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Peace Action just completed a series of successful events around the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference at the United Nations.  We helped organize an international [...]

– Peter Deccy, Development Director Peace Action and our allies in the global movement for nuclear abolition won a small but significant victory at the Third International Conference on the [...]

–by Kevin Martin, Executive Director Two weeks ago the House of Representatives voted 273-156 to fund and train “moderate” Syrian rebels to fight the radical terrorist group Islamic State [...]

The tragic death of Michael Brown at the hands of the Ferguson police is a reminder that the upsurge in violence is not restricted to the Middle East or any one place.  It’s right here in our own [...]

by Kevin Martin Tell President Obama “Don’t Try to Put Out the Fire in Iraq With Gasoline!” Believe it or not, some are responding to the escalating violence in Iraq with calls [...]

Over 70 U.S. events and actions were held to mark Tax Day and the 4th Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS).  As you probably know, Peace Action was the US coordinator of GDAMS events [...]

Have you heard?  The deal with Iran appears to be working.  We’re almost at the half-way point of the Joint Plan of Action and Iran appears to be living up to it commitments. The International [...]

The Island Now Thursday, September 26, 2013 By Bill San Antonio As the executive director of Peace Action, the nation’s largest grassroots disarmament organization, Kevin Martin said Tuesday he [...]

This was the song sung at the closing ceremony here in Hiroshima today, August 6, 2013, at the closing ceremony of the Japan Congress Against the A- and H-Bombs (Gensuikin) Conference. Translated [...]

Tomorrow night’s second presidential debate may, or may not, surface big differences between the two candidates on various foreign and domestic policy issues. One crucial issue on which we [...]