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Raytheon Campaign Demonstrates at the Run to Home Base

August 18, 2022 Paul Shannon

By Paul Shannon On Saturday, July 30th at Boston’s Fenway Park, the Raytheon Antiwar Campaign demonstrated at the Run to Home Base to highlight Raytheon Technologies’ hypocritical sponsorship of the charity event. A project of the Red Sox Foundation in partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital, […]

MAPA Hosts Panel of Experts in “Update on JCPOA”

August 18, 2022 Tanmayi Rayavaram

by Tanmayi Rayavaram Signed in 2015 by Iran and the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (plus Germany), the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), nicknamed “The Iran Nuclear Deal,” allows world powers to monitor Iran’s nuclear activity in exchange for economic sanctions […]

Taglit group 315, Winter 2020. Photo: Dmsch00/ Wikimedia Commons

Israel’s Investment in Allies

August 17, 2022 Steven Macawili

by Steven Macawili This May, I went on a free trip to Israel through Boston University’s Hillel. The experiences I had on the trip itself, which at times left me in anger, shock, and amazement will be a story for other articles. But here, I […]

State Legislature Session Produces Mixed Results

August 16, 2022 Cole Harrison

The 2021-22 session of the Massachusetts Legislature brought some successes to peace and progressive activists and some disappointments. The Work and Family Mobility Act, which would give Massachusetts drivers’ licenses to residents without legal immigration status, passed both houses of the legislature. MAPA testified and joined […]

Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely

August 15, 2022 Richard Krushnic

by: Richard Krushnic, Kathleen Malley-Morrison Raytheon Technologies is even more horrifying than you thought. Its complicity in decades of the slaughter of innocent Yemeni men, women, and children by producing the guided bomb used more than any weapon by the Saudis in Yemen may be […]

Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen exchanges gift with U.S. Democrat Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts during a meeting at the Presidential Office in Taipei, Taiwan on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. Photo: Taiwan Presidential Office

Sen. Markey’s Taiwan Visit is Unwise and Unhelpful

August 15, 2022 Cole Harrison

We are very disappointed to learn that Sen. Ed Markey has led a new Congressional delegation on an official visit to Taiwan, only 12 days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did the same. This delegation is unhelpful and unnecessary. The United States should not be […]

Racism in Action: The January 6, 2021, Attack on the Capitol

August 9, 2022 Rosemary Kean

by Rosemary Kean In 2020, millions of Americans were involved in an antiracism protest sparked by the vicious police murder of George Floyd. This upsurge in antiracist awareness and action precipitated a predictable white supremacist backlash that BU Professor Philippe Copeland describes as a “racist […]