Community Services of Greater Brockton
Fund the People, Not the Pentagon

All Women are Wonder Women

Message delivered by Hayat Imam at Community Services of Greater Brockton, March 3, 2021 Good morning! Thank you very much for inviting me to join you today, through your colleague Nasreen, whom, by the way, we Bangladeshis affectionately call “Rumi”!  You may know that, in […]

Bush's War. Illustration courtesy of Sallie Latch
Middle East Wars

Blood for Oil

by Kathy Kelly Amid the ongoing horror, it’s important to find ways to atone for war crimes —including reparations. Thirty years ago, when the United States launched Operation Desert Storm against Iraq, I was a member of the Gulf Peace Team. We were 73 people from fifteen […]

Middle East Wars

Withdrawing Troops from Afghanistan

This article was updated on April 14th, 2021 to reflect new developments by Val Moghadam and the Massachusetts Peace Action’s Middle East Working Group For nearly two decades, MAPA has called for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. We continue to call for a complete […]

Ryan Tax Plan / Peoples Budget Protest
Fund the People, Not the Pentagon

Peace Economy

A Moral Budget (S.1866 / H.2989) AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A COMMISSION TO REPORT ON THE MORAL BUDGET TO REVIVE, REPAIR AND REBUILD OUR ECONOMY This Act calls on Congress to pass a federal MORAL BUDGET that creates millions of jobs, invests in infrastructure, moves […]