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In Trump’s Fight with Massachusetts, Time for Gov. Healey to show up

June 12, 2025 Brian Garvey

by Brian Garvey Though the calendar says June, Massachusetts is experiencing a major ICE problem. For months Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been terrorizing communities across the state. They’re spreading fear, dragging neighbors to detention centers, and violating the due process of our residents. […]

Trump Won. Peace was a Factor.

November 8, 2024 Brian Garvey

by Brian Garvey After an unexpected landslide victory Donald Trump will become the 47th President of the United States and Vice President Kamala Harris won’t. After elections there is always the temptation among the electorate to give up and check out of politics or to […]

To Stop Israel’s Expanding War, Biden Must Stop Arms

September 25, 2024 Brian Garvey

by Brian Garvey Israel’s violence toward its neighbors, long out of control in its destruction of Gaza, now threatens to open new fronts, involve new nations, and even drag the United States into direct conflict. Promises of a ceasefire from the Biden Administration have come […]

Chicago DNC

August 28, 2024 Brian Garvey

by Brian Garvey Leaders of the Free World, Policy Makers, Political Players Stackers of Cash, Bundlers of Donations; Plodding, triangulating, setting norms, Party of the Big Tent: They tell me you are ineffective and I believe them, for I have seen your broken promises and […]

Chicago protester. Photo: Brian Garvey/ MAPA

Dispatch from Chicago: There is a Breaking Point

August 22, 2024 Brian Garvey

by Brian Garvey All people have a breaking point. We may like to think that the source of human patience, resilience, and resistance, are infinite. But it isn’t. In Chicago the thousands of antiwar activists who have traveled to the Democratic National Convention are quickly […]

The U.S. should focus on Democracy at home, not in Venezuela

August 13, 2024 Brian Garvey

By Brian Garvey There is now widespread controversy surrounding the Venezuelan presidential election on July 28th. The National Electoral Council says that current President Nicolás Maduro was reelected with a 51% majority. The opposition, led by Maria Corina Machado, claims that its candidate, Edmundo González, […]

Silent Fallout gives voice to Nuclear Victims here in the US

August 7, 2024 Brian Garvey

By Brian Garvey Silent Fallout, a documentary film by Hideaki Ito and narrated by Alec Baldwin, interviews victims of nuclear testing who are suffering serious diseases linked to the by-products of those tests conducted in the 1950’s and early 1960’s. They have battled cancer. They […]