ICAN has declared this Sunday, November 26th, as a Global Day of Action to spotlight the world’s countries and states which are gathering at the United Nations to work further on the elimination of nuclear weapons. Join our local stand out Sunday in front of City [...]
Newton Dialogues on Peace and War, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and Massachusetts Peace Action are organizing a local demonstration on November 26, joining with other world wide demonstrations supporting the Global Day Of Action Against Nuclear Weapons that day. The risk of nuclear [...]
The Treaty for Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is a critically important vehicle in the struggle to prevent nuclear war and to create a nuclear weapons-free world. But it’s not enough! With the tectonic geopolitical changes and intensifying confrontations between great and lesser nuclear powers and proliferation pressures from Seoul to [...]
Thursday, November 30 @ 12 noon Park Street Station Boston Senator Warren Speak up! No new weapons for the assault on Gaza Join us at Park Street Station on Thursday (11/30) at noon to demand a ceasefire in Israel's war on Gaza and to call [...]
A link up and live update between activists at the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference, the COP 28 in Dubai, and the 2nd Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the 2MSP in New York. In New York, activists will [...]
Call to Conference Dec 2, 2023 - online Massachusetts has the reputation of being one of the most progressive states in the country. Yet we lack legislative transparency, and we have a progressive Democratic Party platform that the leadeership ignores and a state government that [...]
December 3, 12:30 pm Northampton City Hall Sponsored by the Western Mass Coalition for Palestine
Film and discussion: Refugee elders recount their memories of Al Nakba, “the catastrophe” May 15, 1948, when as children, they and another 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes. The short film will be followed by a discussion led by Palestinian musician and publisher, Michel [...]
Biden's event with James Taylor is at the Shubert Theater, 265 Tremont Street. Guests have been told to arrive between 4:30pm and 6:30 pm and to approach the Shubert Theater from the corner of Stuart Street and Tremont Street or Oak Street and Tremont Street. [...]
With the Ukraine war, how did we get here? Where are we now? Where is this going? An in person forum with Stephen Kinzer. Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning author and foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. His articles [...]
Wednesday, December 6th 4:00 PM ET The current genocide in Gaza is a continuation of 75 years of its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, although more extreme than ever. The apartheid and occupation, the dehumanizing, home demolitions, imprisonments, surveillance, and killing have been standard features of [...]
Join Craig Mokhiber, who recently publicly resigned as Director of the New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in protest of the UN's inaction to stop the unfolding genocide in Gaza, in conversation with international human rights attorney Jonathan Kuttab. The session [...]
At 2pm Saturday December 9th in the Bristol library, Jeff Klein will speak on “Palestine & Israel: Is there a path to a just peace?” Jeff Klein is a peace activist, educator, writer and frequent visitor to the Middle East, who participated in a humanitarian [...]
Alfred de Zayas joins us for our monthly screening of JFK's Peace Speech and will be delivering commentary and responding to Q&A after we watch the speech. Alfred de Zayas is a US and Swiss jurist, who resides in Geneva, Switzerland. He is a former UN Independent Expert on International Order, [...]
Since the latest round of violence exploded in the Israel-Palestine conflict October 7, progressives in the US have been grappling with a set of complicated challenges. How can we build pressure for a ceasefire and an end to US blank-check support for Israeli apartheid while [...]
The November 15th San Francisco summit between Presidents Biden of the U.S. and Xi Jinping of China is now history. While we can all breathe a little easier as a result of their joint pledges to reduce tensions and improve cooperation on climate change and other [...]
Holiday Concert- Songs to Change the World Performing Live: Ben Grosscup ft. Nina Giulianini Saturday December 16, 7pm The Friends Room (in the Friends Center) 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge MA 02138 RESERVE TICKETS HERE! Join MAPA for a festive concert featuring activist performer Ben Grosscup [...]
The Gaza conflict has given rise to heated debate between supporters of Israel and Palestine, but what does the conflict look like if you examine it only as a supporter of civilians? Roth will provide that perspective through the lens of international humanitarian law. Kenneth [...]
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