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New Jersey Peace Action Executive Director Madelyn Hoffman in the Bloomfield Life The Pentagon cuts would account for nearly half of the total of automatic cuts mandated by the debtdeal. If the [...]

Posted on Tue, Jan. 03, 2012   http://www.kansascity.com/2012/01/03/v-print/3350801/the-iraq-war-was-our-greatest.html Iraq War Was the United States’ Greatest Foreign Policy Disaster  By [...]

For the past year, Peace Action has collaborated with civil rights, labor and community groups to fight for The Dream that Dr. Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement fought for. The [...]

The Senate voted by voice vote this week in favor of Senator Jeff Merkley’s (D-OR) bipartisan amendment  on behalf of 21 Senators to the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year [...]

NEW Peace Action Move the Money Toolkit  The US Labor Department announced that the economy created 80,000 jobs in October.  Economists say that twice that number of jobs need to be created every [...]

The following is excerpted from recent speeches I gave at the Nebraskans for Peace annual conference in Lincoln, NE and the Chicago Area Peace Action annual dinner in Wilmette, IL. Move the [...]

  By Judith Le Blanc Peace Action Field Director The Congressional Super Committee of 12, established in the deficit/budget deal is charged with proposing over a trillion dollars in cuts to [...]

TOWN HALL MEETING Taking Back the Budget Debate Sept. 20, 2011, 7:30 p.m. Silver Spring Civic Center One Veterans’ Place (Fenton & Ellsworth)   We need you to help fix the PRIORITIES [...]

Thanks to the hard work of national Peace Action board member (and University of Hawai’i Human Rights Law Center founder) Joshua Cooper, Peace Action got some serious airtime (an hour and a [...]

By Judith Le Blanc Something is missing in the swirl of news reporting on the debt ceiling deal struck on August 2 by the Congress and the President for close to $1 trillion in cuts in [...]