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Many on the right are calling on the deficit reduction “super committee” to save billions by slashing Medicare and Social Security, while calling for increasing our bloated nuclear weapons [...]

By Jonathan Williams Manager of Communications and Online Organizing, Peace Action, www.peace-action.org Co-founder, Civilian-Soldier Alliance – www.civsol.org Transcribed from a speech [...]

On September 24, 1996, President Clinton signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which would ban any signatory nation from exploding nuclear weapons. The problem is that 15 years later, the [...]

Peace Action plans an action-packed Fall across our network Soon, our nation will reflect on the tenth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001. A few weeks later, October 7 will mark the [...]

Peace Action Montgomery plans Town Hall Meeting to fight budget cuts by Jean Athey, Peace Action Montgomery “I haven’t given up on the American people,  but I have given up on the Democrats,” my [...]

On August 7th Mark O. Hatfield, former Senator from Oregon, passed away at the age of 89. Exactly 66 years and 1 day earlier, when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Hatfield was stationed [...]

*Update: If you are outside of the San Francisco Bay Area, check out this calendar to find a Hiroshima/Nagasaki commemoration event near you. August 6th is the 66th anniversary of the U.S. atomic [...]

by Kevin Martin, Executive Director Updated from a previous blog post When I first heard a report of President Obama’s decision to remove only 5,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan this year (which [...]

By Judith Le Blanc Field Director Nearly one-half of people polled now think the US can make major cuts in defense spending without putting the country in danger, according to a 7/18/11 Rasmussen [...]

Every year around August 6 and 9, Peace Action and its grassroots network of chapters and affiliates host and participate in activities to commemorate the anniversaries of the 1945 nuclear [...]