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SUMMARY:Projections in Solidarity
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URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/projections-in-solidarity/
LOCATION:Brattle Square Plaza\, One Brattle Square\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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SUMMARY:Keep Trump’s Hands off Venezuela
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, November 22nd @ 1pm\nOutside Park Street station in Boston\nThe Trump Administration has assembled an armada of U.S. warships and thousands troops off the coast of Venezuela. They’ve sent thousands more soldiers to Puerto Rico in case they are needed for an invasion. CIA operatives who have snuck into Venezuela are scouting out the situation inside the country. And\, while enjoying blowing up dozens of civilians the president claims are drug dealers\, Trump has made it clear that President Maduro of Venezuela will be removed from power one way or another. \nDoes President Trump intend to kidnap President Maduro? Does he plan to assassinate him? Does he plan to invade the country and install a new leader in power while we steal the nation’s vast oil reserves? We don’t know. \nWe do know that we must act now to prevent a brewing disaster for Venezuela. \nWe have followed fools into Vietnam\, Iraq\, Afghanistan\, Cambodia\, Libya and into dozens of Regime Change operations from Iran to the Congo\, to Chile\, to Libya and Ukraine. How have those turned out? \nSpeakers will include: \n\nJeff Parente from About Face\nStephen Kinzer\, Author and Journalist\nEd Childs\, Unite Here Local 25\nPerformance by Singer-Songwriter Ben Grosscup\, Peoples Music Network\n\nLet’s not be fooled again. Join us to Say: \n\nNo to Regime Change\nNo to Decapitation\nNo to Military Attack\nBring our Forces Home\nGet the CIA out of Venezuela\n\nJoin us at 1pm on Saturday November 22nd at Park Street Station in Boston! \nThis demonstration is sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action\, Veterans for Peace\, About Face\, Workers World Party and The Committee for Human Rights.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/keep-trumps-hands-off-venezuela-2/
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SUMMARY:Palestine Mapped
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by MAPA. \nThe presentation will be livestreamed.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/palestine-mapped/
LOCATION:Community Church of Boston\, 565 Boylston St\, Boston\, 02116
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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SUMMARY:No Israeli AI in Massachusetts Healthcare
DESCRIPTION:Sheba Campaign Teach-in\nCome learn about some Palestine history\, the Boycott\, Divestment\, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement\, and the Sheba Out of MA Campaign with Boston DSA’s Palestine Working Group! This event is hybrid\, please RSVP for location near Copley Square and zoom link!
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/no-israeli-ai-in-massachusetts-healthcare/
LOCATION:Copley Square\, Boylston St and Dartmouth St\, Boston\, MA\, 02115
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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SUMMARY:Safe Communities Act Hearing
DESCRIPTION:ICE is creating an environment of fear in our neighborhoods. Our neighbors are afraid to go to work\, to the hospital\, to send their children to school\, to worship in peace\, or contact their government. \nIt’s time for all of us to speak up. We can change Massachusetts law to protect our neighbors and end collaboration with ICE. \nThe public has the right to testify (in person\, virtually\, or in writing) on Tuesday Nov. 25th at 11am. But you have to sign up by 5pm today (Thursday Nov. 20th). \n3 Minutes to tell the Public Safety Committee why we shouldn’t be collaborating with ICE. Here’s a fact sheet to help you! \nWhen we win the Safe Communities Act will: \n\nPrevent state and local law enforcement from doing the work of ICE agents\nExtend legal protections like Miranda rights to all our neighbors\nLet immigrants interact with police and government officals without fear of being turned in to ICE\nEnsure your State and Local taxes aren’t also fueling ICE\nWe need you to voice your opposition to ICE’s dangerous and illegal actions.\n\nClick here to register to testify! \nIf you can’t join us in person or virtually\, send a message to your State Reps and Governor Healey. \nClick here to urge your representatives to support the Safe Communities Act! \nYou can also call: \nThe State House at (617) 727-1100\nGovernor Healey at (617) 725-4005\nThe Safe Communities Act already has over 70 cosponsors. That’s over 1/3 of the legislature! \nConnecticut\, California\, Illinois\, Washington\, and other states already have this law on the books! There’s no good reason for Massachusetts to lag behind. \nWe all have a responsibility to stick up for our neighbors. Time to draw the line.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/safe-communities-act-hearing/
LOCATION:Massachusetts State House\, 24 Beacon St\, Boston
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SUMMARY:National Day of Mourning
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URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/national-day-of-mourning/
LOCATION:Coles Hill\, 35 Carver St\, Plymouth\, MA\, 02360\, United States
CATEGORIES:Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251129T130000
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SUMMARY:No War on Venezuela
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URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/no-war-on-venezuela/
LOCATION:Northampton City Hall\, 210 Main\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Latin America
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251202T190000
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SUMMARY:UKRAINE WAR:  Negotiate\, Don’t Escalate and Risk WWIII
DESCRIPTION:Retired Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatowski of the Eisenhower Media Network will discuss the critical stage that the Ukraine War has reached\, and the urgent need to end it with painful but realistic concessions now before Ukraine loses far more soldiers and territory in the near future\, and before possible US/NATO escalation to help Ukraine avoid total defeat leads to the precipice of nuclear war with Russia. \nLt. Col. Karen U. Kwiatkowski is a retired U.S. Air Force officer whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and various roles for the National Security Agency. After retiring\, she became a noted critic of the U.S. involvement in Iraq. Kwiatkowski is known for her insider essays denouncing a corrupting political influence on military intelligence\, especially leading up to the 2003 Iraq War. In 2012\, she challenged incumbent Bob Goodlatt in the Republican primary for Virginia’s 6th district in the U.S. House of Representatives. \nWhile in the Air Force\, she wrote the books Africa: African Crisis Response Initiative: Past Present and Future (2000) and Expeditionary Air Operations in Africa: Challenges and Solutions (2001). She contributed to Ron Paul: A Life of Ideas (2008) and Why Liberty: Personal Journeys Toward Peace and Freedom (2010). She has been featured in several documentaries\, including Why We Fight (2005). She has written for LewRockwell.com since 2003 and her work has appeared in Salon and The American Conservative. She has an MA in Government from Harvard\, an MS in Science Management from the University of Alaska\, and a PhD in World Politics from The Catholic University of America; her thesis was titled Angola\, A Case Study of the Implementation of the Reagan Doctrine. She is a founding member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. \nRegister to attend:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/ukraine-war-negotiate-dont-escalate-and-risk-wwiii/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Ukraine/Russia
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SUMMARY:Protecting Campus Expression in the Greater Boston Area
DESCRIPTION:Freedom to Speak\, To Teach\, To Learn\, To Research; \nWith Security and Affordability \nA Teach-in with the AAUP/AFT campaign leading up to a national Day of Action on May 1\, 2026. \n \nPlease REGISTER and forward to Campus Colleagues \nThe  AAUP and AFT have organized a national campaign resisting the Trump attacks on our campuses\, to engage faculty\, staffs\, students and alumni The call is for teach-ins on the first Fridays of the month leading up to a national event on Friday May 1\, 2026. The Greater Boston area is home to more than 50 colleges and universities\, but few have active AAUP chapters or AFT locals. To advance the Days of Action Campaign in Greater Boston the Books Not Bombs Committee is holding  a series of Zoom Teach-ins. The second in our Boston-area Zoom Teach-ins will be Friday Dec 5\, 4-5 pm. \nWelcome– Owen Madaus (Books Not Bombs Committee; Brandeis U) \nLegal Issues with the Trump Compact – Traci Griffith (ACLU MA) \nUpdate on the AAUP/AFT campaign – Lukas Moe (AAUP regional organizer) \nReport on Educational Freedom Project Rally– Jack Masliah (Northeastern students) \nState Colleges and allies including Students Rise Up – Rich Levy (MTA; Mass State College Association) \nHigh Tech Council Tax Cut Referenda and Sign-On letter – Harris Gruman (SEIU Massachusetts Political Director) \nLiving Wages for Campus Workers – Evan McKay (Harvard UAW local) \nProgram Committee:  Prof. Jonathan King\, Owen Madaus\, Prof. Gary Goldstein\, Prof. William Woodward\,  Hayat Imam \nSponsored by the Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/protecting-campus-expression-in-the-greater-boston-area-2/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Books Not Bombs
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SUMMARY:Borderland | The Line Within
DESCRIPTION:A fund-raiser for the Pioneer Valley Worker’s Center and LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA \nSunday\, December 7th from 2:00-4:30 PM\nSt. Philip’s Episcopal Church\, 128 Main Street\, Easthampton \n(next door to large white Congregational Church)\nTo purchase tickets\, sliding scale of $5-25\, please go to: \nhttps://borderlandfilm.eventive.org/schedule/borderland-the-line-within-easthampton-ma-691d05bf305f7b5bd22ae9f8  \nCo-Sponsors: Beit Ahavah\, Catholic Charities Agency\, Congregation B’Nai Israel\nTikkun Olam\, Easthampton Solidarity with Palestine\, Edwards Church\, Franklin\nCounty Continuing the Political Revolution\, Haydenville UCC\, Indivisible\nEasthampton\, Indivisible Noho/SLWM\, Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice\,\nJewish Community of Amherst Tikkun Olam\, Massachusetts Peace Action\,\nNorthampton Friends Meeting\, St. John’s Episcopal Church\,\nSt. Philip’s Episcopal Church\, Unitarian Society of Northampton\n& Florence\, Western Mass Code Pink \nFor more information\, contact e-l-k@comcast.net
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/borderland-the-line-within/
LOCATION:St. Philip’s Episcopal Church\, 128 Main Street\, Easthampton\, 01027\, United States
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SUMMARY:Holiday Bazaar for Palestine
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URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/holiday-bazaar-for-palestine/
LOCATION:First Parish UU of Arlington\, 630 Massachusetts Ave\, Arlington\, MA\, 02476\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251209T190000
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SUMMARY:The Trillion Dollar War Machine
DESCRIPTION:How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home \nAmerica spends a trillion dollars a year on its military. This extraordinary spending not only detracts from our ability to address pressing social problems but compels us into foreign wars to justify our vast arsenal. Sold to us in the name of “security\,” our military industrial complex actually makes us far less safe. \nTop policy experts William D. Hartung and Ben Freeman will discuss their new book The Trillion Dollar War Machine\, which follows the profits of militarism from traditional Pentagon contractors\, who receive more than half of the Pentagon’s budget\, to the upstart high-tech firms that shamelessly promote unproven and destabilizing technologies. They unmask the enablers of the war machine—politicians\, lobbyists\, the media\, Hollywood\, think tanks\, and so many more—whose work enriches a wealthy elite at the expense of everybody else\, spreading conflict around the world and embroiling America in endless wars. A damning tour de force\, The Trillion Dollar War Machine shows who is pulling the strings and pushing for war\, and offers a blueprint for how we can shut down the war machine and restore American security and prosperity. \nWilliam D. Hartung focuses on the arms industry and US military budget. He was previously the director of the Arms and Security Program at the Center for International Policy and the co-director of the Center’s Sustainable Defense Task Force. Bill is the co-author\, with Ben Freeman\, of the recently released The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home. He is also the author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (Nation Books\, 2011) and the co-editor\, with Miriam Pemberton\, of Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War (Paradigm Press\, 2008). And Weapons for All (HarperCollins\, 1995) is a critique of US arms sales policies from the Nixon through Clinton administrations. \nBill previously directed programs at the New America Foundation and the World Policy Institute. He also worked as a speechwriter and policy analyst for New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams. Hartung’s articles on security issues have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Los Angeles Times\, The Nation\, and the World Policy Journal.\nHe has been a featured expert on national security issues on CBS 60 Minutes\, NBC Nightly News\, the PBS Newshour\, CNN\, Fox News\, and scores of local\, regional\, and international TV and radio outlets. \nBen Freeman is director of the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute. Ben is the co-author\, with William Hartung\, of the recently released The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home. He investigates money in politics\, defense spending\, and foreign influence in America. He is the author of The Foreign Policy Auction\, which was the first book to systematically analyze the foreign influence industry in the United States. Before joining the Quincy Institute\, Ben founded the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy\, served as Deputy Director of the National Security program at Third Way\, and was a National Security Fellow at the Project On Government Oversight. At the latter\, he spear-headed creation of the “Foreign Influence Database\,” a repository of propaganda distributed by foreign agents that was previously unavailable online. \nBen earned a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University\, where he taught in the Political Science Department and the Bush School of Government and Public Service. He is currently a faculty member at the Institute for Defense and Business\, where he teaches seminars on the defense budget process and the foreign influence industry. \nHis work has appeared in numerous media outlets\, including the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Los Angeles Times\, Wall Street Journal\, and Politico. Ben has appeared on CNN\, BBC\, NPR\, Fresh Air with Terry Gross and numerous other media outlets. He has also testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee. \nCosponsored by War Industries Resistance Network and Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund \n \n  \nRegister
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/the-trillion-dollar-war-machine/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Fund the People, Not the Pentagon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251211T190000
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SUMMARY:Veterans Healthcare Choices: Privatization and Its Negative Impact on Women Veterans
DESCRIPTION:Seeking Women’s Health Justice\, a subcommittee of MAPA’s Fund Healthcare Not Warfare campaign\, examines women’s health from the perspective of justice – with the awareness that peace is a fundamental issue of health. The cost of U.S. militarism drains economic resources at the expense of health and lives. Through awareness and understanding of the culture that promotes war\, we examine the intersection of peace and women’s health\, which is justice. Our work offers paths of action that can be taken to oppose militarism and to nurture health and enhance justice. \nIn this webinar\, veterans’ health care policy analyst Suzanne Gordon will delve into the Veterans Administration specialized efforts to treat female veterans\, and how this care and expertise is being lost due to this transition to private sector care. \nCase in point: one out of three women veterans has experienced some form of sexual harassment or assault during military service. Every VA mental health provider is required to take basic military sexual trauma (MST) training and some specialize in this area. However\, the VA MISSION Act of 2018 established a private sector network\, the Veterans Community Care Program\, that contracts private-sector therapists who typically have no MST training. \nFor over a decade\, opponents of the integrated healthcare system run by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) have assured veterans that privatizing their care through widespread outsourcing to private sector providers will give them more healthcare choices\, forming a new network of timely\, high quality\, and ultra-convenient care. But if more VA care is outsourced to the private sector\, will veterans\, in fact\, enjoy “a vast array of healthcare choices\,” as one privatization advocate claimed? Will they drive shorter distances for their medical or mental health appointments? And will they see reduced wait-times? Finally\, are there really thousands of doctors\, therapists\, and other clinicians ready and able to care for the nine million American veterans currently enrolled in the VA? The Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute (VHPI) released a comprehensive\, 50-state report entitled: “Veterans’ Health Care Choice — Myth or Reality? A State- by- State Reality Check of the False Promise of VA Privatization.” It definitively answers these questions. \nSuzanne Gordon is a senior policy analyst at the VHPI\, an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the UCSF School of Nursing\, and an award-winning journalist. She has authored or coauthored 11 books\, the most recent being Wounds of War: How the VA Delivers Health\, Healing\, and Hope to the Nation’s Veterans. Together with Lisa Hayes\, she has written a play about patient safety and teamwork entitled Bedside Manners. \nRegister to attend: \n \nRead the report Veterans’ Health Care Choice — Myth or Reality? Click on Massachusetts in the graphic on this page to see the report for the Commonwealth.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/veterans-healthcare-choices-privatization-and-its-negative-impact-on-women-veterans/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Fund Healthcare Not Warfare
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SUMMARY:No War with Venezuela!
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, December 13 @ 1pm\nOutside Park Street station in Boston\nPresident Trump’s provocative acts towards Venezuela and the attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea are against military and international law. The United States has been engaged in a carefully orchestrated series of ever-increasing provocations against Venezuela. Our military started with attacks on small fishing boats\, claiming that they were trying to transport drugs. It escalated its attacks to include bombing the survivors of the attacks. This week they went farther\, seizing an oil tanker and bringing it to a US port\, planning to steal the oil.  Trump’s administration WANTS a war against Venezuela and is working hard to provoke it. We say \n\nNo to Regime Change\nNo to Decapitation\nNo to Military Attack\nBring our Forces Home\nGet the CIA out of Venezuela\n\nJoin us Saturday\, December 13\, at 1:00 PM at Park Street Station to rally against war. \nThis is urgent. Our country is moving towards war so quickly that we must oppose it equally quickly.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/no-war-with-venezuela/
LOCATION:Park Street Station\, Tremont St and Park Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Latin America
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251214T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251214T150000
DTSTAMP:20260619T122757
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SUMMARY:The Making of Revolutionary Feminism in El Salvador
DESCRIPTION:Sunday December 14\, 1-3 PM\nCambridge Main Library\n449 Broadway\, Cambridge\nU.Mass. history and gender professor Diana Sierra Becerra is a popular educator and historian. As a former undocumented immigrant\, she is committed to building powerful movements. She has written the history of how women in El Salvador shaped the theory and practice of the revolutionary Left. \nBUILD POPULAR FEMINIST POWER \nFree and Open to the Public.  Books will be available. \nTO DONATE \nhttps://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/solidarity-and-justice-donations \nor  Checks  to “Cambridge Peaceworks”\, 67 Pleasant St #1\, Cambridge\, MA 02139 \nmore information\,  email:  cambridgeelsalvador@gmail.com \nDiana Sierra Becerra will present her new book\, The Making of Revolutionary Feminism in El Salvador. It’s a history of daring women who organized one of the most combative labor movements in the Americas\, took up arms to survive US-financed terror\, and braided women’s liberation and socialism. \nSalvadoran women who participated in the revolutionary organizations of the 1970s and 1980s will join the conversation. Their efforts to build feminist popular power has important strategic lessons in an age of growing fascism.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/the-making-of-revolutionary-feminism-in-el-salvador/
LOCATION:Cambridge Main Library\, 449 Broadway\, Cambridge
CATEGORIES:Latin America
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251214T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251214T170000
DTSTAMP:20260619T122757
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SUMMARY:Cuba's Groundbreaking Alzheimer's Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Join us December 14th\, from 3pm to 5pm for a screening of a new short documentary\, featuring filmmakers and U.S. graduates of Cuba’s International Medical School.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/cubas-groundbreaking-alzheimers-treatment/
LOCATION:Saint James’ Episcopal Church\, 1991 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02140\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251216T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251216T190000
DTSTAMP:20260619T122757
CREATED:20251209T161647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251212T201759Z
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SUMMARY:Trump's Foreign Policy Doctrine
DESCRIPTION:We will evaluate the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy\, which is a break from the post-1945 bipartisan foreign policy consensus and a formal codification of Trumpism’s imperialist\, white nationalist\, transactionalist agenda. \nJoseph Gerson is president of the Campaign for Peace\, Disarmament and Common Security\, vice-president of the International Peace Bureau\, and a board member of Massachusetts Peace Action. He formerly headed the Peace and Economic Security Program of the American Friends Service Committee.   He is author of Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World  (2007) and With Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War\, Nuclear Extortion\, and Moral Imagination (1995). \nKhury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow and the Co-Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). 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 statement\, which was signed by over 6\,000 Black activists\, artists\, and scholars. \nSponsored by MAPA Education Fund\, the Campaign for Peace\, Disarmament\, and Common Security\, and the IPS New Internationalism Project. \nRegister to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/trumps-foreign-policy-doctrine/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Strategy and Ideas
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251218T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251218T130000
DTSTAMP:20260619T122757
CREATED:20251209T173846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251211T173541Z
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SUMMARY:Block the Bombs Action Hour
DESCRIPTION:Since a ceasefire was announced on Oct 9\, Israel has committed over 700 violations and killed 386 Palestinians\, including\, on average\, two children per day. Congress must pass the Block the Bombs Act to bring about a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and across the region. \nThe Block the Bombs Act (H.R. 3565)\, which currently has 57 co-sponsors\, was introduced by Representatives Ramirez\, Jacobs\, Jayapal\, and Pocan. If adopted\, the bill would prohibit the President from selling\, transferring\, or exporting certain defense articles or services to Israel\, except in specified circumstances.These weapons have been used to inflict mass civilian casualties and destroy civilian infrastructure\, including 2000-lb bombs. When dropped\, they can lead to a half-mile radius of both building damage and severe injuries to humans\, including ruptured lungs\, burst sinuses\, and torn off limbs. \nU.S. weapons are responsible for tens of thousands of Palestinian deaths. Americans are tired of seeing it – 75% of Democratic voters\, and 60% of all voters\, oppose the US giving more weapons to Israel. They are also tired of paying for it with their taxes – $21.7B since October 7th. It is time for Congress to use its leverage as the controller of military aid to force Israel to abide by the ceasefire. \nJoin us for an action hour to call on our members of Congress to sign on. We will gather on Zoom\, go through a brief intro\, and make phone calls to Congress\, demanding they support this bill. We will walk through a call script for those who would like some help on what to say on the calls. \nRegister Below!
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/block-the-bombs-action-hour/
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251220T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251220T130000
DTSTAMP:20260619T122757
CREATED:20251211T172333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251216T215312Z
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SUMMARY:Boston Black Reparations and Its White Churches
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US AS WE ENGAGE OUR BELOVED WHITE CHURCHES IN BOSTON FOR A CONVERSATION ABOUT “WHAT IS OWED TO BLACKS IN BOSTON!” SATURDAY\, DECEMBER 20\, 11 AM. GRACE CHURCH OF ALL NATIONS. 33 ELM HILL AVE. Dorchester. Open invitation.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/boston-black-reparations-and-its-white-churches/
LOCATION:Grace Church of All Nations\, 33 Elm Hill Ave\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251220T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251220T140000
DTSTAMP:20260619T122757
CREATED:20251219T070918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251219T180930Z
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SUMMARY:Stop Trump’s Blockade of Venezuela
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, December 20th @ 1pm\nOutside Park Street station in Boston\nJoin us Saturday\, December 20\, at 1:00 PM at Park Street Station to rally\nagainst war.\nOn Tuesday President Trump proclaimed “I am ordering a Total and Complete Blockade of all sanctioned Oil Tankers going into and out of Venezuela…Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada every assembled in the history of South America. It will only get bigger\, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before.” \nThe Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court clearly defines “the blockade of the ports or coasts of a State by the armed forces of another State” as an act of aggression. This proclamation is an act of war. In response Venezuela’s government ordered its navy to escort tankers from port\, escalating the risk of confrontation (Boston Globe Dec. 18). \nThis blockade is only the latest U.S. provocation that includes murdering 95 civilians in boats off South America’s coast (Deliberately killing 2 survivors of these attacks while in the water); declaring a No Fly Zone over all Venezuelan airspace; and last week seizing an oil tanker carrying Venezuelan oil on the high seas. President Trump has told us that these attacks are only the beginning. \nThese provocations are backed up by a vast war armada\, equipped with the most modern missiles and bombers\, sitting off Venezuela’s coast\, In addition 15\,000 U.S. soldiers on those ships and in Puerto Rico are ready to invade at a moment’s notice. \nWith the situation getting more dangerous by the day\, the goal of the rally is to call on everyone to do what they can to prevent war. \nJoin us to Demand: \n\nAn immediate end to the Blockade of Venezuela’s ports\nEnding Trump’s piracy of oil tankers on the high seas.\nStopping all executions of civilians in small boats off the coast of South America\n\nAnd most important\, withdraw all the U.S. warships and weapons from the coast of Venezuela and bring our sailors\, airmen and marines home for the holidays where they belong.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/stop-trumps-blockade-of-venezuela/
LOCATION:Park Street Station\, Tremont St and Park Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Latin America
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251231T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251231T170000
DTSTAMP:20260619T122757
CREATED:20251229T184617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251229T184617Z
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SUMMARY:First Night Against all Wars
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/first-night-against-all-wars/
LOCATION:Park Street Station\, Tremont St and Park Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Middle East Wars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251231T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251231T190000
DTSTAMP:20260619T122757
CREATED:20251229T184424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T185115Z
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SUMMARY:Rally for Palestine
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/rally-for-palestine/
LOCATION:Park Street Station\, Tremont St and Park Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260103T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260103T170000
DTSTAMP:20260619T122757
CREATED:20260103T152248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260103T164522Z
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SUMMARY:Stop Regime Change War on Venezuela!
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, January 3rd @ 3pm\nOutside Park Street station in Boston\nNorthampton Town Hall\nHolyoke Veterans Memorial Park\nPresident Trump’s illegal acts of war against Venezuela are a violation of US\, military\, and international law. The United States has been engaged in a carefully orchestrated series of ever-increasing provocations against Venezuela culminating in the bombing of Caracas and the abduction of the Venezuelan president and his wife. \nThe US government started with attacks on small fishing boats and murdered the survivors of the attacks. It went farther\, seizing an oil tanker and bringing it to a US port\, planning to steal the oil.  The Trump administration has now unilaterally launched a regime change war against Venezuela \nWe Demand: \n\nNo to Regime Change\nNo to Decapitation\nNo to Military Attack\nBring our Forces Home\nGet the CIA out of Venezuela\n\nJoin us Saturday\, January 3rd\, at 3:00 PM at Park Street Station\, Northampton Town Hall\, and Holyoke’s Veterans Memorial Park to rally against war. \nThis is urgent. Our country is moving towards authoritarianism so quickly that we must oppose it with like speed.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/stop-regime-change-war-on-venezuela/
LOCATION:Park Street Station\, Tremont St and Park Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Latin America
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260105T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260105T203000
DTSTAMP:20260619T122757
CREATED:20251218T163325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251218T163721Z
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SUMMARY:Sumud: Film Screening & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Please join us as we view and discuss SUMUD: A Doctor’s Report on Genocide and Survival. The film follows an American anesthesiologist volunteering in Gaza\, with commentary on the genocide by Omar El-Akkad\, Egyptian-Canadian journalist. \nA discussion will follow the 27 min. viewing of the film with the film’s director\, Jan Haaken\, and co-founder of Doctors Against Genocide\, Dr. Karameh Hamash-Kuemmerle. Nancy Murray\, representing the Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine and the Gaza Mental Health Foundation\, will facilitate. \nAbout the film: vimeo.com/1140284630 \nIn solidarity\, we will be fundraising for Gaza Mental Health Foundation and Doctors Against Genocide. \nAccessibility & transportation: Masks required. Please see the registration form for more information. \nIn collaboration with JVP Boston\, BWC\, Sawa\, MAPA\, INN Boston\, DAG\, and the Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine \nWhen: Monday\, January 5\, 6:45 – 8:30pm\nWhere: Jamaica Plain\, exact location shared following registration\nRegister here: tinyurl.com/sumudboston \n\nCan’t make it? You can still donate.\n– Gaza Mental Health Foundation: gazamentalhealth.org/support\n– Doctors Against Genocide: doctorsagainstgenocide.org/donate
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/sumud-film-screening-discussion/
LOCATION:Jamaica Plain
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jewish Voice for Peace - Boston":MAILTO: jvpboston@gmail.com
GEO:42.3097365;-71.1151431
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260105T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260105T203000
DTSTAMP:20260619T122757
CREATED:20251214T055514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260215T210200Z
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SUMMARY:What is Trump’s Golden Dome? Are We Paying for Ineffective Missile Defense and a Spiraling Nuclear Arms Race?
DESCRIPTION:Missile Defense\, as the term implies\, is defending against enemy missiles carrying an explosive payload. The origin of these anti-missile systems dates back to the Cold War space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union\, an era when intercontinental ballistic missiles could be deployed in space to launch satellites to orbit or travel thousands of miles carrying nuclear weapons. Missile defense systems were deployed by both superpowers in the 1960s\, but proved to be technically infeasible and prohibitively expensive. They were ultimately abandoned. \nFeasibility and cost notwithstanding\, the U.S. military and weapons contractors succeeded in pursuing these systems during the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush administrations. Now\, Donald Trump has launched the ambitious Golden Dome project\, yet another missile defense program based on technologies and space-based interceptors proven to be unworkable. \nIn this webinar\, we will hear three experts discuss the technical and policy aspects of Golden Dome. \nTed Postol\, professor emeritus at MIT\, is an internationally known analyst and long-time critic of the missile defense program. He has held positions at the Argonne National Laboratory\, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment\, and the Pentagon\, where he functioned as scientific advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations and technical and policy advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At Stanford\, he helped build a weapons technology training program for development and arms control policy. His awards include the 1995 Hilliard Roderick Prize in Science\, Arms Control\, and International Security from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) which lauded him as “by-far the strongest\, technically-trained\, independent arms control analyst of his generation” and the mentor of “a whole generation of independent arms control policy analysts.” He has been awarded for whistle-blowing about governmental false claims about missile defenses like the Patriot system in the 1991 Gulf War. He is a member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations\, a board member of The Committee for the Republic\, and a former editor of the journal International Security. \nDaryl Kimball is the Executive Director of the Arms Control Association (ACA)\, Washington\, DC\, where since 2001 he has led the organization’s advocacy campaigns on major issues including cancellation of new nuclear weapons programs\, the 2010 New START agreement\, the 2015 P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran\, the entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty\, and strengthening the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. He is publisher of the organization’s monthly journal\, Arms Control Today\, a frequent expert source for reporters and policymakers\, and has written and spoken extensively about all matters related to nuclear arms control. Previously\, he was the executive director of the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers\, and the Director of Security Programs for Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). There\, he helped to expose and accelerate the cleanup of a toxic\, Cold War-era nuclear weapons production site in his hometown of Oxford\, Ohio\, led the advocacy for the 1992 nuclear test moratorium in Congress and for the U.N.’s endorsement of the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. \nSubrata Ghoshroy\, a former Senior Defense Analyst for the Government Accountability Office (GAO)\, was the lead Technical Evaluator for its investigation into allegations of fraud in the missile defense program. When the GAO tried to cover up his discovery that contractors were lying about a $100-million test\, he blew the whistle and quit the GAO shortly afterwards. He then joined MIT as a Research Affiliate with the Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society. \nLinda Pentz Gunter\, moderator\, is the curator and editor of Beyond Nuclear International and the international specialist at Beyond Nuclear. Prior to her work in anti-nuclear advocacy\, she was a journalist for 20 years in print and broadcast\, working for USA Network\, Reuters\, The Times (UK) and other US and international outlets. \nRegister to attend:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/trumps-golden-dome/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Nuclear Disarmament
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260110T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260110T140000
DTSTAMP:20260619T122757
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SUMMARY:No War at Home\, No War Abroad
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/no-war-at-home-no-war-abroad/
LOCATION:Massachusetts State House\, 24 Beacon St\, Boston
CATEGORIES:Latin America
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260110T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260110T160000
DTSTAMP:20260619T122757
CREATED:20260109T160745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T160745Z
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SUMMARY:Justice for Renee Good - ICE out of Massachusetts
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/justice-for-renee-good-ice-out-of-massachusetts/
LOCATION:JFK Federal Building\, Cambridge St at Sudbury St\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Latin America
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260113T200000
DTSTAMP:20260619T122757
CREATED:20260104T211029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260107T174918Z
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SUMMARY:What’s going on in Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Trump’s “Peace Proposal”\, the UN Security Council resolution and their significance for the future of Gaza \nPhyllis Bennis and Richard Falk will focus on the developments on the ground in Gaza\, the US role and Trump’s “peace” plan\, the consequences of the latest UN Security Council resolution\, and what the UN has done and failed to do regarding the genocide.  They will also talk about the current situation in the West Bank. \nPhyllis Bennis is Program Director at the Institute for Policy Studies; in 2001 helped found the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights\, served 6 Years on the board of Jewish Voice for Peace.  She is author of the 2025 Understanding Palestine and Israel (Interlink Books). \nRichard Falk is former UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories for the UN Human Rights Council 2008-2014. He is Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University.   \nSponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund; cosponsored by the International Peace Bureau and Campaign for Peace\, Disarmament\, and Common Security. \n \nRegister to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/calling-it-what-it-is-whats-going-on-in-palestine/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260114T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260114T213000
DTSTAMP:20260619T122757
CREATED:20260113T191446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T001148Z
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SUMMARY:US Aggression towards Venezuela and its Repercussions for Latin America (a WIRN webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Wedenesday January 14th @ 8PM\n \nThe recent U.S. military attacks and threats on Venezuela are just its latest acts of war on its southern neighbor. Since the rise of Hugo Chavez\, there have been coup attempts\, sanctions\, subversive support of the right-wing opposition\, theft of financial assets\, and the widespread dissemination of lies and propaganda portraying Venezuela as a threat to the U.S. But now\, the Trump regime appears more determined than ever to bring about regime change in this country that has the largest proven reserves of oil in the world. \nThe danger of this U.S aggression is not just to the people of Venezuela\, but to the rest of Latin America as well\, especially to the targeted nations of Cuba\, Nicaragua\, and Colombia. The U.S.\, under the banner of the Monroe Doctrine\, considers all of Latin America its sphere of influence and means to reinvigorate its dominance and exploitation of natural resources there. Capturing Venezuela would be a jewel in the imperial crown\, but it would also inevitably lead to more and more neo-colonization throughout the hemisphere. \n \nSpeakers: \nJohn Perry\, based in Nicaragua\, is with the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition and writes for the Grayzone\, London Review of Books\, FAIR\, Covert Action and elsewhere \nRoger Harris taught political science at a Historically Black College in Mississippi in the late 1960s and was involved in the civil rights movement and community organizing in East Harlem\, New York City. He is a co-founder of the Venezuela Solidarity Network and was an election accompanier for the last presidential election in Venezuela. Roger is on the state central committee of the California Peace and Freedom Party and on the board of the human rights organization\, the Task Force on the Americas. He is on the program committee of the Marxist Forum and on the secretariat of the US Peace Council. He is active in the SanctionsKill campaign and the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition. His political writings may be regularly found at Counterpunch\, LA Progressive\, Antiwar.com\, Venezuelanalysis\, and the Orinoco Tribune.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/us-aggression-towards-venezuela-and-its-repercussions-for-latin-america-a-wirn-webinar/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Latin America,Raytheon Antiwar Campaign
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SUMMARY:Hands off Venezuela
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URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/hands-off-venezuela/
LOCATION:Greenfield Town Common\, Court Square\, Greenfield\, MA\, 01301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Latin America
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