This
year, Peace Action, the merger of SANE and The
Nuclear Freeze, is celebrating fifty years of effectively
mobilizing for peace, disarmament and social justice. Founded
in 1957 as the Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy, we have grown
to become the nation's largest grassroots peace organization,
with nearly 100 local chapters and more than 100,000 members nationwide.
Over the last five decades, we have worked hard to get results:
from the 1963 treaty to ban above-ground nuclear testing, to the
1996 signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; from ending
the war in Vietnam, to blocking weapons sales to human rights
abusing countries; and from stopping recent funding requests for
new nuclear weapons to mobilizing Peace Voters to elect change.
Peace Action and our members and friends have been, and continue
to be, at the forefront of the international peace and justice
movement.