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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.
MEETINGS WILL CONTINUE EVERY MONDAY PRIOR TO THE EVENT ON MARCH 24th.
PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS DEMONSTRATION.
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.
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.
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, the National Lawyers guild and the Civil Litigation Concentration will sponsor a talk by civil rights attorney Leonard Weinglass on Tuesday, January 30th, at 6:00 pm in the Function Room.
Attorney Weinglass has devoted his life to putting principles ahead of profits. He will be speaking about his life, his work, and his experiences as a litigator. He has represented Jane Fonda, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Marjorie Peters, Abbie Hoffman (Chicago 7), Gerardo Hernández (Cuban Five) and Angela Davis. He has devoted his life to putting principles ahead of profits. He will be speaking about his life, his work and his experiences as a litigator. A brief question and answer period will follow his talk.
After Attorney Weinglass, Gloria La Riva, Coordinator of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, will be speaking about their struggle.
Food and refreshments will be served.
This event is co-sponsored by the Civil Litigation Concentration, as well as the Suffolk Chapters of the National Lawyers Guild and American Constitution Society.
For more information contact Rosie Milano at Rosanne.Milano@Suffolk.edu or David Penn at David.Penn@Suffolk.edu.
The CIA will be on campus to discuss "available positions" and to provide an overview of their organization.
*Please view th CIA website at www.cia.gov before attending the session and remember to bring your resume.*
To confer with our informant
Organized by the Harvard University Center for the Environment
Full schedule for the 'Future of Energy' Lecture Series at Harvard
You are invited to participate in a city-wide mobilizers meeting that will take place at 6:30pm on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at the Cultural Cafe, 76 Atherton St., Jamaica Plain, MA. This meeting, which will help kickoff off a new offensive against poverty, racism, sexism, violence & war, will allow activists from many different struggles and communities to discuss and plan upcoming anti-war actions that will take place locally and nationally. We encourage everyone to come and participate.
Tony Van Der Meer
Chuck Turner
Frantz Mendes
The Most Rev. Filipe C. Teixeira, OFSJC
Casandra Clark-Mazariegos
Robert Traynham
Mia Campbell
Lenore Pereira
Josue Renaud
Mahtowin Munroe
Jonathan Regis
Jorge Marin
Rachel Nasca
Edward Childs
Sara Mokuria
Jim Mniece's house (for directions call 781-893-8754)
Agenda: Update on local and national anti-war activities;
decide next steps.
Join David Barsamian and other media experts as they consider media strategy for progressives...
With this event, Mass Global Action looks at the antiwar movement and the media. Specifically, it considers the two media options open to the progressive movement:
Tickets: Sliding scale - $10 and $5 (includes post- event reception)
For tickets, updates and directions - visit the event website: < encuentro5.org >
David Barsamian is founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. He is a radio producer, journalist, author and lecturer. He has been working in radio since 1978. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine.
The hate-based attempted murder of two Mexican day laborers catapults the Long Island town of Farmingville into national headlines, unmasking a new frontline of the border wars -- suburbia. Blending the stories of town residents and day laborers, Farmingville reveals the human impact of mismanaged national policies that lead to fear, racism and violence.
See the seminar web page for further information and a full list of speakers.
Sponsored by the MIT Program on Emerging Technologies
Discussant: Nancy Ryan, President, Board of Directors, ACLU of Mass.
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
For Further information call (617) 495-9265
Dinner will be provided (FREE)
See the Enviromental Film Festival page
The story of the construction of the UNOCAL/TOTAL oil pipeline in Burma. An unprecedented legal battle will unfold in a US courtroom, shocking the world with its revelations. Fifteen plaintiffs who've never left the Burmese jungle will battle head-to-head with two corporate giants. The outcome of this struggle will profoundly affect the actions of corporations worldwide.
FORCE MORE POWERFUL DOCUMENTS ONE OF THE 20TH CENTURIES MOST IMPORTANT AND LEAST KNOWN STORIES --HOW NONVIOLENT POWER OVERCAME OPPRESSION AND AUTHORITARIAN RULE .
TIMELY HISTORY AT A TIME WHEN MANY IN BOSTON ARE CONSIDERING NON-VIOLENT RESISTENCE.
Extended informal discussion after film. Refreshments will be served.
There is an inexpensive parking garage next to the library and some parking on the street. Pearl Street is just off Mass. Ave in Central Square
Presented jointly by the Women's lnternational League for Peace and Freedom, and the Cambridge Peace Commission.
For further information call 617-244-8054, Admission is free
The people's uprising in Oaxaca, Mexico continues. Come hear from a Brian "Sharpie" Conley, a videographer and Eowyn Rieke, a street medic and physician, who traveled to Oaxaca in November. They were there during some of the worst repression, and will report on police tactics and the people's response, as well as the ongoing struggle for accountable government and economic justice in Oaxaca.
For more information about the situation in Oaxaca, also see , http://mexico.indymedia.org/oaxaca, and http://narconews.com.
The two short films will be shown by SDP followed by discussion afterwards.
"Stolen Freedom" is February's main selection in the ongoing film series "Unveiling Palestine" - a hard-hitting, humorous and compelling exploration of a land and its people. "Stolen Freedom" shows the story of children growing up and leaning to survive in an atmosphere of daily tension. Following that is a comedy short, "Just Your Average Arab;" shot in Framingham, MA, it earned Best Film by Audience Vote at the Boston International Comedy Film Festival, in September, 2006. Expect a stimulating evening with free refreshments & door prizes. For more information, visit www.divestmentproject.org/films.
There is likely to be a homemade Cake by Hala : ) at the event and some door prizes.
Dinner will be provided at 6pm.
See the Enviromental Film Festival page
5:00pm - /Dying to Breathe: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in South Africa / - A documentary about why the lives of ordinary people living in Sasolburg and South Durban have become a daily struggle for health because of excessively high levels of air pollution.
6:30pm - /Shipbreakers /(42 min) - Welcome to Alang, India, the site of a gargantuan scrap yard where oceangoing ships come to die. Forty thousand Indians live and work here, dismembering and scavenging the hulks of 400 vessels every year.
8:00pm - /An Inconvenient Truth / - Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the science of global warming with Mr. Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change. A longtime advocate for the environment, Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way.
Sponsored by the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and iKatun.
MIT Student Pugwash is a chapter of Student Pugwash USA
All donations received at this recital will support Massachusetts Climate Action Network in its mission of combatting global warming.
Concerto in Eb for Oboe
.....Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
Henry Tervo, oboe Tish Kilgore, piano
"Ich bin herrlich, ich bin schön" ...................J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
(from the Cantata No. 89)
Carla Chrisfield, soprano Janice Tervo, cello
Henry Tervo, oboe d'amore Tish Kilgore, piano
Variations on a "La ci darem la mano"
....L.V. Beethoven (1170-1827)
(from Mozart's "Don Giovanni")
Henry Tervo, oboe
Jess Gross, clarinet
Janice Tervo, cello
"Der Hirt auf dem Felsen" D.965
......Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
("Shepherd on the Rock")
Carla Chrisfield, soprano
Jess Gross, clarinet
Tish Kilgore, piano
INTERMISSION
Prelude to Act III of "Tristan und Isolde"
......Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Henry Tervo, cor anglais
Trio in B, Op. 8
............Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Jody Harmon, violin
Janice Tervo, cello
Tish Kilgore, piano
For more information about MCAN, go to MassClimateAction.org
To join or to make a donation, click on "contact us". Marc Breslow, Ph.D., Exec. Director,
Mass. Climate Action Network
marc@mbreslow.org
781-643-5911 (primary),
617-426-1228 ext. 105 (secondary)
86 Milton St., Arlington, MA 02474
Dinner will be provided at 6pm.
See the Enviromental Film Festival page
5:00pm - /Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos / (55 min) - The film examines the impact of corporate globalization on Mexico, focusing on the maquiladoras, U.S.-owned factories employing cheap Mexican labor.
6:30pm - /The Charcoal People / (68 min) - This film by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Nigel Noble documents the workaday lives of Brazilian peasants who cut down trees in the Amazon rain forest and burn the wood in earthen kilns to make charcoal, an essential ingredient for the manufacture of pig iron in the U.S.
8:00pm - /The Future of Food / - Offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade. From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca, Mexico, this film gives a voice to farmers whose lives and livelihoods have been negatively impacted by this new technology. The health implications, government policies and push towards globalization are all part of the reason why many people are alarmed by the introduction of genetically altered crops into our food supply.
Program 5:00 pm * Dinner 7:00 pm
Speakers:
Zenobia Lai, Support Committee for the Quincy 4
Willie Cotton, Socialist Workers Party, participant in fight for justice for Sean Bell
Suggested donation: $5 dinner, $5 program.
Traducción inglés-español / español-inglés
Police violence is an everyday occurrence in working class communities across the country. The pervasive practice of racial profiling leads to constant indignities against people of color, especially those who belong to the working class, and all too often results in cop assaults and killings.
Standing up to such police misconduct is not automatic since cops mount a counter campaign, literally adding insult to injury. Nonetheless in the Boston area four Asian Americans have said enough is enough and refused to go along with the April 30th beatings and frame-up charges they suffered at the hands of Quincy police, and in New York thousands continue to join with the family of Sean Bell, gunned down November 25 in a hail of 50 bulets, to demand justice.
Come discuss the significance of these two fights and similar ones against cop violence across the country and how working people can end police brutality once and for all.
To come by the T, take the Blue Line to Maverick Station, then bus or walk 5 blocks down Meridian to Bennington at Liberty Plaza
Bill Moyers says of Chester's book:
"Take my word for it: Make this your bible. As Don Hazen writes in his review on Alternet this week, it's a terrific book - 'A respectful, loving, fresh, intimate, comprehensive history of the struggles for a 'democratic media' - the lost fights, the opportunities missed, and the small victories that have kept the corporate media system from having complete carte blanche over the communications channel."
Also, broadcast of the 2006 CHUTZPAH Awards, taped at Jimmy Tingle's OFF BROADWAY Theater on 1/21/07.
Produced and hosted by Marc Stern and Dave Goodman radioview@ibisradio.org
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.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba lost most of its access to oil, fertilizers and pesticides. Learn how Cuba’s response to this crisis has led it to the forefront of the movement for sustainable and organic agricultural practices.
Did you know that 50% of the vegetables eaten in the city of Havana, Cuba are organically grown within the city limits?
Admission: $5
* Elizabeth Morrow is a graduate student of History at Tufts University and has written and spoken about US foreign policy towards Cuba. Sajed Kamal is Adjunt Professor, Sustainable International Development, Brandeis University.
Sponsored by Newton Cuba Soldarity Group and The July 26th Coalition.
The shameful, sadistic murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black youth who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Till's killers were apprehended, but quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury, later providing grisly details of the murder in a story to journalists. Three months after Till's body was found, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began.
The film will be followed by a short discussion and a wine & cheese-style reception
suggested donation, $5.00
Iraq War veteran Herold Noel suffers from post- traumatic stress disorder and lives out of his car in Brooklyn. Using Noel's story as a fulcrum, this doc examines the wider issue of homeless U.S. military veterans-from Vietnam to Iraq-who have to fight tooth- and-nail to receive the benefits promised to them by their government.