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MAPA Annual Meeting 2024

MAPA Annual Meeting 2024

Sat Apr 6 12:00 pm EDT
MAPA Annual Meeting 2024 Ceasefire Now! Fascism, Liberalism, and the Assault on Gaza Support Human Needs at Home and Abroad; ...
STOP THE GENOCIDE & STAND FOR GAZA - Rallies at Congressional Offices

STOP THE GENOCIDE & STAND FOR GAZA – Rallies at Congressional Offices

Thu Apr 11 12:00 pm EDT
STOP THE GENOCIDE & STAND FOR GAZA Rallies at Congressional Offices Date: Thursday, April 11 Locations and Times Boston - ...
What Can We Learn from Our Forever War in Ukraine with Ambassador Chas Freeman

What Can We Learn from Our Forever War in Ukraine with Ambassador Chas Freeman

Thu Apr 11 7:00 pm EDT
What Can We Learn from Our Forever War in Ukraine with Ambassador Chas Freeman Chas Freeman is a former Assistant ...
More Teaching Less Testing - Virtual National Conference

More Teaching Less Testing – Virtual National Conference

Sat Apr 13 2:00 pm EDT
“More Teaching Less Testing” Virtual National Conference, Sat., April 13, 2:00 – 5:30 pm, 2024 Throughout our nation’s history, access ...
Ceasefire Now Grassroots Advocacy Days

Ceasefire Now: Grassroots Advocacy Days Spring 2024

Tue Apr 16 8:00 am EDT
Washington
Join MAPA on APRIL 16 – 18 in Washington, DC and online.    Congress is hearing from the pro-peace, pro-ceasefire ...
Learning and Mutual Influence of Christians and Muslims, Both Past and Present A Webinar by LUKE 10 with the Iranian National Academy of Sciences

Learning and Mutual Influence of Christians and Muslims, Both Past and Present A Webinar by LUKE 10 with the Iranian National Academy of Sciences

Wed Apr 17 11:00 am EDT
Wednesday April 17th @ 11am ET In the spring of 2020, a group of Americans from multiple Christian traditions came ...
Thomas Suarez: GENOCIDE FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA: Endgame of Israel's 76 Years of Terror

Thomas Suarez: GENOCIDE FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA: Endgame of Israel’s 76 Years of Terror

Thu Apr 18 7:00 pm EDT
Cambridge
Thomas Suarez: GENOCIDE FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA: Endgame of Israel's 76 Years of Terror Thomas Suárez’s work sheds ...
Webinar - Common Security in Northeast Asia After April 10 South Korean General Election

Webinar – Common Security in Northeast Asia After April 10 South Korean General Election

Thu Apr 25 7:00 pm EDT
Webinar: Common Security in Northeast Asia After April 10 South Korean General Election Date: Thursday April 25, 2024 | Time: ...
Volunteer at MAPA's Table for the 45th Annual Wake Up the Earth Festival

Volunteer at MAPA’s Table for the 45th Annual Wake Up the Earth Festival

Sat May 4 12:00 pm EDT
Boston
MAPA Tabling @ 45th Annual Wake Up the Earth Festival Date: May 4th, 2024 | Time: Noon to 5pm Rain ...
Music for Peace: Brahms Birthday Bash

Music for Peace: Brahms Birthday Bash

Sat May 11 7:30 pm EDT
Cambridge
This concert marks the third and final concert of the 2023-2024 Music for Peace series. For our third and final ...

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MAPA Voices: Palestinian Poets' Resolution by Carolyn Cushing

MAPA Voices: Palestinian Poets’ Resolution by Carolyn Cushing

WHEREAS, the house / next door no longer / stands. It’s lying like an old carpet / on the floor of the earth, / trampled by missiles, fat slippers / flying off legless feet; and WHEREAS, every time we leave the house, / it’s suicide. / And each return a … Read More
As Gaza’s Death Toll Rises, Biden’s Poll Numbers Fall

As Gaza’s Death Toll Rises, Biden’s Poll Numbers Fall

by Kathleen Malley-Morrison The Peace Advocate is running a series of opinion pieces about the 2024 elections. We encourage our members and supporters to submit their analyses. We welcome different points of view. – The Editors The cruel and devastating genocide–and ecocide–imposed on Gaza by the far-right government of … Read More
Oppenheimer: Sins of Omission

Oppenheimer: Sins of Omission

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by Craig Simpson Three days after the Oscar sweep of the Oppenheimer bio movie, Massachusetts Peace Action held a webinar with another side of the story. Oppenheimer the film is not an anti-nuclear weapons film. It is a film about a White male scientist who, in his inner mind, … Read More
What is the Way Forward for the Russia-Ukraine War? Understanding our Differences and Potential Common Ground

What is the Way Forward for the Russia-Ukraine War? Understanding our Differences and Potential Common Ground

By Anicca Juraschka Sullivan “Negotiation is never a surrender,” Pope Francis stated in an interview on Saturday, March 9, calling on both Russia and Ukraine to “have the courage of raising the white flag” and to find a diplomatic solution to end the war in Ukraine. While he was applauded … Read More
The Biden Doctrine

The Biden Doctrine

by Hoffmann the Organizer In a recent lead editorial in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman boldly labels the governing philosophy of the era we’re living in: “The Biden Doctrine.”  In that piece he limits the scope of this doctrine to the Middle East, hailing a grand alliance among the … Read More
Poor People’s Campaign Marches on State Houses Across the Nation, Demanding an End to Poverty

Poor People’s Campaign Marches on State Houses Across the Nation, Demanding an End to Poverty

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by Jonathan King On March 2, hundreds of low-income residents, religious leaders and social justice advocates marched from the site of the Boston Massacre at the old State House to the 54th Regiment monument in front of the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill.  The march, ending in a rally, … Read More