News - Page 26 - Massachusetts Peace Action

No to NATO, Yes to Peace!

April 2, 2025 Cole Harrison

Many people believe that NATO is a peace-loving, defensive alliance, but the opposite is true. During the past 30 years, NATO has fomented a vast arc of violence stretching from Libya to Afghanistan, leaving villages bombed, infrastructure destroyed, and countless dead. Originally formed as part […]

Israel Renews Extermination Efforts while Internal Ruptures Threaten Civil Strife

April 1, 2025 Liam Noble

by Liam Noble On 18 March, Israel broke the ceasefire, ended negotiations, and launched simultaneous bombings in the North, Central, and South of Gaza that killed more than 400 people, mostly women, children, and the elderly. The purpose was to avoid moving to the second […]

Global Leader of the Future: Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo of Mexico

March 26, 2025 Ellen Mass

by Ellen Mass This article is Part Three of a series on Mexico’s history and economic development. You can read Part One here and Part Two here. — The inauguration of Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico City’s central Zocalo was observed around the world as a […]

Nuclear Ban Week 2025

March 26, 2025 Olivia Bouscaud

by Olivia Bouscaud During the week of March 3rd, representatives of states and civil society organizations gathered at the United Nations Headquarters in New York for the Third Meeting of State Parties (3MSP) to the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Massachusetts participants included […]

Ukraine: Why President Trump Is Leaving the Biden Policy Behind

March 26, 2025 Benjamin S. Dunham

by Benjamin S. Dunham This article was originally published in ACURA. In a moment of candor shortly after the Russian invasion, Ukraine’s President Zelensky told The Economist, “There are those in the West who don’t mind a long war because it would mean exhausting Russia, even if […]

Democracy

Arise & Resist Announces Four Initiatives

March 22, 2025 John Blumenstiel

With the ongoing, unrelenting and unprecedented attack on our democracy from Washington, we have few political leaders able or willing to provide effective push back. The legislative branch is under the control of MAGA Republicans and the federal judiciary is increasingly under the sway of […]

Elin Boman introduced the Arise & Resist conference, March 15, 2025, Cambridge

Sources of the Current Crisis

March 22, 2025 Elin Boman

Introductory remarks presented by Elin Boman at Arise & Resist: Our Time to Act is Now conference, March 15, 2025 Welcome everyone. Thank you for coming to this follow up to our January 19th conference. Today we intend to develop organizing strategies and strengthen our […]