Counter-Summit for Peace & Economic Justice NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is holding a summit meeting in Chicago, May 2012. The NATO summit will be held in conjunction with a summit of the Group of 8 (G8). We, peace and justice activists, will gather at a cou
Click on Image for Full StoryA stunning, powerful, and beautifully filmed tribute to Britain's peace movement. Beating the Bomb was produced by Meera Patel and Wolfgang Matt. Madmoviesonyoutube brought the film to YouTube with this introduction: Beating the Bomb covers 50 years of the Peace movement in Britain against the hi
Click on Image for Full StoryUS Peace Council February 6, 2012 As the drums of a military strike against Iran are getting louder and louder, the leaders of the United States and Israel, in a good-cop/bad-cop style of approach, are trying to present the U.S. and Israeli public opinion with an apparently “inevitable”
Click on Image for Full StoryIf you ask Iranians, they will tell you that the war against Iran has already begun. Some will take you back to 1953, when the US fired its first shot across the bow, taking out a democratically elected government in a CIA coup. Others will point to the political and financial
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Statement of the Coordinating Council of the Green Path of Hope In the Name of God The Green Movement of the People of Iran is a peaceful and civil movement that struggles for the realization of the Iranian people’s historical demands for freedom, justice, independence, development, peace an
Western Hemisphere political leaders 18 years ago began gathering off and on for Summits of the Americas, a project of the U.S. - dominated Organization of American States. The sixth Summit, hosted April 14-15 by President Juan Manuel Santos in Cartagena, Colombia, demonstrated Latin American
A campaign to save the life of an Iranian teacher, Abdolreza Ghanbari, initiated by the Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (CODIR) has brought international pressure to bear upon the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Abdolreza Ghanbari is awaiting execution after hi
"Starting today, Gangjeong is in an emergency situation." The people of Gangjeong Village on South Korea's Jeju Island have been fighting for five years to prevent construction of a naval base on their coastline. Their fight is for the protection of corals and other marine life, the island's na
The U. S. government continues its pattern of abusing the Cuban Five political prisoners. Authorities have been silent on René González' request that he be allowed to visit his sick brother in Cuba for two weeks. González, who finished a 13-year jail term on October 7, 2011, is serving parole in