About Us
Our active and vital program is unmatched by any other organization of similar size. We have the ear of our elected representatives, the attention of the media, and the support of thousands of local residents. That’s a formula for grassroots success.
amy-vidcapPPJC has a well-deserved reputation for presenting some of the world’s finest progressive speakers. We offer a free monthly forum on a wide variety of issues – broadcast live on local TV – and host visiting activists from around the globe. Thanks to PPJC, internationally known speakers like Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, and Robert Fisk make sure the Peninsula is a stop on their speaking tours.
With our popular website and email alert list, we keep thousands of people informed of urgent actions, upcoming events, and alternative information and opinions. PeaceandJustice.org features streaming videos of great speakers, over 10,000 archived articles, a community calendar, petitions and more.
We believe democracy occurs every day – when people actively participate in the great decisions facing our country and world. When times call for it, we organize demonstrations (including the largest peace demonstration in the history of the Peninsula), petition campaigns, and vigils. We sponsor Congressional call-in days and meet with our elected representatives. In other words, we use all the tools in the grassroots activist toolbox.
It all adds up to effective grassroots action with a local face.
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- “Such severe sanctions packages that target entire sectors of an economy and produce broad, indiscriminate, and harsh effects on populations are incompatible with basic principles of international human rights law." The post ‘Children Are Dying’: UN Human Rights Chief Demands Trump End Economic Assault on Cuba appeared first on Peninsula Peace and Justice Center.
- In a disastrous decision, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court accomplished a longtime goal of the right-wing: the final destruction of 1965's historic Voting Rights Act. How do we respond? The post Webinar: Judge Cordell on Voting Rights appeared first on Peninsula Peace and Justice Center.
- After Castro Charges, Critics Ask: When Are Indictments Coming for Trump-Hegseth ‘Extrajudicial Murders’? 🏛️"Trump bombs fishing boats at sea, at least once bombed the shipwrecked survivors, and bombed an elementary school, killing more than 165 little girls. And he wants to indict Raul Castro." The post After Castro Charges, Critics Ask: When Are Indictments Coming for Trump-Hegseth ‘Extrajudicial Murders’? appeared first on Peninsula Peace and Justice Center.
- There is a zone of lawlessness around the Oval Office, erected by the Supreme Court when it granted presidents immunity from prosecution if their crimes involved “official acts.” Loot the taxpayers, misuse government power for graft, and you’re off the hook. The post The Supreme Court Has Enabled Trump to Become Profiteer-in-Chief appeared first on Peninsula Peace and Justice Center.
- When President Donald Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held — but just barely. The post 8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections appeared first on Peninsula Peace and Justice Center.
- “We deserve to know our local hospital will be open and ready to treat you in an emergency. In a nation as rich as ours, that’s the least we deserve.” The post California ‘One Step Closer’ to Taxing Billionaires With Enough Signatures to Make Ballot appeared first on Peninsula Peace and Justice Center.
- Trump has requested that lawmakers pass a $1.5 trillion military budget for the coming fiscal year—a nearly 50% increase compared to current levels—while pushing for more cuts to healthcare, housing, nutrition, and education programs. The post ‘They Don’t Seem to Give a Shit’: Trump and GOP Push Food Aid Cuts as Iran War Costs Soar appeared first on Peninsula Peace and Justice Center.
- Green Groups Sue Trump to Stop ‘Exceptionally Risky’ Deep-Water Drilling Project in Gulf of Mexico 🏛️“Offshore drilling is one of the riskiest kinds of oil extraction, but the Trump administration is ignoring the law to allow Big Oil CEOs to endanger coastal communities for the sake of corporate profit." The post Green Groups Sue Trump to Stop ‘Exceptionally Risky’ Deep-Water Drilling Project in Gulf of Mexico appeared first on Peninsula Peace and Justice Center.
- An average American family of four will spend $1,606 dollars on nuclear weapons programs this year, and as a nation we are spending $261,092 every minute on weapons that cannot and must not ever be used without threatening all of humanity. The post Tax Day Realities: Nuclear Weapons and Our Dangerous, Misguided Priorities appeared first on Peninsula Peace and Justice Center.
- “The interest costs alone will add billions of dollars to the total cost of this war,” said Linda Bilmes. “And unlike the upfront costs, these are costs we are explicitly passing on to the next generation.” The post Harvard Expert: Price Tag of Trump’s Illegal Iran War Will Hit $1 Trillion appeared first on Peninsula Peace and Justice Center.