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How Artists Tackle the Futility of War, with Kathy Kelly (a WIRN webinar)

How Artists Tackle the Futility of War, with Kathy Kelly (a WIRN webinar)

Tue Jan 14 8:00 pm EST
Tuesday January 14th, 8:00pm ET Drawing from paintings, photography, poetry and song, this webinar will feature works of art depicting ...
The Tragedy of the Ukraine War: Compromise or Collapse?

The Tragedy of the Ukraine War: Compromise or Collapse?

Thu Jan 16 7:00 pm EST
Nicolai N. Petro, Professor of Political Science at University of Rhode Island. Author of "The Tragedy of Ukraine: What Classical ...
Our Projects for 2025: Envisioning the World we Want

Our Projects for 2025: Envisioning the World we Want

Sat Jan 18 12:15 pm EST
Greenfield
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Arise and Resist: Organizing for Peace and Justice Under Repression

Arise and Resist: Organizing for Peace and Justice Under Repression

Sun Jan 19 9:30 am EST
Roxbury
Arise and Resist: Organizing for Peace and Justice Under Repression January 19, 2025, 9:30am - 5:00 pm Roxbury Community College, ...
We Fight Back

We Fight Back

Mon Jan 20 11:00 am EST
Washington, DC
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Defeat Trump's Extreme-Right Billionaire Agenda

Defeat Trump’s Extreme-Right Billionaire Agenda

Mon Jan 20 1:00 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...

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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
This Winter is a Great Time to Travel to Cuba 

This Winter is a Great Time to Travel to Cuba 

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By Merri Ansara You have an invitation to join me at the International Conference for World Balance, January 28 to 31st in Havana Cuba.  This will be an extraordinary conference for peace activists and an opportunity for them to get to know what the rest of the world is thinking … Read More
Pipeline Battles and Water Contamination in Massachusetts

Pipeline Battles and Water Contamination in Massachusetts

In the United States, relatively well-off people embedded in the capitalist system do not face housing insecurity, pressing financial struggles, and debt, and are able to live entire lifetimes without truly ruminating on the immense human cost of limitless industrial expansion and colonization. Maintaining comfort and wealth is generally clung … Read More