Peace

Below is our press release about the recently released book on Peace Action. We love to hear about your take on the peace movement over the past 50 years. Tell us how you have been active and how [...]

An Open Letter to America: “Now is the time for us to stand up and stand together” By Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. July 1, 2007 My Fellow Americans: The power of our voices against the U.S. [...]

Since the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy became law over 11,000 service members have been kicked out of the military for their sexuality. The number of service members who have left on their own [...]

Declaring that “we [USA] are now violating the people of this country [Iraq] in ways that we would never accept on our own soil”, SPC Eli Israel told his commanding officer that he would no [...]

This is a re-publication of a published letter to the editor from the Washington Post Sunday, June 17, 2007; Page B06 The June 10 front-page article “Military Envisions Longer Stay in [...]

Last Sunday on Face the Nation, Sen. Joe Lieberman said. “If they don’t play by the rules, we’ve got to use our force, and to me that would include taking military action to [...]

The latest piece of brilliant military strategy from the White House is a smaller more long term U.S. occupying force in Iraq. I, like many citizens who were opposed to this war in the first [...]

It was twenty-five years ago today, perhaps the largest peace and disarmament rally in US history. A million people gathered in New York’s Central Park, and later marched to the UN, for [...]

by Kevin Martin Executive Director, Peace Action Will the people of Iraq ever forgive us? Every Member of Congress who voted for this is an accessory to quagmire, murder and destruction, plain [...]

I would add “and so will tens of thousands of Iraqis” to the above quote from U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey (D-NY). Unfortunately, even self-described anti-war members of [...]