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April 30, 2009 UFPJ-Bay Area Meeting

Berkeley Friends Church, 1600 Sacramento St., Berkeley

Meeting notes not available.

BART Actions Marked Tax Day 2009

Budget Banner Depicts US Spending!!
Activists Say Pay Under Protest

U.S. Bugdet Banner, Herbst Theatre, April 14

American Friends Service Committee and United for Peace & Justice-Bay Area

April 14 & 15 – Bay Area activists displayed a banner that depicted the proportion of the federal budget that is used for war [...]

Tax Day Banner 2009

This banner shows how the U.S. discretionary budget is allocated.

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BART Actions Tax Day Press Release

BART Actions Mark Tax Day
Budget Banner Depicts US Spending!!
Activists Say Pay Under Protest

American Friends Service Committee and United for Peace & Justice-Bay Area

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

April 13, 2009

PRESS RELEASE

BART Actions Mark Tax Day: Budget Banner Depicts US Spending!!
Activists Say Pay Under Protest

April 15 – Local seamstress creates 20′ banner that depicts the [...]

April 8, 2009 UFPJ-Bay Area Meeting Notes

AFSC, 65 Ninth St., San Francisco

UFPJ met at the SF Friends Meeting house at 65 9th St. at 5 pm on April 8. The agenda included planning for April 15 actions at the Glen Park and Balboa BART Stations. The actions will include display of a banner graphically depicting the disproportionate amount of the discretionary [...]

Tell Congress You Want Peace and Justice

Representatives and Senators Are Home April 6-20

Call for Visits with Members of Congress

During these two weeks, Congress will be on recess, which means our elected officials will be in their home districts — the perfect opportunity to set up meetings with them. The UFPJ Legislative Working Group, with input from the other UFPJ working groups, has [...]

UFPJ Calls For Diplomacy and De-Escalation in Afghanistan

President Obama announced his decision to send 17,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, on the grounds that ‘the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan demands urgent attention’.

United For Peace and Justice strongly opposes this decision. We urge you to immediately call on President Obama to choose diplomacy, not escalation. We must let [...]

FREE EHREN WATADA

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End the U.S. Army’s Prosecution of Lt.
Ehren Watada

The Justice Department Can Say No
to Army’s Legal Appeal

 

In June 2006, U.S. Army 1st
Lt. Ehren Watada refused orders to Iraq on the grounds that the war was
illegal and immoral.  His court martial in February 2007 ended
in an Army-contrived mistrial.  In [...]