Nuclear Weapons

Led by Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), two of the Senate’s strongest proponents of nuclear nonproliferation, 10 Senators sent a letter to President Obama encouraging him to [...]

Washington, DC — July 5, 2016 — Peace Action, the nation’s largest peace organization, endorsed Russ Feingold for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin. “Peace Action has long taken a stand against the kind [...]

For Immediate Release:  May 27, 2016   Contact:    Paul Kawika Martin, Peace Action, 951-217-7285 cell, [email protected]   Peace Action Praises Obama’s Hiroshima Visit; Pushes for [...]

May 23, 2016 President Barack Obama The White House Washington, DC   Dear Mr. President, We were happy to learn of your plans to be the first sitting president of the United States to visit [...]

As President Obama prepares to become the first sitting President to visit Hiroshima, the site where the first atomic bomb was used in war, over fifty religious leaders have signed a letter [...]

Kudos to our Senior Director for Policy and Politics, Paul Kawika Martin, for his stellar media outreach work. The Associated Press article has a great quote by the wonderful 91 year old [...]

For Immediate Release:  May 10, 2016 Contacts: Paul Kawika Martin, Peace Action, 951-217-7285 cell, [email protected] Kevin Martin, Peace Action, 301-537-8244 cell, [...]

UPDATED: VARIOUS MEDIA OUTLETS ARE REPORTING PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL GO TO HIROSHIMA LATER THIS MONTH DURING THE G-7 ECONOMIC SUMMIT IN JAPAN. WE’LL HAVE A STATEMENT SOON. There is not much [...]

Here’s a petition I hope you will sign in a hurry.  It is a petition campaign to abolish nuclear weapons started by Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). What’s [...]