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Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother

Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother

Sun Jun 4 11:00 am EDT
Boston
with Ann Sebba The life of Ethel Rosenberg, executed 70 years ago even though there was no evidence against her, ...
Stories of the Spirit: The Role of Communities Responding to Extreme Weather

Stories of the Spirit: The Role of Communities Responding to Extreme Weather

Sun Jun 4 4:00 pm EDT
AN INTERFAITH SUMMIT ON HOW TO RESPOND TO CLIMATE CHANGE In the wake of the National Climate Assessment and UN ...
Let's Talk about Crimea

Let’s Talk about Crimea

Tue Jun 6 8:00 pm EDT
Russia’s Foreign Ministry recently summoned US diplomats from the US embassy in Moscow to object to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s comments suggesting the ...
The Military-Industrial Complex and the Suppression of Dissent

The Military-Industrial Complex and the Suppression of Dissent

Wed Jun 7 7:00 pm EDT
Joan Roelofs has been an anti-war activist ever since she protested the Korean War. She is the author of The Trillion ...
"The American Love Affair with Israel is Coming to a Grinding Halt..."

“The American Love Affair with Israel is Coming to a Grinding Halt…”

Thu Jun 8 7:00 pm EDT
Boston
“The American Love Affair with Israel is Coming to a Grinding Halt. Here's Why.” with Phil Weiss & also featuring ...
International Summit for Peace in Ukraine 

International Summit for Peace in Ukraine 

Sat Jun 10 12:00 am EDT
Vienna
PEACE BY PEACEFUL MEANS  International Summit for Peace in Ukraine  Vienna/Austria, June 10th/11th 2023 Location: ÖGB-Catamaran, Johann-Böhm-Platz 1, Vienna 1020; ...
President Kennedy's Vision of Peace -- How It Applies Today

President Kennedy’s Vision of Peace — How It Applies Today

Sat Jun 10 11:30 am EDT
Saturday June 10, 2023 is the 60th Anniversary of President Kennedy's American University speech on world peace. The JFK Peace ...
Fund Healthcare Not Warfare

Fund Healthcare Not Warfare

Sun Jun 11 2:00 pm EDT
Fund Healthcare Not Warfare Second Annual Forum The tragic death toll from the COVID-9 pandemic reveled the deep malfunctions of ...
IMF and World Bank: Tools of Empire: a War Industry Resisters Network webinar

IMF and World Bank: Tools of Empire: a War Industry Resisters Network webinar

Mon Jun 12 8:00 pm EDT
Monday June 12th @ 8:00 pm The International Monetary Fund and World Bank were created after World War II by the ...
Hearing on Automatic Selective Service Registration

Hearing on Automatic Draft Registration

Tue Jun 13 10:00 am EDT
Boston
The State Legislature's Joint Committee on Transportation will hear testimony on two bills in support of automatic draft registration.  The ...
Hearing on Divestment from Nuclear Weapons Companies

Hearing on Divestment from Nuclear Weapons Companies

Tue Jun 13 1:00 pm EDT
The Nuclear Divestment bills (S.1651/H.2480) have been scheduled for a hearing by the Joint Committee on Public Service on June ...
Golden Rule

Golden Rule Visits New Bedford Harbor

Wed Jun 14 12:00 am EDT
New Bedford
The Golden Rule is coming to New Bedford Harbor June 14th, 2023. Join Us! Peace Flotilla! All peace seeking boaters ...

What’s New

MAPA's three strategy areas: preventing great power war; end US wars, occupations, and sanctions; peace economy/ just society.

What is MAPA’s New Priority Campaign Strategy?

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Mass Peace Action Priority Campaign Strategy Massachusetts Peace Action works in Three Major Strategy Areas:

  1. The great powers / geopolitical area includes nuclear disarmament, the threat of great power war, and specifically the Ukraine war, no cold war, the US competitions with Russia and China, and the Korean conflict.
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Consistency and Vision Needed in US-Iran Policy

Consistency and Vision Needed in US-Iran Policy

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By Tom Huf Since the pause or more likely the permanent demise of the Iran nuclear deal and the upsurge of protests over the past year for women’s rights and freedom of speech, the issues surrounding Iran and the whole Gulf region have multiplied. The Biden administration’s strategy of insisting … Read More
The Language of Peace with China

The Language of Peace with China

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By Marcus Breen In the sixth paragraph of the May 4, 2023 Boston Globe obituary for Major General Vincent Stewart, he was remembered as someone who said that China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are “long-term existential threats” to the United States. As Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) … Read More
The Challenges of Mexico’s State Affairs and United States Interference

The Challenges of Mexico’s State Affairs and United States Interference

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by Megan Lee Mexico is essential for relations between the United States and all other Latin American countries. The current state of affairs in Mexico is turbulent due to a rise in cartel control and coyote smugglers that have presented dangers to both migrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border … Read More
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Photo: Ralf1969

Reportback from Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant, Ukraine

by Claire Schaeffer-Duffy Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. Built in the 1980’s, it provided one fifth of the country’s electrical supply pre-war. Once a source of local pride, the plant, now under Russian control, looms large as a regional threat, for … Read More
Biden Sends Troops to the Border as his Doctrine Continues to Create Forced Migration

Biden Sends Troops to the Border as his Doctrine Continues to Create Forced Migration

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by Sunny Robinson As May 2023 comes, so does the end of Covid restrictions and the end  of Title 42, an alleged public health measure used to block immigration. As a result the Biden-Harris administration is about to plunge the U.S. off another cliff of unjust, inhumane, illegal, and racist … Read More