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The midterm elections are nearly upon us. In less than six weeks voters will be hitting the polls, with early voting kicking off even before that. Now is the time that you can help Peace Action [...]

Peace Action Executive Director gave this talk yesterday at an event at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Binghamton, NY. The event kicked off a 3 1/2 year series on Gandhi’s legacy, [...]

–Kevin Martin, Executive Director In case you missed it, civil rights heroine Diane Nash, one of the relatively few women in leadership positions in the civil rights movement in the [...]

By Paul Kawika Martin As you know, midterm elections are only 5 weeks away. And one of the unique aspects about Peace Action is that we use all the tools in the social tool box to create a better [...]

Peace Action/Peace Action Education Fund 2013 Program, Policy, Political and Organizing Accomplishments -Stopped a U.S. attack on Syria! Peace Action played a key leadership role in convening an [...]

One of the best ways to reduce the deficit is to put people back to work.  It’s time to invest in our people, and our communities. Let’s create stable jobs at living wages, rehabilitate our [...]

–Kevin Martin, Executive Director Last week, veteran AP reporter Robert Burns wrote an interesting article on the 9/11 anniversary  titled “War Weary US is Numbed to Drumbeat of Troop [...]

  Peace Action West staffers Laura, Jonathan, and Yasin are pictured here with Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA-10) preparing to canvass voters in Woodland, CA. We want to make sure Rep. Garamendi [...]

When the lights went out at our Silver Spring home last Friday evening I got to thinking about how our tax dollars are constantly being squandered on war and militarism instead of our [...]

Last night was the first big primary night in our work to elect pro-peace candidates in November. There were a lot of tight races, and California’s new top-two primary system brought some [...]