The House and Senate are preparing to begin work on legislation to send hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine and impose maximum pressure sanctions on Russia. Weve seen this movie before, and we know that threats and ultimatums dont work, that more weapons dont make people safer, and that punitive sanctions end up hurting the poorest and most vulnerable people.
Russia, the United States, and Ukraine all have a shared interest in preventing war. But this is not the way to do it. A militaristic approach only escalates conflict and increases the chances of war with Russia.
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PJALS has signed onto this Statement on the Ukraine Crisis
As organizations representing millions of people in the United States, we call upon President Biden to end the U.S. role in escalating the extremely dangerous tensions with Russia over Ukraine. It is gravely irresponsible for the president to participate in brinkmanship between two nations that possess 90 percent of the worlds nuclear weapons. For the United States and Russia, the only sane course of action now is a commitment to genuine diplomacy with serious negotiations, not military escalation which could easily spiral out of control to the point of pushing the world to the precipice of nuclear war. While both sides are to blame for causing this crisis, its roots are entangled in the failure of the U.S. government to live up to its promise made in 1990 by then-Secretary of State James Baker that NATO would expand not one inch to the East. Since 1999, NATO has expanded to include numerous countries, including some that border Russia. Rather than dismissing out of hand the Russian governments current insistence on a written guarantee that Ukraine will not become part of NATO, the U.S. government should agree to a long-term moratorium on any NATO expansion.
American Committee for US-Russia Accord
Baltimore Nonviolence Center
Baltimore Peace Action Baltimore, MD
Phil Berrigan Memorial Chapter
Veterans For Peace
Benedictines for Peace
Beyond Nuclear Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security
Center for Citizen Initiatives
Chapter 9 Veterans For Peace, Smedley Butler Brigade
Chicago Area Peace Action
Cleveland Peace Action
CODEPINK
Columbian Center for Advocacy and Outreach
Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, Washington DC
End the Wars Coalition, Milwaukee
Environmentalists Against War
Fellowship of Reconciliation
FINESTE
First Unitarian Society – Madison
Justice Ministries
Foreign Policy In Focus
Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
Hawaii Peace and Justice
Historians for Peace and Democracy
Interfaith Peace Working Group
Interfaith Peace Working Group
MADRE
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
Maryland Peace Action
Massachusetts Peace Action
Muslim Delegates and Allies
NH Veterans for Peace
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
Other98
Pace e Bene & Campaign Nonviolence
Pax Christi USA
Pax Christi USA
Peace & Justice Action League of Spokane
Peace Action
Peace Action WI
People for Bernie Sanders
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Physicians for Social Responsibility, AZ Chapter
Prevent Nuclear War/ Maryland Progressive Democrats of America
Progressive Democrats of America
RootsAction
Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin
Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin
San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas – Justice Team
SolidarityINFOService
Track Free Four Corners
Traprock Center for Peace & Justice
United for Peace and Justice
Veterans For Peace
Veterans For Peace – NYC Chapter 34
Veterans For Peace – Santa Fe Chapter
Veterans For Peace Chapter 111, Bellingham, WA
Veterans For Peace Chapter 113-Hawaii
Veterans For Peace Linus Pauling Chapter 132
Veterans For Peace, Russia Working Group
Veterans Peace Team
Western North Carolina Physicians for Social Responsibility
Western States Legal Foundation
Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice
Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy
Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER)
World BEYOND War