Tag: MAPA Statement

Rally for Reproductive Rights, Chicago, May 2019. Photo: Charles Edward Miller/ Flickr

Statement on Reproductive Rights

February 4, 2025 Rosemary Kean

Massachusetts Peace Action believes that all people have a right to make decisions about their own bodies and that comprehensive health care includes the option of abortion. This right to bodily autonomy is a foundational value of human rights which applies equally to all people. […]

Gaza, August 2022. Photo: Mohammed Ibrahim/ unsplash

On the Conflict in Gaza and Israel

October 7, 2023 Cole Harrison

Massachusetts Peace Action is saddened by the loss of life on both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict. We condemn the use of violence against Israeli and Palestinian civilians. The escalating violence we are seeing today is unfortunate, but unsurprising. What is needed now is an […]

Solidarity with Iran Protests

November 3, 2022 MAPA Middle East Working Group

Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA) is an organization dedicated to peace and social justice for all, with programs and campaigns on nuclear disarmament, a peace economy, healthcare over warfare, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. We oppose war, sanctions, and violations of popular and […]

NATO Enlargement Map. The Economist, Jan 8th 2022

Stop the War in Ukraine. Russian Troops Out. No to NATO expansion

March 1, 2022 Cole Harrison

The war in Ukraine is a disaster for the people of Ukraine and Russia, and a grave threat to every person on the planet. Massachusetts Peace Action condemns the Russian invasion and calls for an immediate and comprehensive ceasefire, the speedy withdrawal of all Russian […]

Peace Rally, Washington, D.C. January 27, 2022

No War with Russia! No Expansion of NATO!

February 1, 2022 Cole Harrison

As the Ukraine crisis has intensified, a confrontation between the world’s two most heavily armed nuclear powers has become an actual possibility. The Biden administration has put 8500 troops on high alert for possible deployment in Eastern Europe, and threatened to deploy 50,000 more troops […]

In Opposition to US Interventionism and Sanctions

July 12, 2021 MAPA Middle East Working Group

“I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967 When, and […]

U.S. Occupation and Siege Impose Starvation and Desperation on Syrians

April 6, 2021 Cole Harrison

The US continues to occupy Syrian territory, stealing its oil resources and blockading grain imports. This has had the effect of starving and freezing Syrians as well as impeding initiatives to unite and rebuild the country. We note that US, Turkish, and Israeli bombing of […]