Year: 2025 - Page 4 - Massachusetts Peace Action

Indigenous Peoples Day in Newton and Victory in New Mexico

October 16, 2025 Craig Simpson

by Craig Simpson This was the fourth year Mass. Peace Action has had a table at the Indigenous Peoples Day-Newton event. It is the largest IPD event in Massachusetts. Tribes from all over New England come to Newton this year to the North Newton High […]

Ireland Shows That Divesting From Israeli Crimes Is Possible and Necessary

October 8, 2025 Richard Solomon

by Richard Solomon In the 1840s, a million people in Ireland died of starvation in a famine called the An Gorta Mór aggravated by British colonial policies and a providential ideology that preached the poor deserved their fate. Nearly a million others fled to the United States, […]

Landmark UN Report on Israeli Genocide

October 8, 2025 Susan Nicholson

by Susan Nicholson On September 16, 2025, the UN published a landmark 72-page report concluding that Israel has committed, and is continuing to commit, genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. The report, entitled “Legal analysis of the conduct of Israel in Gaza pursuant to the […]

Are We Waking Up Fast Enough to the Dangers of AI Militarism?

October 8, 2025 Tom Valovic

by Tom Valovic AI is everywhere these days. There’s no escape. And as geopolitical events appear to spiral out of control in the Ukraine and Gaza, it seems clear that AI, while theoretically a force for positive change, has become has become a worrisome accelerant to […]

Why I’m On Hunger Strike

September 30, 2025 Jeannie Connerney

by Jeannie Connerney The author participated in The People’s Prescription, and this is a statement she read at the Theodore Parker Unitarian Universalist Church in West Roxbury on September 13. My name is Jeannie, and today is the third day of my hunger strike. I’m […]

Defending our National Guard: Massachusetts Bill Would End Unconstitutional Deployments

September 30, 2025 Jason Brand

by Jason Brand “When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists” — Ron Paul Legislation currently before the Joint Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs would prohibit the Massachusetts National Guard from being deployed into “active duty combat” unless […]

Members of the State Commission on Antisemitism at Sept 25, 2025 hearing. Frame from State Legislature webcast

Antisemitism Commission Targets Israel Critics

September 25, 2025 Cole Harrison

by Cole Harrison The following is a transcript of the author’s testimony at the State Commission on Combatting Antisemitism (SCCA) hearing, September 25, 2025. My name is Cole Harrison. I’m a staff member for Massachusetts Peace Action, which represents 2400 members in the Commonwealth who […]