Year: 2024 - Page 4 - Massachusetts Peace Action

16 Reasons to Support Negotiations, not Killing, in Ukraine

October 23, 2024 Jeanne Trubek

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, […]

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, the organization of Hibakusha or nuclear bomb survivors, for their tireless advocacy for abolition of nuclear weapons. Photo: @NobelPeace/X

Nobel Prize Reminds Us: Nuclear Abolition is Urgent

October 11, 2024 Joseph Gerson

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 […]

Some Way Out of Here: Common Security in a World On Fire

October 8, 2024 Joseph Gerson

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 […]

Result of the General Assembly vote on the ICJ advisory opinion on the legal consequences arising from Israel’s policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. UN Photo/Evan Schneider

UN General Assembly: Israel Must Exit Palestinian Territories within 12 months

October 7, 2024 Susan Nicholson

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 […]

Palestine/Israel

Not Another Bomb!

October 7, 2024 Cole Harrison

A Year of Genocide in Gaza And Escalating Regional War After one year of genocide in Gaza, the Administration continues to pretend that the problem in the Middle East is “terrorism”, that a “ring of fire” surrounds poor Israel and that the United States must […]

General Dynamics Campaign Update

October 2, 2024 Randy Wurster

by Randy Wurster On Friday, September 20th, MAPA activists stood out in Dedham square to protest General Dynamics’ presence in the town and highlight the company’s significant role in the genocide of Palestinians. As a part of Warheads to Windmills nuclear weapons week of action, […]

The New Geopolitics and The Normalization of Endless War

October 2, 2024 Tom Valovic

By Tom Valovic In John LeCarre’s novel, A Delicate Truth, we see the protagonist, an English civil servant, volunteering to take on an assignment for British intelligence. During his briefing, an intelligence officer makes the statement that “War has gone corporate”. Even as a novelist, […]