Massachusetts Peace Action

No Fear with Street Theater
2026-03-21 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-03-28 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-04-04 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-04-11 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-04-18 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

End Trump's Oil blockade of Cuba
2026-03-21 12:00 - 13:00 | outside the T station at the corner of Park and Tremont, Downtown Boston, Tremont St & Park Street &, Winter St, Boston, MA 02108, boston, 02108, United States
A call for help tabling and petition gathering for Cuba this Saturday at noon at Park street station
This Saturday the international flotilla in solidarity with Cuba arrives for a big solidarity action in Havana. (They are delivering a significant amount of aid as well) Some of us are hoping to have an event in Boston in solidarity with those events in Cuba. Would you be available for a tabling/standout/leafleting event at Boston Common at noon. We hope to have at least a handful of people collecting signatures on our petition calling for an end to Trump’s oil blockade which has cast the island into darkness some or all of the time and is causing great harm to Cuba’s people.
Of course there is so much going on. but some of us thought that a Cuba solidarity action at this time when Trump is determined to overthrow Cuba’s government is very much in order and when a big solidarity action is taking place in Cuba itself. Please join us on Saturday at noon. If you have any questions call Paul Shannon at 617-623-5288 and leave a message.

Music for Peace : "Double Trouble Cello"
2026-03-21 19:30 - 21:15 | Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street , Boston
Join us on March 21st for a classical music experience! Music for Peace is delighted to present Double Trouble Cello featuring world renowned musicians, Sam Ou, Carol Ou, Jean Huang Baverstam, Paola Caballero, Dimitar Petkov, and Amy Galluzzo. Enjoy an evening filled with compositions by Anton Arensky and Franz Schubert.
During dark times, art serves as a light and powerful form of resistance. Let us come together and enjoy a bit of respite amdist the tragedies we face at home and abroad.
Program:
String Quartet No.2 in A Minor, Op. 35… Anton Arensky (1861-1906)
I. Moderato
II. Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky – Moderato
III. Finale: Andante sostenuto
Performed by:
Jean Huang Baverstam, violin
Amy Galluzzo, viola
Sam Ou & Carol Ou, cellos
~Intermission~
Strin Quintet in C Major, D. 956, Op. posth. 163 … Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
I. Allegro ma non troppo
II. Adagio
III. Scherzo Presto – Trio. Andante sostenuto
IV. Allegretto
Performed by:
Amy Galluzzo & Paola Caballero, violins
Dimitar Petkov, viola
Carol Ou & Sam Ou, cellos

About the Musicians:

Praised for his “impassioned performance” (Boston Globe) and playing “with remarkable ease and clarity, while maintaining a graceful—if vociferous—line that fit well into the narrative” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer), cellist Sam Ou enjoys an active musical life in the Greater Boston area. A recipient of the Rosemary Scales Prize for best cello concerto performance at the Kingsville International Young Performers Competition, Mr. Ou has performed at several prestigious summer venues including Tanglewood, Sarasota, Musicorda, Santa Fe, and La Jolla music festivals. Symphonically, Mr. Ou has played in the Boston Pops, Boston Landmarks, Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, Portland Symphony (Maine), and Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestras. Mr. Ou is assistant professor of cello and music theory at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. For the past two decades, he was a faculty member at NEC’s Preparatory School and School of Continuing Education.

Taiwanese violinist Jean Huang Baverstam is a consummate artist whose career is equally devoted to three interwoven roles: performer, music scholar, and educator. Her active performing career has brought her to concert halls worldwide, engaging audiences across the United States and internationally. WBUR-FM noted that they were “left speechless after having the chance to watch and listen to Jean Huang close up.” She has made multiple concerto appearances with the Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra, Brookline Symphony, WPI Philharmonic, and Music for Peace Orchestra, performing Vaughan Williams’ Lark Ascending and Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, among others.
Jean is a founding member of Trio Flamecrest, a new string trio formed by Carol Ou (cello) and Amy Galluzzo (violin and viola). The ensemble tours regularly across the United States and recently presented sold-out performances at Chamber Music Raleigh and in Woodstock, Vermont. Baverstam is an adjunct professor at Roger Williams University and serves on the faculty at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and School of Expanded Education.

Paola Caballero recently returned to Boston after more than a decade in Barcelona, where she was a member of the Orquestra de Cadaqués and regularly performed with the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (OBC). Throughout her career, she has collaborated with many of today’s most distinguished artists, including Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Janine Jansen, Isabelle Faust, Ray Chen, Augustin Hadelich, Lang Lang, Angela Gheorghiu, Plácido Domingo, and Jonas Kaufmann. Her discography includes recordings on the Naxos, Trito, and BMOP/Sound labels, and her performances have been featured by the Celebrity Series of Boston and on Medici.tv, one of the world’s leading classical music streaming platforms.
She studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, where she founded the Esperanto Trio. The ensemble made its debut at St. James’s Church, Piccadilly, and later appeared in a live BBC broadcast from the Barbican Centre as part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Festival. In addition to her performing career, Ms. Caballero is a dedicated educator. She was recently appointed Executive Director of the Lexington Chamber Music Center and serves as Artistic Director of the Point CounterPoint Chamber Music Festival, where she has been on faculty for twelve seasons. She also teaches at the New England Conservatory Preparatory Division, Project STEP, and the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Praised for her “nuanced Mozartian phrasing” and her “delicacy and, when needed, force” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), violinist and violist, Amy Galluzzo enjoys an active career as both a chamber musician and soloist. For many years, Amy was a member of the Carpe Diem String Quartet, touring around the United States and internationally, performing a wide range of repertoire. Amy has performed at several prestigious summer festivals, including the Tanglewood Music Festival, Chelsea Music Festival, Taos, and Sarasota Music Festival, and has collaborated with artists such as Masuko Ushioda, John Ferrillo, James Buswell and Carol Ou.
Amy Galluzzo began her violin studies in Great Britain and went on to study with Dona Lee Croft, a professor at the Royal College of Music, London. Amy received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music with Honors, and a Graduate Diploma from the New England Conservatory in Boston, where she studied with Marylou Speaker Churchill and James Buswell. She is currently a candidate for the degree of PhD from the Steinhardt School, New York University. Amy teaches through the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and Continuing Education department.

Dimitar Petkov is a Bulgarian violist who performs with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and serves as Principal Viola of the Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared in recitals and chamber ensembles across Europe and the United States and has served as Principal Viola with orchestras including the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Newton Symphony, and Southwest Florida Philharmonic. A dedicated educator, he teaches violin, viola, and chamber music at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and directs the Westford Chamber Players.

An award-winning cellist, Carol Ou is known for her “fiery, marvelous,” “meltingly melodic outpourings” (Boston Globe) and her “wonderfully pure cello tone and incisive technique” (The Strad). A founding member of Trio Flamecrest and Flamecrest Ensemble, Carol was a member of the Carpe Diem String Quartet and a longtime duo partner of legendary violinist James Buswell. Her solo and chamber music concerts have taken her to prestigious concert venues across the globe, including Carnegie Weill Hall, Jordan Hall, National Gallery of Art, Gardner Museum, National Concert Hall in Kiev, and the National Concert Hall of Taipei.
As a prize-winning recording artist, Carol’s discography includes solo and chamber music discs issued by Chi-Mei, Naxos, CRI, MSR, and Albany Records, much of them available on Spotify. Among her many recordings with the Carpe Diem String Quartet are Sergei Taneyev’s String Quartets (Vol. 4 & 5) on Naxos, and Reza Vali’s “The Book of Calligraphy” issued by Albany Records. Her Naxos recording of Walter Piston’s Chamber Music won the 2001 Chamber Music America’s Best Chamber Music CD award and her recording of Jeff Midkiff’s “Music for Mandolin & String Quartet” won the 2018 Global Music Awards gold medal.

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Thank you for your support, and may we make this world a better place, one note at a time.

Bearing Witness @ ICE
2026-03-25 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-04-01 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-04-08 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-04-15 11:00 - 13:00 | 1000 District Avenue Burlington, MA 01803 United States, 1000 District Avenue, Burlington, 01803, United States
Join Bearing Witness @ ICE outside the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) New England Headquarters office in Burlington, next to the Burlington Mall, every Wednesday from 11am-1pm.
Stand with us in solidarity to show our love & support, express our shame at ICE, and bear witness to the cruel and unconstitutional actions of our government. Regardless of your views on any other political issues, if you support immigrants and their constitutional rights and are committed to nonviolence, join us.
Schedule (every Wednesday)

11:00-11:30, Welcome and announcements
11:30-12:30, Stand or sit with signs; option to read the U.S. Constitution to ICE
12:30-1:00, Short walk along the sidewalk on District Ave to Mall Road

NOTE: Please sign up for our email list as we may cancel due to severe weather or other circumstances.
If you’re never attended a standout and are curious about signs, parking and more, click The Standout

Justice 4 All Thursdays
2026-03-26 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-04-02 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-04-09 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-04-16 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.)

US-Israeli Aggression against Iran: Escalation Risks and the Path to Wider War
2026-03-26 19:00 - 20:00 | Online Event
Dr. John Mearsheimer and Dr. Trita Parsi will present.
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No Kings, No War, No ICE!
2026-03-28 12:00 - 17:00 | Boston Common – Embrace statue, 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA, 02108
We the People are We the Powerful.
We will not stand for another illegal foreign war or for an authoritarian takeover of the United States.

Trump was defeated in Minneapolis and is losing in the courts, and wants to escape focus on the Epstein files.
Now, in his biggest attack on democracy yet, Trump, working closely with Netanyahu, has launched a massive unprovoked war of aggression against Iran. This war is a major violation of the U.S. constitution, the UN charter and international law. Its destructive impact is being felt across Middle East and the world. All this on top of Trump’s continued genocide in Palestine and phony “board of peace”, gratuitous murder of scores of people in small boats, seizure of oil tankers on the high seas, criminal kidnapping of the president of Venezuela and illegal oil blockade to overthrow the government of Cuba.
The framers of the Constitution put the power to declare war in the hands of Congress for a reason. We don’t want another war in the Middle East. We need to end this illegal war and bring the troops home. On March 28, we will speak out, expose President Trump’s lies, and demand Congress defund this war.
This war is costing a billion dollars a day – draining resources needed to sustain the well being of our neighbors and driving up the cost of everything. But Trump is proposing a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget while attacking healthcare, housing, education, and the climate.
Join us on the Boston Common and in cities and towns across Massachusetts to say: No Kings, No War, No ICE!
In Boston, sign up with MAPA to amplify the antiwar message. Meet at the MAPA table near the Embrace statue starting at 12pm to distribute our antiwar literature, petitions and postcards. Bring your antiwar, anti-ICE, anti-authoritarian signs and messages. We’ll provide signs and literature!
The Embrace statue is near Tremont St., about half way between Park St. and Boylston St. The MAPA table will be right next to the statue, on the other side of it from Tremont St. We will load in materials from Tremont St.
Table Setup Starts: 12 pm
Pathways to Power (visibility walk throughout the city with signs and banners): 1-2pm
Rally: 2-4pm
Action Tables Open: 1-5pm
In cities across Massachusetts, sign up with MAPA to bring the antiwar message to your local No Kings protest. Help organize the protest in your town, work with local protest organizers, and ensure that an antiwar message and speaker is foregrounded. Bring antiwar signs, banners and petitions to ensure that the No War, No ICE message is prominent. Print our literature or contact us to receive materials by postal.
Additionally, everyone, sign up for the overall No Kings III Boston mobilization or for the event in your own town.

MAPA materials to be distributed at No Kings III
Print and use in your town, or contact the office to get copies
The Peace Advocate newsletter – March 2026
Stop the Wars – Bring our Troops Home general antiwar petition
Stop the War on Iran half page flyer
Stop Trump’s War of Aggression Iran war pamphlet
Stop Trump’s War of Aggression Iran war petition
Time to End the Trump-Netanyahu Alliance Iran war petition
Stop the Continuing Genocide in Gaza petition
Stop Trump’s Threats against Cuba pamphlet
Stop the Illegal War on Venezuela pamphlet
Stop the Illegal War on Iran 18 x 24 coroplast yard sign
Stop the Illegal War on Iran 11 x 17 printable poster

Observations from Gaza
2026-03-29 15:00 - 17:00 | Porter Sq Cambridge – details TBA
RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/2ujkeavb

Defending Campus and Schools Expression
2026-04-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Event
The AAUP and AFT have organized a national campaign resisting the Trump attacks on our campuses, to engage faculty, staffs, students and alumni The call is for teach-ins on the first Fridays of the month leading up to a national event on Friday May 1, 2026. Many college and university campuses lack active AAUP chapters or AFT locals. However, many Peace and Justice advocacy groups have members or supporters on local campuses. To advance the Days of Action Campaign the Books Not Bombs Committee is hosting a series of Zoom Teach-ins. The fifth in our Zoom Teach-ins will be Friday April 3, 4-5 pm.
– Welcome and Our Tasks- Owen Madaus (Books Not Bombs Committee);
– Plans for May Day in Mass, Friday May 1, 2026 – Jeremy Shenk & Liz Eng (AFTMA);
– Protecting Campus Speech – Prof. Isaac Kamola (AAUP Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom);
– Pressing Urban School Budget Issues – Erik Berg (Pres. Boston Teachers Union);
– Ongoing Student Organizing on Campuses – Hannah Markel, Jessica Valatka (UMass, Amherst);
– Promoting Free Speech in Mass Public Schools – Dr. Aaron Shakow (Concerned Jewish Faculty and Staff);
– Key Budget & Education debates in the MA State Legislature, Including Proposed Referenda – Harris Gruman (SEIU1199);
– Opposing Supplementary Funding for War –Jonathan King (Mass Peace Action Ed Fund and MIT AAUP));
– Publicity and Outreach for May Day events.

Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up
2026-04-06 17:45 - 19:45 | Easthampton Library Annex, 52 Main St, Easthampton, MA, 01027
Boats of armed Cuban Americans trying to land in Cuba like a little Bay of Piglets. Trump cutting off all oil and threatening military action “I can do anything I want with the Island”. Threatening countries in the Caribbean with who knows what if they use Cuba’s medical services. And calling Cuba a terrorist and hostile country. Who’s the terrorist?

The inimitable Saul Landau with his partner Danny Glover, take on the question in this 1 hour film: Will the Real Terrorist Stand Up. Then we will have a discussion — including a report back on the Nuestra America Convoy that just went to Cuba from 36 countries with some 500 people, including 150 people from the US, and several tons of medical aid delivered to hospitals and clinics. Hope you can come. And please take this action to tell Congress to pass this resolution forbidding Trump to take military action without consulting Congress.

Antiwar Open House
2026-04-07 18:00 - 19:00 | St James Episcopal Church, 1991 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02140
Almost 1,000 people signed petitions, carried signs, and reached out at NO KINGS III last Saturday, March 28, to express resistance to Trump’s wars on Iran and various other countries. The signed petitions will be sent to our elected officials in Congress to let them know we expect them to stand up to the KING and cut off all funding for his disastrous wars. Opposition to these wars carried out by a cruel King is building and media coverage of the massive NO KINGS demonstrations around the country make it clear that rage among young people against the U.S.-Israeli illegal war of aggression against Iran was a top reason for many young people joining.
We are Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA). Every day we work to stop this KING’s wars and end his cruelty toward our immigrant neighbors as we try to build a country on the bedrock of community. Do you think you would like to get more involved in preventing Trump from sending ICE into our cities and ground troops into Iran? Or stopping his $200 billion request for additional funding for his war against Iran war, funding that is taken from our own communities? Or creating a solid wall of opposition to his collaboration with the continuing genocide in Gaza? Or ending his illegal oil blockade of Cuba that is wreaking such suffering on its people? Or standing against his continuing extra-judicial murders of civilians in boats in the Caribbean, his abduction of Venezuela’s President, and his insistence that he will run Venezuela and take its oil?
The meeting will be held in the Lounge of St. James Episcopal Church, three blocks north of Porter Square in Cambridge. The location can be confusing. If you have not been to the venue before, please review these directions and arrive a few minutes early to make sure you find us! (The directions page are for the Parish Hall which is right across the hall from the Lounge.)

Emergency Protests: Stop the US-Israeli War on Iran
2026-04-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Park Street Station, Tremont St and Park Street, Boston, MA, 02108, United States
Rally to demand a complete end to the US-Israel Wars on Iran and Lebanon
Wednesday, April 8
Boston, 6pm – Park Street Station
Lowell, 6pm – City Hall
Worcester, 6pm – City Hall
Holyoke, 6:30 pm – Veterans Memorial Park
Easthampton, 5pm – Nashwannuck Pond
On Tuesday morning, President Trump threatened to commit mass war crimes in Iran: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” if the Iranian government did not meet his demands by 8 PM.
90 minutes before the deadline, the President announced that an agreement had been reached for a two-week ceasefire. The exact details of the deal are unclear. What is clear is that the President of the United States is conducting foreign policy by threatening genocide.
In the last 5 weeks, the governments of Israel and the United States have killed over 1,600 civilians, including 244 children, in Iran. Simultaneously, Israel has killed over 1500 Lebanese people, including 130 children, with US weapons, and ethnically cleansed South Lebanon. They have deceptively used the cover of diplomacy to assassinate Iranian negotiators and leaders. They have endangered the entire region and wasted billions of dollars. They have created an unnecessary shock on the world economy that is threatening the wellbeing of billions.
A ceasefire agreement is welcome, but it is not enough. President Trump has revealed that he is dangerously unfit for office. Tomorrow, we will join with activists across the world to call for an immediate and complete end to the illegal wars on Iran and Lebanon.
Boston rally sponsored by MAPA, About Face, Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine, Answer Coalition, Boston Democratic Socialists of America, CD8 for Palestine, If Not Now, Jewish Voice for Peace Boston, Mass. 50501, Military Families Speak Out, National Iranian American Council, Palestinian Youth Movement, SEIU Local 509, Standing Up for Racial Justice, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Veterans for Peace.

Cuba Under Siege: What Happens Next?
2026-04-08 20:00 - 21:00 | Online Event
Rafael Hernández, leading scholar of both Cuban politics and Cuba-US relations takes on the question of the outlook and options for Cuba in the face of the US all out siege and oil blockade. How long can Cuba hold out? What is the nature of the crisis internally? What are the plans and prospects for the Cuban government in the face of this dire situation?
Hernández is a Cuban writer, scholar and political analyst. He is the editor of Revista Temas, the leading Cuban magazine in the social sciences and the humanities, temas.cult.cu, with its blog Catelejo, a space for other well known Cuban intellectuals, with articles such as the recent, Is Cuba Collapsing, by Marta Nuñez. He leads a monthly gathering, Ultimo Jueves, which brings together intellectuals, academics and ordinary Cubans to discuss and debate the pressing issues of the day. His publications include several books and essays on Cuban and U.S. policies, inter-American relations, international security, migration, Cuban culture, civil society and politics, including Looking at Cuba: Essays on Culture and Civil Society (2001), The Other War: Studies on Strategy and International Security (2000), The History of Havana (2006) and Shall We Play Ball? Debating U.S.-Cuban Relations (2011).

Merri Ansara, moderator, is the coordinator of the Cuba Subcommittee in MAPA’s Latin America/Caribbean Working Group (LA/CWG) . She has just returned from the Nuestra America convoy to Cuba.
Sponsored by MAPA Education Fund, cosponsored by CodePink and by HotHouse: the Center for International Exhibition and Performance.

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From Ground Zero
2026-04-09 18:30 - 21:00 | St James Episcopal Church – Parish Hall, 1991 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02140
We present From Ground Zero, a powerful collection of short films by 22 Palestinian filmmakers living through war and genocide in Gaza.
The stories in Palestine’s Official Submission for the 2025 Academy Awards, From Ground Zero, capture the unyielding steadfastness of the human spirit and enduring creativity that thrives even in the face of relentless devastation through a unique blend of animation, documentary, and fiction.
From Ground Zero was created by filmmaker Rashid Masharawi and designed to give a voice to the people of Gaza and to document their day-to-day experiences, many of which often go unheard by the outside world. In a war-torn society, where artistic creation is extremely complex, the project sought to capture the diversity of perspectives of Gazans through slice-of-life short films, ranging anywhere from three to six minutes in length. Filmmakers were allowed to tell their story through any genre and cinematic storytelling platform, from fiction to documentary to animation.
After the film we will hear from Zohaib Qureshi, a doctor in physical therapy. Dr. Qureshi works in Neuro-Oncology Amputee Rehab in Dallas, Texas. He volunteered in Gaza and came back in March 2026.
The film will be shown in the Parish Hall of St. James Episcopal Church, three blocks north of Porter Square in Cambridge. The location can be confusing. If you have not been to the venue before, please review these directions and arrive a few minutes early to make sure you find us!

Venezuela: What Really Happened January 3? What is Happening Now?
2026-04-13 20:00 - 21:30 | Online Event
Two leading activists and former members of the Bolivarian government will speak to these questions, and then answer yours as we continue to build a movement to support the Bolivarian Revolution, the Venezuelan people, and the President of that country, kidnapped and held for ransom.
Micaela Ovelar, former political advisor to President Hugo Chavez and currently professor of Political Studies, Government and International Relations at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela, as well as a member of the “State and Social Protests” Study Group at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela; the “Social Movements and Rural and Urban Education” Study and Research Group at the State University of Southwest Bahia (UESB), Brazil; and serves on the Editorial Board of the journal *Práticas Educativas, Memórias e Oralidades* (Revpemo) at the Federal University of Ceará (UECE), Fortaleza, Brazil.
Leonardo Flores, Venezuelan-American political analyst and activist with CODEPINK. He is a founding member of the Venezuela Solidarity Network and worked as a consultant with the Alliance for Cuba Engagement and Respect. His articles have been published in CounterPunch, Common Dreams, and Peoples Dispatch, among others. Leonardo’s media appearances include Democracy Now, Telesur, RT and Pacifica Network radio stations.
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Sponsored by MAPA Education Fund; cosponsored by CODEPINK

No to Nuclear
2026-04-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Online Event
…Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress and Provokes War

Join us for a discussion of Linda Pentz Gunter’s newly published book No To Nuclear: Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress and Provokes War in a webinar moderated by Chris Nord of the C-10 Research and Education Foundation.
The nuclear power industry wants us to believe that theirs is the only technical fix for our deliverance from the climate crisis. While the public, politicians and the media have been easily swayed, Gunter blasts aside the industry’s claims that it is safe and green. In No to Nuclear, she compellingly argues that nuclear power is too slow, too expensive, too dangerous and too integrally connected to the nuclear weapons complex to serve as a rational energy choice. She reveals how the nuclear sector not only fundamentally harms the lives of Indigenous peoples and communities of color but also devalues nature and the environment. In short, the nuclear power industry is costing us the chance of a genuinely just energy transition.
Linda Pentz Gunter is the founder and executive director of the US-based non-profit Beyond Nuclear. The organization works to educate the public, media and decision-makers about the necessity to abolish nuclear power and nuclear weapons and the inextricable link between the two. Previously, she was a journalist at USA Network, Reuters, and The Times. She launched, and writes for Beyond Nuclear’s online magazine, Beyond Nuclear International.
Chris Nord is the co-founder and Board member of the C-10 Research and Education Foundation – whose mission includes real-time radiological monitoring near the Seabrook atomic reactor, as well as education the public about safe and sustainable energy a alternatives. He is Vice-President of the Citizens Awareness Network and founding member and non-violence trainer of the Clamshell Alliance. He is the creator of the presentation “Nuclear Spent Fuel and Homeland Security: The Case for Hardened Storage.” and also co-producer of “Circles Around the Fire”, a 30-minute slide/video program on nuclear power in New England.
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Sponsored by MAPA Nuclear Disarmament Working Group, New Hampshire Peace Action, Peace Action Maine, and New Jersey Peace Action. Cosponsored by Commonwealth Coalition for Democracy & Safe Energy, Clamshell Aliance, and MAPA Indigenous Solidarity.
To purchase a copy of Linda’s book, click the linked title here: No To Nuclear: Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress And Provokes War
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Don't Say Palestine; Repression and Resistance in Higher Ed
2026-04-15 18:30 - 20:00 | Cambridge TBA
REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/dsp41526 This will be in Cambridge, MA – location coming soon
Jewish Voice for Peace Boston invites you to hear from academic workers who have been harmed by the weaponization of antisemitism in Massachusetts. This panel will situate local attacks on education about Palestine within the broader landscape of national attacks as well as strategies to resist this repression.
PANELISTS WILL INCLUDE:
Thomas Abowd: Former Tufts University faculty member; now Sociology faculty member, Bentley University
Anna Feder: Former Emerson College staff and part-time faculty member
Michel DeGraff: Former MIT Professor of Linguistics; now “Faculty at Large” at MIT
Katherine Franke: Former Professor of Law, Columbia University
Sponsored by JVP Boston, cosponsored by MAPA

Standout for Palestinian Political Prisoners
2026-04-17 17:00 - 18:00 | Park Street Station, Tremont St and Park Street, Boston, MA, 02108, United States

CCB Concert Live & In Person : Ben Grosscup
2026-04-17 19:00 - 21:00
Ben Grosscup is an American singer songwriter and activist.

“I sing about the ideas and values of the revolutionary social movements I’m part of. Drawing upon activist folk singing traditions, I brings new songs to the rallies, strikes, picket lines where they’re most relevant. I lead purposeful group singing that raises political consciousness.” — Ben Grosscup

BEN GROSSCUP has spent decades using music as a tool for change. A labor troubadour and song leader, he brings music to picket lines, rallies, and union meetings to build solidarity and sustain morale during struggle. Drawing on activist folk traditions, his songs connect workers’ fights for justice, collective action, and power on the job with the threat of imperial violence across the entire world.
He is regularly found on picket lines—including the historic 2026 NYC nurses strike—as well as at anti-war rallies, actions to abolish ICE, and other spaces where working people are fighting for a better future. His repertoire ranges from original songs to covers of politically inspired songwriters.
Ben’s work is rooted in the revolutionary social movements he’s part of: anti-imperialism, Palestine solidarity, labor, immigrant rights, and ecology. He lives in Western Massachusetts. https://linktr.ee/BenGrosscup
Photo: Julian Parker Burns
The concert is co sponsored by The Community Church of Boston and Massachusetts Peace Action
This concert is FREE and hosted by The Community Church of Boston. The links to Zoom and YouTube are below. But we hope you will donate generously to THE PERFORMERS. You can buy a ticket from this Eventbrite page, or make a sliding scale donation. Or you can feed the Paypal Tipjar on the night of the show”….ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE PERFORMERS.
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Join us In Person in the Lothrop Auditorium, on Zoom or YouTube:
Small elevator, wheelchair accessible.
CCB is located near the Orange line-Back Bay or the Green line-Copley T Stops. Limited on Street Parking or at Back Bay Parking Garage, 199 Clarendon Street. Discount Vouchers available for parking in the garage.

Boston Community Hearing On Renaming Faneuil Hall
2026-04-18 13:00 - 17:00 | Grove Hall Public Library, 41 Geneva Ave, Dorchester, MA, 02121, United States
Addressing what our public monuments and public buildings means to us in important. Symbols matter. Faneuil Hall, in Boston’s government center, is historic in many positive ways. It predates the founding of the nation and is widely recognized as the “cradle of liberty.” Yet, Faneuil Hall is named after a person who committed himself to the idea of white supremacy. Should Faneuil Hall, which is named after the slave owner and slave trader Peter Faneuil, retain its name? We say no. Our work on changing the name of Faneuil Hall is grounded in our corporate quest for racial repair. Our annual hunger fasting at Faneuil Hall is designed to educate the public that Peter Faneuil, as one of the city’s original founding fathers , was a profound racist who contributed nothing to the idea of democracy. Changing the name of Faneuil Hall stands as a pathway of addressing the wounds of race and slavery in the city, We claim that we must shake off our moral fogginess and address the issue of racial change for our collective and better future. Change the name!
To submit written testimony, send it via email to: AlanMTanner@gmail.com or the NewDemocracyCoalition@gmail.com. Include your name, organizational affiliation if any, and your contact information.
