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The Japanese island of Okinawa is perhaps the most beautiful place I’ve ever been blessed to visit. Okinawa’s people, peaceful history (before the stationing of Japanese troups there [...]

Join Peace Action staff, members and friends for a screening of Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives, the Environmental Footprint of War, a unique, gripping documentary by pro-peace and environment [...]

National Peace Action Board of Directors Co-Chair Dave Pack had a letter to the editor published in the Kansas City Star last Friday. Well done, Dave! Dear Editor: Our country’s response to 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 [...]

A terrific op-ed by Betsy Crites, director of North Carolina Peace Action, in the Durham News. What do Durham and Afghanistan have in common? We are worlds apart, but we both have people who need [...]

  Sen. Patty Murray of Washington and Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas are getting to work. The Co-chairs of the “Super Committee” charged with coming up with the next round of [...]

Peace Action is not an explicitly pacifist organization as some colleagues are, on the other hand I don’t believe we’ve ever supported any US war or use of force in our 54 year [...]

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 [...]