Peace Action

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives voted 308-114 to fund the continued escalation of the failed US war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. First off, thanks to all who lobbied their Member of [...]

Thanks to Tom for giving Peace Action a shout out: Published on The Nation (http://www.thenation.com) House Stands Firm on Afghanistan Withdrawal Timetable Tom Hayden | July 2, 2010 One hundred [...]

Today’s Washington Post has an interesting article on the outcome of the month-long Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference (NPT RevCon) that Peace Action and allies from around [...]

Joseph Gardner, my great-great-great grandfather, was a Quaker abolitionist in Kansas in the mid-1800s. His forebears had come to these shores (Nantucket, to be precise) in 1620. (I also have [...]

Peace Action of New York State’s first video blog is very cool, and it connects with a scene in the soon-to-be-released feature film Countdown to Zero (more on that soon). Check out the [...]

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is in Washington this week meeting with President Barack Obama and other officials. A big part of the agenda is Karzai’s desire to garner Obama’s [...]

Published on Thursday, April 29, 2010 by CommonDreams.org  by Judith LeBlanc and Kevin Martin Barack Obama is undoubtedly the U.S. president most committed to nuclear disarmament since Kennedy. [...]

Our colleague John Isaacs had an interesting article on potential US Senate ratification of the New START agreement with Russia on The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists website, it’s worth [...]

–By Lisa Putkey, Scoville Peace Fellow, Peace Action Education Fund, and Kevin Martin, Executive Director, Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund 2010 is the year to set the roadmap [...]

Two related issues were in the news today, the President’s call for a spending freeze on federal programs, except for the national security state of course, and senior UN envoy in [...]