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SUMMARY:Unions and Women's Health Justice
DESCRIPTION:Seeking Women’s Health Justice\, a subcommittee of Massachusetts Peace Action’s Fund Healthcare Not Warfare campaign\, examines women’s health from the perspective of justice – with the awareness that peace is a fundamental issue of health. The cost of U.S. militarism drains economic resources at the expense of health and lives. Through awareness and understanding of the culture that promotes war\, we examine the intersection of peace and women’s health\, which is justice. Our work offers paths of action that can be taken to oppose militarism and to nurture health and enhance justice. \nTo commemorate International Women’s Day\, originally organized by the union movement\, this webinar explores how unions have played a role in shaping women’s health and health services. \nUnions have influenced women’s health and health services by improving working conditions\, securing maternity and reproductive rights\, expanding access to healthcare\, strengthening health services\, and challenging gender inequality. Union activism has helped transform women’s health from a private concern into a social and workplace issue\, benefiting both women as workers and women as healthcare users. \nSpeakers: \nKatie Murphy is President of the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA)\, the largest union and professional association for registered nurses and healthcare professionals in Massachusetts\, across hospitals and other care settings. She represents nurses and healthcare professionals across Massachusetts\, and is active in advocating for safe staffing as well as equitable healthcare policy. She served on the MNA Board of Directors for over a decade\, helping shape organizational strategy and representation. \nShe is a strong proponent for healthcare workers\, patients\, and women on multiple fronts. \nElizabeth Pellerito is Director of the Labor Education Program at the University of Massachusetts/ Lowell. She is a labor educator known for her work in labor studies and union organizing. As a labor educator\, she focuses on training and organizing all university employees on leading labor issues. She is also active on the boards of the Bread & Roses Heritage Festival\, the Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts and the Women’s Institute for Leadership Development. \nShe combines labor studies with issues that intersect public health and worker well-being\, especially regarding health\, safety\, and workplace risk topics for a gendered workforce. She is particularly interested in how unions can combat sexual assault\, sexual harassment\, and intimate partner violence. \nRegister to attend:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/seeking-womens-health-justice-26/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Fund Healthcare Not Warfare
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T160000
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SUMMARY:Defending Campus and Schools Expression
DESCRIPTION:The AAUP and AFT have organized a national campaign resisting the Trump attacks on our campuses\, to engage faculty\, staffs\, students and alumni The call is for teach-ins on the first Fridays of the month leading up to a national event on Friday May 1\, 2026. Many college and university campuses lack active AAUP chapters or AFT locals. However\, many Peace and Justice advocacy groups have members or supporters on local campuses. To advance the Days of Action Campaign the Books Not Bombs Committee is hosting a series of Zoom Teach-ins. The fourth in our Zoom Teach-ins will be Friday March 6\, 4-5 pm. \nProgram for March 6: \n– Plans for May Day\, Friday May 1\, 2026 – Lukas Moe (national AAUP/AFT); \n– Fund Education and Human Needs\, Not Foreign Wars – Owen Madaus and Jonathan King (Books Not Bombs Committee); \n– Resisting Efforts to Censure Faculty in Virgina: Prof. Bethany LeTiecq (George Mason U. AAUP\, Virginia); \n– Student Expulsion for Expression at MIT – Prof. Haynes Miller (MIT AAUP); \n– Mass Teacher’s Association Concerns and Priorities – Deb McCarthy (V-P\, MTA); \n– Ongoing Student Organizing on Campuses – Hannah Markel\, Jessica Valatka\, (UMass\, Amherst); \n– Need to protect international students among us – Prof Lou Kruger (Northeastern University); \n– Publicizing Program and Outreach for April Teach-in\, Friday April 3.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/defending-campus-and-schools-expression/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Books Not Bombs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T183000
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SUMMARY:While Iran Boils\, Trump’s “Peace Plan” Threatens Palestinian Existence
DESCRIPTION:US imperial intervention has denied Iranians and Palestinians self-determination for 75 years. \nCoupled with an examination of the U.S./Israel/Iran crisis\, Jeremy Scahill and Rami Khouri reveal how the president’s “board of peace” promises a new\, dangerous and unaccountable stage of U.S./European/Israeli policy in the Middle East.  \nAt this moment when Palestinian national existence hangs in the balance\, there could be no better opportunity to understand the significance of stunning events now taking place in Gaza and the West Bank than hearing from these two expert journalists. Media coverage of the Palestinian crisis has dramatically shrunk since Trump announced his “Peace Plan” for Gaza\, but every day Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are killed\, driven off their land\, or die in large numbers when denied sufficient food\, medical care and supplies needed to survive malnutrition and the elements. They will explain not just what is happening in Palestine but will examine the frightening realities of Israeli and U.S. policy that lay behind this next phase of the genocide.  \nOf special interest\, they will examine President Trump’s “peace agreement” and the Board of Peace\, headed by Trump himself\, that his plan establishes. If the present is harsh\, the future laid out in this peace agreement is truly ominous. Scahill and Khouri will examine in detail not just how this bizarre Trump agreement came about but the threat it poses to the very possibility of a Palestinian state. But you will also learn of the complex battle the Palestinian resistance is playing to keep Palestinian national rights alive. Jeremy Scahill has conducted extensive interviews for Drop Site News with Hamas officials and we will all benefit from his unique insights on how the Palestinian resistance views the present situation\, what parts of the Trump plan they have agreed to and which they have not\, and their strategies for addressing the threats Palestinians face in the present moment. \nWith the new understanding gained about the U.S./Israeli/Iran crisis\, Palestinian realities\,  and Israeli and U.S. policies \, viewers will become more confident in their understanding of what needs to be done in order to effectively step up the fight to prevent/stop war with Iran and their mobilization against genocide and in support of Palestinian human and national rights.   \nJeremy Scahill\, an award-winning journalist and expert on warfare\, is co-founder of the investigative news organization Drop Site News. His investigative prowess has led to multiple recognitions\, including the George Polk Award and the Izzy Award for Independent Media. Scahill is widely respected for his writing\, particularly in areas related to war\, security\, and U.S. foreign policy. His extensive reporting from conflict zones such as Afghanistan\, Iraq\, Somalia\, and Yemen has provided him with a wealth of real-world insight. These experiences strengthen his standing as one of the most knowledgeable speakers on war\, security\, and journalism in the country.  \nRami George Khouri is a Palestinian-American journalist and editor. He was executive editor of the Beirut Daily Star newspaper from 2003 to 2005\, and before that had been editor-in-chief of the Jordan Times for seven years\, when he also wrote for many years from Amman\, Jordan\, for leading international publications\, including the Financial Times\, the Boston Globe\, and the Washington Post. Rami was the founding director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) from 2006 to 2014. He has served on the advisory boards of the International Committee of the Red Cross\, Harvard Divinity School\, and Northwestern University in Qatar. His 50 years of journalism in the Arab region include writing books and an internationally syndicated column. He continues to author books and write analyses and op-eds for the international media.  \n \n 
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/iran-palestine-peace-plan/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T203000
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SUMMARY:Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:On this\, the fourth anniversary of the Ukraine war\, award winning author and foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer brings to light the roots of the conflict and the U.S. role in helping to instigate the war. He will examine the Russian invasion\, the continuing dangerous U.S. and European Ukraine policies\, and prospects for ending the war in 2026. \nStephen Kinzer is an award-winning author and foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. His articles and books have led the Washington Post to place him “among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling.” He was Latin America correspondent for The Boston Globe\, and then spent more than 20 years working for the New York Times\, with extended postings in Nicaragua\, Germany\, and Turkey. He is a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. His numerous books include Overthrow\, All the Shah’s Men\, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles\, Allen Dulles and Their Secret World War; The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt\, Mark Twain and the Birth of American Empire and Poisoner in Chief. His latest book (to be released this fall is Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine. Hence\, the title of this webinar. He is now a Boston Globe columnist\, providing deep insight into U.S. foreign policy. \nRegister to attend:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/boiling-point-how-america-brought-us-to-war-in-ukraine/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Ukraine/Russia
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SUMMARY:No War with Iran action hour
DESCRIPTION:BREAKING: The latest report indicates a massive U.S. military buildup in the Middle East\, with “a 90% chance” of war on Iran breaking out soon\, according to one Trump advisor. Now is the critical moment to stop war with Iran.  \nJoin NIAC Action Monday\, February 23rd at 2:30pm ET/11:30am PT for a virtual “No War with Iran” action hour where we’ll mobilize together to demand Congress stop another unauthorized war before it starts. \nRepresentatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie and Senators Rand Paul and Tim Kaine have introduced bipartisan war powers resolutions to block unauthorized war\, they’ll be up for a vote soon\, we need every lawmaker to support them. \nThis event willl equip you with immediate action you can take to urge lawmakers to oppose war another unauthorized war. We will also be offering a brief “How to Advocate” 101 training to empower you to get face-to-face meetings with your lawmaker offices. \n RSVP now to receive the Zoom link and join volunteer leaders nationwide demanding organized solidarity\, not bombs. \nOnly registered guests who have RSVP’d and follow our Community Code of Conduct will be granted entry.  \nCo-sponsored by Peace Action\, Doctors Against Genocide\, MPower Action\, American Friends Service Committee\, Peace Action New York State\, Roots Action\, Hindus for Human Rights Action\, Brooklyn for Peace & World Beyond War
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/no-war-with-iran-action-hour/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Middle East Wars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T200000
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SUMMARY:Inside the Anti-China Warmaking Machine
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel discussion moderated by Kenneth Yee where our speakers\, Marcus Breen\, Duncan McFarland\, and Ting Huang\, will provide an overview of the ways in which the U.S. government generates negative media coverage about China in order to manufacture consent for war. Our speakers will discuss examples of recent US Government programs that have used media to reflect poorly on Chinese economic and social development\, and reinforce negative impressions of China. \nOur pannelists will discuss the China-focused Committees in the U.S. House and explain how the activities of these Congressional China Committees shape public perception about China. This webinar will also provide context on U.S.-China relations more broadly and analyze the Trump administration’s foreign policy directives and how they fit into the recent National Security Strategy. \n \nSponsoring Group: No Cold War – MAPA
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/inside-the-anti-china-warmaking-machine/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:No War with China
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260215T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260215T133000
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SUMMARY:Violence\, Love and Hope in Israel-Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Sari Bashi\, internationally renowned human rights lawyer and the executive director of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel. Sari lives in a mixed Israeli-Palestinian family\, which is the subject of her new memoir\, Upside-Down Love. Sari will share her perspective on the ceasefire in Gaza\, the escalating violence in the West Bank\, and the opportunities emerging for transformative change. \nSari is the executive director of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel and the co-founder and former executive director of Gisha-Legal Center for Freedom of Movement\, the Israeli human rights organization promoting freedom of movement for Palestinians in Gaza. She previously served as program director for Human Rights Watch\, leading the organization’s global research\, and as research director at Democracy for the Arab World Now\, where she’s currently a fellow. She’s an expert in international humanitarian law and writes a blog about raising her children in the West Bank. Her book\, a love story in two voices\, describes how she and her Palestinian spouse met\, fell in love and made it work\, against the odds and against Israeli law. \n \nRegister to attend:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/violence-love-and-hope-in-israel-palestine/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T203000
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SUMMARY:4th Anniversary of Ukraine War: End it Now\, or It Could End Up in a Nuclear War!
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Ivana Nikolic´ Hughes will discuss the urgent need for a negotiated end to the Ukraine War\, even with significant concessions to the Russians given the increasingly dire military situation facing the Ukrainians.  This would prevent the US or NATO from escalating with new long-range missiles\, troops\, or attacks on Russian shipping and other targets– such as the alleged Ukrainian 90-drone ‘decapitation’ attack in late December on one of Russian President Putin’s homes– to try to avoid a total Ukrainian defeat.   Such escalation could trigger WWIII\, and a catastrophic nuclear war. \nShe will also discuss the increasing danger of nuclear war between the US and Russia because both the Biden and Trump administrations failed to negotiate with Russia to renew the START treaty (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty).  It has been the most effective treaty over the past forty years to limit nuclear weapons.  It expires on Feb. 6th\, and she will discuss the importance of a groundswell of public support for Trump to agree to Putin’s offer to extend the treaty while beginning new negotiations to renew and even expand it. \nDr. Ivana Nikolic´ Hughes is President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemistry at Columbia University. She holds a BS with Honors from Caltech\, and a PhD from Stanford University. She has been a faculty member at Columbia University since 2008 and currently serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory Group to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Her writing has appeared in The Nation\, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists\, The Hill\, Scientific American\, Truthout\, Common Dreams\, Transcend Media Service\, The Diplomat\, and elsewhere. \nCosponsored by Ukraine: A Time for Peace Campaign and the Nuclear Disarmament Working Group of MAPA. \nRegister to attend:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/4th-anniversary-of-ukraine-war-end-it-now-or-it-could-end-up-in-a-nuclear-war/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Nuclear Disarmament,Ukraine/Russia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T133000
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SUMMARY:Hands Off Iran Action Hour
DESCRIPTION:https://secure.everyaction.com/p3KgFwur4UWVhn_KO_6dzQ2\nJoin to urge congress to pass Iran War Power Resolutions
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/hands-off-iran-action-hour/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Middle East Wars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T210000
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SUMMARY:ICE Wars: Violence\, Compassion\, and Resistance
DESCRIPTION:This webinar will describe the scope of the federal presence in Minnesota\, what it feels like to be the subjects to an armed intervention by your own government\, the impact on immigrant neighbors\, and the myriad ways people are responding and resisting. It will include some lessons that may be helpful for other communities.\nPresenter:\n\nPam Costain lives in Minneapolis. She has been a lifelong peace and social justice activist\, a founder of Women Against Military Madness\, the Executive Director of the Resource Center of the Americas for 14 years\, and a founder and Training Director of Wellstone Action for five years. She is currently active with Twin Cities Indivisible.\n\nRegister to attend:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/ice-wars-violence-compassion-and-resistance/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Uncategorized
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260131T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260131T173000
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SUMMARY:Invest in Minds not Missiles
DESCRIPTION:Reducing the Threat of Nuclear War 2026 \nInvest in Minds Not Missiles \nVirtual National Conference \n \nOur nation and world are in a period of continuing danger and difficulty: The recently passed Pentagon budget is higher than ever and is funding a new generation of nuclear weapons; The tragic Israel/Gaza Conflict continues; The Russia/Ukraine conflict remains a source of increased danger of nuclear war;  The attacks on Venezuela opens a new front of “forever wars”. The egregious costs of the weapons buildups is draining our tax dollars from critical civilian needs\, among which are K-12 public schools and higher education. This Conference continues the tradition of trying to increase cooperation and collaboration among those advocating for nuclear disarmament and social and economic justice. \n3:00 pm Welcome: Prof. Robert Redwine (MIT); \n3:05 pm Continuing Threats: \n\nThe Military/Industrial/Nuclear Weapons Complex- William Hartung (Quincy Institute);\nFallacies of the Golden Dome Project – Prof. Ted Postol (MIT);\nDangers from the New Sentinel ICBM – David Borris (Chicago Area Peace Action).\n\n3:45 pm Unacceptable Costs:  \nChair: Jonathan King (MIT & Mass Peace Action): \n\nCivilian vs Military Components of the Federal Budget – Debbie Weinstein (Coalition for Human Needs);\nResisting Attacks on Higher Education – Mia McIver (AAUP);\nProtecting K-12 Public Schools – TBA (American Federation of Teachers);\n\n4:25 pm Congressional Efforts to Cut Nuclear Weapons Spending and Extend the START Treaty: \nChair: Maryellen Kurkulos (Mass Peace Action Education Fund): \n\nBack from the Brink Campaign – Daniel Hall (Back from the Brink)\nU.S. House Opportunities – Larry Cohen (Our Revolution);\nU.S. Senate and Extending the New START Treaty – Joseph Gerson (Campaign for Peace\, Disarmament\, and Common Security);\n\n4:55 Protecting our Future: \nChair: Susan Mirsky (Nuclear Disarmament Working Group): \n\nOrganizing from the Bottom – Shailly Gupta Barnes (Kairos Center\, NYC);\nCutting Weapons Budgets – Ben Cohen (Up in Arms Campaign);\nMobilizing for Jobs and Peace – Hon. Nina Turner (We Are Somebody).\n\n5:30 Adjourn \nSponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund; MIT Radius; Our Revolution; Institute for People’s Engagement; Up in Arms; Campaign for Peace\, Disarmament\, and Common Security. \nProgram Committee: David Borris\, Ed Erikson\, Keith Harvey\, Jonathan King\, Susan Mirsky\, Robert Redwine \n \nAttendance free.  Register to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/invest-in-minds-not-missiles/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Books Not Bombs,Nuclear Disarmament
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T170000
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SUMMARY:Iran\, the US\, and Israel: How did we get here?
DESCRIPTION:The threat of war continues to loom over Iran. After more than two weeks of nationwide unrest that rocked the country\, the protest movement appears temporarily contained following an intense and coordinated security crackdown. Meanwhile\, outside actors openly brag about exploiting the situation for their ends\, and reports suggest a military strike by the Trump Administration might be imminent.  \nOn Friday\, Jan. 30th at 3 pm\, NIAC President\, Jamal Abdi\, will join journalist and analyst Negar Mortazavi and award-winning foreign affairs correspondent and author of All the Shah’s Men\, Stephen Kinzer\, in conversation. The panel will unpack the current situation inside Iran and the geopolitical landscape\, including U.S. and Israeli calculations following the 12-day war last June that killed hundreds of Iranian civilians\, and where we go from here.  \nNegar Mortazavi is an award-winning journalist and commentator\, editor and host of the Iran Podcast\, Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy (CIP)\, and Nonresident Scholar at the Middle East Policy Council in Washington DC. She has been covering Iranian and Middle Eastern affairs as well as US foreign policy towards the Middle East for over a decade. She is a regular commentator for US and global media including CNN\, NBC\, NPR\, BBC\, France24\, Aljazeera\, among others. She has written for Foreign Policy magazine\, Politico\, The Intercept\, and The Independent. She holds a Master’s degree from Brandeis University and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts Boston.  \nJamal Abdi is the President of the National Iranian American Council and the executive director of NIAC Action. He has served in this role since 2018. Prior to joining NIAC as Policy Director in 2009\, he was a Policy Advisor on foreign policy\, national security\, and immigration issues in Congress. Jamal holds a B.A. from the University of Washington in Seattle\, majoring in Political Science with a focus on International Relations. He has written for The New York Times\, CNN\, Foreign Policy\, The Hill\, and USA Today and blogs at The Huffington Post.  He is a frequent guest contributor in print\, radio\, and television\, including appearances on Al Jazeera\, NPR\, BBC Radio\, and VOA. \nStephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents.  He was a New York Times foreign correspondent for 20 years and is now Senior Fellow at the Watson School of International and Public Affairs of Brown University and a Boston Globe opinion columnist.  His books include All the Shan’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (2003). \nThe event will be online and presentations will be recorded.  Sponsored by NIAC and Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund\, cosponsored by Veterans for Peace\, Just Foreign Policy\, About Face Northeast\, Center for International Policy\, Friends Committee on National Legislation\, and Military Families Speak Out. \n Register to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/iran-the-us-and-israel-how-did-we-get-here/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Middle East Wars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260129T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260129T190000
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SUMMARY:Power Hour: Support the Israel Divestment Bill
DESCRIPTION:Join MAPA’s Power Hour on Jan. 29 at 6pm to make calls in support of the Israel Divestment Bill. \nDespite the supposed “ceasefire” in Gaza\, Israel has continued its genocide of Palestinians through airstrikes\, gunfire\, blocking aid\, and destroying homes. The Israel Divestment Bill is as relevant now as it was before the ceasefire was announced. \nThis bill is currently in the Public Service Committee in the MA House. We will be making calls to the two chairs of the committee to pressure them to vote the bill out favorably. If it does go forward\, it can then eventually be voted on by the full state legislature.  Read more about the bill. \nTake this step to make the State of Massachusetts divest from genocide.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/power-hour/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260126T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260126T193000
DTSTAMP:20260102T174307Z
CREATED:20260101T033914Z
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SUMMARY:Militarism vs the Care Economy and Degrowth
DESCRIPTION:At this critical time\, when climate change and war are devastating the planet and causing tremendous suffering\, the current political climate is taking everything in the wrong direction. The system of endless growth and accumulation of wealth in fewer and fewer hands at the expense of everyone else and the earth cannot be sustained. How can we do more than hold back the most extreme antidemocratic and environmentally destructive measures and work together to realize a common vision of a livable world? Speakers Harrris Gruman\, Juan Jose De Blas and Anna Prouty will address how we can transition from the current disaster/militarist economy to a peace\, climate\, and justice-oriented care and degrowth economy. They will lay out some of the principles and benefits of a care economy and degrowth and talk about practical steps we can take here in the US to bring about the world we want to see. \nSpeakers: \nHarris Gruman – Executive Director of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) State Council. He is co-founder and co-chair of Raise Up Massachusetts\, a coalition of 150 organizations which successfully campaigned to raise the minimum wage to $15\, enact paid family and medical leave\, and pass the Fair Share Amendment\, aka millionaire’s tax. A veteran of decades of successful issue and electoral work in community and labor organizing\, he is an astute political strategist. A former executive director of the Neighbor to Neighbor Education Fund\, he studied at Johns Hopkins University. At MAPA\, he  is a member of the Board of Directors\, the Ukraine Committee\, and of the Peace and the Working Class Working Group. \nJuan Jose Deblas is an active member of the International Degrowth Network as well as the Spanish member group Red Decrecer para Vivir. He sees degrowth as an opportunity to rethink the world’s economic and social systems\, address the imbalance between the Global North and South\, and protect humanity’s most vulnerable. He is Coordinator of the IDN practice circle\, Secretary of organizing and general circles\, and helping with European newsletter. He helped organize the September 2025 Beyond Growth conference in the Spanish parliament. \nAnna Prouty\, Media + Outreach Coordinator at the Degrowth Institute\, is a writer\, artist and community organizer living in Cascadia. She is the media and outreach coordinator for DGI\, and coordinates the Policy Working Group. She was also a co-founder of DegrowUS. When not at DGI\, she works for the Center for Rural Livelihoods in Oregon\, and organizes around economic democracy\, land restoration and bioregionalism. Her debut novel\, Genesis\, will be released in summer 2026 by Vine Leaves Press. \nRegister to attend:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/militarism-vs-the-care-economy-and-degrowth/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Peace and Climate,Peace and Working Class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T203000
DTSTAMP:20260215T210012Z
CREATED:20251230T065044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260215T210012Z
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SUMMARY:Matthew Hoh: Ukraine War\, End it Now or Lose Much More Later
DESCRIPTION:Attendees of this webinar will hear Matthew Hoh discuss the military\, economic and political state of the Ukraine War as it nears its 4th anniversary.  He will discuss the ongoing negotiations to end the Ukraine War and why ending the war is an imperative for all sides. He will summarize the current military\, economic and political realities for Ukraine and Russia\, as well as Europe and the US\, and provide his thoughts on what a successful negotiated settlement may look like. He will also discuss the potential consequences if a political settlement to the war is not reached and it continues into its fifth year. Finally\, he will discuss the dangers that will continue even if there is a peace agreement and why demilitarization and a renewed effort to rebuild a wrecked United Nations system are urgently needed. \nMatthew Hoh is a disabled Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War and former Afghan War State Department Officer. In 2009\, after being appointed to the Foreign Service\, Hoh resigned his post in Afghanistan over the Obama administration’s escalation of the Afghan War. He is now an analyst and commentator on foreign and military policy issues as a senior fellow with the Eisenhower Media Network. He serves on the advisory boards of many peace organizations\, including Veterans for Peace and World Beyond War\, and is an associate member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. \nRegister to attend:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/ukraine-war-end-it-now-or-lose-much-more-later/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Ukraine/Russia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260114T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260114T213000
DTSTAMP:20260115T001148Z
CREATED:20260113T191446Z
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SUMMARY:US Aggression towards Venezuela and its Repercussions for Latin America (a WIRN webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Wedenesday January 14th @ 8PM\n \nThe recent U.S. military attacks and threats on Venezuela are just its latest acts of war on its southern neighbor. Since the rise of Hugo Chavez\, there have been coup attempts\, sanctions\, subversive support of the right-wing opposition\, theft of financial assets\, and the widespread dissemination of lies and propaganda portraying Venezuela as a threat to the U.S. But now\, the Trump regime appears more determined than ever to bring about regime change in this country that has the largest proven reserves of oil in the world. \nThe danger of this U.S aggression is not just to the people of Venezuela\, but to the rest of Latin America as well\, especially to the targeted nations of Cuba\, Nicaragua\, and Colombia. The U.S.\, under the banner of the Monroe Doctrine\, considers all of Latin America its sphere of influence and means to reinvigorate its dominance and exploitation of natural resources there. Capturing Venezuela would be a jewel in the imperial crown\, but it would also inevitably lead to more and more neo-colonization throughout the hemisphere. \n \nSpeakers: \nJohn Perry\, based in Nicaragua\, is with the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition and writes for the Grayzone\, London Review of Books\, FAIR\, Covert Action and elsewhere \nRoger Harris taught political science at a Historically Black College in Mississippi in the late 1960s and was involved in the civil rights movement and community organizing in East Harlem\, New York City. He is a co-founder of the Venezuela Solidarity Network and was an election accompanier for the last presidential election in Venezuela. Roger is on the state central committee of the California Peace and Freedom Party and on the board of the human rights organization\, the Task Force on the Americas. He is on the program committee of the Marxist Forum and on the secretariat of the US Peace Council. He is active in the SanctionsKill campaign and the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition. His political writings may be regularly found at Counterpunch\, LA Progressive\, Antiwar.com\, Venezuelanalysis\, and the Orinoco Tribune.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/us-aggression-towards-venezuela-and-its-repercussions-for-latin-america-a-wirn-webinar/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Latin America,Raytheon Antiwar Campaign
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260113T200000
DTSTAMP:20260107T174918Z
CREATED:20260104T211029Z
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SUMMARY:What’s going on in Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Trump’s “Peace Proposal”\, the UN Security Council resolution and their significance for the future of Gaza \nPhyllis Bennis and Richard Falk will focus on the developments on the ground in Gaza\, the US role and Trump’s “peace” plan\, the consequences of the latest UN Security Council resolution\, and what the UN has done and failed to do regarding the genocide.  They will also talk about the current situation in the West Bank. \nPhyllis Bennis is Program Director at the Institute for Policy Studies; in 2001 helped found the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights\, served 6 Years on the board of Jewish Voice for Peace.  She is author of the 2025 Understanding Palestine and Israel (Interlink Books). \nRichard Falk is former UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories for the UN Human Rights Council 2008-2014. He is Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University.   \nSponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund; cosponsored by the International Peace Bureau and Campaign for Peace\, Disarmament\, and Common Security. \n \nRegister to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/calling-it-what-it-is-whats-going-on-in-palestine/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260105T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260105T203000
DTSTAMP:20260215T210200Z
CREATED:20251214T055514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260215T210200Z
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SUMMARY:What is Trump’s Golden Dome? Are We Paying for Ineffective Missile Defense and a Spiraling Nuclear Arms Race?
DESCRIPTION:Missile Defense\, as the term implies\, is defending against enemy missiles carrying an explosive payload. The origin of these anti-missile systems dates back to the Cold War space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union\, an era when intercontinental ballistic missiles could be deployed in space to launch satellites to orbit or travel thousands of miles carrying nuclear weapons. Missile defense systems were deployed by both superpowers in the 1960s\, but proved to be technically infeasible and prohibitively expensive. They were ultimately abandoned. \nFeasibility and cost notwithstanding\, the U.S. military and weapons contractors succeeded in pursuing these systems during the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush administrations. Now\, Donald Trump has launched the ambitious Golden Dome project\, yet another missile defense program based on technologies and space-based interceptors proven to be unworkable. \nIn this webinar\, we will hear three experts discuss the technical and policy aspects of Golden Dome. \nTed Postol\, professor emeritus at MIT\, is an internationally known analyst and long-time critic of the missile defense program. He has held positions at the Argonne National Laboratory\, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment\, and the Pentagon\, where he functioned as scientific advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations and technical and policy advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At Stanford\, he helped build a weapons technology training program for development and arms control policy. His awards include the 1995 Hilliard Roderick Prize in Science\, Arms Control\, and International Security from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) which lauded him as “by-far the strongest\, technically-trained\, independent arms control analyst of his generation” and the mentor of “a whole generation of independent arms control policy analysts.” He has been awarded for whistle-blowing about governmental false claims about missile defenses like the Patriot system in the 1991 Gulf War. He is a member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations\, a board member of The Committee for the Republic\, and a former editor of the journal International Security. \nDaryl Kimball is the Executive Director of the Arms Control Association (ACA)\, Washington\, DC\, where since 2001 he has led the organization’s advocacy campaigns on major issues including cancellation of new nuclear weapons programs\, the 2010 New START agreement\, the 2015 P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran\, the entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty\, and strengthening the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. He is publisher of the organization’s monthly journal\, Arms Control Today\, a frequent expert source for reporters and policymakers\, and has written and spoken extensively about all matters related to nuclear arms control. Previously\, he was the executive director of the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers\, and the Director of Security Programs for Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). There\, he helped to expose and accelerate the cleanup of a toxic\, Cold War-era nuclear weapons production site in his hometown of Oxford\, Ohio\, led the advocacy for the 1992 nuclear test moratorium in Congress and for the U.N.’s endorsement of the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. \nSubrata Ghoshroy\, a former Senior Defense Analyst for the Government Accountability Office (GAO)\, was the lead Technical Evaluator for its investigation into allegations of fraud in the missile defense program. When the GAO tried to cover up his discovery that contractors were lying about a $100-million test\, he blew the whistle and quit the GAO shortly afterwards. He then joined MIT as a Research Affiliate with the Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society. \nLinda Pentz Gunter\, moderator\, is the curator and editor of Beyond Nuclear International and the international specialist at Beyond Nuclear. Prior to her work in anti-nuclear advocacy\, she was a journalist for 20 years in print and broadcast\, working for USA Network\, Reuters\, The Times (UK) and other US and international outlets. \nRegister to attend:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/trumps-golden-dome/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Nuclear Disarmament
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251216T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251216T190000
DTSTAMP:20251212T201759Z
CREATED:20251209T161647Z
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SUMMARY:Trump's Foreign Policy Doctrine
DESCRIPTION:We will evaluate the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy\, which is a break from the post-1945 bipartisan foreign policy consensus and a formal codification of Trumpism’s imperialist\, white nationalist\, transactionalist agenda. \nJoseph Gerson is president of the Campaign for Peace\, Disarmament and Common Security\, vice-president of the International Peace Bureau\, and a board member of Massachusetts Peace Action. He formerly headed the Peace and Economic Security Program of the American Friends Service Committee.   He is author of Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World  (2007) and With Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War\, Nuclear Extortion\, and Moral Imagination (1995). \nKhury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow and the Co-Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). He researches U.S. empire\, borders\, and migration and strategizes with activists to work against the violence that the U.S. carries out and supports around the world. Khury focuses especially on U.S. militarism in the Middle East and in the Pacific\, and movements that resist it. He graduated from the Clark University Graduate School of Geography in Massachusetts\, after completing a dissertation on U.S. military bases in the Pacific. He is one of the co-authors and organizers of the 2023 Black Voices for Ceasefire statement\, which was signed by over 6\,000 Black activists\, artists\, and scholars. \nSponsored by MAPA Education Fund\, the Campaign for Peace\, Disarmament\, and Common Security\, and the IPS New Internationalism Project. \nRegister to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/trumps-foreign-policy-doctrine/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Strategy and Ideas
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251211T203000
DTSTAMP:20251127T203158Z
CREATED:20251126T045813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251127T203158Z
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SUMMARY:Veterans Healthcare Choices: Privatization and Its Negative Impact on Women Veterans
DESCRIPTION:Seeking Women’s Health Justice\, a subcommittee of MAPA’s Fund Healthcare Not Warfare campaign\, examines women’s health from the perspective of justice – with the awareness that peace is a fundamental issue of health. The cost of U.S. militarism drains economic resources at the expense of health and lives. Through awareness and understanding of the culture that promotes war\, we examine the intersection of peace and women’s health\, which is justice. Our work offers paths of action that can be taken to oppose militarism and to nurture health and enhance justice. \nIn this webinar\, veterans’ health care policy analyst Suzanne Gordon will delve into the Veterans Administration specialized efforts to treat female veterans\, and how this care and expertise is being lost due to this transition to private sector care. \nCase in point: one out of three women veterans has experienced some form of sexual harassment or assault during military service. Every VA mental health provider is required to take basic military sexual trauma (MST) training and some specialize in this area. However\, the VA MISSION Act of 2018 established a private sector network\, the Veterans Community Care Program\, that contracts private-sector therapists who typically have no MST training. \nFor over a decade\, opponents of the integrated healthcare system run by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) have assured veterans that privatizing their care through widespread outsourcing to private sector providers will give them more healthcare choices\, forming a new network of timely\, high quality\, and ultra-convenient care. But if more VA care is outsourced to the private sector\, will veterans\, in fact\, enjoy “a vast array of healthcare choices\,” as one privatization advocate claimed? Will they drive shorter distances for their medical or mental health appointments? And will they see reduced wait-times? Finally\, are there really thousands of doctors\, therapists\, and other clinicians ready and able to care for the nine million American veterans currently enrolled in the VA? The Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute (VHPI) released a comprehensive\, 50-state report entitled: “Veterans’ Health Care Choice — Myth or Reality? A State- by- State Reality Check of the False Promise of VA Privatization.” It definitively answers these questions. \nSuzanne Gordon is a senior policy analyst at the VHPI\, an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the UCSF School of Nursing\, and an award-winning journalist. She has authored or coauthored 11 books\, the most recent being Wounds of War: How the VA Delivers Health\, Healing\, and Hope to the Nation’s Veterans. Together with Lisa Hayes\, she has written a play about patient safety and teamwork entitled Bedside Manners. \nRegister to attend: \n \nRead the report Veterans’ Health Care Choice — Myth or Reality? Click on Massachusetts in the graphic on this page to see the report for the Commonwealth.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/veterans-healthcare-choices-privatization-and-its-negative-impact-on-women-veterans/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Fund Healthcare Not Warfare
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251209T203000
DTSTAMP:20251204T171806Z
CREATED:20251114T012000Z
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SUMMARY:The Trillion Dollar War Machine
DESCRIPTION:How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home \nAmerica spends a trillion dollars a year on its military. This extraordinary spending not only detracts from our ability to address pressing social problems but compels us into foreign wars to justify our vast arsenal. Sold to us in the name of “security\,” our military industrial complex actually makes us far less safe. \nTop policy experts William D. Hartung and Ben Freeman will discuss their new book The Trillion Dollar War Machine\, which follows the profits of militarism from traditional Pentagon contractors\, who receive more than half of the Pentagon’s budget\, to the upstart high-tech firms that shamelessly promote unproven and destabilizing technologies. They unmask the enablers of the war machine—politicians\, lobbyists\, the media\, Hollywood\, think tanks\, and so many more—whose work enriches a wealthy elite at the expense of everybody else\, spreading conflict around the world and embroiling America in endless wars. A damning tour de force\, The Trillion Dollar War Machine shows who is pulling the strings and pushing for war\, and offers a blueprint for how we can shut down the war machine and restore American security and prosperity. \nWilliam D. Hartung focuses on the arms industry and US military budget. He was previously the director of the Arms and Security Program at the Center for International Policy and the co-director of the Center’s Sustainable Defense Task Force. Bill is the co-author\, with Ben Freeman\, of the recently released The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home. He is also the author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (Nation Books\, 2011) and the co-editor\, with Miriam Pemberton\, of Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War (Paradigm Press\, 2008). And Weapons for All (HarperCollins\, 1995) is a critique of US arms sales policies from the Nixon through Clinton administrations. \nBill previously directed programs at the New America Foundation and the World Policy Institute. He also worked as a speechwriter and policy analyst for New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams. Hartung’s articles on security issues have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Los Angeles Times\, The Nation\, and the World Policy Journal.\nHe has been a featured expert on national security issues on CBS 60 Minutes\, NBC Nightly News\, the PBS Newshour\, CNN\, Fox News\, and scores of local\, regional\, and international TV and radio outlets. \nBen Freeman is director of the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute. Ben is the co-author\, with William Hartung\, of the recently released The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home. He investigates money in politics\, defense spending\, and foreign influence in America. He is the author of The Foreign Policy Auction\, which was the first book to systematically analyze the foreign influence industry in the United States. Before joining the Quincy Institute\, Ben founded the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy\, served as Deputy Director of the National Security program at Third Way\, and was a National Security Fellow at the Project On Government Oversight. At the latter\, he spear-headed creation of the “Foreign Influence Database\,” a repository of propaganda distributed by foreign agents that was previously unavailable online. \nBen earned a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University\, where he taught in the Political Science Department and the Bush School of Government and Public Service. He is currently a faculty member at the Institute for Defense and Business\, where he teaches seminars on the defense budget process and the foreign influence industry. \nHis work has appeared in numerous media outlets\, including the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Los Angeles Times\, Wall Street Journal\, and Politico. Ben has appeared on CNN\, BBC\, NPR\, Fresh Air with Terry Gross and numerous other media outlets. He has also testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee. \nCosponsored by War Industries Resistance Network and Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund \n \n  \nRegister
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/the-trillion-dollar-war-machine/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Fund the People, Not the Pentagon
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251205T170000
DTSTAMP:20260219T144237Z
CREATED:20251125T172857Z
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SUMMARY:Protecting Campus Expression in the Greater Boston Area
DESCRIPTION:Freedom to Speak\, To Teach\, To Learn\, To Research; \nWith Security and Affordability \nA Teach-in with the AAUP/AFT campaign leading up to a national Day of Action on May 1\, 2026. \n \nPlease REGISTER and forward to Campus Colleagues \nThe  AAUP and AFT have organized a national campaign resisting the Trump attacks on our campuses\, to engage faculty\, staffs\, students and alumni The call is for teach-ins on the first Fridays of the month leading up to a national event on Friday May 1\, 2026. The Greater Boston area is home to more than 50 colleges and universities\, but few have active AAUP chapters or AFT locals. To advance the Days of Action Campaign in Greater Boston the Books Not Bombs Committee is holding  a series of Zoom Teach-ins. The second in our Boston-area Zoom Teach-ins will be Friday Dec 5\, 4-5 pm. \nWelcome– Owen Madaus (Books Not Bombs Committee; Brandeis U) \nLegal Issues with the Trump Compact – Traci Griffith (ACLU MA) \nUpdate on the AAUP/AFT campaign – Lukas Moe (AAUP regional organizer) \nReport on Educational Freedom Project Rally– Jack Masliah (Northeastern students) \nState Colleges and allies including Students Rise Up – Rich Levy (MTA; Mass State College Association) \nHigh Tech Council Tax Cut Referenda and Sign-On letter – Harris Gruman (SEIU Massachusetts Political Director) \nLiving Wages for Campus Workers – Evan McKay (Harvard UAW local) \nProgram Committee:  Prof. Jonathan King\, Owen Madaus\, Prof. Gary Goldstein\, Prof. William Woodward\,  Hayat Imam \nSponsored by the Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/protecting-campus-expression-in-the-greater-boston-area-2/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Books Not Bombs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251202T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251202T203000
DTSTAMP:20251119T022113Z
CREATED:20251119T022113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T022113Z
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SUMMARY:UKRAINE WAR:  Negotiate\, Don’t Escalate and Risk WWIII
DESCRIPTION:Retired Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatowski of the Eisenhower Media Network will discuss the critical stage that the Ukraine War has reached\, and the urgent need to end it with painful but realistic concessions now before Ukraine loses far more soldiers and territory in the near future\, and before possible US/NATO escalation to help Ukraine avoid total defeat leads to the precipice of nuclear war with Russia. \nLt. Col. Karen U. Kwiatkowski is a retired U.S. Air Force officer whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and various roles for the National Security Agency. After retiring\, she became a noted critic of the U.S. involvement in Iraq. Kwiatkowski is known for her insider essays denouncing a corrupting political influence on military intelligence\, especially leading up to the 2003 Iraq War. In 2012\, she challenged incumbent Bob Goodlatt in the Republican primary for Virginia’s 6th district in the U.S. House of Representatives. \nWhile in the Air Force\, she wrote the books Africa: African Crisis Response Initiative: Past Present and Future (2000) and Expeditionary Air Operations in Africa: Challenges and Solutions (2001). She contributed to Ron Paul: A Life of Ideas (2008) and Why Liberty: Personal Journeys Toward Peace and Freedom (2010). She has been featured in several documentaries\, including Why We Fight (2005). She has written for LewRockwell.com since 2003 and her work has appeared in Salon and The American Conservative. She has an MA in Government from Harvard\, an MS in Science Management from the University of Alaska\, and a PhD in World Politics from The Catholic University of America; her thesis was titled Angola\, A Case Study of the Implementation of the Reagan Doctrine. She is a founding member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. \nRegister to attend:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/ukraine-war-negotiate-dont-escalate-and-risk-wwiii/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Ukraine/Russia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T203000
DTSTAMP:20251105T172843Z
CREATED:20251105T021322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251105T172843Z
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SUMMARY:Report from the West Bank
DESCRIPTION:Benny Davidovitch recently returned from the West Bank as part of a Protective Presence for Palestinian shepherds and their families. This presentation is based on his personal experience in the 2 weeks he spent with families in the West Bank (northern Jordan valley). He has put together an excellent presentation on his time there\, including photos and videos taken by himself and other volunteers. It is approximately 25-30 mins\, and consists mainly of photos and short films of events that he and others with the group Jordan Valley Activists (JVA) witnessed during their stays in West Bank communities. \nDavidovitch is an American-Israeli who is a volunteer with JVA\, a group comprised of mostly Jewish Israelis who provide a “protective presence” between Palestinian shepherds and the settlers who target them. They document law violations and other abuses committed by the settlers and fund-raise to help shepherds access water when sources are restricted by the Israeli army. Since the Hamas attack of October 2023\, the settler movement has used Israel’s siege in Gaza as an opportunity to intensify their established campaign of violent harassment of Palestinian shepherds and their families– including arbitrary arrests\, home demolitions\, land grabs\, and murders. \n\nBenjamin Davidovitch\, an American-Israeli resident of Amherst MA since 2007\, works as a Physics Professor at UMass Amherst. In the summer of 2025\, he joined the Jordan Valley Activists – Israeli volunteers who stay 24/7 with Palestinian communities at risk\, and provide them with “protective presence” against their harassment and displacement by violent settler groups. \nRegister to attend:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/report-from-the-west-bank/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T203000
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CREATED:20251031T171130Z
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SUMMARY:Media Bias and the Gaza Genocide
DESCRIPTION:Since October 2023\, historian Assal Rad and journalist Sana Saeed have closely tracked media coverage of the war in Gaza\, highlighting how much of it aligns with the Israeli narrative and distorts key facts — contributing to widespread misinformation and disinformation. \nOur speakers will present examples of headlines that obscure the facts\, and we will have some time to practice our media literacy skills! \n\nDr. Assal Rad is a historian of the modern Middle East. She works on research and writing related to U.S. foreign policy issues\, the Middle East\, contemporary Iran\, and Israel/Palestine. Her writing can be seen in Newsweek\, The National Interest\, The Independent\, Foreign Policy and more\, and she has appeared as a commentator on BBC World\, Al Jazeera\, CNN\, and NPR. Assal completed a PhD in History from the University of California\, Irvine in 2018 and is the author of The State of Resistance: Politics\, Culture\, and Identity in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press\, 2022). \nSana Saeed is an award-winning journalist and media critic known for her sharp analysis of how media shapes public perception. She previously hosted the shows Backspace and The Occupation Style Guide at AJ+ that illuminated the ways mainstream news frames narratives around war\, colonialism\, and resistance. Since October 2023\, she has been at the forefront of critically exposing how U.S. media propaganda is used to justify war crimes and shape public discourse around the genocide in Gaza. \n  \nRegister to attend:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/media-bias-and-the-gaza-genocide/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T200000
DTSTAMP:20251113T183114Z
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SUMMARY:Nuclear-free for Climate
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/nuclear-free-for-climate/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Peace and Climate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T200000
DTSTAMP:20251010T204920Z
CREATED:20251010T204602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251010T204920Z
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SUMMARY:Anti-Semitism as a Smokescreen: Effects of Pseudo Anti-semitism on Women
DESCRIPTION:Under the guise of condemning anti-semitism\, the current U.S. presidential administration has weaponized and distorted the true meaning of antisemitic philosophy and actions. Countering anti-semitism has become a bullying tactic on U.S. college campuses and is being used as a means to discredit or demonize supporters of Palestinian rights. \nThis brand of anti-semitism has become a smokescreen for punishing institutions and activists and can be seen as “pseudo anti-semitism”\, a false interpretation and deliberate twisting of the concept used to confuse and further polarize the U.S. electorate.\n \nSpeakers will address how “pseudo anti-semitism” affects women in the U.S. and in Palestine\, contributing to the dangerous rhetoric of the ongoing war taking place there. \nAlice Rothchild\, MD is a retired obstetrician-gynecologist who worked in the health care reform and women’s movements for many years. She directed a documentary film Voices Across the Divide\, an oral history project sharing the stories of Palestinians\, which premiered at the Boston Palestine Film Festival\, 2013. \nSince 1997\, she has focused much of her energy on understanding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from a progressive perspective. Her books on this topic include Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine\, Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine\, On the Brink: Israel and Palestine on the Eve of the 2014 Gaza Invasion\, Shifting Sands: Jewish Women Confront the Israeli Occupation\, and Broken Promises\, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience. \nLubna Alzaroo\, PhD grew up in Hebron\, Palestine before moving to the U.S. for graduate school on a Fulbright Scholarship. Her upbringing in Palestine shaped her interest in Environmental Justice issues. She has master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Washington with a focus on the Environmental Humanities. Her research is on the representation of settler-colonial infrastructure\, and the environment in both U.S and Palestinian Literature. She is a lecturer in the Program on the Environment and the Comparative History of Ideas department at The University of Washington and also teaches Environmental Science at South Seattle College. Her courses focus on environmental justice and Settler Colonial Infrastructures. \nSponsored by the Women’s Health Subteam of Fund Healthcare Not Warfare\, MAPA Education Fund.  Register to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/anti-semitism-as-a-smokescreen-effects-of-pseudo-anti-semitism-on-women/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T203000
DTSTAMP:20251020T164544Z
CREATED:20250929T233517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T164544Z
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SUMMARY:Is Ukraine Headed for Peace or Nuclear War?
DESCRIPTION:The proxy war being waged in Ukraine carries the ever-present danger of escalating into a nuclear conflict. Russia is winning the war on the battlefield. Ukraine’s army is decimated\, its economy gutted\, and its environment devastated. Hundreds of thousands have been killed or wounded. Either the war will end at the negotiating table\, with some kind of peace agreement\, or the West will decide to escalate along a path of ever greater and more direct confrontation with Russia. What are the decisions – past\, present\, and future – that could lead us to World War III? \nOn the one hand\, the West’s policies – of encouraging the expansion of NATO\, withdrawing from crucial nuclear treaties\, stationing nuclear-capable missiles in Romania and Poland\, assisting Ukraine’s drone attacks on Russia’s early-warning radar systems and nuclear-capable bombers\, allowing the use of NATO countries’ long-range missiles to strike deep within Russia – are headed for  disaster. On the other hand\, Russia has adopted a new doctrine that declares it could carry out nuclear attacks in response to any attack on its territory by a non-nuclear state backed by a nuclear armed power. … Where will it end? \nVeteran defense policy analyst Richard Krushnic will examine multiple scenarios in which this war could end\, either in peace or in Armageddon. \nRichard Kruschnic writes about military corporate influence over U.S. foreign policy\, the Ukraine War and Raytheon Technologies. He continues to be involved in the community development financing in Cambridge\, MA\, and Nicaragua.  In addition to the Ukraine Committee\, he works with MAPA’s Nuclear Disarmament and Latin America and Caribbean working groups\, and Mass Public Banking. \nRegister for this event: \n \nSponsored by Ukraine: A Time for Peace\, a priority campaign of Massachusetts Peace Action.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/is-ukraine-headed-for-peace-or-nuclear-war/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Ukraine/Russia
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T200000
DTSTAMP:20251013T212925Z
CREATED:20251013T212925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251013T212925Z
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SUMMARY:Sumud at Sea: Brothers' Bold Stand with the Sumud Flotilla
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/sumud-at-sea-brothers-bold-stand-with-the-sumud-flotilla/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251019T170000
DTSTAMP:20251014T172746Z
CREATED:20251014T172746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251014T172746Z
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SUMMARY:Regional Peace & Justice Gathering Online
DESCRIPTION:Let’s come together to build relationships between organizations\, invite people to join us who aren’t already engaged and get ready for action and campaign building. \nTopics will be: Building Unusual Coalitions: Reclaiming the National Guard + Congressional War Powers; Teaching De-escalation: Interrupting Violence with a De-escalation Program; Peace Unions and Partnering with Working Class People. \nHosted by NH Peace Action\, United for Peace & Justice\, Mass Peace Action\, Action Corps\, Action Corps Mass\, Peace Action Maine and others. \nPreregister with Zoom HERE
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/regional-peace-justice-gathering-online/
LOCATION:Online Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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