The US continues to occupy Syrian territory, stealing its oil resources and blockading grain imports. This has had the effect of starving and freezing Syrians as well as impeding initiatives to unite and rebuild the country. We note that US, Turkish, and Israeli bombing of […]
Most Massachusetts Peace Action directors serve for a 2-year term. The following candidates have been nominated by the Executive Committee for election in March 2021. The election will take place on April 24, 2021 at the MAPA annual meeting. New members running for election Vaughn […]
Mass. Peace Action’s 2021 board election will be held during our Annual Meeting, which will be held as an online meeting on April 24. The Board of Directors is responsible for directing MAPA’s work between Annual Meetings. As Massachusetts Peace Action works to grow and strengthen […]
by Cole Harrison Facebook has reinstated Massachusetts Peace Action’s page and removed the penalties levied against it. A Facebook representative indicated that we had been penalized due to “false positives”, meaning that an algorithm had wrongly identified our posts as hate speech. The one-month penalization […]
Mass. Peace Action organized a study group about the danger of right wing nationalism on February 13 (http://masspeaceaction.org/…/study-action-group…/), and we posted the event on Facebook. The photo we used was taken at the Unite the Right rally in 2017 — the one in Charlottesville when […]
by Cole Harrison and Jackie King After a tumultuous year of global pandemic, economic crisis, racial justice protests, and a violent insurrectionary attempt to overturn the American presidential election, President Biden’s first days in office offer some reason for hope. Progressives should be proud of […]
An updated version of this post can be found here: https://masspeaceaction.org/demilitarize-cambridge-police-department/ by Andrew King Testimony Presented at the Police Militarization Hearing, Cambridge City Council, January 6, 2021. View the video My name is Andrew King and I live at 40 Essex St. Cambridge, MA. I’m […]
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