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SVB, Signature banks bailed out. Student Loan Forgiveness in limbo. Food Stamps Cut.

April 17, 2023 Jeanne Trubek

By Jeanne Trubek Who gets bailed out in a financial crisis? Average citizens? Big banks and the corporations whose money they hold? When Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank – institutions that catered to the tech and cryptocurrency industries – failed in March, the U.S. […]

Labor’s Moment: The 2023 Boston Labor Conference

April 17, 2023 Drew Whitt

By Drew Whitt On Saturday, April 1st, the Boston Labor Conference held the latest annual meeting of the who’s-who in Boston labor. Umass Boston put on the conference with collaboration from the EPI, Trader Joes United, and the Amazon Labor Union. When I arrived around […]

Tax Day Rally for Peace and Our Future

April 15, 2023 Evelyn Miller

(Boston) April 15 – Local activists and community leaders rallying to move tax dollars from the Pentagon to Human Needs at Home! WHEN and WHERE: Saturday, April 15th 12pm in Downtown Crossing (350 Washington St. Boston, MA 02109) 11am on Greenfield Common, 14 Court Sq. Greenfield, MA, […]

Three Days Inside the Doomsday Machine: The 2023 Deterrence Summit

April 14, 2023 Vicki Elson

by Vicki Elson This article was originally published as a three-part series on Pressenza. What does the nuclear weapons industry talk about when they’re together? I spent three days with 530 government officials, politicians, and corporate contractors in a hotel basement to find out. The […]

The Nord Stream Pipeline Explosions: Cold War vs. “Common Sense” Perspectives

April 14, 2023 Stephen Ingle

by Stephen Ingle On September 26 of last year, we were presented with some shocking news: several major underwater explosions occurred in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Bornholm Island, Denmark, disrupting three of the four Nord Stream 1 & 2 pipelines carrying natural […]

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Here Come the Militarized Robots (But There Go Our Civil Liberties)

April 14, 2023 Tom Valovic

By Tom Valovic Many decades ago, when science fiction was still whimsical and fun rather than dark and dystopian, we saw robots appear in popular culture that were benign and friendly. Some may recall Robbie the Robot from the movie “Forbidden Planet” and, of course, […]

Ira Helfand wins Gandhi-King-Ikeda Award

April 13, 2023 Cole Harrison

The Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College has awarded the 2023 Gandhi-King-Ikeda Community Builder’s Award to Dr. Ira Helfand, a Northampton activist and MAPA member who initiated the Back from the Brink campaign for the elimination of nuclear weapons According to Morehouse, […]