Category: Twin Threats

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 […]

The Desperate Clawing for Power by Means of Nuclear Weapons

May 15, 2024 Rowan Sporte Ehn

by Rowan Sporte Ehn I, like many of my gen. Z peers, have long been under the assumption that the Cold War was complete. Throughout many history classes, I learned how close the world came to total annihilation during that time due to the looming […]

CANDU/Twin Threats Campaign Report

March 25, 2024 Rowan Sporte Ehn

by Rowan Sporte Ehn and Grace Sanford The fundamental goal of the “Twin Threats/CANDU” campaign is to unite the climate and nuclear disarmament movements within Massachusetts on behalf of a shared goal: saving life on the planet. Another goal of the CANDU campaign is to […]

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 […]

Massachusetts Remembers Hiroshima and Nagasaki

August 5, 2023 Evelyn Miller

(Cambridge) Aug. 5 – On the 78th anniversary of the atomic attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Massachusetts, peace activists and faith groups across Massachusetts will gather and reflect, calling for worldwide abolition of nuclear weapons. Saturday, August 5 Northampton, 11am, King/Pleasant and Main Streets […]