Friday Reading Recommendations
A few succinct, powerful articles for you from friends of Peace Action: Code Pink founder and Peace Action Advisory Board member Medea Benjamin on 10 good things about 2015 Korea Peace Network [...]
Action Alert: The Other Existential Threat
It appears President Obama forgot something. In his State of the Union message last night he touched on the need to confront one of the great existential dangers of our time – climate change – [...]
Statement on North Korea's nuclear weapons test
From Christine Ahn, Peace Action Advisory Board member and a lead organizer of last year’s women’s peace delegation to North and South Korea: “It’s a very very unfortunate [...]
Tell Congress: No Poison Pills in the Federal Budget!
October’s temporary budget deal narrowly averted a government shutdown and first-ever US default. But we are not out of the woods from the disastrous “austerity” politics that have plagued [...]
Action Alert: Call the Senate in support of Syrian and Iraqi refugees
Last week, the House of not always so Representative(s) voted for the misnamed American Security Against Foreign Enemies (SAFE) Act, aka the stiff the Syrian and Iraqi refugees bill to put more [...]
Action Alert: Ask your Rep to vote against slamming the door on Syrian refugees
If we don’t mobilize quickly, in the next few days, Congress may shut the door on long-suffering Syrian refugee families. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan told House Republicans yesterday [...]
An Iraq war veteran turned peace activist's powerful Armistice Day message
Tomorrow is Veterans Day, originally Armistice Day, marking the end of World War I. New Hampshire Peace Action Director Will Hopkins is an Iraq war veteran, one with a powerful message we hope [...]
Nuclear Disarmament Program in DC Sunday Nov. 8
All Souls Church, a Unitarian church in Northwest Washington that has long promoted peace and social justice action in the Adams Morgan/Mount Pleasant/Columbia Heights community and in the world, [...]
Petition: Begin negotiations to end the war in Syria
Years of negotiations with Iran paid off. Now we need to see the same commitment and determination from our government to stop the Syrian civil war. We need a political solution, not more [...]
Iran Peace Accord Victory Celebration
On Monday night (Indigenous Peoples Day), Washington, DC area peacemongers from groups including the National Iranian American Council, Institute for Policy Studies, CODEPINK Women for Peace and [...]
