Tag: Summer 2020 Newsletter

Justice for George Floyd! End Police Violence!

June 13, 2020 Jackie Dee King

by Rosemary Kean and Jackie Dee King In the weeks since the brutal public murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, nationwide protests have erupted to challenge police violence and demand transformational changes in policing that amount to a restructuring of what we mean by […]

World Peace and Justice Conference Gathers Online During Pandemic

May 26, 2020 Joseph Gerson

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, […]

Raytheon Wins Contract for New Missile that Makes Nuclear War More Likely

May 21, 2020 Richard Krushnic

by Richard Krushnic The enormously dangerous and expensive upgrading of the US nuclear triad is moving full steam ahead under the Trump Administration. The speed with which contracts are being awarded and work begun on new weapons systems will make it harder for any future […]

Israel must not be allowed to annex West Bank land with impunity

May 21, 2020 Jeff Klein

by Jeff Klein The Israeli government is getting ready to formally annex large swaths of the occupied West Bank, apparently with the assent of the Trump administration. This action would culminate decades of settlement building, land seizures and dispossession of Palestinians in the territories where […]

Organizing for Peace in a Time of Pandemic and Uprising

May 20, 2020 Coleman Harrison

by Cole Harrison Our nation, and the world, has been plunged into a life and death struggle with a deadly virus, and then has been rocked by the biggest mass movement for justice since 1968. For 20 years, we’ve engaged in seemingly endless wars on […]