Uncategorized

by Peter Deccy, Peace Action President Obama’s third State of the Union message began and ended in homily honoring our men and women in uniform.  The President referred to them as the one [...]

by Paul Kawika Martin, Peace Action On the heels of nearly all U.S. troops leaving Iraq, thanks to your pressure and others in the peace movement, troops are slowly coming out of Afghanistan.  In [...]

by Peter Deccy, Peace Action Last week, Peace Action launched its petition to President Obama calling on the President to prevent a military strike on Iran, by either the US or Israel.  We’re [...]

Not only is the U.S. military the largest consumer of fossil fuels and the largest polluter in the world, it knows the climate crisis is real and can drive future military conflict. Tim Rinne, [...]

(An abridged version of this piece by Coalition for Peace Action’s Executive Director Bob Moore was published today, with a nice photo, in the Trenton Times, the second letter). While most [...]

By years’ end, the US war and occupation of Iraq will be over. Opposing the war from the start, Peace Action participated in the February 2003 protest where tens of millions around the world [...]

by Peter Deccy, Peace Action Development Director The occupy movement has strengthened the demand for corporate and government accountability. It is a rare moment in history where crisis and [...]

The Senate voted by voice vote this week in favor of Senator Jeff Merkley’s (D-OR) bipartisan amendment  on behalf of 21 Senators to the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year [...]

The post below is from Leslie Cagan, former national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice (and currently a Peace Action Education Fund board member), but I was about to write a similar [...]

As early as next week, the Senate will consider amendments to end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and cut Pentagon spending. Over the summer, we sent a strong message to the President. Thanks to [...]