Arise and Resist: Organizing for Peace and Justice Under Repression

Media Arts Center, Roxbury Community College 1234 Columbus Ave, Roxbury, MA, United States

Arise and Resist: Organizing for Peace and Justice Under Repression January 19, 2025, 9:30am - 5:00 pm Roxbury Community College, Media Arts Center, 1234 Columbus Ave., Boston, MA 02119 Speakers Dr. Lara Jirmanus, press coordinator of the Vote No Preference MA campaign and a leading [...]

Defeat Trump’s Extreme-Right Billionaire Agenda

JFK Federal Building Cambridge St at Sudbury St, Boston, MA, United States

Build the fight back movement to defend our communities from the anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and anti-working class policies of the Trump administration.  

Let This Radicalize You: MAPA Winter Common Read

Zoom Online Meeting

The Common Read is a great fit for MAPA members and our interns, past and present. It is especially valuable to young organizers and instructive for all of us.  Authors Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba each have decades of organizing experience and they maintain that [...]

Reducing the Nation’s Spending for Nuclear Weapons

Online Event

Saturday Jan 25, 2025 Virtual Conference 2:00 - 5:30 pm (EST) The threat of nuclear war is increasing, rather than abating. Biden’s recent actions in the Russia/Ukraine conflict has sharply increased the danger. The tragic Israel/Gaza conflict continues to expand. Cold Warriors in high places [...]

Launch of the “Protect Our Immigrant Communities” Campaign

Massachusetts State House Steps 24 Beacon St, Boston, MA

On Wednesday, January 29th at 12 pm, join the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA), state lawmakers, and fellow advocates on the front steps of the Massachusetts State House for a rally launching the "Protect Our Immigrant Communities" campaign, stressing the steps Massachusetts must [...]

Yoon’s Failed South Korean Military Coup: Implications For Korea And The World

Online Event

Register to attend. In early December South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol announced a military coup. Given the Republic of Korea’s brutal history of military dictatorships, thousands of Koreans and opposition parties committed to upholding democracy immediately mobilized and reversed the declaration of martial law in [...]

A Midwinter Concert of Songs to Change the World

Friends Meeting at Cambridge 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge

A Midwinter Concert of Songs to Change the World Saturday, February 1st, 2025, 7pm-9pm The Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge MA, 02138 Don’t miss this gathering of music and inspiration followed by light refreshments. You will laugh, you will cry, but you will leave [...]

Let This Radicalize You: MAPA Winter Common Read

Zoom Online Meeting

The Common Read is a great fit for MAPA members and our interns, past and present. It is especially valuable to young organizers and instructive for all of us.  Authors Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba each have decades of organizing experience and they maintain that [...]

Colonialism & Money in Today’s World

Jamaica Plain Branch of the Boston Public Library 30 South St, Boston, MA, United States

Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF) Boston Join us for an engaging discussion on how the U.S. benefits from colonial economic structures in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas—and what we can do to counteract these injustices. Cost: Free (donations welcome for [...]

Reporting from the Frontlines of the Massacre

Online Event

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 [...]

Challenge Anti-Palestinian Racism at Commission Hearing

Massachusetts State House - room A-1 24 Beacon St, Boston, MA, United States

Are you concerned about anti-Palestinian racism promulgated under the umbrella of the Mass Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism? The 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 [...]

Stop the Coup

Boston Common - Parkman Bandstand Tremont St, Boston

Cosponsored by MAPA Co-Sponsoring Organizations (alphabetical) with frontline/impacted groups first (frontline are groups organized for and by an impacted group for that groups liberation) Impacted/Frontline Groups Asian American Resource Workshop Boston Coalition for Palestine Boston Dyke March Cosecha Massachusetts Essex County Community Organization (ECCO) Families [...]

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