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As early as next week, the Senate will consider amendments to end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and cut Pentagon spending. Over the summer, we sent a strong message to the President. Thanks to [...]

As I marched jubilantly with tens of thousands of my closest friends, one refrain on our lips was the classic, “show me what democracy looks like, THIS is what democracy looks like!” Indeed. [...]

After nearly 9 years, the U.S. is withdrawing troops from Iraq. There is no doubt in my mind that this couldn’t have happened without you. Before this war even began, you responded to [...]

The frenzy to influence the super committee and their deficit reduction proposal is in full swing. Kicking it off with a bang, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) held a press conference yesterday to present [...]

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 [...]