Pax Americana Massachusetts Peace Action

Award winning author and foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer joined us in front of live audience at Boston University for Human Rights Day. The discussion was entitled Questioning the U.S.-Saudi alliance: Yemen and the politics of Famine. He was joined on the panel by Ryan Costello, Ana Milosavljevic, and

Phyllis Bennis, author of Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror: A Primer, spoke at Massachusetts Peace Action's Annual Meeting on March 12, 2016. Her talk is on The Syrian War, ISIS, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the US. Music by Pat Scanlon and audio by Maria Battaglia.

Will Hopkins is the executive director of New Hampshire Peace Action and Arnie Alpert is a member of the American Friends Service Committee and governing director of the Influence Project. Will and Arnie did a skit at the Building Sustainable Security Conference November 21st to illustrate how to question politicians -- and how they wiggle out of answering overly general, "softball" questions. Music by Pat Scanlon; audio recorded by Werner Grundl.

Jamie Eldridge, Massachusetts State Senator, spoke at the Building Sustainable Security Conference November 21st. Jamie focused on the need to reverse budget priorities and getting the People’s Budget supported. Music by Pat Scanlon and audio recorded by Werner Grundl.

Chung- Wha Hong is the executive director of Grassroots International; she recently spoke at the Building Sustainable Security Conference November 21, 2015. Chung- Wha Hong spoke on movement building in the global context, telling the story of Honduran indigenous environmental activist Berta Caceres. Caceres was murdered in March 2016; read Grassroots International's report and appeal at http://masspeaceaction.org/9562. Music by Pat Scanlon and audio recorded by Werner Grundl.

Michael McPhearson, executive director of Veterans For Peace and co-chair of St. Louis Don't Shoot Coalition, spoke at the Building Sustainable Security Conference November 21st. Michael McPhearson focused on taking the initiative to make peace possible. Music by Pat Scanlon and audio by Werner Grundl.