BOSTON/Back Bay – Following on the heels of the “First Night Against the Wars – Let Gaza Live!” New Year’s Eve Copley Square rally in support of the Gaza Freedom March, local members of CODEPINK: Women For Peace – one of the official March sponsors – were joined by the Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights and other groups in a lunchtime demonstration on Wednesday outside the Israeli Consulate at 20 Park Plaza.

BOSTON/Boston Common - Approximately 200 people gathered on the corner of Park Street and Tremont Street on evening of December 2 to protest President Barack Obama's decision to send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan. Protesters held lit candles and waved signs reading "War is Always a Defeat for Humanity" and "No We Can't," while speakers from Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speak Out, and other Boston-area peace groups addressed the crowd.

BOSTON and Cambridge, MA - What happens when a sitting President gives two speeches in your city in a single day? Well, if you live in Boston, you get two protests - one for each appearance by the Commander-in-Chief.


The action kicked off late Friday morning at MIT - where approximately 600 people gathered along Mass. Ave. in front of the Stratton Student Center. Nearby, inside Kresge Auditorium, Pres. Barack Obama spoke to a capacity crowd on US clean energy initiatives. Though the vast majority of the crowd gathered in the hopes of seeing Obama, over 60 people - most organized on short notice by the Boston area anti-war coalition United for Justice with Peace and the environmental organization Secure Green Future - held signs to protest the US occupation of Afghanistan, inaction on climate change, health care reform and foreign policy towards Iran, among other issues.

BOSTON/Copley Square - About 700 demonstrators from as far as Maine gathered to march against US wars, economic and foreign policy on Saturday. Groups marched with banners that read, "Fund jobs, health care and environment protection, not war and nuclear weapons," wearing paper mache costumes depicting the parents of war dead, and portraying street theater as "NAFTA," "The Military," and "The Economy" crashing their "Ship of Fools" at every opportunity. Photo and video coverage follows.

BOSTON/Copley Square - Organizers with the October 17 Mobilizing Committee and United for Justice with Peace held a press conference on Thursday to introduce several of the speakers scheduled for the anti-war march and demonstration that begins at noon this Saturday in Copley Square and to emphasize that the event will proceed in spite of a weather forecast calling for chilly temperatures and rain.

Rally organizers said they expect to draw 1,000 or more people to the Square in support of calls for the United States and its allies to withdraw combat troops from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq immediately.

BOSTON/The Common, corner of Tremont and Park Streets – Members of the Boston area branches of International Socialist Organization, Veterans for Peace, and other activist groups gathered across from the entrance to the Park Street MBTA station on Tuesday to show support for a humanitarian aid convoy attempting to go from Egypt into Gaza.

About two dozen activists made speeches, handed out flyers, and engaged commuters, tourists, and passersby in conversation about the situation in the Middle East.

BOSTON/Boston Common - NEWS BRIEF: About 75 people gathered on the Boston Common today to mark the 6th anniversary of the Iraq War. The names of those killed in the war, both US troops and Iraqis, were read aloud. Sponsoring organizations included the Unitarian Universalist Association and Military Families Speak Out. The event was one of many anti-war actions across the US today - including a large march on the Pentagon in Washington DC.

BOSTON/Dorchester - During the presidential election campaign, supporters of U.S. foreign policy endlessly praised the effectiveness of the U.S. troop “surge” in stemming violence and improving conditions in Iraq.