NATO Counter Summit

  Veterans Day, also Remembrance Day and Armistice Day, is this Sunday, with the Monday holiday observance. The mainstream message we usually hear is thanks to veterans and to troops serving [...]

–Kevin Martin, Executive Director Norwegian philosopher and peace studies pioneer Johan Galtung has a very useful analytic framework for peace and justice activists in our current times, [...]

So, I was planning to write a post-NATO Summit op-ed (and we may well have more reports, photos, etc. on our terrific work in Chicago soon) but hadn’t gotten around to it. Which is just as [...]

Generally speaking the pro-peace events in Chicago surrounding the NATO war summit have been very good, and we’ve been getting superb media coverage. Photos, reports etc to come soon. [...]

  By Judith Le Blanc Peace Action and 38 groups and over 200 activists are meeting in Chicago at the Counter-Summit for Peace and Economic Justice while NATO meets to prepare for more war. [...]

Well let’s make it go poof! Join the NATO Counter Summit this Friday and Saturday in Chicago! Here’s an excellent op-ed by Chicago Area Peace Action’s Michael Lynn and Roxane [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By Judith Le Blanc The main way we can pump up the volume on the issues the May 18-19 Counter Summit for Peace and Economic Justice will explore and maximize participation: social networking. [...]

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 [...]