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Last night at West Point, President Barack Obama announced the new course for the US military presence in Afghanistan: escalation. At the same time, Peace Action New York State joined other peace [...]

The Rev. Robert Moore and the Coalition for Peace Action in New Jersey is interviewed by the Trentonian about the troop escalation in Afghanistan. The Rev. Robert Moore, executive director of [...]

On our first full day out into Kabul, I saw an old woman being dragged across the street by two men.  One of our delegates said she thought she saw the men kick the clearly resisting woman. This [...]

Peace Action would encourage our supporters to read Peace Action West’s Rebecca Griffin’s latest OpEd in the San Jose Mercury News. The piece titled “Sanctions on Iran would [...]

I recently participated in my first Afghanistan House Party in Takoma Park, Maryland. Our group of 12 or so people screened the films Rethink Afghanistan and followed it up with a lengthy and [...]

Check out this great article by former ACORN communications coordinator David Swanson. Among recipients of government money already convicted of serious misconduct, ACORN (had it been so [...]

New Jersey Peace Action Executive Director Madelyn Hoffman just wrote a piece for OpEdNews on the war in Afghanistan. She starts: After eight long years, the so-called “good war” in Afghanistan [...]

Why am I in Afghanistan? When many people were concerned about the Bush administration bombing another country unjustly, namely Iran, I decided I needed to go to the country to find out about [...]

The UN NGO Conference on Disarmament is currently being held in Mexico City. Peace Action is chairing the conference. Staff members Kevin Martin, Paul Kawika Martin and Lisa Putkey have traveled [...]

The public and media are souring fast on Obama’s Afghanistan policies, and the higher-ups in the Administration are naturally reacting to this pressure. Let’s take advantage and push [...]