by Jeanne Trubek On November 15, 2023, about 25 people from Watertown MA and surrounding suburbs attended the November monthly meeting of Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment. The Peace and Common Security Working Group, with cosponsors Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, Back […]
By Jonathan King At the June 11, 2023 Fund Healthcare Not Warfare Forum, attendees heard chilling descriptions of efforts by corporate forces to privatize and monetize health care, both in general hospitals and in the Veterans Administration system. These stories alternated with uplifting accounts of […]
Fund Healthcare Not Warfare The FHCNW campaign has about 7 active monthly members who are working on efforts across the state and country for improving access to healthcare and increasing public health funding. The FHCNW group meets monthly to discuss progress on legislative campaigns, plan […]
Deborah Burger, president of the 225,000-member National Nurses United, delivered a plenary address to 300 people gathered on-line for the annual Reducing the Threat of Nuclear War Conference, hosted by MIT groups and Mass. Peace Action in January 2023. – Jonathan King, conference chair By […]
by Jonathan King In November, the American Public Health Association celebrated its 150th Anniversary at its national Conference in Boston. Every state in the union has a state Public Health Association, all chapters of APHA.The Massachusetts Public Health Association has joined MAPA’s Fund Healthcare not […]
by Jonathan King This article was originally published in Truthout. If United States taxpayers knew that half the income tax dollars they sent to the Internal Revenue Service every year was being spent on weapons, war and war preparation, political support for such programs might […]
By Ryan Kiel Zabel In 2022, defense spending in the United States is drastically high, three times more than the next highest defense spender, China1. A big part of the increase in spending in the twenty-first century has come as a result of the United […]
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