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12:30 - 4:00 pm EVERY SUNDAY"Bostonians For The Overthrow Of King George" weekly vigil
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Harvard's Palestine Solidarity Committee will be holding a vigil for Gaza from 11:45 am to 12:15 pm on the steps of Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. All who care for Palestine are invited to attend. Please wear black and spread the word widely.
Meet briefly at the statue to exchange thoughts,
then walk silently around the Yard and nearby streets,
returning to the statue by 12:30pm.
Southeast corner of Rt 27 and 30 (nearest to Brooks Pharmacy).
Come for all or part. Bring a candle, lantern, or flashlight.
Organizer: Sandy Coy.
This is an invitation to join the Boston Tea Party Conference call,
should you wish to join in. Participant call in: 402-756-9100; Access code: 680903#
Socialist Alternative Radio is live on 91.5 FM in the Boston area, or listen anytime on the Web at WMFO.org. A democratic socialist, working-class view of politics and culture, including solidarity announcements, interviews, music, and more. Write to us at BostonSAradio@aol.com.
Join a Friday fast and/or protest in solidarity with illegally detained, often tortured prisoners at Guantanamo and other post 9/11 gulags around the world. The fast began about a year ago when Nobel Peace Laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Adolpho Esquivel, (Argentina), along with others around the world, chose this method to seek the release of our unjustly detained and tortured brothers and sisters.
Here in Boston, local activists Susan McLucas and Phoebe Knopf have joined the Friday fast and will protest every Friday in front of the JFK Building from noon to one. The action, which is rooted in nonviolence, includes speakers, music, hand-outs and petitions to create public pressure to shut down the gulags and to try those responsible for illegal, brutal treatment of thousands of detainees, most of whom are Arab and Muslim men. Susan and Phoebe will be wearing orange jumpsuits. It would be great if folks would join us. There are four more suits people could wear.
Venezuela : Democracy, Development, and Regional Integration- A New Vision for the Americas
We invite you to travel to Venezuela with Global Exchange to dig past the headlines and explore the changes occurring in Venezuela, Latin America and the hemisphere as a whole. On a Global Exchange tour to Venezuela you will meet with human rights activists, rural agricultural workers, labor unions, community activists, journalists, and government as well as opposition figures, and see for yourself the unprecedented social change that is occurring at this historic time in Venezuela and the region. At the crossroads of the Andean mountains, the Caribbean coast, the Amazon rainforest, and the Amacuro River Delta, Venezuela's wondrous natural diversity and beauty combined with its visionary social justice agenda guarantee an exciting -- and unforgettable -- experience.
Cost: $1500 (includes $50 late fee)
We strongly urge people of color to apply. A
limited number of partial scholarships are available for low-
income applicants.
for more info contact Charlie Welch
Democracy Now! is accepting applications for internship
positions for the winter/spring semester in New York City.
Please email admin@democracynow.org for more information.
Some of the highlights include:
* "Inside Corporate Media: Can it Tell the Truth?" -- a panel moderated by Phil Donahue featuring Juan Gonzalez of the Daily News, MSNBC commentator Flavia Colgan, author and media critic Jeff Cohen and Chicago Sun-Times columnist Laura Washington.
* A discussion on "Winning Alternatives" with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman, filmmaker Robert Greenwald and Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation.
* "Media Policy is a Civil Rights Issue" with former FCC Commissioner and NAACP Executive Director Ben Hooks, Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, Mark Lloyd of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and others.
* A panel on hip-hop activism with Davey D of KPFA-FM, Rosa Clemente of R.E.A.C.Hip-Hop, Detroit hip-hop artist Ilana "Invincible" Weaver, San Diego's Brotha Los, Adrienne Maree Brown of the Ruckus Society and Youth Media Council's Malkia Cyril.
* "The Press at War and the War on the Press" featuring famed White House correspondent Helen Thomas, media critic Eric Boehlert, Sonali Kolhatkar of the Afghan Women's Mission, and Paul Rieckhoff of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
* "Watchdogging the Media" with David Brock of Media Matters for America, Janine Jackson of FAIR, media critic Norman Solomon, and radio host and author Laura Flanders.
* A look at the new media landscape with Dan Gillmor from the Center for Citizen Media, Jay Rosen of New York University, Afro-Netizen's Chris Rabb, Ellen Miller of the Sunlight Foundation and Chris Nolan of Spot-on.com.
From Steve Iskovitz (Green party member and concerned person who is working in southern Louisiana):
I'm down here in southern Louisiana working with Emergency Communities, providing relief to Katrina victims.
If you have any of the following items which you're looking to give away, there are people down here in Plaquemines Parish who can use them:
Warm clothes: it doesn't get as cold down here as it does in Boston, but with the dampness and winds, it can get cold in the winter, toys, sports equipment-- a lot of kids down here whose lives have been disrupted, looking for things to do. Today after dinner I played hockey with a little boy in the dining area, with a broken hockey stick and a plastic disk of some sort that was lying around.
Tools: Since virtually all buildings were ruined by the flood, many people are involved in rebuilding. There was talk of setting up a tool-lending operation, but someone pointed out that this could be quite inconvenient, and why not utilize the extra tools people probably have lying around in areas not affected by disaster?
Here are some of the tools people have suggested:
hammers
nails
hack-saw blades
wood files, metal files
screwdrivers-- phillips or flathead
crowbars
drywall tape
drills and bits
nailguns
If you have these items and would like to donate them, you should package them tightly in boxes, label the contents, address them to:
Steve Iskovitz
Emergency Communities
36342 Highway 11
Buras, LA 70041
For Boston area drop off: Cambridge Senior Center (617) 349 6043.
806 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
We're also looking for someone who's willing to help deliver the boxes from the Senion Center to the local shipping point in Carlisle.
For more information:
Email terra or call Christy Barbee at (978) 369 4343
www.reliefdatabase.org
www.citizenactionteam.org
A call for all people of conscience
to donate to its Lebanon Palestine Emergency Relief Fund.
All donations will be used to help Palestinian and
Lebanese victims of the latest Israeli aggression.
Tel: 760-685-3243
Fax: 360-933-3568
E-mail link
“Olive Branch” Extra Virgin Olive Oil is raised without pesticides or sprays and First-Cold-Pressed. This year we are importing the oil directly from the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee (PARC), a non-governmental, non-profit organization in Ramallah which has been on the forefront of supporting Palestinian agriculture since the 1980’s. PARC buys its olive oil from 85 different small farmer cooperatives in the West Bank. It takes care of testing, quality control, bottling, labeling and marketing. Available in 750ml bottles, by the case (12 bottles), or more. Now more than ever, important to Palestinian farmers.
For ordering and other info, please email us at palestinebostonoliveoil@yahoo.com or call Susie at 781-648-6307.
Joy and hope in song for 2007, with CommUnity Voices.
OUR FIRST PLANNING MEETING IS MONDAY, JANUARY 8TH. IF YOU CAN NOT ATTEND,
PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS DEMONSTRATION.
MEETINGS WILL CONTINUE EVERY MONDAY PRIOR TO THE EVENT ON MARCH 24th.
Speakers include Lexington resident and author, Paul Joseph, a sociology professor and Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at Tufts University and Andrew Bacevich, author and professor of history and international relations at Boston University.
Refreshments will be served.
For more information call (781) 863-8672.
End the war in Iraq! Bring the troops home now! Bring the money home now! MARCH ON WASHINGTON Saturday January 27, 2007
On Monday, Jan. 29th, we will take our message directly to the new Congress in a lobby day.
Buses, Minivans, Planes and Trains: UJP will be sending buses to
Washington, DC. For bus sign up and much more transportation
information, please see the United for Justice with Peace
website. You can download flyers from
United for Justice with Peace
ujpcoalition@yahoo.com
617-491-4857
This is a call to stop the hate that lead to violence in Worcester, when the Executive Director of Catholic Citizenship verbally and physically assaulted a pro-marriage equality supporter. Join us as we call for peaceful, respectful dialogue between pro and anti-marriage equality supporters. We seek an end to the type of verbal and physical attacks that occurred in Worcester on December 16.
Co-sponsored by
"It is better to help someone who doesn't need it than to refuse to help someone who does." Dave Williams, carpenter
"The Ground Truth" is a critically acclaimed documentary film. It will be followed by a discussion with Iraq Veterans and Military Families Speak Out
Anti-war Protest on Boston Common @ Park Street.
This event will be followed by a demonstration against Guantanamo in Copley Sq. @ 6PM
Bush has scheduled his "surge" speech for Wednesday night. He is expected to send at least 20,000 more troops to Iraq. Most of these troops are to be deployed to Baghdad and this will surely result in more death and destruction for Iraqis and Americans alike.
The anti-war movement should be prepared to deliver a unified response to this escalation of the war.
International Day To Shut Down Guantanamo
Come mark the five year anniversary of the first prisoner being brought to Guantanamo by demanding that the US stop practicing torture and illegal, indefinite detention.
- Around 500 people from 35 countries continue to be held without charge or trial as of January 2006, four years after the Bush administration began locking up detainees at Guantánamo Bay. - Detainees remain in a legal black hole, many with no access to any court, legal counsel, or family visits. - There’s mounting evidence that detainees have been subjected to torture and other forms of mistreatment. This evidence comes not only from the few detainees who have been allowed to meet with lawyers and the fewer who have been released, but also from FBI agents and former military personnel who were assigned to Guantánamo. - Many detainees are confined in small cells for up to 24 hours a day, with minimal opportunity for exercise. Detainees are often kept in isolation, sometimes for months, as punishment for the infraction of strict camp rules. - Several detainees have attempted suicide. In desperation, between 100 and 150 have embarked on hunger strikes, kept alive, sometimes against their will, through painful forced-feeding procedures. - The U.N. Commission on Human Rights, in a report of Feb. 2006, stated that “the legal regime applied to these detainees seriously undermines the rule of law and a number of fundamental universally recognized human rights, which are the essence of democratic societies,” and concludes that “The United States Government should close the Guantánamo Bay detention facilities without further delay.”
For complete details visit WitnessTorture.org or email info @ witnesstorture.org
Join us for a special event featuring Neal Barnard, MD, founder and president of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine speaking on the topic of his new book (Jan. '07) "Reversing Diabetes," followed by a cooking demo of recipes from the book, given by Paulette Chandler, MD.
It's all FREE! All are welcome, and please circulate this
invitation to anyone who might benefit. This event will be
useful to anyone interested in healthy eating.
For questions about the event: Evelyn Kimber at 617-424-8846
"Water First"(Amy Hart), filmed in Mlawi and S. Africa, aims to raise awareness of the magnitude of the global water crisis. What can we do to assure that everyone everywhere has access to the most basic necessity of life? and "Water Warriers" (Liz Miller) One community's determination to fight water privatization. A short version of an hour-long piece that will premiere this winter.
Water Warriors (2006, Liz Miller, 6 min.)
While corporations urge local governments to privatize municipal
water systems, communities around the world are organizing to
ensure affordable access to this life sustaining resource. Water
Warriors is the story of one community's determination to fight
the seemingly inevitable path of water privatization. This six-
minute video, is a shorter version of an hour-long piece that
will premier in the winter of 2006 – 2007.
The Friday Night at the Movies series presents films of social and political significance. The series began in the Autumn of 2006 and is sponsored by Arlington Street’s Social Action Committee. See the Friday night movies on our big screen the second Friday of each month! Films are followed by a discussion. Free admission. Donations gratefully accepted for Jubilee, our generosity initiative.
RSVP: DA Planning, 617-566-2861.
Every 2nd Saturday.
Speaker: Róger Calero, staff writer for The Militant
Followed by dinner.
Suggested Donation Program $5 - Dinner $7
Translation into Spanish
T Blue line to Maverick Station. Bus or walk 5 blocks down Meridian To Bennington at Liberty Plaza
Join Sergio Reyes, Jeanne Koopman, Dorotea Manuela, and Thomas Ponniah in a fundraising send-off party for the Boston Delegation to the World Social Forum being held in Nairobi, Kenya. This year's delegation will concentrate on building relationships with the global migrant workers movement.
Our send-off party will feature African music and drumming, a light dinner and refreshments, conversation and dancing. Sergio Reyes of Chile will be singing and remembering his martyred compatriot, Victor Jara.
The Delegation's homepage at Latinas & Latinos for Social Change.
Renee Lopes-Pocknett is associate director of Frederick Douglass Unity House (FDUH) at the Univiversity of Massachusetts/Dartmouth. FDUH was created in 1995 as part of the University's efforts to acknowledge the unique circumstances of its increasingly diverse student body. It provides a supportive environment for the academic, cultural, recreational and social pursuits of UMass/Dartmouth students of color--African, Asian, Latino & Native American.
Ms. Lopes-Pocknett is also a founder of Society Organized against Racism in Higher Education (SOAR), a well-established group which this fall held a successful two-day conference at UMass/Dartmouth for students from SOAR chapters at numerous New England colleges.
Out of Balance shows the influence that the largest company in the world has on governments, the media and citizens and what can be done about global warming. While the Earth's climate is pushed further out of balance by increasing use of fossil fuels, ExxonMobil continues to assert undue influence around the world- making record profits while ignoring climate science for which there has been overwhelming consensus for over ten years. "Out of Balance" does not just critique ExxonMobil; it also offers challenging, large-scale ideas for the global social changes that must take place if there's any chance of having a livable planet for future generations.
Noted author Webster Tarpley will be making a special presentation examining the current political party realignment currently taking place in America and whether this transition will take us toward a new progressive phase or a more fascist and draconian society. Mr. Tarpley will also address the war and impending collapse of US forces in Iraq, the dollar collapse, the mounting evidence of 9-11 crimes, and the dangers of another "terrorist" attack.
He will lead the day’s activities for guests will be introduced to the concept of creating "Truth Squads," designed to be a challenging presence to presidential candidates as they campaign in the historically significant New Hampshire primary. This is open to anyone who wants to be a part of the evolving changes in the political scene.
Webster Griffin Tarpley is our most incisive critic of Anglo- American hegemony. As an activist historian he is best known for his book George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992), a masterpiece of research which is still must reading, and 911 Synthetic Terror: Made in the USA, Surviving the Cataclysm, and Against Oligarchy. He is host of World Crisis Radio on RBNLive.com. He is a 9/11 Truth Scholar and activist; AB Princeton 1966, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa; Fulbright Scholar at University of Turin, Italy; and MA in humanities from Skidmore College. He is fluent in Italian, German, French, Latin and Russian. A decades-long expert on international terrorism, his 1978 study for the Italian parliament "Chi ha ucciso Aldo Moro?" (Who Killed Aldo Moro?) broke open the ownership of the "Red Brigades" by NATO's clandestine "stay- behind" networks.
Additional speakers will be added to the program to address the issues of impeachment and ending the war in Iraq. The event is free and open to the public (voluntary donations are greatly appreciated).
Sponsored by the Seacoast 9-11 Questions Group; Boston 9-11 Truth Committee; Western MA 9-11Truth, and Vermont 9-11 Truth.
For more information please contact:
Peggy Brewster 603-973-1555
Crystal Urbanski 978-270-5625
boston911truth@gmail.com
voice mail: 617-401-8047
Web sites:
maps available on this site
Boston 911truth.org