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Committed and Colorful, 30,000 Join Madrid Protest Against NATO Summit

June 28, 2022 Joseph Gerson

Encouraging and impressive was the demonstration of almost 30,000 peace activists from Madrid and Spain and supported by smaller delegations from many NATO countries. The unanimous opinion was that NATO and the international militarization associated with it provoked the confrontation with Russia. That’s why the […]

Progressive Democrats Don Helmets, Embrace US-Russia Proxy War

June 15, 2022 Cole Harrison

by Cole Harrison As the criminal Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its fourth month, the peace and progressive movement has some hard rethinking to do. Congress has appropriated $54 billion for the Ukraine war – $13.6 billion in March and $40.1 billion on May 19 […]

NATO ships exercise with Romanian Navy in the Black Sea, 2019. Photo: NATO

The Ukraine War and the World’s Increasingly Dangerous Geopolitical Landscape

June 9, 2022 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson *First posted in Common Dreams* Russian President Vladimir Putin’s devastating and illegal invasion of Ukraine, launched in large measure to compensate for strategic vulnerabilities caused by NATO’s expansion, has triggered the most tumultuous and potentially dangerous transformation of the geopolitical disorder since […]

Concert for Ukraine and Yemen

May 20, 2022 Coleman Harrison

Benefit Concert Tonight to Raise Funds for Ukraine, Yemen War Victims Contacts: Cole Harrison, cole@masspeaceaction.org, 617-466-9274 Cambridge, May 20 — Music for Peace presents the first of two concerts to benefit victims of war in Ukraine and Yemen. When: Friday, May 20, 7:30 pm Where: Harvard-Epworth […]

$40 Billion War Fever Grips Congress as U.S. Escalates Ukraine War

May 11, 2022 Coleman Harrison

The House of Representatives May 10 approved $40 billion of aid to Ukraine 368-57. All Democrats and all Massachusetts representatives voted yes. Massachusetts Peace Action’s executive director, Cole Harrison, issued the following statement: Yesterday, previously antiwar Democrats who should know better have uncritically embraced the […]

Peace in Ukraine Rally, Boston, May 7, 2022

Ukraine rally calls for Negotiations

May 9, 2022 Cole Harrison

“Each day now, the war in Ukraine is moving step by step toward a nuclear confrontation between the U.S. and Russia” claim the organizers of 3 peace rallies in Massachusetts Boston, May 7 — Today concerned Massachusetts and Rhode Island residents in Boston, Fall River, […]

Ukraine rally calls for Negotiations!

May 7, 2022 Elizaveta Kupriyanova

For Immediate Release Contact: Cole Harrison (617) 466-9274, Louise Coleman (617) 817-6706 “Each day now, the war in Ukraine is moving step by step toward a nuclear confrontation between the U.S. and Russia” claim the organizers of 3 peace rallies in Massachusetts Today concerned Massachusetts and Rhode […]