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MAPA Voices: “Lament on Gaza”

November 21, 2023 Tom Valovic
By Tom Valovic Lament on Gaza “We become what we hate” — William Irwin Thompson The world in turmoil, no respite, no lessons learned. Our cultural amnesia has obliterated the hardest lessons of both deep and recent history. And who are these “leaders” who have […]
Nuclear Disarmament

Ira Helfand wins Gandhi-King-Ikeda Award

April 13, 2023 Cole Harrison
The Martin Luther King Jr. International  Chapel at Morehouse College has awarded the 2023 Gandhi-King-Ikeda Community Builder’s Award to Dr. Ira Helfand, a Northampton activist and MAPA member who initiated the Back from the Brink campaign for the elimination of nuclear weapons According to Morehouse, […]
Fund the People, Not the Pentagon

Mel King, Peace Leader

March 29, 2023 Joseph Gerson
by Joseph Gerson and Cole Harrison Massachusetts Peace Action honors Mel King, leader of the peace and justice movement who died at his home on March 28.   (Boston Globe obituary) We cannot win peace without the participation of large numbers of people from every walk […]