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SUMMARY:Arise and Resist: Organizing for Peace and Justice Under Repression
DESCRIPTION:Arise and Resist: Organizing for Peace and Justice Under Repression \nJanuary 19\, 2025\, 9:30am – 5:00 pm\nRoxbury Community College\, Media Arts Center\, 1234 Columbus Ave.\, Boston\, MA 02119 \n \nSpeakers \nDr. Lara Jirmanus\, press coordinator of the Vote No Preference MA campaign and a leading voice for solidarity with Palestine as well as an innovative health organizer.   A Palestinian/Lebanese-American\, she is an instructor at Harvard Medical School and a practicing primary care physician\, community organizer and public health researcher.  She co-founded the Health and Law Immigrant Solidarity Network\, and during COVID\, the Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity. \nDr. Karameh Kuemmerle is a pediatric neurologist at Boston Children’s Hospital\, affiliated with Harvard Medical School\, where she focuses on epilepsy and brain injury. Her clinical research centers on improving healthcare outcomes for refugee communities around the world\, with a special interest in addressing the impact of social determinants like racism. She co-founded Doctors Against Genocide\, an organization dedicated to mobilizing the medical community to respond to and prevent genocide and severe human rights abuses worldwide. \nRami G. Khouri is a Palestinian-American academic and journalist whose family resides in Beirut\, Amman\, and Nazareth. He is Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Arab Center Washington\, D.C.  During his 50-year career in journalism across the Middle East he was Editor of the Jordan Times and the Daily Star (Beirut) newspapers\, and contributed reporting and opinion pieces from the Middle East to the Financial Times\, NPR\, BBC radio\, and other outlets. \nJamie McGonagill is a climate activist and climate communications consultant. She is the media coordinator for Extinction Rebellion (XR) Boston and AIR Inc. She also leads the communications team for Stop Private Jet Expansion at Hanscom or Anywhere (SPJE) and assists with Climate Emergency Fund’s development team. \nKhury Petersen-Smith\, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow and Co-Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. He researches U.S. empire\, borders\, and migration and strategizes with activists to work against the violence that the U.S. carries out and supports around the world. Khury focuses especially on U.S. militarism in the Middle East and in the Pacific\, and movements that resist it. He graduated from the Clark University Graduate School of Geography in Massachusetts\, after completing a dissertation on U.S. military bases in the Pacific. He is one of the co-authors and organizers of the 2023 Black Voices for Ceasefire \nHarris Gruman is executive director of the Massachusetts State Council of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)\, the nation’s second largest labor union; co-leader of the Raise Up Massachusetts Coalition\, and former executive director of Neighbor to Neighbor MA Education Fund. \nLiv Santoro is deputy director for field education and mobilization at the ACLU of Massachusetts. \nDr. Alexandra Piñeros Shields is a life-long activist and community organizer. She is an Associate Professor and directs the Master of Public Policy Program at the Heller School\, Brandeis University where she teaches courses on immigration policy\, economic justice\, and participatory action research. Prior to joining the Heller faculty\, she was the Executive Director of the Essex County Community Organization (ECCO)\, an interfaith network of 40 congregations working on racial and economic justice issues. \nMike Prokosch is a Dorchester climate\, peace\, and housing activist who leads popular economics workshops for community and union members. His latest workshop\, “Who’s Afraid of Elon Musk?”\, traces the US economy over the past half-century and what it’s done to workers and billionaires. \nBreakouts \nAttendees will join one of seven issue-oriented breakout groups\, which will meet twice during the day. \n\nImmigration and mass deportation threat\nThe genocide in Gaza and US politics\nFederal\, State and municipal electoral politics\nA Strong Labor Movement is Democracy’s Best Defense\nClimate and ecocide\nGreat power rivalry and nuclear war danger\nWar against the poor: Fighting back against budget cuts and tax cuts\n\nAgenda \n9:00am Welcome and literature tables open; coffee available \n9:30 am Welcome and introduction \n9:45 am Panel 1 – Palestine and the U.S. \nRami Khouri\, Karameh Kuemmerle\, Lara Jirmanus \n10:50 am Breakouts 1 \n12:00 pm Palestinian style lunch \n1:00 pm Organizing and coalition building – Mike Prokosch \n1:15 pm Panel 2 – Domestic issues and other international issues \nHarris Gruman\, Jamie McGonagill\, Liv Santoro\, Alexandra Piñeros Shields\, Khury Petersen-Smith \n2:30 pm Breakouts 2 \n3:30 pm Plenary – Strategy and organizing \n5:00 pm Adjourn \nVenue: The Media Arts Center\, also called building 1\, at Roxbury Community College\, features a 460-seat modern auditorium with a number of classrooms that we will use for breakouts. \nThe Media Arts Center is directly across Columbus Ave. from the Roxbury Crossing station on the MBTA Orange Line.  There is ample free parking in RCC’s lot on Cedar St. near the corner of Columbus Ave. \nConference registration includes morning coffee and a Palestinian style lunch catered by Zaaki (rice with lentils\, salad\, hummus\, falafel for vegans; chicken shawarma and kofta; bread).  Register to attend. \nThe conference will be in person only. \nSponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action\, Boston Democratic Socialists of America\, Northshore for Palestine\, Our Revolution Massachusetts\, Doctors Against Genocide\, Communist Party of Massachusetts\, Watertown Citizens for Peace\, Justice and the Environment\, and American Friends Service Committee. \nCosponsored by Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine\, Campaign for Peace\, Disarmament and Common Security\, Cape Cod DSA\, CD8 for Palestine\, Dorchester People for Peace\, Extinction Rebellion Boston\, Green-Rainbow Party\, Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution\, Jewish Voice for Peace Boston\, SEIU Local 509\, United Auto Workers (UAW) Region 9A\, and Western Massachusetts Coalition for Palestine.    \nMassachusetts progressive organizations are invited to sponsor or cosponsor the conference\, help plan it\, or to set up literature tables; organizations sign up here to do so. \n \nGoals and Overview \nThe purpose of this conference is to bring together a mass movement and situate ourselves in our political reality of repression in the US\, genocide in Palestine\, expanding US-Israeli war in West Asia\, the Russia-Ukraine war\, and the impending US confrontation with China. We must work in alliance with each other to build a society based on solidarity\, peace\, and justice. Our work here in Massachusetts will be shaped by national and international developments.  We are holding this conference before the inauguration so we can prepare for the crises we will face after January 20. \nWe aim to take meaningful steps toward creating a vigorous alliance of organizations\, unions\, houses of worship\, and other groups and individuals who pursue peace\, protection of the earth\, the well-being of working families\, gender\, sexual and reproductive rights\, economic justice\, and indigenous sovereignty\, and oppose U.S. imperialism\, militarism\, genocide\, racism\, and other forms of oppression. \nOver the past 15+ months\, we have watched a live-streamed holocaust in Gaza\, the acceleration of the ethnic cleansing and annexation of Palestinian land in the West Bank\, the decimation of Southern Lebanon\, the bombings of Yemeni ports\, and the invasion and further occupation of Syria. With the complicity of U.S. cultural\, academic\, and other public institutions\, a frontal assault on our civil liberties has begun: many speaking up against genocide have lost jobs\, and university students have been brutalized on campus\, suspended\, and expelled. In Congress\, a pending bill would give the incoming Trump administration the power to arbitrarily revoke the tax-exempt status of nonprofit organizations\, another would crack down on criticism of Israel. The tightly interwoven national security and surveillance programs of the U.S. and Israel used to surveil and exterminate Palestinians are already being deployed against our people at the border or in urban ghettos. \nThese challenges will intensify once Trump takes office. His top priorities include the mass deportation of up to 11 million immigrants which will require police state methods and concentration camps. The “Muslim ban” is once again on the horizon. Project 2025\, once translated into policy\, threatens civil liberties\, public funding for education\, and the rights of sexual and gender minorities.  \nTrump’s commitment to the extraction and consumption of fossil fuels presents the climate movement with its greatest challenge yet to reverse the increasingly deadly attacks on life on Earth. The transfer of wealth from the working class to the capitalist oligarchy will accelerate through more tax cuts for corporations and the ultra-wealthy and the slashing of public funding for healthcare\, public education\, and housing. Attacks on academic freedom and dissenting media will only increase. \nThese threats call for a more coordinated and strategic anti-war and pro-justice effort. We will likely face more overt repression than in most of our lifetimes. Yet this new landscape presents new openings and opportunities to build a more effective and lasting movement to create the world we envision. This is our moment to redouble our commitment to solidarity and defend ourselves\, protect vulnerable groups\, reach the disengaged and discouraged and expand our organizing to build broader constituencies and develop flexible strategies needed to survive and succeed. We must seize these opportunities together. Now!  \nOn January 19\, we will hear from movement leaders\, go deep into issues in breakouts\, brainstorm solutions\, and peruse literature tables. \n \n 
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/arise-and-resist/
LOCATION:Media Arts Center\, Roxbury Community College\, 1234 Columbus Ave\, Roxbury\, MA\, 02120\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel,Strategy and Ideas
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SUMMARY:GAZA IN CONTEXT: The Colonial History that Shaped the Modern Middle East
DESCRIPTION:  \nA 4-part online series Sundays\, Jan 5\, 12\, 26\, and Feb 2\, 2025\, all at 3pm. \nThe Israeli war on Gaza – widely considered genocide – did not begin on October 7\, 2023. This series will look at the background of Zionism and colonialism that laid the foundation for ongoing wars and today’s violence in the Middle East. Palestinian dispossession\, we will see\, began more than a century ago. \n\nJanuary 5 – CONQUEST AND COLONIALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST DURING THE 20TH CENTURY: The roots of the contemporary Middle East go back to the First World War and its aftermath; the birth of Zionism as a political movement.\n\nVideo: https://youtube.com/live/Y_75LgjQiAg \nSlides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jTrcqiR3IZlebo5bUQHziKVeavw10VRO/ \n\nJanuary 12 – MANDATES AND REPRESSION IN PALESTINE AND BEYOND: The failure of the British colonial attempt to shape Palestine in conformance with the Balfour Declaration; Palestinian resistance and the first proposals for partition; Zionist terror; British\, French colonialism in Iraq\, Syria and Lebanon.\n\nVideo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duY-ABJP_8A \nSlides:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nhUBtaPKkUQZdInsLL7GTMbgIgnGmoK0/ \n\nJanuary 26 – THE US AND ISRAEL IN THE MIDDLE EAST: Although the US government supported the Zionist project from the time of the First World War\, and it was quick to recognize the independence of Israel in 1948\, US policies toward the Middle East centered on Oil and later Cold War interests. The US was not much involved the Middle East until the 1930s and then oil-rich Saudi Arabia\, not Israel\, was its close all — as it remains to this day. Republicans – who as a party are now firmly pro-Israel —  were skeptical in the 1950s and 1960s of unconditional support for Israel. It was only in the 1970s that Israel came to be viewed as an important strategic ally\, especially in the context of the Cold War. Since then\, the Israel Lobby also became an important player in US politics.\n\nVideo:  https://youtube.com/live/Chuz0APhZic \nSlides:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zSHbg52kYJI1Z27hx8mq-5rYGn_h4dbg/ \n\nFebruary 2 – LOOKING IN THE MIRROR: How the U.S. has shaped the contemporary Middle East from before the Cold War to the present. Indigenous nationalism and its opponents. Addressing the domestic colonial and imperial background to US support for Israel and its destabilizing interference in the region.\n\nVideo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_pdo_Q8Rpw \nSlides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13ZTXZlBuyRkkIfTFQ4aR-UConOBdpT-1/ \nSpeaker: Jeff Klein is a veteran anti-war activist\, retired machinist and local trade-union president\, who for 8 years until 2023 taught a course on “The US in the Middle East” at the UMass Boston Lifelong Learning Institute.  He is a board member of Massachusetts Peace Action and a member of its Gaza Israel Mideast peace campaign’s steering committee. Since 2004 Jeff has traveled almost every year to Palestine/Israel and elsewhere in the Middle East\, and has many close friends among veteran activists in Palestine\, Lebanon and Jordan.  He has also worked in Nicaragua and for the exiled African National Congress in Zambia.  Check out his weekly presentations on “Genocide in Gaza” and read his articles on the Middle East. \n \nRegister to attend any or all of the four sessions. Course materials: Readings and Resources on Israel/Palestine Course Outline – the US in the Middle East – This outline was prepared for an 8-session version of the course given at UMass Boston in fall 2023.  The material will be condensed for this 4-session online version.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/gaza-in-context-the-colonial-history-that-shaped-the-modern-middle-east-2-2/
LOCATION:Online Event
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SUMMARY:GAZA IN CONTEXT: The Colonial History that Shaped the Modern Middle East
DESCRIPTION:A 4-part online series Sundays\, Jan 5\, 12\, 26\, and Feb 2\, 2025\, all at 3pm The Israeli war on Gaza – widely considered genocide – did not begin on October 7\, 2023. This series will look at the background of Zionism and colonialism that laid the foundation for ongoing wars and today’s violence in the Middle East. Palestinian dispossession\, we will see\, began more than a century ago. \n\nJanuary 5 – CONQUEST AND COLONIALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST DURING THE 20TH CENTURY: The roots of the contemporary Middle East go back to the First World War and its aftermath; the birth of Zionism as a political movement.\n\nVideo: https://youtube.com/live/Y_75LgjQiAg \nSlides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jTrcqiR3IZlebo5bUQHziKVeavw10VRO/ \n\nJanuary 12 – MANDATES AND REPRESSION IN PALESTINE AND BEYOND: The failure of the British colonial attempt to shape Palestine in conformance with the Balfour Declaration; Palestinian resistance and the first proposals for partition; Zionist terror; British\, French colonialism in Iraq\, Syria and Lebanon.\n\nVideo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duY-ABJP_8A \nSlides:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nhUBtaPKkUQZdInsLL7GTMbgIgnGmoK0/ \n\nJanuary 26 – THE US AND ISRAEL IN THE MIDDLE EAST: Although the US government supported the Zionist project from the time of the First World War\, and it was quick to recognize the independence of Israel in 1948\, US policies toward the Middle East centered on Oil and later Cold War interests. The US was not much involved the Middle East until the 1930s and then oil-rich Saudi Arabia\, not Israel\, was its close all — as it remains to this day. Republicans – who as a party are now firmly pro-Israel —  were skeptical in the 1950s and 1960s of unconditional support for Israel. It was only in the 1970s that Israel came to be viewed as an important strategic ally\, especially in the context of the Cold War. Since then\, the Israel Lobby also became an important player in US politics.\n\nVideo:  https://youtube.com/live/Chuz0APhZic \nSlides:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zSHbg52kYJI1Z27hx8mq-5rYGn_h4dbg/ \n\nFebruary 2 – LOOKING IN THE MIRROR: How the U.S. has shaped the contemporary Middle East from before the Cold War to the present. Indigenous nationalism and its opponents. Addressing the domestic colonial and imperial background to US support for Israel and its destabilizing interference in the region.\n\nVideo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_pdo_Q8Rpw&t=4418s \nSlides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13ZTXZlBuyRkkIfTFQ4aR-UConOBdpT-1/ \nSpeaker: Jeff Klein is a veteran anti-war activist\, retired machinist and local trade-union president\, who for 8 years until 2023 taught a course on “The US in the Middle East” at the UMass Boston Lifelong Learning Institute.  He is a board member of Massachusetts Peace Action and a member of its Gaza Israel Mideast peace campaign’s steering committee. Since 2004 Jeff has traveled almost every year to Palestine/Israel and elsewhere in the Middle East\, and has many close friends among veteran activists in Palestine\, Lebanon and Jordan.  He has also worked in Nicaragua and for the exiled African National Congress in Zambia.  Check out his weekly presentations on “Genocide in Gaza” and read his articles on the Middle East. \nRegister to attend any or all of the four sessions.  Course materials: Readings and Resources on Israel/Palestine Course Outline – the US in the Middle East – This outline was prepared for an 8-session version of the course given at UMass Boston in fall 2023.  The material will be condensed for this 4-session online version.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/gaza-in-context-the-colonial-history-that-shaped-the-modern-middle-east-3-2/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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SUMMARY:Reporting from the Frontlines of the Massacre
DESCRIPTION:Haggai will talk with us about the latest events in the Israeli onslaught in Gaza\, the chances for a ceasefire\, Israel’s campaigns in Lebanon and Syria and the push for attacking Iran. We will also discuss the overall climate among Jewish Israelis for relations with the Palestinians\, the future of the country\, and the role of the media in all of this. \nHaggai Matar is an award-winning Israeli journalist and political activist\, and the executive director of +972 Magazine\, which is an independent\, online\, nonprofit media outlet run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli journalists\, founded in 2010.  He is a conscientious objector who refused to serve in the Israeli army back in 2002\, and spent two years in prison. \nRegister to attend. 
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/reporting-from-the-frontlines-of-the-massacre/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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SUMMARY:Challenge Anti-Palestinian Racism at Commission Hearing
DESCRIPTION:Are you concerned about anti-Palestinian racism promulgated under the umbrella of the Mass Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism? \nThe commission will hold a hearing on Monday\, February 10 at 1pm. It will feature testimony by four representatives of Together for an Inclusive Massachusetts (TIM)— a group of Jewish\, Muslim\, Christian\, labor\, education\, student\, civil rights and other organizations and individuals advocating for justice and equity in the Commonwealth. \nAttend the hearing to support our representatives and gain a better understanding of the issues at stake.  The hearing will be in room A-1 of the State house and can also be viewed online; go to https://malegislature.gov/Events/Hearings/Detail/5080 for further information. \nThen\, sign up to receive TIM’s occasional action alerts. \nTIM came together in response to a back-door effort\, supported by Israel-aligned advocacy groups (ADL\, JCRC\, AJC\, and more)\, to shape antisemitism policy and education in the Commonwealth.  The Legislature formed a commission that is heavily stacked with exponents of the pro-Israel narrative on antisemitism — which regards anti-Zionism as equivalent to antisemitism.  Antisemitism is a serious problem\, but it can’t be fought by silencing and censoring those who also support the humanity and rights of Palestinians. Please help us broaden the circle of Massachusetts residents and legislators who are watching the work of the commission and holding them to account for fact-based\, nuanced\, and antiracist recommendations. \nTIM’s steering committee includes Boston Workers Circle\, Massachusetts Peace Action\, Jewish Voice for Peace Boston\, Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine\, Sawa: Newton-Area Alliance for Peace and Justice\, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Massachusetts\, MTA Rank and File for Palestine\, Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine\, and If Not Now Boston. TIM seeks to ensure that the Commonwealth’s next steps are inclusive\, transparent\, and constructive. It is our deep and unwavering commitment to equality and justice for all—including Jews and Palestinians—that compel our work. \nRead an earlier article about TIM’s work. \n \nYes\, I’ll be there
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/challenge-anti-palestinian-racism-at-commission-hearing/
LOCATION:Massachusetts State House – room A-1\, 24 Beacon St\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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SUMMARY:The True Superheroes of Gaza Standout
DESCRIPTION:Following the February 14th release of Marvel’s\, Captain America: Brave New World\, join us outside of the AMC Boston Common Theater to recognize true superheroes: those who have sustained\, protected\, and saved the victims and survivors of the genocide in Palestine. \nRead more about our project!
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/the-true-superheroes-of-gaza-standout/
LOCATION:AMC Boston Common\, 175 Tremont St\, Boston\, 02111
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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SUMMARY:SEMA.FreePalestine presents "Walled Off"
DESCRIPTION:The SE Mass Coalition for a Free Palestine begins its second Palestine Film Series on February 20 with Walled Off\, a documentary film by Vin Arfuso in collaboration with Anwar Hadid\, Kweku Mandela\, Roger Waters and Immortal Technique. \n6pm to 8pm at the SE Mass Central Labor Council\, 560 Pleasant St.\, New Bedford. \nWalled Off Hotel is a guesthouse established by the notorious artist Banksy in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem. The film takes an intimate look at the lives of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation\, and highlights the importance of creative resistance as a form of protest. In telling the stories of individual Palestinians\, the documentary explores the ways in which media coverage of the conflict perpetuates an inaccurate and biased narrative. Through interviews with activists\, politicians\, and everyday citizens\, the film offers an often unseen perspective on the Palestinian struggle for freedom. The film ultimately seeks to challenge the mainstream media narrative of the occupation\, and to bring to light the realities of life under military.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/sema-freepalestine-presents-walled-off/
LOCATION:Greaer SE Mass Labor Council\, 560 Pleasant St\, New Bedford\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250224T180000
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SUMMARY:Eradicating Gaza: How to Remember and Forget Genocide
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend. \n \nA discussion with Prof. Omer Bartov. As we’ve been witnessing a genocide in Gaza for the past 15 months\, it’s timely to reflect on the politics of the use of the word “genocide”\, and the use and misuse of the memory of the Holocaust in WW2. \nProf. Bartov will also expand our thinking about the development of Zionism over time: as a settler colonization effort\, as a mechanism for helping Jewish refugees and as an ideological national movement. \nOmer Bartov is an Israeli-American historian. He is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University\, where he has taught since 2000. Bartov is a historian of the Holocaust and is considered a leading authority on genocide.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/eradication-gaza-how-to-remember-and-forget-genocide/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T120000
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SUMMARY:Western Massachusetts Stands with Smith SJP
DESCRIPTION:This rally\, organized in consultation with Smith Students for Justice in Palestine\, is intended to show broad community support for the demands that Smith College: \n(1) completely divest from holdings that are in any way connected with the genocide against the Palestinian people; \n(2) speak out against Israel’s scholasticide against the Palestinian people; \n(3) end new Smith policies aimed at suppressing free speech at Smith.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/western-massachusetts-stands-with-smith-sjp/
LOCATION:Smith College\, John M. Greene Hall\, 60 Elm St\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250301T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250301T160000
DTSTAMP:20260520T163711
CREATED:20250204T171524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T225503Z
UID:10003253-1740834000-1740844800@masspeaceaction.org
SUMMARY:The Destruction of Healthcare Systems in Gaza: Realities\, Ramifications & ACTIONS
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend. \n \nJoin us for a panelist event to discuss on-the-ground realities in Gaza and the West Bank and the short & long-term ramifications of the destruction of the healthcare systems. Get immediate & impactful action steps to help the people of Palestine! \nDr. Bram Wispelwey is a Harvard Chan School of Public Health\, Co-Founder of Health for Palestine\, recently in the West Bank. \nDr. Ahmad Thaer is a Palestinian-American emergency physician who worked at Nasser & Al-Aqsa in Gaza in 2024. \nDr. Othman Mohammad\, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist\, Gaza Mental Health Expert and a Diaspora Palestinian \nThe event will be at Community Church of Boston\, 565 Boylston St.\, Boston 02116\, and also can be viewed online. \nSponsored by MAPA and JVP Boston\, cosponsored by CCB\, SEMA for a Free Palestine\, Watertown Citizens for Peace\, Justice and the Environment\, Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine\, Doctors Against Genocide\, Arlington for Palestine.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/the-destruction-of-healthcare-in-gaza-realities-ramifications-actions/
LOCATION:Community Church of Boston\, 565 Boylston St\, Boston\, 02116
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
GEO:42.3506456;-71.0763255
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250306T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250306T173000
DTSTAMP:20260520T163711
CREATED:20250306T164432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250306T164453Z
UID:10003279-1741277700-1741282200@masspeaceaction.org
SUMMARY:Protest Israeli former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/protest-israeli-former-prime-minister-naftali-bennett/
LOCATION:John F. Kennedy Memorial Park\, John F. Kennedy St. and Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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GEO:42.3698001;-71.1224669
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=John F. Kennedy Memorial Park John F. Kennedy St. and Memorial Drive Cambridge MA 02138 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=John F. Kennedy St. and Memorial Drive:geo:-71.1224669,42.3698001
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T130000
DTSTAMP:20260520T163711
CREATED:20250226T200124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T200124Z
UID:10003272-1741435200-1741438800@masspeaceaction.org
SUMMARY:Needham for Palestine Standout
DESCRIPTION:Join Needham for Palestine at noon on Saturday\, March 8\, for a standout outside of Needham Town Hall.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/needham-for-palestine-standout/
LOCATION:Needham Town Hall\, 1471 Highland Ave\, Needham\, 02492\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masspeaceaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/n4p-standout-38.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T160000
DTSTAMP:20260520T163711
CREATED:20250302T160212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250302T160359Z
UID:10003277-1741442400-1741449600@masspeaceaction.org
SUMMARY:Israelism
DESCRIPTION:This documentary film focuses on the portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in American Jewish institutions. \nCosponsored by MAPA
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/israelism/
LOCATION:Watertown Free Public Library\, 123 Main St\, Watertown\, MA\, 02472
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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ORGANIZER;CN="Watertown Citizens for Peace%2C Justice & Environment":MAILTO:watertowncitizens@gmail.com
GEO:42.3675294;-71.1869661
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250317T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250317T200000
DTSTAMP:20260520T163711
CREATED:20250316T171308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250316T171308Z
UID:10003287-1742234400-1742241600@masspeaceaction.org
SUMMARY:Investigating War Crimes in Gaza - Al Jazeera Investigations
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for Investigating War Crimes in Gaza\, the second film  SE Mass Coalition for a Free Palestine’s Spring 2025 Film Series. Filmed and produced by Al Jazeera. \n\nOct 3\, 2024 – This feature length investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year long conflict. The I-Unit has built up a database of thousands of videos\, photos and social media posts. Where possible it has identified the posters and those who appear. The material reveals a range of illegal activities\, from wanton destruction and looting to the demolition of entire neighbourhoods and murder. The film also tells the story of the war through the eyes of Palestinian journalists\, human rights workers and ordinary residents of the Gaza Strip. And it exposes the complicity of Western governments – in particular the use of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus as a base for British surveillance flights over Gaza.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/investigating-war-crimes-in-gaza-al-jazeera-investigations/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Church in New Bedford\, 71 8th St\, New Bedford\, MA\, 02740
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250317T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250317T203000
DTSTAMP:20260520T163711
CREATED:20250303T184838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250303T223434Z
UID:10003278-1742238000-1742243400@masspeaceaction.org
SUMMARY:Babies\, Children and Health Care Workers: The Impact of the Occupation and Assault on Gaza
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend. \n \nDr. Ali travelled to Gaza\, Palestine in February 2024 to provide humanitarian aid where he primarily worked in the largest functioning Neonatal intensive care unit at the time.  He will talk about his experience working in the NICU\, about the hostages and unlawful imprisonment including Palestinian children in Israeli prisons\, and the torture and abuse of healthcare staff. \nDr. Arham Ali is an Assistant Professor and a Pediatric Intensivist at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital. He attended medical school internationally in Karachi\, Pakistan. Thereafter\, he completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in Pediatric Burns at the University of Texas Medical Branch and Shriners Hospital in Galveston\, TX.  Ali then went on to complete his intern year of residency at Crozer Chester Medical Center\, in Philadelphia. The remainder of this Pediatrics residency was completed at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Chicago. Finally\, his fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care was completed in 2021 at UCLA/Mattel Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. Ali was honored with an opportunity to travel to Gaza\, Palestine in February 2024 to provide humanitarian aid where he primarily worked in the largest functioning Neonatal intensive care unit at the time.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/pediatric-critical-care-in-gaza/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250318T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250318T190000
DTSTAMP:20260520T163711
CREATED:20250318T151104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250318T183414Z
UID:10003291-1742317200-1742324400@masspeaceaction.org
SUMMARY:Stop the Genocide Emergency Protest
DESCRIPTION:Join the Boston Coalition for Palestine for an emergency protest at Park St. Station tonight at 5pm! \nISRAEL HAS RESUMED ALL OUT WAR ON GAZA: EMERGENCY PROTEST STOP THE GENOCIDE \nTue March 18\n5PM\nPark Street MBTA Station\, Boston\, MA \nLast night\, heavy Israeli airstrikes targeted homes\, schools\, tents and shelters across Gaza\, killing over 400 Palestinians and injuring hundreds more. \nThe US-Israeli genocide in Gaza\, having never ended\, is now returning to a state of all-out war. Trump and Netanyahu repeatedly refused to abide by the terms of the ceasefire and have refused to engage in negotiations in good faith. US bombs are falling on the people of Gaza once again\, who have been under total seige for over 2 weeks. \nWe must unite to stand up for Palestine and against genocide. The Palestinian people have remained strong and steadfast throughout the past 18 months of genocide. Now is the time to organize\, grow the movement\, take to the streets\, and to continue to stand on the right side of history. \nJoin us for an emergency mobilization to stop the genocide today\, Tuesday\, 5 PM at Park Street. \nAdditional rallies today: \nWorcester\, 4:00 – 5:30 pm\, Lincoln Square.  Sponsored by: Saints Francis & Thérèse Catholic Worker\nFor more info\, contact Claire Schaeffer-Duffy 774 239-4022\n\nLawrence\, 5:00 pm\, Lawrence City Hall\, 200 Common St.  Sponsored by Merrimack Valley for Palestine
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/stop-the-genocide-emergency-protest/
LOCATION:Park Street Station\, Boston
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masspeaceaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/03-18-emergency-protest.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250319T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250319T120000
DTSTAMP:20260520T163711
CREATED:20250213T154202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T154202Z
UID:10003262-1742385600-1742385600@masspeaceaction.org
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250322T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250322T140000
DTSTAMP:20260520T163711
CREATED:20250312T182606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T182606Z
UID:10003283-1742648400-1742652000@masspeaceaction.org
SUMMARY:World Water Day: Protest Israel's Attacks on Palestine's Resources
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/world-water-day-protest-israels-attacks-on-palestines-resources/
LOCATION:Downtown Crossing\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masspeaceaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/water-alliance.jpg
GEO:42.3554717;-71.0604917
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250322T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250322T160000
DTSTAMP:20260520T163711
CREATED:20250314T235832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T235832Z
UID:10003286-1742653800-1742659200@masspeaceaction.org
SUMMARY:Religious Leaders Respond to Injustices in Palestine
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/religious-leaders-respond-to-injustices-in-palestine/
LOCATION:Church of the Good Shepherd\, 9 Russell Ave.\, Watertown\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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ORGANIZER;CN="Watertown Citizens for Peace%2C Justice & Environment":MAILTO:watertowncitizens@gmail.com
GEO:42.3687443;-71.1759707
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Church of the Good Shepherd 9 Russell Ave. Watertown MA United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=9 Russell Ave.:geo:-71.1759707,42.3687443
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250323T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250323T150000
DTSTAMP:20260520T163711
CREATED:20250226T195029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T195029Z
UID:10003271-1742736600-1742742000@masspeaceaction.org
SUMMARY:Pro-Palestinian Activism: The Road Ahead Amid Political Upheaval
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to register for this powerful and timely webinar with co-presenters Rabbi Alissa Wise and Huwaida Arraf. \nRabbi Alissa Wise is a community organizer\, educator\, organizational consultant\, and ritual leader with over two decades of movement-building experience. She is the Lead Organizer of Rabbis for Ceasefire which she founded in October 2023. She is co-author of Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing (Haymarket\, 2024). You may read more about her here: https://rabbiwise.org/about-me/ \nHuwaida Arraf is a Palestinian American activist and lawyer who co-founded the International Solidarity Movement (ISM)\, a Palestinian-led organization using non-violent protests and international pressure to support Palestinians. You may read more about her here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huwaida_Arraf \nRegister to attend. \n \nCosponsored by Center for Nonviolent Solutions and Massachusetts Peace Action.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/pro-palestinian-activism-the-road-ahead-amid-political-upheaval/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masspeaceaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Pro-Pal-Activism-323-Event-.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250326T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250326T183000
DTSTAMP:20260520T163711
CREATED:20250326T144553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250326T145452Z
UID:10003296-1743010200-1743013800@masspeaceaction.org
SUMMARY:Stand with Rumeysa Ozturk
DESCRIPTION:On March 25th PhD Tufts grad worker Rumeysa Ozturk\, a Fulbright scholar\, was ambushed by ICE agents on her way to an Iftar dinner with friends after leaving her apartment. Rumeysa was likely targeted after being recently doxxed by Canary Mission. Neighbors report that unmarked cars were surveilling the location for two days before grabbing her on the street. We do not yet know where she is detained. \nThis marks the first known abduction and disappearance of student activist in Boston and Massachusetts\, but ICE has been abducting our community members increasingly over the last 2 months. We must stand together against the deportation machine. \nAs the Zionist regime continues its genocide on Gaza\, murdering nearly 1\,000 people in the last week and disappearing nearly 10\,000 Palestinians\, the Trump administration has shown that it will keep following suit by detaining students without cause. \nWe must show that our communities will not back down to the Trump administration abducting our students\, deporting our neighbors and eroding our constitutional rights to resist the genocide in Gaza\, in which the Trump administration itself bears direct complicity. \nJOIN US IN THE STREETS: STAND UP FIGHT BACK!
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/stand-with-rumeysa-ozturk/
LOCATION:Powder House Square\, 850 Broadway\, Somerville\, MA\, 02144
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250330T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250330T150000
DTSTAMP:20260520T163711
CREATED:20250324T184127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250324T184127Z
UID:10003295-1743336000-1743346800@masspeaceaction.org
SUMMARY:Land Day
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/land-day/
LOCATION:Roxbury Crossing\, 1400 Tremont St\, Boston\, MA\, 02120
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masspeaceaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Land-Day.jpg.jpeg
GEO:42.3313493;-71.0956922
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Roxbury Crossing 1400 Tremont St Boston MA 02120;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1400 Tremont St:geo:-71.0956922,42.3313493
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250330T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250330T160000
DTSTAMP:20260520T163711
CREATED:20250320T185100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T185132Z
UID:10003292-1743343200-1743350400@masspeaceaction.org
SUMMARY:Art & Activism: Stickers for Solidarity with Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a creative and educational workshop where we’ll make stickers and explore the history of art as a tool of resistance in Palestine. Learn how Palestinian artists have used their work to fight oppression\, preserve culture\, and inspire solidarity. All supplies will be provided—just bring your creativity and commitment to justice! \n  \nRSVP here! 
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/art-activism-stickers-for-solidarity-with-palestine/
LOCATION:St. James Episcopal Church\, 1991 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02140
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture,Palestine/Israel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://masspeaceaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Art-Build-Palestine-Presentation-16x9cm.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250331T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250331T130000
DTSTAMP:20260520T163711
CREATED:20250328T212424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250328T213915Z
UID:10003297-1743422400-1743426000@masspeaceaction.org
SUMMARY:No Arms to Israel!  Power Hour
DESCRIPTION:NIAC (National Iranian American Council)\, Peace Action and hopefully other organizations will host an Action Hour/Power Hour to rally support for Senator Sanders’ Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs) to stop $8.8 billion in new US weapons transfers to Israel. We’ll have a brief description of the JRDs\, then get on the phone to call our US Senators. Please plan to join us and invite others. \nBackground: \nSen. Sanders announced that he will force a vote on two Joint Resolutions of Disapproval against specific weapons transfers to Israel\, probably April 2-4.\n\n\n“Next week\, the Senate will vote on two Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (S.J.Res.26 and S.J.Res.33) to block $8.8 billion of weapons to Israel\, including: \n* 35\,529 MK 84 or BLU-117 General Purpose bomb bodies; and 4\,000 I-2000 Penetrator warheads (all are varieties of 2\,000-pound bombs)\, valued at $2.04 billion. \n* 2\,166 GBU–39/B Small Diameter Bombs (SDBs); 2\,800 MK 82 General Purpose 500-pound bombs; 17\,479 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) Guidance Kits; and 17\,475 FMU–152 A/B bomb fuzes \nThese weapons have all been used by Israel to commit apparent war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza. With Israel having broken the ceasefire on March 17 by unleashing massive genocidal violence which has killed nearly 800 Palestinians since then\, it’s more important than ever to ensure that we block weapons deliveries to Israel. \n\nPlease join us\, and if you can’t\, call your senators at 202.224.3121.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/no-arms-to-israel-power-hour/
LOCATION:Online\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250401T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250401T200000
DTSTAMP:20260520T163711
CREATED:20250310T210206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250310T210431Z
UID:10003281-1743534000-1743537600@masspeaceaction.org
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250402T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250402T133000
DTSTAMP:20260520T163711
CREATED:20250328T213152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250401T202353Z
UID:10003298-1743595200-1743600600@masspeaceaction.org
SUMMARY:No More Arms to Israel! Free Rumeysa Ozturk!
DESCRIPTION:The Senate will vote on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ resolution of disapproval of $8.8 billion of bombs which President Trump plans to send to Israel. \nIsrael broke the ceasefire on March 18 and has since killed over 800 Palestinian civilians in Gaza. \nHooded ICE agents captured Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk on a Somerville street last week.  Her only offense was writing an article calling for divestment of university funds. \nJoin us at the JFK Federal Building Wednesday to speak to Senator Markey and Warren’s representatives.   We will read letters signed by Massachusetts organizations and individuals. \n \nSign up to attend! \nOrganizations can sign a letter to oppose US arms to Israel.  Individuals\, sign here.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/no-more-arms-to-israel-free-rumeysa-ozturk/
LOCATION:JFK Federal Building\, Cambridge St at Sudbury St\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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SUMMARY:Ceasefire NOW Grassroots Lobby Days Training
DESCRIPTION:MAPA is coordinating the Massachusetts delegation for the Ceasefire NOW Grassroots Advocacy Days in Washington\, DC. We will be lobbying in-person on Capitol Hill on April 8th\, 9th\, and 10th\, demanding our members of Congress advocate for peace and justice in Palestine and support important legislation\, including an enduring ceasefire\, cutting U.S. weapons sales to Israel\, and restoring funding for UNRWA. Prior lobbying experience is not required. \nFor those interested in attending lobby days\, please register through the national Peace Action link here. \n \nThen\, fill out MAPA’s logistics questionnaire. \nOnce you have registered to lobby\, sign-up for ONLY ONE of the training sessions below\, which will both be held at 7:30 pm EST. \nCeasefire NOW Advocacy training session\, Wednesday\, April 2nd – REGISTER HERE \nCeasefire NOW Advocacy training session\, Thursday\, April 3rd – REGISTER HERE
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/ceasefire-now-grassroots-lobby-days-training/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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SUMMARY:What About Gaza?
DESCRIPTION:Justice Democracy International Law & Freedom in America\nUnderstanding Palestine and Israel: Discussion and book signing with author Phyllis Bennis\nRegister to attend. \n \nJoin us for a discussion with respected political analyst and author Phyllis Bennis. Her new book\, Understanding Palestine and Israel\, answers important questions including perspectives often missing from corporate media: history that shaped the area\, events leading up to the current crisis and how this has affected international law\, human rights\, the recent American elections\, and the erosion of democracy. \nTickets are free\, but please register to reserve a seat. \nPhyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies where she co-directs the New Internationalism Project. She has written numerous books on Palestine\, foreign policy\, and the UN. She serves as an international advisor to Jewish Voice for Peace\, and has been shortlisted twice to become the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.  \nOther talks by Phyllis Bennis: \nSaturday\, April 5 at 4:00 pm: Possible Futures\, 318 Edgewood Ave\, New Haven\, CT 06511. Sponsored by JVP New Haven and Mending Minyan. \nSunday\, April 6 at 2:00 pm: Massachusetts Peace Action. Venue: 1991 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA 02140. \nMonday\, April 7 at 6:00 pm: Event organized by Traprock Communication at All Souls Unitarian-Universalist Church\, 399 Main Street\, Greenfield\, MA. \nTuesday\, April 8 at 7:00 pm: UMass Amherst\, Thompson 106 (near parking garage). Sponsored by SJP\, FJP\, JVP\, Interlink etc … Phyllis Bennis in conversation with Michel Moushabeck. RSVP. \nWednesday\, April 9 at 7:00 pm: Event organized by Southern Vermont for Palestine in Brattleboro\, VT.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/what-about-gaza/
LOCATION:Lenox Community Center\, 65 Walker St\, Lenox\, MA\, 01240
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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SUMMARY:Understanding Palestine and Israel
DESCRIPTION:How the Gaza conflict spilled over to affect the U.S. election and the rights of its citizens\nA Book Talk with Phyllis Bennis in Conversation with Rami Khouri\nRegister to attend. \n \nJoin us for a discussion with Phyllis Bennis\, activist\, political analyst\, and author of the recently published Understanding Palestine and Israel. Rami Khouri\, Palestinian-American academic and journalist with over 50 years of experience reporting in the Middle East\, will serve as moderator. \nAs the war in Gaza continues amidst a fragile ceasefire agreement\, the struggle and call for justice in Palestine persists with many searching for truth and clarity. In Understanding Palestine and Israel\, with a foreword by Palestinian analyst Omar Baddar\, Phyllis Bennis answers key questions regarding the history and the current situation of the war between Israel and Palestine\, addressing events prior to October 7\, 2023\, through Israel’s genocidal war and the aftermath of Donald Trump’s 2024 re-election. \nFrom freedom of speech\, the 2024 election\, to your tax dollars\, Bennis and Khouri will unpack historical perspectives\, their experiences\, and the impact the Palestine-Israel conflict has on Americans and the world today.  \nThe event will conclude with a book signing. Books will be available for purchase ($20) and are currently available to preorder through the registration link.  \nPhyllis Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for Policy studies\, serving as co-director of the New Internationalism Project\, and writes and speaks widely on U.S. wars and foreign policy\, authoring numerous books. She is also an international advisor to Jewish Voice for Peace and an activist in national and global movements supporting Palestinian rights. Bennis has been twice short-listed to become the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. \nRami G. Khouri is a Palestinian-American academic and journalist whose family resides in Beirut\, Amman\, and Nazareth. He is Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Arab Center Washington\, D.C.  During his 50-year career in journalism across the Middle East he was Editor of the Jordan Times and the Daily Star (Beirut) newspapers\, and contributed reporting and opinion pieces from the Middle East to the Financial Times\, NPR\, BBC radio\, and other outlets. \nRegister to attend. \n \nCosponsored by Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine\, Community Church of Boston\, Jewish Voice for Peace Boston\, and Watertown Citizens for Peace Justice and Environment \nOther Talks by Phyllis Bennis: \nFriday\, April 4 at 6 pm: Lenox Community Centre\, 65 Walker St\, Lenox\, MA 01240. \nSaturday\, April 5 at 4:00 pm: Possible Futures\, 318 Edgewood Ave\, New Haven\, CT 06511. Sponsored by JVP New Haven and Mending Minyan. \nMonday\, April 7 at 6:00 pm: Event organized by Traprock Communication at All Souls Unitarian-Universalist Church\, 399 Main Street\, Greenfield\, MA. \nTuesday\, April 8 at 7:00 pm: UMass Amherst\, Thompson 106 (near parking garage). Sponsored by SJP\, FJP\, JVP\, Interlink etc … Phyllis Bennis in conversation with Michel Moushabeck. RSVP. \nWednesday\, April 9 at 7:00 pm: Event organized by Southern Vermont for Palestine in Brattleboro\, VT.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/understanding-palestine-and-israel/
LOCATION:St. James Episcopal Church\, 1991 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02140
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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SUMMARY:Challenge Smokescreen Antisemitism at Commission Hearing
DESCRIPTION:The sixth meeting of Massachusetts’ Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism is scheduled for April 7th @ 1pm in Newton City Hall and will be available to watch livestreamed here. This is the first time the commission is hearing public comment and they need to hear your voice! \nRegister to Give Public Comment to the Commission April 7th \nWe strongly encourage allies to sign up to give public comment in person (or provide testimony in writing): \n\n\n\n\nIn-person testimony: to give public comment you must register directly with the Commission here by the deadline on April 2nd @ 5pm. There is a hard 3-minute time limit per speaker. A panel of speakers will be limited to 6 minutes (per panel\, not per speaker).\nWritten testimony: submit to SCCA@malegislature.gov.\nShare a copy of your testimony with your state senator and state representative.\nTIM is tracking the Commission’s gatekeeping of viewpoints aligned with our coalition. Please help by forwarding your testimony to us at inclusivemassachusetts@proton.me.\n\nNeed guidance on what to include in your testimony? TIM drafted this tip sheet including topics the Commission is required to address as well as sample talking points. \nThe hearing will also feature two presentations**: \n\nEric Olshan\, Former U.S. Attorney\, Western District of Pennsylvania\, lead prosecutor in U.S. v. Robert Bowers (Tree of Life Synagogue Case)\nAriella Hellman\, Director of Government Affairs Agudath Israel of America\, New England Office. (Agudath Israel published an op-ed in the Boston Globe defending Columbia University’s capitulation to the Trump administration’s demands)\n\n**bookmark the Commission’s hearing page for late additions to the agenda \nRegister to Give Public Comment to the Commission April 7th
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/challenge-smokescreen-antisemitism-at-commission-hearing/
LOCATION:Newton City Hall\, 1000 Commonwealth Ave\, Newton\, MA\, 02459\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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