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So, I was planning to write a post-NATO Summit op-ed (and we may well have more reports, photos, etc. on our terrific work in Chicago soon) but hadn’t gotten around to it. Which is just as [...]

Last week, Republican hawks blocked a vote on legislation to end the war because they knew it had a real chance of passing. It’s outrageous, and another sign that we need to build up the [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kkh73W-vOk4] With the vast majority of Americans, including people of all political persuasions, supporting a withdrawal of [...]

Well let’s make it go poof! Join the NATO Counter Summit this Friday and Saturday in Chicago! Here’s an excellent op-ed by Chicago Area Peace Action’s Michael Lynn and Roxane [...]

The President just sneaked in and out of Afghanistan during the cover of night to sign an agreement that could take the U.S. down a path of having 20,000 –  30,000 troops in harms way until [...]

When a US soldier killed 16 Afghan civilians, many of them children, we were again shocked by the ever-escalating brutality of this war. This was another in a long line of signs that we need to [...]

The last week in June, Peace Action West joined with groups around Oregon to present two wonderful speakers on Afghanistan: Matthew Hoh, Director of the Afghanistan Study Group and former Marine [...]

Thanks for calling your Senators to sign the Merkley-Lee-Udall letter to the President to bring troops home from Afghanistan.  A significant 27 Senators signed. While Peace Action wants to see [...]

Today, in spite of — or perhaps because of — the Libyan regime’s brutal attempts to crack down on protesters, Gaddafi continues to lose territory to his opposition. This has [...]

It turns out we’ve got something extra to celebrate this holiday season. And I want you to know how important you were in ratifying the first major disarmament treaty in decades, because [...]