Standout: Hold Israel Accountable
2025-11-01 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Park Street Station, Tremont St and Park Street, Boston, MA, 02108, United States
Saturday, Nov 1, noon
Park Street Station, Boston
date changed due to predicted weather

Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the ceasefire agreement was signed.
The U.S. must demand that Israel obey the ceasefire immediately
Seth Moulton, who is running for Senate, and our whole congressional delegation must wake up and support the Stop the Bombs legislation and cut off of military and diplomatic support for Israel.
The Mass. State legislature must divest the pension plan from the companies providing the weapons being used by Israel to violate the ceasefire.
The Famine continues in violation of the agreement. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians continue to starve in violation of the Agreement’s demand that the U.N. and other organizations be allowed to end the famine.
The U.S. government and public demand Israel’s compliance with the agreement to end the famine.
We must punish Israel’s continued starvation of Palestinians by suspending all aid to Israel and passing the Stop the Bombs legislation. Members of Congress including Seth Moulton must support the UNRWA Funding Restoration Act.
This rally will raise awareness that Israel is continuing the mass murder and starvation of Palestinians in violation of the Agreement they claim to be observing, and to cut into the assumption that Trump’s agreement has ended the Gaza war and to call for Israel’s isolation as punishment for these violations
Sponsored by Arise & Resist, MAPA, Northshore for Palestine, CD8 for Palestine, Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine, and Palestine South Shore Alliance. Additional cosponsors welcome. Bring Palestine flags and wear keffiyehs. Contact AriseResistCoalition@proton.me

No Fear with Street Theater
2025-11-01 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-25 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-18 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-11 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.

Promoting Inclusion and Resisting Campaigns of Censorship in Massachusetts
2025-10-30 18:00 - 19:00 | Church of the Good Shepherd, 9 Russell Ave., Watertown, MA, United States
A Conversation with “Together for an Inclusive Massachusetts”
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2025 6:00PM
Church of the Good Shepherd
9 Russell Avenue, Watertown
Corner of Mt. Auburn Street and Russell Avenue
Bus 71 from Harvard Square, Russell Avenue Stop
Join us for a presentation and slide show with Sana Fadel from Together for an Inclusive Massachusetts (TIM) and Jill Charney from Sawa: Newton-Area Alliance for Peace and Justice.
They will discuss TIM’s guiding principles, its major focuses and how its work relates to efforts statewide and nationally to stifle free speech, including criticism of Israel. Most importantly, they will offer ways people to get involved.
Sponsored by
Peace and Common Security Working Group
Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment
www.watertowncitizens.com
Sawa: Newton-Area Alliance for Peace and Justice
sawanewton.substack.com

Massachusetts Peace Action
https://masspeaceaction.org/

Justice 4 All Thursdays
2025-10-30 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-23 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-16 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"
2025-10-28 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.

Anti-Semitism as a Smokescreen: Effects of Pseudo Anti-semitism on Women
2025-10-27 19:00 - 20:00 | Online Event
Under the guise of condemning anti-semitism, the current U.S. presidential administration has weaponized and distorted the true meaning of antisemitic philosophy and actions. Countering anti-semitism has become a bullying tactic on U.S. college campuses and is being used as a means to discredit or demonize supporters of Palestinian rights.
This brand of anti-semitism has become a smokescreen for punishing institutions and activists and can be seen as “pseudo anti-semitism”, a false interpretation and deliberate twisting of the concept used to confuse and further polarize the U.S. electorate.

Speakers will address how “pseudo anti-semitism” affects women in the U.S. and in Palestine, contributing to the dangerous rhetoric of the ongoing war taking place there.
Alice Rothchild, MD is a retired obstetrician-gynecologist who worked in the health care reform and women’s movements for many years. She directed a documentary film Voices Across the Divide, an oral history project sharing the stories of Palestinians, which premiered at the Boston Palestine Film Festival, 2013.
Since 1997, she has focused much of her energy on understanding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from a progressive perspective. Her books on this topic include Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine, Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine, On the Brink: Israel and Palestine on the Eve of the 2014 Gaza Invasion, Shifting Sands: Jewish Women Confront the Israeli Occupation, and Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience.
Lubna Alzaroo, PhD grew up in Hebron, Palestine before moving to the U.S. for graduate school on a Fulbright Scholarship. Her upbringing in Palestine shaped her interest in Environmental Justice issues. She has master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Washington with a focus on the Environmental Humanities. Her research is on the representation of settler-colonial infrastructure, and the environment in both U.S and Palestinian Literature. She is a lecturer in the Program on the Environment and the Comparative History of Ideas department at The University of Washington and also teaches Environmental Science at South Seattle College. Her courses focus on environmental justice and Settler Colonial Infrastructures.
Sponsored by the Women’s Health Subteam of Fund Healthcare Not Warfare, MAPA Education Fund. Register to attend.

Gaza Mutual Aid Benefit Concert
2025-10-27 18:30 - 20:30 | Somerville Armory, 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA, United States
MAPA will host an info table at the concert!

Music for Peace: The Formosa Duo
2025-10-25 19:00 - 21:00 | St. James Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 1991 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02140, United States
Join us on October 25th for a classical music experience! Music for Peace is delighted to present Cello Balm by The Formosa Duo. Cellist Sam Ou and pianist Chi-Chen Wu will soothe and excite your spirit with music by Schumann, stir up some intense action with Barber, and sing to your soul with Rachmaninoff.
This year has been full of trials and tribulations for our global community, to say the least. Let us join together in our shared love of music, which can certainly be a balm for such troubling times. Cello Balm, as its name suggests, is a concert that will focus on the cello front and center.
About the Musicians:
Since earning their respective doctorate of musical arts degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC), pianist Chi-Chen Wu and cellist Sam Ou have been collaborating as the Formosa Duo for over two decades. While respectively maintaining music professorships at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, Ms. Wu and Mr. Ou have individually appeared as recitalists, chamber musicians, and concerto soloists in the United States, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Luxembourg, Poland, and Bermuda. They have collectively participated in music festivals including Aspen, Tanglewood, Sarasota, Musicorda, Santa Fe, La Jolla, and Monadnock.
The Cello Balm concert will play about 60 minutes worth of music, with comments from the musicians between pieces, and an intermission of about 15 minutes. Reception will follow.
Program:
Robert Schumann (1810-1855): Adagio and Allegro in A-Flat Major, Op. 70
Samuel Barber (1910-1981): Sonata for Cello & Piano, Op. 6
1. Allegro ma non troppo
2. Adagio – Presto – di nuovo Adagio
3. Allegro appassionato
~Intermission~
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943): Sonata in G Minor for Cello & Piano, Op. 19
1. Lento – Allegro moderato
2. Allegro scherzando
3. Andante
4. Allegro mosso

Stop ICE Deportation Flights at Hanscom Field
2025-10-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Hanscom Field, 55 Old Bedford Road, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 01773
Friday October 24th
2:00 to 4:00 pm
55 Old Bedford Road in Lincoln, MA

STOP ICE DEPORTATION FLIGHTS AT HANSCOM FIELD!
The Boston Worker’s Circle’s (BMC) Immigration Committee is joining a Stand Out at Hanscom this Friday October 24th from 2:00-4:00pm.
This is the first of what organizers hope will be a weekly protest.
BWC community members will be parking at 55 Old Bedford Road in Lincoln, MA at 1:30 and walking the 1/4 mile to Hanscom, or you can come on your own.

Standout for Palestine
2025-10-23 16:00 - 17:00 | Office of Rep. Jake Auchincloss, 39 Crafts St., Newton, United States

Is Ukraine Headed for Peace or Nuclear War?
2025-10-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Online Event
The proxy war being waged in Ukraine carries the ever-present danger of escalating into a nuclear conflict. Russia is winning the war on the battlefield. Ukraine’s army is decimated, its economy gutted, and its environment devastated. Hundreds of thousands have been killed or wounded. Either the war will end at the negotiating table, with some kind of peace agreement, or the West will decide to escalate along a path of ever greater and more direct confrontation with Russia. What are the decisions – past, present, and future – that could lead us to World War III?
On the one hand, the West’s policies – of encouraging the expansion of NATO, withdrawing from crucial nuclear treaties, stationing nuclear-capable missiles in Romania and Poland, assisting Ukraine’s drone attacks on Russia’s early-warning radar systems and nuclear-capable bombers, allowing the use of NATO countries’ long-range missiles to strike deep within Russia – are headed for disaster. On the other hand, Russia has adopted a new doctrine that declares it could carry out nuclear attacks in response to any attack on its territory by a non-nuclear state backed by a nuclear armed power. … Where will it end?
Veteran defense policy analyst Richard Krushnic will examine multiple scenarios in which this war could end, either in peace or in Armageddon.
Richard Kruschnic writes about military corporate influence over U.S. foreign policy, the Ukraine War and Raytheon Technologies. He continues to be involved in the community development financing in Cambridge, MA, and Nicaragua. In addition to the Ukraine Committee, he works with MAPA’s Nuclear Disarmament and Latin America and Caribbean working groups, and Mass Public Banking.
Register for this event:

Sponsored by Ukraine: A Time for Peace, a priority campaign of Massachusetts Peace Action.

Sumud at Sea: Brothers' Bold Stand with the Sumud Flotilla
2025-10-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Online Event

Regional Peace & Justice Gathering Online
2025-10-19 15:00 - 17:00 | Online Event
Let’s come together to build relationships between organizations, invite people to join us who aren’t already engaged and get ready for action and campaign building.
Topics will be: Building Unusual Coalitions: Reclaiming the National Guard + Congressional War Powers; Teaching De-escalation: Interrupting Violence with a De-escalation Program; Peace Unions and Partnering with Working Class People.
Hosted by NH Peace Action, United for Peace & Justice, Mass Peace Action, Action Corps, Action Corps Mass, Peace Action Maine and others.
Preregister with Zoom HERE

Organize for Back from the Brink!
2025-10-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Saint James’ Episcopal Church, 1991 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, 02140, United States
In partnership with Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Boston-hub of Back from the Brink, will be hosting an organizing meeting on Sunday, October 19th from 2-4pm at the Saint James’ Episcopal Church in Cambridge (a 5 minute-walk from the Porter Square T-station).
Join us for inspiration, food and refreshments, and a strategy session to create the future we deserve. All are welcome; no experience necessary.
RSVP requested but not mandatory to: info@gbpsr.org

Promoting Federal Investment in Public Education – Books Not Bombs
2025-10-18 16:00 - 18:00
The recent federally mandated Dept of Education cuts will impact every school district in the nation. Though the national organizations of teachers and educators are mobilized to resist, parents lack statewide or national organizations, and rarely pay attention to Congressional funding programs. The Books not Bombs campaign is an effort to leverage the support of the NEA, AFT and AAUP, to reach out to advocacy groups – for example Progressive Dems of America, Our Revolution and Mothers Out Front chapters, and Peace Action affiliates – whose members include parents, grandparents students, and teachers.This involves recognizing and rejecting the excessive allocation of tax dollars to military programs rather than civilian needs.
This late afternoon Forum complements No Kings Day mobilizations.
Panelists:
Welcome: Prof. Jonathan King – (AAUP & Mass Peace Action Education Fund)
Congressional and State Budgets:

School Budget Needs – Deb McCarthy (Vice President, Massachusetts Teachers Association)
Cuts in the Dept. of Ed. Budgets – Sarah Abernathy – (Committee for Education Funding)
Civilian vs. Military Appropriations – Debbie Weinstein – (Coalition for Human Needs)
Fund Schools by Ending Foreign Wars – Merrie Najimy – (MTA Rank & file for Palestine).

Resisting Attacks on Public Education:

Chair – Suleika Soto – (Citizens for Public Schools)
Resisting Outside Efforts to Control Curricula – Max Page – (President, Mass Teachers Association)
Funding Programs for the Most Vulnerable – Denisha Jones – (Defending the Early Years)
Protecting Free Expression – Mia McIver – (Exec. Director, American Association of University Professors)

Mobilizing for the 2026 Midterm Elections:

Chair: Prof. Ricardo Rosa – (Mass Teachers Assn).
The Congressional Arena – Rep. Ayanna Presley (D-MA)
Fund Human Needs by Cutting Military Budgets – Ben Cohen – (Up in Arms Campaign)
Outlook for Congressional Changes – Larry Cohen- (President, Our Revolution)
Mobilizing for 2026 – Alan Minsky (Exec. Dir, Progressive Democrats of America)

Register to attend the virtual event

Program Committee: Jonathan King, Owen Madaus, Evan MacKay, Ricardo Rosa, Doug Selwyn, Susan Siegel, Suleika Soto.
Sponsors: Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund; American Federation of Teachers Massachusetts; Defending the Early Years; Institute for Peoples Engagement; Massachusetts Teachers Association; Our Revolution; Progressive Democrats of America-MA; UAW Region 9A

No Kings, No Warmongering - 10/18
2025-10-18 12:00 - 15:00 | Boston Common – Parkman Bandstand, Tremont St, Boston
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/840244/
Saturday, October 1812-3 pm EDT

Boston Common – near Parkman Bandstand
Wear Yellow
While millions lose access to healthcare and schools crumble, Trump sends billions of US tax dollars to enable Israel’s genocide and fund ICE to abduct our neighbors. It doesn’t have to be this way. Join the fight for peace.
Join with MAPA to stand for peace and Palestine at the Boston No Kings protest. Bring signs, banners, Palestine flags, and keffiyehs. Our table will be near the Parkman Bandstand.
In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.
The ACLU-MA, Indivisible Mass Coalition and Mass 50501 proudly continue working together with allies and you to make our peaceful movement bigger and stronger! “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together.
The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty. Grow our movement and join us.
A core principle behind all No Kings 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 and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.
In the Boston area? Click below to sign up for the peace/ Palestine contingent. Our info table will be near the Parkman Bandstand, at position #18 as shown in the map below.
Here is the flyer we will be distributing.

Not in the Boston area? There will be hundreds of No Kings protests nationwide on Oct. 18. Find a protest near you at https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/ and print out your own copies of the flyer to distribute!

Boston Program – Main Stage
Emcee
Rahsaan Hall, President and CEO of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts
Speakers
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu
Carol Rose, Executive Director of ACLU of Massachusetts
Reverend Mariama White-Hammond
Performers
Chadwick Stokes (of Dispatch)
The Sheila Divine
Abbie Barrett
Jonathan Gramling and Toussaint
Good Trouble Brass Band
BVocal
Rosie and the Resisters
Second Stage Theater
American Gulag
A short tragic performance demonstrating ICE’s dehumanizing and cruel intake process, and depicting an inmate’s daily life in a modern concentration camp.
SNOW
A satirical play that mocks the administration’s agents who are currently terrorizing our communities. SNOW encourages audience members to stand with our immigrant neighbors who are under threat and view the agents threatening our communities with the contempt that they deserve. Join us for this depiction of two hapless SNOW agents getting a very Boston (un)welcome as they attempt to encroach upon our liberties.
Calls to Action

Protect our immigrant neighbors who are being profiled, threatened, and kidnapped
Join a community ICE watch group so agents know we are watching them, volunteer to assist with vital mutual aid, bond and legal needs, and stand out in solidarity at ICE offices. More information from organizations, including LUCE, MIRA, BIJAN, and Bearing Witness @ ICE in Burlington.

Fight with your dollars
Hit them where it hurts by boycotting corporations and billionaires that are doing Trump’s bidding. Don’t check out at the checkout; patriotic dissent happens everywhere!

Hold your Reps accountable
Keep the pressure on and keep calling them out. Use the 5Calls app. Email and show up at their offices. If they can’t fix this, we’ll find others who will.

Gaza Genocide Projection: Salem
2025-10-17 18:30 - 20:30 | Peabody Essex Museum, 161 Essex St, Salem, MA, 01970
MAPA’s Public Education & Action Team (PEAT) is going to host its first projection of the atrocities that have and continue to go on in Gaza. We project a looping video from scenes and words from Palestinians, Doctors, Activists and Anthony Aguilar, the Army whistle blower for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Parking and crowds in Salem will be horrendous, but what an opportunity to get hundreds to watch the projection. 20,000+ people are likely to be in Salem. Please join us if you are able to help us share this incredibly moving video and the impact it has on passersby. We will also be handing out flyers for CD 6 against Moulton and against the Boston Consulting Group.

Developing a New U.S. Policy in the Middle East
2025-10-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Online Event
Josh Paul is a former State Department official who resigned his position due to his opposition to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, specifically to the U.S. providing lethal arms to Israel in violation of U.S. laws such as the Leahy Law. He founded a new organization called “A New Policy”, whose mission is to advocate for U.S. policy that will “Advance American national security & foreign policy interests, Reflect American political deals, including freedom, equality, and human rights, and Comply with American Laws governing the provision of security assistance and the transfer of arms equally to all countries in the Middle East, including Israel.” Mr. Paul will talk about his work with A New Policy and share his analysis of the current debates in Congress and Washington, D.C. as to U.S. policy on Israel and the Middle East.
Josh Paul co-founded A New Policy together with former U.S. Department of Education policy advisor Tariq Habash. Paul resigned from the State Department in October, 2023 due to his disagreement with the Biden Administration rushing lethal military assistance to Israel. He had previously spent over 11 years working as a Director in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, which is responsible for U.S. defense diplomacy, security assistance, and arms transfers. He previously worked on security sector reform in both Iraq and the West Bank, with additional roles in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Army Staff, and as a Military Legislative Assistant for a Member of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee. He grew up between London and New York, holds Masters degrees from the Universities of Georgetown and St Andrews, Scotland, and is a recipient of the 2023 Callaway Award for Civic Courage and 2024 MedGlobal Award for Courage.
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Projections of Gaza
2025-10-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Harvard Square, Harvard Square Station, Cambridge, MA, 02138
Join us on Saturday, October 11th in Harvard Square as we project images and sounds from Gaza to educate people on the ongoing starvation of Palestinians.
Come help us collect signatures on postcards to send to our representatives asking them to sign the Block the Bombs Act.

Boston Indigenous Peoples Day March
2025-10-11 12:00 - 15:00 | Park St Station, Park & Tremont Streets, Boston

Burlington Bastion of Democracy
2025-10-11 05:00 - 19:00 | 1000 District Avenue Burlington, MA 01803 United States, 1000 District Avenue, Burlington, 01803, United States
Via Mass 50501:
We are a Bastion of Democracy!
The constitution is as powerful as the number of voices willing to speak out to uphold it.
Join us on Saturday, October 11th for a peaceful standout from 5am-7pm in front of the Burlington ICE facility.
On October 11th, Americans from all walks of life will come together in Burlington to stand in joy, resolution, and solidarity outside the Burlington ICE facility to support and defend the constitution of the United States. We will start gathering at 5am and we will remain until 7pm. Some courageous attendees will be there the whole time, and many more will come and go as they are able.
Each attendee will have the option to recite the civil servant oath of office as a form of dedication to their personal role in this standout. Come with your songs, your spirit, and your unbending will to speak out on behalf of our constitution. Together we will be an unshakeable voice saying in unison that we will not abandon our shared ideals. Together we will be a bastion of democracy.
We ride at dawn!
Join Mass 50501 and their coalition partners in a peaceful standout. Bring water, snacks, a chair if you’d like one, and anything else you may need to stand outside for an extended period of time. Bring your signs to “Support and Defend the Constitution”, and bring signs citing your favorite parts of the constitution itself. Come to meet other honorable and dedicated Americans in this demonstration of resilience and resolution.

The Hard Work of Hope: Lessons from Organizing
2025-10-10 19:00 - 21:00 | St. James Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 1991 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02140, United States
The Hard Work of Hope: Lessons from organizing
October 10th, 7 to 9 pm
1991 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA

A dialogue with Author Michael Ansara and Grace Sanford, Northeastern Student and member of the Board of Massachusetts Peace Action, and Sam Levine, Emerson Student and recent MAPA Intern.
Michael Ansara is political organizer, poet and essayist. His memoir, The Hard Work of Hope, traces the hard fought struggles, victories and lessons of the Civil Rights Movement, the 10 year struggle to oppose and end the US involvement in the War in Vietnam, and then the grassroots and statewide community organizing campaigns of Massachusetts Fair Share. He is a poet and essayist, a co-founder of Mass Poetry, and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Redress Movement and on the organizing team for Together We Elect. His book, The Hard Work of Hope, has met critical acclaim since its release in July 2025.
Grace Sanford is a student at Northeastern University, former MAPA intern and member of the Board of Massachusetts Peace Action.
Sam Levine is a student at Emerson College and a recent intern at Massachusetts Peace Action.

Massachusetts Peace Action, October 10th, 7 to 9 pm 1991 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA

Some way out of here: Peace and Justice Movements and Priorities
2025-10-09 19:00 - 20:30
Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, co-sponsored by MAPA, will host a webinar on Thursday, October 9 from 7-8:30pm.
We are living through an ugly and increasingly dangerous time. From the genocide in Gaza to the grinding Ukraine war, the kidnapping of innocent immigrants on our streets to the assaults on our electoral system. people are killed and abused, human rights and democracy under attack. Midst massive and disorienting geopolitical changes we are also in the midst of a new Cold War and escalating many sided arms races.
BUT, resistance is strong. Millions of people are joining rallies and standouts. Students and faculty resisting MAGA and corporate take overs of their universities. Nonviolent interventions to protect immigrants. A younger generation insisting on the end to genocide and respect for Palestinian rights. Opposition to increasing military spending, support for the Back from the Brink disarmament campaign. Court case after court case. Base building for the 2026 elections. Nonviolent civil disobedience more…
What are the states of and challenges to our movements? What are and should be their priorities? Join us on October 9, 7 p.m. EDT.
Speakers:
Cole Harrison is Administrative Director of Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA) and MAPA Education Fund (MAPAEF), taking responsibility for the organization’s finances and technology systems, and was executive director for 2012 to 2024.
Ann Wright will speak on the role of citizen activists and the hundreds who have participated in the Gaza flotillas over the past 17 years, with a focus on the recent Gaza Sumud flotilla and the Gaza Freedom flotilla.
Nick Rabb (he/him) is a scholar and organizer based in Los Angeles, and has been active with the climate justice and university anti-militarism movements. He is a postdoctoral researcher at California State University, Los Angeles researching misinformation and STEM education.
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Boston Condemns Genocide
2025-10-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Boston Consulting Group, 200 Pier 4 Blvd, Boston, MA, 02210
Boston Consulting Group has cancelled their Boston WorldWide Alumni Day for this evening for “unforeseen” reasons. Boston Condemns Genocide will continue with our event to expose BCG as partners in genocide.
Our event will run from 6pm to 8:30pm with our spectacular speaker line up and projection of GHF sites and atrocities.
Boston Consulting Group was the key architect and operator of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and is directly complicit in the “aid death traps” that killed thousands of Palestinians seeking food, water, and fuel. Join us to disrupt their Worldwide Alumni Day 2025 alongside GHF whistleblower Anthony Aguilar and Doctors Against Genocide co-founder Dr. Karameh Hawash-Kuemmerle.
Why we’re acting:
• BCG designed and ran GHF’s operations
• Their involvement makes them a direct contributor to genocide
• Alumni Day is their annual celebration of corporate influence
Be there to:
• Expose BCG’s role in GHF
• Demand full disclosure and accountability
• Challenge corporate complicity
When BCG engages, ideas become systems. Rise up for Gaza & shut down war profiteers on October 9 @ BCG HQ!

Immigration Teach-In @ Community Church of Boston
2025-10-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St, Boston, 02116
How Immigration Became Weaponized to Drive US Democracy into Crisis with Sarah Towle and Panelists
Thursday, October 9th at 6 PM to 9 PM (ET)
Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston St. Boston MA 02120, 2nd Floor
Join us for an Immigration Teach-In with Sarah Towle, author of Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands, alongside a panel of local immigrant and refugee providers and first-hand responders to ICE overreach and Injustice. Learn what actions you can take and what resources are available as well as where you can volunteer to help.
Cosponsored by: Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA), The Asian Pacific Islander’s Civic Action Network (APIs CAN), Community Church of Boston (CCB), Luce: Immigrant Justice Network of Massachusetts, The Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network (BIJAN)
Join us in Person at Community Church of Boston, 565 Bolston St. Boston MA 02120, 2nd Floor. On street parking or at Back Bay Garage, 199 Clarendon St. Discount vouchers available.
