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Peace Action is a peace organization formed through the merger of The Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy (SANE) and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign (also known as "The Freeze"). It has mobilized for peace and nuclear disarmament since 1957. As of 2004, Peace Action is focusing on preventing the deployment of nuclear weapons in space, weapons sales to countries abusing human rights, and promoting a new U.S. foreign policy based on common security and peaceful resolution to international conflicts. Jump to: navigation, search The concept of peace ranks among the most controversial in our time. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... ...

Peace Action believes that every person has the right to live without the threat of nuclear weapons, that war is not a suitable response to conflict, and that the United States has the resources to both protect and provide for its citizens. [1]

SANE

SANE was founded in 1957 by Coretta Scott King, Albert Schweitzer, Dr. Benjamin Spock and others in response to the nuclear arms race and the [[Dwight David Eisenhower|with the aim of alerting Americans to the threat of nuclear weapons. A full-page advertisement placed in the New York Times in November 1957 prompted a nationwide response, and by 1958, the membership of the organization had grown to 25,000. SANE was formally incorporated in July of that year. Jump to: navigation, search 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott King (born April 27, 1927 near Marion, Alabama) is the widow of the slain civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. ... Jump to: navigation, search Albert Schweitzer Albert Schweitzer, Etching by Arthur William Heintzelman Albert Schweitzer, OM, (January 14, 1875 – September 4, 1965) was a German theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. ... Jump to: navigation, search Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903–March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. ... The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear weapons between the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The organisation worked for nuclear disarmament through its programs of public education and political lobbying, with the majority of the work in these areas carried out by volunteer members of SANE's local chapters.

In 1960, SANE was named during Senate Committee hearings investigating "Communist Infiltration in the Nuclear Test Ban Movement", leading the organization to expel members of the Communist Party, amid much controversy. Jump to: navigation, search In modern usage, a communist party is a political party which promotes communism, a sociopolitical philosophy based on the particular interpretation of Marxism put forth by Vladimir Lenin. ...

SANE also organized opposition to the Vietnam War, endorsing Eugene McCarthy as the Democratic presidential candidate in 1968 and leading the effort to secure of the War Powers Resolution. Jump to: navigation, search The Vietnam War or Second Indochina War was a conflict between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN, or North Vietnam), allied with the National Liberation Front (NLF, or Viet Cong) against the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, or South Vietnam), and its allies—notably the United States... You may be looking for information about another U.S. senator, Joseph McCarthy. ... The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The War Powers Resolution (Public Law 93-148) limits the power of the President of the United States to wage war without the approval of the Congress. ...

During the 1980s, SANE expanded its work to oppose U.S. military intervention in El Salvador and to end U.S. military aid to the Contras in Nicaragua. Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... ... The Contras (Spanish contrarrevolucionario, counter-revolutionary) were the armed opponents of Nicaraguas Sandinista National Liberation Front Government Junta of National Reconstruction following the July 1979 overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle and the ending of the Somoza familys 43-year rule. ...

SANE merged with the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign in 1987 to form SANE/Freeze. The organization was one of the main U.S. opponents of the Gulf War in 1991. Under the leadership of William Sloane Coffin, the merged organization changed its name to Peace Action in 1993. Jump to: navigation, search 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search C Company, 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment, 1st UK Armoured Division The 1991 Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations mandated by the United Nations and led by the United States. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dr. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. ...

Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign

See also

• Nuclear weapons
• Committee for Non-Violent Action

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External links

• Peace Action official site
• Records of Sane Inc., Swarthmore College Peace Collection