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Time for the global superpower to rise again!
Submitted by tpaneth on Thu, 01/22/2015 - 6:54pmToday the doomsday clock was moved forward to three minutes to midnight. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said in a statement today: "World leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe. These failures of leadership endanger every person on earth."
UJP endorses immigrant rights campaigns
Submitted by dmcfarland on Wed, 01/21/2015 - 9:18pmOn Seeing the Movie SELMA
Submitted by tpaneth on Wed, 01/14/2015 - 6:54amLast night members of Arlington United for Justice with Peace went to see the timely movie Selma that just opened at our hometown movie theater, The Capitol.
The actors give rather understated performances in a slow-paced film punctuated by violence. The bombing of the Birmingham church is set squarely at the beginning and although I knew what was coming I jumped at the horror of it: Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair.
Stand in Solidarity with the People of Ferguson
Submitted by dmcfarland on Wed, 01/14/2015 - 6:53amWe share this important message from United for Peace & Justice with which we are in full accord. USLAW is affiliated with UFPJ.
STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF FERGUSON
Help Us Organize a First Class St. Patrick's Day Peace Parade
Submitted by Pat Scanlon on Mon, 01/05/2015 - 7:54pmHello all you wonderful peace, environmental, jobs, social and economic justice activists.
Vermont Yankee Closed
Submitted by tpaneth on Mon, 01/05/2015 - 12:44pmAfter decades of protest, radioactive tritium leaks, a collapsed cooling tower and about 3000 spent fuel rods "temporarily" stored on the roof in spent fuel pools, Vermont Yankee powered down on December 29.
Vermont Yankee was one of the GE Mark I reactors - the same design as the three Fukushima reactors that melted down in the 2011 earthquake disaster in Japan.
The Time to Act is Now!
Submitted by andre on Fri, 01/02/2015 - 2:09pmThe Time to Act is Now!
Namaste and Greetings to the Environmental Movement and the Peace Movement
The Demise of Acute Health Care in Quincy, Massachusetts
Submitted by Sandy Eaton on Fri, 01/02/2015 - 2:05pmNew York State Bans Fracking!
Submitted by tpaneth on Fri, 12/19/2014 - 9:04amA true people's victory has been won by New York anti-fracking activists!
According to Wenonah Hauter, the executive director of Food & Water Watch, in a Common Dreams post, despite a sense that fracking was "inevitable" in New York state, several organizations worked together with a goal of banning fracking.
OUTVETS Decision Applauded by Veterans For Peace
Submitted by Pat Scanlon on Wed, 12/17/2014 - 9:27amVeterans For Peace applauds the decision by the Allied War Veterans Council to allow OUTVETS, a fledging new LGBT veterans group, to walk in the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade.
The LGBT community has been denied participation in the traditional Saint Patrick’s Day Parade for over twenty years. This certainly signals a step in the right direction.
Boston Protest Against U.S. Wars on Iraq/Syria
Submitted by Michael Borkson on Tue, 12/16/2014 - 8:53pmAbout 50 peace activists held an anti-war speakout at Park St., then marched behind a model drone to downtown crossing, where a mock drones war "die-in" took place as street theater. It attracted a great deal of attention from downtown shoppers; a police car showed up, but allowed us to stay and continue our protest.
A Chokehold on Justice
Submitted by ujpadmin on Mon, 12/15/2014 - 6:41pmby Lewis Randa
Letter in Wicked Local Dover, December 12, 2014
With the haunting last words of Eric Garner, “I can’t breathe,” I pledge that so long as I draw breath, I will apply racism to the adage, “if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.”
Quaker Pray-In at Brayton Point
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 12/07/2014 - 6:28pmA group of about 20 people - mostly Friends (Quakers) from The Religious Society of Friends in Cambridge - gathered for worship at the gate to the Brayton Point Electric Plant in Somerset, MA on Saturday afternoon, December 6.
Kinder Morgan On The Run!??
Submitted by tpaneth on Sat, 12/06/2014 - 10:53amThe infamous Kinder Morgan company that wants to build a new pipeline from New York state to Dracut through woods, orchards, communities, and wetlands in Massachusetts has revised its route.
In a Boston Globe front page story dated 12/6/14, that begins, “Stung by intense local opposition…” -- one could almost think that a people’s victory was at hand!
Two Protests at RE/MAX
Submitted by tpaneth on Wed, 12/03/2014 - 2:25pmMarking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Boston-area activists initiated a new Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions project at RE/MAX real estate agency.
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