Month: July 2025

Why Is the Media Normalizing Nuclear War and Its Effects on US Populations?

July 30, 2025 Tom Valovic

by Tom Valovic Originally published in Common Dreams. The meme-contour of recent articles seems to invite a casual shoulder shrug with respect to the dark road that we’re now heading down and to minimize the powder keg of conflict looming in the Middle East. As […]

The War From Without and Within: Help Stop Maura Healey’s $360 Million Dollar Plan

July 28, 2025 Edward Mukalazi

By Eddie Mukalazi On the last day of June, the Healey-Driscoll administration shocked community leaders, stakeholders, and residents across the Commonwealth with their announcement of their $360 million dollar proposal to build upon the MCI-Framingham prison site. This came as a surprise to many politicians […]

Paper cranes in the Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima.

Approaching 80th Anniversary of Hiroshima/Nagasaki

July 22, 2025 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson Over many years, I have had the extraordinary privilege of working with Japanese atomic and hydrogen bomb survivors. These are people who have endured and transformed the worst imaginable physical and emotional traumas into the most influential force for nuclear weapons abolition. […]

South Korea and Japan: Trump’s Tariffs and What It Means for Their Economies

July 17, 2025 Aidan Panotes-Bengzon

by Aidan Panotes-Bengzon President Trump’s seemingly endless aggressive tariff campaign wages on with the sending of letters via Truth Social to the leaders of Japan and South Korea,notifying the nations of a newly-imposed 25% tariff on all their imported goods effective August 1, 2025. “If […]

Letter to the Mass. Republican Party: Stop the Cuts!

July 9, 2025 Brian Garvey

This letter will be delivered to Massachusetts Republican Party Headquarters in Boston on Friday July 11th by the Just Budget and Tax Coalition after a rally outside the office. To join the rally, click here. Ms. Amy Carnavale, Chair Massachusetts Republican Party July 11, 2025 […]

Protect Our Communities: Dismantle the 1033 Program in MA

July 9, 2025 Edward Mukalazi

By Eddie Mukalazi In June of 2020, I was an 8th grader who had just graduated from middle school. However, rather than accepting my diploma on the big stage, I received it from the window of my mom’s Honda Pilot in the first and only […]

The Greatest of These is Hope: A Conversation with Fr. Bashar Fawadleh

July 8, 2025 Jeannie Connerney

By Jeanne Connerney Keeping the Faith in the Occupied West Bank “There are no rights to live. There are no rights to move. There are no rights to learn. There are no rights to play. There are no rights to travel.” With these words, the […]