2018 Highlights (see newsletters too)

People from Boston and Lowell joined us in front of Raytheon
December 13 with signs advising Raytheon to stop supporting Saudi Arabia's bombing in Yemen.

We supported Veterans For Peace commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended WWI

MVPP Stone Soup Supper was only for locals, there being bad driving.

People from Boston and Lowell joined us in front of Raytheon October 11 to remind people to keep space for peace.

Heat reduced attendance at the Bread and Roses festival but we were there.

We greeted many at Andover Days.

Big vigil in Newburyport in memory of Niki Rosen's life, especially at that corner.

Hiroshima remembered August 6

Members joined a hundred others at the Jericho Walk at Ice offices in Burlington, Ag 21.

MVPP members attended "Jerricho Walks" outside of ICE office in Burlington, MA to draw attention to immigrants being incarcerated and families separated from each other.

Members were impressed at the Rolling Ridge Peace Conference

Andover and Newburyport had vigils against taking kids from families at the Mexican border.

May 3. first vigil in front of ICE building in Burlington.

April 2018

Walk for a New Spring. Buddhist monks from the Peace Pagoda in Leverett, MA stayed a night with MVPP.

Bruce Gagnon's hunger strike publicized Maine tax breaks to Bath Iron Works making war ships.

Our peace flags were present at Boston's Walk for Our Lives, 3/24.

Feb. 3 Mass Peace Action meeting in Worcester. Themes: Antinuclear, Korean Olympic truce, working with other justice groups.

Kathy Kelley spoke in Boston Feb. 18

Feb 25.   75 People stood in the rain at Newburyport's vigil against gun violence. photo from The Daily News of Newburyport 2/26/18 -JIM VAIKNORAS

At our annual potluck, we watched videos by Tom Gale, North Shore activist who died January 5.

Some of us went to the Million Womens Marches in Cambridge Saturday (5000), and Andover Sunday (300+).

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