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Peace Action

• Action Alert: Call Your Rep to Cut Pentagon Spending May 12, 2020
  ☎️🗣Call your Reps. to ✂ Pentagon spending Over the last few weeks, we’ve alerted you that the Pentagon is trying to direct funds for COVID-19 relief into its own bloated coffers. In the last three years alone – during a time of relative peace – we have already increased annual Pentagon spending by more than […]
• Once Again Trump Scoffs Congressional War Powers with Republican Help May 7, 2020
  Once Again Trump Scoffs Congressional War Powers with Republican Help Washington, D.C. — May 7, 2020 — In response to the veto by President Trump yesterday of a bill (S.J.Res.68) to reclaim congressional war powers in regards to Iran and the anticipated failure today of the Senate override vote, Paul Kawika Martin, Senior Director for […]
• U.S. Reverses Policy On Use of Landmines May 6, 2020
  On May 6, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) headed a congressional oversight letter with 107 other members of Congress to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper expressing disappointment to the Trump Administration’s reversal of the policy limiting the use of antipersonnel landmines to the defense of South Korea, and seeking answers to […]
• Take Action: Keep COVID Stimulus $$ Away From the Pentagon April 30, 2020
  Congress is putting together additional and much needed stimulus packages in response to COVID-19. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the Pentagon is trying to weasel billions of dollars out of these stimulus bills! All just to keep the mega-profits rolling for weapons dealers and the military-industrial complex. As people here at […]
• U.S. Organizations React to Global Military Spending Report April 30, 2020
  Joint Statement: U.S. organizations react to global military spending report April 27, 2020 Our diverse group of 39 think-tanks, non-profits, faith-based organizations, and advocacy groups based in the United States find the exorbitant amount of money spent on militaries worldwide to be an irresponsible and harmful use of global wealth. The Global Military Expenditures Report […]
• A Myriad of Ways to Wage Peace During These Times April 23, 2020
  As we shelter in our homes to protect ourselves from this global pandemic, we wanted to share some of the many ways you can remain active and impactful in the work for a more peaceful world. Peace Action has long been a leader in organizing international conferences, marches, and rallies around the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty […]
• Peace During Pandemic – Support the Global Ceasefire April 15, 2020
  “The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war.” That’s is what United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres exclaimed as he delivered an appeal to warring parties around the world to lay down arms in a global ceasefire. The United States, which is currently engaged in war hostilities on nearly every continent of the world, […]