Year: 2025 - Page 20 - Massachusetts Peace Action

Palestinians return to northern Gaza following ceasefire deal. Source: @ahmed_darabi

Reconstruction, Reparations, or Expulsion: the Future of the Gaza Strip

February 5, 2025 Lila Li

by Lila Li At a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on February 4, Donald Trump proposed that the U.S. expel Gaza Palestinians and assume long-term ownership of the Gaza Strip. Trump’s bid—loosely presented as a suggestion to “clean out [the] whole thing”—has […]

CAIR staff and leaders are flanked by representatives from MAPA, JVP Boston, Arlington for Palestine, Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine, and others at a January 30, 2025 press conference designating Harvard a "hostile campus". Photo: CAIR-MA

Council on American-Islamic Relations Brands Harvard a “Hostile Campus”

February 4, 2025 Barbara Dougan

by Barbara Dougan and Maryam Hasan The Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MA), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, condemned Harvard University Jan. 30 for adopting as part of its antidiscrimination policies the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) highly […]

Rally for Reproductive Rights, Chicago, May 2019. Photo: Charles Edward Miller/ Flickr

Statement on Reproductive Rights

February 4, 2025 Rosemary Kean

Massachusetts Peace Action believes that all people have a right to make decisions about their own bodies and that comprehensive health care includes the option of abortion. This right to bodily autonomy is a foundational value of human rights which applies equally to all people. […]

Gearing Up

February 4, 2025 Doe West

by Doe West As we gear up for 2025 (and yes, as a member of a Peace action lifestyle and group, I feel the need to gear up), I find myself remembering steps I took when I was facing my first solo apartment. To afford […]

A Fragile Ceasefire in Gaza

January 29, 2025 Lila Li

by Lila Li On January 15th, Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire deal, halting fifteen months of conflict in the Gaza Strip that killed over 47,000 people. Over half of them were women, children, or older people. The territory is devastated. At the time of […]

Doomsday: The Unraveling of Time

January 29, 2025 Jania James

by Jania James We were warned. The signs were there, etched into the melting glaciers, whispered through the dying forests, and screamed by the tempests that razed entire cities. And still, time slipped through our fingers. On January 28, 2025, the Bulletin of the Atomic […]

Thermonuclear Crack

January 29, 2025 Bill Astore

The Death Wish of the “Elites” by Bill Astore Originally published at Bill Astore’s Bracing Views Substack. Isn’t it high time we “augment” our nuclear force “posture”? Shouldn’t we fight to achieve peace through nuclear “strength” and “deterrence”? Isn’t it smart to “refurbish, rebuild, and […]