Traprock Center for Peace & Justice

10/19/2025

An excellent summary of U.S./Trump admin complicity in Israeli genoicide:

Conspicuously absent from Trump’s remarks was any reference to the ubiquitous images of the nearly 68,000 Palestinians killed and possibly as many as 680,000.

09/20/2025

Lots of news and events in our second September enewsletter here:

R-25.314 A Resolution Calling For The City Of Northampton To Divest From Entities Complicit In Human Rights Violations In Israel And Palestine

09/02/2025

Here's our September enewsletter:

"Medford, a city of 60,000 people in Massachusetts, voted to pass an historic ordinance to divest from weapons companies that contribute to human rights violations. Their vote included Israel’s ongoing genocide, starvation and destruction of everything that makes life in Gaza possible." ... Read f...

09/02/2025

https://recorder.com/2025/09/01/from-global-to-local-theres-no-such-thing-as-someone-elses-children/La

Medford, a city of 60,000 people in Massachusetts, voted to pass an historic ordinance to divest from weapons companies that contribute to human rights violations.  Their vote included Israel’s ongoing genocide, starvation and destruction of everything that makes life in Gaza possible.   The Me...

08/04/2025

See our new August 4 enewsletter just out:

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07/21/2025

“Damn this silence. Damn this famine,” said Eyad Amawi, a representative of the Gaza Relief Committee and a coordinator for local NGOs. “Damn it all—humanity has collapsed.”
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-starvation-campaign-gaza-famine-aid-massacres -93e6157e-8dde-440e-8d92-7bf7150973d3

Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign
A frontline report on a people forced to face death from starvation or being shot in a perilous quest to obtain meager rations
Abdel Qader Sabbah
and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 21, 2025

A frontline report on a people forced to face death from starvation or being shot in a perilous quest to obtain meager rations

07/09/2025

Our first July enewsletter is out now: https://mailchi.mp/traprock/a-hot-summer-for-climate-and-war
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Find out about the historic report just out from Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
see https://mailchi.mp/traprock/a-hot-summer-for-climate-and-war

Rabbi Cat Zavis is co-editor of Tikkun Magazine and Executive Director of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, a political and social justice movement based in the United States. More information and REGISTER HERE SAVE THE DATE CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright will speak in Northampton  ...

07/07/2025

In the summer of 2023, researchers “binge-watched 250 of the most-rated movies” of the past 10 years for climate research purposes. A mere 13 percent of films made mention of climate-related disasters, some more seriously and others “offhandedly” in dialogue. In contrast, since the rise of H...

06/16/2025

https://scheerpost.com/2025/06/16/sources-us-will-enter-israels-war-with-iran/

Call the White House and tell them you do not want any part of this disastrous war

06/13/2025

https://www.recorder.com/Racial-justice-group-raising-money-to-support-Mohawk-Falafel-and-Shawarma-owner-59718450
Glad to know about the campaign, well worth supporting.

TURNERS FALLS — To help Ismail Asaad, owner of the Mohawk Falafel and Shawarma food truck, put down roots in Franklin County, the community is banding together to support Asaad’s goal of finding a property where he can reside while also continuing his business.

05/07/2025

Our new enewsletter is out, please take a look hewre
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