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We Won’t Go Back: MAPA’s Annual Dinner Oct 15

September 22, 2022 Hayat Imam

by Hayat Imam For its annual fundraising dinner this October 15, Mass Peace Action is offering a compelling program that you won’t want to miss! Jared Hicks will be our MC and the evening will highlight a new generation of activists. Also, we are delighted […]

Representative Stephen Lynch’s staffer, Nick Zaferakis, accepting a letter and petition from Mass Peace Action Executive Director Cole Harrison. Other demonstrators are also pictured. Peter Blandino/Daily Collegian.

Bay State peace activists protest U.S. escalations of conflict in Ukraine

September 21, 2022 Cole Harrison

Originally published in the Massachusetts Daily Collegian By Peter Blandino QUINCY – Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA) held an anti-war demonstration the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 15 at Quincy Center. The demonstration was held just a block away from the local office of Rep. Stephen F. […]

Raytheon’s Role in U.S. Global Military Dominance

September 19, 2022 Jackie Cabasso

by Jackie Cabasso The United States military encircles the globe through its operation of 11 Unified Combatant Commands. Composed of forces from two or more armed services, the Unified Commands are headed by four-star generals and admirals who operate under the direct authority of the […]

Climate & Militarism Meet Nuclear & Raytheon—and Some Student Protests

September 19, 2022 Nick Rabb

By Nick Rabb The climate crisis is an intimate partner of the U.S. empire’s military apparatus. For one, the Pentagon is the largest institutional polluter on the planet. Their war games also pollute land across the world, destroy ecosystems, and force people out of their […]

College students from Japan march in Vienna on June 20 with a banner to mark the first meeting of states parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. (Asahi Shimbun/Tabito Fukutomi)

Being Civil Society

September 19, 2022 Frances Jeffries

by Frances Jeffries A very traditional question in September is: How was your summer? or What did you do on your vacation? My summer was one of seeing new as well as familiar things through new eyes, of thinking about new approaches to seemingly intractable […]

Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely

September 19, 2022 Richard Krushnic

by Richard Krushnic Raytheon Technologies’ Paveway guided bomb has been the primary weapon used by the Saudis in Yemen since the expansion of the war early in 2015. With the targeting and refueling assistance of the US, the Raytheon bombs hit fields, flocks, irrigation pumps, […]

Kyiv Must Lead the Charge for Peace

September 19, 2022 Roger Waters

Roger Waters Responds To Mrs. Olena Zelenska of Ukraine by Roger Waters Mrs. Zelenska’s Sept 5 tweet: It is Russia that invaded Ukraine, destroys cities and kills civilians. Ukrainians defend their land and their children’s future. If we give up – we will not exist […]