The Peace Advocate is running a series of opinion pieces about the 2024 presidential election and candidates. We encourage our members and supporters to submit their analyses. We welcome different points of view. – The Editors This article was edited on Monday, March 4th to […]
by Cole Harrison Facebook has reinstated Massachusetts Peace Action’s page and removed the penalties levied against it. A Facebook representative indicated that we had been penalized due to “false positives”, meaning that an algorithm had wrongly identified our posts as hate speech. The one-month penalization […]
Mass. Peace Action organized a study group about the danger of right wing nationalism on February 13 (https://masspeaceaction.org/…/study-action-group…/), and we posted the event on Facebook. The photo we used was taken at the Unite the Right rally in 2017 — the one in Charlottesville when […]
by Joseph Gerson Originally published by Common Dreams There is so much that we don’t know about Wednesday’s assault on our national capital and our limited constitutional democracy. The new Congress should not only investigate why the Capital police and Homeland Security were missing in […]
by Euan Harlow-Lawrence In August the Democratic Party hosted an entirely virtual national convention, approving the 2020 platform and officially nominating Joe Biden to take on Donald Trump in the November election. They sought to pitch their ideas and values to all Americans, defining Biden […]
Federal troops are sent to Portland, Oregon, without the consent of the the mayor or the governor. Refusing to identify themselves, the troops pull peaceful protesters off the streets and into unmarked vehicles and spirit them away. They fire rubber bullets and tear gas cannisters […]
Presentation by Ty dePass at a webinar “Authoritarianism and Democracy“, June 29, 2020. Watch video of the presentation and discussion On an early morning in July 1980, 14-year-old Levi Hart was shot and killed by Boston police officer Richard Borque, Jr., following a police chase […]
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