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Joan, Carla and Marshall at Rep. Matheson’s office For our No Soldier Left Behind week of action to let Congress know Iraq is still a top priority, I joined a group of dedicated activists [...]

Interns Jessica Sederquist and Cory Kraft put together a movie showing and petition gathering party in San Francisco to bring people together and get Nancy Pelosi’s constituents involved in [...]

As French President Nicolas Sarkozy landed in Moscow to discuss Georgia, Russian President Medvedev accepted calls for a ceasefire. The Russian leader accepted a six-point set of principles for [...]

It’s hard to watch the war unfolding in Georgia without a mixture of sadness and déjà vu. The age-old pattern of escalation is being played out again: small skirmishes lead to wider battles [...]

This election year, one of the most important things we can do to change our foreign policy is to change the people who make it. The Peace Action West Voter Fund will be updating you throughout [...]

Cara and I were in Washington, DC this week, joining people from Peace Action affiliates from around the country to bring our concerns directly to members of Congress and their staff. We spent [...]

The combustible mix of domestic political spin and diplomatic arm twisting has gotten even stranger in the last couple says. After Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki told the German magazine Der [...]

Stephan, me and Ann at Espresso Royale in Minneapolis I continued my western states tour this week with a visit to Minneapolis, Minnesota.  In addition to some great meetings that are [...]

Yesterday we reported that the Bush administration had got the Iraqi government to agree that there should not be an "arbitrary date for withdrawal of U.S. troops". The White House [...]

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other Iraqi officials have recently made clear that they want the U.S. to commit to a timeline for withdrawing troops. This has bolstered the peace [...]