Nine million people are suffering in Cuba. Six total blackouts of the entire national grid this year alone, with outages stretching past 20 hours in some provinces. Hospitals rationing care. Ventilators failing. This isn't a natural disaster... it's the direct result of an oil blockade the Trump administration has enforced since January, letting a grand total of one tanker reach Cuban shores in seven months.
In April, 47 senators... a bipartisan bloc... voted for the first time in history to recognize a blockade without a single shot fired as "hostilities" under the War Powers Act. They came up five votes short. Now it's the House's turn, and Americans are not on the fence about this: we oppose a war with Cuba by 64 points to 15, and among people with an opinion, that jumps to 81 percent against. The only thing standing between this blockade and a vote to end it is House leadership's willingness to schedule one.
Add your name now and tell your member of Congress to call the vote on H.Con.Res. 106 ... every signature adds pressure while there's still time to organize before the House returns, and every day of delay is another day of starvation used as a weapon
Join 45+ progressive & faith-based groups to call on Congress to support Korea diplomacy
Last week, over 40 civic society organizations sent a letter calling on Congress to support efforts for diplomacy and dialogue with North Korea and urging Congress to hold the Trump administration accountable to prevent a repeat of the failures of the first Trump-Kim process.
Leading advocates like the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Win Without War, National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Center for International Policy Advocacy, Demand Progress, the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), Just Foreign Policy, the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, among many more signed on. Read the letter in full here.
You can also join our grassroots action to urge Congress to support diplomacy and de-escalation. As the nation that is still at war with North Korea, the United States must act to end its longest war and pursue peace, engagement, and diplomacy. U.S. lawmakers must independently back diplomacy and hold Trump and his administration’s officials to account. Peace cannot wait for another generation.
Join Korea Peace Now! Grassroots Network Monthly National Call this Thursday, September 10 at 5pm PT/8pm ET!
We will discuss the current political landscape and discourse surrounding a potential DPRK-US summit. We’ll also share regional and committee updates. Immediately after, we’ll resume our KPNGN New Member Orientation with part 3. RSVP here!
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Reports now point to a U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding meant to end fighting, reduce the naval blockade, restore commercial shipping, and open a new negotiation period. That makes public pressure more important, not less: Congress must make sure diplomacy is real, transparent, and not used as cover for renewed escalation later.
The Senate just blocked another Iran War Powers push, but War Powers pressure remains essential. Tell Congress: end all unauthorized hostilities, block any new Iran war funding, reject sabotage of diplomacy, oppose weakening amendments, and demand full public accounting of the deal, costs, casualties, and legal authority.
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📌 Ask for
- End all unauthorized U.S. hostilities and naval blockade activity.
- Demand transparency on the MOU, negotiations, costs, casualties, and legal basis.
- Reject any supplemental, reconciliation, or NDAA funding that enables renewed war.
- Protect diplomacy and oppose sanctions or amendments designed to sabotage de-escalation.
Right now the so-called National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 has passed the House and not the Senate but will require more votes in each. The legislation now moving through the U.S. Congress takes major steps to merge the U.S. and Israeli militaries into a single war and genocide machine, potentially eliminating any public notice of or possibility to block U.S. weapons shipments to Israel. The same legislation vastly increases U.S. military spending to a level far above the rest of the world’s military budgets combined.
We are not powerless to stop it. Fortunes are spent on making us think that, and on distracting us from our goal. Even should the entangling of the U.S. and Israeli militaries be stripped from the current legislation, the results of the massive spending increase would be catastrophic.
Cut off the war spending!
The Senate NDAA has been filed with a massive $1.15 trillion defense topline. This is the moment to pressure both chambers: vote no on a bloated war budget, stop Golden Dome and nuclear escalation, and reject any “Department of War” rebrand or policies that normalize permanent militarization.
Keep pressure on the House and Senate to strip Section 224 and any similar U.S.-Israel military technology co-production language from the NDAA. Military “co-development” is not an end to U.S. support for violence; it risks embedding the U.S. and Israeli weapons industries even more deeply together.
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Keep pressure on Congress to oppose Israel’s obstruction of humanitarian aid, support an arms embargo, demand a permanent cease-fire, and stop U.S. weapons transfers used against civilians in Gaza.
Priority House asks: cosponsor and support H.R. 3565, the Block the Bombs Act, and support H.Res. 876 recognizing the genocide in Gaza and calling for accountability. Wisconsin residents in Rep. Gwen Moore’s district should keep asking her office to publicly support both.
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Congress has advanced massive new immigration enforcement funding. The ask now is not just “vote no” — it is to repeal, defund, and block implementation of funding for detention expansion, deportation raids, border militarization, surveillance, and enforcement programs that harm families and communities.
Public money should go toward housing, healthcare, education, food, transit, and community care — not mass detention, deportation raids, border militarization, or surveillance infrastructure.
☎️ Call script
📌 Ask for
- Repeal, defund, or block implementation of ICE/CBP expansion.
- Reject funding for detention, raids, surveillance, and border militarization.
- Demand oversight, public reporting, and enforceable limits on detention and enforcement abuses.
- Move resources into community needs instead.
New U.S. sanctions are worsening Cuba’s fuel, energy, payment, and import crisis. Tell Congress: no U.S. military action against Cuba, no blockade, no escalation, lift the embargo, and stop sanctions that punish civilians.
UNAC and SanctionsKill are also circulating the statement “Cuba is not a Failed State: Cuba is a Besieged State” and are asking groups and individuals to sign and circulate it.
☎️ Senate / House script
A new ICAN report estimates that nuclear-armed states spent nearly $119 billion on nuclear weapons in 2025. Use this moment to demand disarmament, not a new arms race.
Tell Congress to oppose any return to U.S. nuclear explosive testing, reject Golden Dome and wasteful ICBM spending, support diplomacy, and move money from nuclear weapons into human needs.
☎️ Call script
Urge Congress to oppose intervention, coercive escalation, sanctions, blockades, and policies that punish civilians in Venezuela, Cuba, and the wider Caribbean. Demand diplomacy, international law, and an end to regime-change politics.
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