Category: Fund the People, Not the Pentagon

Rent Control is Good for Communities

May 20, 2026 Kiam Jamrog-McQuaid

Housing advocates across the state have worked to put rent control on the ballot this November, in an effort to slow the rampant displacement caused by the housing crisis and by unreasonable rent increases that outpace inflation. Passing this ballot initiative would limit annual rent […]

May Day Rallies in Boston and Across the Nation: “Workers Have the Power, Not Billionaires!”

April 28, 2026 Jonathan King

Trade unions and allied peace and justice organizations will be marking International Workers Day this Friday, May 1, with marches, rallies and, in some cases, work stoppages in communities across the country. Join us, and other MAPA members, for actions in Boston and across Massachusetts! […]

Can Prospects for Nuclear War Get Any Worse? Sure, We Can Put AI in Charge

April 14, 2026 Tom Valovic

How quickly is the Pentagon moving toward handing the nuclear keys over to AI systems and Big Tech? No one really knows. Can we possibly get away from AI’s ubiquitous presence in our lives? But as long as AI is now in our faces 24/7, […]

Trump’s Iran War: And the Big Fool Says Push On

April 8, 2026 Joseph Gerson

Fact-checking the bald-face lies in a morally obscene address by the most criminally corrupt and morally bankrupt US president in the history of the nation. We were waist deep in the Big Muddy The big fool said to push on —Pete Seeger On April Fool’s […]

Our Classrooms Are the Cost of War

March 31, 2026 Owen Madaus

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is […]

Stop the MAGA Tech Bro Takeover of Our Commonwealth!

March 31, 2026 Harris Gruman

With the support of wealthy investors and CEOs, the Massachusetts High Technology Council (MHTC) is attempting to qualify two questions for the November 2026 ballot. Together these questions, if voted on affirmatively, will strip billions in funding from classrooms, hospitals, and research centers, while locking the […]

Brian Garvey speaks at the "Stop the War on Iran Rally", Boston, March 2, 2026, a freezing day. Source: Cole Harrison, Randy Wurster

Our Tax Dollars Should Build Schools, Not Bomb Them

March 4, 2026 Brian Garvey

By Brian Garvey People across the US, and around the world, are already rising up against the new illegal war on Iran. Demonstrators are filling the streets in opposition to another war in the Middle East. The speed of the response is striking, but so […]