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General Dynamics Campaign Update

October 2, 2024 Randy Wurster

by Randy Wurster On Friday, September 20th, MAPA activists stood out in Dedham square to protest General Dynamics’ presence in the town and highlight the company’s significant role in the genocide of Palestinians. As a part of Warheads to Windmills nuclear weapons week of action, […]

The Students Will Not Be Silenced

May 1, 2024 Rowan Sporte Ehn

by Rowan Sporte Ehn The first encounter I had with the student encampments was not actually in-person. I had been scrolling through TikTok when a live stream of the Columbia University encampment appeared on my feed. I stayed and watched for a while as the […]

Experimental Execution: Taking a Step Back in Alabama

February 22, 2024 Rowan Sporte Ehn

By Rowan Sporte Ehn On January 25, in a historic first, Alabama executed Kenneth Eugene Smith–an inmate on death row–using nitrogen gas. In 1989 Smith and John Forrest Parker had been found guilty of capital murder for the killing of Elizabeth Sennett. Later, in 1996, […]

National Call-In Urges Biden to Remove Cuba from Terrorism List

April 11, 2023 Merri Ansara

by Merri Ansara Members of some 150 national and local organizations, including Mass. Peace Action, called the White House on March 15 and 16 to urge President Biden to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. The hundreds of callers encountered long waits […]

Afghanistan: A failed humanitarian effort in wake of protracted militarism

November 18, 2022 Alison Cedarbaum

By Alison Cedarbaum In January of this past year, Massachusetts Peace Action posted an article by Jean Athey, Vice Chair of the Board of Maryland Peace Action, detailing the destruction that has overcome Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover. Athey discussed the economic war waged by […]

Economic Conversion and Raytheon Technologies

November 2, 2022 Christian Sorensen

by Christian Sorensen A relative few people operating in boardrooms and corporate suites make the decisions that steer the U.S. economy. But what if the workers were in charge instead of the executives? How might the military-industrial complex be put to good use? What technology […]

Kyiv Must Lead the Charge for Peace

September 19, 2022 Roger Waters

Roger Waters Responds To Mrs. Olena Zelenska of Ukraine by Roger Waters Mrs. Zelenska’s Sept 5 tweet: It is Russia that invaded Ukraine, destroys cities and kills civilians. Ukrainians defend their land and their children’s future. If we give up – we will not exist […]