United for Justice with Peace

06/22/2021

su***de epidemic

The majority of the su***des are among veterans, according to a Brown University report.

06/11/2021

yes, it would help!

Rooted in Martin Luther King’s legacy, the Poor People’s Campaign pushes against poverty with some lawmakers' support for the “Third Reconstruction.”

04/26/2021

release date coming up - see post from KB Plowshares below

Friends! We have some incredible news to share with you: KBP7 Caremen Trotta is being released from Otisville Prison at 9am on May 18th! He will go into quarantine starting tomorrow until his release on the 18th. After he is released, he will be on home confinement at St Joseph House, his communtiy in New York City.

03/28/2021

The Enduring Nuclear Threat: A Deeper Look; Tuesday, March 30,
5 pm PDT; 8 pm EDT Register at https://tinyurl.com/7umr7u7r

The Enduring Nuclear Threat: A Deeper Look; Tuesday, March 30,
5 pm PDT; 8 pm EDT Register at https://tinyurl.com/7umr7u7r

The recent entry into force of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons brought a welcome positive moment to a bleak disarmament landscape. But none of the nuclear-armed states have joined the Treaty, and all are expanding or modernizing their nuclear arsenals. Peace and justice advocates must respond!

JOIN THE United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) WEBINAR featuring three internationally recognized advocates for nuclear abolition.

Tuesday, March 30, 2021: 8:00 – 9:30 pm EDT; 7:00 – 8:30 pm CDT;
6:00 – 7:30 pm MDT; 5:00 – 6:30 pm PDT

Register at https://tinyurl.com/7umr7u7r

The webinar will provide an update on nuclear weapons policies and programs and an overview of relevant developments in international law. It will also expand thinking on the need to rethink familiar approaches to disarmament and to shift the focus of disarmament advocacy from recognizing the effects of nuclear weapons to analyzing the causes of nuclear arms racing and the risks of war among nuclear-armed countries. How do the same root causes drive many of our most pressing crises?
UFPJ is pleased to host this webinar featuring three internationally recognized advocates for nuclear abolition.

• Jackie Cabasso, Executive Director of the Western States Legal Foundation, based in Oakland, California, since 1984. In 1995 she was a “founding mother” of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, and she continues to serve on its Coordinating Committee. Since 2007 she has served as an Executive Advisor to Mayors for Peace. She is a National Co-convener of UFPJ. Jackie was the 2008 recipient of the International Peace Bureau’s Sean MacBride Peace Award.

• John Burroughs, Senior Analyst for the New York City-based Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP). He has represented LCNP in Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty meetings and negotiations on the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons. His articles and op-eds have appeared in publications including Fordham International Law Journal, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Arms Control Today, Newsweek, and Newsday.

• Andrew Lichterman, policy analyst and lawyer with the Oakland, California-based Western States Legal Foundation. He has represented peace and environmental activists in a variety of settings, and also taught at alternative law schools for many years. He is a member of the United for Peace and Justice Coordinating Committee.

Register at https://tinyurl.com/7umr7u7r

03/22/2021

interesting post from Fire Drill Fridays!

03/12/2021

from Martha Hennessey, one of the King's Bay Plowshares

Martha Hennessy is currently serving her prison sentence at the Danbury Women’s Federal Correctional Institution for her part in the King’s Bay Plowshares. She is a member of the New York Catholic Worker and the granddaughter of its founder, Dorothy Day.

Here is a summary Martha wrote of her first ten weeks in prison:
https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/2021/03/martha-hennessy-summary-of-first-ten-weeks-in-prison/

To write Martha a letter:
Martha Hennessy #22560-021
FCI Danbury
Rt. 37
Danbury, CT 06811

02/25/2021

costs of the forever wars...

Ending endless wars first requires acknowledging their scope. Our new research shows that U.S. post-9/11 wars are now taking place in more than 43% of the countries in the world. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2021/USCounterterrorismOperations

02/25/2021

new map and other material available at costs of war project...

The U.S. is still aggressively tackling terrorism, Costs of War data shows — perhaps in farther reaches of the globe than many Americans realize.

02/18/2021

End military exercises...not needed in a pandemic...or ever...

If the U.S. holds joint military exercises with South Korea in March, it could sabotage prospects for diplomacy.