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Very Rev. Amy McCreath, dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Episcopal), speaks for a Christmas Truce in Ukraine, St. Paul's steps, Dec. 19, 2022 / MAPA photo

Zelensky, Biden and Congress should Seize This Chance for Peace in Ukraine

January 5, 2023 Cole Harrison

Massachusetts Peace Action joined Massachusetts faith leaders today in calling on President Zelinsky, President Biden, and members of Congress to support a ceasefire in the Ukraine war that could pave the way for a diplomatic settlement. President’ Putin’s announcement of a 36-hour truce followed his […]

Local to Global: Letter to President Joe Biden

December 5, 2022 Patricia Hynes

Originally published in the Greenfield Recorder by Patricia Hynes Dear Joe, Remember the mid-March snowball fight with some boys in our 8th grade class at St Helena’s School in Wilmington, Delaware? The wet snow made for hard, icy snowballs, so I hid my young sister […]

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the House Progressive Caucus, at the US Capitol on July 28. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Ukraine Conflict Intensifies as Progressives Abandon Diplomacy Call

November 1, 2022 Cole Harrison

by Cole Harrison The Russia-Ukraine war continued to intensify in the past weeks, as both Russia and Ukraine, supported by the US and NATO, are escalating their efforts to gain the upper hand. No longer a conflict between two neighbors, it is now a global […]

No Cold War Working Group Statement on the War in Ukraine

October 10, 2022 No Cold War Working Group

The United States, its NATO allies, and Ukraine have termed the current military conflict in Ukraine an “illegal act of aggression by Russia against Ukraine”. Russia has termed it a “legal special military operation” aimed at securing the safety of the people of the Donbas, […]

Representative Stephen Lynch’s staffer, Nick Zaferakis, accepting a letter and petition from Mass Peace Action Executive Director Cole Harrison. Other demonstrators are also pictured. Peter Blandino/Daily Collegian.

Bay State peace activists protest U.S. escalations of conflict in Ukraine

September 21, 2022 Cole Harrison

Originally published in the Massachusetts Daily Collegian By Peter Blandino QUINCY – Massachusetts Peace Action (MAPA) held an anti-war demonstration the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 15 at Quincy Center. The demonstration was held just a block away from the local office of Rep. Stephen F. […]

Kyiv Must Lead the Charge for Peace

September 19, 2022 Roger Waters

Roger Waters Responds To Mrs. Olena Zelenska of Ukraine by Roger Waters Mrs. Zelenska’s Sept 5 tweet: It is Russia that invaded Ukraine, destroys cities and kills civilians. Ukrainians defend their land and their children’s future. If we give up – we will not exist […]

Beating Swords into Plowshares in Ukraine

September 19, 2022 Patricia Hynes

by Pat Hynes Originally published by LAProgressive Mainstream US and British media have all but eclipsed the record climate temperatures, drought, floods and fires of 2022 across the world with their preoccupation on militarizing Ukraine to defeat Russia. “They will beat their swords into plowshares…Nor will they train […]