We sponsored talks by Gareth Porter last week on his new book“Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare” in Cambridge, Fall River, Walpole, and Northampton. Watch for video and audio recordings on our website soon! We’ll be returning unsold books to the publisher soon, so contact the office if you’d like us to save you a copy.
We are looking for a recent graduate who is passionate about peace organizing to work part-time as a Campus Organizer. Please pass the word!
20 people attended the organizational meeting of our Palestine/Israel task force March 23. Read a report on the meeting.
Read our statement “Negotiations, not Cold War, to Resolve Ukraine Crisis.”
For an update on the Israel-Palestine talks, catch Hanan Ashrawi of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s talk at Harvard’s JFK School of Government, tonight, Monday, March 31 at 6pm.
Do you live in Congressional District 3 (Rep. Niki Tsongas)? Join us at a meeting of CD3 peace activists, Wednesday, April 2, 7pm in Bolton; contact the office for info.
We are co-sponsoring “The Politics of Water: From Israel and Palestine to Chelsea and Beyond”, a program that will address privatized water, human rights, justice and the role of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, on Thursday, April 3, 6pm at the Chelsea Collaborative, 318 Broadway.
Harvard professor Elaine Scarry will talk on her new took,Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom, at 1730 Cambridge St, Tsai Auditorium, Cambridge, also on Thursday, April 3 at 6pm.
As a warmup to the Asia/Pacific conference (see below), “Ghosts of Jeju,” a film about the struggle against construction of a military base on a beautiful South Korean island, will be shown at Cambridge’s Central Square Library, April 3 at 6:45pm. Filmmaker Regis Tremblay will likely be there.
Filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick will speak on “Bush and Obama: The Age of Terror” at Boston College, April 5, 1:30 pm. Contact the MAPA office for tickets (or go to BC and get them yourself). Stone and Kuznick will also speak on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings at MIT on Thursdsay, April 3.
“Nonviolent Action: The Teachers of Norway” will include an oratorio celebrating nonviolent action against oppression, followed by a panel discussion with Dr. Gene Sharp, Dr. Severyn Bruyn, Mr. Patrick Scanlon, Dr. John Michalcyzk, and Dr. Lorenz Reibling. Wednesday, April 9, 7pm at Trinity Chapel, Boston College’s Newton campus, 825 Centre St.
We are co-sponsoring Democratic Socialists of America’s book talk by Mark Schneider on “Joe Moakley’s Journey: From South Boston to El Salvador”, with a report by Carol Pryor on behalf of theCommittee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador(CISPES). Thursday, April 10, 7:30 pm at Encuentro 5, 9B Hamilton Place, Boston, near Park Street T.
Budget for All’s Tax Day event “We Pay Our Taxes: Are We Getting What We Need?” will be held on April 12. Jimmy Tingle will MC, and Rep. Jim McGovern, Rep. Katherine Clark, Barney Frank, Mel King, Harris Gruman, and Carl Sciortino are among the confirmed speakers at the forum at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St., Boston, 2-4 pm. There will be a pre-rally to protest tax dodger Bank of America, 440 Boylston St, at 12:30.
Additional Budget for All events will be held in Worcester, Fall River,and Natick on April 10 and in Walpole on April 12.
Campaign Nonviolence will present a non-violence training and gathering, April 12 and 13 at the Cambridge Friends Meeting. Pre-registration required; see www.masspeaceaction.org/event/
Did you know that 60% of the US Navy and 60% of the Air Force is to be stationed in Asia/Pacific by 2020? “Pivoting for Peace in Asia/Pacific” is a one-day conference designed to bring the peace movement up to speed on the many complex issues in the region which pose threats to peace and which the peace movement is likely to need to respond to in the years to come. Saturday, April 19 in Cambridge; Register now at http://masspeaceaction.org/
Massachusetts taxpayers are expected to build 10,000 new prison units by 2023, costing $2 billion, unless dramatic reforms are made. Join the Jobs Not Jails rally on Boston Common, Saturday, April 26 at 12 noon, to join in the exciting coalition which is pushing for this $2 billion to be spent on well-thought out jobs programs instead.
Mass. Peace Action’s Palestine/Israel task force will present Harvard professor Stephen Walt on “Taking on the Israel lobby: Obstacles and Opportunities”, Wednesday, May 7, location tba.
Our spring Music for Peace concert, “Brahms Birthday Celebration”, will feature the brooding Clarinet Trio and the stormy Piano Trio in c minor. James Buswell, violin; Anzel Gerber, cello; Jonathan Coehler, clarinet; Victor Rosenbaum, piano. Saturday, May 10, 7:30pm, Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church, 1555 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, near Harvard Law School. $25 for members in advance, $35 for non-members or at the door to benefit thte Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund.
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