Month: May 2025

Memorial Day, George Floyd, and Militarism

May 28, 2025 Rosemary Kean

by Rosemary Kean The militarization and lethal force of police departments continues since the police murder of George Floyd on Memorial Day weekend in 2020, which dramatized this situation across the country and around the world. Police killed more than 1,300 people in the U.S. […]

Mass Media and the Spectacle of the Imperial Presidency

May 27, 2025 Tom Valovic

by Tom Valovic This article was originally published in Common Dreams. The revolution won’t be televised, but our national decline will be highly pixelated. I’ve been thinking a lot about how the Trump administration has been using television, social media, and AI-generated digital graphics to […]

Israel’s forced starvation of Gaza

May 27, 2025 Liam Noble

by Liam Noble Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to forced starvation. While world humanitarian relief organizations have already mobilized, their efforts have been stonewalled since Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip. 160,000 pallets of supplies, enough to fill nearly 9,000 trucks, […]

Advocates rallied for divestment from WMD and fossil fuels, Massachusetts State House, May 20, 2025. Photo: Fran Jeffries/ MAPA

A Day of Action for Divestment

May 21, 2025 Grace Cowell

In collaboration with Warheads to Windmills, the Coalition for Responsible Investment, and Jewish Voice for Peace Boston, MAPA held a lobby day at the State House on Tuesday, May 21. Over 30 advocates gathered in teams to lobby members of the state legislature on two […]

President of Mexico Shines at Summit of Latin American States

May 21, 2025 Ellen Mass

This article is Part Six of a series on Mexico’s history and economic development. You can read Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four,and Part Five. At the 9th Summit of CELAC (the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) Mexico’s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum […]

Indigenous Leaders and Allies Launch the MA Indigenous Legislative Agenda

May 21, 2025 Grace Cowell

by Grace Cowell On Monday, May 12, indigenous leaders, activists, and allies gathered at the State House for a day of action surrounding the Massachusetts Indigenous Legislative Agenda (MILA). The 2025-2026 MILA is composed of five bills: Mascot Bill: An Act Prohibiting the Use of […]

MAPA Voices: “I am a Jew by birth…”

May 20, 2025 Mark Stern

by Mark Stern I am a Jew by birth, and I have never renounced or shied away from Judaism. I have not changed my name or its spelling or converted to another religion. Half my family are Jews, including both of my children. And I […]