Tag: Peace Advocate January 2023 - Page 2 - Massachusetts Peace Action

Mandy Carter: Women’s Peace Walk, 1983

January 23, 2023 C.R. Spicer

By C.R. Spicer The Seneca Women’s Peace Camp was formed in 1983 to protest the scheduled deployment of Cruise and Pershing II missiles before their suspected shipment from the Seneca, NY Army Depot to Europe. Women organized feeder marches from Boston, and as far away […]

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Militarized Japan and the Biden-Kishida Summit Signal Moment in the New Cold War

January 18, 2023 Joseph Gerson

By Joseph Gerson This article was originally published in Common Dreams. Across the Indo-Pacific, as well as in the escalating Ukraine War, humanity stands an accident or miscalculation away from the calamity of nuclear war. “Japan in December adopted a set of three security and […]

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Envisioning a world without nuclear weapons

January 17, 2023 Patricia Hynes

by Pat Hynes This article was originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Jan. 22 marks the second anniversary of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, a global lifeboat supported by 70% of the world’s countries. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Energy’s […]