Middle East

I always appreciate an opportunity to see how thoughtful and engaged Peace Action West members are. The thousands of you who participated in our poll on how to focus our work on Syria [...]

So here’s the paradox. There’s a growing consensus that a military strike on Iran would be disastrous while at the same time the likelihood of such a disaster is also increasing. Please take a [...]

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 [...]

I was in Iran in 2009 when a family invited me into their home for dinner. Over kebabs and rice, I chatted about school and video games with their 6-year-old son. He and his mother sang us a song [...]

It’s an election year. That means it’s prime accountability time. And this email has everything you need to let your representatives in DC know you’ve been watching them like [...]

Published: Friday, March 30, 2012, 10:52 AM     Updated: Friday, March 30, 2012, 11:26 AM  By Plain Dealer guest columnist  View full sizeMichael Kamber, The New York TimesU.S. soldiers salute as [...]

Whew! Hard to keep up with all the great articles being published by grassroots leaders in the Peace Action network. Here are two for you today, both on the lunacy of a war with Iran: National [...]

From Massachusetts Peace Action Communications Director Cole Harrison (and his last point is that we can use this for other transit ads around the country!): Mass Peace Action is posting [...]

Statement by Peace Action Calling for a Halt to the Military Violence and Human Rights Violations in Syria March 6, 2012   Peace Action deeply deplores the military action taken by Syria’s armed [...]

 In response to push back from human rights groups and members of Congress, the Obama administration held off on an arms sale to the Bahraini government, pending an independent report on the [...]