On Election Day, the American people voted and made their voices heard. We rejected deficit reduction at the expense of working & middle class Americans, the poor & elderly. We ...
Working Groups
Nuclear Disarmament/ Redefining Security Working group
UFPJ’s oldest working group, the Nuclear Disarmament /Redefining Security Working Group (UFPJ-Disarm), ...
Legislative Working Group
War Funding and More – Legislative Working Group: The challenge of UFPJ’s ...
Afghanistan Working Group
UFPJ calls for the U.S. to immediately end the Afghanistan/Pakistan War, ...
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Sign the Jobs Not Wars Petition
Please become a part of this movement to Rebuild our Country – Move our Tax Dollars from the Pentagon to Job Creation and Human Needs. We need a new set of priorities that place the needs of the people ahead of the profits of the privileged. Peace and Justice Groups, Military Families, Veterans, Unions, Retirees, [...]
UFPJ Featured in the NY Daily News!
Grassroots groups unite to petition Obama and Congress: Create jobs, end the Afghanistan war United for Peace and Justice, U.S, Labor Against the War and 54 other groups have signed onto the Jobs Not Wars petition; they plan to send it to the White House and Congress around Inauguration Day Jobs, not wars. That was the [...]
Tell the President and Congress to “take ‘all options are on the table’ off the table”!
Iran has attacked no one, yet both the United States and Israel continue to threaten Iran with a military attack unless Iran agrees to halt uranium enrichment. While it appears that the imminent danger of war has receded, during the Presidential debates, President Obama flatly denied reports that the US had agreed to hold direct [...]
News stories and commentaries on Helsinki 2012 Conference
Announcements made on the Helsinki ’2012 Conference’, British American Security Information Council (BASIC), Nov. 26, 2012 The long-awaited announcements on the delay to the Helsinki ‘2012 Conference’ on a nuclear and other WMD free zone in the Middle East came out over the weekend from the co-sponsors. The appointed facilitator for the conference, Ambassador Jaakko [...]
Sign the Jobs Not Wars Petition!
On Election Day, the American people voted and made their voices heard. We rejected deficit reduction at the expense of working & middle class Americans, the poor & elderly. We rejected more tax breaks for large corporations and the wealthy. Corporations and the wealthy have “raked in” all the benefits while everyone else has suffered [...]
Celebrating 10 Years; Building for Our Post-Election Future
On October 25, 2002 in Washington D.C., more than 70 peace and justice organizations initiated United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ), a new coalition to coordinate opposition to President George W. Bush’s Global War on Terror, at that time focused on the war on Iraq. Over these past ten years, UFPJ has stood in opposition [...]
UFPJ is featured in the Black Commentator
The cover story in the Nov. 1 edition of the Black Commentator praises United for Peace and Justice’s (UFPJ’s) Open Letter to President Obama and the U.S. Congress in support of a UN conference on establishment of a zone free on nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. In his essay, [...]
Vietnam veteran Mike Hastle is arrested at Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza
Twenty-five people, most of them U.S. military veterans, were arrested while laying flowers at a war memorial in New York City Oct. 7. They were engaged in a peaceful vigil to honor those killed and wounded in war and to oppose the U.S. war in Afghanistan as it entered its 12th year. The vigil [...]
UFPJ Joins Coalition on Human Needs’ Letter to Every Member of Congress
The Coalition on Human Needs’ (CHN) — SAVE for All (Strengthening America’s Values and Economy for All Campaign http://www.chn.org/save4all/index.html), is organized around the following 4 principles: – Protecting low- and moderate-income people in budget and deficit reduction proposals. – Preventing multi-year appropriations caps that force harsh reductions in domestic/human needs services and other beneficial programs. – Preventing [...]
UFPJ Applauds Dennis Kucinich for Leading Defeat of Bill in U.S. House of Representatives to Establish Manhattan Project National Park
On September 20, Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich led a successful bipartisan effort to defeat a bill in Congress that would have established a new national park celebrating the technological achievements of the Manhattan Project. The park would include sites in three states including at two currently active nuclear weapons production facilities, Los Alamos New Mexico [...]
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