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UFPJ primarily organizes large-scale protests. The group separates its work into seven issue campaigns: Iraq, counter-military recruitment, global justice, nuclear disarmament, Palestine–Israel, civil liberties –immigrant rights and faith-based organizing. UFPJ's most recent major rally and march was in Washington, D.C., on January 27, 2007.
In order to facilitate organized, determined, and principled opposition to the wars, people have often founded anti-war organizations. These groups range from temporary coalitions which address one war or pending war, to more permanent structured organizations which work to end the concept of war and the factors which lead to large-scale destructive conflicts.
A.N.S.W.E.R. coordinator Brian Becker at a 2007 rally against Israeli occupation. Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER), also known as International A.N.S.W.E.R. and the ANSWER Coalition, is a United States–based protest umbrella group consisting of many antiwar and civil rights organizations. Formed in the wake of the September 11th ...
In 2002, Cagan was among the founders of United for Peace and Justice, a left-wing coalition of more than 1,300 international and U.S.-based organizations opposed to what they describe as "our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire-building." The organization was founded in the months preceding the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
On Sunday, August 28, 2005, Chávez called on the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the matter: "My government is going to take legal action in the United States," he said in a televised speech. "If the U.S. government does not take the necessary steps, we will denounce the U.S. government at the United Nations and the Organization of ...
Fithian was born in 1960 or 1961 [1] and grew up in Hawthorne, New York. During high school, she founded the underground newspaper The Free Thinker. She began her work in the mid-1970s as a member of her high school's student government, where she served as president. [2] She continued advocacy work as president of the Skidmore College Student ...
These organizations include peace and anti-war, human rights, anti-Zionist, and Arab- and Muslim-American groups. [2] Groups against occupation also include Jewish Voices for Peace [1] [3] and Students for Justice in Palestine, [1] among others. Their tactics include education, protest, civil disobedience and lobbying. [4] [5] [6] [7]
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution 377 A, [1] the "Uniting for Peace" resolution, states that in any cases where the Security Council, because of a lack of unanimity among its five permanent members (P5), fails to act as required to maintain international security and peace, the General Assembly shall consider the matter immediately and may issue appropriate recommendations to ...