As organizations representing millions of people in the United States, we call upon President Biden to end the U.S. role in escalating the extremely dangerous tensions with Russia over Ukraine. It is gravely irresponsible for the president to participate in brinkmanship between two nations that possess 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons.
For the United States and Russia, the only sane course of action now is a commitment to genuine diplomacy with serious negotiations, not military escalation – which could easily spiral out of control to the point of pushing the world to the precipice of nuclear war.
While both sides are to blame for causing this crisis, its roots are entangled in the failure of the U.S. government to live up to its promise made in 1990 by then-Secretary of State James Baker that NATO would expand not “one inch to the East.” Since 1999, NATO has expanded to include numerous countries, including some that border Russia. Rather than dismissing out of hand the Russian government’s current insistence on a written guarantee that Ukraine will not become part of NATO, the U.S. government should agree to a long-term moratorium on any NATO expansion.
Signed by the following organizations:
- Alaska Peace Center
- American Committee for US-Russia Accord
- Arise for Social Justice
- Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests
- Backbone Campaign
- Baltimore Nonviolence Center
- Baltimore Peace Action
- BDSA Internationalism Committee
- Benedictines for Peace
- Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
- Beyond Nuclear
- Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security
- Campaign Nonviolence
- Casa Baltimore Limay
- Center for Citizen Initiatives
- Chapter 9 Veterans For Peace, Smedley Butler Brigade
- Chicago Area Peace Action
- Cleveland Peace Action
- CODEPINK
- Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach
- Community Peacemaker Teams
- Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
- Continuing the Peace Dialogue
- Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, Washington DC
- Eisenhower Media Project
- End the Wars Coalition, Milwaukee
- Environmentalists Against War
- Extinction Rebellion PDX
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- First Unitarian Society - Madison Justice Ministries
- Food Not Bombs
- Foreign Policy In Focus
- Frack Free Four Corners
- Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution
- Global Exchange
- Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
- Grassroots International
- Hawaii Peace and Justice
- Historians for Peace and Democracy
- Interfaith Peace Working Group
- International Tribunal of Conscience
- Just Foreign Policy
- Just World Educational
- Kalamazoo Nonviolent Opponents of War
- Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
- MADRE
- Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
- Maryland Peace Action
- Massachusetts Peace Action
- Metta Center for Nonviolence
- Monroe County Democrats
- MPower Change Fund
- Muslim Delegates and Allies
- National Lawyers Guild (NLG) International
- New Hampshire Veterans for Peace
- New Jersey State Industrial Union Council
- North Texas Peace Advocates
- Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Other98
- Our Revolution
- Pace e Bene
- Parallax Perspectives
- Partners for Peace Fort Collins
- Pax Christi USA
- Peace Action
- Peace Action of San Mateo County
- Peace Action WI
- Peace Education Center
- PeaceWorkers
- People for Bernie Sanders
- Phil Berrigan Memorial Chapter, Baltimore, Veterans For Peace
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Physicians for Social Responsibility, AZ Chapter
- Prevent Nuclear War/ Maryland
- Progressive Democrats of America
- Progressive Democrats of America, Tuscon
- Proposition One Campaign for a Nuclear Free Future
- Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center
- RootsAction.org
- Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin
- San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility
- San Jose Peace and Justice Center
- Sisters of Mercy of the Americas - Justice Team
- SolidarityINFOService
- Traprock Center for Peace & Justice
- United for Peace and Justice
- United Nations Association, Milwaukee
- Veterans For Peace
- Veterans For Peace, Russia Working Group
- Veterans for Peace, Chapter 102
- Veterans For Peace Chapter 111, Bellingham, WA
- Veterans For Peace Chapter 113-Hawai’i
- Veterans For Peace Linus Pauling Chapter 132
- Veterans For Peace - NYC Chapter 34
- Veterans For Peace - Santa Fe Chapter
- Veterans Peace Team
- Western North Carolina Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Western States Legal Foundation
- Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice
- Women Cross DMZ
- Women Against Military Madness
- Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER)
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom US
- Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy
- World BEYOND War
- 350 Milwaukee