Month: May 2022 - Page 4 - Massachusetts Peace Action

Protesters are pictured holding signs in the Tufts Science and Engineering Complex, Apr. 25, 2022. Chloe Courtney Bohl / The Tufts Daily

Tufts Protesters Target Weapons Manufacturers’ On-Campus Recruiting

May 9, 2022 Cole Harrison

by Maya Morris Originally published at Antiwar.com Just days after Tufts university administration invited General Dynamics to campus, the school moved to invite yet another major arms manufacturer and defense contractor, Raytheon, to come and present to students in the School of Engineering. In opposition […]

Coming to Cuba has been a tremendous experience

May 9, 2022 Cole Harrison

by Yamilka Alvarez Ramos Agencia Cuba de Noticias. Translated by Merriam Ansara Guantanamo, May 5 (ACN) Calla Walsh, the youngest delegate of the VII International Seminar for Peace and for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases that is in session until today in Guantanamo, vehemently […]

Ukraine rally calls for Negotiations!

May 7, 2022 Elizaveta Kupriyanova

For Immediate Release Contact: Cole Harrison (617) 466-9274, Louise Coleman (617) 817-6706 “Each day now, the war in Ukraine is moving step by step toward a nuclear confrontation between the U.S. and Russia” claim the organizers of 3 peace rallies in Massachusetts Today concerned Massachusetts and Rhode […]

Massachusetts State Legislature Committee Backs Bill to Form Commission on Nuclear Weapons Threat

May 6, 2022 Chloe Steele

May 6, Boston — On Wednesday, May 4, the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security in the Massachusetts State House voted favorably on Resolve H.3688 / S.1555. Providing for an Investigation and Study by Special Commission Relative to the Existential Threat Posed by […]

Marty Nathan – A Remembrance

May 5, 2022 Paul Shannon

By Paul Shannon Funny how you assume certain people will always be there, because they always are there. I can’t remember a time when Marty was not there. (Do you?) Someone you could depend on if you needed her help. Someone with a big view […]

MAPA Members Chart Path for 2022

May 5, 2022 Cole Harrison

by Cole Harrison and Brian Garvey Over 150 MAPA members gathered online to chart the organization’s path in 2022 in a two-part annual meeting on April 26 and May 3 Co-chair Jonathan King opened the meeting by requesting a moment of silence in memory of […]

Protesters are pictured holding signs in the SEC on Apr. 25, 2022. Chloe Courtney Bohl / The Tufts Daily

Manufacturing Dissent: Opposition to the war in Yemen in the face of Media Silence

May 5, 2022 Brian Garvey

By Brian Garvey The US-Saudi war in Yemen entered its 8th year this past March. Despite the United Nations declaring it the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis” and some 400,000 civilians killed in the conflict, its victims and its perpetrators have remained largely absent from the […]