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Line 3 protest, Jamaica Plain, Aug 25, 2021. Cole Harrison/MAPA photo

Resistance to Minnesota Line 3 Pipeline

September 26, 2021 Craig Simpson

by Craig Simpson In Northern Minnesota one of the most important struggles around Indigenous Rights and environmental justice has been going on for almost seven years. It involves Anishinaabe tribes and one of the largest fossil fuel companies in the world–Enbridge Corporation. The stakes are […]

Australian, Asian, European, US Peace Advocates Oppose QUAD & AUKUS

September 24, 2021 Joseph Gerson

Peace and Common Security Advocates from Around the World Oppose QUAD (Japan, India, US, Australia), & AUKUS (Australia, UK, US) Militarism & Urge Common Security Collaborations to Address Existential Nuclear, Climate & Pandemic Threats Meeting on the eve of the QUAD alliance summit, peace, justice and common […]

What Psychology Can Do for Peace and Social Justice—and Vice Versa. An Introduction

September 24, 2021 Kathie Malley-Morrison

By Kathleen Malley-Morrison Many progressive activists see today’s widespread threats to peace and social justice as residing primarily in oppression, societal structures, capitalism, and the US government. They blame social systems for preventing people from getting along. They point their fingers at broad social evils […]

Walking the Walk for a Moratorium on Prison & Jail Construction

September 22, 2021 Claire Gosselin

by Claire Gosselin Governor Baker has incarceration on his mind. He envisions a new women’s prison to replace MCI Framingham to the tune of $50 million. The state has chosen the HDR Architecture firm to design it. They promise to make a nice “trauma informed” […]

Cambridge supports Back from the Brink

September 22, 2021 Elaine Scarry

by Elaine Scarry On the evening of September 20, Cambridge City Council unanimously passed a resolution to “Urge the U.S. Congress to fulfill its obligation to prevent nuclear war as outlined in the Back from the Brink Campaign.” The resolution asks the federal government to […]

Biden’s Nuclear Weapons Commitments: Dangerous Continuities

September 21, 2021 Joseph Gerson

Originally published in Common Dreams by Joseph Gerson In the dangerous Trump era, the Pentagon pronounced that “There is no higher priority for national defense” than to “replace [the country’s] strategic nuclear triad and sustain the warheads it carries.” The estimated cost for upgrading the […]

Climate Change Cooperation Cannot be an “Oasis” in U.S.-China Relations

September 15, 2021 Michael Klare

by Michael Klare President Biden’s special envoy on climate change, former Secretary of State John Kerry, traveled to Tianjin, China on August. 31 and Sept. 1 to meet with Chinese officials on joint efforts to slow the pace of global warming. While in Tianjin, Kerry […]