How are Massachusetts taxpayers' $$ being spent? (.pdf)
Find out from CostofWar.com

• Visit IVAW or these links to watch, hear or read about their eye-opening hearings, which were almost entirely ignored by the corporate media. It is up to all of us to make sure they are heard!
• http://www.ivaw.org/wintersoldier/testimony
• http://warcomeshome.org
• http://www.youtube.com/user/ivaw
• On the anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, Mass Peace Action coordinated the delivery of CDs with IVAW's Winter Soldier testimonies on them and packets containing Winter Soldier quotes and coverage to every Congressional office in the state.  Contact your Representative and Senators and urge them to pay attention to the moving accounts and analysis offered by anti-war veterans.
  
• You can also support IVAW's work locally by donating to care packages they will deliver to their comrades on military bases this summer. Contributions can be sent or delivered to: ATTN IVAW, Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA. Email boston (at) ivaw.org for more details and suggested items.   
  

Mass Peace Action and our allies recently published an eye-catching full-page ad in the Boston Metro to raise awareness about the threat of another deadly war, and to build political power to push for the "Peace Option" with Iran.
Check out the ad as it appeared in the Metro - Boston's most widely-read free daily!

Defying International Law, the Bush Administration & Department of Energy propose to keep building nuclear weapons for decades.
Your chance to comment is NOW!
The DOE is conducting a public comment period during which we can raise concerns about the negative consequences on this proposal on global security, nonproliferation, and human and environmental health.

U.S.: $56M Needed To Complete Warhead Study
JOHN T. BENNETT - Defense News - April 7, 2008
The Bush administration has left it up to Congress to determine the fate of a crucial study designed to help military and federal officials determine how the nation might replace its aging nuclear and conventional warhead arsenal.
Full Article

NATO, Russia Reach Land Transit Deal
Peter Baker - Washington Post - April 4, 2008
The leaders of Russia and NATO tried to defuse tensions over missile defense, Kosovo independence and the alliance's expansion in a tense meeting that yielded a conciliatory gesture by Moscow but no major breakthroughs.
Full Article

Navy to Flight-Test Controversial Weapon Next Year
By Elaine M. Grossman - Global Security Newswire
The U.S. Defense Department has notified Congress that it plans to conduct a flight test in fiscal 2009 of a controversial weapon designed to fit on the front end of the Navy’s Trident D-5 missile (see GSN, March 20).
Full Article

Will the Bush Administration's New Nukes Program Bomb?
Brian Beutler - The Media Consortium - April 1, 2008
As the administration continues to condemn countries it believes are pursuing nukes, it has sought to develop its own new warheads program despite congressional opposition.Full Article

Important New Statement on the Need for Nuclear Abolition
"In some respects, the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons is like the top of a very tall mountain.  From the vantage point of our troubled world today, we can't even see the top of the mountain, and it's tempting to say we can't get there from here.  But the risks from continuing to go down the mountain or standing pat are too real to ignore.  We must chart a course to higher ground where the mountaintop becomes more visible."

--"Toward a Nuclear-Free World"
By George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn
The Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2008

Mass Peace Action is proud to be a founding member of the new
Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World. Click here for more...
...& check out the YouTube clip the coalition is using to spread the word!

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Yout help is needed more than ever. Thank you!

Teen Empowerment's 16th Annual 
Boston Youth Peace Conference.  
Saturday, May 10 from 1:00-5:00 PM at Strand Theater,
Dorchester.  Focusing on discrepancies in educational
opportunities for inner-city and suburban youth.  More info

Book Reading & Presentation with Sandy 
Tolan, Author of The Lemon Tree: An Arab, 
A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
Tuesday, May 13 at 7:00 PM at the YMCA, 820 Mass Ave,
Central Square, Cambridge.  Free & open to the public.
For reservations (accepted until 6:45 PM that day), call the 
Cambridge Peace Commission (617-349-4694) or email

Planetwalker-Environmentalist John 
Francis Speaks at Cambridge Forum
Wednesday, May 14 at 7:30 PM at 3 Church St,
Harvard Square.  Co-sponsored by Lesley 
University, Green Sanctuary, and the Cambridge 
Peace Commission.  More info about Planetwalk 

Help support a Mass Peace Action delegate traveling to China and Japan to meet with allied peace, diplomacy, and human rights groups to foster cooperative, sustainable relations across the Asia-Pacific region. Click here to learn more about the delegation and here and here to learn about the "Global Article 9 Conference for the Abolition of War"--in which Angela will be participating in Tokyo.

• FIVE YEARS TOO MANY!

• Mass Peace Action and allies organized several powerful events to mark five years since the invasion of Iraq, and to renew our commitment to ending the US occupation.  For photos and media, click here.
  
• One of the most important elements of our fifth anniversary organizing was the opportunity to amplify the brave voices of Winter Soldiers - Iraq Veterans Against the War who testified publicly about the true horrors of the war and occupations.

• Friday, Jan. 11th: International Day of Action to End Torture and Shut Down Guantanamo Bay Prison
  
  
  
• NEW ENGLAND UNITED RALLY
• Thanks to all who made the Oct. 27, 2007 United Peace Rally a Great Success!!
  Learn more and get involved:
  National Oct. 27th Action Site
  New England United Action Site
  Photos and video from the event.
  Links to Other Past Events:
  
• Scott Ritter Speaking Tour
• Forum on Militarism with James Carroll
• Scott Ritter and Jimmy Tingle!
  
• Start the Music, Stop the War!
• Iraqi Labor Leaders Visit Boston
• Mass Peace Action's 50th Anniversary Celebration

In 2007, Peace Action Turned 50!
 

Thanks to all who joined us to celebrate last Spring!

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Massachusetts Peace Action is the state-wide
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Mass Peace Action is also proud to support youth empowerment against nukes in collaboration with


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