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UNITED NATIONS: POLITICAL PEACE CONFERENCE NEEDED! Please sign our petition: Dear United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, On this 70th anniversary of Korea’s division, we urge the United Nations to broker a Political Peace Conference, as called for in Article…

PUBLIC STATEMENT HUMANIST PARTY IQUIQUE HUNGER STRIKE EX. POLITICAL PRISONER OF MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN CHILE On May 16, 2015 representatives of the Humanist Party of Iquique visited Gustavo Masciocchi Leon, former political prisoner of the military dictatorship that is on…

Petitioning Joko Widodo, president of Indonesia Please welcome and accept Rohingya refugees on Indonesian soils Marco Kusumawijaya Jakarta, Indonesia and Dede Oetomo Rohingya refugees will die if they are not first and quickly allowed to land on Indonesian soils, as…

Sixth circuit orders immediate release of Michael, Megan and Greg In an amazing turn of events, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals this evening ordered the immediate release of Megan Rice, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed, the Transform Now Plowshares activists…

Media Alert:  Jews Congratulate Pope Francis Jewish liberals and progressives reacted with enthusiasm to the announcement today that the Vatican will recognize the Palestinian State. Rabbi Michael Lernner, editor of Tikkun Magazine: a Quarterly Jewish and Interfaith  Critique of Politics,…

PRESS RELEASE Workshops on reparations at the WSF 2015 Colonialism Reparation welcomes that reparations for all the peoples who have been victims of colonialism have been included as one of the objectives of the Social Movements Assembly of convergence of…

The Abolition 2000 Annual Meeting took place on Saturday, May 2, during the Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference. It was opened with a moving welcome and greeting sent from the Lenape Center with a call for a new cycle of consciousness to…

The Saami of northern Europe are facing threats from all sides. Timber, pulp and mining companies are crowding into their ancestral land, clearing the boreal forests and destroying their livelihoods. Enough is enough: tell Finland to finally adopt the International…

My name is Bandi Mbubi. When I first came to the UK from the Democratic Republic of the Congo over 20 years ago, I was homesick. I missed my family and the friends I left behind; communication was extremely difficult. Today…

Black Labor, Baltimore Protests link the struggles against wars at home and abroad. An important part of the changing face of the antiwar and social justice  movements is labor, which has stepped forward dramatically.  At the UNAC conference this year…