Working Group Updates

  • How Watertown Can Build Community to End Nuclear Weapons – Citizen Petition to City Council

    How Watertown Can Build Community to End Nuclear Weapons – Citizen Petition to the City Council  Saturday, May 18, 4:00 PM  Belmont/Watertown United Methodist Church 80 Mt. Auburn Street (Across from Starbucks) Music with Tod Gross [...]
  • Understanding Palestine  and Witnessing Reality

      “Understanding Palestine and Witnessing Reality” Saturday, May 11 at 2:00 PM, Belmont/Watertown United Methodist Church, 80 Mt. Auburn Street (across from Starbucks) The Peace and Common Security Working Group will present an educational event on [...]
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    Summer Life-Friendly Garden Tour

    Save that Date! Thanks for your responses to our survey, we plan to hold the next Life-Friendly Garden Tour on Sunday June 23. This was the most popular weekend in the survey, It’s the last [...]
  • 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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    May Events here April Events here March Events here February Events here January Events  here November newsletter here. LOTS OF OCTOBER EVENTS 2023   link    

Take Action!

  • Support Mother’s Day Walk for Peace – Donate, Walk, Ride

    A Perfect Way to Honor Your Mom For the tenth consecutive year Watertown residents will once again participate in the annual Mothers’ Day Walk for Peace event where we donate, walk, and ride with  Watertown [...]
  • 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 [...]
  • WATERTOWN – WE NEED YOUR SIGNATURE!

    The Peace and Common Security Working Group is on a mission to get Watertown folks to sign three initiatives and help get signatures from friends, neighbors and family members. Petition to Representative Katherine Clark. We [...]
  • Weekly Vigil for a Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine

    Join us on Saturdays in Watertown Square from 12 noon to 1:00 PM under the banners – “Let Gaza Live” “Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine”.  Bring a sign or make one when you arrive.  [...]
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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. […]

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    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

05May2024
09May2024
11May2024

Weekly Vigil - "Let Gaza Live" "Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine"

Weekly Vigil Calling for a Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine

From 12 Noon until 1:00 PM

At Watertown Square

Find out more...

11May2024

Understanding Palestine  and Witnessing Reality

From 2:00 PM until 4:00 PM

At Belmont/Watertown United Methodist Church

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12May2024

Monthly Meeting of the Peace and Common Security Working Group

From 7:00 PM until 8:30 PM

At Zoom Meeting at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89860460176?pwd=ZjR3ejhVdi93N2pGeitMWE8vMlErdz09

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15May2024

Beyond Gas: The Future of Clean Heat

From 7 PM until 8:30 PM

At Atrium School

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18May2024

Weekly Vigil - "Let Gaza Live" "Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine"

Weekly Vigil Calling for a Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine

From 12 Noon until 1:00 PM

At Watertown Square

Find out more...

18May2024
19May2024
25May2024

Weekly Vigil - "Let Gaza Live" "Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine"

Weekly Vigil Calling for a Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine

From 12 Noon until 1:00 PM

At Watertown Square

Find out more...

28May2024

My Road from Damascus: A Memoir

From 7 PM

At Watertown Free Public Library

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01Jun2024

Weekly Vigil - "Let Gaza Live" "Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine"

Weekly Vigil Calling for a Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine

From 12 Noon until 1:00 PM

At Watertown Square

Find out more...

02Jun2024

ANNUAL ANNUAL MEETING and POTLUCK DINNER with Special Guest - STEPHEN KINZER

From 5:30 PM until 8:30 PM

At First Church of Watertown Unitarian Universalist

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08Jun2024

Weekly Vigil - "Let Gaza Live" "Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine"

Weekly Vigil Calling for a Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine

From 12 Noon until 1:00 PM

At Watertown Square

Find out more...

09Jun2024

Monthly Meeting of the Peace and Common Security Working Group

From 7:00 PM until 8:30 PM

At Zoom Meeting at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89860460176?pwd=ZjR3ejhVdi93N2pGeitMWE8vMlErdz09

Find out more...

13Jun2024
15Jun2024

Weekly Vigil - "Let Gaza Live" "Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine"

Weekly Vigil Calling for a Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine

From 12 Noon until 1:00 PM

At Watertown Square

Find out more...

22Jun2024

Weekly Vigil - "Let Gaza Live" "Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine"

Weekly Vigil Calling for a Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine

From 12 Noon until 1:00 PM

At Watertown Square

Find out more...

29Jun2024

Weekly Vigil - "Let Gaza Live" "Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine"

Weekly Vigil Calling for a Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine

From 12 Noon until 1:00 PM

At Watertown Square

Find out more...

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09Jan2025

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