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Biden-Harris and Immigration: Can Justice Be Achieved?

May 20, 2021 Sunny Robinson

by Sunny Robinson During his campaign, Biden promised substantive change in immigration policy and meaningful renewed aid for the Central American countries of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, from which a large percentage of current migrants are coming –assistance that they say would address the […]

US Sanctions and Venezuela’s Economy

May 10, 2021 Tyrin Douangvichit

by Tyrin Douangvichit As of January 22, 2021, the Treasury Department had imposed sanctions on roughly 166 Venezuelan or Venezuelan-connected individuals and the State Department had revoked the visas of more than 1,000 individuals and their families (FAS.org, Congressional Research Service). The current discourse on […]

Peace Activists Pressure McGovern’s Office to Take a Stand on US Policy in Venezuela

April 13, 2021 Celina della Croce

Originally published in The Shoestring by Celina della Croce and Michael Kowalchuk “Our policy towards Venezuela, or any other country, ought not to be motivated by greed.” – Congressman Jim McGovern On Wednesday, March 24th, peace activists gathered outside Representative Jim McGovern’s Northampton district office […]

Haiti Solidarity Rally

March 30, 2021 Yoav Elinevsky

by Yoav Elinevsky Today, on March 29, 2021, more than 30 activists and members of the Haitian community in Boston, protested US neo colonialism in Haiti . It was especially windy and chilly day, with wind blowing at 25 miles per hour but it did […]

City of Cambridge policy order on Cuba embargo, March 15, 2021

Cambridge passes Policy Order calling for an end to the US Embargo of Cuba

March 16, 2021 Merri Ansara

by Merri Ansara On Monday, March 15, the Cambridge City Council voted unanimously for an end to the United States Embargo of Cuba. Policy Order 2021 #50 calls for “the immediate restoration of engagement with the Republic of Cuba” and that the U.S. Congress “pass […]

U.S. sanctions against Venezuela have already killed 40,000 people between 2017 and 2018, according to a report by Mark Weisbrot and Columbia University’s Jeffrey Sachs. (Photo: Courtesy of the authors)

Lift Sanctions on Venezuela, and others. COVID makes it Urgent!

February 11, 2021 Brian Garvey

As the world reels from the COVID-19 pandemic, all nations must work together in the struggle stem and beat back the virus. Massachusetts Peace Action is working with organizations across the state to end the US imposed sanctions on countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria, […]

Progressive Immigration: It’s Up to Us!

February 2, 2021 Sunny Robinson

by Sunny Robinson Immigrant families and their allies have many reasons to be hopeful that the Biden administration’s immigration policies will be more humane and just than those of his predecessors. In his first day in office, the new president signed executive orders that, among […]