Past WG Updates
Refugee Support Group Update
May 8, 2020 As of late spring, our group has worked with, or is working with about 80 refugees in the greater Boston area. Most are families, who come from the Middle East, South or […]
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Call Your Representative to ✂ Pentagon Spending
Over the last few weeks, we’ve alerted you that the Pentagon is trying to direct funds for COVID-19 relief into its own bloated coffers. In the last three years alone – during a time of […]
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Don’t Withhold Payment to WHO When It’s Most Needed
With projected eventual infection rates of 25% or 50%, and 81% in the absence of mitigation, this Covid-19 virus could be a catastrophe of the first order. Daily, we hear of anguished choices made in […]
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No Warming, No War: How Militarism Fuels the Climate Crisis – And Vice Versa!
On Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, I’m excited to share with you a new resource from the National Priorities Project at Institute for Policy Studies: No Warming, No War: How Militarism Fuels the Climate Crisis – […]
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April 15 Monthly Meeting Minutes
Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice & Environment Minutes: Monthly Meeting April 15, 2020 via Zoom Attending were: Liz A, Ben Beckwith, Eric Kemp-Benedict, Tyler Kemp-Benedict, Chuck Dickinson, Ernesta Kraczkeiwicz, Elizabeth Del Porto, Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin, Jacqui […]
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“The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war.” Join the call for a Global Ceasefire!
“The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war.” That’s is what United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres exclaimed as he delivered an appeal to warring parties around the world to lay down arms in […]
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TAKE THE SURVEY Climate Change Resiliency in Watertown
link to the survey https://resilientwatertown.metroquest.com/ Watertown is designing a municipal program to help us all prepare for climate change. There’s substantial grant funding available from Massachusetts for well-designed municipal plans. We’re all stakeholders in this […]