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Hiroshima/ Nagasaki 75 Years: A Call to Action
This August, 75 years will have passed since the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Around the world we mark these anniversaries each year — remembering the lives lost and altered forever on August 6 and 9, 1945, raising awareness about the many […]
Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity
Mass. Peace Action Condemns the Execution of George Floyd
Massachusetts Peace Action condemns the lynching of George Floyd in broad daylight by the Minneapolis police. We demand that all officers involved in his murder be arrested and held accountable. Extra-judicial murders by police and police brutality must end now. We stand in solidarity with […]
Middle East Wars
Our Disaster: Why the United States bears responsibility for Yemen’s humanitarian crisis
An entire generation of Yemeni children has suffered the traumas of war, many of them orphaned, maimed, malnourished, or displaced. The United Nations reports a death toll of 100,000 people in that nation’s ongoing war, with an additional 131,000 people dying from hunger, disease, and a lack of medical […]
Nuclear Disarmament
Nuclear Priorities in the Pandemic Era
by Steve Gallant Where should we focus our activist energies as the COVID-19 pandemic kills hundreds of thousands, and the Trump administration threatens to tear up nuclear treaties and to restart nuclear testing? First, let’s assess the dangers and their timelines. COVID-19 has killed 300,000 […]
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Stop the Nuclear Arms Race!
by Jerry Ross Today we face the gravest risks to peace since the run-up to either of the World Wars, and certainly as great a danger of nuclear holocaust as the darkest days of the Cold War. Yet too many people deny the reality of […]
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World Peace and Justice Conference Gathers Online During Pandemic
Calls on Nations to: Abolish Nuclear Weapons; Resist and Reverse the Climate Crisis; Work for Social & Economic Justice by Joseph Gerson It’s not often that organizations as diverse as the Poor People’s Campaign, the International Trade Union Confederation, […]