PANYS Student Network

02/10/2015

Don't let stage fright keep you quiet. Here's how to wow a crowd:

If you’ve got a presentation to give at work or school, we recommend these talks to help get you pumped up.

11/10/2014

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11/04/2014

http://www.visualnews.com/2012/04/24/visualizing-the-frightening-power-of-nuclear-bombs/

We have all heard about the massively destructive force that is nuclear weaponry, with the astonishing end of World War II to prove it. The world was caugh

10/22/2014

http://www.alternet.org/print/everyone-america-could-go-college-free-amount-money-spent-mideast-wars

The United States is just three weeks into the latest phase of its effort in Iraq against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria—the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria militant group—but already there are calls for it to escalate.

10/08/2014

These are amazing pictures taken at the William Sloane Coffin Jr. Peace Maker award event. Credit goes to Matt Weinstein at Brooklyn for Peace.
http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-jNhSj/

Oct 6, 2014 Peace activists, supporters and friends of Peace Action New York State (PANYS) gathered tonight in the auditorium of Scholastic publishing in Manhattan's Soho neighborhood. They were there to attend the 2014 William Sloane Coffin Jr. Peacmaker Award Gala honoring Jeremy Scahill, founding…

09/29/2014

Peace Action Geneseo members and the Geneseo Environmental Organization marched in support of action on climate change along with 400,000 other concerned citizens of the world. Sustainability and peace are two issues on the spectrum of social justice!

09/26/2014

Today is the first International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons... please share this piece from our friends at Reaching Critical Will. Thanks!

26 September 2014 marks the first ever UN International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. To ensure that this day of commemoration is an indicator of states’ real intention to take action, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is calling on governments to start…

08/22/2014

People have always used violence to settle disputes. And all cultures have always had the idea that there have to be limits on that violence, if we are to pr...

07/15/2014

http://abcnews.go.com/International/israel-gaza-conflict/story?id=24552237

The history of the current outbreak of fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

06/23/2014

IVAW helped organize a press conference in DC last week to say no to military options in Iraq...

WASHINGTON -- As President Barack Obama announced Thursday that military advisers would be sent to Iraq, some veterans of the Iraq War railed against more military intervention in the country, warning that it would add to the violence and destruction. More U.S. intervention will only prolong ...

06/23/2014

There are currently 23 countries in the world that don't maintain an army, and they seem to get by just fine.

06/20/2014

A long, but interesting read...

Despite the nuclear industry’s lavishly-funded propaganda, which claims that nuclear power is at least a partial solution to the climate crisis, there are plenty of reasons why nuclear power ...