People all over the world will commemorate the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day, carrying forward the legacy of hibakusha – survivors – who remember the first A-bombed cities. By the end of 1945, around 213,000 people had died from radioactive blasts hotter than the surface of […]
Events of the past few months have exposed deep racist inequities with life and death consequences. COVID-19’s disproportionate death tolls in communities of color and the continued blatant police and extrajudicial killings of black people reached a tipping point with the murder of George Floyd […]
Native American advocates, legislators, and supporters called for the Massachusetts Legislature to pass legislation important to Native Americans at a press conference held on the steps of the State House on Thursday, July 16 at 11 AM. The 3 bills are: 1. Resolve […]
On June 23, 2020, more than a dozen activists braved the extreme heat and held a protest outside Congressman McGovern’s office in downtown Northampton, Massachusetts, to protest the escalation of the deadly sanctions by the US government on Venezuela and the looting of Venezuela’s foreign […]
As members of Mass. Peace Action and of our own faith communities, we invite you to join in the worldwide commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this August, 2020. On August 6 and 9, 1945, U.S. atomic bombings […]
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