Nuclear Weapons

Last week, Katie and I spent the week in Washington, DC, bringing Peace Action West’s priorities to Capitol Hill and connecting with other organizations from around the country that are doing [...]

By Judith LeBlanc Peace Action and the American Friends Service Committee have initiated a network of peace, faith, economic and racial justice groups to convene a Counter Summit for Peace and [...]

Whew! Hard to keep up with all the great articles being published by grassroots leaders in the Peace Action network. Here are two for you today, both on the lunacy of a war with Iran: National [...]

MARCH 19, 2012 by LAWRENCE S.WITTNER On February 8, 2012, Congressman Edward Markey (D-MA) took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to introduce the Smarter Approach to Nuclear [...]

From Massachusetts Peace Action Communications Director Cole Harrison (and his last point is that we can use this for other transit ads around the country!): Mass Peace Action is posting [...]

Today, the Obama administration released their budget request for 2013. Here’s a look at the multi-billion dollar early Valentine’s Day gift to the nuclear weapons complex squirreled [...]

“We need more nuclear weapons programs like Lady Gaga needs another outfit.” That’s what Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) said yesterday, as he introduced a bill that would put a huge dent [...]

We have an urgent opportunity to move closer to a nuclear weapons free world. Every president gets one chance to revise and update US nuclear weapons strategy. That chance is coming in just a few [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                  CONTACT: Alicia Godsberg (646) 723-1749 alicia@panys.org   New Defense Strategy: Not Sounding That New   NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. (January [...]

On this day last year, I was glued to CSPAN’s live feed of the Senate floor. Late in the evening, they finally started to vote on ratification of the New START Treaty, and I realized that [...]