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Center for Civic Engagement’s Institute for Peace Studies – Hofstra Cultural Center and Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives present: INTERNATIONAL SCENE LECTURE SERIES FALL 2022 WAR IN UKRAINE: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict with Medea Benjamin The author…

Penning this on 9/21/2022, the 41st International Day of Peace; also officially known as World Peace Day as a United Nations-sanctioned holiday, I am honored to contribute my I humbled experiences as a volunteer in the 44th Peace Day Chicago…

“It has been an honor for our company to build the three Ollis Class Staten Island Ferries for the citizens of New York City, marking a bold new chapter in the Staten Island Ferry’s 200-year-old legacy of public transportation,” said…

US special presidential envoy for hostage affairs Roger Carstens is on a case which could lead to freeing Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. Pressure is building on the Biden administration to swap Saab for some American citizens currently incarcerated in Venezuela.…

Julian Assange, has now spent over 1,200 days in a maximum-security prison. If we consider the date of June 19, 2012, when he first sought Ecuador’s protection from the very charges he now faces, he has now been deprived of…

Eleven (11) individuals who were arrested on August 2nd in front of the U.S. Mission calling for nuclear disarmament will appear in NYC Municipal Count on Monday, August 22, 2022. At the press conference the eleven will explain their reasons…

On 5th August 2022, the Bangladesh government re-adjusted the price of all fuels including petrol, diesel, and octane. The readjustment hiked the price of diesel and kerosene by 34 takas to 114 takas, petrol by 44 takas to 130 takas,…

Yesterday, during the early sessions of the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), a number of U.S.-based civil society organizations gathered for a sit-in outside of the U.S. Mission to…

As delegates gathered for the 2nd day of the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, at the UN in New York Peace activists rallied for nuclear disarmament across the Street by the “Isaiah Wall.” By Brendan Fay We rallied and  sang anthems…

Photos by David Andersson Today, on day two of the four-week 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, several hundred people marched to the US Mission from the Isaiah Wall across the street  from the United Nations, passing by the Wall’s quote from the…