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Abolish Nuclear Weapons

"Will the Nuclear Powers Ever Be Willing to Forgo Their Nuclear Weapons?" -- Lawrence S. Wittner, The Asia-Pacific Journal, February 15, 2021 Abstract: This article examines the reluctance of nuclear-armed nations to divest themselves of their nuclear weapons. After the U.S. government produced and used nuclear weapons to obliterate Japanese cities in 1945, a nuclear arms race ensued among a limited number of… + Read More

Ceasefire NJ

Click here for a flyer about Ceasefire NJ and our successes! A Project of the Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA) May 25, 2022 Dear Editor, We are once again faced with a horrifying mass shooting of innocent children, this time at a grade school in Texas. This is predictable and will continue unless we take effective action. We now average about two mass shootings per day in the US.When Australia suffered a mass… + Read More

Diplomacy Not War

There is an urgent need for a diplomatic resolution.By Michael T. Klare The kings, generals, and prime ministers who controlled Europe’s armies in the summer of 1914 didn’t think that their aggressive behaviors—issuing ultimatums, calling up reserves, massing troops on each other’s borders—would result in war. Rather, they believed that their conspicuous muscle-flexing would impel their rivals to back down,… + Read More

Diplomacy Not War

Biden Could Make the World Safer,but He’s Too Afraid of the Politics Plublished in The New York Times May 9, 2022 By Peter BeinartMr. Beinart is a journalist and commentator who writes frequently about American foreign policy. President Biden has the chance to avert a nuclear crisis that could push the United States to the brink of war and threaten the coalition he’s built to counter Russia. But he isn’t seizing it… + Read More

Interfaith Network on Drone Warfare

A project of the Peace Action Education FundIn cooperation with the Interfaith Working Group on Drone Warfare The Interfaith Network on Drone Warfare has its own website! Please click here to be redirected to www.interfaithdronenetwork.org. + Read More

No Wars, No Warming

Click here to download a flyer on our No Wars, No Warming campaignClick here for a fact sheet on the connection between nuclear weapons and the climate crisis Climate Catastrophe Letter to the Editor, September 3, 2021 Published in the September 8, 2021 edition of Town Topics Dear Editor, Until recently, instead of referring to benign sounding “climate change,” I had been using “climate crisis.” However, the two… + Read More

Peace Economy

“We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together…you can't really get rid of one without getting rid of the other.” -Rev. Dr. King, 1967"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953 Opinion: To… + Read More