Martin Halpern – Massachusetts Peace Action

Take Action for Peace in Ukraine Sept 30 - Oct 8

Time for a Cease Fire and Negotiations: Join the Global Mobilization to End the Ukraine War

September 29, 2023 Martin Halpern

By Martin Halpern Between September 30 and October 8, 2023, peace activists from over thirty countries are coming together to support “an immediate ceasefire and peace negotiations” to end the Ukraine War. In joining these advocates, I continue on a path I began over sixty […]

Protest against war with Russia, Topsham, ME, February 2022. Photo: Bob Klotz/ Maine Beacon

The Cuban Missile Crisis: Déjà Vu All Over Again?

November 11, 2022 Martin Halpern

by Martin Halpern originally published in Common Dreams Sixty years ago, the world was on the doorstep of a nuclear confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The resort to nuclear weapons in the Cuban Missile Crisis would have led to a nuclear holocaust from […]