Overview

Our Goals North Carolina Peace Action is a state affiliate of Peace Action, the nations largest grass-roots peace organization with over 80000 members and 27 chapters. The goals of Peace Action are to: Abolish Nuclear Weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. Halt the sale of conventional weapons by the US government and corporations to nations which abuse the human rights of their citizens. (The US is the world's largest arms dealer) Reduce military spending and increase spending for human and community needs- healthcare, housing, education, environmental protection, public transportation, and community economic development. Solve international conflict through diplomacy not war.

 

We Are Effective

For over forty years, Peace Action has effectively mobilized the movement for peace and justice.

Peace Action was born in 1957 as Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy when visionary leaders including Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Benjamin Spock and Albert Schweitzer first recognized the danger of the nuclear threat. Later, Sane merged with the FREEZE movement's strength of millions of concerned citizens organized at the community and state levels to oppose the alarming nuclear arms build-up of the 1980s.

Today we are the nation's largest grassroots peace and justice organization. Peace Action chapter activists, members, and staff are committed to abolishing nuclear weapons, ending U.S. weapon sales to human rights abusers, and eliminating Pentagon pork to fund community investment.

We get results. From the 1963 treaty to ban above ground nuclear testing to the 1996 signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, from ending the war in Vietnam to blocking weapon sales to Indonesia and Turkey, we have carried on the tradition of our visionary founders.

Our vision is clear. Our goals are set high. We need your help to make our goals a reality. Please join us. On Peace Action's 40th anniversary, Representative Ron Dellums received the Peace Maker Award. Dellums earned this award for his 30 year of public service in the Congress where he was one of Peace Action's strongest allies.

Abolish Nuclear Weapons

The U.S. government is planning to start the new millennium by building 80 new nuclear weapons every year. Peace Action is a leader in the international movement to permanently abolish nuclear weapons. Our protests at nuclear lab sites and grassroots organizing mobilize the public opposition to nuclear weapons.

Eliminate Pentagon Waste, Fraud and Abuse to Fund Community Needs

Since 1994, Congress has given the Pentagon $30 billion in pork projects that even the Pentagon didn't want. This waste of tax dollars-while one in five children in the United States lives in poverty-is just plain wrong. Peace Action holds members of Congress accountable by exposing their voting records to the public and the media.

End U.S. Weapon Sales,to Human Rights Abusers

In the last decade, the United States has sold weapons to over 160 of the world's 180 nations-with over 50% of those sales to undemocratic governments. Peace Action's campaign to ban weapon sales to human rights abusers rises from the grassroots to the Capitol with delegations, demonstrations and lobbying for legislation.

WE EDUCATE

"Peace Action does a better job of educating about wasteful spending and 'Pentagon pork' than any other group I know."         -Marian Wright Edelman, President Children's Defense Fund

Peace Action is leading the grassroots movement to stop the Bush administration's plans to open the treasury to weapons contractors under the guise of deploying a Star Wars antimissile weapons system

WE ORGANIZE

"Peace Action's work represents the hopes of millions of people around the world suffering from the scourge of war."     -Jose Ramos-Horta, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Peace Action's campaign to expose candidates' positions on key peace and justice issues have reached over 4 million people during the 200 elections. With voter guides, television ads and newspaper ads, our network of citizens held politicians accountable.

WE ACT

"Peace Action's continual grassroots activism is vital to Congressional debate."    --Pat Schroeder former U.S. Representative (D-CO)       

Bernice King was one of dozens of Peace Action member arrested outside California's Lawrence Livermore National (nuclear weapons) Laboratory for taking part in a non-violent action against US plans to resume nuclear testing.

About Peace Action

We're the nation's largest grassroots peace and justice organization. We come from all walks of life, work in all kinds of jobs, and are people of many faiths and many racial and ethnic backgrounds.

Peace Action, formerly SANE/Freeze, has been working for peace since 1957. We've reached millions of people and have shared many successes along the way. We have affiliates in 27 states and 100 local chapters across the country. The growing Student Peace Action Network (SPAN) has chapters on college campuses across the nation. Young and old, we all share a commitment to a more peaceful and just world.

Join us.

N.C. Peace Action, P.O. Box 10384, Raleigh, N.C. 27605

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