Category: Legislation and Policy

Cambridge, Vote Evan MacKay. Vote Peace.

August 6, 2026 Jackie Dee King

Vote Evan MacKay for State Rep from Cambridge! Evan is the peace candidate in this race and a leader in the movement to reform an undemocratic State House. Evan MacKay, a Mass. Peace Action Board member, is running for state representative in the 25th Middlesex […]

“Paz for the People” in CD5

July 30, 2026 Jeannie Connerney

On July 23, 2026, I sat down with Jonathan Paz, candidate for US Congress in Massachusetts District 5, to ask him questions about his campaign and his vision for the future. Jonathan Paz (“Paz for the People!”) is challenging the incumbent, Katherine Clark. Jonathan was […]

The Prison-Building Boondoggle in Massachusetts

July 23, 2026 Rosemary Kean

The Prison Construction Boondoggle in Massachusetts: Who Suffers and Who Profits from Prison Construction in the Public Sector? Massachusetts has about 200 women incarcerated at MCI Framingham, the state’s only women’s prison. These women are mothers, daughters, and grandmothers and many are old, or sick, […]

ShotSpotter Surveillance To End in Cambridge

June 11, 2026 Spencer Piston

MAPA’s Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity Working Group collaborates with The Black Response Cambridge (TBR Cambridge) and recently heard their analysis of the effects of the use of ShotSpotter technology in Cambridge. Interestingly, we learned that the neighborhoods in Cambridge where this surveillance technology has […]

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 […]

War Crimes in an Age of Impunity

April 29, 2026 Abigail Greenblatt

Last week, on Wednesday, April 22, Amal Khalil, a Lebanese journalist, was targeted and killed by Israeli forces while reporting on an earlier Israeli attack with her colleague Zeinab Faraj. Khalil and Faraj took shelter in a building, where rescue workers tried to reach the […]

A Brief History of May Day

April 22, 2026 Jeanne Trubek

by Jeanne Trubek Why did May 1st become International Workers Day throughout the world? It began with a general strike in the United States. The country was experiencing a long economic depression that started in 1873 and continued for 5½ years. The Great Upheaval – […]