Groundswell

Late last week Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) introduced an important amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill, the Pentagon’s funding bill. The amendment would cut off United States’ support [...]

This article was originally published in Common Dreams. By Emilie Clark Last year, I joined a small group of activists in Staten Island, NY to march in remembrance of the nuclear bombings of [...]

Washington, D.C. — August 6, 2018 — Seventy-three years ago, on August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the first nuclear bomb ever used in war on the city of Hiroshima, killing an estimated 80,000 [...]

In light of ongoing efforts to secure lasting peace and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, civil society groups and leaders from the Korea Peace Network sent this letter to President Trump [...]

This article was originally published in Foreign Policy In Focus. By Lawrence Wittner Since the advent of the Trump administration, American progressives have been aghast at its narrow, [...]

Peace Action mourns the passing of former U.S. Representative and former Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums. “Ron Dellums was a courageous and effective voice in the fight for peace and justice,” said [...]

Washington, D.C. — July 24, 2018 — From a press conference on Capitol Hill for the Congressional Progressive Caucus’ unveiling of the People’s Budget, Paul Kawika Martin, Senior Director for [...]

Washington, D.C. — July 23, 2018 — In response to president Trump threatening Iran with “consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before,” in all caps on Twitter, [...]

This article was originally published in Common Dreams. Three years after the signing of the Iran nuclear agreement, an array of TV monitors in downtown Vienna still carries live images from [...]

Washington, D.C. — July 12, 2018 — In response to President Trump’s statement at a NATO press conference that “there might be an escalation between us and the Iranians,” Jon Rainwater, Executive [...]