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The Truth about Torture

July 20, 2021 Annika Lof

by Annika Lof A Case against Torture and Discussion of Alfred McCoy’s “In the Shadows of the American Century Torture has always been a difficult issue to confront directly and honestly. Hiding its brutality behind the rhetorical mask of “enhanced interrogation” that causes “no long-term […]

Congress Must Act to End U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen

July 19, 2021 Brian Garvey

Civil society groups rallied at U.S. legislators’ offices in New York, Boston, and San Francisco on Friday, July 16th as part of a National Day of Action for Yemen. They called for U.S. senators & representatives to introduce a new War Powers Resolution to end […]

Testimony on MAPA’s State Divestment Bills – Paul Shannon

June 16, 2021 Paul Shannon

Good morning. My name is Paul Shannon. I’m one of those legions of part-time college instructors and a retired director of the national film library for the American Friends Service Committee. I come to speak in favor of H 2636 and S 1735, an act […]

Testimony on MAPA’s State Divestment Bills – Frances Jeffries

June 16, 2021 Alec Neilly

Written testimony by Frances Jeffries regarding HB 2636 and Senate Bill 1735 to the meeting on June 9, 2021 of the Joint Committee on Public Service House Chair Gordon, Senate Chair Brady Every day each of us is inundated with an extraordinary amount of […]

Read-a-thon Action Report

June 16, 2021 Brian Garvey

On June 4th, Massachusetts Peace Action and Raytheon Anti-War Campaign gathered in Harvard Square for an open-air “Read-a-thon” to focus public attention on the urgent crisis, the threat to the lives of 400,000 Yemeni children, according to the UN’s World Food Program. Volunteers read poems, […]

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Ending the War in Yemen Means Overcoming Political Cowardice

June 9, 2021 Brian Garvey

by Brian Garvey The struggle to end US support for the war in Yemen has run into another obstacle. This time it’s partisanship. But it isn’t Republican opposition blocking Joe Biden’s promise to end US participation in the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe. It’s the president’s […]

U.S. Army Captain talks with the Nurgaram district sub-governor in Nuristan, Afghanistan. Photo by Chief Master Sgt. Richard Simonsen/U.S. Air Force

Proposal from an Afghan Citizen for the Withdrawal of U.S. Troops from Afghanistan

June 2, 2021 Ismail Asghari

by Ismail Asghari Disclaimer: the following has been submitted to Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA) in response to MAPA’s Call for Policy Papers and translated into English. The ideas presented below were translated and discussed in our working group. See MAPA’s latest statement on Afghanistan. Introduction This […]