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Opinion: Learning the Right Lessons from Trump’s Presidency

June 22, 2020 Brian Garvey

Since the departure of our endorsed Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders from the race, Mass. Peace Action members have expressed a range of views about the presidential race. This is one of a series of opinions written by members on the race as it stands now. […]

Opinion: Ten Years to Save the Planet: Defeat Trump!

June 22, 2020 Rosalie Anders

Since the departure of our endorsed Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders from the race, Mass. Peace Action members have expressed a range of views about the presidential race. This is one of a series of opinions written by members on the race as it stands now. […]

Reinventing law enforcement in Boston

June 18, 2020 Jeff Klein

by Jeff Klein Originally published in the Dorchester Reporter Many people who hear calls to “defund” or “abolish” the police may have the impression that these are demands to eliminate law enforcement altogether. That is incorrect. The intent is to reinvent law enforcement in a […]

This is No Time to Reward Israel with $38 billion in Military Aid

June 17, 2020 Cole Harrison

Scientists and Physicians for Markey

June 17, 2020 Juliana DeSimone

Calling all members of the scientific field Do you appreciate Senator Ed Markey’s leadership in the US Congress promoting Nuclear Disarmament, a Green New Deal, Net Neutrality, Environmental Protection and Alzheimer’s Disease research? Sign up below to join the Scientists for Markey committee and support […]

Justice for George Floyd! End Police Violence!

June 13, 2020 Jackie Dee King

by Rosemary Kean and Jackie Dee King In the weeks since the brutal public murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, nationwide protests have erupted to challenge police violence and demand transformational changes in policing that amount to a restructuring of what we mean by […]

Black Lives Matter protest in Portland, Oregon. People protesting police brutality and the deaths of several members of the Black community - sparked by the recent death of George Floyd. June 4, 2020. Tito Texidor III/Unsplash

Maybe You Thought “War at Home” Was Just a Metaphor?

June 6, 2020 Jeff Klein

I have told this story before, but in the present crisis it is worth repeating. Some years back Dorchester People for Peace was trying to build a coalition to cut the military budget, recruiting a variety of people-of-color-led organizations in Boston to work on a […]