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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.
An excellent bill was introduced on Wednesday by Progressive Caucus leaders Lynn Woolsey, Barbara Lee and Maxine Waters. This bill, H.R. 508: The Bring the Troops Home and Iraq Sovereignty Restoration Act, is the first comprehensive exit plan and includes these major provisions:
--withdrawal of US forces and military contractors within six months of
the bill's enactment;
--repeal of authorization for the use of force;
--prohibition of permanent military bases in Iraq;
--provides economic aid to the Iraqi people; and
--fully funds health care for U.S. veterans.
Read more about HR 508
Congressional Switchboard toll-free numbers
Grass Roots Activists for Peace suggests the following:
*** Call your Congressperson today and ask them to support HR 508.
*** Call and ask for the office of the Speaker of the House; ask aid for
Nancy Pelosi's leadership support on this bill.
Co-Sponsors of H.R. 508 as of Friday:
Rep Frank, Barney [MA]
Rep McGovern, James P. [MA]
Rep Brown, Corrine [FL]
Rep Carson, Julia [IN]
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO]
Rep Cohen, Steve [TN]
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI]
Rep Davis, Danny K. [IL]
Rep Ellison, Keith [MN]
Rep Farr, Sam [CA]
Rep Fattah, Chaka [PA]
Rep Filner, Bob [CA]
Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ]
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY]
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX]
Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH]
Rep Lee, Barbara [CA]
Rep Lewis, John [GA]
Rep Nadler, Jerrold [NY]
Rep Payne, Donald M. [NJ]
Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. [IL]
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA]
Rep Waters, Maxine [CA]
Rep Watson, Diane E. [CA]
Read the bill and follow its progress (Search for "HR 508").
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.
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.
"History Recalls" is a forum for all those who like to use their artistic talent, in any form and shape, to share their experience or voice their views about war and oppression. Here, members from both sides of a conflict will hopefully meet to extend a hand of friendship to each other and together will work to prevent future wars by displaying their work and bringing awareness to the rest of the world.
On October 7th a prominent Russian journalist and human rights defender, Anna Politkovskaya, was killed in Moscow. She was a symbol of the protest to the horror that had been happening in Chechnya since 1994, and the last representative of the free and independent journalism in Russia. In their long history, the Chechens have survived many invasions and devastating wars. Chechnya remains to be "an open bleeding wound" after ten years of war that seems to be endless. Now that "bleeding wound" is going to reach Europe, especially in connection with the last drama of Alexander Litvinenko, who was trying to investigate the murder of Anna Politkovskaya.
Victoria Poupko, former professor of mathematics at Northeastern University, started her humanitarian activity in 1995 in connection with the Bosnian war in 1992-1995. She founded Boston Committee Against Ethnic Cleansing as response to Srebrenica massacre in 1995. Since May 1999 Victoria with her organization help to Chechen refugees.
Description: The ACLU of Massachusetts is co-presenting six screenings of "SACCO AND VANZETTI", a powerful new film by Peter Miller.
Representatives of the ACLU will be there for each screening for a Q and A session to follow the film, and director Peter Miller will also be present at most screenings.
Peter Miller's powerful documentary (2006, 81 min.) illuminates the personal, political, and legal struggles behind the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial.
The ordeal of Sacco and Vanzetti came to symbolize the bigotry and intolerance directed at immigrants and dissenters in America, and millions of people around the world protested on their behalf. Nearly 80 years later, the story is as relevant as ever.
Actors John Turturro and Tony Shalhoub read Sacco and Vanzetti's passionate prison writing while a chorus of commentators propel the narrative, including Howard Zinn, Arlo Guthrie, and Studs Terkel, and a number of older people with personal memories of the case.
SHOWTIMES AND TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE at the Museum of Fine Arts
MFA members, students, and seniors $8, general admission $9.
Box office: 617-369-3306
The Climate of Change (30 min)
Mayors from around the country gather to experience the impacts of global warming firsthand in Alaska. Strikingly beautiful imagery of a quickly changing climate.
Being Caribou (72 min)
Environmentalist Leanne Allison and wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer follow a herd of 120,000 caribou on foot, across 1,500 kilometres of rugged Arctic tundra. The husband-and-wife team wants to raise awareness of threats to the caribou's survival.
Known as the Israeli version of America’s Walter Cronkite, cultural icon Chaim Yavin has been the anchor of Israel’s Channel 1’s news broadcasts since the founding of Israeli television in 1968. The director of more than 80 television documentaries, he is known as “Mr. TV” and “the face of Israeli news.” At age 72, Yavin embarked on a two and a half year journey in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. With a small hand-held camera, he spoke with and filmed hundreds of settlers, soldiers, and Palestinians. He produced a five-part documentary, The Land of the Settlers: A Journey Log.
Channel 1, the state television station that Yavin helped found, chose not to televise the documentary. Channel 2, a commercial channel, aired it in the summer of 2005. In a September 2005 Boston Globe op ed piece, Yavin described the reaction: “It created uproar. The settlers demanded my resignation, while others said the series was an eye-opener. For most TV viewers in Israel I have been for years the objective anchorman and documentarist, and now people were asking, ‘Whatever happened to this guy? Where is his objectivity?
Yavin’s insightful and provocative interviews are guaranteed to be thought-provoking.
UJP will host a citywide meeting on Wednesday evening, January 24 at the Democracy Center in Harvard Square for informational purposes about the rally, march and lobbying in Washington DC Jan 27-29! People may also buy bus tickets (if there are any left).
Questions about the rally and march on Saturday Jan. 27, the trainings on Sunday and the lobbying on Monday will be addressed. Any questions about logistics are also in order. Come meet some of your compatriots as we mobilize to end the war! We will have information about local events for that weekend as well.
For more information: United for Justice with Peace: 617-491-4857 or email.
Ecological Design: Inventing the Future (64 min)
This video illuminates the emergence of ecological design in the twentieth century. Beginning with the work of Buckminster Fuller, from the 1920s through the 1960s.
Atty. Jeffrey Gleason
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP.
Working through the Center for Constitional
Rights, Jeff and several of his colleagues at
WilmerHale have represented six men imprisoned
at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba. In August, Jeff had the opportunity
to visit his clients at Guantanamo.
Dr. Stephen Soldz
Psychoanalyst
Faculty of the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis.
He is a
leader in efforts to get the American
Psychological Association to forbid their
members from participating in coercive
interrogations at Guantanamo and other American
detention facilities around the world.
Discussion led by Joan Ecklein
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
UMass Sociology Prof. (Ret.) College of Public and Community Service
Preceded by Fundraising Dinner for
Center for Constitutional Rights
5:30 at Fugakyu Restaurant, 1280 Beacon Street
Meet the Speakers !
(Please RSVP so we can make reservations)
For more information Brookline PeaceWorks 617 738-8029
Grassroots Lobby Day -- Monday Jan. 29
To participate, please signup today and send an email to Melissa to confirm.
Transportation and Housing information
Those of us who appreciate the urgent nature of the climate crisis will have an opportunity next Saturday to demonstrate both our opposition to this terrible war for oil and our support for a rapid transition to a clean energy economy. The Climate Crisis Coalition and Friends of the Earth have joined together to organize a Stop Global Warming/No More Oil Wars contingent in this march. The lead banner of this contingent will say, No More Oil Wars/Clean Energy Now!
We will be gathering on the Mall down by the U.S. Capitol beginning at 11 a.m, somewhere between 3rd and 7th Sts. You can find out exactly where our contingent will be by going to http://www.unitedforpeace.org ; in the next day or two the information on contingents will be put up there.
We urge you to bring a green shirt to wear over your coat so our "peace for the earth" delegation can stand out. Be sure to bring posters or banners with your own individual or group's messages. We'll also have green armbands for people to wear.
And please help spread the word about this!!
Ted Glick at 973-338-5398.
Inexpensive bus to Jan 27 events in Washington DC:
Saturday January 27 in Washington DC is our next opportunity to voice our opposition to ongoing war in Iraq.
Get tickets to DC! A bus to DC will be available from Jackson Square in Jamaica Plain at 10pm on Friday. Tickets are $45 roundtrip. Please contact ISO if you are interested in reserving a seat.
Contact for more info:
Boston Branch
International Socialist Organization
617-648-0561
Join us in a local rally in support of the Jan. 27 National Peace March in Washington, D.C. organized by United for Peace and Justice.
*To voice support for:*
* No funds for escalation
* Bringing the troops home
* Diplomacy not war
*To thank Meehan for:*
* Opposing supplemental funding for Iraq in the past three years
* His Jan. 9, 2007 (H. Res. 41) resolution opposing a surge in US
Forces in Iraq
* Earning a 100% voting record rating by the Peace Action Education
Fund.
* Not adhering to his term limit pledge of 4 terms in office
Sponsored by Grassroots Actions for Peace
For information contact Jim West (978)369-4979.
End the war in Iraq and bring all the troops home now. No more money for the war in Iraq. It's time to say, "Enough!"
If you can't get to Washington for the big march against the war in Iraq [or the one in Lowell], support it by coming to Boston.
Please join Newton Dialogues on Peace and War at the United for Justice and Peace Vigil against the war in Iraq. Bring signs, flags, and good thoughts for getting to peace.
Sponsored by United For Justice with Peace, Newton Dialogues on Peace and War, and others. For more information contact: univ@comcast.net
The Boston-area Youth Organizing Project (BYOP) is excited to present our work to the Community Church of Boston. First we would like to share our experience of leadership development and introduce the congregation to our newly elected youth council members. Next we will present some of the political and social issues that impact youth. Ultimately, we hope to inspire the CCB with our passion and examples of youth activism and organizing.
BYOP is an organization of youth, led by youth and supported by adults, united by a common purpose: to increase youth power and create positive social change. To do this, we develop counter-cultural values, build relationships across differences, train and develop leaders, identify key issues of concern, and take action for justice. BYOP’s goals are to improve the lives of youth, increase real political participation and build community.