Massachusetts Peace Action

No War on Venezuela
2025-11-29 13:00 (America/New_York) | Northampton City Hall, 210 Main, Northampton, MA, 01060, United States

No Fear with Street Theater
2025-11-29 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-22 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-15 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-08 11:00 - 13:00 | 1000 District Avenue Burlington, MA 01803 United States, 1000 District Avenue, Burlington, 01803, United States
Join the new protest group, “No Fear Street Theater” for weekly protests on Saturdays starting October 11th from 11am to 1pm. Stand up for immigrants two blocks from the Burlington ICE office. All are welcomed and encouraged to support our immigrant community. The protests will be held at Burlington Mall Rd. at District Avenue.

National Day of Mourning
2025-11-27 12:00 - 15:00 | Coles Hill, 35 Carver St, Plymouth, MA, 02360, United States

Justice 4 All Thursdays
2025-11-27 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-20 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-13 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-06 11:00 - 13:00 | 1000 District Avenue Burlington, MA 01803 United States, 1000 District Avenue, Burlington, 01803, United States
Via Turn Purple 2 Blue:

Greater Assabet Indivisible Network (GAIN) invites you to stand in solidarity with immigrants and resistance to ICE and their cruel and lawless detention of our neighbors Thursdays from 11am-1pm. Regardless of any other political views, you are welcome to join us and demand Justice 4 All so long as you do so non-violently.
Our friends at Bearing Witness have been hosting gatherings at this location for many weeks. We are an unaffiliated group, but very much aligned with their values and mission. Our goal is to add to the total number of hours that citizens stand in non-violent opposition to the deplorable detainment conditions at this location. If you have been to Bearing Witness on Wednesdays, we would love to have you at Justice 4 All Thursdays.
Schedule (Starting Thursday, September 4 – more dates to follow)
11:00-11:30 Welcome; music; announcements
11:30-12:30 Stand with signs along District Ave
12:30-1:00 Optional short march down to Mall Rd.
What happens at this ICE office?
ICE personnel depart from District Ave. in unmarked vans with tinted windows on missions to abduct immigrants across New England. Immigrants may also show up at the office for appointments. The facility on District Ave was never intended to be a detention center, yet immigration lawyers and media interviews reveal that people are now being housed here in conditions that have been called “abysmal” and “unsanitary.”
What to expect at Justice 4 All?
We are committed to nonviolence, and we stand peacefully with signs outside the facility. We do not block the entrance, we do not physically approach ICE agents as they walk to/from the parking lot, and we do not block traffic on District Ave.
Signs
This is a very targeted action outside the ICE facility, so it’s not the venue for protesting other causes. Even though we care deeply about other issues, while outside ICE we must remain focused on immigration.
Parking and other tips
For parking, please use the Macy’s overflow lot (75 Burlington Mall Road, follow signs for Macy’s, see map). For those with mobility challenges, please keep in mind that the lots closest to ICE — the FAA lot beside ICE and the BAE Systems lot directly across the street from ICE — have both been blocked off. There are restaurants nearby (Clover, Pressed Cafe, Chipotle) to get food and use the bathroom. Before arriving, please consider your own self-preservation (citizenship status) and self-care (sunscreen, hydration, etc.)

Reading Group - "The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations"
2025-11-25 18:30 - 19:30, 2025-11-11 18:30 - 19:30
This fall, MAPA’s Indigenous Solidarity Working Group will be hosting a virtual reading group to discuss “The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations” by Mawopiyane and Shirley N. Hager. Join us!
First three meetings are Tuesdays, Final meeting to be held Thursday, 12/11. See “The Gatherings” Reading Schedule for details, weekly chapters, and discussion questions.
Sign up to participate.

Safe Communities Act Hearing
2025-11-25 11:00 - 13:30 | Massachusetts State House, 24 Beacon St, Boston
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.
It’s time for all of us to speak up. We can change Massachusetts law to protect our neighbors and end collaboration with ICE.
The 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).
3 Minutes to tell the Public Safety Committee why we shouldn’t be collaborating with ICE. Here’s a fact sheet to help you!
When we win the Safe Communities Act will:

Prevent state and local law enforcement from doing the work of ICE agents
Extend legal protections like Miranda rights to all our neighbors
Let immigrants interact with police and government officals without fear of being turned in to ICE
Ensure your State and Local taxes aren’t also fueling ICE
We need you to voice your opposition to ICE’s dangerous and illegal actions.

Click here to register to testify!
If you can’t join us in person or virtually, send a message to your State Reps and Governor Healey.
Click here to urge your representatives to support the Safe Communities Act!
You can also call:
The State House at (617) 727-1100
Governor Healey at (617) 725-4005
The Safe Communities Act already has over 70 cosponsors. That’s over 1/3 of the legislature!
Connecticut, California, Illinois, Washington, and other states already have this law on the books! There’s no good reason for Massachusetts to lag behind.
We all have a responsibility to stick up for our neighbors. Time to draw the line.

No Israeli AI in Massachusetts Healthcare
2025-11-24 18:30 - 20:00 | Copley Square, Boylston St and Dartmouth St, Boston, MA, 02115
Sheba Campaign Teach-in
Come 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!

Palestine Mapped
2025-11-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St, Boston, 02116
Cosponsored by MAPA.
The presentation will be livestreamed.

Keep Trump’s Hands off Venezuela
2025-11-22 13:00 - 15:00
Saturday, November 22nd @ 1pm
Outside Park Street station in Boston
The 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.
Does 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.
We do know that we must act now to prevent a brewing disaster for Venezuela.
We 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?
Speakers will include:

Jeff Parente from About Face
Stephen Kinzer, Author and Journalist
Ed Childs, Unite Here Local 25
Performance by Singer-Songwriter Ben Grosscup, Peoples Music Network

Let’s not be fooled again. Join us to Say:

No to Regime Change
No to Decapitation
No to Military Attack
Bring our Forces Home
Get the CIA out of Venezuela

Join us at 1pm on Saturday November 22nd at Park Street Station in Boston!
This demonstration is sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action, Veterans for Peace, About Face, Workers World Party and The Committee for Human Rights.

Projections in Solidarity
2025-11-21 17:00 - 18:00 | Brattle Square Plaza, One Brattle Square, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States

Report from the West Bank
2025-11-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Online Event
Benny Davidovitch recently returned from the West Bank as part of a Protective Presence for Palestinian shepherds and their families. This presentation is based on his personal experience in the 2 weeks he spent with families in the West Bank (northern Jordan valley). He has put together an excellent presentation on his time there, including photos and videos taken by himself and other volunteers. It is approximately 25-30 mins, and consists mainly of photos and short films of events that he and others with the group Jordan Valley Activists (JVA) witnessed during their stays in West Bank communities.
Davidovitch is an American-Israeli who is a volunteer with JVA, a group comprised of mostly Jewish Israelis who provide a “protective presence” between Palestinian shepherds and the settlers who target them. They document law violations and other abuses committed by the settlers and fund-raise to help shepherds access water when sources are restricted by the Israeli army. Since the Hamas attack of October 2023, the settler movement has used Israel’s siege in Gaza as an opportunity to intensify their established campaign of violent harassment of Palestinian shepherds and their families– including arbitrary arrests, home demolitions, land grabs, and murders.

Benjamin Davidovitch, an American-Israeli resident of Amherst MA since 2007, works as a Physics Professor at UMass Amherst. In the summer of 2025, he joined the Jordan Valley Activists – Israeli volunteers who stay 24/7 with Palestinian communities at risk, and provide them with “protective presence” against their harassment and displacement by violent settler groups.
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Recognizing the Genocide of the Palestinian People in Gaza
2025-11-20 15:30 - 16:30
Call on Congress to formally recognize the ongoing genocide in Gaza!
Rashida Tlaib, alongside 20 other members of Congress, introduced H.Res.876 – Recognizing the Genocide of the Palestinian People in Gaza last Friday in the US Congress. You can read her press release HERE. (Pressley and McGovern have signed on).
TAKE ACTION TODAY (It will take 3 mins)
**Call Rep. Jake Auchincloss’ office
(202) 225-5931
*Tell his office: “Rep. Auchincloss needs to sign on to House Resolution 876.” “The Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza has not ended, and it will not end until we act. Since the so-called ‘ceasefire’ was announced, Israeli forces haven’t stopped killing Palestinians. Impunity only enables more atrocity.”
TAKE ACTION THURSDAY Nov. 20 (one hour)
Join our Standout @3:30 pm
Coolidge Corner, Brookline

Media Bias and the Gaza Genocide
2025-11-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Online Event
Since October 2023, historian Assal Rad and journalist Sana Saeed have closely tracked media coverage of the war in Gaza, highlighting how much of it aligns with the Israeli narrative and distorts key facts — contributing to widespread misinformation and disinformation.
Our speakers will present examples of headlines that obscure the facts, and we will have some time to practice our media literacy skills!

Dr. Assal Rad is a historian of the modern Middle East. She works on research and writing related to U.S. foreign policy issues, the Middle East, contemporary Iran, and Israel/Palestine. Her writing can be seen in Newsweek, The National Interest, The Independent, Foreign Policy and more, and she has appeared as a commentator on BBC World, Al Jazeera, CNN, and NPR. Assal completed a PhD in History from the University of California, Irvine in 2018 and is the author of The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Sana Saeed is an award-winning journalist and media critic known for her sharp analysis of how media shapes public perception. She previously hosted the shows Backspace and The Occupation Style Guide at AJ+ that illuminated the ways mainstream news frames narratives around war, colonialism, and resistance. Since October 2023, she has been at the forefront of critically exposing how U.S. media propaganda is used to justify war crimes and shape public discourse around the genocide in Gaza.

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Nuclear-free for Climate
2025-11-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Online Event
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The Rising Generation's Peace & Justice Priorities
2025-11-18 13:00 - 14:30
The Rising Generation’s Peace & Justice Priorities: With Leading U.S. & European Organizers & Advocates
Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech brought to mind the wisdom and oratory of an earlier inspiring justice and peace leader, Martin Luther King. But he is not the only dreamer and organizer under 35 doing what he or she can do to make our country and world better.
Join rising generation organizers and peace advocates from US, Germany, and Serbia talk to learn what they see as the greatest challenges they and we face and their organizing and advocacy responses.
Join us on Tuesday, November 18th. The webinar will begin at 1 p.m. EST to accommodate the time differences.
Speakers:
Mina Damnjanovic, feminist peace activist from Belgrade Serbia. She was active in Women in Black, Belgrade on Resolution 1325: Women, peace and Security. She finished MA in Gender Studies, University of Belgrade.
Linus Lanfermann-Baumann is a PhD candidate in Contemporary History at Graz University, Austria. His research focuses on peace activism in the 1980s within the transatlantic triangle of West Germany, Central America, and the United States.
Owen Madaus is a Master’s student in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence with experience in peacebuilding, advocacy, and community-based development. Owen led organizing for Boston’s Hiroshima/Nagasaki 80th anniversary commemoration and served with Massachusetts Peace Action and is a CPDCS Board member.
Nick Rabb is a postdoctoral researcher at California State University, Los Angeles. He is a thinker and organizer motivated to help people think critically about politics and social life, and strategies for a just, cooperative, and life-giving society. Nick is a CPDCS Board member and participated in Gensuikyo’s World Conference against A- & H- Bombs in Japan.
Register below

Testify to Divest Massachusetts from WMDs
2025-11-18 10:30 - 15:30 | Massachusetts State House – Room A-2, 24 Beacon St, Boston, MA, 02133
The Responsible Investment Bill (S.767 / H.1264) would divest the Massachusetts State Pension Fund from entities tied to weapons of mass destruction WMDs. This bill will be heard at the State House on Tuesday, 11/18, starting at 10:30 am. The hearing has been moved to room B-2. See directions to the room.
The hearing notice is: https://malegislature.gov/Events/Hearings/Detail/5473 Please notify masscfri@gmail.com if you plan to testify, as we will seek to organize testifiers into panels and we will register the panel as a whole.
If you can’t come to the State House in person, you can testify virtually. The committee will also accept written comments. Enter the State House through the Ashburton Park entrance; our group will meet there at 10:15.

We are Not Numbers
2025-11-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
presenting We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth, edited by Pam Bailey and Ahmed Alanouq. Featuring readings by Daniel José Older, Salma Shawa, Khury Petersen-Smith, Autumn Allen, and George Abraham and a conversation lead by Hannah Moushabeck
Registration is required for the event, but is free. You have the option to order a “Book-Included” ticket to reserve a copy of We Are Not Numbers and pick it up at the event. (Books bundled with tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand. Ticket holders who purchased a book-included ticket and are unable to attend the event will be able to pick up their book at Harvard Book Store up to 30 days following the event. This offer expires after 30 days. Please note we cannot guarantee signed copies will be available to ticket holders who do not attend the event.)
Proceeds of the book support We Are Not Numbers, a project providing mentorship and a global platform for young Gazan writers. Pam Bailey will sign books after the presentation.

Sponsored by Harvard Bookstore, Interlink Books, and MAPA Education Fund
About We Are Not Numbers
A teenage girl stares at her roof, hoping it won’t collapse over her head. A young student searches the Internet for photos of libraries around the world, hoping he’ll be able to visit them one day. Another walks around the city, taking notes of all the buildings she dreams of repairing.
These are the stories of young people from Gaza, born under Israeli occupation and blockade. They are people who have endured unspeakable struggles and losses, who keep fighting to be recognized not as numbers, but as human beings with hopes, dreams, and lives worth living.
We Are Not Numbers was founded in 2014 to give voice to the youth of Gaza. In this collection—vital, urgent and full of heart, spanning over ten years to the present moment—we gain an unparalleled insight into the past, as well as the current and next generation of Palestinian leaders, artists, scientists and scholars and imagine where we might go from here.
Praise for We Are Not Numbers
“Essential . . . A project that insists on liberation.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates
“A rebellion against the singular story. An insightful, multifaceted glimpse into the besieged Gaza Strip, where millions of people continue to confront a genocide waged by an Israeli regime.” — Mohammed el-Kurd
“With lovingly crafted words and stories, the authors in We Are Not Numbers open portals in Israel’s apartheid wall, inviting readers into the impossible realities of life under siege in Gaza. The collective commitment to doing whatever it takes to produce this extraordinary symphony of testimony is evident on every page. This book is a jailbreak—and a miracle.” — Naomi Klein
“We Are Not Numbers is not just a book—it’s my life, their life, and our shared story. I know some of these brave writers; I’ve walked the same streets, felt the same fear, and shared the same dreams under Gaza’s skies. These pages carry the truth of our struggle and the beauty of our humanity. This is Gaza as it truly is, written by those who live it every day.” — Motaz Azaiza, award-winning Palestinian photojournalist
“Picking up this book may seem hard because of the subject matter; putting it down is even harder. The voices of Gaza’s young writers are so moving and varied and astonishing. You’ll carry We Are Not Numbers in your heart for a very long time.” — Kamila Shamsie
Bios
Pam Bailey is a freelance journalist and social-justice activist. She lived and worked in the Gaza Strip immediately following the 2008/9 Israeli assault. Today, she is a communications consultant and writer/editor for nonprofits such as ImpACT International for Human Rights Policies. She has also founded More Than Our Crimes, a nonprofit initiative focused on assuring second chances for individuals convicted of violent crimes in the United States. She is based in Washington DC.
Ahmed Alnaouq grew up in Gaza where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from al-Azher University. Ahmed was the inspiration for, and original project manager of, We Are Not Numbers. He later won the UK’s prestigious Chevening scholarship and earned a master’s degree in international journalism from Leeds University. He also serves as advocacy and outreach officer for the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. Ahmed’s writings have been published by the Gulf News, New Arab, and other websites. He is currently based in London.
Daniel José Older, a lead story architect for Star Wars: The High Republic, is the internationally best-selling author of many comics and twenty books, including the Young Adult series the Shadowshaper Cypher, which was named one of the best fantasy books of all time by TIME magazine and one of Esquire’s 80 Books Every Person Should Read. He won the International Latino Book Award and has been nominated for numerous others. Find his books and online writing classes here: http://danieljoseolder.net/
Salma Shawa is a Palestinian content creator and publishing professional who is originally from Gaza. She uses her social media platforms to advocate and educate people about Palestine. You can find her online @salma.shawa_.
Khury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow and the Co-Director of the New Internationalism Project at 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.
Autumn Allen is an educator, an editor, an award-winning author, and a children’s literature specialist. Her debut young adult novel, All You Have To Do (Kokila/Penguin, 2023), was a People Magazine must-read for fall 2023, a Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of 2023, a Black Caucus of the ALA debut honor award winner, and is long listed for the Massachusetts Book Award. Her picture books, Step On Board: Sculpting a Memorial to Harriet Tubman, illustrated by Ekua Holmes, and Answered Prayers, illustrated by Charly Palmer, are forthcoming from Knopf. Autumn is a senior editor at Barefoot Books and she teaches literature, writing and publishing to students of all ages. Autumn grew up in Boston and lives in Massachusetts with her family.
George Abraham (they/??) is a Palestinian American poet, essayist, critic, and performance artist. They are the author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America (Haymarket, 2026) and Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020), which won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the Editor-at-Large of Mizna, and co-editor of Heave Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket, 2025) which was long-listed for the Palestine Book Award. They are a graduate of Northwestern’s Litowitz MFA+MA program, and teach at Amherst College as a Writer-in-Residence.
Hannah Moushabeck is a second-generation Palestinian American author and book worker who was raised in a family of publishers and booksellers and learned the power of literature at a young age. Hannah has worked in publishing for over a decade at companies such as Chronicle Books, The Quarto Group, and Simon & Schuster. She now runs Interlink Publishing, the only Palestinian-owned publisher in the United States, alongside her family. Her debut picture book Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine (Chronicle Books) won The New England Book Award and The Arab American Book Award. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts on the homelands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc Nations.

Educational Freedom Project Rally
2025-11-15 14:00 - 16:00 | Back Bay Fens, 100 Park Dr, Boston, 02215, United States
Educational Freedom Project is a new organizing group started by Northeastern students that now spans across Boston campuses. Their mission is to is to build a platform for energized students and community members to transform their passion into action that will carry the promise of higher education forward. Higher education is under threat, and EFP is mobilizing students across campuses and working to implement reforms to promote teaching, learning, expression, and opportunity. Here is a link to their website if you want to learn more about the group and how to get involved, link here.
Join the Educational Freedom Project, student organizations, and local advocacy groups on November 15th in the Back Bay Fens at 2.00pm for a student-focused rally. We will have community speakers, student bands, and action tables. Bring posters calling on our universities to defend their students – and rep your university colors! Together, students are pushing their universities to fulfill their missions and defend their communities.
We hope to see you there!
If you are able to make a contribution to Educational Freedom Project to help them fund this rally please donate here! Anything helps!

Keep Trump’s Hands off Venezuela
2025-11-14 12:00 - 14:00 | Tremont Street & Park Street Boston, MA 02108, Tremont Street & Park Street, Boston, 02108, United States
Friday, November 14 @ Noon
Outside Park Street station in Boston
The 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.
Does 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.
We do know that we must act now to prevent a brewing disaster for Venezuela.
We 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?
Let’s not be fooled again. Join us to Say:

No to Regime Change
No to Decapitation
No to Military Attack
Bring our Forces Home
Get the CIA out of Venezuela

Join us at noon on Friday November 14th at Park Street Station in Boston for a rally. We will then head to the JFK Federal Building to deliver a letter to Senate offices, demand Congress reject Trump’s illegal actions.

Slavery's Enduring Legacy: America's Unpaid Reparations Debt
2025-11-13 19:00 - 20:30
The legacy of slavery, and the stolen labor of millions of Africans forcibly brought to the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries, continues to shape the political, social, and personal lives of all Americans today, especially Indigenous and African-descended communities. This webinar examines the enduring consequences of slavery with a focus on reparations: the unpaid debt that still looms over our society. We will take an alternative approach to the subject of reparations: We will trace its roots in the expansion of the American empire and the ideology of white supremacy. We will explore slavery’s continuation embedded in the 13th Amendment, including the ongoing legality of forced labor for incarcerated people and the industry that profits from incarceration, punishment, and surveillance. And we will address the city of Boston, whose wealth was built on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Together, we will consider the obstacles to repair and explore how to forge a new path forward.
Speakers:
Stephanie Guirand holds a PhD in Sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she is currently a Graduate Fellow. She serves as the Program Function Manager and Researcher for The Black Response (TBR), an abolitionist research and advocacy organisation under Community Service Cares, Inc., based in Cambridge, MA.
Kevin Peterson is the founder and executive director of The New Democracy Coalition, a non-partisan and non-profit organization that focuses on civic literacy, civic policy and electoral justice. Mr. Peterson studied philosophy and politics at Boston University and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for Collaborative Leadership at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
Tony Van Der Meer, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in the Africana Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston and serves on the MAPA Board. Professor Van Der Meer was selected for the 2024 Scholar Activist Award from Critical Educators for Social Justice (CESI), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
Rosemary Kean serves on MAPA’s Board and also is co-convener of MAPA’s Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity Working Group. She is co-chair of the Social Justice Community at First Church Boston UU.
We hope to see you there, click below to register

Turning On Us: The War Machine Comes Home (a WIRN webinar)
2025-11-12 20:00 - 21:30
Join us Wednesday, November 12 from 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM ET for a War Industry Resisters Network webinar.
The violence that the US military has inflicted on the rest of the world has always been accompanied by police violence and repression at home, especially aimed at BIPOC people. But now, with persistent ICE attacks and National Guard occupations of our cities, it has become an overt and official wide-scale federal policy. The weapons and strategies that the US has used in its imperial wars are now being turned on its own population in a blatant and unconstitutional move towards authoritarian rule. The wars have come home. This webinar will address this undemocratic use of militarized force, discuss its legality, and point to who is profiting from it. It will also describe the resistance that has risen up in cities such as Portland, Chicago, and DC.
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Say No to National Guard Troops in our Streets
2025-11-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Veteran’s Memorial Park – World War II Memorial, 100 Park Drive, Boston, MA, 02215
SAY NO TO NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS IN OUR STREETS
Stand with Veterans as we march, rally, and refuse to allow growing fascism to be normalized. Together we say NO this Veterans Day – no to ICE, no to occupation, no to fascism, and no to cuts stripping away life saving services our communities need.

Sponsors: Veterans for Peace/ Smedley Butler Brigade, About Face, Mayday Strong, Common Defense
https://www.vetssayno.org/
May Day is proud to stand alongside About Face in this effort – together we will ensure that this country works for all of us, not the few.
Please note: A core principle behind all our events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events

About Face is a movement of post 9/11 service members and veterans who understand that the same institutions and policies that wage wars overseas also have targeted communities of color, indigenous people, and poor people inside of the United States. About Face takes action in solidarity with all people impacted by wars abroad and at home to realize a vision of a world free of militarism.
May Day Strong is a multi-racial working class movement dedicated to taking our country back from the billionaires and stopping the current authoritarian takeover. We are the many, they are the few. Together we will win.

Protecting Campus Expression in the Greater Boston Area
2025-11-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Online, MA, United States
Freedom to Speak, To Teach, To Learn, To Research;
With Security and Affordability
A Teach-in with the AAUP/AFT campaign leading up to a national Day of Action on May 1, 2026.

Please REGISTER and forward to Campus Colleagues
Many campuses in Mass and across the country will be holding teaching and demonstrations this Friday, with faculty, staffs, students and alumni, to resist the Trump attack on teaching, research and political expression. The Greater Boston area is home to more than 50 colleges and universities, but few have active AAUP chapters or AFT locals. To help launch the Days of Action Campaign in Greater Boston the Books Not Bombs Committee will hold an evening Zoom Teach-in. This will be after most campus-based events, and will permit engagement of individuals whose campus organizations aren’t able to organize an event for this coming Friday.
Welcome & Rejection of the Trump Compact – Owen Madeus (Books Not Bombs Committee; Brandeis U);
The AAUP/AFT campaign – Lukas Moe (AAUP regional organizer);
Protecting Campus Speech – SEIU509 Rep.
Protecting political expression – Marcus Breen (Boston College); Cole Harrison (Mass Peace Action).
Living Wages for Campus Workers – Evan McKay (Harvard UAW local);
Critical Value of Campus-based Research – Jonathan King (MIT AAUP, Books Not Bombs Committee);
Roles for the State Legislature – Rep. Mike Connolly;
Opposing genocide – Dr. Karameh Kuemmerle (Harvard Med, Doctors Against Genocide);
Educational Freedom Project Nov 15 Rally– Jack Masliah (Northeastern students);
Organizing for Friday Dec 5 Teach-in;
Sign on Letter.
Please REGISTER and forward to Campus Colleagues
Program Committee: Prof. Jonathan King, Owen Madaus, Prof. Gary Goldstein, Prof. William Woodward, Hayat Iman.
Sponsored by the Mass Peace Action Education Fund
