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Defeat Trump's Extreme-Right Billionaire Agenda

Defeat Trump’s Extreme-Right Billionaire Agenda

Mon Jan 20 3:00 pm EST
Boston
Build the fight back movement to defend our communities from the anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and anti-working class policies of the Trump ...
Let This Radicalize You: MAPA Winter Common Read

Let This Radicalize You: MAPA Winter Common Read

Thu Jan 23 7:00 pm EST
The Common Read is a great fit for MAPA members and our interns, past and present. It is especially valuable ...
Reducing the Nation's Spending for Nuclear Weapons

Reducing the Nation’s Spending for Nuclear Weapons

Sat Jan 25 2:00 pm EST
Saturday Jan 25, 2025 Virtual Conference 2:00 - 5:30 pm (EST) The threat of nuclear war is increasing, rather than ...
GAZA IN CONTEXT: The Colonial History that Shaped the Modern Middle East

GAZA IN CONTEXT: The Colonial History that Shaped the Modern Middle East

Sun Jan 26 3:00 pm EST
A 4-part online series Sundays, Jan 5, 12, 26, and Feb 2, 2025, all at 3pm The Israeli war on ...
Yoon’s Failed South Korean Military Coup: Implications For Korea And The World

Yoon’s Failed South Korean Military Coup: Implications For Korea And The World

Wed Jan 29 7:30 pm EST
Register to attend. In early December South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol announced a military coup. Given the Republic of Korea’s ...
A Midwinter Concert of Songs to Change the World

A Midwinter Concert of Songs to Change the World

Sat Feb 1 7:00 pm EST
Cambridge
A Midwinter Concert of Songs to Change the World Saturday, February 1st, 2025, 7pm-9pm The Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, ...
GAZA IN CONTEXT: The Colonial History that Shaped the Modern Middle East

GAZA IN CONTEXT: The Colonial History that Shaped the Modern Middle East

Sun Feb 2 3:00 pm EST
A 4-part online series Sundays, Jan 5, 12, 26, and Feb 2, 2025, all at 3pm The Israeli war on ...
Reporting from the Frontlines of the Massacre

Reporting from the Frontlines of the Massacre

Sat Feb 8 2:00 pm EST
Haggai will talk with us about the latest events in the Israeli onslaught in Gaza, the chances for a ceasefire, ...
Music for Peace: Love Letters from Around the World

Music for Peace: Love Letters from Around the World

Sat Feb 15 7:30 pm EST
Cambridge
Join us this Valentines season for an enchanting program to celebrate love in all its forms. The program features Smetana’s ...
Music for Peace: Athena's Oboe

Music for Peace: Athena’s Oboe

Sat Apr 12 7:30 pm EDT
Cambridge
Staying in the realm of Greek mythology, this April we will honor the Greek goddess of wisdom and mythical inventor ...
Peace & Justice Conversations: Dynamic Community Resistance in West Africa

Peace & Justice Conversations: Dynamic Community Resistance in West Africa

Tue Sep 30 10:00 pm EDT
Register to attend. In West African cities, urban poor families and communities must struggle every day to survive -- not ...

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Boy sitting in the rubble of a destroyed UNRWA school in Nuseirat, Gaza. © 2024 UNRWA Photo

Ceasefire Agreement Promises End to Gaza Genocide

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On the birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA) today welcomes the news that Israel and Hamas have agreed to end the devastating carnage in the Gaza Strip after 15 months of deadly Israeli attacks that killed tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians. The three-phase … Read More
The Persistence of Racial Discrimination Through the Prison Industrial Complex

The Persistence of Racial Discrimination Through the Prison Industrial Complex

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By Grace Cowell As wildfires rage across Southern California, it’s time to give a closer look into the history and roots of systemic racism surrounding a key group on the front lines fighting what have become the most destructive blazes in Los Angeles history: incarcerated laborers.  The California Department of … Read More
UN Human Rights Office Details Israel’s Assault on Gaza’s Hospitals

UN Human Rights Office Details Israel’s Assault on Gaza’s Hospitals

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By Lila Li On December 31, 2024, the U.N. Human Rights Office (OHCHR) released its fourth thematic report, titled Attacks on Hospitals During the Escalation of Hostilities in Gaza.The 23-page document challenges prevailing Israeli narratives used to justify Israeli military operations against Gazan hospitals. Through detailed legal analysis and … Read More
Bah Humbug Begone!

Bah Humbug Begone!

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by Rev Dr Doe West A Rallying Cry for Gratitude from an Indigenous woman in the US of A, 2024 Scrooge! Grinch! Stakes of holly plunging into hearts across the land! The antithesis of visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads! Arrg! The weeping, the gnashing of teeth, the rage, … Read More
Holyoke anti nuclear weapon protest Dec 14, 2024. Photo: Merri Ansara/MAPA

Holyoke Residents Call for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

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by Merri Ansara On Saturday, Dec. 14, around 35 people marched a mile and a half through Holyoke to City Hall calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons and the nuclear threat.  Called by residents of Holyoke, people from a number of nearby towns joined the Holyoke residents, representing … Read More
MAPA Voices: "God in Gaza?" by Peter Kakos

MAPA Voices: “God in Gaza?” by Peter Kakos

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 God In Gaza? Look:   There,  on that hospital floor demolished by OUR bombs,       crowded with patients with no place to flee; Look:     in tents of the displaced masses, fire-bombed at night, children -clinging to IVs- burned alive,      (MAY IT  HAVE BEEN INSTANT!!!); At mass graves, row upon row, in their … Read More