Massachusetts Peace Action

Boston Black Reparations and Its White Churches
2025-12-20 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Grace Church of All Nations, 33 Elm Hill Ave, United States
JOIN US AS WE ENGAGE OUR BELOVED WHITE CHURCHES IN BOSTON FOR A CONVERSATION ABOUT “WHAT IS OWED TO BLACKS IN BOSTON!” SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 11 AM. GRACE CHURCH OF ALL NATIONS. 33 ELM HILL AVE. Dorchester. Open invitation.

Stop Trump’s Blockade of Venezuela
2025-12-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Park Street Station, Tremont St and Park Street, Boston, MA, 02108, United States
Saturday, December 20th @ 1pm
Outside Park Street station in Boston
Join us Saturday, December 20, at 1:00 PM at Park Street Station to rally
against war.
On Tuesday President Trump proclaimed “I am ordering a Total and Complete Blockade of all sanctioned Oil Tankers going into and out of Venezuela…Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada every assembled in the history of South America. It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before.”
The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court clearly defines “the blockade of the ports or coasts of a State by the armed forces of another State” as an act of aggression. This proclamation is an act of war. In response Venezuela’s government ordered its navy to escort tankers from port, escalating the risk of confrontation (Boston Globe Dec. 18).
This blockade is only the latest U.S. provocation that includes murdering 95 civilians in boats off South America’s coast (Deliberately killing 2 survivors of these attacks while in the water); declaring a No Fly Zone over all Venezuelan airspace; and last week seizing an oil tanker carrying Venezuelan oil on the high seas. President Trump has told us that these attacks are only the beginning.
These provocations are backed up by a vast war armada, equipped with the most modern missiles and bombers, sitting off Venezuela’s coast, In addition 15,000 U.S. soldiers on those ships and in Puerto Rico are ready to invade at a moment’s notice.
With the situation getting more dangerous by the day, the goal of the rally is to call on everyone to do what they can to prevent war.
Join us to Demand:

An immediate end to the Blockade of Venezuela’s ports
Ending Trump’s piracy of oil tankers on the high seas.
Stopping all executions of civilians in small boats off the coast of South America

And most important, withdraw all the U.S. warships and weapons from the coast of Venezuela and bring our sailors, airmen and marines home for the holidays where they belong.

Justice 4 All Thursdays
2025-12-25 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-01 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-08 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-15 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-22 11:00 - 13:00 | 1000 District Avenue Burlington, MA 01803 United States, 1000 District Avenue, Burlington, 01803, United States
Via Turn Purple 2 Blue:

Greater Assabet Indivisible Network (GAIN) invites you to stand in solidarity with immigrants and resistance to ICE and their cruel and lawless detention of our neighbors Thursdays from 11am-1pm. Regardless of any other political views, you are welcome to join us and demand Justice 4 All so long as you do so non-violently.
Our friends at Bearing Witness have been hosting gatherings at this location for many weeks. We are an unaffiliated group, but very much aligned with their values and mission. Our goal is to add to the total number of hours that citizens stand in non-violent opposition to the deplorable detainment conditions at this location. If you have been to Bearing Witness on Wednesdays, we would love to have you at Justice 4 All Thursdays.
Schedule (Starting Thursday, September 4 – more dates to follow)
11:00-11:30 Welcome; music; announcements
11:30-12:30 Stand with signs along District Ave
12:30-1:00 Optional short march down to Mall Rd.
What happens at this ICE office?
ICE personnel depart from District Ave. in unmarked vans with tinted windows on missions to abduct immigrants across New England. Immigrants may also show up at the office for appointments. The facility on District Ave was never intended to be a detention center, yet immigration lawyers and media interviews reveal that people are now being housed here in conditions that have been called “abysmal” and “unsanitary.”
What to expect at Justice 4 All?
We are committed to nonviolence, and we stand peacefully with signs outside the facility. We do not block the entrance, we do not physically approach ICE agents as they walk to/from the parking lot, and we do not block traffic on District Ave.
Signs
This is a very targeted action outside the ICE facility, so it’s not the venue for protesting other causes. Even though we care deeply about other issues, while outside ICE we must remain focused on immigration.
Parking and other tips
For parking, please use the Macy’s overflow lot (75 Burlington Mall Road, follow signs for Macy’s, see map). For those with mobility challenges, please keep in mind that the lots closest to ICE — the FAA lot beside ICE and the BAE Systems lot directly across the street from ICE — have both been blocked off. There are restaurants nearby (Clover, Pressed Cafe, Chipotle) to get food and use the bathroom. Before arriving, please consider your own self-preservation (citizenship status) and self-care (sunscreen, hydration, etc.)

No Fear with Street Theater
2025-12-27 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-03 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-10 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-17 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-24 11:00 - 13:00 | 1000 District Avenue Burlington, MA 01803 United States, 1000 District Avenue, Burlington, 01803, United States
Join the new protest group, “No Fear Street Theater” for weekly protests on Saturdays starting October 11th from 11am to 1pm. Stand up for immigrants two blocks from the Burlington ICE office. All are welcomed and encouraged to support our immigrant community. The protests will be held at Burlington Mall Rd. at District Avenue.

First Night Against all Wars
2025-12-31 12:00 - 17:00 | Park Street Station, Tremont St and Park Street, Boston, MA, 02108, United States

Rally for Palestine
2025-12-31 17:00 - 19:00 | Park Street Station, Tremont St and Park Street, Boston, MA, 02108, United States

Stop Regime Change War on Venezuela!
2026-01-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Park Street Station, Tremont St and Park Street, Boston, MA, 02108, United States
Saturday, January 3rd @ 3pm
Outside Park Street station in Boston
Northampton Town Hall
Holyoke Veterans Memorial Park
President Trump’s illegal acts of war against Venezuela are a violation of US, military, and international law. The United States has been engaged in a carefully orchestrated series of ever-increasing provocations against Venezuela culminating in the bombing of Caracas and the abduction of the Venezuelan president and his wife.
The US government started with attacks on small fishing boats and murdered the survivors of the attacks. It went farther, seizing an oil tanker and bringing it to a US port, planning to steal the oil. The Trump administration has now unilaterally launched a regime change war against Venezuela
We Demand:

No to Regime Change
No to Decapitation
No to Military Attack
Bring our Forces Home
Get the CIA out of Venezuela

Join us Saturday, January 3rd, at 3:00 PM at Park Street Station, Northampton Town Hall, and Holyoke’s Veterans Memorial Park to rally against war.
This is urgent. Our country is moving towards authoritarianism so quickly that we must oppose it with like speed.

Sumud: Film Screening & Discussion
2026-01-05 18:45 - 20:30 | Jamaica Plain
Please join us as we view and discuss SUMUD: A Doctor’s Report on Genocide and Survival. The film follows an American anesthesiologist volunteering in Gaza, with commentary on the genocide by Omar El-Akkad, Egyptian-Canadian journalist.
A discussion will follow the 27 min. viewing of the film with the film’s director, Jan Haaken, and co-founder of Doctors Against Genocide, Dr. Karameh Hamash-Kuemmerle. Nancy Murray, representing the Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine and the Gaza Mental Health Foundation, will facilitate.
About the film: vimeo.com/1140284630
In solidarity, we will be fundraising for Gaza Mental Health Foundation and Doctors Against Genocide.
Accessibility & transportation: Masks required. Please see the registration form for more information.
In collaboration with JVP Boston, BWC, Sawa, MAPA, INN Boston, DAG, and the Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine
When: Monday, January 5, 6:45 – 8:30pm
Where: Jamaica Plain, exact location shared following registration
Register here: tinyurl.com/sumudboston

Can’t make it? You can still donate.
– Gaza Mental Health Foundation: gazamentalhealth.org/support
– Doctors Against Genocide: doctorsagainstgenocide.org/donate

What is Trump’s Golden Dome? Are We Paying for Ineffective Missile Defense and a Spiraling Nuclear Arms Race?
2026-01-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Online Event
Missile Defense, as the term implies, is defending against enemy missiles carrying an explosive payload. The origin of these anti-missile systems dates back to the Cold War space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, an era when intercontinental ballistic missiles could be deployed in space to launch satellites to orbit or travel thousands of miles carrying nuclear weapons. Missile defense systems were deployed by both superpowers in the 1960s, but proved to be technically infeasible and prohibitively expensive. They were ultimately abandoned.
Feasibility and cost notwithstanding, the U.S. military and weapons contractors succeeded in pursuing these systems during the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush administrations. Now, Donald Trump has launched the ambitious Golden Dome project, yet another missile defense program based on technologies and space-based interceptors proven to be unworkable.
In this webinar, we will hear three experts discuss the technical and policy aspects of Golden Dome.
Ted Postol, professor emeritus at MIT, is an internationally known analyst and long-time critic of the missile defense program. He has held positions at the Argonne National Laboratory, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the Pentagon, where he functioned as scientific advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations and technical and policy advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At Stanford, he helped build a weapons technology training program for development and arms control policy. His awards include the 1995 Hilliard Roderick Prize in Science, Arms Control, and International Security from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) which lauded him as “by-far the strongest, technically-trained, independent arms control analyst of his generation” and the mentor of “a whole generation of independent arms control policy analysts.” He has been awarded for whistle-blowing about governmental false claims about missile defenses like the Patriot system in the 1991 Gulf War. He is a member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations, a board member of The Committee for the Republic, and a former editor of the journal International Security.
Daryl Kimball is the Executive Director of the Arms Control Association (ACA), Washington, DC, where since 2001 he has led the organization’s advocacy campaigns on major issues including cancellation of new nuclear weapons programs, the 2010 New START agreement, the 2015 P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, the entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and strengthening the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. He is publisher of the organization’s monthly journal, Arms Control Today, a frequent expert source for reporters and policymakers, and has written and spoken extensively about all matters related to nuclear arms control. Previously, he was the executive director of the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers, and the Director of Security Programs for Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). There, he helped to expose and accelerate the cleanup of a toxic, Cold War-era nuclear weapons production site in his hometown of Oxford, Ohio, led the advocacy for the 1992 nuclear test moratorium in Congress and for the U.N.’s endorsement of the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
Subrata Ghoshroy, a former Senior Defense Analyst for the Government Accountability Office (GAO), was the lead Technical Evaluator for its investigation into allegations of fraud in the missile defense program. When the GAO tried to cover up his discovery that contractors were lying about a $100-million test, he blew the whistle and quit the GAO shortly afterwards. He then joined MIT as a Research Affiliate with the Program in Science, Technology, and Society.
Linda Pentz Gunter, moderator, is the curator and editor of Beyond Nuclear International and the international specialist at Beyond Nuclear. Prior to her work in anti-nuclear advocacy, she was a journalist for 20 years in print and broadcast, working for USA Network, Reuters, The Times (UK) and other US and international outlets.
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No War at Home, No War Abroad
2026-01-10 12:00 - 14:00 | Massachusetts State House, 24 Beacon St, Boston

Justice for Renee Good - ICE out of Massachusetts
2026-01-10 14:00 - 16:00 | JFK Federal Building, Cambridge St at Sudbury St, Boston, MA, 02108, United States

What’s going on in Palestine
2026-01-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Online Event
Trump’s “Peace Proposal”, the UN Security Council resolution and their significance for the future of Gaza
Phyllis Bennis and Richard Falk will focus on the developments on the ground in Gaza, the US role and Trump’s “peace” plan, the consequences of the latest UN Security Council resolution, and what the UN has done and failed to do regarding the genocide. They will also talk about the current situation in the West Bank.
Phyllis Bennis is Program Director at the Institute for Policy Studies; in 2001 helped found the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, served 6 Years on the board of Jewish Voice for Peace. She is author of the 2025 Understanding Palestine and Israel (Interlink Books).
Richard Falk is former UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories for the UN Human Rights Council 2008-2014. He is Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University.
Sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund; cosponsored by the International Peace Bureau and Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security.

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US Aggression towards Venezuela and its Repercussions for Latin America (a WIRN webinar)
2026-01-14 20:00 - 21:30 | Online Event
Wedenesday January 14th @ 8PM

The recent U.S. military attacks and threats on Venezuela are just its latest acts of war on its southern neighbor. Since the rise of Hugo Chavez, there have been coup attempts, sanctions, subversive support of the right-wing opposition, theft of financial assets, and the widespread dissemination of lies and propaganda portraying Venezuela as a threat to the U.S. But now, the Trump regime appears more determined than ever to bring about regime change in this country that has the largest proven reserves of oil in the world.
The danger of this U.S aggression is not just to the people of Venezuela, but to the rest of Latin America as well, especially to the targeted nations of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Colombia. The U.S., under the banner of the Monroe Doctrine, considers all of Latin America its sphere of influence and means to reinvigorate its dominance and exploitation of natural resources there. Capturing Venezuela would be a jewel in the imperial crown, but it would also inevitably lead to more and more neo-colonization throughout the hemisphere.

Speakers:
John Perry, based in Nicaragua, is with the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition and writes for the Grayzone, London Review of Books, FAIR, Covert Action and elsewhere
Roger Harris taught political science at a Historically Black College in Mississippi in the late 1960s and was involved in the civil rights movement and community organizing in East Harlem, New York City. He is a co-founder of the Venezuela Solidarity Network and was an election accompanier for the last presidential election in Venezuela. Roger is on the state central committee of the California Peace and Freedom Party and on the board of the human rights organization, the Task Force on the Americas. He is on the program committee of the Marxist Forum and on the secretariat of the US Peace Council. He is active in the SanctionsKill campaign and the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition. His political writings may be regularly found at Counterpunch, LA Progressive, Antiwar.com, Venezuelanalysis, and the Orinoco Tribune.

Hands off Venezuela
2026-01-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Greenfield Town Common, Court Square, Greenfield, MA, 01301, United States

No Wars. No ICE. No Kings.
2026-01-17 12:00 - 14:00 | Government Center, Boston, MA, United States

Hands off Venezuela!
2026-01-17 15:00 - 17:00 | Lincoln Square, Worcester, MA, 01608, United States

Matthew Hoh: Ukraine War, End it Now or Lose Much More Later
2026-01-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Online Event
Attendees of this webinar will hear Matthew Hoh discuss the military, economic and political state of the Ukraine War as it nears its 4th anniversary. He will discuss the ongoing negotiations to end the Ukraine War and why ending the war is an imperative for all sides. He will summarize the current military, economic and political realities for Ukraine and Russia, as well as Europe and the US, and provide his thoughts on what a successful negotiated settlement may look like. He will also discuss the potential consequences if a political settlement to the war is not reached and it continues into its fifth year. Finally, he will discuss the dangers that will continue even if there is a peace agreement and why demilitarization and a renewed effort to rebuild a wrecked United Nations system are urgently needed.
Matthew Hoh is a disabled Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War and former Afghan War State Department Officer. In 2009, after being appointed to the Foreign Service, Hoh resigned his post in Afghanistan over the Obama administration’s escalation of the Afghan War. He is now an analyst and commentator on foreign and military policy issues as a senior fellow with the Eisenhower Media Network. He serves on the advisory boards of many peace organizations, including Veterans for Peace and World Beyond War, and is an associate member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
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Boston Solidarity with Minnesota Rally
2026-01-23 15:00 - 17:00 | South Bay Shopping Center, 7 Allstate Rd., Boston, 02125
On Friday, January 23, 2026
South Bay Mall, Dorchester, MA
On Friday, January 23, 2026, UAW Region 9A, labor and other community organizations are gathering for mass rallies and marches in solidarity with Minneapolis-St. Paul and their call for a national “Day of Truth and Freedom” as they face an expanding occupation and escalating ICE violence. Following the shooting of Renee Good and increased repression and intimidation by ICE, multiple Minnesota unions have called for a general strike and economic blackout in the cities.
Join us at 3pm at South Bay Mall in Dorchester (meet near Home Depot) as we stand together in collective power.

Wajib
2026-01-23 19:00 - 20:30 | St James Episcopal Church – Parish Hall, 1991 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02140
To launch our Palestine film series, we present Wajib (2017). The film offers a rare, intimate, and authentic glimpse into the everyday lives of middle-class Palestinians in Nazareth. It is a humorous family drama about a father and his estranged son forced to spend a day together delivering wedding invitations by hand. Wajib artfully weaves the realities of living under occupation into the fabric of everyday interactions, rather than presenting overt political statements. Snippets of news on the radio, interactions with Israeli authorities, and discussions about the choices Palestinians make to survive all serve as a subtle but constant reminder of the political context, offering a deep, thoughtful exploration of identity, exile, and compromise.
Released in 2017, Wajib was directed by Annemarie Jacir, and won 36 international film awards. Jacir’s new film Palestine 36 is the Palestine submission for an international film Oscar. The main actors are Mohammad and his son, Saleh Bakri.
Our screening honors Mohammad Bakri, a well known actor and producer who passed away on December 25. Bakri also worked as a director, including directing the 2002 film Jenin, Jenin in which he interviewed residents of the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank who claimed mass destruction and the killing of Palestinians by Israeli forces during Operation Defensive Shield. The film drew a lot of controversy in Israel and was quickly banned by the Israeli Film Board from being screened.
Sponsored by the MAPA Education Fund. The screening will be followed by an appreciation of Bakri and a discussion led by a Palestinian who is from Nazareth. Light refreshments.
Order your tickets here.

Film Showing: "The Next Dream.” Temporary Protected Status
2026-01-24 15:00 - 17:00 | Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St, Boston, 02116
Join us on January 24, from 3-5 at Boston Community Church to watch « The Next Dream », a documentary about the history of the TPS Program and what is at stake with its defense and the need for a path to Citizenship.
Like in the past, and to-day more then ever, its need has come out of the policies of our Government, defending dictatorships or promoting economic policies that starve democracies. El Salvador and Venezuela are just a few examples.
Hear from those directly affected and discuss ways we can support them.

ICE out of our Cities
2026-01-25 18:00 - 19:00
Register here: https://bit.ly/466rwUf

Militarism vs the Care Economy and Degrowth
2026-01-26 18:00 - 19:30 | Online Event
At this critical time, when climate change and war are devastating the planet and causing tremendous suffering, the current political climate is taking everything in the wrong direction. The system of endless growth and accumulation of wealth in fewer and fewer hands at the expense of everyone else and the earth cannot be sustained. How can we do more than hold back the most extreme antidemocratic and environmentally destructive measures and work together to realize a common vision of a livable world? Speakers Harrris Gruman, Juan Jose De Blas and Anna Prouty will address how we can transition from the current disaster/militarist economy to a peace, climate, and justice-oriented care and degrowth economy. They will lay out some of the principles and benefits of a care economy and degrowth and talk about practical steps we can take here in the US to bring about the world we want to see.
Speakers:
Harris Gruman – Executive Director of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) State Council. He is co-founder and co-chair of Raise Up Massachusetts, a coalition of 150 organizations which successfully campaigned to raise the minimum wage to $15, enact paid family and medical leave, and pass the Fair Share Amendment, aka millionaire’s tax. A veteran of decades of successful issue and electoral work in community and labor organizing, he is an astute political strategist. A former executive director of the Neighbor to Neighbor Education Fund, he studied at Johns Hopkins University. At MAPA, he is a member of the Board of Directors, the Ukraine Committee, and of the Peace and the Working Class Working Group.
Juan Jose Deblas is an active member of the International Degrowth Network as well as the Spanish member group Red Decrecer para Vivir. He sees degrowth as an opportunity to rethink the world’s economic and social systems, address the imbalance between the Global North and South, and protect humanity’s most vulnerable. He is Coordinator of the IDN practice circle, Secretary of organizing and general circles, and helping with European newsletter. He helped organize the September 2025 Beyond Growth conference in the Spanish parliament.
Anna Prouty, Media + Outreach Coordinator at the Degrowth Institute, is a writer, artist and community organizer living in Cascadia. She is the media and outreach coordinator for DGI, and coordinates the Policy Working Group. She was also a co-founder of DegrowUS. When not at DGI, she works for the Center for Rural Livelihoods in Oregon, and organizes around economic democracy, land restoration and bioregionalism. Her debut novel, Genesis, will be released in summer 2026 by Vine Leaves Press.
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