Upcoming Events

Join us for a masked and socially distant rally against US sanctions, Saturday, May 30, 1pm-2pm, at the Fresh Pond shopping center parking lot in Cambridge (on your right, going out from the traffic circle).   Another recent peace rally at Fresh Pond brought over 30 supporters. There was much support for sign holders both from travelers and shoppers. SanctionsKill.org has set this week, May 25-31, as an International Week of Action against US Sanctions.  This Cambridge rally will be one of…

Armed militias threaten elected officials in Democratic states, with open Administration encouragement.  As Trump faces potential defeat in November due to his bungling of the COVID pandemic, he is firing inspector generals, assaulting the rule of  law, distributing PPE based on political criteria, and whipping up his reactionary, racist base with ever more explicit threats. Is the United States threatened by fascism, and if so what should the peace and progressive movement do to answer the threat?   What are the…

Whether you can give $5 or $500, our grassroots donors sustain the Resistance Center for Peace and Justice. We're inviting all our supporters to an online evening of music, peace and justice trivia, and story-sharing to build community. We'll share how the Resistance Center has adapted during COVID-19, and explore our plans to make systemic change in our communities that build unity and foster peace. Please join us and consider giving whatever you can! Music by Sad13 Peace & Justice…

Agenda Reverend Dr. Savina Martin, Co-Chair of the Massachusetts efforts of the Poor People's Campaign--A National Call for Moral Revival--will provide an overview of the movement and its national reach and goals. Several impacted presenters will describe their experiences of the inequities in our society laid bare by the COVID-19 epidemic, reflecting on the five evils identified by the Poor People’s Campaign: Poverty, Institutional Racism, the War Economy, Ecological Devastation, and the Distorted Moral Narrative. There will then be small…

Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice, and the Environment invites you to its 41 Annual Meeting that will feature a State Representative Candidates Forum.  Join us to hear from the candidates for State Representative as they share their perspectives on Peace, Justice and the Environment:  Candidates for the 10th Middlesex Massachusetts State  Representative John Lawn   Alison O’Leary, Newton At-Large City Councilor       Candidates for the 29th Middlesex Mark Sideris, President, Watertown Town Council            Steve Owens,…

The Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington is going digital! On June 20th, we will hold the largest digital and social media gathering of poor and low-wealth people, moral and religious leaders, advocates, and people of conscience in this nation’s history. A global pandemic is exposing even more the already existing crisis of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and militarism, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. On June 20, the 140 million…

Korea Peace Now presents a talk by Prof. Bruce Cumings.   Bruce Cumings is Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.  His research and teaching focus on modern Korean history, twentieth-century international history, US–East Asian relations, East Asian political economy, and American foreign relations. His first book, The Origins of the Korean War, won the John King Fairbank Book Award of the American Historical Association, and the second volume of this study won the Quincy Wright…

If social distancing is over and we are able to hold this event, our speaker this year will be journalist and author Stephen Kinzer!  His latest article, "The Coronavirus Pandemic is a Failure of Imagination", ran in the Boston Globe Ideas section on March 22, and concluded: "This pandemic is a wake-up call from the future. It tells us that we need to re-imagine what we mean by the term “security threat.” The scariest threats to human security no longer…