Peace Action

Paul Olson, former board chair of our affiliate in Nebraska, Nebraskans for Peace, had a refreshingly straight-forward op-ed on the otherwise arcane topic of nuclear nonproliferation published in [...]

By Cole Harrison, Massachusetts Peace Action Massachusetts Peace Action is an important part of a coalition of Massachusetts community, labor, and peace organizations that are now working to put [...]

New Jersey Peace Action’s Grassroots Activist Skills Building Day –Jessica Camacho and Madelyn Hoffman, New Jersey Peace Action On June 9th New Jersey Peace Action (NJPA) held a grassroots [...]

–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. [...]

by Peter Deccy Yesterday’s New York Times had a troubling story of a 52 minute battle between a company of US troops and two Afghan soldiers who had lived and fought alongside the Americans. The [...]

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 [...]

Dear Friends The House has voted to cut $36 billion from nutrition assistance programs, which would kick 2 million people off of food aid, cut benefits for 44 million more, and drop 280,000 [...]