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Ukraine: A Time for Peace is a priority campaign of Massachusetts Peace Action.
GET INVOLVED! SIGN UP TO JOIN MASS. PEACE ACTION’S PEACE IN UKRAINE CAMPAIGN! We table and collect petitions, sponsor eye opening monthly webinars, organize letter writing campaigns, hold rallies, write articles for publication and engage with our Congressional Representatives. We also study and discuss the war to stay on top of things.
We are now in the 5th year of the Ukraine war. And we are also entering the first year in decades in which there is no nuclear arms agreement between Russia and the United States. The conflict continues to take thousands of lives and decimate Ukraine. It is also the most likely place on earth that nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia could start.
The fact that for the last 15 years the demonization of Russia makes it impossible to see the war accurately. Is Putin really the new Hitler? Or was it Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden? Or will it be whichever Ayatollah the U.S. and Israel has not yet assassinated. The nonsense of the Russia-gate mythology has blinded our ability to see straight and the hatred of all things Russian clouds our vision of how this war could have ended long ago and how it might still end today.
But whatever our perspective on Russia’s illegal invasion we must now acknowledge that the U.S. and NATO strategy of fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian has been a catastrophe and total failure. In fact the very existence of an independent Ukraine is now in doubt. Despite providing the Ukraine government with untold hundreds of billions in money, weapons, intelligence and support – despite U.S. generals in Germany and CIA agents all over Ukraine running the war — Ukraine continues to lose and sustain enormous losses in the fighting. And no amount of more weapons and money can change that reality. The country is suffering a demographic catastrophe as entire generations of its men are being killed and seriously wounded in battle. Its animals are dying. Its rich soil is poisoned. Millions of its people have left, most to western Europe and some to Russia. And its young men avoid the draft in droves. All because peace agreements that would have kept the country together were rejected by the U.S. and the West.
On top of that, British intelligence and the sophisticated intelligence and targeting that President Trump continues to provide Ukraine has been used to attack Russia’s nuclear bombers and nuclear early warning system; to regularly fire powerful missiles into Russia; to assassinate Russian Generals and prominent civilians in Moscow; and even, evidently, to attack President Putin’s family residence. Many Americans welcome these attacks as payback for the havoc that Russia has inflicted on Ukraine. But they have no impact on the battlefield in Ukraine. And we are dancing on the edge of nuclear war between the world’s largest nuclear powers.
Join us in supporting a realistic path toward ending the war in a way that:
- Maintains the existence of an independent Ukraine
- Resolves the fate of the regions of Ukraine that are now under Russian control (before even more regions are conquered)
- Guarantees long-term Ukrainian neutrality as asserted in Ukraine’s founding constitution
- Recognizes the legitimate security concerns of Ukraine and Russia, and
- Sets the stage for a lasting peace through the creation of a new European security system that includes Russia and Ukraine (as envisioned at the end of the cold war 35 years ago)
Let’s make sure we don’t have to commemorate more anniversaries of this war. Wherever you live, tell your congressional representatives it’s time to end this war and to stop fueling it.It’s time for the best peace that these tragic circumstances allow rather moving toward even greater catastrophes.
Deepen Your Understanding of This Terrible War in Ukraine and Get Involved in Stopping It!
We offer an amazing series of recorded webinars that we have produced over the past 4 years with esteemed guest speakers, many of whom are true experts on the topic, a number of them from Europe. These videos provide important historical background to the war, as well as providing analysis of present developments. They illustrate several critical reasons – the danger of a nuclear escalation, environmental destruction, and the vast loss of life — why we must seek a peaceful path to end the war.
Click this link to check out our past webinars!
Our campaign seeks to unite all those concerned about the Ukraine war, regardless of their views about it, around the demand for a lasting peace reflecting the hopes and dreams for peace and common security that permeated Europe at the end of the Cold War.
WE NEED YOUR HELP! If you would like to become part of the support group of the campaign, please sign up at https://masspeace.us/ukrainecampaign or scan this QR code:
There you will find possible ways for you to contribute. Please join us.
Schedule a Speaker on Ukraine!
Would you like a speaker on the Ukraine war to address your social, political or religious group. Let us know. MAPA’s Paul Shannon in eastern Massachusetts and John Berkowitz in the western part of the state are available for zoom and in person presentations on the root causes of the war, the dangers of it leading to nuclear war, and the prospects for ending the conflict. Just make your request by emailing info@masspeaceaction.org or calling 617-623-5288.
Events
Updates
Flyers – Download and Print
4th Anniversary of Ukraine War – Time to End this War
Ukraine: “Frozen Conflict” or Lasting Peace? (trifold leaflet)
Fund Public Schools in Massachusetts, Not Wars Abroad (trifold leaflet)
Fund Healthcare at Home, Not Wars Abroad (trifold leaflet)
Recommended Information
A Less Rosy View of the War in Ukraine: John Berkowitz (Mar 2026)
George Beebe: Ending NATO Expansion is Required for Peace in Ukraine (July 2025)
On Ukraine, President Trump has left the Biden policy behind, by Benjamin S. Dunham (May 2025). While most of us in MAPA’s Ukraine Peace campaign hold some some views about motivations for Russia’s war in Ukraine that are different from the author, this article includes much valuable information about the war and its causes that we feel are quite valuable.
Hegseth Replaces Deception with Reality, by Glenn Diesen (Feb 2025)
Why We Also Need a Ceasefire in Ukraine, by Richard Eskow (Feb 2024)
Understanding the Background of the Russia-Ukraine War, by Jeanne Trubek (Mar 2024)
The Path to Peace: Ceasefire and Negotiations, Not More Weapons to Ukraine, by Jackie Dee King (Mar 2023)
Getting the Story Right: A Personal Journey Through 2+ Years of Russia’s War in Ukraine, by Paul Shannon (Apr 2024)