Council of Montgomery County, MD on record in support of a “different military strategy and an end to the wars [...]

  By Judith Le Blanc Peace Action Field Director The Congressional Super Committee of 12, established in the deficit/budget deal is charged with proposing over a trillion dollars in cuts to [...]

  Sen. Patty Murray of Washington and Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas are getting to work. The Co-chairs of the “Super Committee” charged with coming up with the next round of [...]

By Judith Le Blanc, Peace Action Field Director Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of “The Dream” at the March on Washington in 1963. He said, ” I have a dream. It is a dream [...]

Peace Action joins Peace Organizations Call for Ceasefire in Libya, De-funding of U.S. Military or Intelligence Operations Washington DC – Libyan rebels recently overtook the coastal oil refinery [...]