Southeastern Massachusetts has become the center of vigorous pushback against sand mining, a globally occurring extractive and environmentally degrading process. Despite being major stakeholders in the issue, locals have largely been kept in the dark by sand mining companies. Plymouth’s finite natural resources are being […]
By Craig Simpson The Federal Parole Commission has denied Leonard Peltier parole. Tuesday July 2 the FPC dismissed the evidence of his declining health- Diabetes, hypertension, partial blindness from a stroke, despite his nonviolent record in the prison, and bouts of COVID, his age- 80; […]
by Katrina Tummino We need not look far to quell any doubts about the efficacy of grassroots organizing, protests, and resistance. In the first of a four-part series on organizing history (globally and domestically), this article will focus on the Civil Rights Movement which stands […]
By Jeanne Trubek In December 1948, the United Nations General Assembly, by unanimous vote, affirmed that genocide is a crime under international law. It is a crime whether committed in times of peace or war. What do they mean by genocide? According to the United […]
by David Detmold The Massachusetts Senate voted 30 – 9 on Thursday, May 23rd to require Governor Maura Healey to take the next step in the historic process of replacing the violent imagery of the Massachusetts flag and seal. The vote came in the form […]
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, […]
by Craig Simpson Indigenous Peoples Day has become one of the busiest times of the year, as Indigenous activists work toward the end of the celebration of colonialist and mass murder Cristobal Colon. More and more people are learning that this navigator in the late […]
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