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A year after President Obama’s troop surge to Afghanistan, new poll results published yesterday in The Washington Post show that Afghans are less confident in the United States and its allies to [...]

Friends, Please see the trenchant analysis and commentary below by Alicia Godsberg, the new Executive Director of Peace Action of New York State, in response to an op-ed in yesterday’s New [...]

Thank you for voting and supporting Peace Action’s unique Peace Voter work.  We, along with our affiliates, helped thousands of voters get to the polls and educated them about how candidates [...]

Hours remain until the polls open and Peace Action’s organizers, members and volunteers are knocking on doors, making phone calls and doing last-minute campaign work for peace-minded [...]

In July, after the Congressional vote on war funding, Raul Grijalva wrote a blog entitled, A Credit Card for War, But No Cash for Teachers. He said ” We find it unacceptable that this Congress [...]

My interview today with RT. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llO89yVqrHM]

The US Social Forum is an amazing gathering of over 15,000 peace- and justice-mongers in Detroit. The Forum kicked off with a high energy, spirited march into downtown Detroit on Tuesday. Judith [...]

Almost surprised we’re that high. Maybe if we end the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, close Guantanamo, overturn the racist Arizona immigration law, cut military spending and invest in human and [...]

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 [...]

Peace Action of New York State’s first video blog is very cool, and it connects with a scene in the soon-to-be-released feature film Countdown to Zero (more on that soon). Check out the [...]