Our board chair and 30-year leader, Steven Brion-Meisels, who exemplified the best of the peace movement, has died of cancer. Read about his life here.
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!
As Venezuela struggles to escape the grasp of US hegemony and chart a different course, join the Boston Bolivarians as they rally to call for U.S. hands off Venezuela, today, Saturday, March 22, 1pm at Park Street T, Boston..
Our Palestine/Israel working group invites you to an organizational meeting tomorrow, Sunday, March 23 to turn its priorities into action. Members only, but you can join MAPA on the spot when you arrive. 2pm at the Democracy Center, 45 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge.
AFSC and Peace Action will present a webinar on the Pentagon’s slush fund, “Overseas Contingency Operations“, Monday, March 24, 8pm.
Investigative journalist Gareth Porter will talk about his new book, “Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare”, March 25-27. Tuesday, March 25: Northampton, Broadside Books, 7pm; March 26: MIT, 1 Amherst St., 4th floor, at noon, and Walpole Public Library, 7pm; March 27: Fall River, 11am; meeting with Mass. Peace Action Iran team, 4pm; Cambridge Friends Meeting, 7pm. Learn what you need to know to refute the Iran war hawks!
Join us at RaiseUp Massachusetts’ legislation for a strong minimum wage bill at their rally and lobby day, Wednesday, March 26, 10am at the Church on the Hill, 140 Bowdoin St, Boston, near Park Street T. RSVP to John Ratliff, MAPA’s economic justice coordinator, at jmr@riseup.net.
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.
“The Politics of Water: From Israel and Palestine to Chelsea and Beyond” 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.
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. You must contact the MAPA office by Thursday, March 28 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
Budget for All’s Tax Day event “We Pay Our Taxes: Are We Getting What We Need?” will be held on April 12. Rep. Jim McGovern, Barney Frank, Mel King, and Harris Gruman 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, and related events in Worcester, Fall River, Natick, and more. Come to a planning meeting today, Saturday, March 22, 2pm, at Encuentro 5, 9 Hamilton Place, near Park Street T.
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 Asia/Pacific 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.
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