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By Jonathan Williams Manager of Communications and Online Organizing, Peace Action, www.peace-action.org Co-founder, Civilian-Soldier Alliance – www.civsol.org Transcribed from a speech [...]

The Japanese island of Okinawa is perhaps the most beautiful place I’ve ever been blessed to visit. Okinawa’s people, peaceful history (before the stationing of Japanese troups there [...]

Join Peace Action staff, members and friends for a screening of Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives, the Environmental Footprint of War, a unique, gripping documentary by pro-peace and environment [...]

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 Judith Le Blanc, Peace Action Field Director Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of “The Dream” at the March on Washington in 1963. He said, ” I have a dream. It is a dream [...]

TOWN HALL MEETING Taking Back the Budget Debate Sept. 20, 2011, 7:30 p.m. Silver Spring Civic Center One Veterans’ Place (Fenton & Ellsworth)   We need you to help fix the PRIORITIES [...]

Thanks to the hard work of national Peace Action board member (and University of Hawai’i Human Rights Law Center founder) Joshua Cooper, Peace Action got some serious airtime (an hour and a [...]

Busy, busy time these days for Peace Action and our colleagues, here are a few updates of interest. Our brave sisters and brothers on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla have faced threats to their lives [...]

Building a grassroots movement for peace and justice: Peace Action’s Long-Range Strategic Plan, 2011-2016 Summary and Overview   Our Vision   Peace Action is a grassroots-based national [...]