Tag: Peace Advocate November 2021

Making Another World Possible with the Nuclear Ban Treaty

November 8, 2021 Sofia Rose Wolman

As planetary dynamics interact with the COVID-19 pandemic, social, political, economic, internal, and relational dynamics have been laid bare and found wanting. We have collectively witnessed and experienced glaring inequities and precarities in the institutions and structures that govern, shape, and claim authority over our […]

Build Back Better? Or Double Down on Disaster?

November 2, 2021 Nick Rabb

by Nick Rabb We have entered a new era of climate catastrophe. Whereas the major problems of the past were denial and delay, the current political terrain is one where it is no longer tenable to deny the crisis itself. Now, the emerging battle is […]

Eco-Fear: Mental Health in the Age of the Climate Crisis

November 2, 2021 Zoe Stevenson

by Zoe Stevenson Human beings today face climate challenges on an incomprehensibly enormous scale. Given the gravity of the situation we’re in, the guilt we carry about our part in creating it, and infuriating, long-standing government inaction, it’s no surprise that feelings of hopelessness and […]

Illegal and Inhumane: Biden-Harris and Immigration

November 1, 2021 Sunny Robinson

By Sunny Robinson The Biden Administration promised reformed and humane immigration policies. That is not what we are getting. “Illegal and Inhumane,” is how Harold Koh, a State Dept. Legal Adviser, described the Biden Administration’s escalation of Title 42 as its major immigration control tool. […]

Critical Race Theory: The Right’s New Bogeyman

October 31, 2021 Rosemary Kean

by Rosemary Kean Gather round, children, to hear about the new bogeyman. In the current cycle of reactionary demonization, the bogeyman is no longer anyone ever associated in any way with the Communist Party. The new bogeyman, supplanting communism, socialism, and Sharia law, is ‘critical […]

Free Alex Saab protest, October 22,2021, Northampton

Free Venezuelan Special Envoy Alex Saab, Kidnapped by the U.S. Government

October 30, 2021 Yoav Elinevsky

by Yoav Elinevsky Western Massachusetts activists held a standout October 22 outside the office of Congressman McGovern in Northampton, to protest the kidnapping and jailing in the US of Colombian citizen and Venezuelan special envoy Alex Saab in violation of international law. For nearly a […]

Anti-nuclear weapons protest at Bath Iron Works (l to r): Suzanne Hedrick, Maureen Kehoe Ostensen, Mark Roman and Lisa Savage, Mary Beth Sullivan, Cynthia Howard, and Mary Ellen Quinn. Photo: C.R. Spicer/MAPA

A Shift-Change Call to Conversion at Bath Iron Works

October 30, 2021 Cole Harrison

In the week of October 2-9, dozens of cities held actions coordinated to mark “Keep Space for Peace Week.” “They (the actions) were about the entire project to move the arms race into space,” according to Bruce Gagnon, a member of Veterans for Peace and […]