Peace Action

I was in Iran in 2009 when a family invited me into their home for dinner. Over kebabs and rice, I chatted about school and video games with their 6-year-old son. He and his mother sang us a song [...]

Published: Friday, March 30, 2012, 10:52 AM     Updated: Friday, March 30, 2012, 11:26 AM  By Plain Dealer guest columnist  View full sizeMichael Kamber, The New York TimesU.S. soldiers salute as [...]

by Peter Deccy, Peace Action U.S. military leaders are still pressing to keep the bulk of US troops in Afghanistan until 2014, removing only the remaining 22,000 “surge” forces President Obama [...]

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 [...]

Statement by Peace Action Calling for a Halt to the Military Violence and Human Rights Violations in Syria March 6, 2012   Peace Action deeply deplores the military action taken by Syria’s armed [...]

From Cleveland Peace Action: Cleveland City Council, at its regular February 27th meeting, joined other U.S.cities and the National Conference of Mayors, to call for Pentagon spending cuts and to [...]

New Jersey Peace Action Executive Director Madelyn Hoffman in the Bloomfield Life The Pentagon cuts would account for nearly half of the total of automatic cuts mandated by the debtdeal. If the [...]