On Sunday October 20th, MAPA activists engaged our next generation on the issue of U.S. complicity in violence during an information session organized by Representative Stephen Lynch in Braintree for local high school students interested in military service. We greeted students and their parents as […]
Following news that Israel is bombing Iran, Iraq, and Syria tonight, Massachusetts Peace Action executive director Brian Garvey released the following statement: “The US should say out of the conflict between Israel and Iran. Israel is bombing Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen — picking a […]
By Claire Schaeffer-Duffy Over two hundred multifaith activists shut down Worcester City Council on Tuesday, October 22 after the city administration pulled a pro-Ceasefire resolution in a discriminatory application of procedural rules. The City Council adjourned rather than hear the petition at the meeting […]
By Jeanne Trubek 1. The war has killed or wounded over one million people, civilians and combatants, Ukrainians and Russians, and has displaced more than 11 million people. 2. The war has caused more than $56.4 billion in damage to the environment 3. Landscape destruction, […]
by Joseph Gerson This year’s Nobel Prize award could not have come at a more important time. The Hibakusha of Nihon Hidankyo have been among the most courageous and steadfast people in the world, having transformed their intense physical and emotional pains into the strongest […]
By Joseph Gerson This article was originally published in Common Dreams. The political will must be found to extinguish the violent conflicts that put us ever closer to nuclear annihilation. This is a most unusual election season. While the media focuses on Georgia and Nevada […]
by Susan Nicholson Remarks presented at the Community Encampment for Palestine, Lynn, MA, September 28, 2024 Second of two articles. For the first article on the July World Court opinion, see https://masspeaceaction.org/world-court-israels-occupation-of-palestinian-territories-is-illegal/ Let’s turn now to the historic Resolution passed September 18 by the United […]
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