by Paul Shannon In October a wave of rage went through the White House and members of Congress when Saudi Arabia joined other major oil producers to cut production, thereby driving the already high cost of oil even higher. Based on his earlier friendly visit […]
By Louise Coleman When I was eleven, my little sister, Leslie, almost died. We had just moved into a creaky old house without any central heating. In Western New York, the frigid January air would seep through every crack and settle down into our bones. […]
by Martin Halpern originally published in Common Dreams Sixty years ago, the world was on the doorstep of a nuclear confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The resort to nuclear weapons in the Cuban Missile Crisis would have led to a nuclear holocaust from […]
(Boston) On Armistice Day, at 10:30AM on Friday, November 11th, the Boston Chapter of Veterans for Peace will gather at the Sam Adams Statue at Slave Trader’s Hall (formerly named Fanueil Hall) for a Peace Vigil, and at 11:00AM ring bells to commemorate the end […]
About 100 Massachusetts residents rallied at six Congressional offices October 14 to call attention to the rising danger of nuclear war and demand Congressional action to keep us safe. The actions were part of a wave of 50 demonstrations nationwide on that day. At each […]
by H. Patricia Hynes Originally published in the Greenfield Recorder The first Armistice Day in 1919 was a celebration of the moment that the brutality of World War I, which robbed 40 million soldiers and civilians of life, ended; and peace began. In 1926, the […]
By Sunny Robinson As we in the United States approach election midterms, we face challenging immigration issues on many fronts. None of what Joe Biden promised – immigration reform, an end to the use of Title 42 as an excluding mechanism, economic assistance that would […]
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