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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...

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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