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Update:  The B61 vote will happen today sometime after 2pm.  It’s not too late to generate calls or emails to your representative.  Don’t forget to post on Facebook and Tweet your [...]

Today the House of Representatives is considering the Energy and Water Appropriations bill where, surprisingly, much of the United States nuclear weapons programs are funded.  We expect a vote [...]

by national Peace Action board member Larry Wittner on History News Network http://hnn.us/articles/still-preparing-nuclear-war Lawrence S. Wittner (http://lawrenceswittner.com) is Professor of [...]

Tell President Obama: The time is right and the world is ready to negotiate the elimination of nuclear weapons! Click here to sign the petition. First, the good news: In May, a new United Nations [...]

Join us next week at the University of the District of Columbia’s David A. Clarke School of Law for the annual week long Human Rights on the Hill course organized by Peace Action board [...]

The Post argued that U.S. security interests require a “more robust . . . intervention” in the Syrian civil war [“No time for half-measures,” editorial, June 15]. A better [...]

In the next few days the House of Representatives will vote on Pentagon funding. Some of our friends in Congress will offer amendments to cut overflowing Pentagon coffers. While our communities [...]

We hope you can attend both these upcoming events “Dirty Wars” Opens in D.C. Weekend of June 7-9 “Dirty Wars”, the new film featuring Jeremy Scahill, is playing every day [...]

Last week we sent you an action alert urging support for our campaign to Escalate the Talk, Not the War, in Syria. We were grateful to get a strong response, and many other peace organizations [...]

Despite calls to the contrary from unsuccessful presidential candidate John McCain and other “when your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail” know-nothing war-mongers, who [...]