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Nonviolence Direct Action Training  for Protest and Protection

Nonviolence Direct Action Training for Protest and Protection

Sat Apr 26 11:00 am EDT
Jamaica Plain
It’s Time. To build community. To get grounded. To call on our history of radical nonviolence and civil resistance. To ...
Bye Bye L3Harris

Bye Bye L3Harris

Thu May 1 4:30 pm EDT
Northampton
The rallyers will march from L3 to the Northampton City Hall to speak at the regularly scheduled City Council meeting, ...
May 1: Workers Should Have Power, Not The Billionaires!

May 1: Workers Should Have Power, Not The Billionaires!

Thu May 1 5:30 pm EDT
Boston
This is a war on working people—and we will not stand down. The billionaires are defunding our schools, privatizing public ...
Volunteer at MAPA’s Table - Wake Up the Earth Festival

Volunteer at MAPA’s Table – Wake Up the Earth Festival

Sat May 3 12:00 pm EDT
Jamaica Plain
The 47th annual Wake Up the Earth Festival will take place on Saturday, May 3rd, 2025, from 12 PM to ...
Rematriating Stolen Land and Bringing History and Culture Forward: Indigenous Reparations 2025

Rematriating Stolen Land and Bringing History and Culture Forward: Indigenous Reparations 2025

Thu May 8 7:00 pm EDT
What can indigenous solidarity allies and activists do to help redress centuries of injury and loss to tribal peoples? Giving ...
MAPA Annual Meeting 2025

MAPA Annual Meeting 2025

Sat May 10 2:00 pm EDT
Cambridge
MAPA's Annual Meeting on Saturday May 10th is open to all dues paying members.  New members are also welcome!  This ...
Concert for Gaza: Carsie Blanton

Concert for Gaza: Carsie Blanton

Fri May 16 12:00 am EDT
Cambridge
A fundraiser for the Middle East Children's Alliance ...
The Russo-Ukrainian War, Diplomacy, and the Peace Movement

The Russo-Ukrainian War, Diplomacy, and the Peace Movement

Tue May 20 1:00 pm EDT
Register to attend. So much for President Trump’s boast that he would end the Ukraine War in a day! Despite ...
Dance for World Community Festival

Dance for World Community Festival

Sat Jun 7 8:00 am EDT
Spread your organization’s mission with Greater Boston’s largest and most popular indoor/outdoor dance event! Feature your organization in front of ...

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Stand Up Harvard!

Stand Up Harvard!

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by Evan Mackay The following is a speech delivered by Evan Mackay on Saturday April 12th at the Stand Up Harvard! demonstration held by the Cambridge City Council. — When I say people you say power people power people power When I say fight, you say win, fight, win, fight, … Read More
Israel Advances its Military Strategy in the Gaza Strip

Israel Advances its Military Strategy in the Gaza Strip

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by Lila Li “This is only the beginning,” warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a televised address on March 18 – the day Israel unilaterally broke the Gaza ceasefire and entered the region into a second period of war that has killed nearly two thousand in just under a … Read More
Massachusetts Peace Activists Lobby on Capitol Hill

Massachusetts Peace Activists Lobby on Capitol Hill

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by Grace Cowell Had I been told a few months ago that I would be celebrating my 20th birthday with the entire Massachusetts congressional delegation on Capitol Hill, I would not have believed it; however, I could not pass up the opportunity to travel to D.C. last week alongside six … Read More
Container ships in the Port of Los Angeles. Photo: Russ Allison Loar/ Flickr

China Tariffs – is this war by any other name?

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by Marcus Breen There is an unfortunate tendency to believe that warfare involves violence, guns, bloodshed and nationalism generated by stupid leaders intent on domination.  Thankfully, in non-violent warfare, only the last criterion applies to the tariff war imposed in the second week of March 2025. Then, President Trump introduced … Read More
In Mexico Industrial and Welfare Development Go Hand in Hand

In Mexico Industrial and Welfare Development Go Hand in Hand

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by Ellen Mass This article is Part Three of a series on Mexico’s history and economic development. You can read Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. — While natural resources extraction increases by national and foreign companies, newly elected Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo maintains that fossil fuels are an economic … Read More
The New Sentinel Intercontinental Missile: Dangerous, Costly and Unnecessary

The New Sentinel Intercontinental Missile: Dangerous, Costly and Unnecessary

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By Nancy Goldner, Jonathan King, and Richard Krushnic The world is awash in nuclear weapons with an astonishing overkill capacity. Just in the US, there are 400 land-based intercontinental missiles, hundreds of nuclear bombs mounted on B52 and B2 bombers, and 14 nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed submarines, , each carrying 24 missiles … Read More