Year: 2023 - Page 22 - Massachusetts Peace Action

Peace in Ukraine protest on Shrewsbury St, Worcester, MA, near Rep. Jim McGovern's office. MAPA photo

“Tanks? No Thanks”, say Rallies Across Massachusetts, as Biden Escalates War

January 27, 2023 Cole Harrison

About eighty people rallied at six Massachusetts Congressional offices Thursday, January 26, to protest President Biden’s decision to send US Abrams battle tanks to join the fight in Ukraine. At four of the six offices they met with Congressional staff and turned in letters and […]

ADAZI, LATVIA, JUNE 2016 - U.S. M1 Abrams tanks fire during the "Saber Strike" NATO military exercise. Photo: Karlis Dambrans/Shutterstock

US Push for Heavy Arms to Ukraine is a Dangerous Escalation

January 27, 2023 Richard Krushnic

by Richard Krushnic Armored fighting vehicles, Patriot missiles, main battle tanks. The red lines keep whizzing by. Ukraine’s military is not faring well in the war with Russia, despite much Western propaganda to the contrary. As cracks are appearing in NATO’s façade of unity, Ukraine’s […]

Animal victims of human wars: Be their voice

January 27, 2023 Kathie Malley-Morrison

By Kathleen Malley-Morrison Our nation, born out of a bloody genocide that gradually spread across the entire North American continent, has a long history of wars characterized by the pursuit of power and domination and cloaked in the language of freedom and democracy. Embedded in […]

The Traprock Center for Peace and Justice held a vigil on Saturday, August 6, at the Greenfield Town Common, 11 AM to noon, to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and call for rapid nuclear disarmament worldwide.

How Can the Peace Movement Be More Effective?

January 27, 2023 Tom Valovic

by Tom Valovic I’m probably not your typical peace activist. Over the last 15 years or so, I’ve been involved in a variety of volunteer and activist work in environmentalism, healthcare, and the best use of emerging technology. As a relative newcomer, I’ve found that […]

“Diplomacy for Ukraine” Rallies to be held at Congressional Offices in Massachusetts

January 25, 2023 Evelyn Miller

(Cambridge) Jan. 25 — Massachusetts Peace Action today denounced President Biden’s plan to send tanks to arm Ukraine, and announced that rallies would be held at six Congressional offices in Massachusetts, Thursday Jan. 26 at noon, to call for diplomacy, not escalation in the Ukraine […]

Mandy Carter: Women’s Peace Walk, 1983

January 23, 2023 C.R. Spicer

By C.R. Spicer The Seneca Women’s Peace Camp was formed in 1983 to protest the scheduled deployment of Cruise and Pershing II missiles before their suspected shipment from the Seneca, NY Army Depot to Europe. Women organized feeder marches from Boston, and as far away […]

Cambridge Rally to Support the U.N. Nuclear Ban Treaty

January 20, 2023 Maryellen Kurkulos

(Cambridge) Today at 3:30 PM at Fresh Pond Shopping Center, Alewife Brook Parkway, residents of Greater Boston will hold a public standout to mark the second anniversary of the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The protesters will call for the urgent elimination […]