Mass. Peace Action’s 2020 board election will be held during our Annual Meeting, which was originally scheduled for March 28, but due to COVID-19, will be held as an online meeting on April 18. The Board is responsible for directing MAPA’s work between Annual Meetings. […]
by Sunny Robinson
Nearly all the immigration policies the Trump administration has put in place are not only inhumane, but also violations of the United States’ own asylum laws and international protocols on asylum to which the U.S. is a signatory. What then are those policies? And what do we do about them? US policy says that any “alien” who is physically present in the US, whatever their status, may apply for asylum. The UN defines a refugee as a person who is unable or unwilling to return to his or her country due to past persecution or a well-founded fear of being persecuted in the future due to race, religion, nationality, social group or political opinion. […]
by Eric Speer
Thousands of papers that the Washington Post sued the government for, then released last December, show that the official narrative behind the Afghanistan War, the longest in US history, has been a constant lie. Some 2,400 American soldiers have been killed and more than 20,000 wounded in the conflict. General Douglas Lute, Afghan War czar for Presidents Bush and Obama, is quoted as saying the US “didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.” Yet, the Afghanistan Papers have not provoked nearly the same outrage as the 1971 Pentagon Papers that exposed US government lies about the Vietnam War. Where is the outrage? […]
No doubt many of you have been reading from among the flood of articles and analyses regarding Trump’s so-called “Deal of the Century” for Israel-Palestine. For background and history of the deal, see this article, reproduced from a Dorchester for Peace e-newsletter. Palestinians and their […]
THANK YOU to everyone who donated to our 2019 fund drive! Thanks to you, Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund substantially exceeded our annual goal! YOU donated $151,943 to our general fund, substantially above our goal of $140,200. And, we also received an additional $20,000 for […]
The U.S. House of Representatives will be voting this Thursday on whether to block funding for an unauthorized war with Iran AND repeal the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF). ! These VOTES are HUGE! We have the opportunity to block Trump’s march […]
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