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By Jane Stoever, PeaceWorks Kansas City Kansas City, Mo., voters received a barrage of negative publicity from the “vote no” camp before the April 2 election, but 23 percent of the voters still [...]

Lead article today on Foreign Policy in Focus. Would love your comments regarding our nation’s progress on Dr. King’s triple evils of racism, extreme materialism and militarism. [...]

You’ve called the White House (202-456-1111) and Congress (866-426-2631) and told them “No Deal!” loud and proud, yes? No get your friends, family and colleagues to call too!   Okay, here is more [...]

published by Foreign Policy in Focus Towards a Foreign Policy for the 99 Percent By Kevin Martin, December 18, 2012 Relief, rather than elation, was probably the emotion most U.S. peace activists [...]

The energy last night was contagious as cheers echoed throughout the bar where Peace Action West staff gathered to watch the election results come in. Last night was a rejection of the dangerous [...]

A pox on both presidential tickets for their shameful ignoring of climate chaos in the debates and the campaign overall. Hurricane Sandy seems timed to remind us all this issue is real, denial by [...]

Mitt Romney sure mentioned the word “peace” an awful lot in the last presidential debate Monday night. While my take is that he did so in a pretty cynical way, trying to make folks [...]

Published by The Hill, an influential Capitol Hill publication By Jon Rainwater, executive director, Peace Action West and the Peace Education Fund – 10/18/12 02:30 PM ET When voters mark [...]

Not Exactly, But it Fails the Real Definition of a Just War –Kevin Martin  Amid all the grim news in Afghanistan as the war enters its 12th year, a new initiative by the youth-led Afghan [...]

So I have to admit that when I heard it last night during the presidential debate, I thought this was a clever zinger by Mitt Romney (or his speech writers more likely): “What things will I cut [...]