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US Peace Registry – 2024 Additions
ORGANIZATIONS
Community Peacemaker Teams
Founded in the 1980s, CPT is a multi-faith, international organization that trains teams of peace workers in areas of conflict around the world and builds partnerships with local peacemakers to promote nonviolent social changes and transform structures of oppression in Palestine, Iraqi Kurdistan, Colombia, Lesvos, Turtle Island, and other places. Actions include training and workshops that teach de-escalation and nonviolent tactics; Demilitarize the Skies campaign; participation in coalitions that resist militarization, including Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, Apartheid-Free Communities, and other initiatives that seek to end U.S. military expansion; and sending delegations to visit program locations and encourage advocacy efforts in the U.S. and in Europe, including a team in Iraq to protest and denounce the 2003 U.S. invasion, and to accompany migrants in the wake of increased militarization at the U.S.-Mexico border. Other activities include a documentary film about CPT’s work under violent military occupation, a video, and a series of guiding principles. Recipient of the 2023 International Peace Award and US Peace Prize nominee, 2024.
Contact Information:
Muriel Schmid, Administrative Director
Milena Rincón, Program Director
P.O. Box 6508
Chicago, IL 60680-6508
Telephone: 773-376-0550
Email: peacemakers@cpt.org
Website: cpt.org
Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal
Founded in 2022, this organization is a People’s Tribunal meant to inform and empower citizens to oppose militarism, specifically weapons manufacturers using U.S. tax dollars to create war and inflict suffering across the globe, by holding U.S. weapons manufacturers accountable for instigating and perpetuating U.S. wars. Actions include naming as defendants four weapons manufacturers (Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and General Atomics) as representatives of the entire U.S. War Industry, serving subpoenas, and working with lawyers and investigative teams to collect and record testimony from retired military officers, military analysts, journalists, victims, professors, international and human rights lawyers, doctors, and theologians. Testimony videos document U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Gaza, Syria, Somalia, and other countries. The Tribunal has released evidence to the public and distributed to professors nationwide for use in the classroom. Their website offers events, resources, news, webinars, radio interviews, videos, and podcasts. US Peace Prize nominee, 2024.
Contact Information:
Brad Wolf, Organizer
336 North Christian Street
Lancaster, PA 17602
Telephone: 717-468-8101
Email: bradwolf1310@gmail.com
Website: merchantsofdeath.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MDWCT
Rumble: www.rumble.com/user/merchantsofdeath
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (U.S. Section)
Founded in 1915, WILPF members work to create peaceful transformations based on analyzing past historical events and patterns. Their actions focus on challenging root causes of oppression, including racism, militarism, economic disparity, and political disempowerment, and on building and strengthening relationships and movements for justice, peace, and radical democracy. Campaigns and initiatives include Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone, DISARM/End Wars Committee Call For Peace Campaign, Achieving PEACE by getting rid of NATO, Take action to stop the bloodshed in Gaza and Israel! and preparing resource guides including to celebrate the Entry into Force of the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, Move the Money, and U.N. global ceasefire. Other actions include statements and resolutions, a YouTube channel with webinars and playlists, a blog, a magazine, and a newsletter and alerts.
Contact Information:
Darien De Lu, President
P.O. Box 13075
Des Moines, IA 50310
Telephone: 617-266-0999
Email: info@wilpfus.org
Website: www.wilpfus.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/WILPFUS
Twitter: @WILPFUS
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/wilpfus
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