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SUMMARY:Music For Peace : "A Sonic Vision Quest" **SOLD OUT
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis performance invites us into deep stillness. Sway and flow with the music\, or jump up and shout! \nDuring 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. \n  \nARTISTS: \nStan 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. \nAkili 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. \nJosh 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. \nMax 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.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/music-for-peace-a-sonic-vision-quest/
LOCATION:St. James Episcopal Church Parish Hall\, 1991 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02140\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture
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SUMMARY:Bearing Witness @ ICE
DESCRIPTION: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. \nStand 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. \nSchedule (every Wednesday) \n\n11:00-11:30\, Welcome and announcements\n11:30-12:30\, Stand or sit with signs; option to read the U.S. Constitution to ICE\n12:30-1:00\, Short walk along the sidewalk on District Ave to Mall Road\n\nNOTE: Please sign up for our email list as we may cancel due to severe weather or other circumstances. \nIf you’re never attended a standout and are curious about signs\, parking and more\, click The Standout
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/bearing-witness-ice/2026-04-29/
LOCATION:1000 District Avenue Burlington\, MA 01803 United States\, 1000 District Avenue\, Burlington\, 01803\, United States
CATEGORIES:Latin America
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260429T173000
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SUMMARY:Organizing meeting to protest at Harvard Commencement
DESCRIPTION:A call for a solemn mass protest at the 2026 Harvard Commencement on May 28. \nIt 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. \nThe 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. \nThis 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. \nThere 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. \nWould 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. \nSign up if you can attend the organizing meeting or if you can help out to organize this effort. \nSee these directions to our office.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/organizing-meeting-to-protest-at-harvard-commencement/
LOCATION:MAPA office – within St James Church  office building\, St James Church Office Building\, 1991 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02140
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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SUMMARY:Iran\, the United States\, and Why this War Matters
DESCRIPTION:Why is the US at war with Iran?  \nDid Iranians come into existence in 1979 and start shouting “Death to America”?  \nIran 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.  \nThis 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.  \nHowever\, the history of U.S.-Iran interactions is longer than that.   \nHow 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?  \nWe 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. \nOur 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. \nBahar 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.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/iran-the-united-states-and-why-this-war-matters/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Middle East Wars
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SUMMARY:Justice 4 All Thursdays
DESCRIPTION:Via Turn Purple 2 Blue:\n\nGreater 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. \nOur 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. \nSchedule (Starting Thursday\, September 4 – more dates to follow) \n11:00-11:30 Welcome; music; announcements\n11:30-12:30 Stand with signs along District Ave\n12:30-1:00 Optional short march down to Mall Rd. \nWhat happens at this ICE office? \nICE 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.” \nWhat to expect at Justice 4 All? \nWe 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. \nSigns \nThis 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.  \nParking and other tips \nFor 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.)
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/justice-4-all-thursdays/2026-04-30/
LOCATION:1000 District Avenue Burlington\, MA 01803 United States\, 1000 District Avenue\, Burlington\, 01803\, United States
CATEGORIES:Latin America
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SUMMARY:Boston May Day 2026: Feeder Rallies!
DESCRIPTION:Friday May 1st\nAcross Boston\nThis May Day feeder rallies are taking place across Boston\, before joining together at a final rally on Boston Common! \nThese Include: \nLUCE Rally for Immigrant Rights: 2:30pm by the State House\nBoston May Day Coalition: 2:30 at Dewey Square\nBoston PSL Antiwar Contingent: 3:00pm at the JFK Federal Building\nBoston Teachers Union: 3:30pm at City Hall Plaza\n350 Mass May Day Mobilization for Climate: 3:45 on Boston Common\nYoung Workers Speak Out: 4:00pm at The Embrace Statue \nMass. Teachers Association: 4:00pm in Kendal Square Cambridge\nAnd More! Other actions in Boston can also be found here: https://linktr.ee/BostonMayDay2026 \nMay 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. \nThe calls of resistance this year will include such messages as “Workers’ Needs\, Not Billionaires!” and “No Work\, No School\, No Shopping!” \nFor a list of Mayday actions across the country\, as well as toolkits\, and other helpful resources visit: \nwww.maydaystrong.org
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/boston-mayday-2026-feeder-rallies/
LOCATION:Boston Common\, 139 Tremont St\, Boston\, 02111
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SUMMARY:Boston May Day 2026: Book End Rally!
DESCRIPTION:Friday May 1st\, 4:30pm – 6:00pm\nBoston Common\n139 Tremont Street\nMay 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! \nTrade 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! \nMay 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. \nThe calls of resistance this year will include such messages as “Workers’ Needs\, Not Billionaires!” and “No Work\, No School\, No Shopping!” \nOther actions in Boston can also be found here: https://linktr.ee/BostonMayDay2026 \nFor a list of Mayday actions across the country\, as well as toolkits\, and other helpful resources visit: \nwww.maydaystrong.org
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/boston-mayday-2026/
LOCATION:Boston Common\, 139 Tremont St\, Boston\, 02111
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SUMMARY:No Fear with Street Theater
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/no-fear-with-street-theater/2026-05-02/
LOCATION:1000 District Avenue Burlington\, MA 01803 United States\, 1000 District Avenue\, Burlington\, 01803\, United States
CATEGORIES:Latin America,Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity
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SUMMARY:Wake up the Earth 2026: Volunteer for Peace!
DESCRIPTION:The 48th annual Wake Up the Earth Festival will take place on Saturday\, May 2rd\, 2026\, from 12 PM to 4 PM. \nMAPA 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. \nAdditionally\, 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. \nWe will be working in shifts\, so sign up here if you are available\, and be sure to indicate which shift you can join!
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/wake-up-the-earth-2026-volunteer-for-peace/
LOCATION:near Stony Brook MBTA Station\, New Minton St and Lamartine St\, Jamaica Plain\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Uncategorized
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