Category: Peace and Climate

EARTH AND WATER – Endangered!

May 6, 2026 Hayat Imam

We just celebrated Earth Day and paid tribute to our home, the beautiful planet that tenderly nurtures us. Our responsibility must be to continue the same love and concern for this earth, not just for a day but for the other 364 days as well, […]

Advocates rallied for divestment from WMD and fossil fuels, Massachusetts State House, May 20, 2025. Photo: Fran Jeffries/ MAPA

A Day of Action for Divestment

May 21, 2025 Grace Cowell

In collaboration with Warheads to Windmills, the Coalition for Responsible Investment, and Jewish Voice for Peace Boston, MAPA held a lobby day at the State House on Tuesday, May 21. Over 30 advocates gathered in teams to lobby members of the state legislature on two […]

Hard-a-Starboard!

August 6, 2024 Hoffmann the Organizer

By Hoffmann the Organizer Readers have been responding to my grim articles on war and climate with demands of “What would you do, then, Captain Bummer”? A fair question and one deserving a robust answer. First a recap of our story so far. Yes, we […]

Adapt Till You Drop

July 24, 2024 Hoffmann the Organizer

By Hoffmann the Organizer It must be hard for a Ukrainian or a Russian in the border areas or a Palestinian in Gaza to imagine what it would take to create a world without war. We seem to have reached that point in our own […]

May 22 Boston Day of Action Report

May 28, 2024 Rowan Sporte Ehn

by Rowan Sporte Ehn and Grace Sanford In collaboration with the Warheads to Windmills Coalition, MAPA, along with accompanying lobbyists, went to the Massachusetts State House to push for the Nuclear and Climate Commission Bill (H.783/S.1488), the Back from the Brink Resolution (S.1487), and the […]

Anti-militarist contingent at March against Fossil Fuels, Sept 17, 2023. Photo: Evelyn Miller/MAPA

We Marched Against Fossil Fuels

September 22, 2023 Evelyn Miller

By Evelyn Miller This September 17, Mass Peace Action joined with Code Pink, Veterans for Peace, Boston Extreme Energy, and other Peace Action affiliates to represent the anti-militarists at the March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City, where we gave our all and […]

Extinction Rebellion meets on Boston Common

August 21, 2023 Evelyn Miller

by Evelyn Miller On the first of August, Extinction Rebellion held their monthly meeting on Boston Common for the approaching Week of Rebellion. Extinction Rebellion, or “XR,” is an international movement, originally born in London in 2018. It uses non-violent direct action and civil disobedience […]