Stories and updates from the CAPA team, partners, and supporters
by Liz Bajjalieh, CAPA Student Network Director | Even as a little girl I couldn’t escape it: what it means to be silenced. Navigating the United States when you’re a Palestinian of the Diaspora is a difficult, complex experience. My
CAPA and our Back from the Brink Coalition partners, including Union of Concerned Scientists, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and others – would like to thank all who helped make this happen, and recognize the leadership of Chicago Alders Maria Hadden
by Charles Johnson, CAPA Organizing Director | Militaries and military alliances are said to protect us. Meanwhile, they facilitate the global spread of weaponry, destruction, displacement, regime change–all while ignoring the rulings of the International Criminal Court. Even the most
By Jacopo DeMarinis We at CAPA UIUC dedicate a lot of our activist efforts to promoting awareness of social and economic inequities, as well as the climate crisis, and campaigning for social justice and action on climate change. As previous
Written by Jacopo DeMarinis, with contributions from Andrew White During the majority of America’s growth periods, Black Americans were given leftovers, broken promises, and even broken bodies. This has been as true of American land-use policies as anything else, and
Chicago Area Peace Action and our Palestinian Human & Civil Rights Campaign wholeheartadly endorse the below statement. Read more about this statement and the grassroots advocacy from The Hill and Middle East Eye The undersigned grassroots and advocacy organizations stand
No New Cold Wars Campaign Statement With the Obama/Biden Administration’s “Asia Pivot” against China, its preoccupation with regime-change in Syria, and its support for a coup in Ukraine, with the Trump/Pence Administration’s racist anti-Chinese trade war, its blatant and illegal intervention in
We believe an important space in the Nuclear abolition discourse has been opened by the coming into force of the landmark Treaty for The Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on January 22, 2021. The opening has been further widened by the
THE U.N. CLIMATE SCIENTISTS PREDICT CATASTROPHIC IMPACTS AS EARLY AS 2040 Last year effectively tied 2016 as the hottest year on record, U.S. and European climate researchers recently announced, as global temperatures continued their relentless rise brought on by the emission
Press released author by Peace Action National Washington, D.C. — May 7, 2020 — In response to the veto by President Trump yesterday of a bill (S.J.Res.68) to reclaim congressional war powers in regards to Iran and the anticipated failure
An Open Letter to Governor J.B. Pritzker and Illinois Lawmakers See it published by The Chicago Tribune A growing number of states are adopting sweeping new climate legislation that will result in eliminating greenhouse gas emissions by or before 2050.
Last year the growing impacts of climate change hit the United States hard. Wildfires scorched California and storms pounded the East Coast. The South saw record heat and the Midwest unprecedented flooding. 2019 was the second warmest year on record
Originally published on Truthout.org | January 12, 2020 | By Hassan El-Tayyab Join us for a Global Day of Protest – No War on Iran! on Saturday, January 25th. Find more details here. As early as this coming week, the
From Peace Action National | By Jon Rainwater Posted November 7, 2019 In Congress, Nuclear Weapons Trump has plans to spend nearly $2 TRILLION over the next 30 years on unneeded and unnecessary nuclear weapons and delivery systems. This makes no sense. This is insane. That’s
