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Fourth Annual Day of U.S. Actions  By Judith Le Blanc, Field Director, Peace Action Over 80 activities were organized, for the 2014 Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) in the U.S. [...]

Washington, DC — May 27, 2014 — Despite polling that Americans think that the Afghanistan War was a mistake and is definitely not worth fighting, the Obama administration is poised to announce [...]

Several Peace Action staff and activists, including yours truly, have had the honor to travel to the breathtaking island of Okinawa. In addition to meeting beautiful people and sampling the [...]

Filmmaker John Ankele, a longtime Peace Action member, makes terrific documentaries with peace, justice and environmental themes. Don’t miss this free premiere! Celebrate Mother’s Day by [...]

The peace and disarmament community has lost one of our most eloquent champions, author and activist Jonathan Schell, who died earlier this week from cancer. I had the distinct pleasure of [...]

Last week, because of your continued pressure, 105 Representatives signed a letter to President Obama to support his administration’s efforts to work with the world community and seek a [...]

Last week, we asked you to contact the Senate to oppose new economic sanctions on Iran, which could scuttle the promising nuclear deal and lead to the unthinkable, another Middle East war. The [...]

We’ll have more on this soon, but a New York Times article from Saturday makes very clear the Pentagon, its defenders in Congress and the merchants of death (Lockheed Martin, Boeing, [...]

We helped stop a potentially disastrous U.S. military intervention in the Syrian civil war, but that war rages on. Here is a “peace platform” Peace Action helped craft along with [...]

How is it that the Radical Right can work itself into such a lather over Obamacare but seems content to allow the free-spending Pentagon to continue dispensing hundreds of billions of dollars [...]