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‘In this age of the atom bomb, unadulterated nonviolence is the only force that can confound all the tricks of violence put together.’

On April 4, in honor of Dr. King and his visionary ‘Beyond Vietnam’ speech in 1967, 10,000 people marched on Wall Street to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to demand a larger investment in the needs of our communities. Labor, veterans, students, immigrant rights groups, military families, faith-based people, women’s groups, and community groups joined for a lively, vibrant march.

Protest against the financial bailout and the ongoing US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan

More than 300 of the world’s top physicians have called on US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to “end the nuclear weapons era once and for all.”

The World March aims to generate consciousness of the dangerous global situation in which we are living, a situation marked by the heightened probability of nuclear conflict, a renewed arms race, and the violent military occupation of foreign territories. It’s a proposal for an unprecedented mobilization, advanced by the Humanist Movement through one of its organizations, World Without Wars

The Obama administration prefers to avoid using the term ‘Long War’ or ‘Global War on Terror.’

Forty one nations contribute with troops to conform the presence of 56.000 OTAN forces in Afghanistan. The occupation is already eight years old and in many countries of the OTAN it incites less support with every day that goes by.

Movie director is calling on those who work in the United States financial industry to reveal the abuses that led to the global financial crisis

In spite of the obstacles that need to be overcome, new possibilities for nuclear disarmament are appearing on the horizon.

Obama´s administration will present a plan to Russia calling for an 80% reduction in each country’s stockpile of nuclear weapons