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. Dr. Mark Perlmutter is a hand [...]
Monday, September 8th, 7pm EST Presidents Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele are running parallel authoritarian projects that use national security to justify human rights abuses via mass incarceration. Platforms like MAGA and Bukele’s Nuevas Ideas party cloak their abuses of power as concern for public [...]
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 [...]
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 Boston-Hiroshima 80th Anniversary Coalition and others across the country are organizing to commemorate the catastrophic A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to build from the Hibakusha wise warning that “Human beings and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.” Join us as Dr. Ira Helfand and Mari [...]
An event with award-winning cartoonist Dwayne Booth. What 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 [...]
ASK VOTERS TO TELL CONGRESS: #SAVEMEDICAID #SAVESNAP We 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, [...]
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. Important initiatives in [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Register to attend. Protecting Federal Investment in Public Education - Books Not Bombs The 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 [...]
Register to attend. So 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 [...]
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 [...]
Monday, May 5, 2025 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM ET An 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. [...]
Register to attend. What 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 [...]
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