In the early 1940s, Garry Davis was a rising Broadway star, understudy to Danny Kaye, until he was drafted into World War II and ordered to bomb the city of Brandenburg.
Horrified at the carnage he caused, and mortified by the death of his older brother, Meyer Davis, Jr., whose...
On April 19, six peace activists—including three military veterans—were arrested for trying to block the entrance to a U.S. Air Force base in Holloman, New Mexico, where drone pilots are trained.
One member of the so-called Holloman 6, Denise Sellers, 80, pleaded “no contest” to her charges and was given...
Hideous nature of the war exposed him to ugly realities of U.S. and Western imperialism
On September 1, 1987, S. Brian Willson, a Vietnam veteran, was run over by a train outside the Concord Naval Weapons Station in Northern California while trying to block munitions shipments to the Nicaraguan...
The Maine-Endwell School District in Upstate New York Set a Wonderful Precedent By Hosting a Peace Day on September 21
Children around the world need to be taught that killing brothers and sisters, and fellow humans anywhere is murder and should never be allowed.
In the United States, the vast majority...
Dedicated peace activists are committed to abolishing nuclear weapons amidst looming threat of nuclear war
Thank you for the opportunity to speak at the 2025 World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs.
I bring you greetings and solidarity from civil society movements in the U.S. which have been working diligently for...
The Trump administration’s illegal bombing of Iran and murder of school-children has underscored for millions of people the perils of the U.S. warfare state.
At the end of the Cold War, with the Soviet “threat” gone, the American public had been promised a “peace dividend” by which public money would...
David Hartsough is a legendary peace activist who first amassed an FBI file in the mid 1950s at the age of 15 when he organized a vigil outside a Nike missile plant where he grew up near West Chester, Pennsylvania.
On November 20, Hartsough was one of 75 protesters who...
On September 19, the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee hosted a webinar focused on the significant impact of women in the Vietnam era anti-war movement.
The first speaker, Vivian Rothstein, who was drawn to anti-war activism after participating in the Mississippi Freedom Summer, spoke about her participation in a conference in...
For years, Philipos Melaku-Bello has maintained a peace vigil outside the White House that advocates for the abolition of nuclear weapons and an end to forever wars
Almost every day for more then a decade, Philipos Melaku-Bello has manned a peace vigil across the street from the White House that...
On April 4, 2018—a date symbolically chosen because it is the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination—Clare Grady and six other activists broke into the Kings Bay Submarine base in St. Mary’s, Georgia, the largest nuclear submarine base in the world.
They carried hammers and baby bottles filled...
