Massachusetts Peace Action

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, […]
MAPA activities, left to right, top to bottom: Say No to Nukes rally, Lowell; Stop Yemen War, Quincy; Peace in Ukraine, Worcester; Hiroshima commemoration, Greenfield; American Public Health Assn panel on Fund Healthcare Not Warfare; war companies recruitment protest, Tufts; Ukraine war anniversary, Boston; Saudi money is blood money, Bolton. MAPA photos
Massachusetts Peace Action

2023-2025 Board Nominees

March 30, 2023 Cole Harrison
Most Massachusetts Peace Action directors serve for a 2-year term.  The following candidates have been nominated by the Executive Committee for election in April 2023.  The election will take place on April 29, 2023 at the MAPA annual meeting. New members running for election Kevin […]
Massachusetts Peace Action

Board Election Process 2023

March 30, 2023 Cole Harrison
Mass. Peace Action’s 2023 board election will be held during our Annual Meeting, which will be held as an online meeting on April 29. The Board of Directors is responsible for directing MAPA’s work between Annual Meetings. As Massachusetts Peace Action works to grow and […]
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 […]
Breakout
Massachusetts Peace Action

Breakouts: Facing our Challenges in Dangerous Times

November 30, 2022 Cole Harrison
The following breakouts will be run during the afternoon session of the Facing our Challenges in Dangerous Times conference, December 3, 2022. Building Political Power with the Massachusetts Indigenous Legislative Agenda For the past two legislative sessions, Indigenous leaders, organizations, tribal governments, and non-Indigenous community […]