Peace Advocate May 2025

Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity

Memorial Day, George Floyd, and Militarism

May 28, 2025 Rosemary Kean
by Rosemary Kean The militarization and lethal force of police departments continues since the police murder of George Floyd on Memorial Day weekend in 2020, which dramatized this situation across the country and around the world. Police killed more than 1,300 people in the U.S. […]
Photo: Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
Palestine/Israel

Israel’s forced starvation of Gaza

May 27, 2025 Liam Noble
by Liam Noble Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to forced starvation. While world humanitarian relief organizations have already mobilized, their efforts have been stonewalled since Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip. 160,000 pallets of supplies, enough to fill nearly 9,000 trucks, […]
Advocates rallied for divestment from WMD and fossil fuels, Massachusetts State House, May 20, 2025. Photo: Fran Jeffries/ MAPA
Nuclear Disarmament

A Day of Action for Divestment

May 21, 2025 Grace Cowell
In collaboration with Warheads to Windmills, the Coalition for Responsible Investment, and Jewish Voice for Peace Boston, MAPA held a lobby day at the State House on Tuesday, May 21. Over 30 advocates gathered in teams to lobby members of the state legislature on two […]
Indian frontier guard at checkpoint in Kashmir Himalayas, June 2015. Photo: OlegD/ Shutterstock
Uncategorized

South Asia on Brink of War

May 7, 2025 Hayat Imam
by Hayat Imam An act of terrorism in Kashmir has triggered a crisis in South Asia that is extremely alarming: two nuclear armed countries, India and Pakistan, are in a dangerous face off.  Yesterday, India attacked 9 sites in Pakistan. This tense situation in Kashmir […]