Year: 2023 - Page 10 - Massachusetts Peace Action

Mass Peace Activists Urge Congress to Stop Biden From Sending Cluster Munitions to Ukraine

July 7, 2023 Evelyn Miller

(Cambridge) July 7 – The Biden administration announced today its decision to provide cluster munition to Ukraine. Cluster bombs are known to cause grievous injury to civilians, particularly children, and are internationally banned under the The Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) established in 2008. A […]

Fund Healthcare Not Warfare: Second Annual Forum presenters Rep. Carol Doherty, Lindsay Koshgarian, Deborah Weinstein, and Shailly Gupta Barnes. Photo: MAPA Livestream

Fund Healthcare Not Warfare Forum Brings National Leaders Together

June 29, 2023 Jonathan King

By Jonathan King At the June 11, 2023 Fund Healthcare Not Warfare Forum, attendees heard chilling descriptions of efforts by corporate forces to privatize and monetize health care, both in general hospitals and in the Veterans Administration system. These stories alternated with uplifting accounts of […]

Time For A Serious National Campaign to Get Rid of Nuclear Weapons

June 29, 2023 Ira Helfand

By Ira Helfand The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the flood of nuclear threats that have accompanied that invasion have made it clear that the danger of nuclear war did not end with the Cold War but remains a real and imminent threat to human […]

Biden Calls Cuba “Terrorist” While the People Demand an End to U.S. Terrorism against Cuba

June 28, 2023 Calla Walsh

By Calla Mairead Walsh This article was originally published in Hampton Think. On Tuesday, May 23rd, the State Department reported that Cuba — along with Iran, Syria, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and Venezuela — are not “not cooperating fully” in the United States’ […]

Nuclear disarmament advocates gathered at the State House May 24 for a lobby day in support of three bills. MAPA photo/ Cole Harrison

Activists Start State Legislature Push for Peace

June 25, 2023 Cole Harrison

by Cole Harrison MAPA advocates and our allies are pressing the Massachusetts legislature for action this year, with activism around nuclear weapons issues taking the lead. We have filed six bills comprising the Commonwealth Peace and Justice Agenda and are opposing three more, in seven […]

Signs of militarism at East Boston High School: sign at school entrance advertising the JROTC Military Ball; cadets distributing literature at commencement, June 16, 2023; Mayor Michelle Wu greeting students wearing the schools' F-15 insignia during her visit, 2022.

Demilitarizing Civilian Life: Counter Recruitment at East Boston High School

June 24, 2023 Nancy Goldner

By Nancy Goldner and Rosemary Kean Thousands of public high schools students are enrolled without their consent in Junior Reserve Officer Training Corp (JROTC) classes taught by military veterans, according to a recent New York Times investigation. JROTC enrollment data from more than 200 public […]

Preparing for War with China While the Planet is Already on Fire

June 24, 2023 Assaf Kfoury

by Assaf Kfoury Originally published by The Shape Project Not a day passes without a China-related news item, typically an ominous one. This focus on Chinese matters is perhaps understandable, given China’s sheer size with a population larger than the North American and European populations combined, […]