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SUMMARY:No Kings\, No Warmongering - 10/18
DESCRIPTION:https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/840244/ \nSaturday\, October 1812-3 pm EDT \n \nBoston Common – near Parkman Bandstand \nWear Yellow \nWhile millions lose access to healthcare and schools crumble\, Trump sends billions of US tax dollars to  enable Israel’s genocide and fund ICE to abduct our neighbors. It doesn’t have to be this way. Join the fight for peace. \nJoin with MAPA to stand for peace and Palestine at the Boston No Kings protest.  Bring signs\, banners\, Palestine flags\, and keffiyehs.  Our table will be near the Parkman Bandstand. \nIn America\, we don’t put up with would-be kings. \nThe ACLU-MA\, Indivisible Mass Coalition and Mass 50501 proudly continue working together with allies and you to make our peaceful movement bigger and stronger! “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets\, carried by millions in chants and on posters\, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares\, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together. \nThe president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America\, we don’t have kings\, and we won’t back down against chaos\, corruption\, and cruelty. Grow our movement and join us. \nA core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind\, including those legally permitted\, should not be brought to events. \nIn the Boston area?  Click below to sign up for the peace/ Palestine contingent.  Our info table will be near the Parkman Bandstand\, at position #18 as shown in the map below. \nHere is the flyer we will be distributing. \n \nNot in the Boston area?   There will be hundreds of No Kings protests nationwide on Oct. 18.    Find a protest near you at https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/ and print out your own copies of the flyer to distribute! \n \nBoston Program – Main Stage\nEmcee\nRahsaan Hall\, President and CEO of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts \nSpeakers\nBoston Mayor Michelle Wu \nCarol Rose\, Executive Director of ACLU of Massachusetts \nReverend Mariama White-Hammond \nPerformers\nChadwick Stokes (of Dispatch) \nThe Sheila Divine \nAbbie Barrett \nJonathan Gramling and Toussaint \nGood Trouble Brass Band \nBVocal \nRosie and the Resisters \nSecond Stage Theater\nAmerican Gulag \nA short tragic performance demonstrating ICE’s dehumanizing and cruel intake process\, and depicting an inmate’s daily life in a modern concentration camp. \nSNOW \nA satirical play that mocks the administration’s agents who are currently terrorizing our communities. SNOW encourages audience members to stand with our immigrant neighbors who are under threat and view the agents threatening our communities with the contempt that they deserve. Join us for this depiction of two hapless SNOW agents getting a very Boston (un)welcome as they attempt to encroach upon our liberties. \nCalls to Action\n\n\nProtect our immigrant neighbors who are being profiled\, threatened\, and kidnapped \nJoin a community ICE watch group so agents know we are watching them\, volunteer to assist with vital mutual aid\, bond and legal needs\, and stand out in solidarity at ICE offices. More information from organizations\, including LUCE\, MIRA\, BIJAN\, and Bearing Witness @ ICE in Burlington. \n\n\nFight with your dollars \nHit them where it hurts by boycotting corporations and billionaires that are doing Trump’s bidding. Don’t check out at the checkout; patriotic dissent happens everywhere! \n\n\nHold your Reps accountable \nKeep the pressure on and keep calling them out. Use the 5Calls app. Email and show up at their offices. If they can’t fix this\, we’ll find others who will.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/no-kings-day-10-18/
LOCATION:Boston Common – Parkman Bandstand\, Tremont St\, Boston
CATEGORIES:Democracy
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SUMMARY:Annual Dinner 2025: Protecting Our Neighbors **SOLD OUT
DESCRIPTION:Join us on November 1st to celebrate a year of steadfast organizing and resistance! With authoritarianism on the rise\, the U.S. terrorizing civilians at home and across the globe\, and the continuation of the genocide in Gaza\, “protecting our neighbors” has never been more important. As we know\, the terror and militarization abroad inflicted by the U.S. will always come home\, and this year we honor those on the front lines fighting Trump’s agenda and protecting the most vulnerable – from Massachusetts to Gaza. \nThis year’s Peacebuilder Award recipients include the union responsible for the release of Rümeysa Öztürk – SEIU 509 and the founders of “Bearing Witness\,” Jared D. Berezin and Laurie Lynn Berezin\, who organize hundreds of Masssachusetts residents outside ICE headquarters in Burlington in ongoing weekly stand-outs. We also will also honor Susan McLucas and Paula Iasella for their longstanding work to free Julian Assange\, a man who worked to reveal the breath of U.S. war crimes. \nWe will present our 2025 Peace Leadership Award to Dr. Karameh Kuemmerle\, a Palestinan-American pediatric neurologist and co-founder of Doctors Against Genocide – an organization dedicated to mobilizing the medical community to respond to and prevent genocide and severe human rights abuses worldwide. She is affiliated with Harvard Medical School with research focusing on improving healthcare outcomes for refugee communities and addressing the impact of social determinents like racism. \nJoin us for and evening filled with great Caribbean food from Eunice’s Cuisine and a live performance of Palestinian and Arabic music by local band\, the Hawa Collective to celebrate another year of resistance!
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/annual-dinner-2025-protecting-our-neighbors/
LOCATION:Dante Alighieri Society\, 41 Hampshire Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Democracy
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SUMMARY:Say No to National Guard Troops in our Streets
DESCRIPTION:SAY NO TO NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS IN OUR STREETS \nStand with Veterans as we march\, rally\, and refuse to allow growing fascism to be normalized. Together we say NO this Veterans Day – no to ICE\, no to occupation\, no to fascism\, and no to cuts stripping away life saving services our communities need. \n \nSponsors: Veterans for Peace/ Smedley Butler Brigade\, About Face\, Mayday Strong\, Common Defense\nhttps://www.vetssayno.org/ \nMay Day is proud to stand alongside About Face in this effort – together we will ensure that this country works for all of us\, not the few. \nPlease note: A core principle behind all our events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values. Weapons of any kind\, including those legally permitted\, should not be brought to events \n\nAbout Face is a movement of post 9/11 service members and veterans who understand that the same institutions and policies that wage wars overseas also have targeted communities of color\, indigenous people\, and poor people inside of the United States. About Face takes action in solidarity with all people impacted by wars abroad and at home to realize a vision of a world free of militarism. \nMay Day Strong is a multi-racial working class movement dedicated to taking our country back from the billionaires and stopping the current authoritarian takeover. We are the many\, they are the few. Together we will win.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/say-no-to-national-guard-troops-in-our-streets/
LOCATION:Veteran’s Memorial Park – World War II Memorial\, 100 Park Drive\, Boston\, MA\, 02215
CATEGORIES:Democracy
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SUMMARY:Educational Freedom Project Rally
DESCRIPTION:Educational Freedom Project is a new organizing group started by Northeastern students that now spans across Boston campuses. Their mission is to is to build a platform for energized students and community members to transform their passion into action that will carry the promise of higher education forward. Higher education is under threat\, and EFP is mobilizing students across campuses and working to implement reforms to promote teaching\, learning\, expression\, and opportunity. Here is a link to their website if you want to learn more about the group and how to get involved\, link here. \nJoin the Educational Freedom Project\, student organizations\, and local advocacy groups on November 15th in the Back Bay Fens at 2.00pm for a student-focused rally. We will have community speakers\, student bands\, and action tables. Bring posters calling on our universities to defend their students – and rep your university colors! Together\, students are pushing their universities to fulfill their missions and defend their communities. \nWe hope to see you there! \nIf you are able to make a contribution to Educational Freedom Project to help them fund this rally please donate here! Anything helps!
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/educational-freedom-project-rally/
LOCATION:Back Bay Fens\, 100 Park Dr\, Boston\, 02215\, United States
CATEGORIES:Democracy
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SUMMARY:No Kings\, No War\, No ICE!
DESCRIPTION:We the People are We the Powerful.\nWe will not stand for another illegal foreign war or for an authoritarian takeover of the United States.\n \nTrump was defeated in Minneapolis and is losing in the courts\, and wants to escape focus on the Epstein files. \nNow\, in his biggest attack on democracy yet\, Trump\, working closely with Netanyahu\, has launched a massive unprovoked war of aggression against Iran. This war is a major violation of the U.S. constitution\, the UN charter and international law.  Its destructive impact is being felt across Middle East and the world. All this on top of Trump’s continued genocide in Palestine and phony “board of peace”\, gratuitous murder of scores of people in small boats\, seizure of oil tankers on the high seas\, criminal kidnapping of the president of Venezuela and illegal oil blockade to overthrow the government of Cuba. \nThe framers of the Constitution put the power to declare war in the hands of Congress for a reason.  We don’t want another war in the Middle East.  We need to end this illegal war and bring the troops home.  On March 28\, we will speak out\, expose President Trump’s lies\, and demand Congress defund this war.   \nThis war is costing a billion dollars a day – draining resources needed to sustain the well being of our neighbors and driving up the cost of everything.   But Trump is proposing a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget while attacking healthcare\, housing\, education\, and the climate. \nJoin us on the Boston Common and in cities and towns across Massachusetts to say: No Kings\, No War\, No ICE! \nIn Boston\, sign up with MAPA to amplify the antiwar message.  Meet at the MAPA table near the Embrace statue starting at 12pm to distribute our antiwar literature\, petitions and postcards.  Bring your antiwar\, anti-ICE\, anti-authoritarian signs and messages.  We’ll provide signs and literature! \nThe Embrace statue is near Tremont St.\, about half way between Park St. and Boylston St.  The MAPA table will be right next to the statue\, on the other side of it from Tremont St.  We will load in materials from Tremont St. \nTable Setup Starts: 12 pm \nPathways to Power (visibility walk throughout the city with signs and banners): 1-2pm \nRally: 2-4pm \nAction Tables Open: 1-5pm \nIn cities across Massachusetts\, sign up with MAPA to bring the antiwar message to your local No Kings protest.  Help organize the protest in your town\, work with local protest organizers\, and ensure that an antiwar message and speaker is foregrounded.  Bring antiwar signs\, banners and petitions to ensure that the No War\, No ICE message is prominent.  Print our literature or contact us to receive materials by postal. \nAdditionally\, everyone\, sign up for the overall No Kings III Boston mobilization or for the event in your own town. \n \nMAPA materials to be distributed at No Kings III\nPrint and use in your town\, or contact the office to get copies \nThe Peace Advocate newsletter – March 2026 \nStop the Wars – Bring our Troops Home general antiwar petition \nStop the War on Iran half page flyer \nStop Trump’s War of Aggression Iran war pamphlet \nStop Trump’s War of Aggression Iran war petition \nTime to End the Trump-Netanyahu Alliance Iran war petition \nStop the Continuing Genocide in Gaza petition \nStop Trump’s Threats against Cuba pamphlet \nStop the Illegal War on Venezuela pamphlet \nStop the Illegal War on Iran 18 x 24 coroplast yard sign \nStop the Illegal War on Iran 11 x 17 printable poster
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/no-kings-war-ice/
LOCATION:Boston Common – Embrace statue\, 139 Tremont St\, Boston\, MA\, 02108
CATEGORIES:Democracy,Middle East Wars
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