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Religious Leaders Respond to Injustices in Palestine

Religious Leaders Respond to Injustices in Palestine

Sat Mar 22 2:30 pm EDT
Watertown
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Pro-Palestinian Activism: The Road Ahead Amid Political Upheaval

Pro-Palestinian Activism: The Road Ahead Amid Political Upheaval

Sun Mar 23 1:30 pm EDT
You are invited to register for this powerful and timely webinar with co-presenters Rabbi Alissa Wise and Huwaida Arraf. Rabbi ...
A New Generation of Nuclear Lies: Small Modular Reactors and Nuclear Plant Reopenings/ Relicensing

A New Generation of Nuclear Lies: Small Modular Reactors and Nuclear Plant Reopenings/ Relicensing

Mon Mar 24 7:30 pm EDT
Register to attend. Bring your questions to Professor M.V. Ramana, author of Nuclear is not the Solution: The Folly of ...
Peace Prize Women Strive for Peace & Justice

Peace Prize Women Strive for Peace & Justice

Sat Mar 29 11:30 am EDT
Jamaica Plain
What can we learn from them in these turbulent times?: Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961) and Jane Addams (1860-1935) Brilliant Emily ...
Art & Activism: Stickers for Solidarity with Palestine

Art & Activism: Stickers for Solidarity with Palestine

Sun Mar 30 2:00 pm EDT
Cambridge
Join us for a creative and educational workshop where we’ll make stickers and explore the history of art as a ...
Divesting from Israel's Genocide

Divesting from Israel’s Genocide

Tue Apr 1 7:00 pm EDT
Register to attend. Join us on April 1 to learn about: 1. The specific weapons that Israel is employing to ...
Ceasefire NOW Grassroots Lobby Days Training

Ceasefire NOW Grassroots Lobby Days Training

Wed Apr 2 7:30 pm EDT
MAPA is coordinating the Massachusetts delegation for the Ceasefire NOW Grassroots Advocacy Days in Washington, DC. We will be lobbying ...
What About Gaza?

What About Gaza?

Fri Apr 4 6:00 pm EDT
Lenox
Justice Democracy International Law & Freedom in America Understanding Palestine and Israel: Discussion and book signing with author Phyllis Bennis ...
Understanding Palestine and Israel

Understanding Palestine and Israel

Sun Apr 6 2:00 pm EDT
Cambridge
How the Gaza conflict spilled over to affect the U.S. election and the rights of its citizens A Book Talk ...
Current Realities and Prospects for Palestine-Israel

Current Realities and Prospects for Palestine-Israel

Tue Apr 8 7:30 pm EDT
Cambridge
Featuring Palestinian Human Rights Activist ISSA AMRO in discussion with PETER BEINART Suggested donation at the door of $20 for ...
"Deadly Betrayal: The Truth about why the US Invaded Iraq" with Dennis Fritz and Lawrence Wilkerson

“Deadly Betrayal: The Truth about why the US Invaded Iraq” with Dennis Fritz and Lawrence Wilkerson

Fri Apr 11 6:00 pm EDT
Former Air Force command chief master sergeant Dennis Fritz and Colonel (ret.) Lawrence Wilkerson will be speaking at the Community ...

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Israeli Blockade of Humanitarian Aid

Israeli Blockade of Humanitarian Aid

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by Lila Li On Sunday, March 2nd, Israel blocked the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza. A week later, energy minister Eli Cohen announced his decision to shut down Gaza’s electricity supply. Without true leadership, external support, and now essential supplies, the people of Gaza have been left completely … Read More
Slaughter, Shock, and Betrayal: Israel’s Surprise Siege on Gaza Kills 400 and Ends Ceasefire

Slaughter, Shock, and Betrayal: Israel’s Surprise Siege on Gaza Kills 400 and Ends Ceasefire

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by Lila Li On the morning of March 18, Israel launched a surprise siege on the Gaza Strip, killing over four hundred people and putting a unilateral end to the ceasefire not even two months after it began. Over the past two months, even before declaring it was resuming military … Read More
Ireland Stands with Palestine, but Does the Taoiseach?

Ireland Stands with Palestine, but Does the Taoiseach?

by Jeannie Connerney *Taoiseach is the Irish word for head of government or prime minister  “Two psychopaths sitting in front of an open fire in the White House.” That’s how Ruth Coppinger, a member of Ireland’s People Before Profit party, described Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu in February. Coppinger was one … Read More
Columbia Graduate Student Mahmoud Khalil is Disappeared to Notorious Private Prison in Louisiana

Columbia Graduate Student Mahmoud Khalil is Disappeared to Notorious Private Prison in Louisiana

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by Liam Noble At 8:27 pm on March 8th, 2025, Mahmoud Khalil was abducted from Columbia University housing by men who refused to disclose their affiliation, saying, “We don’t give our names.”  Filmed by his eight months pregnant wife, Abdalla, Mahmoud was handcuffed and hauled to an unmarked car. As … Read More
Belgium just had its biggest protest in history – why?

Belgium just had its biggest protest in history – why?

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by Carrie Hou On Thursday, February 13, over 100,000 people in Belgium took to the streets of Brussels to protest the new coalition government austerity plans. Led by unions, who called for a general strike, the protest was one of the biggest in Belgium’s history, halting over 300 flights and … Read More
Slow Motion Ethnic Cleansing in Hebron

Slow Motion Ethnic Cleansing in Hebron

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by Ken Jones This article was originally published in CounterPunch “Tell our story!” the man in the checkpoint cage yelled, in English. He and a crowd of Palestinian Muslim men were jammed together waiting to be checked out, one at a time, by an Israeli soldier in a glass booth … Read More