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Fight the fears! Don’t assume a Biden-Trump rematch is inevitable!

February 21, 2024 Kathie Malley-Morrison

The Peace Advocate is running a series of opinion pieces about the 2024 presidential election and candidates. We encourage our members and supporters to submit their analyses. We welcome different points of view. – The Editors This article was edited on Monday, March 4th to […]

Girding our loins for the 2024 Presidential election

November 28, 2023 Kathie Malley-Morrison

by Kathie Malley-Morrison With the 2024 reelections looming, there is a huge consensus, across party lines, on one major viewpoint: American democracy has failed, as illustrated dramatically by the January 6, 2020, attack on the United States Capitol after the last presidential election. There are […]

Challenging the Military’s Recruitment in our Schools

November 21, 2023 Nancy Goldner

by Nancy Goldner and Rosemary Kean When the No Child Left Behind Act was passed in 2002, US military recruiters gained access to American high schools on a basis equivalent to recruiters for colleges and civilian employers. The Act also mandated that the contact information […]

When the Military Owns the Ocean

August 18, 2023 Leo Middleton

By Leo Middleton When the submersible vessel known as the Titan, owned by the Oceangate company, imploded with five people on board on its way to exploring the wreckage of the Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland in June, the deadly accident was met with […]

“Beyond Vietnam” Recitation Hosted by the New Democracy Coalition

May 2, 2023 Evelyn Miller

(Boston) May 2 – The New Democracy Coalition will host its annual public reading with a recitation of “Beyond Vietnam”, the historic speech in which Civil Rights Movement icon, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., declared his opposition to the Vietnam War in 1967. WHEN: Tuesday, […]

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Here Come the Militarized Robots (But There Go Our Civil Liberties)

April 14, 2023 Tom Valovic

By Tom Valovic Many decades ago, when science fiction was still whimsical and fun rather than dark and dystopian, we saw robots appear in popular culture that were benign and friendly. Some may recall Robbie the Robot from the movie “Forbidden Planet” and, of course, […]

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 […]