On June 20, President Trump ordered an illegal and unconstitutional attack on Iran, for which there is no justification. Join us at the JFK Federal Building (Cambridge Street entrance) this Thursday, June 26 at 12pm to demand a return to diplomacy, no further military strikes; a [...]
Join the Arise & Resist Budget and Tax Justice Coalition, the LOFTE Network and MAPA to rally at State GOP Headquarters in Boston! We must demand they repudiate these draconian Big Ugly Bill cuts to housing, healthcare, food assistance and more in order to pay [...]
Join Massachusetts Peace Action and Jewish Voice for Peace Boston to demand that Massachusetts divest from genocide by passing H.2984, the Israel Divestment Bill. This bill would divest the state pension fund from companies that provide military equipment to Israel. At noon, we will start [...]
Meet at Wegman’s main door, near the big clock Organized by the Public Action Committee of the MAPA Gaza Committee Israel is starving 2.1 million people in Gaza.The small volume of aid that started to trickle in after an 11-week full blockade is a drop in the [...]
Timmon Wallis will discuss his new book Nuclear Abolition: A Scenario. While Annie Jacobsen based her 2024 bestseller, Nuclear War: A Scenario on numerous interviews with generals, Pentagon war planners and other nuclear weapons experts, Wallis bases his scenario on interviews with peace activists and campaigners from across the country and [...]
Join Mass. Peace Action as we table at Lowell Folk Festival, on Saturday, July 26. We will be handing out literature on Palestine, Iran, Ukraine, nuclear disarmament, immigrant rights, and more — requesting signatures on petitions and postcards, and informing others about our mission. Spend [...]
Join us on Saturday, July 26 at Lincoln Park from 12-8PM for a family-friendly day of celebrating Palestinian culture, learning from community leaders, supporting a mutual aid pop-up thrift for Somerville’s Gazan families, enjoy children’s programming and creating interactive art. RSVP here: https://secure.everyaction.com/XbMHcTqojkCpDxlr-Yc1Mg2
The Boston-Hiroshima 80th Anniversary Coalition and others across the country are organizing to commemorate the catastrophic A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to build from the Hibakusha wise warning that “Human beings and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.” Join us as Dr. Ira Helfand and Mari [...]
Join us for an evening of conversation about the longstanding impacts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the current state of nuclear weapons. On August 6, 1945, the USA dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. A few days later, on August 9th, the USA dropped a [...]
Last week, Congresswoman Katherine Clark tweeted that "I am horrified by the starvation in Gaza," yet she supports sending Israel the weapons it uses to deliberately starve Gaza. We need to point out this contradiction and demand that Clark takes action to end our country's [...]
Join us in viewing White Light Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, directed by Steven Okazaki! We will follow the viewing with a discussion, to share our reactions and ways to address the threat that nuclear weapons pose. As the US and other [...]
Join Us on Monday, August 18th at 430pm Brookline, MA Coolidge Corner For Post Card and Petition Signing Demanding Rep. Auchincloss To STOP supporting Israeli’s Starvation policies of Gaza!
Monday, September 8th, 7pm EST Presidents Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele are running parallel authoritarian projects that use national security to justify human rights abuses via mass incarceration. Platforms like MAGA and Bukele’s Nuevas Ideas party cloak their abuses of power as concern for public [...]
The Democratic State Convention will be held in Springfield on Saturday, Sept 13. The party leadership has refused to address the Gaza starvation and genocide at the convention and has watered down the party platform to the point where it is almost meaningless. MAPA members [...]
Paul Shannon and Vickie Rothbaum, and their Somerville neighbors, Harris Gruman and Giuliana Minghelli, invite you to a cookout/social and fundraising event to benefit Mass Peace Action (MAPA). Join us on Sunday, September 14, from 4pm to 6pm for our backyard cookout in Somerville! (A [...]
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