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Massachusetts Shelter Crisis: Housing is Still a Right for All

August 27, 2024 Silas Nahan

by Silas Nahan On August 1, 2024, in a bid to lessen the strain on the emergency shelter network, major changes were implemented in how homeless families access the state Emergency Assistance (EA) shelter system. Four overflow sites in Chelsea, Lexington, Cambridge and Norfolk, referred […]

Chicago protester. Photo: Brian Garvey/ MAPA

Dispatch from Chicago: There is a Breaking Point

August 22, 2024 Brian Garvey

by Brian Garvey All people have a breaking point. We may like to think that the source of human patience, resilience, and resistance, are infinite. But it isn’t. In Chicago the thousands of antiwar activists who have traveled to the Democratic National Convention are quickly […]

Joe Biden called for defeat of Russia in Ukraine, March 26, 2022, Warsaw. Photo: White House/ Adam Schultz

Goodbye and Good Riddance

August 21, 2024 Hoffmann the Organizer

by Hoffmann the Organizer This week, the Democratic Party said goodbye to Joe Biden. As he once again delivered a laundry list of his accomplishments – many good things we can ponder as we scrub away at history’s washboard – we still need to remember […]

Najla Said’s Story is the Palestinian-American Story

August 20, 2024 Merri Ansara

By Merri Ansara MAPA cosponsored Najla Said’s one-woman play “Palestine” at Easthampton CitySpace on August 7. Merri Ansara presented the following introduction and ending statement at the event. When I saw Najla Said perform her play Palestine in Boston in March, my overwhelming thought as […]

MAPA Voices: “UNTHINKABLE” by Robert Cable

August 19, 2024 Robert Cable

“UNTHINKABLE” for Smedley Butler Brigade of Veterans for Peace I Today is “Hiroshima Day,” courtesy of Enola Gay. Bombardier Ferebee’s “Bombs away!” blasted much of that town away. “Little Boy,” first atomic bomb, Was dropped on it without a qualm. That August 6th, 1945, half […]

We Must Oppose Israel’s Dangerous Gamble Before It’s Too Late

August 13, 2024 Kathy Kelly

By Kathy Kelly This article first appeared in The Progressive. Failure to stop Israel’s genocide of Palestinians gambles with the fate of humanity as a whole Following World War II, Albert Camus posed a “formidable gamble” to those who had survived a tragedy of immense proportions. “We’re in […]

Opinion: “Past time to end wars in Ukraine, Palestine”

August 13, 2024 John Berkowitz

By John Berkowitz This article was originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. I’m Jewish, not antisemitic, and strongly opposed to the Biden administration’s unconditional support for the right-wing government in Israel and its genocidal attack on 2.3 million civilians in Gaza in response […]