Urge your Reps to help end police violence!
George Floyd should still be alive today. Since we can’t bring him back to his family, we must take action for justice. We need to take action for justice for George as well as for Breonna [...]
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Action Alert: Call Your Rep to Cut Pentagon Spending
☎️🗣Call your Reps. to ✂ Pentagon spending Over the last few weeks, we’ve alerted you that the Pentagon is trying to direct funds for COVID-19 relief into its own bloated coffers. In the last [...]
Once Again Trump Scoffs Congressional War Powers with Republican Help
Once Again Trump Scoffs Congressional War Powers with Republican Help Washington, D.C. — May 7, 2020 — In response to the veto by President Trump yesterday of a bill (S.J.Res.68) to reclaim [...]
U.S. Reverses Policy On Use of Landmines
On May 6, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) headed a congressional oversight letter with 107 other members of Congress to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper expressing [...]
By Jeff Jurgens
In Congress, COVID-19, military budget, Military contractors, Pentagon Budget, Pentagon Spending, war profiteers
Posted Take Action: Keep COVID Stimulus $$ Away From the Pentagon
Congress is putting together additional and much needed stimulus packages in response to COVID-19. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the Pentagon is trying to weasel billions of dollars [...]
By Jeff Jurgens
In Action Alert, Alternatives to War, Congress, COVID-19, Global Activism, military budget, Move-the-Money, Pentagon Budget, Pentagon Spending
Posted U.S. Organizations React to Global Military Spending Report
Joint Statement: U.S. organizations react to global military spending report April 27, 2020 Our diverse group of 39 think-tanks, non-profits, faith-based organizations, and advocacy groups based [...]
In Alternatives to War, climate crisis, Congress, diplomacy, Election 2020, Global Activism, Peace Voter 2020, United Nations
Posted A Myriad of Ways to Wage Peace During These Times
As we shelter in our homes to protect ourselves from this global pandemic, we wanted to share some of the many ways you can remain active and impactful in the work for a more peaceful world. [...]
By Jeff Jurgens
In Afghanistan, Alternatives to War, Global Activism, Iraq, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Nations, Yemen
Posted Peace During Pandemic – Support the Global Ceasefire
“The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war.” That’s is what United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres exclaimed as he delivered an appeal to warring parties around the world to [...]
Peace Action Supports Wyden-Klobuchar Bill to Protect Democracy and Ensure Safe Elections
Statement of Jon Rainwater, Executive Director, Peace Action, on the introduction of the Natural Disaster and Emergency Ballot Act (NDEBA) by Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). [...]
Latest U.S. Military Strikes Are as Reckless as they are Cruel
Washington, D.C. — March 12, 2020 — In response to reports that the U.S. has carried out five airstrikes on Iranian-backed militia sites in Iraq, Jon Rainwater, Executive Director of Peace [...]
