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After America Votes: What the Next Four Years May Bring to Gaza, Ukraine, and the Rest of the World

After America Votes: What the Next Four Years May Bring to Gaza, Ukraine, and the Rest of the World

Mon Nov 11 7:00 pm EST
A webinar with Stephen Kinzer November 11 is six days after this most feared of all modern U.S. elections. Perhaps ...
Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind Conversation with the Author

Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind Conversation with the Author

Tue Nov 12 7:00 pm EST
Louise Dunlap is author of Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind, which traces her ancestors' role ...
Call on our Senators: No More Arms to Israel!

Call on our Senators: No More Arms to Israel!

Wed Nov 13 12:30 pm EST
Boston
Israel's genocide in Gaza, carried out with US planes, bombs, tanks, and shells, is continuing to escalate, with now the ...
The Unfolding Middle East War and the New Presidency

The Unfolding Middle East War and the New Presidency

Wed Nov 13 6:00 pm EST
A long Middle East war is on the horizon and we will look at building the anti-war resistance. This webinar ...
Direct Action at War Industry Facilities

Direct Action at War Industry Facilities

Thu Nov 14 7:00 pm EST
An overview of diverse tactics that have been relentlessly hammering the war machine wherever it is found. Who got the ...
Live from Palestine: Ongoing Israeli Genocide and Nakba

Live from Palestine: Ongoing Israeli Genocide and Nakba

Sat Nov 16 1:00 pm EST
As the Israeli Genocide surpasses the 1-year mark, and the ongoing Nakba 76 years, it is more crucial than ever ...
The Role of Resistance in Palestinian Liberation

The Role of Resistance in Palestinian Liberation

Wed Nov 20 6:00 pm EST
New Bedford
Across Western mainstream discourse, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has been subjected to intense vilification. Branding it as “terrorist” or ...
Where Are We Now? And What Does it Mean for Our Movements?

Where Are We Now? And What Does it Mean for Our Movements?

Wed Nov 20 7:00 pm EST
It happened. By hewing to closely to the unpopular Biden and his policies, combined with the forces of lost cause ...
Palestinian Resistance

Palestinian Resistance: From the PLO to Today

Thu Nov 21 7:00 pm EST
Cambridge
Across Western mainstream discourse, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has been subjected to intense vilification. Branding it as “terrorist” or ...
2024 National Day of Mourning

2024 National Day of Mourning

Thu Nov 28 12:00 pm EST
Plymouth
WHAT IS NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING?An annual tradition since 1970, National Day of Mourning is a solemn, spiritual and highly ...
Five Steps to a Sustainable and Peaceable Economy

Five Steps to a Sustainable and Peaceable Economy

Thu Dec 5 7:00 pm EST
  Our current economic system is based on endless growth, despite the climate and human costs. Dr Schor will present ...

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“I voted” stickers in English and Spanish, Virginia, USA, November 2014. (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) photo.)

My Thoughts on the Election

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by Jania James I found out about the election results around 6:30 in the morning with my roommate by my side, and I was hit with a mix of feelings, mostly disappointment, but not entirely surprise. I had a sense this would be the outcome because, in my view, the … Read More
Why Trump Won

Why Trump Won

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by Brian Garvey After an unexpected landslide victory Donald Trump will become the 47th President of the United States and Vice President Kamala Harris won’t.  After elections there is always the temptation among the electorate to give up and check out of politics or to grandstand, based on whether your … Read More
Dropping an “Arms Embargo Now” Banner on Nancy Pelosi

Dropping an “Arms Embargo Now” Banner on Nancy Pelosi

By Katrina Tummino Our greatest asset in this fight relies on numbers and courage. The October 23 protest at First Church Cambridge required both.  Nancy Pelosi arrived on Harvard’s campus to discuss her new book, “The Art of Power.” Her arrival, in my opinion, seemed pretty audacious given the circumstances … Read More
Jeffrey Parente of Vets for Peace and Mohammed Siddiqui, Randy Wurster, Dan McLaughlin and Kathie Malley-Morrison of MAPA brought the antiwar message to a military recruitment event in Braintree, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. MAPA photo/Randy Wurster

Educating Our Future Service Members on the Genocide in Palestine

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On Sunday October 20th, MAPA activists engaged our next generation on the issue of U.S. complicity in violence during an information session organized by Representative Stephen Lynch in Braintree for local high school students interested in military service.  We greeted students and their parents as they entered the session with … Read More
No War with Iran Rally, Watertown Square, June 1, 2019

No War with Iran!

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Following news that Israel is bombing Iran, Iraq, and Syria tonight, Massachusetts Peace Action executive director Brian Garvey released the following statement: “The US should say out of the conflict between Israel and Iran.  Israel is bombing Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen — picking a fight with almost every one … Read More
Still from livestream of Worcester city council meeting October 22, 2024 before audio and video were cut off by the city. Image courtesy of Bill Shaner.

Worcester Multi-Faith Activists Demand City Council Ceasefire Resolution

By Claire Schaeffer-Duffy Over two hundred multifaith activists shut down Worcester City Council on Tuesday, October 22 after the city administration pulled a pro-Ceasefire resolution in a discriminatory application of procedural rules.   The City Council adjourned rather than hear the petition at the meeting for which it had been … Read More