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Robbie Goldstein for Congress

August 13, 2020 Cole Harrison

Massachusetts Peace Action endorses Dr. Robbie Goldstein for the Eighth Congressional district. Robbie is running against Stephen Lynch, who has too often supported our forever wars in the Middle East. Electing pro-peace candidates is a priority for Massachusetts Peace Action. Dr. Goldstein is an internist […]

Mass. Peace Action and Others Pressure Biden and Trump to Include Nuclear Disarmament in Campaign Platforms

August 13, 2020 Cole Harrison

by Jessica Corbett. Originally published in Common Dreams “The United States urgently needs a leader who will have the courage to look at, think hard about, and speak openly about the dire perils posed by our country’s vast nuclear arsenal.” A coalition of progressive groups […]

We Reaffirm our Support for Alex Morse

August 12, 2020 Cole Harrison

August 12, 2020 — Massachusetts Peace Action strongly reaffirms our support of Alex Morse. He will be a powerful voice for peace and progress in Congress from Massachusetts’ First District. We have recently seen criticisms of Alex Morse based on questions about his personal behavior, […]

U.S. Army Captain talks with the Nurgaram district sub-governor in Nuristan, Afghanistan. Photo by Chief Master Sgt. Richard Simonsen/U.S. Air Force

Magical Thinking and the U.S. War in Afghanistan

August 12, 2020 Valentine Moghadam

by Valentine Moghadam Why is the U.S. still in Afghanistan? When did it first get involved, and why? What is the truth behind the so-called “Soviet invasion” of December 27, 1979? What have been the long-term consequences – for the Afghan people, the region, and […]

Minga Claggett-Borne of Cambridge Friends Meeting with protesters at Raytheon parking lot, August 6, 2020

Crowds Gather in Cambridge for Morning and Evening Programs on the 75th Anniversary Hiroshima Day Commemoration

August 7, 2020 Thea Paneth

by Thea Paneth and Sofia Wolman Community people came together in Cambridge for two events on Thursday, August 6, 2020 to mark the 75th anniversary of the U.S. Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 9), 1945. In addition to the Peace and Social Justice […]

The Humanitarian Impacts of Sanctions on Women

August 5, 2020 Juliana DeSimone

This post is part three in a series about the intersection between peace issues and gender. This series is meant to push people to think critically about the ways in which women are distinctly impacted by peace issues. Issues of peace impact everyone; at the […]

A barefoot boy waiting in line and staring ahead at a crematorium after the Nagasaki bombing, with his dead baby brother strapped to his back. Photo by US Marine photographer Joe O’Donnell

Memorial Days: the racial underpinnings of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

August 4, 2020 Elaine Scarry

Originally published in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists This past Memorial Day, a Minneapolis police officer knelt on the throat of an African-American, George Floyd, for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Seventy-five years ago, an American pilot dropped an atomic bomb on the civilian population […]