Month: October 2021 - Page 2 - Massachusetts Peace Action

How to Get Rid of Nuclear Weapons

October 17, 2021 Peter Metz

By Peter Metz and Ira Helfand Originally published in the Boston Globe, September 30, 2021 Sunday was the eighth annual International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, established by the UN General Assembly You probably weren’t aware of it. After all, the possibility […]

Take On Tenet: Fighting for a Just Healthcare System Embedded in a Just Society

October 14, 2021 Sandy Eaton

by Sandy Eaton Twenty-one years ago, Worcester nurses faced off against the Tenet Corporation. Newly organized, they struck for forty-nine days to win a first contract. Then, as now, money wasn’t the main issue. The safety of patients and staff in a profit-driven healthcare system […]

Nuclear Resister Megan Rice

October 12, 2021 C. R. Spicer

by C. R. Spicer Sr. Megan Rice, a visionary and steadfast anti-nuclear resister who painted peace slogans on the Y-12 nuclear bomb factory in Oak Ridge, TN, in 2012, died October 10. I remember my drive with Sr. Megan, Michael Walli, and Greg Bourtje-Obed in […]

Rep. Ayanna Pressley/ Bloomberg News photo

Pressley’s ‘no’ to more military aid to Israel was the right thing to do

October 7, 2021 Jeff Klein

by Jeff Klein Originally published in the Dorchester Reporter Recently, US Rep. Ayanna Pressley voted against an additional $1 billion in military aid to Israel that was rushed through by the leadership of House of Representatives without a hearing or even a meaningful debate. For […]

We Need a Prison Moratorium

October 5, 2021 Cole Harrison

by Cole Harrison Testimony submitted to the Joint Committee on the Judiciary, October 5, 2021 Thank you, co-chairs Eldridge and Cabral, for convening this hearing. I am Cole Harrison, executive director of Massachusetts Peace Action. Peace Action was formed in 1957 as the Committee for a […]