Year: 2021 - Page 16 - Massachusetts Peace Action

Repression of Colombian Protests Remind Us: Police Violence is International

June 10, 2021 Drew Baldwin

by Drew Baldwin 45 dead. 187 missing. 25 sexually assaulted. 3,789 cases of police brutality in the span of a month. Millions protesting. The deaths of Marcelo Agredo Inchima, García Guerrero, Santiago Andrés Murillo Meneses, Brayan Fernando Niño Araque, and more were lost amongst limited […]

Middle East Wars

Ending the War in Yemen Means Overcoming Political Cowardice

June 9, 2021 Brian Garvey

by Brian Garvey The struggle to end US support for the war in Yemen has run into another obstacle. This time it’s partisanship. But it isn’t Republican opposition blocking Joe Biden’s promise to end US participation in the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe. It’s the president’s […]

Protester’s sign decries sanctions, “a silent war”. Photo: Campaign for Peace and Democracy, 2013

Sanctions Kill

June 4, 2021 Prasannan Parthasarathi

by Renate Bridenthal, Molly Nolan and Prasannan Parthasarathi Sanctions are an economic weapon. They restrict nations from trading in goods and transacting in financial instruments; they prohibit U.S. corporations and banks from dealing with targeted countries; and they limit the economic activities of individuals, organizations, […]

Ireland and Palestine

June 3, 2021 Jeff Klein

By Jeff Klein The Irish know something about colonialism. Long before there was a British Empire on which “the sun never set,” Ireland was the testing ground for English conquest and confiscating land from the natives. Modern day European settler colonialism had its start in […]

U.S. Army Captain talks with the Nurgaram district sub-governor in Nuristan, Afghanistan. Photo by Chief Master Sgt. Richard Simonsen/U.S. Air Force

Proposal from an Afghan Citizen for the Withdrawal of U.S. Troops from Afghanistan

June 2, 2021 Ismail Asghari

by Ismail Asghari Disclaimer: the following has been submitted to Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA) in response to MAPA’s Call for Policy Papers and translated into English. The ideas presented below were translated and discussed in our working group. See MAPA’s latest statement on Afghanistan. Introduction This […]

What does my generation have to look forward to?

May 21, 2021 Steve Downey

by Steve Downey Remarks delivered at the People & Planet, not Profits Tax Day rally in Boston, MA on May 17th 2021. What does my generation have to look forward to in the future? A future of rationed health care where we and our loved […]

No More Money for the Doomsday Machine. No New Cold War with China

May 21, 2021 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson Remarks delivered at the People & Planet, not Profits Tax Day in Boston, MA on May 17th 2021. Counting the dark money so-called intelligence agencies, DOE nuclear weapons spending, the Pentagon’s Overseas Contingencies slush fund, and the Pentagon’s core budget of more […]