peace history

With Sunday’s 10th anniversary of the tragedy of 9/11, many colleagues have written trenchant essays about that awful day and its aftermath, and the era of endless war that has ensued. I [...]

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 [...]

By coincidence, I was with Al at two of the three actions he was arrested at mentioned in the City Council resolution. Al Fishman Presente! – Long-time Peace Activist and Socialist Memorial [...]

We’re Peace Action, not Peace Book Club or Peace Magazine Reader, but sometimes it’s good to share books or articles that raise our issues and provoke analytical thinking or inspiration. Two such [...]

Yesterday marked the eighth anniversary of the massive February 15, 2003 demonstrations against the (at the time) impending US war on Iraq. An estimated 12 million people marched around the [...]

I never met Dagmar Wilson (more’s the pity for me), but I knew her name and her work, and she touched my life, and those of many others, in a profound way. She helped found Women Strike for [...]

Two excellent articles from national Peace Action board members: The story of the “Golden Rule,” an original “peace boat” that sailed into the Pacific nuclear test zone of [...]

Long-time scholar, author, professor and peace activist Larry Wittner, a member of the national Peace Action board of directors, has a new article on the state of public opinion and activism for [...]

While it may not be some people’s idea of summer beach reading, Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement by our own Larry Wittner (Professor at [...]

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 [...]