Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives

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History

A number of "peace and justice" organizations joined together in 1985 to form what is now the Long Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives^[1].

Having a permanent, professional peacemaking presence on Long Island makes communication and coordination among the Alliance peace and justice member organizations more effective. And, it enables us to reach and sustain many more Long Islanders in efforts to bring about a peaceful and just world.

Through outreach, education and media, the Long Island Alliance is a center for information and a catalyst for changing and shaping U.S. policies.

Mission Statement

To educate and to activate Long Islanders to bring about disarmament and the abolition of nuclear weapons.

To attain major reductions in military expenditures. both nuclear and conventional: to reallocate resources toward education, jobs. housing, health care, the environment, the infrastructure, and other human needs, and to reorder national priorities.

To seek major reductions in the production of arms for export as well as the end of arms sales to nondemocratic countries.

To alert the public to the dangers of nuclear weapons production and development at Department of Energy plants, environmental contamination and public health risks, and the problem of radioactive waste storage and disposal.

To work to strengthen international cooperation, conflict resolution, and peacekeeping, so as to avoid military interventions.

To work cooperatively with young people. particularly students in our local colleges and high schools, in peace and social justice activities.

To seek social and economic justice for all by working with other organizations whose missions are to eliminate poverty, racism. and other forms of discrimiration, whether based on culture, class. gender, religion, or sexual orientation, and to protect civil and human rights^[2].