social movements

–Kevin Martin, Executive Director I was so humbled to be honored last Wednesday at a reception at the German Mission to the United Nations in New York City. The occasion was the second [...]

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 [...]

  I just got word Al Fishman, former national Peace Action board member and longtime leader in Peace Action of Michigan and the Detroit peace and justice community, passed away. I don’t [...]

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 [...]

The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research’s (UNIDIR)  journal Disarmament Forum published an issue late last year devoted to views on civil society and nuclear disarmament. [...]

–Kevin Martin, executive director, Peace Action This is something that has been rattling around my brain for a while, but recent conversations with Phyllis Bennis, Judith LeBlanc, Joseph [...]

Against a mostly positive backdrop of the flowering of democracy in the Middle East (which of course has been in spite of, not because of, U.S. policy in the region), the burgeoning civil war and [...]

If you care about peace, disarmament, just budget priorities, and promoting nonviolent social and political change in the world, here is a terrific resource for you from longtime Cleveland Peace [...]

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 [...]

Several times over the last few days I have heard US government officials espouse non-violence as a recommendation to both the protesters and the Mubarak regime in Egypt (White House Press [...]