Peace Action Wisconsin
🎯 Mission
- 🕊️ Abolish war and nuclear weapons and nuclear power.
- 🚫 End military intervention.
- 🏥 Transfer military spending to human needs.
- 🌍 Protect the environment.
- ✊ Oppose exploitation of workers, racism, and gender discrimination.
- 🪶 Respect and support First Nations.
- ☮️ Practice nonviolence as a way of life and the path to a peaceful world.
⚖️ Statement on Social Justice
As a grassroots peace and justice community organization, Peace Action WI is committed to abolishing nuclear weapons and shutting down nuclear power. We work to end militarism, advance social justice, and end environmental racism in the U.S. and across the world.
- For everyone: a world without racism, sexism, and classism; full rights for LGBTQ people.
- Against concentrated power: we denounce multinational, corporate-based systems of inequality.
- Against the war machine: we oppose the military–industrial complex and the influence of arms manufacturers over government and media.
- Self-determination: for Native Americans, women, ethnic minorities, and gender-oppressed people.
- Climate & peace: we link anti-militarism to climate justice and the rights of nature.
- Human rights: we oppose resource and labor exploitation and support rights movements locally, nationally, and abroad.
🕰️ Our Story
Founded as the Mobilization for Survival, part of a 125-member national network for peace, environment, and justice. We opposed nuclear weapons and power, the arms race, and fought to move military dollars to human needs.
Allied with National Peace Action (from the SANE/Freeze movement), one of the largest grassroots peace and disarmament organizations in the U.S.
Became Peace Action WI, focusing on community involvement, peace education, and nonviolence to address war, human rights abuses, inequality, and environmental protection.
📣 What We Do
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🪧 Stand for Peace
Weekly Saturday vigils at noon across Milwaukee; continuing since the invasion of Iraq.
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🗓️ Information & Events
Website updates and calendar; speakers, films, and community meetings against militarism and for social justice.
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📰 Publications
The Mobilizer newsletter, published bi-monthly.
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🏛️ Advocacy
Meetings with elected officials; collaboration with the End the Wars Coalition; mobilizations opposing U.S. wars of aggression.
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🧭 Governance
Member-elected Steering Committee; annual elections each November at our Annual Meeting.
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💚 Community Powered
We’re a 501(c)(3) sustained by volunteers and member donations.
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📬 Contact & Office
Phone: 414-269-9525 | Email: [email protected] | Instagram: Peace.Action.MKE
Peace Action WI, P.O. Box 11126, Milwaukee, WI 53211
Zao Church Milwaukee (across from the UWM Union)
2319 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI 53211
👥 2025 Steering Committee
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Officers
Co-Chairs: Jim Carpenter; Ann Batiza
Treasurer: Pam Richard
Secretary: Chris Breihan
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Members
Harry Targ
Laura Kukor-Shea
Babette Grunow
Chris Broms
James Oldenburg
Stephen Beale
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