Jim Anderson is a International Peace & Social Justice Activist. He is deeply engaged in intersectional organizing across issue areas. Jim is the National Co-Chair of Peace Action, President of Peace Action New York State, founding Board member of Campaign for Peace Disarmament and Common Security, Advisor to Reverse The Trend a project of Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Board President of PUSH Buffalo

He is a founding member and organizer of the National Black United Front which led the formation of the Third World and Progressive People’s Coalition which helped organize the June 12th 1982 Disarmament Rally in New York City at the U.N. Jim served as a organizer & leader for the Peace Contingents of both the 2014 NYC and 2017 D.C. Climate Marches. He is the former State Vice President of Citizen Action of New York.

Jim is a Combat Veteran of United States Marine Corps, having served in Vietnam as a machine gunner, and a decorated Honorably discharged veteran. After which he has maintained his working for peace in the world traveling abroad to present at the World Conference Against the Hydrogen and Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima & Nagasaki Japan, and to the France peace group Le Mouvement de la Paix.

He led the 2017 Women’s March to Ban the Bomb, to the U.N. demanding nuclear weapons abolition. He and his organizations have been working with international allies to get nuclear weapons bearing counties to sign on to the International Treaty on The Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which is now international law. He participates in the meetings at the U.N. held by the nations that have signed the Treaty  

He is deeply engaged with organizing young people to grow in their understanding of what they can do. Jim is committed to working to build a world that works for all of us.