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Medford Divests from War Industries

September 17, 2025 Clare Sheridan

by Clare Sheridan On August 5, the Medford City Council passed the first reading of a values-aligned local investment ordinance to divest city funds from fossil fuel companies, private prisons, and weapons manufacturers. Medford, a near suburb of Boston, is home to 60,000 people, with […]

Trump’s AI Action Plan: How Deregulating AI Can Threaten Our Community

September 17, 2025 Aidan Panotes-Bengzon

by Aidan Panotes-Bengzon In the global race to advance artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, the Trump Administration has been determined to place America at the forefront by any means necessary, even if reaching this goal requires prioritizing rapid private-sector growth over community protections, ethics, and safety. […]

China’s Commemoration Parade

September 17, 2025 Ken Y.

by Ken Y. Oh, wow! Did you watch it? By all accounts, it was a true SPECTACLE! However, that is where the consensus ends. There is a plethora of divergent descriptions and comments in the US media describing the parade as: A celebration of the […]

Reaching out for Block the Bombs at the Democratic State Convention. Photo: Barry Hock

Democratic State Convention delegates call for Block the Bombs

September 17, 2025 Cole Harrison

by Cole Harrison As Israel’s genocide in Gaza approaches the two year mark, the Democratic State Committee offered a draft platform that was silent on the genocide and on all foreign policy and peace issues. Delegates entering the Democratic State Convention in Springfield Sept. 13 […]

Politics, Power, and Prejudice: Will Ireland Resist U.S. Pressure and Pass the Occupied Territories Bill?

September 4, 2025 Jeannie Connerney

by Jeannie Connerney On July 19, tens of thousands of people marched through Dublin in solidarity with Palestine. Among their demands were that the Irish government finally enact a bill first proposed and passed by both houses of parliament in 2018. The Occupied Territories Bill […]

A New World Order For Europe

September 4, 2025 Anatol Zukerman

by Anatol Zukerman During the meeting with Trump in Alaska last month, Putin spoke of the root causes of the war in Ukraine. Those roots are very deep, indeed. In 1654 Ukraine was partitioned along the River Dnipro after a twelve-year war between Russia and […]

Block the Bombs rally, Quincy, Aug 27, 2025. MAPA photo/ Janira Skrbkova

Quincy Rally: Rep Lynch, Block the Bombs!

August 28, 2025 CD8 for Palestine

by CD8 for Palestine Approximately one hundred constituents of Massachusetts Congressional District 8 demonstrated for an end to weapons shipments to Israel. The demonstration was organized by CD8 for Palestine and supported by Massachusetts Peace Action, Jewish Voice for Peace Boston, Boston Democratic Socialists of […]