Tag: Peace Advocate Summer 2021

Testimony from the State Public Service Committee’s June 9th Hearing

June 16, 2021 Alec Neilly

On June 9th, the Joint Committee on Public Service heard testimony from advocates of around 60 bills. Among those were MAPA’s bill to divest state pension funds from companies involved in the war in Yemen and another MAPA bill to divest state pension funds from […]

Testimony on MAPA’s State Divestment Bills – Cole Harrison

June 16, 2021 Cole Harrison

Testimony of Cole Harrison on H.2597 and S.1703 I am Cole Harrison, executive director of Massachusetts Peace Action. We are a peace advocacy organization with 1200 dues paying members throughout the Commonwealth and 17,000 supporters. I’m testifying for H.2597 and S.1703, divestment from nuclear weapons, […]

Testimony on MAPA’s State Divestment Bills – Paul Shannon

June 16, 2021 Paul Shannon

Good morning. My name is Paul Shannon. I’m one of those legions of part-time college instructors and a retired director of the national film library for the American Friends Service Committee. I come to speak in favor of H 2636 and S 1735, an act […]

Testimony on MAPA’s State Divestment Bills – Ira Helfand

June 16, 2021 Alec Neilly

Thank you for the opportunity to submit testimony in support of S 1703 and H 2597 While we face many urgent problems today, two existential dangers—the climate crisis and the growing possibility of nuclear war—threaten the very survival of our civilization and possibly our species. […]

Testimony on MAPA’s State Divestment Bills – Frances Jeffries

June 16, 2021 Alec Neilly

Written testimony by Frances Jeffries regarding HB 2636 and Senate Bill 1735 to the meeting on June 9, 2021 of the Joint Committee on Public Service House Chair Gordon, Senate Chair Brady Every day each of us is inundated with an extraordinary amount of […]

End Repression of the Afro-Indigenous Garifuna People of Honduras Action Report

June 16, 2021 Yoav Elinevsky

Resisting slavery, colonialism, and neoliberalism, defending their livelihood and the environment. End Repression of the Afro-Indigenous Garifuna People of Honduras! Where are the kidnapped Garifuna Leaders? A Rally was held on Friday, June 4, 2021, 2-3 PM, outside the office of congressman McGovern’s office on […]

Forum Brings Frontline Healthcare Providers Together in the Call to Fund Healthcare Not Warfare

June 15, 2021 Jonathan King

by Jonathan King Massachusetts is a national center of medicine, medical research and health care. It is also the birthplace of Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, and other nuclear disarmament advocacy groups. Mass Peace Action is one of the largest such […]