by Kathleen Malley-Morrison The Peace Advocate is running a series of opinion pieces about the 2024 elections. We encourage our members and supporters to submit their analyses. We welcome different points of view. – The Editors The cruel and devastating genocide–and ecocide–imposed on Gaza by […]
by Craig Simpson Three days after the Oscar sweep of the Oppenheimer bio movie, Massachusetts Peace Action held a webinar with another side of the story. Oppenheimer the film is not an anti-nuclear weapons film. It is a film about a White male scientist who, […]
By Anicca Juraschka Sullivan “Negotiation is never a surrender,” Pope Francis stated in an interview on Saturday, March 9, calling on both Russia and Ukraine to “have the courage of raising the white flag” and to find a diplomatic solution to end the war in […]
by Hoffmann the Organizer In a recent lead editorial in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman boldly labels the governing philosophy of the era we’re living in: “The Biden Doctrine.” In that piece he limits the scope of this doctrine to the Middle East, hailing […]
by Jonathan King On March 2, hundreds of low-income residents, religious leaders and social justice advocates marched from the site of the Boston Massacre at the old State House to the 54th Regiment monument in front of the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill. The […]
by Rowan Sporte Ehn and Grace Sanford The fundamental goal of the “Twin Threats/CANDU” campaign is to unite the climate and nuclear disarmament movements within Massachusetts on behalf of a shared goal: saving life on the planet. Another goal of the CANDU campaign is to […]
By Rowan Sporte Ehn and Amna Saeed-Kothe Varying forms of political mass protest–including marches, strikes, rallies, walk-outs and sit-ins–have been used for centuries to express opposition to abhorrent ideologies and policies. However, a notable and extreme form of individual, nonviolent protest emerged more recently (for […]
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