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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 [...]

By Judith LeBlanc On May 1  in a televised address from Afghanistan President Obama said, “There will be difficult days ahead. The enormous sacrifices of our men and women are not over.” That’s [...]

–Executive Director Kevin Martin (Field Director Judith Le Blanc will also post her observations) The president spoke of the strength of the Afghan security forces. Yet he had to make this [...]

By Judith Le Blanc When US officials met In Brussels with NATO countries to prepare for the May NATO Summit in Chicago, Australia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan a year [...]

–Executive Director Kevin Martin In just over a month, peace activists and allies from other social justice movements from around the country and around the world will gather in Chicago [...]

Join a Peace Action briefing conference call with Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. Wednesday April 18 at 9 pm Eastern, 8 pm Central and 6 pm Pacific Kathy Kelly recently returned [...]

By Judith LeBlanc Peace Action and the American Friends Service Committee have initiated a network of peace, faith, economic and racial justice groups to convene a Counter Summit for Peace and [...]