Dear Friends,
Please consider attending these exciting events in the coming weeks!
Eyewitness Gaza: Life after the 2014 Israeli Invasion
May 22 @ 7:30 pm – Cambridge
Alice Rothchild and Bill Slaughter visited the Gaza Strip in March 2015 with a medical delegation. They will share images and impressions of the devastation and extraordinary resilience that they encountered and the ongoing siege conditions. Cambridge Friends Meeting, 5 Longfellow Park. Info: http://masspeaceaction.org/events/eyewitness-gaza
The Cost of War, the Price of Peace
May 24 @ 11:00 am – Boston
Kathy will describe experiences living in a working class area of Kabul, Afghanistan. where people feel trapped by war and impoverishment and then discuss experiences living in a U.S. prison, for protestingU.S. drone warfare, where people likewise feel trapped and struggle with impoverishment. Community Church of Boston. http://masspeaceaction.org/events/the-cost-of-war-the-price-of-peace
Memorial Day for Peace
May 25 @1:00 pm – 3:00 pm- Boston
Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans for Peace invites all to join us in remembering. This Memorial day we will be recalling the 70th anniversary of V-E, and the 40th anniversary of the end of Vietnam. Poets and speakers will help us remember.
We will also recall names of fallen, and ceremoniously drop carnations into the sea with a toll of the bell.
For more information: http://justicewithpeace.org/node/5726
Listen, Yankee! Why Cuba Matters with Tom Hayden
May 29 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Jamaica Plain
Join the JP Forum for a book talk with Tom Hayden – one of America’s best-known voices of political and social activism. Based on unprecedented access to both Cuban and US officials, Listen, Yankee! Why Cuba Matters offers fresh insight into one of history’s most enigmatic relationships between nations. Tom Hayden will also speak on Sunday, May 31st at 11 a.m.
For more information: http://masspeaceaction.org/events/listen-yankee-with-tom-hayden
“The Olympics: More Than a Game” with Dave Zirin and Kade Crockford
June 2 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Jamaica Plain
Dave Zirin, sports editor at The Nation and author of Brazil’s Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, The Olympics, and the Struggle for Democracy, and Kade Crockford, Director for the Technology for Liberty Project at the ACLU of Massachusetts, will talk about militarization, surveillance, and other Olympic legacies that the Mayor’s Office won’t be talking about.
More information here: http://masspeaceaction.org/events/no-boston-2024
Palestinian House of Friendship Benefit
June 3 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Cambridge
A Benefit for the Palestinian House of Friendship and Smiling Faces Summer Camp in Nablus, West Bank, Palestine. Learn about life under occupation and creative resistance form Mohammed Sawalha, Director, an educator, peacemaker and organizer who will tell us about their programs for children and adults. Info: http://masspeaceaction.org/events/palestine-benefit
March For Our Children – Shut Pilgrim Now
June 13 @ 8:00 am – June 16 @ 6:00 pm – Plymouth to Boston
Join Mass. Downwinders as we call for closing the most unsafe nuclear plant in the nation. 
The march with consist of 54 miles over 4 days – You can join for part of, or all of the march. The march wil go through Plymouth, Kingston, Scituate, Braintree, and Boston. Info: http://masspeaceaction.org/events/march-for-our-children2015
Don’t miss out on any of these unique and informative opportunities for activism, learning, and change. We hope to see you at one or, hopefully, many of these events!
– Cole Harrison, Executive Director