Congress

By Judith Le Blanc – Field Director, Peace Action – A sermon delivered on January 13, 2013 to the Transcontinental Baptist Church and Unitarian Universalist Church of Fort Lauderdale. [...]

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 [...]

You’ve called the White House (202-456-1111) and Congress (866-426-2631) and told them “No Deal!” loud and proud, yes? No get your friends, family and colleagues to call too!   Okay, here is more [...]

published by Foreign Policy in Focus Towards a Foreign Policy for the 99 Percent By Kevin Martin, December 18, 2012 Relief, rather than elation, was probably the emotion most U.S. peace activists [...]

                      Send President Obama and Congress a Message On Election Day, we sent a message.  Protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. End the wars and reinvest in our [...]

Thursday, November 29, 2012 BY MADELYN HOFFMAN GUEST COLUMNIST Bloomfield Life As the calendar propels us toward the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013, there is no issue the U.S. Congress and [...]

Let’s push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff! Well maybe that’s not a good metaphor. Regardless, in the nonsense about the “fiscal cliff” here in your nation’s [...]

According to Michael Gordon in the New York Times the Obama Administration is currently considering whether to keep anywhere from under 1,000 to over 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan past the [...]

You’ll hear more soon about big successes in Peace Action and Peace Action PAC’s electoral work (a strong majority of our endorsed pro-peace candidates for House and Senate won [...]

Last week, we shared (on the Peace Action FaceBook page, not here on the Peace Blog) the devastating Living Under Drones report on U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, written by researchers from [...]