social movements

The protests in Egypt, against a dictatorship the US has supported for decades, are very inspiring. Here is an action alert from the Muslim Public Affairs Council with information on how you can [...]

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 [...]

Witness Against Torture www.witnesstorture.org   Press Release January 7, 2011                  Contacts: Frida Berrigan – 347-683-4928, frida.berrigan@gmail.com Jeremy Varon- [...]

The inimitable Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies that is. Way more Phyllis than me (which is a very good thing!). Here is our take, including policy, political and movement [...]

Against growing public opposition in the US (new poll today from Quinnipiac University – 50% against, 44% in favor of continuing the war in Afghanistan), President Obama is in Lisbon, [...]

Gandhi Statue in the middle of London’s Tavistock Square Just got back from London, where I had a spectacular time at the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s annual conference (yep, CND is [...]

One Nation Working Together for Peace!  Oct 2 Lincoln Memorial at 11 AM   On Oct 2, hundreds of thousands (yes, more than at the Glenn Beck rally!) will be at the Lincoln Memorial for One Nation [...]

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 [...]

Oct 7-10 International Days of Action to End the War in Afghanistan Join Peace Action and peace groups in the US and around the world to mark the ninth anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan [...]

Madelyn Hoffman, Executive Director of New Jersey Peace Action, wrote a terrific rejoinder to a “decline of the peace movement” article published last week by Politico and Common [...]