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SUMMARY:First Night Against all Wars
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URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/first-night-against-all-wars/
LOCATION:Park Street Station\, Tremont St and Park Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Middle East Wars
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SUMMARY:Disrupting Genocide: Louisville's 'Raytheon 5' (a WIRN webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 8\, 2025 8:00 PM –  9:30 PM ET \n\nAt 5:30am on February 2\, 2024\, fifteen protesters blocked all entrances to Raytheon Corporation and BAE Systems in south Louisville\, successfully shutting down daily operations for the day. LMPD arrested the protestors and they spent half a day in jail. Ten of the protestors plead guilty and accepted a deal while five remained and decided to take the case to trial. This webinar welcomes three members of the Raytheon 5 to discuss their journey from arrest to spectacle of their gag-ordered trial\, where all five were found guilty of trespassing on key infrastructure assets. \n \nThis webinar welcomes three members of the Raytheon 5 to discuss their journey from arrest to spectacle of their gag-ordered trial\, where all five were found guilty of trespassing on key infrastructure assets. \nPresenters: \nScott Rosario Mottola is a writer\, organizer\, and service industry worker. They are an original founding board member of Locals for Liberation and currently live in Louisville\, KY. \nSonja Wilde-de Vries is a lifelong queer anti-racist and social justice organizer. She/they is a daughter of holocaust survivors. Wilde-de Vries is also a documentary film filmmaker (Out: The Making of a Revolutionary\, Gay Cuba ) has published several books of poetry\, including “ Planting A Garden In Baghdad “ and co-founded “Queers for Cuba” Wilde-de Vries considers Palestine to be the epi-center of Liberation for all and in her free time communes with trees and wild critters. Wilde-de Vries has been to occupied Palestine several times. \nAsh Eisenmenger\, is an artist who’s been involved in the movement for collective liberation in various capacities since awakening to systemic oppression through an AORTA Cooperative workshop in 2014. She dreams of living to see a world in which we’re all free.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/disrupting-genocide-louisvilles-raytheon-5-a-wirn-webinar/
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CATEGORIES:Raytheon Antiwar Campaign
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SUMMARY:From Qatar to Iran: Regional Implications of Israel's Genocide in Gaza
DESCRIPTION:Two years into the genocide in Gaza and amid Israel’s unprecedented strikes on Qatar and Iran\, how has this wave of aggression eroded prospects for Palestinian liberation\, reshaped Gulf alliances\, and impacted the Middle East’s delicate power balance? Join us for a timely discussion on regional shifts and President Trump’s Gaza plan with two preeminent Middle East experts\, Trita Parsi and John Mearsheimer. \nPlease register here to attend: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_u8-yOIZaRZCishwUbvYNcg
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/from-qatar-to-iran-regional-implications-of-israels-genocide-in-gaza/
LOCATION:Online\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Middle East Wars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250626T120000
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SUMMARY:No War With Iran
DESCRIPTION:On June 20\, President Trump ordered an illegal and unconstitutional attack on Iran\, for which there is no justification. Join us at the JFK Federal Building (Cambridge Street entrance) this Thursday\, June 26 at 12pm to demand a return to diplomacy\, no further military strikes; a full congressional investigation and public accounting; a complete rejection of this war; and a ceasefire in Gaza. \nOn June 23rd\, 10 days after the start of the unprovoked and illegal US-backed Israeli aggression against Iran\, President Trump announced a ceasefire between Iran and Israel. While we hope that this fragile ceasefire holds\, our recent experience with Israel’s numerous ceasefire violations in Gaza and Lebanon makes us fear that it may not. We continue to push to prevent the U.S. from getting involved in an all-out regional war. Congress must act now and pass the Iran War Powers resolutions filed by Sen. Kaine and Reps. Massie and Khanna to prevent further US military action and to demand accountability for President Trump’s illegal and unconstitutional strikes on Iran\, and cut off U.S. arms shipments to Israel. \nJoin National Iranian American Council\, Arise & Resist Coalition\, Boston Coalition for Palestine\, MAPA\, JVP\, INN\, and many more groups at noon on Thursday at the JFK Federal building (the Cambridge St entrance) to hear from experts like Stephen Kinzer and Joseph Gerson\, faith leaders\, lawmakers\, members of the Iranian-American and Palestinian-American communities\, and other anti war voieces reject Trump’s illegal intervention in this war. \nThis is the third in a series of Boston area rallies to stop war with Iran.  We rallied on June 13 to protest Israel’s attack on Iran the previous night\, and on June 22 to protest the US attack on Iran the previous night.  Sign up to let us know you’ll be there and to be notified of upcoming actions. \nSponsored by: the Massachusetts and Connecticut chapters of the  National Iranian American Council\, the Arise and Resist Coalition\, Boston Coalition for Palestine\, Massachusetts Peace Action\, Jewish Voice for Peace Boston\, Northshore for Palestine\, the Palestinian House of New England\, Boston Democratic Socialists of America\, JP Progressives\, Our Revolution Massachusetts\, Brookline Peace Coalition\, CD8 for Palestine\, Community Encampments for Palestine\, Veterans for Peace Boston\, the Green-Rainbow Party of Boston\, the Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine\, the Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts\, IfNotNow Boston\, Arlington for Palestine. Sawa: Newton Area Alliance for Peace and Justice\, the Massachusetts chapter of the Communist Party USA\, the Boston University Persian Student Association\, the Boston chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation\, the Boston chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement\, and MIT Grads for Palestine \nSign Up Here \n 
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/no-war-with-iran/
LOCATION:JFK Federal Building\, Cambridge St at Sudbury St\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Middle East Wars
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SUMMARY:No War with Iran - Emergency Rally
DESCRIPTION:President Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran is incredibly dangerous\, unnecessary\, and illegal. His unilateral action threatens to embroil the United States in another costly war in the Middle East\, just like George W. Bush did with his attack on Iraq. His unconstitutional action endangers people across the region and American service members dangerously deployed there. Congress must stop these illegal actions immediately.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/no-war-with-iran-emergency-rally-2/
LOCATION:Park Street Station\, Tremont St and Park Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Middle East Wars
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SUMMARY:No War with Iran - Emergency Rally
DESCRIPTION:Israel has struck Iran in an unprovoked attack on its civilian infrastructure in an attempt to drag the US into their senseless and dangerous wars in the Middle East. \nThe Israeli government has claimed this is a “preemptive” action\, but Iran was not attacking\, nor was it building a nuclear weapon. This strike was UNPROVOKEDand ILLEGAL under international law. It has needlessly put many innocent people in mortal danger. \nOn June 13th\, we will rally at the JFK Federal Building to demand an end to US and Israeli aggression for a return to diplomacy over military confrontation.   \nSponsors: National Iranian American Council\, Jewish Voice for Peace Boston\, Boston Coalition for Palestine\, Massachusetts Peace Action\, and more \n 
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/no-war-with-iran-emergency-rally/
LOCATION:JFK Federal Building\, Cambridge St at Sudbury St\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Middle East Wars
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SUMMARY:"Deadly Betrayal: The Truth about why the US Invaded Iraq" with Dennis Fritz and Lawrence Wilkerson
DESCRIPTION:Former Air Force command chief master sergeant Dennis Fritz and Colonel (ret.) Lawrence Wilkerson will be speaking at the Community Church of Boston at 6:00pm on Friday\, April 11 about chief Fritz’ book Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why The US Invaded Iraq. This book provides important context for current events happening in West Asia/Middle East. \nFollowing their talk and Q&A discussion (from 6:00pm – 7:30pm)\, copies of Deadly Betrayal will be available for purchase and signing from 7:30pm – 8:00pm. \n\nNOTE: Since we are purchasing copies of the book in advance\, if you would like to purchase a copy\, please let me know\, so we know how many copies to order.\n\n \nThe event is both in-person (565 Boylston St. Boston\, MA 02116\, 2nd floor) or on Zoom. Register and select the option you like! The event is sponsored by Community Church of Boston and Massachusetts Peace Action. Thank you and we hope to see you there. \nParking is available at the Back Bay Garage\, with entrances at 85 St. James Ave. and 199 Clarendon St. Community Church of Boston can validate so parking is only $8! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the book:\n\n\nBased on dramatic first-hand evidence\, Deadly Betrayal uncovers why and how a cabal of Pentagon Advisors in the George W. Bush Administration created a fabricated justification to attack Iraq. \nThe book provides a detailed insider account of how a Pentagon cabal strategized to manipulate intelligence\, pressure the United Nations\, force a Congressional authorization for the use of force through political threats\, and scare the American people after 9/11 into supporting an attack on Iraq. \nAuthored by a Pentagon insider and senior enlisted leader of nearly three decades standing\, Command Chief Master Sergeant\, Retired\, Dennis Fritz worked directly for and advised some of the most senior General Officers in the Department of Defense. They included General Richard B. Myers\, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the height of the Iraq War. After military retirement\, Fritz found himself inside Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon working for Douglas Feith\, the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and key architect of the case for war. He was detailed to the Pentagon as a contracted Research Fellow and Analyst on a special project to gather and review all Iraqi Pre-War Planning Documents for declassification. His access to thousands of personal handwritten notes\, documents\, and Pentagon’s internal conversations\, has allowed him to tell the real story of why America invaded Iraq. \n“This book is an actual act of service. It will help many people\, including veterans\, connect the dots to explain this century’s American wars and give them further permission to ask tough and uncomfortable questions.”\n—Matthew Hoh\, former Marine Corps officer and Iraq War veteran who resigned his State Department position in Afghanistan over that war’s 2009 escalation. \n“I have known Dennis Fritz for three decades and served with him for many of those years. As my senior enlisted advisor in several commands\, I benefited from his sound counsel. While I do not agree with some of his conclusions in this book . . . I respect Dennis and was always proud to serve alongside him.”\n—General Richard Myers\, Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff \n“Sooner rather than later\, in my view\, historians will write the complete and accurate history of these disastrous wars from start to finish\, and sordid will it be. Alas\, however\, as with most history that is as accurate as humans can make it\, those guilty of the crimes and ravages it inevitably encompasses\, will have escaped all but a divine providence’s justice. This book at least will perhaps disturb their present comfort. It does mine.”\n—From the Foreword by Larry Wilkerson\, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/deadly-betrayal-the-truth-about-why-the-us-invaded-iraq-with-dennis-fritz-and-lawrence-wilkerson/
CATEGORIES:Middle East Wars
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SUMMARY:Divesting from Israel's Genocide
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend. \n \nJoin us on April 1 to learn about: \n1. The specific weapons that Israel is employing to maintain its apartheid system and for its assault on Gaza\, the West Bank\, Lebanon and Syria. \n2. The military contractors who produce and provide these weapons to Israel – especially those here in Massachusetts. \n3. How divestment campaigns work and how they can function to push for an end to U.S. war aid to Israel. \n4. The Bill in the Massachusetts Legislature (H.D.3630) to divest the Mass. State Pension Plan from companies selling weapons to Israel and Mass. Peace Action’s divestment campaign focused on pressuring the Mass. State Pension Fund and Massachusetts Universities to divest their holding in companies that provide these weapons to Israel. \nNoam Perry is AFSC’s Economic Activism associate and one of the creators of Investigate\, AFSC’s project that aims to expose corporate involvement in oppressive state violence structures and to promote standards for corporate social responsibility and respect for human rights. Its research efforts focus on corporations involved in incarceration and immigrant detention\, the Israeli occupation\, and the border industries. These are AFSC program focus areas\, where there is an identified lack of available resources\, coupled with explicit requests for such resources from the movements we work with. The Investigate project reaches out to the responsible investment community\, to community activists\, and to interfaith partners with information and tools for corporate engagement\, corporate accountability\, and divestment initiatives\, to support the building of wide movements that can influence\, limit\, and monitor corporate abuse. \nRegister to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/divesting-from-israels-genocide/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel,Raytheon Antiwar Campaign
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SUMMARY:The Racket\, with Matt Kennard (a WIRN webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, Matt Kennard has told us he must reschedule his webinar with us. We’ll make arrangements with him asap and let you know when he’ll be with us. \nBut\, in the meantime… We have an alternative webinar for you tomorrow.  WIRN activists Ken Jones and Melody Shank recently returned from a 2-week trip to Hebron in the West Bank of Palestine\, part of a Community Peacemaker Team (CPT) delegation. They recorded a conversation with CPT member Mona El-Zuhairi about the trip and the realities in Hebron. So\, instead of having Matt\, they’ll do a webinar showing that recorded conversation\, followed by a Q&A with Melody and Ken about their trip to Palestine. The program will be held at 8pm! \nIf you’ve already registered for the Kennard webinar\, you needn’t do anything. An updated link has been sent your way! If you’d like to register for the program on the West Bank\, click here!
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/the-racket-with-matt-kennard-a-wirn-webinar/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Raytheon Antiwar Campaign
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SUMMARY:Women in Conflict Zones
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend. \n \nOn March 19 at 12pm ET\, an important event will take place to amplify the voices of women who have been affected by conflict in various parts of the world. The Women in Conflict Zones webinar aims to shed light on the profound impacts of war on women and children and to discuss measures being taken to mitigate these effects. \nThe webinar will feature speakers from a diverse array of countries\, including Belarus\, Cameroon\, the Democratic Republic of the Congo\, Gaza\, Lebanon\, Mozambique\, Nigeria\, South Korea\, Sudan\, and Syria. Each speaker will have five minutes to share their experiences and insights regarding the unique challenges faced by women and children in their respective regions due to ongoing conflict. This platform not only serves as a means to share stories but also as a call to action for global solidarity and support in ending violence and fostering peace. \nWomen from various conflict zones will provide firsthand accounts of the struggles and resilience of those living amidst war. Their testimonies will highlight the physical\, emotional\, and social tolls that armed conflicts impose on women and children\, who are often among the most vulnerable populations during such crises. The speakers will also discuss initiatives and efforts being undertaken within their communities to promote safety\, healing\, and long-term peace. \nThis webinar takes place during the second UN Decade for People of African Descent (2025-2034)\, which focuses on “Recognition\, Justice\, Development.” The over-representation of African countries in the list of conflict zones underscores the critical need for targeted efforts and interventions to address the systemic issues that perpetuate violence and instability in these regions. The webinar aims to bring attention to these issues and to mobilize support for African women and children who bear the brunt of wars and conflicts. \nRegister to attend. \n \nSpeakers \nOlga Karatch (Belarus); Cyrille Rolande Bechon (Cameroon); Raissa Kasongo and Yvette Mushigo (Democratic Republic of the Congo); Hanan Awwad (Gaza/Palestine); Hala Kilani Hala and Shirine Jurdi (Lebanon); Namatama Sakabilo (Mozambique); Zullaihat Muhammad Ohiare (Nigeria); Cho Young-mi (South Korea); Reem Abbas (Sudan); Oula Ahmad (Syria) \nSponsored by World BEYOND War\, Southern Anti-Racism Network\, International Peace Bureau\, Convention for Pan-Africanism and Progress (CPP)\, and CODEPINK \nCo-sponsored by MAPA
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/women-in-conflict-zones/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Africa,Middle East Wars,Palestine/Israel
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