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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
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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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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T190000
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T203000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T200000
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CREATED:20251013T212925Z
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SUMMARY:Sumud at Sea: Brothers' Bold Stand with the Sumud Flotilla
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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
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CREATED: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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251014T203000
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CREATED:20250924T011335Z
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SUMMARY:Developing a New U.S. Policy in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Josh Paul is a former State Department official who resigned his position due to his opposition to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East\, specifically to the U.S. providing lethal arms to Israel in violation of U.S. laws such as the Leahy Law.  He founded a new organization called “A New Policy”\, whose mission is to advocate for U.S. policy that will “Advance American national security & foreign policy interests\, Reflect American political deals\, including freedom\, equality\, and human rights\, and Comply with American Laws governing the provision of security assistance and the transfer of arms equally to all countries in the Middle East\, including Israel.”  Mr. Paul will talk about his work with A New Policy and share his analysis of the current debates in Congress and Washington\, D.C. as to U.S. policy on Israel and the Middle East. \nJosh Paul co-founded A New Policy together with former U.S. Department of Education policy advisor Tariq Habash. Paul resigned from the State Department in October\, 2023 due to his disagreement with the Biden Administration rushing lethal military assistance to Israel. He had previously spent over 11 years working as a Director in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs\, which is responsible for U.S. defense diplomacy\, security assistance\, and arms transfers. He previously worked on security sector reform in both Iraq and the West Bank\, with additional roles in the Office of the Secretary of Defense\, U.S. Army Staff\, and as a Military Legislative Assistant for a Member of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee. He grew up between London and New York\, holds Masters degrees from the Universities of Georgetown and St Andrews\, Scotland\, and is a recipient of the 2023 Callaway Award for Civic Courage and 2024 MedGlobal Award for Courage. \nRegister for this event:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/developing-a-new-u-s-policy-in-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T213000
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SUMMARY:Disrupting Genocide: Louisville's 'Raytheon 5' (a WIRN webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 8\, 2025 8:00 PM –  9:30 PM ET \n\nAt 5:30am on February 2\, 2024\, fifteen protesters blocked all entrances to Raytheon Corporation and BAE Systems in south Louisville\, successfully shutting down daily operations for the day. LMPD arrested the protestors and they spent half a day in jail. Ten of the protestors plead guilty and accepted a deal while five remained and decided to take the case to trial. This webinar welcomes three members of the Raytheon 5 to discuss their journey from arrest to spectacle of their gag-ordered trial\, where all five were found guilty of trespassing on key infrastructure assets. \n \nThis webinar welcomes three members of the Raytheon 5 to discuss their journey from arrest to spectacle of their gag-ordered trial\, where all five were found guilty of trespassing on key infrastructure assets. \nPresenters: \nScott Rosario Mottola is a writer\, organizer\, and service industry worker. They are an original founding board member of Locals for Liberation and currently live in Louisville\, KY. \nSonja Wilde-de Vries is a lifelong queer anti-racist and social justice organizer. She/they is a daughter of holocaust survivors. Wilde-de Vries is also a documentary film filmmaker (Out: The Making of a Revolutionary\, Gay Cuba ) has published several books of poetry\, including “ Planting A Garden In Baghdad “ and co-founded “Queers for Cuba” Wilde-de Vries considers Palestine to be the epi-center of Liberation for all and in her free time communes with trees and wild critters. Wilde-de Vries has been to occupied Palestine several times. \nAsh Eisenmenger\, is an artist who’s been involved in the movement for collective liberation in various capacities since awakening to systemic oppression through an AORTA Cooperative workshop in 2014. She dreams of living to see a world in which we’re all free.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/disrupting-genocide-louisvilles-raytheon-5-a-wirn-webinar/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Raytheon Antiwar Campaign
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T203000
DTSTAMP:20260602T023010
CREATED:20250912T144746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T190203Z
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SUMMARY:Meltdown of Democracy: Bringing Nukes Back Despite Statewide Vote Against Them
DESCRIPTION:The Energy Affordability\, Independence\, and Innovation Act (H.4144) has lots of good things in it. There is at least one big problem with it\, though: the bill’s Section 45 would repeal a citizen-initiated ballot measure – without going back to the voters first. It is in the Joint Committee on Telecommunications\, Utilities\, and Energy and is being fast-tracked for passage in the fall. \nSection 45 calls for the repeal of a 1982 Act that created democratic control of dangerous nuclear technology. It contains two key things: Before any new nuclear power facilities are built in Massachusetts\, a majority of voters must approve\, AND the vote cannot even be held unless there is an operating\, permanent repository for the radioactive waste that would be generated. There is no permanent repository! The dangerous high-level waste is sitting out in the open at six reactor sites ringing Massachusetts\, including in Plymouth\, Rowe\, and nearby Seabrook and VT Yankee. \nGovernor Healey has chosen to just get rid of the law\, silencing our voices (and the democratic process) She wants to build Small Modular Reactors (SMRS) even though it would be many years before these are practical—and they will be extremely expensive\, still produce toxic nuclear waste\, and include safety and security concerns.  Far better to invest NOW in conservation and sustainable and safer forms of energy! \nPanelists for the webinar are long-time environmental activists who have decades of experience fighting the nuclear industry and the pro-nuclear lobby. They will discuss the history of nuclear power in and around Massachusetts and its toxic impact on our communities\, the Governor’s proposal for bringing in new nuclear\, and will also offer a more democratic and carbon-free\, nuclear-free path forward.  Join us and find out what you can do for a safer environment for all. \nDeborah Katz\, CSW is executive director of Citizens Awareness Network\, a non -profit\, grassroots New England organization fighting for clean air\, democracy\, and environmental justice. She coordinates environmental justice tours including tours to Utah\, Nevada\, Washington\, DC and South Carolina\, three Action Camps\, and  national People’s Summits on Nuclear Waste.  Katz is an author who published Valley of the Shadow\, a picture book on the grief process for the left behind. \nDiane Turco is Executive Director of Cape Downwinders\, a Cape Cod volunteer community grassroots organization with the mission to investigate\, educate\, and agitate for  protection of the people and environment from ongoing threats to communities from Holtec-Pilgrim’s decommissioning plans and nuclear waste dump at the site in Plymouth. After meeting Dr. Helen Caldicott in 1981\, Diane began working then to end nuclear weapons and nuclear power and continues today. She is a retired teacher of children with intensive special needs and a grandmother of three sweet boys. \nChris Nord is the co-founder and Board member of the C-10 Research and Education Foundation – whose mission includes real-time radiological monitoring near the Seabrook atomic reactor\, as well as education the public about safe and sustainable energy a alternatives.  He is Vice-President of the Citizens Awareness Network and founding member and non-violence trainer of the Clamshell Alliance.  He is the creator of the presentation “Nuclear Spent Fuel and Homeland Security: The Case forHardened Storage.” and also co-producer of “Circles Around the Fire”\, a 30-minute slide/video program on nuclear power in New England. \nOrganized by MAPA’s Nuclear Disarmament WG and Indigenous Solidarity WG. Cosponsored by the  Commonwealth Coalition For Democracy and Safe Energy
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/meltdown-of-democracy-bringing-nukes-back-despite-statewide-vote-against-them/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Nuclear Disarmament
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T203000
DTSTAMP:20260602T023010
CREATED:20250904T161300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260215T210455Z
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SUMMARY:What in the World is Happening with Ukraine?
DESCRIPTION:A look at the immediate and big picture developments that combine to bring us to the present situation in Ukraine which clarifies the issues that need to be resolved to end the war. \nAn eye-opening analysis of the underlying causes of the war which\, if not addressed\, stand in the way of a stable diplomatic settlement: NATO expansion\, Kyiv’s repression of Russian speaking Ukrainians\, dismissal of Russia’s core security interests\, European and U.S. exclusion of Russia from the European security architecture. And on the other hand\, Ukraine’s legitimate security concerns and need to protect its territorial integrity. Interestingly\, George Beebe does not see the acquisition of Ukrainian territories as a Russia’s goal in fighting the war. Rather\, he claims\, the focus for Russia all along has been its security concerns as it understands them. \nThe presentation then turns to the issue of how to resolve these underlying causes in a way that leads to a diplomatic resolution of the war. Here the presentation opens us up to stretch our thinking about what compromises might be possible. Given the actual causes of the war\, Russia’s real goals in conducting it\, and Russia’s advances on the battlefield\, Mr. Beebe sees certain elements of a solution as essential while others might be susceptible to compromise. Essential ones would be no NATO membership for Ukraine\, an end to the exclusion of Russia from Europe\, guarantees for Ukraine’s Russian speakers to their culture and religion\, and negotiation of a new security architecture for Europe that includes Russia’s security concerns. This new security architecture based on the principle of common security would then open up the possibility of negotiations for nuclear and conventional arms control (which Putin brought up at the press conference after his Alaska meeting with Trump). \nAreas of possible compromise that benefit Ukraine might be Russian approval of Ukraine joining the European Union\, firm security guarantees from the countries of the U.N. security council (not NATO countries)\, which weapons and military training Ukraine could acquire\, and long term compromises over territories now controlled or annexed by Russia. \nIn the midst of this analysis George Beebe will provide a critique of Trump’s policies and goals.We all have a lot to learn from this webinar which will help us get a better understanding of a Ukrainian crisis which remains the most likely trigger for terminal nuclear war if not resolved. \n\nGeorge Beebe is Director of Grand Strategy at the Quincy Institute. He spent more than two decades in government as an intelligence analyst\, diplomat\, and policy advisor\, including as director of the CIA’s Russia analysis\, director of the CIA’s Open Source Center\, and as a staff advisor on Russia matters to Vice President Cheney. His book\, The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe (St. Martin’s Press\, 2019)\, warned how the United States and Russia could stumble into a dangerous military confrontation. Prior to joining QI\, George was Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for the National Interest and before that he served as president of a technology company that measured the impact of events\, issues\, and advertising campaigns on audience views. He speaks Russian and German. \nRegister for this event: \n \nSponsored by the Ukraine Campaign of Massachusetts Peace Action and the Campaign for Peace\, Disarmament\, and Common Security.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/the-key-factors-shaping-present-developments-in-ukraine/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Ukraine/Russia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250916T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250916T203000
DTSTAMP:20260602T023010
CREATED:20250811T033442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250822T042921Z
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SUMMARY:Dire Healthcare Situation in Gaza
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Perlmutter\, Dr. Syed and Dr. Sidhwa will talk about their most recent experiences working in the remaining hospitals in Gaza where they witnessed severe injuries and the impact of starvation and displacement on the Palestinians struggling to survive. \nDr. Mark Perlmutter is a hand and upper extremity orthopedic surgeon in North Carolina. During his second trip to Gaza\, he worked in Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah and the Nasser Medical Complex in the south of the territory in March 2025 as part of a WHO program. Perlmutter was working at Nasser hospital when the second floor of the building was targeted in an airstrike. The president of the World Surgical Foundation\, he has worked in dozens of disaster zones worldwide for decades\, including the 9/11 attack in Manhattan\, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in Shreveport\, Louisiana\, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. \nDr. Mimi Syed DO\, MBA\, FACEP\, a board-certified emergency medicine physician\, is an assistant clinical professor at University of Washington and Washington State University. She is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Syed served in Gaza from August 8 to September 5\, 2024\, and December 3 to December 31\, 2024\, at both al-Aqsa Hospital and Nasser Hospital. \nDr. Feroze Sidhwa is a general\, trauma\, and critical care surgeon in Stockton\, California who has worked in conflict zones worldwide. He has had extensive experience working with patients in Gaza in March-April 2024 and again from March 3-April 1\, 2025 with the American NGO MedGlobal. In collaboration with other healthcare professionals\, Dr. Sidhwa published the New York Times October 9\, 2024 review “65 Doctors\, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza“. \nRegister to attend:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/dire-healthcare-situation-in-gaza/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Palestine/Israel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250908T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250908T203000
DTSTAMP:20260602T023010
CREATED:20250825T220923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T003729Z
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SUMMARY:The US and El Salvador: Parallels on Political Persecution and Mass Incarceration
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, September 8th\, 7pm EST\n \nPresidents 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 safety\, scapegoating immigrants or weaponizing fears of gang violence to further their agendas. The truth is\, facilities like Alligator Alcatraz in Florida and CECOT in El Salvador don’t exist to protect the public — they seek to terrorize marginalized communities and set a precedent for indefinite detention with no hope of due process. \nJoin Lourdes Palacios\, a popular movement leader and former senior government official in El Salvador\, in discussing her work to free political prisoners and support their families. \nHear from Mneesha Gellman\, associate professor and director of the Emerson Prison Initiative\, who recently visited El Salvador and spent time interviewing families of prisoners at CECOT and other Salvadorian facilities. \nWe will also learn from our cosponsor CISPES (The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador) who will share details about their upcoming week of action\, beginning September 15th\, providing us with specific ways that the audience can get involved! \nWe won’t stand by as civilians permanently disappear into state-sanctioned prison camps. Learn about the connections between U.S. and Salvadoran carceral regimes\, and how you can take action. Live interpretation will be provided in both English and Spanish. \n \nImage credits: \nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrance_of_CECOT.png \nhttps://www.heute.at/i/wie-im-huehnerstall-italiener-klagen-ueber-zustaende-120120945/doc-1j0rglmlh4 \n  \n \nLunes\, 8 de septiembre\, de 7:00 p.m. a 8:30 p.m. EDT\nInscríbase aquí \nLos presidentes Donald Trump y Nayib Bukele están ejecutando proyectos autoritarios paralelos que utilizan la seguridad nacional para justificar los abusos contra los derechos humanos mediante el encarcelamiento masivo. Plataformas como MAGA y el partido Nuevas Ideas de Bukele disfrazan sus abusos de poder como preocupaciones por la seguridad pública\, utilizando a las personas inmigrantes como chivos expiatorios o aprovechando el miedo a la violencia de las pandillas para promover sus agendas. La verdad es que instalaciones como Alligator Alcatraz en Florida y CECOT en El Salvador no existen para proteger a la gente\, sino que buscan aterrorizar a las comunidades marginalizadas y sentar un precedente para la detención indefinida sin esperanza de un proceso justo. \nÚnase a Lourdes Palacios\, líder de un movimiento popular y ex alta funcionaria del gobierno de El Salvador\, para conocer su trabajo para liberar a los presos políticos y apoyar a sus familias. \nEscuche a Mneesha Gellman\, profesora asociada y directora de la Iniciativa Penitenciaria de Emerson [Emerson Prison Initiative]\, que recientemente visitó El Salvador y pasó un tiempo entrevistando a presos en CECOT y otras cárceles salvadoreñas. \nTambién aprenderemos de nuestro copatrocinador CISPES (Comité en Solidaridad con el Pueblo de El Salvador)\, que compartirá detalles sobre su próxima semana de acción\, que comenzará el 15 de septiembre\, y nos proporcionará formas específicas en las que el público puede participar. \nNo nos quedaremos de brazos cruzados mientras las personas siguen desapareciendo de forma permanente en campos de prisioneros sancionados por el Estado. Conozca las conexiones entre los regímenes carcelarios de Estados Unidos y El Salvador\, y cómo puede tomar acción. Tendremos interpretación en vivo tanto en inglés como en español. \nInscríbase aquí \nCréditos de las imágenes: \nhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrance_of_CECOT.png \nhttps://www.heute.at/i/wie-im-huehnerstall-italiener-klagen-ueber-zustaende-120120945/doc-1j0rglmlh4
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/the-us-and-el-salvador-parallels-in-rising-fascism/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Latin America
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250813T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250813T123000
DTSTAMP:20260602T023010
CREATED:20250809T200744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250810T021347Z
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SUMMARY:Keep Space for Peace not War (a WIRN webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Roy Jones is a former musician who was part of the Post Punk scene in London in the late 70’s and early 80s with his band Red Beat. During this time he was active in the movement to stop Cruise Missiles with nuclear warheads being deployed in Western Europe. He later toured the States in 1987 as a keyboard player with the Howard Jones band. In the early 90s he was a founder member and fund raiser for the peace group PARC – Pembrokeshire Against the Radar Campaign who successfully fought US military plans to build a massive Over the Horizon Radar installation in a similar location to Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC)\, a proposal originating from President Trump’s US Space Force now in planning. A long standing Buddhist and member of the lay Buddhist group SGI\, Roy has continued to use his music to fight against nuclear weapons as a supporter of the International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). \nRegister for this event: \n \nAs a kind of trailer for this upcoming webinar\, check out this great 2-minute video done by the PARC against DARC campaign to stop a military radar in a Welsh National Park. \nKeep the Space above us for peace and science not war and profit! \nMusician Roy Jones outside of Welsh Parliament. (credit: Roy Jones)\n 
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/keeping-space-for-peace-not-war-a-wirn-webinar/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:No War with China,Nuclear Disarmament
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250812T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250812T203000
DTSTAMP:20260602T023010
CREATED:20250728T235253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250729T000500Z
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SUMMARY:Gaza Apocalypse
DESCRIPTION:Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani will talk about the current situation in Gaza\, including the U.S.-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation which has been killing people searching for food\, the ability of the international community to uphold International Court of Justice (ICJ) decisions and international law\, and the “Israelization of America.” \nMouin Rabbani is a Dutch-Palestinian researcher\, analyst\, and commentator specializing in the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestinian affairs. He is the co-editor of Jadaliyya\, an independent e-zine and webinar producer that covers the Arab World and the broader Middle East.  Previously\, Mr. Rabbani was a Senior Analyst for the International Crisis Group and the Palestine Director of the Palestine American Research Center. \nRegister to attend:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/gaza-apocalypse/
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:20250728T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250728T203000
DTSTAMP:20260602T023010
CREATED:20250723T193539Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250723T194609Z
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SUMMARY:Building for the 80th Commemoration of Hiroshima/Nagasaki
DESCRIPTION: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.” \nJoin us as Dr. Ira Helfand and Mari Inoue help us understand the importance of this anniversary and actions you can take to eliminate these omnicidal weapons. \nIra Helfand\, MD is a member of the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapon\, ICAN\, the recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize\, and Past President of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War\, which was the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. He is also co-Founder and Past President of Physicians for Social Responsibility. \nMari Inoue\, Esq. was born and raised in Tokyo\, Japan. While working as an immigration attorney in New York since 2001\, she has been active in grassroots movements to educate policy makers and elected officials of the costs\, risks\, and humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. She is a co-founder of the Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World\, board member of Peace Action NYS\, and an active member of Affected Communities and Allies Working Group.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/why-were-building-for-the-80th-year-hiroshima-nagasaki-commemoration-and-beyond-webinar-with-dr-ira-helfand-and-mari-inoue/
LOCATION:Online Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250710T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250710T213000
DTSTAMP:20260602T023010
CREATED:20250702T235910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250703T203350Z
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SUMMARY:Warning! Graphic Content!
DESCRIPTION:An event with award-winning cartoonist Dwayne Booth.\n  \n \nWhat is the future of political cartooning\, protest art\, and visual satire? How can pictures rendered in celebration of the precious vulnerability of the human experience make crystal clear the toxic barbarity of the military and retail industrial complexes\, both built on the hideous notion that the commodification of people everywhere and the willful disenfranchisement of their natural inclination towards peace\, love\, and understanding is better for business – better business being predatory capitalism and capitulation to hierarchy? What can be done to assert the importance and indispensability of the artist’s unique role in a free society as both a witness and predictor and\, in some circumstances\, instigator of all the comedy and tragedy that motivates our politics\, shapes our cultural identities\, and informs\, for better or worse\, the internal voice that shames\, praises\, and confounds our tenuous relationship with truth\, beauty\, and treachery every moment of everyday? \nMr. Fish \nDwayne Booth has been a freelance writer and cartoonist for twenty-five years\, publishing under both his real name and the pen name of Mr. Fish with many of the nation’s most reputable and prestigious magazines\, journals and newspapers.  His work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine\, the Los Angeles Times\, the Village Voice\, the LA Weekly\, the Atlantic\, The Nation\, Vanity Fair\, Mother Jones\, the Advocate\, Slate\, Truthdig\, ScheerPost\, and The Chris Hedges Report.  He has also published with Information for Social Change (British journal)\, Internazionale (Italian magazine)\, and Umanita Nova (Italian newspaper). \nHis awards include the Los Angeles Press Club for editorial cartooning\, the Grambs Aronson Award for Cartooning with a Conscience and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Editorial Cartooning.  He has curated exhibits exploring the history of political cartooning for the University of Southern California\, the University of Pennsylvania\, and the University of Connecticut. \n \nRegister for this event \n \nBooth’s most recent book is Nobody Left: Conversations with Famous Radicals\, Progressives and Cultural Icons About the End of Dissent\, Revolution and Liberalism in America\, Fantagraphics Books. \n  \n 
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/warning-graphic-content/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250618T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250618T190000
DTSTAMP:20260602T023010
CREATED:20250616T144742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250616T151334Z
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SUMMARY:MA Medicaid Defenders Phonebank
DESCRIPTION:ASK VOTERS TO TELL CONGRESS:\n#SAVEMEDICAID #SAVESNAP\n \nWe are calling voters in the most critical states to urge them to contact their Senator and tell them to vote against the largest cuts to healthcare and food nutrition benefits in US history! If they are willing\, we can immediately patch them through to their Senator to deliver a clear message: Medicaid and SNAP Save Lives and you should NOT vote to cut it! \nPlease read this important information. \nWe are calling voters in the most critical states to urge them to contact their Senator and tell them to vote against the largest cuts to healthcare and food nutrition benefits in US history! If they are willing\, we can immediately patch them through to their Senator to deliver a clear message: Medicaid and SNAP Save Lives and you should NOT vote to cut it! \n \nFOLLOW THE LINKS BELOW TO MAKE CALLS \n\n\n\n5:00 – 7:00PM (Eastern)\nCALL INTO [Maine/COLLINS]Click HERE to make callsClick HERE for Maine Fact Sheet\n\n\n\n\nClick here to RSVP for more shifts. \nMore information about calls and the auto-dialer system is provided below \nTable of Contents \n\n\nPhone Banking Overview: Who? What? Why? How?\n\nUsing the Dialer\n\nPhone Banking Overview: Who? What? Why? How?\nWhy are we making calls today?\nCongress is advancing a budget proposal that would gut Medicaid and SNAP benefits for no other reason than to fund more tax breaks for billionaires. Instead of addressing the real culprits—the ultra-rich and corporations who are driving up costs and prioritizing profits over people—these cuts target working families and communities already struggling to get by. Any cuts to Medicaid and food nutrition benefits put millions of people at risk and will result in people losing access to healthcare and food. \nWho are we talking to?\nWe are calling constituents who are most impacted and most likely to oppose these cuts and may be willing to contact their Senator\, especially those whose Senators have not committed to fully protecting Medicaid and SNAP.\n \nWhat are we talking about?\nWe are making sure constituents understand that their Senator has not committed to fully protecting Medicaid or SNAP benefits. We will offer to patch them through to their representative’s office to deliver a brief but urgent message: Any cuts to Medicaid or food nutrition benefits put millions of people at risk and will result in people losing their healthcare and reliable access to food.  \nUsing the Dialer\nSCALE TO WIN DIALER REFRESHER  \nShort Deck on Scale to Win \nScale to Win: How to Make Calls in Detail \nInteractive Training Course \nStep 1: Click the URL of the phone bank we’re currently dialing into\, linked to at the top of this doc.  \nStep 2: Click “Preview Script” to walk through the structure of the conversation as it will flow through the dialer.  If you’d like additional talking points\, any available documents will be available here\, linked to in the corresponding state in the Table of Contents on page 1. \nStep 3: When you feel ready to dial\, select Call on this Device to make calls using the phone or computer you’re viewing the link on. Your device may prompt you for permissions to use your microphone\, Allow permissions. \nStep 4: Press the blue Start Calling button when you are ready to being dialing. \nStep 5: If you prefer to call on your phone and use the laptop to read the script\, select Call Another Way to connect your \nStep 6: Follow the prompts and dial in to the phonebank using the number generated by Scale to Win \n \n 
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/ma-medicaid-defenders-phonebank/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Fund Healthcare Not Warfare
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250610T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250610T133000
DTSTAMP:20260602T023010
CREATED:20250523T190012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260215T210551Z
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SUMMARY:GLOBAL ECO-RESTORATION AND POWER DYNAMICS: Critical Ecosystems in Brazil\, Senegal and the US
DESCRIPTION:Climate disruption is increasing and with it so is polarization\, both within the US as well as among nation states. Now more than ever it is incumbent upon us to highlight successful efforts to create a more sustainable\, just\, and peaceful world. \nImportant initiatives in regenerative agriculture\, agroforestry\, soil restoration\, and related practices are making significant contributions to climate adaptation\, often contributing to the resilience of communities and international collaboration. \nThis webinar\, a joint project of the MAPA Peace & Climate group and of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4Climate)\, will focus on locations outside the US where regenerative practices largely based on local initiatives have been successful on a significant scale. \nOur panelists will address a number of issues including the following: \n\nWhat aspects of these projects worked well and less well?\nHow were local communities engaged\, especially those from marginalized groups?\nWere there any significant collaborations with organizations in the Global North—and if so\, are these collaborations continuing during the second Trump administration?\nAre there any impacts within these regions of US foreign/military policy\, e.g. local US military bases?\n\nSpeakers: \nBeck Mordini (moderator)\, Executive Director of Bio4Climate. She has worked on protecting biodiversity at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and protecting undocumented workers in Washington State. \nJohn Leary\, Founder and Executive Director of Mother Trees\, is an advocate for sustainable agriculture with 20+ years experience in the field. He has dedicated his life to helping communities around the world and designing and implementing landscape restoration programs that rehabilitate farms and restore forest ecosystems. \nOusmane Aly Pame\, PhD\, is distinguished professor of literature at the Université of Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar\, Senegal and the founder and President of REDES (Réseau pour l’Emergence et le Dévelopement des Ecovillages au Sahel). A respected regional community leader and former mayor of the eco-town of Guede Chantier\, Dr. Pame has been instrumental in fostering sustainable development in the Sahel region. \nRob de Laet\, is a Dutch entrepreneur\, climate strategist and project lead at Cooling the Climate. Together with Peter Bunyard and others\, Rob is developing the Cooling Climate Chaos project aimed at rapid restoration of the earth’s water cycles and regeneration of the biosphere. Their book Cooling the Climate: How to Revive the Biosphere and Cool the Earth Within 20 Years was published in November 2024. \n \nRegister for this event.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/global-eco-restoration-and-power-dynamics-critical-ecosystems-in-brazil-senegal-and-the-us/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Peace and Climate
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250603T190000
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SUMMARY:Ukrainian Professor: Will Ukraine's Far-Right Accept or Derail a Negotiated Peace with Russia?
DESCRIPTION:Professor Marta Havryshko\, a Ukrainian History Professor specializing in Holocaust Studies and gender and sexual violence toward women during and after WWII in Ukraine\, now teaches at Clark University in Massachusetts. She will speak about the origins of the Ukraine War prior to the Russian invasion of 2022\, including the influence of ultra-nationalist factions; the current military and political situation in Ukraine; and the prospects for a negotiated settlement of the war. \nRegister to attend. \n\n\nOf special interest may be her views on: \n1. The long history of Ukrainian ultra-nationalists: their founding by Stepan Bandera and support for the Nazis during WWII\, including the murder of an estimated 100\,000 Jews\, Poles\, and others; fighting the Soviets after the war and receiving major support from the U.S. CIA to undermine Soviet control of Ukraine; and their being welcomed as exiles in the U.S.\, Canada\, and elsewhere.  In 2024 in the Ukrainian city of Lviv\, neo-Nazi Ukrainians openly hosted an international conference of far-right proponents of racism and anti-semitism. \n2. The longstanding division in Ukraine between those who want to align with the West and those who want to remain close with Russia for linguistic\, cultural\, religious\, economic\, and political reasons. This division came to a head during the Maidan protests of 2014\, the unconstitutional ouster of the elected government\, and the war in Eastern Ukraine for the last 11 years that led in part to the Russian invasion of 2022. \nRegister to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/ukrainian-professor-will-ukraines-far-right-accept-or-derail-a-negotiated-peace-with-russia/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Ukraine/Russia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250602T120000
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CREATED:20250518T170211Z
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SUMMARY:The Militarization of Europe and The Workers' Fightback: Lessons and Connections for the US
DESCRIPTION:As Europe is increasingly drawn into the expansion of NATO and into the Ukraine war\, workers are increasingly rebelling\, seeing evaporate not just the peace they’ve experienced since the end of WWII begin but also the Cold War creep back\, while their economies increasingly falter. Organized and unorganized they are beginning to fight back\, while at the same time right wing forces are gaining some foothold in Europe as in the US. \nWorkers in the US have not known peace now for many decades\, with the US involved in endless wars all over the globe\, endless billions of tax dollars flowing into production and export of weapons\, and real wealth continuing to flowing into fewer and fewer hands. US workers rage against the government\, the true nature of their wealth decline obscured by rightwing rhetoric and misinformation. \nAre there lessons we can learn from the workers’ fightback in Europe? Are there experience to he shared from our own increasing fight back? Can workers’ rage be channeled more constructively? How? Working together\, can the workers in Europe and in the US create an effective front against the militarization of their economies and the ongoing march forward of NATO and the Right?” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister to Attend \nPeter Mertens  is a Belgian statesman and activist who led the Workers’ Party of Belgium from 2008 to 2021 and continues to lead the party as General Secretary. He has served as a member of the Chamber of Representatives since 2019\, and as a municipal councilor in Antwerp since 2013. He is the author of a number of articles and books\, the most recent of which\, available in English\, are: They Have Forgotten Us (2021) and Mutiny: How Our World is Tilting (2024) as well as numerous articles. \nCarlos Aramayo is the President of UNITE HERE Local 26\, the Union for hospitality workers in the greater Boston area and Rhode Island. He is also a Vice President of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO\, an International Vice President of UNITE HERE and a trustee of UNITE HERE Health and the Greater Boston Hospitality Employers Trust. In addition to his work in the Union\, he is a member of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s Board of Directors and a member of Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy’s Advisory Council on Latino Empowerment. During his eighteen years with UNITE HERE\, he has organized casino gaming\, hotel\, and industrial food service workers in Connecticut\, Nevada\, Florida\, Massachusetts\, and Rhode Island. \nHarris Gruman (moderator) is 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. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Massachusetts Peace Action\, the Ukraine Committee\, and of the Peace and the Working Class Working Group sponsoring this webinar.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/the-militarization-of-europe-and-the-workers-fightback-lessons-and-connections-for-the-us/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Peace and Working Class,Strategy and Ideas
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250524T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250524T170000
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SUMMARY:Protecting Federal Investment in Public Education - Books Not Bombs
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend. \n \nProtecting Federal Investment in Public Education – Books Not Bombs \nThe threats to federal education programs have become acute. Funds for PELL grants\, title I and disability programs are at risk in the Trump/Musk Administration. The proposed termination of the Dept of Education will weaken other school programs. Though organizations representing teachers and educators\, including NEA\, AFT and AAUP\, have come together to resist the proposed cuts\, it remains difficult to reach parents\, who generally lack statewide organizations. Their local school district organizations rarely address the federal budget. Following up on our earlier Oct 26\, 2024 Conference we will be gathering on Saturday May 24th\, 2:00 – 5:00 pm to explore paths to protect the federal budget supporting public schools\, and continuing to try to reach out to parents and grandparents among our Peace Action affiliates and their local allies. \n  \n2:05: Panel  1 – The Emerging Federal Public Education Budget\nChair – Prof. Jonathan King (MIT & Mass Peace Action Education Fund);\nCivilian versus Pentagon Budget Allocations – Deborah Weinstein (Coalition for Human Needs);\nImpacts on the Young – Denisha Jones (Defending the Early Years);\nImpacts on Graduate Students – Evan MacKay (Harvard UAW Local). \n2:45: Panel 2 – Choices in Federal and State Budgets:\nChair- Deb McCarthy (V-P of Mass Teachers Association)\nTax Cuts and Related Fallacies – Karen Dolan (Institute for Policy Studies);\nRoles for State Legislatures – Rep. Mike Connolly (Mass State Legislature);\nMinds Not Missiles – Defunding the Sentinel ICBM Program – David Borris (Chicago Area Peace Action);\nCutting Funds for Foreign Wars – Merrie Najimy (Past MTA President\, MTA Rank & File for Palestine). \n3:45 Break \n4:00 – Closing Panel – Fighting Back\nChair: Vatsady Sivongxay (Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance);\nPressing State Legislatures – Max Page – (Mass Teachers Association);\nOrganizing Low Wealth Constituencies – Shailly Barnes (Kairos Institute & Poor People’s Campaign);\nLeading Role of Union Educators – Jessica Tang (Pres. of AFT Mass)\nActions Today – Cole Harrison (Mass Peace Action). \n  \nCo-Sponsors: Mass Peace Action Education Fund; American Federation of Teachers Mass; Defending the Early Years; Massachusetts Teachers Association; UAW Region 9A. \nRegistration: options are – Registration free\, small donation/ $12\, or large donation/$75) \n\nRegister to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/protecting-federal-investment-in-public-education-books-not-bombs/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Books Not Bombs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250520T130000
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CREATED:20250416T170530Z
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SUMMARY:The Russo-Ukrainian War\, Diplomacy\, and the Peace Movement
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend. \n \nSo much for President Trump’s boast that he would end the Ukraine War in a day! Despite what passes for diplomacy in Riyadh\, Moscow\, and Kyiv to end the war and create a new European security order in Europe\, the war\, its killing\, and destruction go on. Join Professor Richard Sakwa\, among the leading authorities on Ukraine and Russia to delve deeper into understanding the war\, diplomacy\, and peace movement priorities in this continuing dangerous time. \nProfessor Richard Sakwa of Kent University in Britain was an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House (2002-20)\, a Senior Research Fellow at the National Research University-Higher School of Economics in Moscow (2014-2024)\, and a member of Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences (2002-2022). His books include Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands. \nCosponsored by MAPA Education Fund.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/the-russo-ukrainian-war-diplomacy-and-the-peace-movement/
LOCATION:Online Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250508T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250508T200000
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SUMMARY:Rematriating Stolen Land and Bringing History and Culture Forward: Indigenous Reparations 2025
DESCRIPTION:What can indigenous solidarity allies and activists do to help redress centuries of injury and loss to tribal peoples? Giving voice to Indigenous speakers and groups from here in Massachusetts\, this webinar will explore the current forms of reparative justice and specific actions people can take in support. Resources and places to donate will be provided. \nRegister to attend. \n \nMelissa Ferretti is proudly on her second term as the elected Chairwoman of the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe located in Plymouth MA. She is also a licensed realtor and notary public\, currently associated with Jack Conway & Company. As chairwoman\, Melissa has worked tirelessly on the many initiatives and challenges that indigenous communities face on an everyday basis. She is passionate about educating the non-native public about the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe and its rich\, well documented history. \nTia M. Pocknett grew up in the Mashpee Wampanoag Community and works at the Weetumuw School. Tia teaches students Wôpanâôt8âôk (Wampanoag Language) and cultural practices.  Tia focuses on both culture-based education and Montessori pedagogy. Tia has been one of the founding teachers of Weetumuw School since its opening in 2016. She will discuss the importance of using language\, teaching cultural practices\, and why being on the land is an integral part of learning at Weetumuw School. Learning about cultural practices and having students learn about the land ensures that the next generation will understand the importance of land\, language\, and culture.  \nKatherine Harrelson is an Environmental Analyst with Community Land and Water Coalition. In her role with the organization\, she reviews technical documents and is most proud of her work providing the public with the resources and information to make an impact on the local level. She holds a masters degree in Applied GeoSciences and a professional certification in wetlands delineations\, with her areas of expertise including environmental monitoring\, groundwater chemistry\, and wetlands assessments. \nRegister to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/rematriating-stolen-land-and-bringing-history-and-culture-forward-indigenous-reparations-2025/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250505T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250505T213000
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CREATED:20250422T203129Z
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SUMMARY:War Intellectuals\, Democracy\, and Hans Speier (a WIRN webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 5\, 2025 8:00 PM –  9:30 PM ET \n\nAn interview of Professor Daniel Bessner\, author of the book Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual. Who was Hans Speier anyway\, and why is he important? Who determines U.S. foreign policy? Is there much democratic input? We cover the role of expertise in crafting U.S. foreign policy\, and what today’s warfare state looks like. We will explore what a humane foreign policy might consist of (and more!) in this timely webinar.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/war-intellectuals-democracy-and-hans-speier-a-wirn-webinar/
LOCATION:Online Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Massachusetts Peace Action":MAILTO:info@masspeaceaction.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T203000
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SUMMARY:Sorting Through the Confusion Around Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:Register to attend. \n \nWhat on earth is going on in Ukraine and in Trump’s negotiations with Russia and Ukraine? What is the current military and political situation in Ukraine? What should we know about the origins of the Ukraine War prior to the Russian invasion in 2022? What are the prospects for a negotiated settlement of the war? And what does all this mean for the U.S. peace movement? \nTed Snider\, long-time independent journalist and commentator on Antiwar.com\, Libertarian Institute\, Responsible Statecraft\, and American Conservative\, will speak about the military and political situation in Ukraine in the Spring of 2025\, and the prospects for a negotiated settlement. \nTed Snider is a regular columnist on U.S. foreign policy and history at Antiwar.com and The Libertarian Institute. He is also a frequent contributor to Responsible Statecraft and The American Conservative as well as other outlets. His most recent articles can be found here on Antiwar.com including his article from March 12th\, “Will the U.S. Push Zelensky Out?” \nRegister to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/ending-the-ukraine-war-with-ted-snider/
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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