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COVID-19 Time: Reduce Military and War Budget

April 30, 2020 Yoav Elinevsky

Invest in Public Health Care for All and the Green New Deal Reduce and Eliminate Nuclear Weapons To highlight the urgent need to reduce our spending on wars and militarism a small and safe demonstration was held yesterday, April 29, 2020, next to the L3Harris […]

The Meltdown of the Careerist Greens

April 29, 2020 Cole Harrison

The article “Skepticism is healthy, but Planet of the Humans is toxic“, by Timmon Wallis, has generated debate in our organization. We are posting this article to present an opposite perspective – Ed. by Michael Donnelly. First published in Counterpunch “It’s all got to change. […]

We Won an Eviction & Foreclosure Moratorium

Eviction & Foreclosure Moratorium Signed into Law

April 29, 2020 Mike Connolly

by Rep. Mike Connolly Massachusetts has been under a State of Emergency for over six weeks now — and April 20 marked an unprecedented Patriot’s Day with no Boston Marathon or late-morning baseball game at Fenway Park due to the ongoing (and still very necessary) […]

Protester’s sign decries sanctions, “a silent war”. Photo: Campaign for Peace and Democracy, 2013

Sanctions are War

April 29, 2020 Tanuja Joshi

by Tanuja Joshi Sanctions are often presented as valuable, non-violent tools of foreign policy. The argument goes: Sanctions allow countries to put pressure on other governments or individuals without engaging in military warfare or harming civilians. To the headline-skimming, casual observer, sanctions may seem like […]

Donna Kelly-Williams, Gladys Vega, Savina Martin, Vaughn Goodwin, Pam Adelstein, and Julie Levison

Healthcare Workers on the Front Lines

April 29, 2020 Jackie Dee King

by Jackie Dee King An elderly man with a 103-degree fever and other Covid-19 symptoms was told by his daughter and son-in-law he had to leave their crowded family house in Chelsea because they had a three-month-old baby. The man had been denied tests and […]

Israel cannot be allowed to annex West Bank land with impunity

April 28, 2020 Cole Harrison

For a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, Without Wars, with Global, Social, and Climate Justice

April 26, 2020 Cole Harrison

Statement of the Organizers of the “Online World Conference: No Nukes, Climate Justice, Peace“, April 25, 2020 On January 23, 2020 The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set the hands of its iconic “Doomsday Clock” to 100 seconds to midnight, a dramatic warning from 13 Nobel Prize […]