Author: Rosemary Kean

Celebrating Black History Month in 2026

February 18, 2026 Rosemary Kean

by Rosemary Kean The observance and celebration of Black History Month in 2026 has a special significance for at least two reasons. First is the fact that this year is the 100th anniversary of the tradition of raising up Black history in the month of […]

Forcibly displaced people seek shelter in a destroyed UNRWA school in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip, June 2025. © 2025 UNRWA photo

Starvation in Gaza

June 24, 2025 Rosemary Kean

by Rosemary Kean Velva Spriggs, a lecturer in Social Work at Bowie State College in Maryland writes that, sometimes, when remembering that the people of Gaza are being “deliberately starved to death,” she is unable to eat. Likely many of us, especially when preparing dinner […]

Memorial Day, George Floyd, and Militarism

May 28, 2025 Rosemary Kean

by Rosemary Kean The militarization and lethal force of police departments continues since the police murder of George Floyd on Memorial Day weekend in 2020, which dramatized this situation across the country and around the world. Police killed more than 1,300 people in the U.S. […]

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. […]

Racism in Action: The January 6, 2021, Attack on the Capitol

August 9, 2022 Rosemary Kean

by Rosemary Kean In 2020, millions of Americans were involved in an antiracism protest sparked by the vicious police murder of George Floyd. This upsurge in antiracist awareness and action precipitated a predictable white supremacist backlash that BU Professor Philippe Copeland describes as a “racist […]

Critical Race Theory: The Right’s New Bogeyman

October 31, 2021 Rosemary Kean

by Rosemary Kean Gather round, children, to hear about the new bogeyman. In the current cycle of reactionary demonization, the bogeyman is no longer anyone ever associated in any way with the Communist Party. The new bogeyman, supplanting communism, socialism, and Sharia law, is ‘critical […]

Cambridge Police Department deployed a Ford F-550 BearCat emergency response vehicle for a Black Lives Matter healing event in Lafayette Square on July 10. Community members organized a meeting last week to discuss what they believed to be an overly militarized response by the police. Courtesy photo/Black Lives Matter Cambridge

Demilitarize the Police, Abolish the 1033 Program

February 16, 2021 Rosemary Kean

Mass. Peace Action supports this key Black Alliance for Peace demand to the Biden Administration by Rosemary Kean Ajamu Baraka, the national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP), describes the Biden administration’s plan to “alter” the 1033 program as “an affront.” This […]