Afghanistan

If you are marching on May 20, take our Nonviolence & Media training at 5pm on Wednesday, May 16. Feel prepared and supported to exercise your right to nonviolent protest and speak to the [...]

Will our troops in Afghanistan see their children serve there 23 years after the war began? Last week, President Obama announced an agreement with the Afghan government that could mean thousands [...]

Last week, President Obama tried to sell the new US-Afghan Strategic Partnership agreement as the beginning of the end of war in Afghanistan to a war-weary public. Contrary to the president’s [...]

It’s tempting to say no comment is necessary about this absurd story in Crain’s Chicago Business that some Loop (downtown Chicago) office workers are being told to dress down and [...]

Peace Action West’s Political Director Rebecca Griffin’s excellent op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle focused on public opinion and opportunities to end the war while stressing [...]

What did you think about President Obama’s speech last night? Read my take, which appears here today in the San Francisco Chronicle, and share your thoughts in the comments below. The White [...]

By Judith LeBlanc On May 1  in a televised address from Afghanistan President Obama said, “There will be difficult days ahead. The enormous sacrifices of our men and women are not over.” That’s [...]

–Executive Director Kevin Martin (Field Director Judith Le Blanc will also post her observations) The president spoke of the strength of the Afghan security forces. Yet he had to make this [...]

By Judith Le Blanc When US officials met In Brussels with NATO countries to prepare for the May NATO Summit in Chicago, Australia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan a year [...]

New Jersey Peace Action Executive Director Madelyn Hoffman had a terrific op-ed in the Bloomfield Life last week, titled Moving to a Culture of Peace linking local gun violence, military spending [...]