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Western State Terrorism: Revisited 30 Years Later

August 18, 2021 Jack Trapanick

by Jack Trapanick In 1991, Alexander George, Noam Chomsky, and eight other intellectuals published Western State Terrorism: a collection of essays defining and exploring the mechanisms by which the concept of “terrorism” has been strictly controlled to: a) overemphasize the threat of attacks against the […]

Lewis Randa at Pacifist Memorial event, August 1, 2021. Photo by Jane O'Hara

The Pacifist Memorial Honors Peacemakers

August 17, 2021 Lewis Randa

Remarks delivered by Lewis Randa at the “History in the Making: Honoring Peace Champions” event at the Pacifist Memorial, Sherborn, on August 1, 2021 We gather before the statue of Mahatma Gandhi, its six walls of remembrance, surrounded by memorial stones to Unknown Civilians Killed […]

Protester’s sign decries sanctions, “a silent war”. Photo: Campaign for Peace and Democracy, 2013

Sanctions Kill

June 4, 2021 Prasannan Parthasarathi

by Renate Bridenthal, Molly Nolan and Prasannan Parthasarathi Sanctions are an economic weapon. They restrict nations from trading in goods and transacting in financial instruments; they prohibit U.S. corporations and banks from dealing with targeted countries; and they limit the economic activities of individuals, organizations, […]

Welcome to Where do we Go from Here: Preparing our Movements for the Next Four Years

December 18, 2020 Cole Harrison

Remarks Presented at Progressive Strategy Conference, December 5, 2020 We are in a very delicate moment. We’re kind of caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand we have gotten rid of Donald Trump. His faux-populist, openly racist, authoritarian politics were […]

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Where do we go from here? Not One Step Back

December 8, 2020 Paul Shannon

by Paul Shannon and Caroline Bays Statement Presented at “Where do we Go from Here? Preparing Our Movements for the Next Four Years” conference, December 6, 2020 We applaud and are heartened by the courage of America’s front line health professionals who go into the […]

Jeff Klein (left) with co-workers at GE Lynn, circa 1979. The Steam Turbine division of GE Lynn was closed in the late 1980s and “Building 57” where the photo is from was torn down , along with other buildings, and made into a parking lot.

Can We Build a Progressive Future If We Dismiss a Large Part of the Working Class?

November 22, 2020 Jeff Klein

by Jeff Klein I’m happy to be retired. After decades working as a machinist in New England factories and shops, I can’t say I miss having to clock into the job at 7am. I don’t miss the sweaty, dirty and sometimes dangerous work I had […]

On November 11, the Best Way to Honor Veterans is Not to Sacrifice More of them in Senseless Wars

November 11, 2020 Jeff Klein

By Jeff Klein Accepted for publication in the Dorchester Reporter The holiday we mark as Veterans Day on November 11 was originally called “Armistice Day,” commemorating the end of the First World War on November 11, 1918. The slaughter of 1914-1918 was then called “the […]