Peace
Vets for Peace map next steps to end wars
August 13, 2009Moving from Hope to Action was the theme of the Veterans for Peace national convention last week. The group’s executive director, Michael McPhearson, and other leaders hailed the movement that helped elect the first U.S. president...
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Michigan event launches drive to abolish nuclear weapons
August 12, 2009BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — Imagine if the threat of nuclear weapons and the billions that go to building and maintaining them instead went to provide health care, education and the prevention of global warming. It could become...
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Moms organize for end to nuclear weapons
August 6, 2009Mothers deepen conviction that world is moving towards abolition of nuclear weapons The following is a reprint from Akahata, translated and reprinted by Japan Press, . About 17,500 mothers assembled in Kyoto City last month to...
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Japan peace movement: Moving toward a world without nuclear weapons
August 6, 2009Following is an article published on July 23 by the peace issues team of the Japanese Communist Party’s People’s Movement Commission regarding the 2009 World Conference against A and H Bombs, August 3-9 in Hiroshima and...
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POEM Hiroshima
August 6, 2009On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On Aug. 9, three days later, a second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki....
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