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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
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SUMMARY:Defeat Trump's Extreme-Right Billionaire Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Build the fight back movement to defend our communities from the anti-immigrant\, anti-LGBTQ and anti-working class policies of the Trump administration. \n 
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/defeat-trumps-extreme-right-billionaire-agenda/
LOCATION:JFK Federal Building\, Cambridge St at Sudbury St\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
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SUMMARY:Let This Radicalize You: MAPA Winter Common Read
DESCRIPTION: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.  \nAuthors Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba each have decades of organizing experience and they maintain that ORGANIZING IS THE ANTIDOTE TO DESPAIR. Historian Robin D. G. Kelley says about the book- “Hayes and Kaba have turned decades of collective wisdom and experience into the text we desperately need right now.”  \nEach of the book’s ten chapters shares examples of the nuts and bolts of grassroots organizing\, where “finding common ground with a broad spectrum of people” is the goal. Chapter eight is titled “Hope and Grief can Co-exist”.  The authors’ discussion of the importance of listening skills and patience (along with Paulo Freire’s approach to political education) will resonate with many of us who have been in meetings where we find ourselves working hard to maintain relationships while navigating differences. Here are Hayes and Kaba on BUILDING A MOVEMENT THE SIZE OF THE ONE WE NEED: “it’s not as simple as handing newcomers a new set of politics and telling them\, “Yours are bad\, use these instead.” \nThe first of five 90 minute sessions will be held on Thursday\, January 23\, 7 to 8:30 PM\, covering the book through chapter two Remaining meetings will continue on Thursday evenings- February 6 and 20 and March 6 and 20\, and all will be on Zoom. Completing the book on the first day of Spring\, we’ll move forward with new knowledge and tools to resist the abandonment of our communities by corporations and government and to oppose the U.S. war machine at every turn.  \nYou can get the book in paperback\, ebook or hardcover for 40% off from Haymarket Books – copy this link in your browser to see the options: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-let-this-radicalize-you . FYI\, there’s a workbook which we have saved as a PDF to be printed or viewed digitally\, and other resources to access.  \nSponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund.  Register to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/let-this-radicalize-you-mapa-winter-common-read/2025-01-23/
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CATEGORIES:Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity
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SUMMARY:Reducing the Nation's Spending for Nuclear Weapons
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Jan 25\, 2025 Virtual Conference 2:00 – 5:30 pm (EST) \n \nThe threat of nuclear war is increasing\, rather than abating. \n\nBiden’s recent actions in the Russia/Ukraine conflict has sharply increased the danger.\nThe tragic Israel/Gaza conflict continues to expand.\nCold Warriors in high places are beating the drums of war toward Russia and China.\nEnormous public expenditures are being made on upgrading all three legs of the nuclear weapons triad\n\nResponding to these costs and dangers\, we will meet virtually  on Saturday afternoon January 25\, 2025 to call for Reducing Congressional Spending for Nuclear Weapons and discuss how to organize to meet the challenge.   Register to attend. \nProgram:  \n2:00 Welcome: Bob Redwine (MIT) – Continuing influence of the Military-Industrial Complex \n2:05 Opening Panel – International Flashpoints Chair- Joseph Gerson (Campaign for Peace\, Disarmament and Common Security); \n–       US and Russia – Hon. George Beebe (Quincy Institute); \n–       US and China – Prof. Lyle Goldstein (Watson Institute/ Brown University); \n  –      Nuclear Tensions over Israel. Gaza\, and Iran –  Sharon Gaya Dolev (Israel) and Emad Kiyaei (Iran) (Middle East Treaty Organization) \n2:50 pm Panel 2- Costs & Dangers of the US Nuclear Weapons Buildup – Chair\, Nancy Goldner (Cut Sentinel Campaign). \n– Exorbitant Sentinel costs –Richard Krushnic  (Mass Peace Action); \n– Dangers of the New ICBMs – David Borris (Chicago Area Peace Action); \n– What do we expect from Trump’s Nuclear Stances –Daryl Kimball (Arms Control Assn.). \n3:30 Break \n3:40 Panel 3 – Economic Campaigns – Chair\, Susan Mirsky (Nuclear Disarmament Working Group); \n–       Moral Budget – Shailly Gupta Barnes (Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) and Kairos Center (NY); \n–       Warheads to Windmills – Anduin Devos (Nuclear Ban.US); \n–       Divestment – Susi Snyder (ICANW); \n–       Fund People over Pentagon – Prof. Jonathan King (MA Peace Action Education Fund). \n4:20 Panel 4: No New Nukes- Campaigns Focused on Limiting Weapons: Chair\, Gary Goldstein (Campaign for Peace\, Disarmament and Common Security and Tufts University); \n–       Back from the Brink- Harry Katz (Back from the Brink); \n–       Restricting Sole Authority and First Use – Prof. Elaine Scarry (Campaign for Peace\, Disarmament and Common Security); \n–       Physicists Campaign for Nuclear Threat Reduction – Prof. Stewart Prager (Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction); \n–       Promoting the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) – Melissa Parke ( ICANW). \n 5:00 Congressional Initiatives: Chair Cole Harrison \n–       Senate action: Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) \n–       Cancelling the Sentinel -Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) \n–       Citizen’s Call to Action – Jodie Evans (CodePINK). \nProgram Committee: David Borris (Chicago Area Peace Action); Ann Fritsch (Rotary International); Nancy Goldner (Sentinel Project); Prof. Gary Goldstein (Mass Peace Action Education Fund); Cole Harrison (Mass Peace Action Education Fund); Susan Mirsky (MAPA Nuclear Disarmament Working Group); Jonathan King-Chair (Nuclear Disarmament Coordinating Committee and MIT); Prof. Bob Redwine (Nuclear Weapons Education Project and MIT). \nNuclear costs calculator – https://www.psr-la.org/nuclear-costs \n 
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/reducing-congressional-spending-for-nuclear-weapons/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Nuclear Disarmament
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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/
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SUMMARY:Launch of the “Protect Our Immigrant Communities” Campaign
DESCRIPTION: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 take to defend immigrants from President Trump’s harmful and hateful policies. \nTo defend immigrants from President Trump’s anti-immigrant executive orders\, the “Protect Our Immigrant Communities” campaign is urging state leaders to pass the Safe Communities Act\, which would prevent state and local law enforcement from doing the work of ICE agents. The campaign is also calling on the state to expand legal services for immigrants facing deportation court proceedings to ensure they have a fair day in court. \nWho?  \n       Elizabeth Sweet\, Executive Director at the MIRA Coalition \n       Maroni Minter\, Political Director at the MIRA Coalition\, program emcee \n       Senator James Eldridge (D-Acton) \n       Senator Liz Miranda (D-Boston) \n       Representative Manny Cruz (D-Salem) \n       Representative David Rogers (D-Belmont) \n       Dawn Sauma\, Co-Executive Director\, Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence \n       Damaris Velasquez\, Programs Director\, Agencia ALPHA
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/launch-of-the-protect-our-immigrant-communities-campaign/
LOCATION:Massachusetts State House Steps\, 24 Beacon St\, Boston\, MA\, 02108
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SUMMARY:Yoon’s Failed South Korean Military Coup: Implications For Korea And The World
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend. \n \nIn 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 matter of hours. Yoon has since been impeached and arrested\, but whether he will be forced from office remains an open question. Also uncertain are South Korea’s political future\, the political turmoil’s impacts on the country’s alliance with the U.S. and Japan\, and for the region as a whole\, including China. \nFrancis Daehoon Lee of PEACEMOMO in Seoul has been research professor for peace studies at SungKongHoe University. He served as legal advisor to the Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Sub-commission. He was the former executive director of ARENA (Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives\, Asia-wide) and worked with several other NGOs in Korea and Asia \nTim Shorrock is a journalist and writer based in Washington\, DC. He grew up in Japan and South Korea during the Cold War and has been writing about the US military role in Asia since the late 1970s. In 2015 he was given an honorary citizenship by the city of Gwangju for his reporting on the secret background roleplayed by the US government and military in the events surrounding the 1980 Gwangju Uprising in South Korea and the imposition of martial law. He was a correspondent for The Nation magazine and the author of SPIES FOR HIRE: The Secret World of Intelligence \nRegister to attend. \n \nCo-sponsored by the Campaign for Peace\, Disarmament and Security\, Massachusetts Peace Action and the New England Korea Peace Campaign
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/yoons-failed-south-korean-military-coup-implications-for-korea-and-the-world/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Northeast Asia
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SUMMARY:A Midwinter Concert of Songs to Change the World
DESCRIPTION:A Midwinter Concert of Songs to Change the World \nSaturday\, February 1st\, 2025\, 7pm-9pm \nThe Friends Meeting House\, 5 Longfellow Park\, Cambridge MA\, 02138 \nDon’t miss this gathering of music and inspiration followed by light refreshments. You will laugh\, you will cry\, but you will leave renewed to face the rest of the winter and the challenges of our world that lay ahead. Welcome Charlie King back to Cambridge and revel again this year in Ben Grosscup’s topical music as they both help us mourn the atrocities of the past year\, laugh at the absurdities we confront each day\, and set us off one more time to change the world for the better. Charlie is a co-founder of the People’s Music Network for Songs of Freedom and Struggle and Ben is the executive director. Both are troubadours of our peace and justice movement. \n \nPrice: Regular Admission $20\, Student/Low Income $10\, Supporter Admission $35\, Online/Livestream option $15 \nBen Grosscup sings about the ideas and values of the revolutionary social movements he’s part of. Drawing upon activist folk singing traditions\, he brings new songs to the rallies\, strikes\, picket lines\, and virtual events where they’re most relevant. He leads purposeful group singing that raises political consciousness. https://www.youtube.com/c/BenGrosscup \nCharlie King is a musical storyteller and political satirist. He has been at the heart of American folk music for over half a century. Pete Seeger hailed him as “One of the finest singers and songwriters of our time.” He is the 2018 recipient of the Phil Ochs Award\, recognizing his music and activism for social and political justice in the spirit of Phil Ochs. Other honors include: the War Resisters League’s Peacemaker Award given to Charlie and Odetta; the Sacco-Vanzetti Social Justice Award nominated by Pete Seeger and the Joe Hill Award from the Labor Heritage Foundation. His songs have been recorded and sung by Pete & Peggy Seeger\, Holly Near\, Ronnie Gilbert\, John McCutcheon\, Arlo Guthrie\, and Chad Mitchell. Folk legend Peggy Seeger says\, “If we had more Charlie Kings in the world\, I’d be less worried\,” and Tom Paxton adds\, “Luckily\, we have him!” \nYou can learn more about Charlie at the following links: \nhttp://www.charlieking.org\nhttps://www.facebook.com/charliekingmusicalstoryteller \nAll net proceeds go to support the many projects of Massachusetts Peace Action for social justice and peace.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/a-midwinter-concert/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting at Cambridge\, 5 Longfellow Park\, Cambridge
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture
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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:Let This Radicalize You: MAPA Winter Common Read
DESCRIPTION: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.  \nAuthors Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba each have decades of organizing experience and they maintain that ORGANIZING IS THE ANTIDOTE TO DESPAIR. Historian Robin D. G. Kelley says about the book- “Hayes and Kaba have turned decades of collective wisdom and experience into the text we desperately need right now.”  \nEach of the book’s ten chapters shares examples of the nuts and bolts of grassroots organizing\, where “finding common ground with a broad spectrum of people” is the goal. Chapter eight is titled “Hope and Grief can Co-exist”.  The authors’ discussion of the importance of listening skills and patience (along with Paulo Freire’s approach to political education) will resonate with many of us who have been in meetings where we find ourselves working hard to maintain relationships while navigating differences. Here are Hayes and Kaba on BUILDING A MOVEMENT THE SIZE OF THE ONE WE NEED: “it’s not as simple as handing newcomers a new set of politics and telling them\, “Yours are bad\, use these instead.” \nThe first of five 90 minute sessions will be held on Thursday\, January 23\, 7 to 8:30 PM\, covering the book through chapter two Remaining meetings will continue on Thursday evenings- February 6 and 20 and March 6 and 20\, and all will be on Zoom. Completing the book on the first day of Spring\, we’ll move forward with new knowledge and tools to resist the abandonment of our communities by corporations and government and to oppose the U.S. war machine at every turn.  \nYou can get the book in paperback\, ebook or hardcover for 40% off from Haymarket Books – copy this link in your browser to see the options: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-let-this-radicalize-you . FYI\, there’s a workbook which we have saved as a PDF to be printed or viewed digitally\, and other resources to access.  \nSponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund.  Register to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/let-this-radicalize-you-mapa-winter-common-read/2025-02-06/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting
CATEGORIES:Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity
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SUMMARY:Colonialism & Money in Today’s World
DESCRIPTION: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. \nCost: Free (donations welcome for postcard & letter stamps)\nLunch provided \nProgram Schedule:\n10:00 AM – Introductions\n10:15 AM – WILPF Boston: Who We Are – Eileen Kurkoski\, Co-Chair\n10:20 AM – How the U.S. Exploits African Resources & Drives Out-Migration – Julie Kabukanyi\, community activist (DR Congo/Brockton)\n11:00 AM – Empower African Sovereignty: Fighting Neocolonialism\n11:30 AM – Counteracting U.S. Colonial Practices – Presentations & Discussions on:\n• U.N. Resolution 1325 – Virginia Pratt\n• Myths About Money – Eileen Kurkoski\n• Degrowth – Jason Hickel\n• Public Banking – Ruth Caplan\n12:30 PM – Lunch\, Mingling & Music\n1:30 PM – Wrap-up \nGet Involved! Sign our petition\, join discussions\, or volunteer. \nCo-Sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/colonialism-money-in-todays-world/
LOCATION:Jamaica Plain Branch of the Boston Public Library\, 30 South St\, Jamaica Plain\, MA\, 02130\, United States
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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:Peace & Justice Conversations: Dynamic Community Resistance in West Africa
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend. \n \nIn West African cities\, urban poor families and communities must struggle every day to survive — not just to live on meager day-to-day incomes\, but to tenaciously resist and mitigate the dynamics that threaten their very shelter and livelihoods. This conversation looks broadly at over a decade of work supporting multi-pronged community resistance to mass forced evictions\, and dives deep into the struggle of the Otodo Gbame community in Lagos\, whose true story of resistance from 2016-2017 inspired the co-production of The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos\, which recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. \nMegan Chapman is a human rights lawyer who has worked on the ground in West Africa\, principally in Lagos\, Nigeria and Cotonou\, Benin\, over the last 12 years. The organization she co-founded in West Africa works with urban poor communities threatened by mass forced eviction using a multipronged approach that empowers residents to lead the changes they want to see in their communities and the cities where they must fight to remain. She is now the co-director of the World Fellowship Center\, supporting progressive movements for social justice\, facilitating exchange between activists\, and fostering global grassroots solidarity. \nRegister to attend. \n \nAbout NHPA’s bi-weekly Zoom Peace & Justice Conversation Series: 2020’s upheavals brought us to a new moment of reckoning and possibility. How do we want to live in the world? What do we value? How can we make the changes we’ve been yearning for? NH Peace Action has been engaged in working for change for decades. We’d like to bring you into these conversations about issues and options for the future.  There is no charge to attend\, but your contributions in any amount are greatly appreciated. \nCosponsored by NH Peace Action\, Massachusetts Peace Action & Peace Action Maine.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/peace-justice-conversations-dynamic-community-resistance-in-west-africa/
CATEGORIES:Africa
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250214T120000
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SUMMARY:Stop the Coup
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by MAPA \nCo-Sponsoring Organizations (alphabetical) with frontline/impacted groups first (frontline are groups organized for and by an impacted group for that groups liberation) \nImpacted/Frontline Groups \n\nAsian American Resource Workshop\nBoston Coalition for Palestine\nBoston Dyke March\nCosecha Massachusetts\nEssex County Community Organization (ECCO)\nFamilies for Justice as Healing\nFore River Residents Against the Compressor Station (FRRACS)\nGreenRoots\nHomes for All Massachusetts\nIfNotNow Boston\nNorth American Indian Center of Boston\nPalestinian House Of New England\nPalestinian Youth Movement\nSpringfield Climate Justice Coalition\nTransResistance\n\n—————————— \nAllies/Solidarity \n\n350 Mass\nAct on Mass\nActivist Evenings Brookline Indivisible\nAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts\nBoston Democratic Socialists of America\nBoston Friends of Standing Together\nBoston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network\nBrookline PAX\nCambridge Citizens Coalition\nCambridge Residents Alliance\nCanton Residents For a Sustainable Equitable Future\nCape Ann Indivisible\nCape Cod Women for Change Indivisible\nCitizens for Public Schools\nClimate Action Now Western Mass\nClimate Reality Massachusetts Southcoast\nCommunist Party of Massachusetts\nCommunity Action Agency of Somerville\, Inc.\nConcord Indivisible\nDominican Development Center\, Inc.\nElders Climate Action – Mass Chapter\nExtinction Rebellion Boston\nFirst Parish UU Brookline climate\, immigration and racial justice committees\nFriends of the Notch Forest\nGreater Andover Indivisible\nGreater Haverhill Indivisible\nGreen Energy Consumers Alliance\nIndivisible Boros and Beyond\nIndivisible Mass Coalition (IMC)\nIndivisible Melrose\, Wakefield Plus\nIndivisible Upper Cape\nInterfaith Ceasefire\nJamaica Plain Progressives\nJewish Climate Action Network (JCAN)\nJewish Voice for Peace – Boston\nKavod Boston\nMass Power Forward Coalition\nMassachusetts Action for Justice\nMassachusetts Families for Vaccines\nMassachusetts Interfaith Power & Light\nMassachusetts Peace Action\nMa’yan Tikvah\nMCAN – Massachusetts Climate Action Network\nMothers Out Front Massachusetts\nNorth Parish Climate Justice Group\nNorth Parish of North Andover UU Racial Justice Team\nNorthshore For Palestine\nNorth Shore Indivisible\nOur Revolution Massachusetts\nPipe Line Awareness Network for the Northeast (PLAN)\nProgressive Democrats of MA (PDM)\nProgressive Massachusetts\nProgressive Mass of Western Norfolk County\nSave Massachusetts Wildlife\nShared Habitat Earth\nShowing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Boston\nSierra Club Massachusetts\nSocial Action Committee\, The First Church in Belmont\, Unitarian Universalist\nSocial Action Committee First Parish Plymouth\nState House Standout for No New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure\nStop Bullying Coalition\nSwing Blue Alliance\nThe Enviro Show\nThird Act MA\nTrees as a Public Good Network\nUU Mass Action\nWorkers World Party – Boston\n\nAccessibility Information: March will be about .8 miles\, mostly flat\, accessible to wheels. \nWe represent diverse movements\, organizations\, and philosophies. Some of us have been resisting oppression our whole lives; others are mobilizing for the first time. All are welcome. Though our goals\, tactics\, and experiences vary\, we are united in the belief that Trump\, Musk\, and MAGA must be stopped. Organizing collectively around that shared goal will enable us to build power and take action from our homes\, workplaces\, and the streets. Together\, WE are the movement this moment needs. \nstopcoupma@proton.me
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/stop-the-coup/
LOCATION:Boston Common – Parkman Bandstand\, Tremont St\, Boston
CATEGORIES:Democracy
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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:CANCELLED: Music for Peace: Love Letters from Around the World
DESCRIPTION:The Music for Peace concert with Psychopomp scheduled for tonight\, Saturday\, February 15\, has been cancelled due to snow.  We will reschedule a Psychopomp performance in the fall.\nJoin us this Valentines season for an enchanting program to celebrate love in all its forms. The program features Smetana’s The Moldau\, a patriotic anthem\, and Psychopomp Ensemble’s heartfelt tribute to Bach alongside works by Hindemith and Kurtág. The ensemble will also offer exciting original arrangements of music by jazz legends Bill Evans\, Thelonious Monk\, Ran Blake\, and the modern sensation Laufey\, among others. Don’t miss this unforgettable celebration where love knows no boundaries! \nThe concert will be held at Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church\, 1555 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, near Harvard Law School\, at 7:30 pm. \nBenefits Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund.  $25 for Mass. Peace Action members\, $35 for non-members\,  $10 for students and low incomes. \nTo reserve\, write a check to “Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund” or “MAPA EF” and mail to 1991 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA 02140\, or call 617-354-2169 with credit card number.  Or reserve your tickets online. \nDonations to support our work for peace are welcome in any amount. Supporters donate $250 or more to Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund; they receive two tickets with preferred seating in the first 3 rows and recognition in the program. Sponsors donate $500 and receive four tickets; Benefactors donate $1\,000 and receive eight tickets.  All contributions above $35 per concert are tax-deductible. \nThe audience is invited to join the musicians and Peace Action members at a reception after the concert.  The venue is wheelchair accessible via a ramp to the left of the church. \nCo-founded by pianists Chi-Wei Lo and Xiaopei Xu\, Psychopomp Ensemble weaves together a diverse tapestry of traditional serious music\, third stream\, jazz\, pop\, blues\, minimalist\, and contemporary\, creating an auditory experience that defies categorization. \nTheir arrangements—some in their psychopomp mode—blend improvisation\, re-composition\, and unaltered portions into original works\, guiding both connoisseurs and newcomers through their musical universe. The Boston Musical Intelligencer describes them as offering “new directions in pianism” and exploring the “far reaches of musical possibilities.” They aspire not merely to stake a claim but to reshape the landscape\, push boundaries\, and redefine possibilities within the realm of two-piano as well as four-hand repertoire. \nRecently\, Psychopomp Ensemble appeared on The Kamerman Piano Series at the University of West Florida and at Puddingstone Events in Rhode Island. Additionally\, Psychopomp’s past performance highlights include concerts presented by UCLA\, the Chinese American Museum (LA)\, the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra\, Scripps College\, Ukraine Forward\, the College Music Society\, the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts\, the Lancaster Piano Festival\, and the German Society of Pennsylvania. In 2021\, Psychopomp Ensemble participated in interdisciplinary events in Los Angeles\, which garnered coverage from more than a dozen media outlets\, including The LA Times\, NBC News\, Shanghai Morning Post\, Qilu Evening News\, and others. \nChi-Wei Lo is a pianist\, improviser\, and arranger whose performances utilize a plethora of musical languages. As a co-founder of the Psychopomp Ensemble\, Lo has continually pushed boundaries\, blending interdisciplinary art forms with both traditional and avant-garde musical elements to create compelling concert experiences. \nWith a career spanning diverse platforms\, Lo has been presented by the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra\, North American Medical Orchestra\, The Lancaster Piano Festival\, College Music Society\, UCLA\, Lilypad\, Chamber Music Charlestown\, The Harvard Musical Association\, The Chinese American Museum (LA)\, Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts\, Caroga Arts Collective\, New Asia Chamber Music Society\, the German Society of Pennsylvania\, and the Counterpoint Ensemble (Taiwan)\, among many others. \nLo holds a Bachelor of Music (B.M.) and a Master of Music (M.M.) in piano performance from The Juilliard School. He is expected to complete his Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) in Contemporary Musical Arts (formerly Contemporary Improvisation) at the New England Conservatory this year. Currently\, Lo shapes the next generation of musicians as an Assistant Professor of Composition at Berklee College of Music and a Theory Instructor at the New England Conservatory. During the summer\, he teaches improvisation classes and piano at The Lancaster Piano Festival\, where he delivers all pre-concert talks\, sharing his expertise and passion for music with festival attendees. \nHailed by The Boston Globe as “a world-class pianist\,” Xiaopei Xu has captivated audiences worldwide with her “spellbinding and expressive”performances (BMInt). She made her Boston Symphony Hall concerto debut with Boston Pops in 2018\, and has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in venues across three continents. \nXu’s recent performances have been presented by the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra\, Harvard Musical Association\, Foundation for the Chinese Performing Arts\, The Stecher and Horowitz Foundation\, German Society of Pennsylvania\, Lancaster International Piano Festival\, Chinese American Museum(LA)\, Ukraine Forward\, College Music Society… etc. \nXu holds her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University\, Master’s degree from Yale University and Bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music. Her principal teachers include Hung-Kuan Chen\, Xun Pan\, Meng-Chieh Liu\, and Boaz Sharon. She has also worked with influential musicians such as Claude Frank\, Richard Goode\, and Paul Badura-Skoda.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/music-for-peace-psychopomp/
LOCATION:Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church\, 1555 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture
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SUMMARY:From Crisis to Action: Building Ecosystems of Defense and Change
DESCRIPTION:As the political landscape is rapidly changing – with pieces of the Federal government being dismantled\, mass deportations\, and widespread uncertainty about our futures – we feel driven to respond but stuck. Our ability to take action (protest\, lobby\, spread awareness\, etc.) is driven by our theories of power and change\, as well as our belief that we can be effective. If our theories of change don’t seem applicable\, we feel helpless and confused. \nThis workshop will create space for us to discuss how we should view power\, theories of change\, and apply them to the new chaotic moment. Should we stick to what we were doing? Should we totally change our game plan? How can we be more effective? \nThe space will be accessible for both those who are experienced activists\, organizers\, or scholars\, as well as those who are new to thinking about political change and what to do. \nCosponsored by MAPA
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/from-crisis-to-action-building-ecosystems-of-defense-and-change/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Strategy and Ideas
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250218T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250218T143000
DTSTAMP:20260523T041107
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SUMMARY:Trump's Second Term: NATO\, War\, and the Economy
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend. \n \nDonald Trump has returned to the presidency demanding that NATO nations increase their military spending to 3%\, possibly 5% of GDP\, and threatening massive tariffs. His commitments to NATO remain uncertain\, as does his administration’s approach to the Ukraine War and possible ceasefire-related diplomacy. His “America First” agenda includes a $100 billion increase in the Pentagon’s already gargantuan budget. \nWhat are the implications for Euro-American relations with Russia\, for NATO or pressures for an independent European military\, for the U.S.\, European\, and world economies? How should the U.S. and European peace movements respond? \nNiamh Ni Bhriain coordinates TNI’s War and Pacification program\, which focuses on the permanent state of war and pacification of resistance. She holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG). \nReiner Braun served as General Secretary of the International Peace Bureau. He has decades of experience in the German and European peace movements\, was deeply involved the Max Plank Institute’s planning for the Einstein Year\, and he has been a leading figure in promotion of Common Security diplomacy. \nMichael Klare is a visiting fellow of the Arms Control Association\, secretary of its board of directors\, emeritus professor of the Five Colleges Peace and World Security Studies program at Hampshire College\, and a regular contributor for The Nation Magazine. \nRegister to attend. \n \nCosponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/trumps-second-term-nato-war-and-the-economy/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Nuclear Disarmament
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250218T203000
DTSTAMP:20260523T041107
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SUMMARY:The Urgency of Peace Negotiations to End the Ukraine War
DESCRIPTION:This webinar on the Ukraine/Russia war takes place only days before the war’s third anniversary. Retired Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis will discuss the urgency of peace negotiations before Ukraine loses even more territory and soldiers to Russia\, and to prevent the risk of the war escalating into a far more dangerous one — even nuclear war — between the US/NATO and Russia. \nLt. Col. Daniel L. Davis (retired) is a senior fellow and military expert at Defense Priorities and host of the Daniel Davis Deep Dive show on YouTube.  He served for 21 years\, including deployments to combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.   He is the author of The Eleventh Hour in 2020 America. Colonel Davis gained some national notoriety in 2012 when he returned from Afghanistan and published a report detailing how senior U.S. military and civilian leaders misled the public and Congress into believing the war was going well while\, in reality\, it was headed toward defeat. His work on defense and foreign affairs has been published in The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, and other major media outlets\, and he is a frequent guest commentator on NBC News\, BBC\, Fox News\, Fox Business News\, CNN\, and other television networks. \nRegister to Attend:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/the-urgency-of-peace-negotiations-to-end-the-ukraine-war/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Ukraine/Russia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T203000
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SUMMARY:U.S.-China Nuclear Rivalry and the Taiwan Question
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend. \n \nIn the last five years\, nuclear tensions between the U.S. and China have accelerated dramatically driven by a series of factors\, including the severe deterioration of cross-Strait relations. This presentation will summarize thinking on both sides of the Pacific regarding the current state of this nuclear rivalry and its relationship to the Taiwan issue. Prof. Goldstein will also answer questions about his Asia trip during the winter holiday that took him to northeast China\, Kazakhstan\, the Philippines\, and also South Korea. \nLyle J. Goldstein is the Director of the China Initiative and Visiting Professor at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. At Brown\, he is investigating the costs of great power competition with both China and Russia in association with the Costs of War Project at Watson.  Goldstein serves concurrently as Director of Asia Engagement at the Washington think-tank Defense Priorities\, which advocates for realism and restraint in U.S. defense policy.  He has a PhD from Princeton\, is fluent in both Chinese and Russian\, and tweets at @lylegoldstein. \nSponsored by MAPA Education Fund\, cosponsored by Campaign for Peace\, Disarmament\, and Common Security. \nRegister to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/u-s-china-nuclear-rivalry-and-the-taiwan-question/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Northeast Asia,Nuclear Disarmament
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250220T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250220T200000
DTSTAMP:20260523T041107
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250214T001208Z
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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:20250220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250220T203000
DTSTAMP:20260523T041107
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SUMMARY:Let This Radicalize You: MAPA Winter Common Read
DESCRIPTION: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.  \nAuthors Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba each have decades of organizing experience and they maintain that ORGANIZING IS THE ANTIDOTE TO DESPAIR. Historian Robin D. G. Kelley says about the book- “Hayes and Kaba have turned decades of collective wisdom and experience into the text we desperately need right now.”  \nEach of the book’s ten chapters shares examples of the nuts and bolts of grassroots organizing\, where “finding common ground with a broad spectrum of people” is the goal. Chapter eight is titled “Hope and Grief can Co-exist”.  The authors’ discussion of the importance of listening skills and patience (along with Paulo Freire’s approach to political education) will resonate with many of us who have been in meetings where we find ourselves working hard to maintain relationships while navigating differences. Here are Hayes and Kaba on BUILDING A MOVEMENT THE SIZE OF THE ONE WE NEED: “it’s not as simple as handing newcomers a new set of politics and telling them\, “Yours are bad\, use these instead.” \nThe first of five 90 minute sessions will be held on Thursday\, January 23\, 7 to 8:30 PM\, covering the book through chapter two Remaining meetings will continue on Thursday evenings- February 6 and 20 and March 6 and 20\, and all will be on Zoom. Completing the book on the first day of Spring\, we’ll move forward with new knowledge and tools to resist the abandonment of our communities by corporations and government and to oppose the U.S. war machine at every turn.  \nYou can get the book in paperback\, ebook or hardcover for 40% off from Haymarket Books – copy this link in your browser to see the options: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-let-this-radicalize-you . FYI\, there’s a workbook which we have saved as a PDF to be printed or viewed digitally\, and other resources to access.  \nSponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund.  Register to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/let-this-radicalize-you-mapa-winter-common-read/2025-02-20/
LOCATION:Zoom Online Meeting
CATEGORIES:Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250222T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250222T153000
DTSTAMP:20260523T041107
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SUMMARY:Collective Liberation Film Series: From Palestine to Cuba
DESCRIPTION:Cuba Presentation: Returning from Cuba to share the voices of farmers\, economists\, entrepreneurs\, artists and activists speaking to the blockade\, the future of Cuba and our collective liberation. \nSaturday February 15th\, 1:00 pm \nGreat Falls Market\, 109 Avenue A\, Great (Turners) Falls\, MA
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/collective-liberation-film-series-from-palestine-to-cuba/
LOCATION:Great Falls Market\, 109 Avenue A\, Great (Turners) Falls\, 01376\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250224T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250224T120000
DTSTAMP:20260523T041107
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T185707Z
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SUMMARY:Somehow This Madness Must Cease! Rally to Commemorate the 3rd Anniversary of the Ukraine War
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend.\n\n \n3 years of war in Ukraine is enough. Enough death and destruction in Ukraine. Enough danger that any new escalation can lead to World War 3 and nuclear war. Enough threats to the existence of Ukraine and to NATO expansion to Russia’s border. Enough to the ecological devastation of air\, soil and wildlife caused by this climate devastating war. Enough to tens of billions of dollars taken from the needs of our communities and sent to keep the war going. \nWe ask: Where has our present policy over these 3 years led us? Is the war closer to ending? Is Ukraine in better shape or worse shape than 3 years ago when we torpedoed a negotiated settlement that would have safeguarded Ukraine’s sovereignty and independence? \nWe don’t know what Trump will do. But we do know what is needed:Negotiations. But not negotiations for a frozen conflict that can and will erupt at any time. Rather negotiations for a lasting peace that would minimally have to be based on recognizing the security concerns of both Ukraine and Russia; on mutually recognized resolutions on the fate of the four regions of Ukraine currently claimed by Russia; on the rights of Russian speakers in Ukraine; and on a mutually satisfactory definition of long-term Ukrainian neutrality. And such negotiations must be a first step toward new security system for ALL of Europe including Russia. A security system that spans far over the NATO/Ukraine/Russia conflict to include all the stakeholders of Europe in a collective order based on cooperation and conflict resolution rather than ultimatums and saber rattling. This was the vision that inspired the whole world at the end of the first cold war until NATO bases expanded eastward to dozens of new countries. It’s the vision that is desperately needed now to end this new cold war that puts our world in jeopardy. \nJoin us on Monday\, February 24 to commemorate this 3rd anniversary of the war and insist that there must be no more such anniversaries. \nLet us know you will be coming by filling out this short form \nRegister to attend. \n\n\n \nFor background and information about the Ukraine War visit our web page at https://masspeaceaction.org/our-issues/ukraineatimeforpeace/  \nSponsored by Mass. Peace Action’s Campaign: Ukraine – A Time for Peace 617-354-2169
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/somehow-this-madness-must-cease-rally-to-commemorate-the-3rd-anniversary-of-the-ukraine-war/
LOCATION:Park St Station\, Park & Tremont Streets\, Boston
CATEGORIES:Ukraine/Russia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250224T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250224T193000
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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:20250225T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T213000
DTSTAMP:20260523T041108
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SUMMARY:War and the Economic System with Malaika Jabali (a WIRN webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend. \n \nWhat is our economic system? What are its defining features? What does it have to do with war? Christian Sorensen will interview author and attorney Malaika Jabali. \nMalaika Jabali is the Senior News and Politics Editor at Essence Magazine. She is the 2024 New Arizona Fellow at New America. Her writings have appeared in such outlets as the Guardian\, Jacobin\, Teen Vogue\, The Intercept\, and Current Affairs Magazine. Malaika is a graduate of Columbia Law School and a licensed attorney. Her debut book — It’s Not You\, It’s Capitalism: Why It’s Time to Break Up and How to Move On — centers revolutionaries of color and guides the reader through how to dump the economic system that we live under.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/war-and-the-economic-system-with-malaika-jabali-a-wirn-webinar/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Fund the People, Not the Pentagon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T130000
DTSTAMP:20260523T041108
CREATED:20250218T183332Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250301T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250301T160000
DTSTAMP:20260523T041108
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250304T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250304T203000
DTSTAMP:20260523T041108
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SUMMARY:War is Not Justified by Party Politics
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend. \n \nWhy have our movements for peace\, justice and the environment let party politics lead us into a pro-war position? Why does party politics lead us to support wars\, or at least not oppose them\, purely on the basis of which party is conducting them? This growing polarization is leading us to support or oppose other critical policies as well\, purely on the basis of what party those policies are identifies with — rather than a rational and moral assessment of the issue at hand.  \nThis webinar looks at the contrast between the bi-partisan militarism of the United States\, on the one hand\, and the starkly different governing philosophies of the two parties\, on the other.  A critique of the Labor Movement’s relationship to this problem offers a long-term case-study\, but one also increasingly relevant to the environmental movement\, and even the peace movement.  The current setback for the Democrats offers us a chance to reflect on what our core values are and how we navigate our relations with party politics going forward. \nDon’t miss it. \nRegister to attend. \n \nHarris Gruman is the Executive Director of the Service Employees International Union Massachusetts State Council.  In that role he has helped lead campaigns to win union rights for child care providers and rideshare drivers.  In 2013\, he founded and has since helped lead the Raise Up Massachusetts coalition of labor\, community and faith organizations\, which has nearly doubled the minimum wage to $15-per-hour\, created the most extensive paid family and medical leave program in the United States\, and won a constitutional amendment to raise tax rates on the top One Percent. In 2024 Harris joined the board of directors of Mass. Peace Action. \nThis webinar is cosponsored by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 509.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/war-is-not-justified-by-party-politics/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Fund the People, Not the Pentagon
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