imperialism

IPB AWARDS MACBRIDE PEACE PRIZE 2013 TO US WHISTLEBLOWER BRADLEY MANNING Note: Peace Action is a longtime member of the International Peace Bureau and strongly concurs with this award’s [...]

–Kevin Martin, Executive Director Norwegian philosopher and peace studies pioneer Johan Galtung has a very useful analytic framework for peace and justice activists in our current times, [...]

by Peter Deccy Much has been reported about the decline of the Greek economy. Some Republicans have enjoyed using the tragedy to warn the same fate awaits the US unless it cuts its social [...]

If you are marching on May 20, take our Nonviolence & Media training at 5pm on Wednesday, May 16. Feel prepared and supported to exercise your right to nonviolent protest and speak to the [...]

–Executive Director Kevin Martin In just over a month, peace activists and allies from other social justice movements from around the country and around the world will gather in Chicago [...]

Thanks to the hard work of national Peace Action board member (and University of Hawai’i Human Rights Law Center founder) Joshua Cooper, Peace Action got some serious airtime (an hour and a [...]

As the U.S. Empire declines, more indefensible and inexplicable pieces of the war machine are exposed and opposed by peace-mongers around the world. Two in the news today, both for their [...]

Secretary of War Robert Gates, in his commencement speech at Notre Dame over the weekend, warned against cuts in the US military budget. Not surprising (even though Gates has gotten some praise [...]

President Barack “Three Wars” Obama (Nixon, Reagan and even G.W. Bush could only dream of conducting three wars at once!) was unconvincing in making his case for war in Libya last [...]

–by Kevin Martin, Executive Director The U.S./British/French-led intervention in the civil war in Libya has caused confusion on many sides – in domestic public opinion, congressional [...]