Press Release : Solidarity with Russian War Opponents and Negotiations to End the Ukraine War

For Immediate Release         November 1, 2022 For more information contact:   Terry Provance (202-258-9562; terryprovance@gmail.com) Joseph Gerson (617-216-0576; JGerson80@gmail.com) MORE THAN 1,000 U.S. WAR OPPONENTS EXPRESS SOLIDARITY WITH RUSSIAN WAR RESISTERS and URGE NEGOTIATIONS Representatives of major U.S. peace organizations announced today that more than 1,000 Americans who opposed the U.S. … Read more

Joseph Gerson’s op-ed on Solidarity with Russian Opponents and the Imperative of Negotiations

On November 1, a statement of solidarity with Russians opposed to the Ukraine War was published. It was signed by more than 1,000 U.S. men and women who had opposed the U.S. invasions of Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. At a time when the Ukraine War increasingly resembles the trench warfare of the First World War … Read more

Protest & Survive: CPDCS Statement for Dec.11 International Day of Action Against AUKUS

AUKUS Alliance statement

Protest & Survive: CPDCS Statement for Dec.11 International Day of Action Against AUKUS December 7, 2021  Resistance is the antidote to injustice and tragedy. Today when an accident or miscalculation in the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, the Black and Baltic Seas, or along the Ukrainian-Russian boarder could trigger great power and potentially nuclear … Read more

President Biden and Putin: Re-Imagine and Secure Humanity’s Future

Russia-Statement

We join the world in the hope that the June 16 Geneva summit meeting between Presidents Biden and Putin will be successful. Given that human survival lies in the balance of U.S.-Russian relations and tensions, we need more than an exchange of views and cautious steps to improve strategic stability. For humanity’s sake, we urge … Read more

Israel & Palestine: Stop the Carnage! Cease Demolitions and Evictions.

Ceasefire

Israel & Palestine: Stop the Carnage! Cease Demolitions and Evictions. Statement of CPDCS Board May 15, 2021 The world is confronting yet another round of death and destruction in the Middle East with the ever-present danger of regional Israeli-Palestinian conflict escalating into wider conflagration. Ending the carnage is a moral urgency underscored by images of … Read more

Silence is Consent: Opposing Anti-Asian Racism & Violence

Oppose Racism

Silence is Consent: Opposing Anti-Asian Racism & Violence The Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security condemns all acts of Anti-Asian violence and discrimination, as it does all manifestations of racism.  We are horrified by the March 16, 2021 killing of eight people in Georgia, six of whom were Asian-American women.  We are pained and … Read more

Statement on Common Security

Statement-AEPF

AEPF, IPB conference, Berlin, 23-24 September, 2019. We in the Europe Asia peace movements, resolutely recommend  commitment to the idea of a Common Security. Earlier developed by the Palme Commission (1982), we are re-imagining and proposing Common Security as a peace and justice  instrument as part of a people’s agendaaccepted by all 57 OSCE countries … Read more