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Alex Morse for Congress

April 22, 2020 Brian Garvey

Massachusetts Peace Action proudly endorses Alex Morse for Congress in Massachusetts’ first district, which includes Springfield, Holyoke, and the Berkshires. Morse is challenging incumbent Richard Neal, who has held the office for thirty-one years. Alex Morse will be a leader on peace. He is committed […]

Observing Social Distance, Northampton Car Rally calls for COVID-19 Solidarity

April 21, 2020 Cole Harrison

On April 20, 2020 nearly twenty cars joined a rally in the streets of downtown Northampton, Massachusetts calling for national and international solidarity as we face the Covid-19 pandemic. Signs were placed on cars calling for an end to the US sanctions on Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, […]

Protesters challenge Raytheon support of JFK Library Space Celebration

Why Raytheon?

April 20, 2020 Paul Shannon

“Our work is still to insure peace, paradoxically through developing the world’s most powerful weapons systems…and these works are wonderful works indeed.” —General Electric chairman, Fred Borch, 1964 “Together, we’re advancing defense strategy, protecting people and infrastructure through proven solutions that make that world a […]

“Not Me. Us!”

April 16, 2020 Jackie Dee King

by Jackie Dee King, Cole Harrison, and Brian Garvey That stirring slogan of the Bernie Sanders movement has never been more important, now that he has suspended his campaign for president. While we—his millions of supporters—are still grieving, we also have much to be proud […]

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What a crisis reveals

April 10, 2020 Jeff Klein

First published in the Dorchester People for Peace Update, April 10, 2020 A crisis can highlight faultlines in a society that are less visible in “normal” times. It is now impossible to ignore that our fragmented and mostly privatized healthcare system is not up to […]

Protest march outside School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are trained. Photo by Sunny Robinson, November 2019.

What must we do to make immigration just and humane?

April 8, 2020 Sunny Robinson

The following article is the third and last in “Voices from the Border”. (Read Part 1 and Part 2) by Sunny Robinson Addressing this question has become more urgent than ever, with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and the closure of the southern and northern […]

What Makes Us Safe? What Doesn’t?

April 7, 2020 Jeff Klein

Originally published in the Dorchester People for Peace Update, April 3, 2020 Two news items from this week partly answer those questions. More than 3,000 have died in U.S., surpassing 9/11 death toll, the Washington Post reported. Of course, most news outlets failed to mention that the attackers did […]