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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 […]

Fund Healthcare, Not Warfare

April 1, 2020 Cole Harrison

U.S. sanctions against Venezuela have already killed 40,000 people between 2017 and 2018, according to a report by Mark Weisbrot and Columbia University’s Jeffrey Sachs. (Photo: Courtesy of the authors)

The Virus of Sanctions: Flattening the Curve

March 26, 2020 George Capaccio

The violence of this disease was such that the sick communicated it to the healthy who came near them, just as a fire catches anything dry or oily near it. And it even went further. To speak to or go near the sick brought infection […]

3 Things You can Do to Help, Right Now (Update March 24th)

March 24, 2020 Brian Garvey

Advance #ShutDownMASS, Join Neighborhood Aid Network, and Support Jobs with Justice! First of all we want to make sure that you’re OK. The safety of our members and supporters is the most important thing for Massachusetts Peace Action. If you have any specific concerns or […]

Lift the Sanctions Now – Stop Coronavirus

March 23, 2020 Cole Harrison

Lift the Sanctions Now – Stop Coronavirus As the world reels from the COVID-19 pandemic, all nations must work together in the struggle to contain the outbreak. That’s why Massachusetts Peace Action is working with organizations across the state to demand an end to sanctions that hinder […]

Bernie Sanders on Boston Common, Feb. 29. Craig F. Walker/Boston Globe photo

The Bernie Sanders Campaign is Forging the Way

March 22, 2020 Cole Harrison

by Cole Harrison Whoever eventually wins the Democratic nomination for president, one thing is clear: The towering achievement of the Bernie Sanders campaign is the tectonic shift it has brought about in the political debate in the United States, the vision it has given millions […]

Fund Public Health, not Foreign Wars

March 21, 2020 Jonathan King

by Jonathan King and Rosemary Kean The coronavirus outbreak and the nation’s lack of preparedness require a major change in national policy, shifting investment of our tax dollars into public health, and away from prosecuting endless wars abroad. The large Emergency Stimulus Package Congress voted […]