Year: 2023 - Page 7 - Massachusetts Peace Action

Music for Peace 2023-2024 Concert Series

September 25, 2023 Cole Harrison

Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund announces the MUSIC FOR PEACE 2023-2024 CONCERT SERIES Three evenings of chamber music to support our work for a more peaceful U.S. foreign policy Carol Ou, Music Director “Welcome to a new season of Music for Peace concerts! As we […]

Anti-militarist contingent at March against Fossil Fuels, Sept 17, 2023. Photo: Evelyn Miller/MAPA

We Marched Against Fossil Fuels

September 22, 2023 Evelyn Miller

By Evelyn Miller This September 17, Mass Peace Action joined with Code Pink, Veterans for Peace, Boston Extreme Energy, and other Peace Action affiliates to represent the anti-militarists at the March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City, where we gave our all and […]

The AI Conundrum: The Peace Movement’s Next Big Challenge

September 15, 2023 Tom Valovic

by Tom Valovic It’s hard to watch or read the news these days without bumping into the latest breathless glorification of artificial intelligence. For those of us who believe that some sort of technocratic takeover of many government functions is underway, this trend is deeply […]

MAPA Endorses Vernon K. Walker, Andrew King in Cambridge

September 13, 2023 Cole Harrison

Vernon K. Walker for City Council MAPA endorses Vernon K. Walker for Cambridge City Council. His mission is to address climate change and ensure the inclusion of marginalized voices in policymaking. As the climate justice program director for Clean Water Action, a climate justice organization, […]

Prioritizing Human Rights in Relations with Saudi Arabia

September 11, 2023 Kathy Kelly

By Kathy Kelly This article first appeared in The Progressive “Rather than assist people afflicted by droughts, impoverishment and intensifying wars, the United States is acting in its own perceived self-interests and entertaining Saudi demands for even more military power.” There’s a refugee trail from […]

How U.S. Sanctions Are a Tool of War: The Case of Venezuela

September 11, 2023 Celina della Croce

by Celina della Croce This article was originally published in Monthly Review Online. On March 26, 2022, Francisco lay in a public hospital bed in Bolívar, Venezuela, roughly eight hours inland from the capital of Caracas. He had been waiting for more than twenty-four hours to […]

Extinction Rebellion meets on Boston Common

August 21, 2023 Evelyn Miller

by Evelyn Miller On the first of August, Extinction Rebellion held their monthly meeting on Boston Common for the approaching Week of Rebellion. Extinction Rebellion, or “XR,” is an international movement, originally born in London in 2018. It uses non-violent direct action and civil disobedience […]