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SUMMARY:Understanding Palestine and Israel
DESCRIPTION:How the Gaza conflict spilled over to affect the U.S. election and the rights of its citizens\nA Book Talk with Phyllis Bennis in Conversation with Rami Khouri\nRegister to attend. \n \nJoin us for a discussion with Phyllis Bennis\, activist\, political analyst\, and author of the recently published Understanding Palestine and Israel. Rami Khouri\, Palestinian-American academic and journalist with over 50 years of experience reporting in the Middle East\, will serve as moderator. \nAs the war in Gaza continues amidst a fragile ceasefire agreement\, the struggle and call for justice in Palestine persists with many searching for truth and clarity. In Understanding Palestine and Israel\, with a foreword by Palestinian analyst Omar Baddar\, Phyllis Bennis answers key questions regarding the history and the current situation of the war between Israel and Palestine\, addressing events prior to October 7\, 2023\, through Israel’s genocidal war and the aftermath of Donald Trump’s 2024 re-election. \nFrom freedom of speech\, the 2024 election\, to your tax dollars\, Bennis and Khouri will unpack historical perspectives\, their experiences\, and the impact the Palestine-Israel conflict has on Americans and the world today.  \nThe event will conclude with a book signing. Books will be available for purchase ($20) and are currently available to preorder through the registration link.  \nPhyllis Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for Policy studies\, serving as co-director of the New Internationalism Project\, and writes and speaks widely on U.S. wars and foreign policy\, authoring numerous books. She is also an international advisor to Jewish Voice for Peace and an activist in national and global movements supporting Palestinian rights. Bennis has been twice short-listed to become the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. \nRami G. Khouri is a Palestinian-American academic and journalist whose family resides in Beirut\, Amman\, and Nazareth. He is Distinguished Public Policy Fellow at the American University of Beirut and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Arab Center Washington\, D.C.  During his 50-year career in journalism across the Middle East he was Editor of the Jordan Times and the Daily Star (Beirut) newspapers\, and contributed reporting and opinion pieces from the Middle East to the Financial Times\, NPR\, BBC radio\, and other outlets. \nRegister to attend. \n \nCosponsored by Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine\, Community Church of Boston\, Jewish Voice for Peace Boston\, and Watertown Citizens for Peace Justice and Environment \nOther Talks by Phyllis Bennis: \nFriday\, April 4 at 6 pm: Lenox Community Centre\, 65 Walker St\, Lenox\, MA 01240. \nSaturday\, April 5 at 4:00 pm: Possible Futures\, 318 Edgewood Ave\, New Haven\, CT 06511. Sponsored by JVP New Haven and Mending Minyan. \nMonday\, April 7 at 6:00 pm: Event organized by Traprock Communication at All Souls Unitarian-Universalist Church\, 399 Main Street\, Greenfield\, MA. \nTuesday\, April 8 at 7:00 pm: UMass Amherst\, Thompson 106 (near parking garage). Sponsored by SJP\, FJP\, JVP\, Interlink etc … Phyllis Bennis in conversation with Michel Moushabeck. RSVP. \nWednesday\, April 9 at 7:00 pm: Event organized by Southern Vermont for Palestine in Brattleboro\, VT.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/understanding-palestine-and-israel/
LOCATION:St. James Episcopal Church\, 1991 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02140
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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SUMMARY:Challenge Smokescreen Antisemitism at Commission Hearing
DESCRIPTION:The sixth meeting of Massachusetts’ Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism is scheduled for April 7th @ 1pm in Newton City Hall and will be available to watch livestreamed here. This is the first time the commission is hearing public comment and they need to hear your voice! \nRegister to Give Public Comment to the Commission April 7th \nWe strongly encourage allies to sign up to give public comment in person (or provide testimony in writing): \n\n\n\n\nIn-person testimony: to give public comment you must register directly with the Commission here by the deadline on April 2nd @ 5pm. There is a hard 3-minute time limit per speaker. A panel of speakers will be limited to 6 minutes (per panel\, not per speaker).\nWritten testimony: submit to SCCA@malegislature.gov.\nShare a copy of your testimony with your state senator and state representative.\nTIM is tracking the Commission’s gatekeeping of viewpoints aligned with our coalition. Please help by forwarding your testimony to us at inclusivemassachusetts@proton.me.\n\nNeed guidance on what to include in your testimony? TIM drafted this tip sheet including topics the Commission is required to address as well as sample talking points. \nThe hearing will also feature two presentations**: \n\nEric Olshan\, Former U.S. Attorney\, Western District of Pennsylvania\, lead prosecutor in U.S. v. Robert Bowers (Tree of Life Synagogue Case)\nAriella Hellman\, Director of Government Affairs Agudath Israel of America\, New England Office. (Agudath Israel published an op-ed in the Boston Globe defending Columbia University’s capitulation to the Trump administration’s demands)\n\n**bookmark the Commission’s hearing page for late additions to the agenda \nRegister to Give Public Comment to the Commission April 7th
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/challenge-smokescreen-antisemitism-at-commission-hearing/
LOCATION:Newton City Hall\, 1000 Commonwealth Ave\, Newton\, MA\, 02459\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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SUMMARY:Current Realities and Prospects for Palestine-Israel
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Palestinian Human Rights Activist ISSA AMRO in discussion with PETER BEINART\nSuggested donation at the door of $20 for Youth Against Settlements in Hebron \nIssa Amro is a human rights defender based in Hebron city\, West Bank. The co-founder of the direct action group Youth Against Settlements and the executive director of Working for Peace and Justice: Friends of Hebron\, Amro is popularly referred to as the ‘Palestinian Gandhi. He has been widely recognized for his work encouraging peaceful resistance against the Israeli occupation for which he has been imprisoned scores of times. From 2016-2021 he was on trial in Israeli military court on 18 charges deemed ‘baseless’ by Amnesty International. In 2024 Amro and Youth Against Settlements received the Right Livelihood Award\, known as the ‘alternative Nobel Prize.’ He has been nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. \nPeter Beinart is professor of journalism and political science at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in the City University of New York\, editor-at-large of Jewish Currents and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. He is also a nonresident fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. His books include The Crisis of Zionism and Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza – a Reckoning. (Copies will be available). \nSponsored by the Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine \nCo-sponsored by 1for3.org\, Alliance for a Secular & Democratic South Asia\, Boston Workers Circle\, Ceasefire MV/Islanders for Palestine\, Community Encampments for Palestine\, Gralta Foundation\, HRA:PI/CD3\, Lexington for Palestine\, Jewish Voice for Peace – Boston\, Massachusetts Peace Action\, National Lawyers Guild- MA Chapter\, Northshore for Palestine\, Olive Branch for Fair Trade Inc.\, Palestinian House of New England\, Peace & Common Security Working Group of Watertown Citizens\, Peace & Justice Committee of Friends Meeting\, Sawa\, UUME- MA.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/current-realities-and-prospects-for-palestine-israel/
LOCATION:First Parish Cambridge (Meeting House)\, 1446 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138
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SUMMARY:"Deadly Betrayal: The Truth about why the US Invaded Iraq" with Dennis Fritz and Lawrence Wilkerson
DESCRIPTION:Former Air Force command chief master sergeant Dennis Fritz and Colonel (ret.) Lawrence Wilkerson will be speaking at the Community Church of Boston at 6:00pm on Friday\, April 11 about chief Fritz’ book Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why The US Invaded Iraq. This book provides important context for current events happening in West Asia/Middle East. \nFollowing their talk and Q&A discussion (from 6:00pm – 7:30pm)\, copies of Deadly Betrayal will be available for purchase and signing from 7:30pm – 8:00pm. \n\nNOTE: Since we are purchasing copies of the book in advance\, if you would like to purchase a copy\, please let me know\, so we know how many copies to order.\n\n \nThe event is both in-person (565 Boylston St. Boston\, MA 02116\, 2nd floor) or on Zoom. Register and select the option you like! The event is sponsored by Community Church of Boston and Massachusetts Peace Action. Thank you and we hope to see you there. \nParking is available at the Back Bay Garage\, with entrances at 85 St. James Ave. and 199 Clarendon St. Community Church of Boston can validate so parking is only $8! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the book:\n\n\nBased on dramatic first-hand evidence\, Deadly Betrayal uncovers why and how a cabal of Pentagon Advisors in the George W. Bush Administration created a fabricated justification to attack Iraq. \nThe book provides a detailed insider account of how a Pentagon cabal strategized to manipulate intelligence\, pressure the United Nations\, force a Congressional authorization for the use of force through political threats\, and scare the American people after 9/11 into supporting an attack on Iraq. \nAuthored by a Pentagon insider and senior enlisted leader of nearly three decades standing\, Command Chief Master Sergeant\, Retired\, Dennis Fritz worked directly for and advised some of the most senior General Officers in the Department of Defense. They included General Richard B. Myers\, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the height of the Iraq War. After military retirement\, Fritz found himself inside Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon working for Douglas Feith\, the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and key architect of the case for war. He was detailed to the Pentagon as a contracted Research Fellow and Analyst on a special project to gather and review all Iraqi Pre-War Planning Documents for declassification. His access to thousands of personal handwritten notes\, documents\, and Pentagon’s internal conversations\, has allowed him to tell the real story of why America invaded Iraq. \n“This book is an actual act of service. It will help many people\, including veterans\, connect the dots to explain this century’s American wars and give them further permission to ask tough and uncomfortable questions.”\n—Matthew Hoh\, former Marine Corps officer and Iraq War veteran who resigned his State Department position in Afghanistan over that war’s 2009 escalation. \n“I have known Dennis Fritz for three decades and served with him for many of those years. As my senior enlisted advisor in several commands\, I benefited from his sound counsel. While I do not agree with some of his conclusions in this book . . . I respect Dennis and was always proud to serve alongside him.”\n—General Richard Myers\, Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff \n“Sooner rather than later\, in my view\, historians will write the complete and accurate history of these disastrous wars from start to finish\, and sordid will it be. Alas\, however\, as with most history that is as accurate as humans can make it\, those guilty of the crimes and ravages it inevitably encompasses\, will have escaped all but a divine providence’s justice. This book at least will perhaps disturb their present comfort. It does mine.”\n—From the Foreword by Larry Wilkerson\, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/deadly-betrayal-the-truth-about-why-the-us-invaded-iraq-with-dennis-fritz-and-lawrence-wilkerson/
CATEGORIES:Middle East Wars
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SUMMARY:Tesla Tax Day Takedown
DESCRIPTION:Join us to deliver a tax day message to MAKE TESLA PAY! \nA peacefully rally and protest organized by Tesla Takedown and the A&R Just Budget and Tax Coalition. \nRegister to attend. \n \nNO cuts to vital social programs! \nUS House Republicans have proposed $1.5 trillion in cuts to Medicaid\, SNAP\, Veterans’ Healthcare\, and other social programs to pay for tax cuts for the rich. \nMeanwhile\, Elon Musk has begun slashing 50% of government workers while taking a chainsaw to Social Security\, Medicaid\, and Medicare. \nNO tax cuts for billionaires and their corporations! \nTesla paid NO federal income tax in 2022 and 2024.  Tesla paid only $48 million on $10.8 billion in income over three years – just 0.4%! Tesla and SpaceX also received $38 billion in government contracts\, loans\, and tax credits over the past 20 years. \nBetween 2014 and 2018\, Elon Musk personnal paid only 3.27% total in income taxes and NO federal taxes in 2018! \nTesla is not alone.  23 corporations paid ZERO federal taxes! Make giant corporations and billionaires pay their fair share! \nDON’T BUY TESLAS! SELL YOUR CARS!  JOIN THE MOVEMENT! \nRegister to attend. \n \nTesla Takedown is a peaceful protest movement. We oppose violence\, vandalism and destruction of property. This protest is a lawful exercise of our First Amendment right to peaceful assembly. \n#TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/tesla-takedown/
LOCATION:Boston Tesla Showroom\, 888 Boylston St (Prudential Center)\, Boston\, MA\, 02115
CATEGORIES:Democracy
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SUMMARY:Music for Peace: Athena's Oboe
DESCRIPTION:For our Spring concert this April\, we honor the Greek Goddess of Wisdom and the mythical inventor of the oboe with the program “Athena’s Oboe.” Join us as we revisit classical works as well as sample neo-classical ones. Delight in the virtuoso music of Mozart and Beethoven. Revel in the humor and rhapsody of Grazyna Bacewicz. Call forth Spring with Athena’s oboe! \nViolinist Jean Bäverstam\, violinist/violist Amy Galluzzo\, and cellist Sam Ou are critically acclaimed artists who are known for their “riveting\,” “nuanced\,” “fiery\,” and “meltingly melodic outpourings” that have left audiences “speechless.” \nAmanda Hardy’s gorgeous oboe sounds are familiar to Boston Symphony Orchestra audiences. She is a frequent guest principal oboist with the BSO and is principal oboist with the Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra. \nProgram \nBeethoven String Trio in G major\, op. 9 no. 1\nBacewicz Oboe Trio\nMozart Duo no. 2 in Bb major for Violin and Viola\nMozart Oboe Quartet \nThe concert will be held at Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church\, 1555 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge 02138\, near Harvard Law School. \nBenefits Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund.  $25 for Mass. Peace Action members\, $10 for students and low incomes. \nTo reserve\, write a check to “Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund” or “MAPA EF” and mail to MAPA EF\, 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 $25 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 the entrance on the right as you face the church. \nAmanda Hardy joined the Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra as principal oboe in November 2013 where she occupies the Clinton Graffam Chair. An in-demand artist in New England and beyond\, Amanda is a frequent performer with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops\, with whom she has both toured internationally and recorded.   Amanda recently joined the faculty at Boston University as Lecturer in Oboe\, is Assistant Professor of Oboe at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee\, and is on the faculty of New England Conservatory Preparatory School. She holds a Bachelor of Music in oboe with a piano minor from Drake University and a Master of Music and Graduate Diploma from NEC. Previous festivals include the Masterworks Festival\, the Chelsea Music Festival\, the Aspen Music Festival and School\, and Tanglewood Music Center in 2010 and 2011 where she was awarded the Mickey L. Hooten Memorial Award both summers. Her solo work can be heard on\, Dancing with J.S. Bach (2019)\, on the Chelsea Music Festival Live label. Her teachers include John Ferrillo\, Marilyn Zupnik\, Anne Gabriele\, and Jay Light; summer studies with Elaine Douvas and Richard Woodhams. \nDemonstrating “superior leading” (Boston Musical Intelligencer)\, Taiwanese violinist Jean Huang Bäverstam‘s active performing career has brought her to concert halls internationally and have impacted listeners throughout the United States. “(I was) left speechless after having the chance to watch and listen to Jean Huang close up” is how WBUR-FM described her performance. Huang holds a Doctoral of Musical Arts degree in Violin Performance with honors from the New England Conservatory with the Doctoral thesis topic “A Performative Analysis and the Critical Edition: Francis Poulenc Violin Sonata”. Huang maintains a private studio in Boston\, with students ranging from six years old to adults. She also teaches violin at the NEC School of Continuing Education and Preparatory School. \nAn active performer\, Jean serves as the Concertmaster of both Phoenix Orchestra in Boston and Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra and has received recognition from local prominent newspapers and music critics.  Jean’s recent concerto appearances include a sold-out performance of Vaughan William’s Lark Ascending with the CCCO\, and Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.5 with the Music for Peace Orchestra under the direction of Victor Rosenbaum.  A consummate artist\, Jean delves into all aspects of her field. In the summer of 2013\, she designed and created her own violin which was based on a Guarnerius model. Her other affiliations include Miclot Chamber Players\, Vangarde Orchestra\, Anastasia String Quartet\, and Trio Flamecrest. \nPraised 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. More unusual collaborations include Yihan Chen\, pipa\, Scott McConnell\, steel pan\, and Dariush Saghafi\, santoor. \nAmy 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. \n \nPraised 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.  Mr. Ou gave the world premiere performance of Larry Bell’s Cello Concerto: The Triumph of Lightness with the Boston Civic Symphony at New England Conservatory of Music’s Jordan Hall (NEC).  In March of this year\, he performed Yehudi Wyner’s Cello Concerto: Prologue and Narrative with the New England Philharmonic to celebrate the Pulitzer prize-winning composer’s 95th birthday. \nAn avid chamber musician\, Mr. Ou has collaborated and performed with the Borromeo String Quartet\, James Buswell\, Lucy Chapman\, Hung-Kuan Chen\, Pi-Hsien Chen\, James Dunham\, Thomas Hill\, Patricia McCarty\, Paul Neubauer\, Heiichiro Ohyama\, Lois Shapiro\, Marcus Thompson\, and Yehudi Wyner.  As one-half of the Formosa Duo\, he performs regularly with pianist Chi-Chen Wu. \nMr. Ou became the new assistant professor of cello and music theory at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania starting in the fall of 2024.  For the past two decades\, he has been a faculty member at NEC’s Preparatory School and School of Continuing Education\, where he also served as assistant string chair.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/music-for-peace-athenas-oboe/
LOCATION:Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church\, 1555 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:What Happened to "First\, Do No Harm"?
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URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/first-do-no-harm/
LOCATION:Francis St & Huntington Ave\, Francis St & Huntington Ave\, Boston\, MA\, 02115
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SUMMARY:To Win Our Survival: Building the Next Era of our Movements
DESCRIPTION:In this interactive workshop\, facilitators Daisy Carter and Rebecca Harris from The Climate Mobilization Project will invite participants to reflect on the moment we’re in\, and where movements for peace and climate justice can go from here. Building on Climate Mobilization Project’s work with food sovereignty\, mutual aid\, climate justice and anti-war groups in Kentucky and Virginia\, we will share tools for participants to explore their role in supporting survival programs that expand access to climate disaster preparedness\, food\, care\, and more while growing movements for climate\, economic\, and racial justice. \nSurvival programs are a bold new approach to growing movements that have enough people power to fight back.Groups across the U.S. have come together to build a mass grassroots movement with the power and resources to win our survival. We are growing this movement by organizing people into grassroots projects that grow a regenerative economy and culture; expand food\, energy\, water\, and land access and sovereignty; and fight back together against the systems that threaten our lives and communities. \n \n  \nDaisy Carter (she/they) is a New Orleans native\, queer multi-disciplinary artist\, yogi and climate justice organizer working at the intersections of mutual aid\, disaster resiliency\, African-American herbalism\, and grassroots organizing. Daisy is inspired by the black radical movements of the so-called U.S and African diaspora\, reimagining what healing + self-determination look like for frontline\, BIPOC (black\, brown\, and people of color) communities who are most vulnerable to climate disaster. For the past few years\, they have been organizing around mutual aid\, environmental + climate justice\, and building BIPOC and marginalized leadership throughout Kentucky. In 2021\, they founded Rise and Shine\, a community-led mutual aid organization building power and solidarity with low-income\, BIPOC\, LGBTQ+\, and other marginalized communities in Bowling Green\, Kentucky and beyond. She has also led numerous political campaigns\, direct actions\, and led outreach + communications strategy for organizations such as The Sierra Club\, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth\, and the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival. At the Climate Mobilization\, she is supporting programming\, the development of the Movement Incubation Program\, and the creation of climate survival projects. \nRebecca Harris (she/her) is Resource Organizing Director and Co-Leader at Climate Mobilization Project. She first began organizing at age 16 during the movement to end the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. After years of organizing for economic justice and housing rights\, she joined Climate Mobilization Project as Organizing Director\, a role in which she coached dozens of local climate groups\, launched the campaign for a national Climate Emergency Declaration\, and supported the organization in its increasing focus on racial and economic justice and anti-militarism. Rebecca previously worked as a journalist covering equity in Chicago public schools and as the Development and Communications Manager at Latino Union of Chicago\, an immigrants’ and workers’ rights organization. She is a 2017 graduate of the Reframe Mentorship in strategic communications. \n \nRegister to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/to-win-our-survival-building-the-next-era-of-our-movements/
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SUMMARY:Ukraine War at a Critical Threshold\, with Scott Horton
DESCRIPTION:Ukraine War at a Critical Threshold\, with Scott Horton\nCan US Policy will Promote Peace?\nThursday\, April 17\, 7pm EDT\n \nScott Horton\, author of Provoked: How Washington Started The New Cold War with Russia and Brought Catastrophe to Ukraine (2024)\, will speak on the origins of the war\, and the urgency of continued negotiations to end the war without further escalations that could lead to a far more dangerous war between the US/NATO and Russia. \n \nScott Horton is director of The Libertarian Institute\, editorial director of the online written publication Antiwar and host of the Scott Horton Show podcast. He has conducted more than 6\,000 interviews since 2003. He is the author of Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War With Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine (2024)\, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism (2021)\, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan (2017) and editor of The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019 (2019) and Hotter than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (2022). He lives in Austin\, Texas with his wife\, Larisa Alexandrovna Horton.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/ukraine-war-at-a-critical-threshold-with-scott-horton/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Ukraine/Russia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250419T133000
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SUMMARY:Concord 250 Outreach
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by the Concord250 Planning Committee of the Arise & Resist Coalition \nWe are planning an anti-authoritarian outreach event at Concord250 on Saturday\, April 19\, a commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. Thousands—potentially hundreds of thousands—will gather for a parade\, drone show\, and other local happenings throughout the day. Invitations have been extended to notable figures such as Donald Trump and King Charles III. \nThis will be a great opportunity to make a stand in front of a mass audience and appeal to attendees who are interested in joining local organizations for change. Our plan is to distribute handouts that feature shocking statistics and a list of local organizations working to resist or combat the issues at hand. \nOur core message is resisting the rise of authoritarianism in the United States led by extremist right-wing billionaires. We want to draw folks’ attention with anti-authoritarian sentiments that are widely agreed upon\, and then encourage participation in local groups/organizations that are fighting back and assisting communities in need. \nWe will meet at the Concord rail station at 1:30 for orientation.  Volunteers will then fan out in the area to distribute brochures and talk to attendees.  Meet back at the rail station at 4:00 to debrief.  Be sure to sign up to get full information\, do not just show up in Concord without contacting organizers ahead of time.   Do not drive to Concord without a parking plan. \nSign up here
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/concord-250-outreach/
LOCATION:Concord Center Rail Station\, 90 Thoreau St\, Concord\, MA\, 01742
CATEGORIES:Democracy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250426T110000
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DTSTAMP:20260614T113603
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SUMMARY:Nonviolence Direct Action Training  for Protest and Protection
DESCRIPTION:It’s Time. To build community. To get grounded. To call on our history of radical nonviolence and civil resistance. To practice our ability to step out and to support one another. In this unprecedented time of uncertainty and assault on our communities and our rights\, we need to respond. \nThe training will be for people of all levels of experience with Nonviolent Direct Action. \nThe training will include tools and resources to take action with intention and practice with direct action\, de-escalation and interrupting violence. \nDate and times –   in person \nSaturday April 26  11- 3:30 ( arrive by 10:45) \nHope Central Church- 85 Seaverns Ave\, Jamaica Plain\, MA 02130 \nCome ready to form an affinity group with neighbors\, friends or like minded activists. \n\nRSVP necessary. Reply by April 23 \nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aERJqDBSi-CQ5k-4lHiIucvRKRDpLEnSZgxuuC0N9qg/edit \nCapped at 50. \nOnce people register\, we will send materials to you. \nCathy Hoffman is an activist for social justice who has learned that being part of a training enables us to act creatively and being the powerful messages for the world we want to build. \nDonations accepted. Please bring your own lunch. \nCo-sponsored by Mass Peace Action \nwe are each other’s harvest: \nwe are each other’s business: \nwe are each other’s magnitude and bond. Gwendolyn Brooks
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/nonviolence-direct-action-training-for-protest-and-protection/
LOCATION:Hope Central Church\, 85 Seaverns Avenue\, Jamaica Plain\, MA\, 02130\, United States
CATEGORIES:Strategy and Ideas
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T203000
DTSTAMP:20260614T113603
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SUMMARY:Sorting Through the Confusion Around Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend. \n \nWhat on earth is going on in Ukraine and in Trump’s negotiations with Russia and Ukraine? What is the current military and political situation in Ukraine? What should we know about the origins of the Ukraine War prior to the Russian invasion in 2022? What are the prospects for a negotiated settlement of the war? And what does all this mean for the U.S. peace movement? \nTed Snider\, long-time independent journalist and commentator on Antiwar.com\, Libertarian Institute\, Responsible Statecraft\, and American Conservative\, will speak about the military and political situation in Ukraine in the Spring of 2025\, and the prospects for a negotiated settlement. \nTed Snider is a regular columnist on U.S. foreign policy and history at Antiwar.com and The Libertarian Institute. He is also a frequent contributor to Responsible Statecraft and The American Conservative as well as other outlets. His most recent articles can be found here on Antiwar.com including his article from March 12th\, “Will the U.S. Push Zelensky Out?” \nRegister to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/ending-the-ukraine-war-with-ted-snider/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Ukraine/Russia
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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