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Activists hold signs in Northampton, MA, while protesting the US blockade on Cuba, June 23, 2021

Emergency Response to Economic and Political Crisis in Cuba

July 14, 2021 Cole Harrison

This week’s eruption of demonstrations in Cuba clearly represent the frustration of the Cuban people who have long suffered under the economic crisis brought on by the 60-year US blockade. The President, Miguel Díaz-Canel acknowledged this in a comprehensive nationally televised address on Sunday and […]

In Opposition to US Interventionism and Sanctions

July 12, 2021 MAPA Middle East Working Group

“I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967 When, and […]

Hope

July 6, 2021 Patricia Hynes

by Pat Hynes We live in a time of diminishing hope with worsening climate crisis and insufficient will among those most responsible–major industrial countries–to radically reduce their emissions now, not a decade or three decades from now. We cohabitate with more than 13,000 nuclear weapons […]

76 Years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki – a call in memory and hope

July 5, 2021 Jerald Ross

by Jerald Ross and Joseph Gerson This August marks the 76th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan. Despite broad recognition today that these attacks created a humanitarian catastrophe, as would any future use of nuclear weapons, we […]

Northampton Activists Demand End to Cuba Blockade

June 23, 2021 Yoav Elinevsky

Show Love to Cuba! Join the World in Saying End the US Blockade of Cuba! On Tuesday, June 22, 2021, in Northampton, Massachusetts, activists held a stand-out calling for an end to the US blockade of Cuba, one day before the UN general assembly will […]

U.S. and Chinese flags - full-honors welcome ceremony 2014

No Cold War with China

June 16, 2021 Cole Harrison

Following is the statement of purpose for the No Cold War group initiated by Massachusetts Peace Action. The statement was approved in October 2020. Increasing tensions between the United States, China, and Russia threaten to drag the entire planet into a new Cold War. The […]

Testimony from the State Public Service Committee’s June 9th Hearing

June 16, 2021 Alec Neilly

On June 9th, the Joint Committee on Public Service heard testimony from advocates of around 60 bills. Among those were MAPA’s bill to divest state pension funds from companies involved in the war in Yemen and another MAPA bill to divest state pension funds from […]