192 Massachusetts leaders from a diverse range of backgrounds wrote today to the Massachusetts Congressional delegation urging them to help advance peaceful solutions to the problems of Syria and the Middle East. “We stand at a decisive moment,” the signers wrote. “It is critical […]
We have kicked off our “Extremists for Peace” Music Video Project and all the pieces are falling into place. We have had our first recording session two weeks ago and we will be back in the studio again tonight. I will be redoing the vocal and we […]
Remarks delivered at Windows into Syria, May 14, 2016 Personally, when I think of the refugee crisis it’s incredibly simple. Yes, the politics behind the crisis in Syria are complicated, but the question of whether or not the US and other countries should accept […]
Remarks delivered by Maha Akkeh at Windows into Syria, May 14, 2016/ My first trip to Syria was in the winter of 1998 – my father had finally received his green card, allowing him to return home to Syria for the first time in […]
Remarks delivered at Windows into Syria, May 14, 2016 This year, as far away people reap what our foreign policy has sown, Islamophobia is breaching the walls of Newton’s rich-white-liberal snowglobe. I start to hear things in the hallways. A girl I know says we have […]
The war in Syria has displaced nearly 16 million and we need to work our hardest to end that suffering! Massachusetts Peace Action is circulating a Community Leaders’ Letter to our Congressional delegation calling for aid to refugees, a moratorium on US arms sales to […]
Our parent organization, Peace Action, a national grassroots organization with its headquarters office just outside Washington in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Peace Action West, its Oakland, California-based affiliate, have been working on a formal, legal merger for over two years. It’s finally done! The merger […]
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