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United for Peace and Justice has declared August Nuclear Free Future Month – a month of education and action for a world free of nuclear weapons and nuclear power! Visit www.nuclearfreefuture.org to endorse the Call to Action, access or add to a calendar of events, and view a variety of action ideas and educational resources. [...] Dear Friends of Peace and Justice, United for Peace and Justice – Bay Area has endorsed the New Priorities Campaign, part of the national New Priorities Network. Please take a few minutes to voice your opinion about the budget choices that have been offered to Congress: the GOP Ryan budget, the Obama budget, and the [...] Read The People’s Budget, the Budget of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Fiscal Year 2012! According the to Congressional Progressive Caucus, “The People’s Budget eliminates the deficit in 10 years, puts Americans back to work and restores our economic competitiveness…Responsibly ends our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to leave America more secure both home and abroad…Cuts [...] Jackie Cabasso of the Western States Legal Foundation and the North American organizer of Mayors for Peace attended the US Conference of Mayors last week and filed the following report. Another victory! The US Conference of Mayors, the national association of cities with populations over 30,000 today unanimously adopted a resolution calling on President Obama [...] This week, the House is expected to debate and vote on the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) – the bill authorizing spending for the Pentagon. Call Congress today, using this toll free number 1-888-231-9276.* Urge your representative to support the Lee, McGovern-Jones, and Garamendi amendments to the Defense Authorization Act. Collectively they represent responsible [...] Fed up with the spiraling collateral damage of the drug war and sparked by the torture and murder near Cuernavaca of several young people, including the 24-year-old son of Javier Sicilia, poet, columnist and nonviolence activist, Mexican civil society groups are coordinating nationwide actions May 5 to 8, including a march from Cuernavaca to Mexico [...] This year will mark ten years of U.S. war in Afghanistan. That’s ten years of your taxes paying for war. Now the same people who keep us at war and bailed out the banks and Wall Street (Congress and the president) want to cut important services and programs our communities need. They want to give [...] Afghan Women's Mission Malalai Joya, the acclaimed Afghan human rights activist and former MP, was granted a visa on March 24 by the U.S. Embassy. This allows her to attend the remainder of her U.S. National Tour, including her California visit (see below). Read more at the Afghan Women’s Mission site >> [...] The U.S. Embassy this week denied famed Afghan women’s rights activist Malalai Joya a visa to the United States for an extensive speaking tour that was to kick off on Saturday March 19th. Americans are being denied the right to hear from an on-the-ground activist how the war is affecting ordinary Afghans, especially women. Click [...] As the U.N. Security Council authorized the use of force in Libya, France’s U.N. envoy is predicting imminent military action, while U.S. envoy Susan Rice has warned of “swift and sure…military action.” It’s the job of Congress to ensure that the U.S. does not get pulled into an open-ended war in Libya. However you feel [...] |
   
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