Peace and Disarmament

Eighty years ago, on January 27, 1944, people in the street were hugging each other and weeping with joy. They were celebrating the end of a nearly 900 days brutal siege. Soviet forces lifted the siege of Leningrad after ferocious…

At the beginning of 2024, the world finds itself at an unprecedented juncture in history. A world war is underway, but it is unlike the previous ones. It is not called a world war and might not even be perceived…

January 22nd, 2024 A vigil outside the U.S. UN Mission across from the United Nations with members of Peace Action NY, Manhattan Project for a Nuclear Free World, Pax Christi NY, The Catholic Worker, Veterans For Peace, PSR, and ICAN…

Thousands of people marched in Prague yesterday, 21st January 2024, in solidarity with the Palestinian people and in peaceful protest against the Israeli war actions on Gaza, that have already caused almost thirty thousand deaths (70% of them women, children,…

Historic Assembly of Proven Peace-Creating Technologies of Consciousness Hyderabad, India (15 January 2024): In the largest assembly ever held of experts in consciousness-based technologies for world peace, more than 10,000 meditators gathered for the first two weeks of 2024 at Kanha…

In Haifa today, hundreds of Jewish and Arab protesters demonstrated against the war and for a political solution. The protest was allowed after an appeal to the Supreme Court, after the Israeli police, managed by Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, tried to…

Peace Action NYS and Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World present January 22, 2024, Monday, 10:45AM to 1 PM Near the U.N. in front of the Isaiah Wall (43rd Street and First Avenue) and the U.S. Mission to the U.N.…

Once upon a time, there was a country where prosecutors were respected and respectable people, and to become attorney general you had to have legal soundness, ethical strength and a résumé (not due to who knows what dreadful things) that…

January 22, 2024, marks the third anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). To date, 70 nations have ratified the treaty. NuclearBan.US, on behalf of 120 national, state, and local organizations,…

The persistent refusal to engage in political dialogue on an equal footing between two competing actors is a classic phenomenon when one of the parties feels it has the other in its pocket, that it can do, or mop up,…