Working Group Updates

  • Film Showing – The Night Won’t End – Biden’s War on Gaza

    The Peace and Common Security Working Group of Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice, and the Environment and the First Parish Watertown Social Action Committee are  proud sponsor the showing of a moving video on the [...]
  • I SIGNED FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT! A CITIZEN PETITION TO THE CITY COUNCIL!

    Signature Gathering – Saturday, October 19 at 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM at the Watertown Free Public Library and CVS Parking Lot -Training provided for first timers!  Signature Gathering – Saturday, October 26 at 10:00 [...]
  • WCPJE Statements

    ON ISRAEL/PALESTINE  11/17/2023 We affirm the right of all Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace, security, and justice.  We call for an Immediate Ceasefire and End to the Killing as first steps toward this [...]
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  • WATCH THE VIDEO – The Climate Crisis and Militarism Project

    This was a great meeting, packed with information that makes the connections between the climate crisis and militarism.  View the video here https://youtu.be/Tnh4S5WfJ04   A Special Presentation by  Veterans for Peace Wednesday, September 20 at 7:00 [...]

Take Action!

  • Green Spaces in Watertown Need Your Voice

    Watertown is making a great example of public engagement in the Watertown Square Area Plan. We hope you have seen some of the letters shared about green spaces and how trees are just as important [...]
  • Leave the car home? Take our Survey

    5 Quick Questions to help us understand how you get around now and if you usually drive alone, what it would take to persuade you to ditch the car. Watertown Faces Climate Change is looking [...]
  • Weekly Stand Out for a Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and West Bank, Immediate and Sustained Humanitarian Aid, and an Arms Embargo

    Join us on Saturdays in Watertown Square from 12 noon to 1:00 PM to raise awareness of the genocide in Gaza, ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, and Israel’s war in Lebanon and Iran.   “Let [...]
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    Your Help Needed to Advocate for Pollinators!

    The Massachusetts Pollinator Network is asking for our help advocating for important reforms in Washington and on Beacon Hill that will protect pollinators and ecosystem health. Through the Action Network they have made it easy to [...]

Working Groups

  • Friends of Bees educates about and advocates for native bees, Monarch butterflies, and other pollinators. We usually meet on the last Wednesday of the month from January to October. […]

  • Banner centered on spreading tree. Text reads: This little garden is part of the Big Homegrown National Park. Join us. Read "Nature's Best Hope." Plant

    The first Chemical-Free Garden Tour took place in 2007.  Now, the Life-Friendly Garden Tour, is usually held twice a year. This self-guided tour is free and open to the public. We invite all gardeners in Watertown who do not use chemical fertilizers or pesticides to participate as hosts. […]

  • Image of a banner, with a circle of hands meeting on another at the center, and blue text that reads: Watertown Citizens Refugee Support Group: a working group of Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment

    The Watertown Citizens Refugee Support Group was formed in 2014 in response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis. We engage in diverse activities to help refugees from all over the world. […]

  • Watertown Faces Climate Change is a node of 350 Mass. We inform and prepare voters and officials to move our town away from greenhouse-gas-producing energy and towards clean(er) fuel.  We meet on the first and third Sunday at 5:00 pm. […]

  • The Pigsgusset Initiative seeks to increase communication and promote collaboration among Watertown residents to undo the erasure of Indigenous Peoples from the place now called Watertown and to promote inclusive historical narratives. To this end, [...]
  • Our mission is to educate and engage Watertown residents in promoting U.S. military and foreign policy that seeks global justice and cooperation, the peaceful resolution of conflict, and human rights. We call for federal budgets [...]

Events

14Nov2024
17Nov2024

Film Showing - The Night Won't End - Biden's War on Gaza

From 4:00 PM until 6:00 PM

At First Parish of Watertown Unitarian Universalist

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12Dec2024
09Jan2025

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