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MAPA Discussion 2022: Organizational issues

April 20, 2022 Cole Harrison

MAPA’s board and working groups have been discussing several questions arising from our work. This working paper presents our thinking so far on one of them. It will be discussed at Part 2 of our Annual Meeting on May 3, 2022. We invite members to […]

MAPA Discussion 2022: Integrating peace and solidarity

April 20, 2022 Cole Harrison

MAPA’s board and working groups have been discussing several questions arising from our work. This working paper presents our thinking so far on one of them. It will be discussed at Part 2 of our Annual Meeting on May 3, 2022. We invite members to […]

MAPA Discussion 2022: Peace and Political Action

April 20, 2022 Cole Harrison

MAPA’s board and working groups have been discussing several questions arising from our work. This working paper presents our thinking so far on one of them. It will be discussed at Part 2 of our Annual Meeting on May 3, 2022. We invite members to […]

Tax Day March

April 18, 2022 Elizaveta Kupriyanova

Contact: Louise Coleman (617)-817-6706 Brian Garvey (978)-604-1307 Paul Shannon (617)-623-5288 When: Tuesday, April 19th @ 12PM EST Where: We gather at Sam Adams Statue in Faneuil Hall and then walk to BlackRock, Chase and State Street Financial Center April 19 is Tax Day in Massachusetts. […]

Venezuela 2002: The coup heard around the world

April 15, 2022 Andrew King

by Andrew King Originally published in People’s World Twenty years ago, at the dawn of the 21st century, a failed U.S.-backed coup in Venezuela, a little-known South American country, set Latin America onto a new course and helped place socialism back onto the global agenda. […]

Can sanctions ever be just — let alone effective?

April 15, 2022 Patricia Hynes

*First published by Fellowship of Reconciliation* As a result of its brutal invasion of Ukraine, Russia is now the most sanctioned country in the world, leading one former Obama administration Treasury official to describe the situation as “financial nuclear war.” Western European countries, however, depend […]

What do you want? Blame game or common ground?

April 13, 2022 John Blumenstiel

by John Blumenstiel John Blumenstiel’s Commentary on Brian Garvey’s Counterpunch article. Congratulations to Brian Garvey on his thoughtful article published in Counterpunch. He has articulated what many of us are feeling regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine—including dismay at the strongly divergent views within the […]