Massachusetts Peace Action

No Fear with Street Theater
2026-04-25 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-02 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-09 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-16 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-23 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

Volunteer callout: Tabling Action—End US-Israeli aggression (Iran, Palestine, Lebanon)
2026-04-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Park St Station, Park & Tremont Streets, Boston
Hi everyone, we are going to table again this Saturday, April 25 from noon to 1pm outside of Park Street Station. The focus will be on ending the U.S. – Israeli war on Iran (and Gaza and Lebanon). We will get petitions signed and postcards filled out at the table while we leaflet and hold signs and the new Iran banner.
While the present situation with the ceasefire is complicated, our job is to keep the pressure on to cut off all present funding for this war of aggression, to bring our 50,000 troops home, and to stop Trump’s request for billions more for the war.
So we need volunteers both for the tabling/petition gathering/ leafleting from noon to 1pm.
Please join us if you can starting at 11:30am. If you have questions please call 617-623-5288
Organized by Paul Shannon, MAPA Middle East Working Group

Music For Peace : "A Sonic Vision Quest" **SOLD OUT
2026-04-26 15:00 - 17:00 | St. James Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 1991 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02140, United States
Join Mass Peace Action and the Stan Strickland Quartet for an evening of Jazz for reflection and unbounded movement! Music and dance bring us together in joy and community.
This performance invites us into deep stillness. Sway and flow with the music, or jump up and shout!
During dark times, art is a light, and a powerful form of resistance. Let us come together and enjoy a bit of respite amidst the tragedies we face at home and abroad.

ARTISTS:
Stan Strickland (aka Rajahn) – Singer, saxophonist, flutist, Stan has performed throughout the US, Europe, New Zealand and the Caribbean. He has played with the Boston Pops, Aretha Franklin, Yusef Lateef, and Herbie Mann and has opened for Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, among others! He is Associate Professor of Voice at the Berklee College of Music and Executive Co-Director of EXPRESS YOURSELF, an organization serving youth who are mentally challenged. His one man show: ‘Coming Up for Air, an Auto-Jazzography’, received the prestigious Eliot Norton Award in Theater for best solo performance.
Akili Jamal Haynes – Akili Jamal Haynes’s artistic name is Chibuzo Dunun, as Chibuzo comes from the Igbo people in Nigeria and Dunun represents a family of drummers – often considered leaders in West African cultures. He is a faculty accompanist at Boston Conservatory at Berklee as well as the Harvard Dance Center. He served as assistant researcher and arranger for an Alvin Ailey Dance Theater production, directed by Judith Jamison. He is the founder, director, and multi-instrumentalist for Chibuzo Dunun and World of Chibuzo.
Josh Rosen – A distinguished composer and professor of Piano and Ensembles at Berklee College of Music, Josh has played to audiences in Europe and Africa. He has released nine critically acclaimed CDs with his unique jazz compositions, known for their melodic harmonies. Critics have praised his piano playing for its sophistication, emotional depth, and complexity. He performed with jazz greats, including Rakalam Bob Moses, and Joe Lovano, and he was part of the Lincoln Center’s Summer Festival.
Max Ridley – A very active Boston-based musician, composer and teacher who attended Boston Arts High School after falling in love with the Double Bass and the art of improvised music. Max was awarded full scholarships to study at the Berklee College of Music and also earned his master’s degree from Berklee’s Global Jazz Institute. Max has played with leading musicians such as Kenny Weiner, Terry Lyne Carrington, and Perico Sambeat. He has performed at the Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and at the Umbria Jazz Festival.

Bearing Witness @ ICE
2026-04-29 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-06 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-13 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-20 11:00 - 13:00 | 1000 District Avenue Burlington, MA 01803 United States, 1000 District Avenue, Burlington, 01803, United States
Join Bearing Witness @ ICE outside the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) New England Headquarters office in Burlington, next to the Burlington Mall, every Wednesday from 11am-1pm.
Stand with us in solidarity to show our love & support, express our shame at ICE, and bear witness to the cruel and unconstitutional actions of our government. Regardless of your views on any other political issues, if you support immigrants and their constitutional rights and are committed to nonviolence, join us.
Schedule (every Wednesday)

11:00-11:30, Welcome and announcements
11:30-12:30, Stand or sit with signs; option to read the U.S. Constitution to ICE
12:30-1:00, Short walk along the sidewalk on District Ave to Mall Road

NOTE: Please sign up for our email list as we may cancel due to severe weather or other circumstances.
If you’re never attended a standout and are curious about signs, parking and more, click The Standout

Organizing meeting to protest at Harvard Commencement
2026-04-29 17:30 - 19:00 | MAPA office – within St James Church office building, St James Church Office Building, 1991 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02140
A call for a solemn mass protest at the 2026 Harvard Commencement on May 28.
It is time to make both the genocide and raging ethnic cleansing of Palestine and our support for Palestinian self-determination visible once again. It’s time to pressure our educational, medical, cultural, corporate and elected leaders who are collaborating with the genocide to end that support.
The biggest single event over the upcoming period that gives us the best chance to call much needed attention to this crisis is the Harvard Commencement on May 28. Harvard stands at the center of our universities’ strategy to help Israel and undermine opposition to Israeli criminal violence and dispossession of Palestinians. The commencement gives us the opportunity to reach the thousands and thousands of people coming to Harvard Square that day from all over the country and all over the world with our message and our demands.
This is a proposal for our third annual solemn vigil surrounding the outside walls of Harvard with our bodies, signs and banners. Many of you participated in our commencement actions at the 2024 and 2025 commencements when 200 of us surrounded Harvard Yard with our solemn vigil in the morning as thousands started to pour through the gates. Our action received much support from those attending the festivities to whom we presented a powerful witness and provided important information about Harvard and the genocide. The press was swarming around the commencement and a number of us were interviewed and pictures were taken. We were part of the story those big commencement days in Cambridge.
There is a lot going on right now, but not enough concerning Palestine. This is our opportunity to make a big deal out of what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank.
Would you or your organization be willing to participate in the organizing committee for this Commencement action? The first organizing meeting will be held next Wednesday, April 29 at 5:30pm at the Mass. Peace Action office in the St. James building complex at 1991 Massachusetts Ave, north of Porter Square. Please sign up here or just show up next Wednesday. If you cannot attend, but are interested in helping to organize this event, please contact the Public Education and Action Team of Mass. Peace Action’s Gaza Committee at 617-623-5288 (landline, no texts). Based on the response we will make a decision whether to proceed with putting together this year’s commencement protest.
Sign up if you can attend the organizing meeting or if you can help out to organize this effort.
See these directions to our office.

Iran, the United States, and Why this War Matters
2026-04-29 19:00 - 20:00 | Online Event
Why is the US at war with Iran?
Did Iranians come into existence in 1979 and start shouting “Death to America”?
Iran is one of the most consistently demonized nations in U.S. discourse. U.S. officials, and media, frequently use obscene, dehumanizing, and misleading language with regards to Iran.
This consistent dehumanization helps manufacture consent for policies that have devastated the lives of ordinary Iranians in both Iran and the U.S. U.S. policy towards Iran over the past 47 years has consisted of economic warfare, sabotage, and overt and covert war, with brief interludes of diplomacy.
However, the history of U.S.-Iran interactions is longer than that.
How did we get here? What is the responsibility of those of us living in the U.S. towards ordinary Iranians and how does endless war affect us?
We will briefly review the history of U.S.-Iran relations in the context of the broader history of the Iranian struggle for sovereignty and attempt to address these questions.
Our main presenter, Bahar Sharafi, is an Iranian-American activist, born in Tehran with family there. Now living in Dorchester, she is a MAPA board member and co-chair of the MAPA-initiated Stop the US War on Iran committee. Bahar is a volunteer leader with the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Iranian American Council, and a co-founder of CD8 for Palestine. She spoke on the US-Iran war to 130,000 people at the “No Kings III” rally on Boston Common, March 30. A second presenter will explain actions you can take and how to get involved.
Bahar is the narrator of the short film “A Glimpse of Iran“, which shares sights, sounds and reflections from her last trip to Iran, and describes what it feels like to live in America while it wages an illegal war on her homeland.

Justice 4 All Thursdays
2026-04-30 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-07 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-14 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-05-21 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.)

Boston May Day 2026: Feeder Rallies!
2026-05-01 | Boston Common, 139 Tremont St, Boston, 02111
Friday May 1st
Across Boston
This May Day feeder rallies are taking place across Boston, before joining together at a final rally on Boston Common!
These Include:
LUCE Rally for Immigrant Rights: 2:30pm by the State House
Boston May Day Coalition: 2:30 at Dewey Square
Boston PSL Antiwar Contingent: 3:00pm at the JFK Federal Building
Boston Teachers Union: 3:30pm at City Hall Plaza
350 Mass May Day Mobilization for Climate: 3:45 on Boston Common
Young Workers Speak Out: 4:00pm at The Embrace Statue
Mass. Teachers Association: 4:00pm in Kendal Square Cambridge
And More! Other actions in Boston can also be found here: https://linktr.ee/BostonMayDay2026
May Day is historically a time to celebrate the solidarity, dignity, and fight for the rights of workers and immigrants, but this year the stakes are higher than ever. Attacks on every aspect of working people’s lives – decent wages, education, health care, affordable housing, food security, voting rights, and the ability to live on a peaceful and healthy planet – are rampant.
The calls of resistance this year will include such messages as “Workers’ Needs, Not Billionaires!” and “No Work, No School, No Shopping!”
For a list of Mayday actions across the country, as well as toolkits, and other helpful resources visit:
www.maydaystrong.org

Boston May Day 2026: Book End Rally!
2026-05-01 16:30 - 18:00 | Boston Common, 139 Tremont St, Boston, 02111
Friday May 1st, 4:30pm – 6:00pm
Boston Common
139 Tremont Street
May Day will be a day of action in and around Boston, all culminating to a final rally at the Boston Common! Workers have the power, not the billionaires!
Trade unions and allied peace and justice organizations will be marking International Workers Day this Friday, May 1, with marches, rallies and, in some cases, work stoppages in communities across the country. Join us, and other MAPA members, for actions in Boston and across Massachusetts!
May Day is historically a time to celebrate the solidarity, dignity, and fight for the rights of workers and immigrants, but this year the stakes are higher than ever. Attacks on every aspect of working people’s lives – decent wages, education, health care, affordable housing, food security, voting rights, and the ability to live on a peaceful and healthy planet – are rampant.
The calls of resistance this year will include such messages as “Workers’ Needs, Not Billionaires!” and “No Work, No School, No Shopping!”
Other actions in Boston can also be found here: https://linktr.ee/BostonMayDay2026
For a list of Mayday actions across the country, as well as toolkits, and other helpful resources visit:
www.maydaystrong.org

Wake up the Earth 2026: Volunteer for Peace!
2026-05-02 11:00 - 17:00 | near Stony Brook MBTA Station, New Minton St and Lamartine St, Jamaica Plain, MA, United States
The 48th annual Wake Up the Earth Festival will take place on Saturday, May 2rd, 2026, from 12 PM to 4 PM.
MAPA will set up our peace and justice outreach table on the field across from Stony Brook Station on the Orange line in Jamaica Plain. Join us for an hour or two to distribute pamphlets, buttons, and Stop the War on Iran signs, and ask people to sign the latest peace petitions.
Additionally, we will set up the Eyes Wide Open exhibit at the festival, reminding everyone of the civilians killed in the war, including 165 elementary school girls killed in Minab, Iran, on the first day of the war. This exhibit will be at the basketball court.
We will be working in shifts, so sign up here if you are available, and be sure to indicate which shift you can join!

Cambridge: Japanese Hibakusha Delegation
2026-05-03 14:30 - 16:30 | St James Episcopal Church – Parish Hall, 1991 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02140
Disarmament and Peace Movement Exchange with Japanese A-Bomb Survivors
Join us for an exchange between Japanese A-bomb survivors (Hibakusha) and Boston area peace and nuclear disarmament activists. Hiroshi Kanamoto and Yoshinori Ohmura, and Gensuikyo Assistant General Secretary Yayoi Tsuchida are in the US to participate in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Review Conference at the U.N. The are leaders of the Nobel Peace Prize recipient organization Nihon Hidankyo (Japan Confederation of A- & H-Bomb Sufferers Organization.) Join us and Boston area peace and justice movement leaders describe their commitments and campaigning.
See directions to the St James Church parish hall.

Bridgewater: Japanese Hibakusha Delegation
2026-05-04 10:00 - 19:30 | Heritage Room, Maxwell Library, Bridgewater State University, 131 Summer Street, Bridgewater, MA, United States
Meeting and Engaging with Japanese A-Bomb Survivors: Nuclear Disarmament and Peace Movement Leaders
Join us for exchanges between Japanese A-bomb survivors (Hibakusha) Hiroshi Kanamoto and Yoshinori Ohmura, and Gensuikyo Assistant General Secretary Yayoi Tsuchida. They are in the US to participate in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Review Conference at the U.N. They are leaders of the Nobel Peace Prize recipient organization Nihon Hidankyo (Japan Confederation of A- & H-Bomb Sufferers Organization.)
Throughout the day, they will be meeting with students, faculty, and community leaders, and campaigning. For schedule details, contact Fran Jeffries c/o MAPA at info@masspeaceaction.org or call 617-354-2169.

Cuba after Castro
2026-05-04 17:45 - 19:45 | Easthampton Library Annex, 52 Main St, Easthampton, MA, 01027
Cuba in the Valley Film Series
NBC and Kristen Welker made popular headlines with their interview of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canal Bermudez and cynical questions such as “will you step down”, also claiming their interview was “first” and “exclusive”.
But just days before Welker and NBC came Abby Martin, Matt Belen and Breakthrough News with an interview with Pres Diaz-Canal revealing who he actually is and represents and what actually is going on in Cuba.
The film chronicles Diaz-Canel’s formation as the first and to some an unexpected successor to the Castros — an unassuming organizer molded by the revolutionary process, the first leader born after the Cuban Revolution. Confronting a perfect storm of intensified U.S. sanctions, a media war, a devastating pandemic, and historic domestic protests. Díaz-Canel reflects on navigating these existential crises for the nation he has come to lead.
Through his eyes and words we see a vision of revolutionary Cuba that you don’t get in the US press: a nation of collective values and defiance in the face of constant threats from the United States.
Sponsored by Easthampton Public Library, cosponsored by MAPA

Worcester: Japanese Hibakusha Delegation
2026-05-05 19:00 - 21:00 | First Unitarian Church of Worcester, 90 Main St, Worcester, MA, 01608, United States
Engaging Hibakusha: An Evening with Japanese A-bomb Survivors (Hibanksha)
Join us for exchanges between Japanese A-bomb survivors (Hibakusha) Hiroshi Kanamoto and Yoshinori Ohmura, and Gensuikyo Assistant General Secretary Yayoi Tsuchida. They are in the US to participate in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Review Conference at the U.N. They are leaders of the Nobel Peace Prize recipient organization Nihon Hidankyo (Japan Confederation of A- & H-Bomb Sufferers Organization.) Throughout the day, they will be meeting with students, faculty, and community leaders.

Book Launch: "Other Paths for Shahrazad"
2026-05-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Central Library in Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street, Boston, 02116, United States
Book launch event for Other Paths for Shahrazad, an Arabic/English anthology of contemporary poetry, produced by the Her Story Is collective.
Date: Saturday, May 9, 2026
Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: Commonwealth Salon, Central Library at Copley Square
This event is in-person and registration is required. Please click here to register for the event.
Join us at the end of Women’s History Month and just before the start of National Poetry Month in celebrating the publication of Other Paths for Shahrazad: a Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Arab Women, produced by the Her Story Is collective. The celebration will include beautiful poetry readings in Arabic and English. This event is presented at the Boston Public Library in partnership with the Her Story Is collective, the Center for Arabic Culture, and Tupelo Press.
Anthology editor Jennifer Jean, Her Story Is organizer Amy Merrill, Center for Arabic Culture director Alma Richeh, and Tupelo Press publisher Jeffrey Levine will be joined by anthology poets, co-translators, and other local artists and poets to share stories about, and poems from, this important book.
Sponsored by the Her Story Is collective and published by Tupelo Press, Other Paths for Shahrazad: a Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Arab Women features work from by forty poets from Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Tunisia.

Antiwar Open House
2026-05-14 18:30 - 19:30 | St James Episcopal Church, 1991 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02140
We are Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA), the largest peace organization in Massachusetts. We work to end the wars surrounding us, and to support immigrants and social justice here at home. And we would love to explore with you the
kinds of actions that would be of interest to you. One way to do so is to come to our Antiwar Open House next Thursday. That would give us the opportunity to find out your interests and to see if there is a match between what you are looking for and what opportunities for involvement we can provide.
The Antiwar Open House will be next May 14 at 6:30. The meeting will be held in the Lounge of St. James Episcopal Church, three blocks north of Porter Square in Cambridge. The location can be confusing. If you have not been to the venue before, please review these directions and arrive a few minutes early to make sure you find us! (The directions page are for the Parish Hall which is right across the hall from the Lounge.) When you arrive, call 617-466-9274 to get in the building.
If you want to get involved and can’t make it in to Cambridge, drop us a line by email at info@masspeaceaction.org or call our office at 617-354-2169.
We are faced with enormous challenges in today’s world. We would love to work with you to confront them together.
Click here if you can attend.

Ghost Hunting: Palestine Film Series
2026-05-15 19:00 - 21:30 | St James Episcopal Church – Parish Hall, 1991 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02140
In order to confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex prisoners to recreate the Al-Moskobiya, Israel’s main interrogation centre, where he was himself jailed at age 18. Day after day, these construction workers, a blacksmith, an architect, an assistant director give shape to their memories of how they survived with grit and a sense of humor. As the walls of the cells rise, the tongues and the emotions loosen.
Ghost Hunting is a 2017 Palestinian documentary film directed by Raed Andoni and starring Ramzi Maqdisi. It was awarded the best documentary at the Berlinale 2017. Also, it was selected as the Palestinian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards. The film runs 94 minutes and will be followed by discussion.
Directions: The film will be shown in the Parish Hall of St. James Episcopal Church, three blocks north of Porter Square in Cambridge. The location can be confusing. If you have not been to the venue before, please review these directions and arrive a few minutes early to make sure you find us! When you arrive, call 617-466-9274 to get in the building.

What does Seth Moulton Stand For?
2026-05-17 13:45 - 15:30 | American Legion Post 156, 215 Waverly Oaks Rd, Waltham, MA, 02452
Seth Moulton is claiming in the current Senate campaign to be pro-peace, but his hawkish, pro-corporate record tells the real story.
Join MAPA members at Moulton’s campaign event on Sunday, May 17 to make sure voters understand Moulton’s long record of supporting weapons to Israel, the genocide in Gaza, and nuclear weapons. We’ll hold signs, distribute flyers, and ask questions in an orderly manner.
Moulton’s campaign event begins at 2:30; arrive at 1:45 to reach attendees as they enter.

The Deep Roots of the Ukraine War, with Richard Sakwa
2026-05-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Event
While all eyes are focused elsewhere, the war in Ukraine rages on. And the distortion of the war and its causes continue to lead the U.S. and the west down a road that has led to catastrophe for Ukraine and that continues to feed the danger of nuclear war. Professor Richard Sakwa helps us break through this distorted narrative about the war to a deeper understanding of this tragic conflict that is wreaking such human, physical and ecological damage in Ukraine.
On May 19 at noon join Professor Richard Sakwa, among the leading authorities on Ukraine and Russia, to delve deeper into understanding the war, diplomacy, and peace movement priorities in this continuing dangerous time. Richard Sakwa is a professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent and is widely recognized as the leading Russia scholar in Europe. The webinar begins at noon eastern time because of the difference in time zones in the U.S. from those in Europe.
Professor Sakwa will be discussing the subject of his new book, The Russo-Ukrainian War: Follies of Empire. The number of casualties in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war is rapidly approaching 1.5 million, with no resolution in sight … a staggering reality. Seeking to make what sense is possible of this catastrophic conflict, Richard Sakwa meticulously explores the origins, course, and consequences of the war in the sweeping context of global and domestic politics since 1945.
Sakwa’s balanced analysis centers on what he perceives as the five levels of the conflict: the dynamics of Ukrainian politics, the evolution of Russo-Ukrainian relations, the relationship between Russia and the West, broad changes in international politics, and the prospects for a viable and sustainable peace. In explaining—without endorsing—the logic behind actions on all sides, his goal is to contribute to a path toward that peace.

Richard Sakwa is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. After graduating in History from the London School of Economics, he took a PhD from the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham. He held lectureships at the Universities of Essex and California, Santa Cruz, before joining the University of Kent in 1987. He has written widely on comparative politics, international relations and political philosophy, with a focus on Russian and European affairs. His latest books are The Putin Paradox (Bloomsbury, 2020), Deception: Russiagate and the New Cold War (Lexington Books, 2022), The Russia Scare: Fake News and Genuine Threat (Routledge, 2022), The Lost Peace: How the West Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War (Yale University Press, 2023) and The Culture of the Second Cold War (Anthem Press, 2025). His book The Russo-Ukrainian War: Follies of Empire was published by Lynne Rienner Publishers in March 2026.

Sponsored by MAPA’s Ukraine: A Time for Peace Campaign.

Emergency Rally for Cuba
2026-05-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Park St Station, Park & Tremont Streets, Boston
Emergency: The Trump administration has just indicted Raul Castro and five other Cubans – possibly a move leading to another military operation to kidnap them, following in the steps of the Maduro Abduction in Venezuela. And the danger of all out military action against Cuba hangs over the heads of the Cuban People.
Sign up to let us know you’ll be there — or to register your organization as a cosponsor.
Download and Print our Stop Trump’s Threats against Cuba pamphlet
Initiated by MAPA, cosponsored by July 26 Coalition. Cosponsors list in formation
