Category: Fund the People, Not the Pentagon - Page 3

A Call to Conscience: Stand Together Against Militarism and Authoritarianism

June 3, 2025 Lewis Randa

by Lewis M. Randa Fellow Conscientious Objectors, Whether you voiced your opposition to war before draft boards, stood your ground before military tribunals, or declared your conscientious objection to war in the face of societal pressure, your courage and conviction have shaped the moral fabric […]

An Intrinsic Convergence of Justice, Peace and the Environment

May 14, 2025 Harris Gruman

by Harris Gruman The following is a transcription of the Keynote Presentation to the MAPA annual meeting by Harris Gruman on May 10, 2025. Ten years ago, Paul Shannon and Cole Harrison invited me to participate in a conference on building a convergence of the […]

The New Sentinel Intercontinental Missile: Dangerous, Costly and Unnecessary

April 8, 2025 Nancy Goldner

By Nancy Goldner, Jonathan King, and Richard Krushnic The world is awash in nuclear weapons with an astonishing overkill capacity. Just in the US, there are 400 land-based intercontinental missiles, hundreds of nuclear bombs mounted on B52 and B2 bombers, and 14 nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed submarines, […]

No to NATO, Yes to Peace!

April 2, 2025 Cole Harrison

Many people believe that NATO is a peace-loving, defensive alliance, but the opposite is true. During the past 30 years, NATO has fomented a vast arc of violence stretching from Libya to Afghanistan, leaving villages bombed, infrastructure destroyed, and countless dead. Originally formed as part […]

From Benign Neglect to Active Assault

March 3, 2025 Sandy Eaton

by Sandy Eaton Over many years we’ve witnessed our state government’s benign neglect of the health needs of our diverse working-class communities. The demise of Steward Health Care last year laid bare the unwillingness of the Healey-Driscoll-Walsh Administration to address the devastating effects of such […]

Millionaires, Medicaid, and the Military – The Key Fight!

February 12, 2025 Hoffmann the Organizer

by Hoffmann the Organizer I’ve been doing a chalk-talk/PPT on “The Three M’s – Everything You Need to Know About the Federal Budget” for many years. Facing the new Trump/Broligarchs Regime, it’s no longer what we need to know, it’s where we need to fight […]

The Deadliest Enemy may be on its Way

February 12, 2025 Jeanne Trubek

by Jeanne Trubek War kills people. We all know that. But most people don’t know that wars kill people in more ways than they have ever imagined, killing people who are far from the armed conflict. We know wars can and have killed millions, but […]