Register to participate in Korea Peace Advocacy Week, June 5-9, 2023!
Every year, Korea Peace Advocacy Week brings together hundreds of people around the country to participate in meetings with their members of Congress to advocate for legislation supporting peace in Korea.
Participants of the 2023 Korea Peace Advocacy Week will join two or three half-hour virtual meetings with Congressional staff of their Representative and Senators, sharing personal stories and urging members to support legislation focused on Korea peace. (An online training session will be offered before the lobbying meetings.)
This nationally coordinated action is particularly timely as tensions on the Korean Peninsula are running dangerously high: North Korea recently displayed enough ICBMs to overwhelm the U.S.’ s missile defense system, the United States and South Korea continue to hold provocative military exercises, and South Korea is considering arming itself with nuclear weapons. It’s clear we need a non-military solution to the security crisis in Korea — now.
This year marks the eighth year of coordinated advocacy days for the cause of peace in Korea, and the fourth year of it being held online.
More details to come.
Korea Peace Advocacy Week is organized by American Friends Service Committee, Mennonite Central Committee, and Women Cross DMZ.
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Join us for Korea Peace Action: National Mobilization to End the Korean War, July 27-28, 2023, in Washington, DC.
To mark the 70th anniversary of the Korean Armistice, peace advocates from around the country will converge in the nation’s capital to call on President Biden and Congress to officially end the Korean War and replace the armistice with a peace agreement.
Register here. For more information, click here.
H.R.1369, the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act, introduced by Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), calls for serious, urgent diplomacy in pursuit of a binding peace agreement to formally end the Korean War, a review of the travel restrictions to North Korea, and establishment of liaison offices in the US and North Korea.
The unresolved state of war is the root cause of tensions and militarism in Korea. Decades of pressure-based tactics — in the form of sanctions, isolation, and military threats — have failed to achieve US goals such as denuclearization and improved human rights and, in fact, have only exacerbated the problem. A peace agreement that officially ends the Korean War is the most realistic and effective method for resolving the security crisis on the Korean Peninsula.
Has your member of Congress become a #KoreaPeaceChampion? Email your Representative to cosponsor the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act and support an end to the Korean War!
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Current cosponsors:
Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-32]
Rep. Khanna, Ro [D-CA-17]
Rep. Kim, Andy [D-NJ-3]
Rep. Correa, J. Luis [D-CA-46]
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20]
Rep. Garcia, Jesus G. “Chuy” [D-IL-4]
Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5]
Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12]
Rep. Strickland, Marilyn [D-WA-10]
Rep. Bush, Cori [D-MO-1]
Rep. Jacobs, Sara [D-CA-51]
Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2]
Rep. Blunt Rochester, Lisa [D-DE-At Large]
Rep. Espaillat, Adriano [D-NY-13]
Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7]
Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-28]
Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5]
Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
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Thank you to all those who support peace in Korea!