Peace Action of Wisconsin

Peace Action of Wisconsin Wisconsin's largest peace-and-justice grassroots nonprofit organization!

06/05/2025

šŸ§” JOIN US for Wear Orange Weekendā€”a powerful weekend of healing, remembrance, and action to end gun violence šŸ•Šļø

šŸ“… Friday, June 6 & Saturday, June 7
šŸ“ 4422 W Leon Terrace

Come out to honor lives lost, uplift survivors, and call for lasting change. From a Youth led Press Conference and Say Their Names flag display to healing workshops and a community resource fair, this weekend is all about support, resilience and hope.

Questions? [email protected] | 414-220-4780

Letā€™s stand together. Letā€™s .
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05/27/2025

ā€¼ļøIndigenous Lives Are Not Disposable ā€¼ļø
Every day, Indigenous women, men, children, and Two-Spirit people go missingā€”and many are never found.
This is a NATIONAL EMERGENCY.

Weā€™re raising funds for the Waking Women Healing Institute to support:
šŸ§” Emergency safety & housing
šŸ§” Cultural healing bundles
šŸ§” Land-based retreats
šŸ§” Response team services for MMIW/P

šŸ“… Join us Thursday, May 29, 2025
šŸ“ Southeastern Oneida Tribal Services (SEOTS)
šŸ“ 5233 W Morgan Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53220

šŸ‘‰ Support the causeā€”DONATE today:
https://wakingwomenhealingint.betterworld.org/campaigns/donations
Learn more: https://www.wakingwomenhealingint.org/Impacts

Letā€™s honor and protect our relatives.

05/21/2025

Tell Congress: Hold the Line on Pentagon Spendingā€”Invest in Peace and Justice

05/16/2025

Data points often inform budgets and policy. They can also be a tool for transparency. Thatā€™s what happened when Milwaukee County recently released its dashboard showing racial demographics of youth in County corrections. Ninety-six percent were Black. Zero percent were white.

05/16/2025

Opportunity to offer alternatives and comment on the plutonium pit support work planned at Livermore Lab and elsewhere. Plutonium pits are the radioactive cores of every nuclear weapon. Congress has approved new plutonium pit production at the rate of up to 80-120 new pits every year. The physical p...

05/13/2025

An official Citizenā€™s Petition to the FDA has been filed to put important safeguards into motion https://www.regulations.gov/document/FDA-2013-P-0291-0001 where your comments are welcome. Please help support that effort by signing and sharing this SignOn companion petition widely. We must begin to...

05/08/2025

Sign up to join us in participating in our 30 days of daily action for Palestine in the lead-up to Nakba Day, May 15, the day Palestinians mark the ongoing catastrophe of dispossession, occupation and exile.

05/06/2025

The Rev. Dr. William Barber was arrested at the Capitol for praying and challenging the budget bill -- let's support his prophetic witness

04/30/2025

For over two centuries, the Mohican people have carried the memory of Monument Mountain in their hearts ā€” not as a distant symbol, but as a living presence, a place where the voices of their ancestors still rise with the wind, and the old songs linger beneath the canopy of trees.

Now, after 200 years of forced displacement and enduring resilience, the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians has returned home.

In a powerful act of reclamation, the tribe has finalized the $2.5 million purchase of 372 acres of their ancestral homelands at the base of Monument Mountain in western Massachusetts. This is more than a real estate transaction ā€” it is a spiritual homecoming, a restoration of ancient kinship, and a resounding declaration that the story of the Mohican people is not one of loss, but of return.

A Land Steeped in Memory and Meaning

The land, nestled within the Cherry Hill Road area and encompassing the cherished sites of Fenn Farm and Sky Farm, is part of the broader homelands that once stretched across the Housatonic and Hudson River valleys ā€” homelands the Mohican people tended for thousands of years with deep reverence.

When President Shannon Holsey of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band called the parcel ā€œsacred,ā€ she was naming something deeper than geography. This is land where language was born, where food and medicine grew from the hands of grandmothers, where council fires were lit and children were taught to walk in balance with the world. To the Mohican, this land is not a possession ā€” it is a relative.

A Different Way of Returning

ā€œWe are trying to reclaim our ways of being,ā€ said Holsey, ā€œwhich were never based on money.ā€

In this, the Mohican people are leading a new vision of the LandBack movement ā€” one rooted not in ownership, but in relationship. What is being reclaimed is not simply soil and timber, but the sacred systems of life that tie a people to the land: ceremony, language, spirituality, kinship, governance, food sovereignty, and ecological stewardship.

The acquisition, made possible by a $2.26 million state grant and the unwavering support of conservation partners, brings hope not only to the Mohican people, but to all those who believe in justice and renewal. It represents a shift in how we might all relate to land ā€” not as a commodity, but as a teacher and ancestor.

Restoring the Breath of the Land

The Stockbridge-Munsee Band is now taking steps to heal and protect the mountain they have returned to. Environmental surveys and conservation efforts will guide a respectful approach to forest management. The tribe, in reclaiming this land, becomes its steward once more ā€” listening, tending, and restoring in the way their ancestors once did.

This is not a return to the past. It is a movement forward, rooted in the wisdom of the old ways and reaching toward a future in which Indigenous voices lead the healing of the land and the people.

The Mountain Remembers

Long before treaties were broken, long before forced removals pushed the Mohican westward to Wisconsin, Monument Mountain stood as a witness to the sacred relationship between the people and the land.

And now, the mountain welcomes them home.

It is a homecoming that cannot be measured in dollars or deeds, but in the sound of footsteps returning to an old trail, in the songs carried again on the wind, in the planting of seeds that will nourish not just bodies, but spirits.

In a world hungry for restoration, the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians reminds us that the most powerful healing begins with return ā€” to land, to culture, to truth, and to each other.

Tapwe ā€” it is true. They have come home.

John Gonzalez
į‘²į“‚įøįįŸ į’Ŗį¢į‘æ
Standing Bear Network

04/30/2025

One year ago student-led protesters started an encampment at UW-Milwaukee, protesting the war in Gaza. It was one of many such encampments on college campuses across the country. What can be learned from that time and whatā€™s changed in the last year?

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History

Founded as MilĀ­wauĀ­kee MobiĀ­lizaĀ­tion for SurĀ­vival in March of 1977, we were part of a national netĀ­work of national peace and jusĀ­tice groups orgaĀ­nized around the issues of nuclear weapons, nuclear power, the escaĀ­latĀ­ing arms race and the attenĀ­dent decline in fundĀ­ing for human needs. National MobiĀ­lizaĀ­tion for SurĀ­vival grew to include over 125 peace and jusĀ­tice groups before its national office closed in 1992.

In JanĀ­uĀ­ary 1996 we affilĀ­iĀ­ated with National Peace Action, which had been formed from the merger of SANE and the Nuclear Freeze CamĀ­paign. It is the largest grassĀ­roots peace and disĀ­arĀ­maĀ­ment group in the counĀ­try. In 1999 we became Peace Action Wisconsin to reflect our statewide scope and membership.

WorkĀ­ing with a broad specĀ­trum of comĀ­muĀ­nity groups, Peace Action has been in the foreĀ­front of buildĀ­ing coaliĀ­tions around proĀ­gresĀ­sive issues, servĀ­ing as a clearĀ­ingĀ­house for peace activĀ­iĀ­ties and takĀ­ing the lead in orgaĀ­nizĀ­ing local action on interĀ­naĀ­tional issues.

Peace Action Wisconsin owns its own buildĀ­ing, the Peace Action CenĀ­ter, which serves as office space for sevĀ­eral peace, enviĀ­ronĀ­menĀ­tal and social change orgaĀ­niĀ­zaĀ­tions and as a gathĀ­erĀ­ing place for comĀ­muĀ­nity events and meetĀ­ings. The CenĀ­ter offers a resource library and a Peace Store.