Peace

New Jersey Peace Action’s Grassroots Activist Skills Building Day –Jessica Camacho and Madelyn Hoffman, New Jersey Peace Action On June 9th New Jersey Peace Action (NJPA) held a grassroots [...]

  By Judith Le Blanc Peace Action and 38 groups and over 200 activists are meeting in Chicago at the Counter-Summit for Peace and Economic Justice while NATO meets to prepare for more war. [...]

by Peter Deccy Yesterday’s New York Times had a troubling story of a 52 minute battle between a company of US troops and two Afghan soldiers who had lived and fought alongside the Americans. The [...]

Dear Friends The House has voted to cut $36 billion from nutrition assistance programs, which would kick 2 million people off of food aid, cut benefits for 44 million more, and drop 280,000 [...]

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 [...]

It’s tempting to say no comment is necessary about this absurd story in Crain’s Chicago Business that some Loop (downtown Chicago) office workers are being told to dress down and [...]

By Judith LeBlanc On May 1  in a televised address from Afghanistan President Obama said, “There will be difficult days ahead. The enormous sacrifices of our men and women are not over.” That’s [...]

By Judith Le Blanc When US officials met In Brussels with NATO countries to prepare for the May NATO Summit in Chicago, Australia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan a year [...]

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 [...]