We develop alternative U.S. policies that promote international cooperation, demilitarization and respect for human rights. We publicize and advocate for these policies through traditional and social media outlets, contacts with policy makers to whom we have access and by working in close collaboration with grassroots organizations.
See below for links to our advocacy oriented work.
By Elizabeth Newhouse
Jun-27-2011 | Conference Report
Elizabeth Newhouse reports on a day-long conference, hosted by CIP and James Early of the Smithsonian Institution, focusing on the significance and challenges of racism in the Cuban national debate... Read More »
By Elizabeth Newhouse
Jun-01-2011 | Report
Elizabeth Newhouse reports on CIP's May 2011 delegation to Cuba. ... Read More »
By Wayne Smith
Apr-11-2011 | Policy Brief
U.S.-Cuba relations - and the Obama administration's standing - received a painful and embarrassing blow when an El Paso jury acquitted arch-terrorist Luis Posada Carriles of all charges, despite the overwhelming evidence against him. ... Read More »
By William D. Hartung
Feb-10-2012 | Article
On Feb. 13 the Obama administration will release the full details of its Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal. Advocates of higher military spending are already spreading cries of alarm... Read More »
By Tom Barry
Jan-26-2012 | Article
Candice Miller, the Republican chair of the House Border and Marine Security Subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee, is effusive in her praise of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), referring to the drones at a March 15, 2011, hearing on Capitol Hill as "fantastic technology" that have proved "incredibly, incredibly successful in theater." As the new chair of the subcommittee that oversees the air operations of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Miller has become one of the leading Congressional advocates of increased domestic drone deployment... Read More »
By William D. Hartung
Nov-12-2011 | Letter
William D. Hartung's letter to the editor: Automatic cuts to military spending are not an ideal approach because they interfere with rational planning... Read More »
Feb-24-12 | Temple University, 821 Anderson Hall, 12th and Berks Street, Philadelphia, PA
Join Melvin Goodman in Philadelphia to discuss the costs and consequences of U.S. militarism... Read More »
Dec-01-11 | Zinger Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, DC
Join CIP and the Latin America Working Group for a conference on the lack of evidence to keep Cuba on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism and its effect on U.S. goals and interests... Read More »
Oct-25-11 | Washington Office on Latin America Conference Room 1666 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20009
Please join us in hearing from four individuals who know about Colombia's illegal surveillance and intimidation of human rights defenders, journalists, Supreme Court justices and others... Read More »
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