15 Facts About Peace Action

Peace Action is a peace organization whose focus is on preventing the deployment of nuclear weapons in space, thwarting weapons sales to countries with human rights violations, and promoting a new United States foreign policy based on common security and peaceful resolution to international conflicts.

Peace Action believes that every person has the right to live without the threat of nuclear weapons, that war is not a suitable response to conflict, and that the United States has the resources to both protect and provide for its citizens.

Peace Action has over 100,000 members who belong to over 70 autonomous affiliate and chapter organizations.

In 2003, Peace Action launched the Campaign for a New Foreign Policy, an initiative to build grassroots support and congressional pressure for a US foreign policy based on human rights and democracy, nuclear disarmament and international cooperation.

Peace Action opposes the US occupation of Iraq as well as any potential future action within that state to impose permanent military bases, any attempt to control Iraqi oil through US government or corporate institutions, or any action on the part of the US government to further influence the domestic policy of elected Iraqi officials.

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In December 2006 Peace Action began a petition to prevent war with Iran; to date there are over 44,000 names.

Peace Action participated in organizing People's Climate March in September 2014.

Peace Action believes war and militarism are interconnected with the climate crisis.

Peace Action has 100 chapters nationwide with a network of over 100,000 paying members.

Peace Action's goal is to organize the nation around issues of peace and justice through protests, congressional action, and lobby days.

Peace Action initiated the Student Peace Action Network in 1995 to bring the voices of young activists into the forefront of the peace movement.

Peace Action was founded as 'SANE' in 1957 by Lenore Marshall and Norman Cousins and others in response to the nuclear arms race and the Eisenhower administration's policies on the production and testing of nuclear weapons.

Also that year, Peace Action joined human-rights groups to stop major weapons sales to Indonesia and Turkey.

In 1999, Peace Action opposed the NATO bombing of Kosovo, which it described as "cruise missile humanitarianism", and founded the National Coalition for Peace and Justice, a body uniting most of the major peace groups in the country.

Also that year, Peace Action commemorated the bombing of Nagasaki by staging a demonstration at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.