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Crossroads Ministry, and many other anti-racism organizations, look at racism/White Supremacy as a function of three powers: the power to oppress People of Color, the power to privilege White people, and the power to destroy us all. The third power, the destruction of all of us, interacts systemically, interpersonally, and internally. We will look together at some of the impacts these realities have on our larger institutions, in our congregation, and in our personal lives.
Jason Lydon is the Congregational Director at the Community Church of Boston. Jason is also a member of Groundwork, the Unitarian Universalist Youth and Young Adult Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression Trainer/Organizer Collective. He is currently at Andover Newton Theological School in the Masters of Divinity program focusing on abolition theology, anti-racist liberation theology, and queer liberation theology.
Getting A Grip is not an ordinary book: it's more like a new pair of glasses, allowing you to see everything around you with greater clarity. Suddenly the world is more comprehensible, more manageable, even more beautiful. You won't want to take them off. --Barbara Kingsolver
Frances Moore Lappé is the author of 16 books, from the three-million-copy bestseller "Diet for a Small Planet" (1971) to "Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy Back to Life" (2006). Her life and work have been featured in O, Glamour, People, The Utne Reader, Orion, and many other publications. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Readers’ Digest, Christian Century, Le Monde Diplomatique, National Civic Review, Tikkun, and Harpers.
THE GREAT WARMING bridges the divide between science and religion on environmentalism. While renowned scientists explain the facts, religious leaders urge us to regard climate change and care for the Earth as a moral and spiritual issue. Watch citizens from around the world tell their stories of how global warming is affecting their lives, see students engaged in the battle for energy conservation, listen to green innovators explain their ideas and illustrate technological solutions....all while taking in footage from China, Peru, Italy, Bangladesh, England, Mongolia, Louisiana, California, Hawaii, Nunavut, British Columbia and more.
The Divine Reality Comedy, a brand new translation of Dante's Divina Commedia, consists of four parts: Paradise, in which the old human Born-to-Die gene is replaced by the brand new Born-to-Buy gene; Post- Paradise Horsemanship; Purgatory, in which the shadows of the indefinitely detained speak to you; Hell, the Guantanamo interrogation process in which an eight- inch papier maché population recites actual interrogation transcripts and then witnesses three cases of torture as demonstrated on three over-life size puppets. The show will be performed by Peter Schumann and the Bread & Puppet Company, along with a large number of local volunteers, including members of the Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band and their musical friends. Informal talk back with the artists follows each performance.
The Bread and Puppet Theater’s The Divine Reality Comedy “hits you harder than all of the breathless cable news coverage in the world” [Claudia La Rocco, New York Times, Dec.1, 2007]
Description: The Divine Reality Comedy Circus features the following acts: Grand Forgiveness Society of Glover VT; the triumph of the small farmer; advice on where to get really cheap drinking water; a celebratory ballet by a flock of roosters; the Rotten Idea Theater Company's distillation of political issues; and much more.
Take note that some of the circus acts are politically puzzling to adults, but accompanying kids can usually explain them.
Each of these events will also include an opportunity to savor Schumann's famous sourdough rye bread, laden with garlic aioli, and to purchase the theater's legendary "cheap art."
Visual Art Exhibit:
The University of Majd: the Story of a Palestinian Youth
Free and open to all.
Opens one hour before and after each matinee and evening performance.
Description: Peter Schumann’s most recent visual art exploration, consisting of 7 large paintings created after his most recent visit (Fall 2007) to Ramallah.
Admission Fees:
Divine Comedy General Admission: $12; students, seniors $10
Divine Comedy Circus: $10; students and seniors $5
children 2 and under free
Can you picture it? The Ku Klux Klan rallying in support of a black man's execution in Texas... The North Carolina death row warden wheeling a gurney into the execution chamber... Weeping family members at the moment of a loved one's execution. These are just a few of the images captured in Scott Langley's eye- opening photography exhibit which will be shown at Lucy Parson Center in Boston from February 11 through March 2.
The Death Penalty Photography Documentary Project is a product of nearly ten years of work by Boston-based activist and artist Scott Langley -- exploring capital punishment through the photographer's lens. It was birthed from a college art project to creatively address a human rights issue, and started with a few photos from an execution vigil in Huntsville, Texas. The original project has since grown into an internationally shown exhibit - making it the largest, most varied known collection of photos about the death penalty in the United States' modern era.
This work-in-progress highlights Scott Langley's efforts as a photojournalist and a human rights activist - bringing together the unique combination of art, journalism and education into one powerful project. The exhibit has been exhibited by Amnesty International in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Washington DC, throughout Texas, North Carolina and North Dakota, as well as in the UK, Germany, Denmark, and in both print and video media across the world.
The death penalty documentary photography, as well as other photo projects, can be viewed on the Internet at Langley Creations.
AND... AN ARTIST'S RECEPTION!
Friday Feb 15 from 6:30 to 8:30pm at Lucy Parsons
Center for an artist's reception for our current
exhibit. Photographer Scott Langley's powerful,
haunting work is energized by his passion as a human
rights activist to end executions. Come meet the
artist and see the photos at this reception. Snacks
and drinks provided. Other goodies welcome to share.
HOURS OF EXHIBIT AND BOOKSTORE:
Monday - Friday 12 Noon to 9 PM on
Saturdays and Sundays - 12 Noon to 6 PM
** because it is a collectively run, all volunteer
space, it's best to call ahead to confirm that the
store is open - (617) 267-6272 **
Joseph Massad is a Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University. He will be discussing his most recent book, Desiring Arabs, described by Talal Asad (CUNY) as "a remarkable book, at once a fascinating history of ideas and a brilliantly analyzed case study of cultural imperialism."
Refreshments will be served
Co-sponsored by the Middle East Forum at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
A growing coalition of local progressive organizations and individuals will be protesting the policies of the Mexican government, represented by its President, Felipe Calderon, as he addresses Harvard's JFK Forum.
For more information about the coalition protesting Calderon's visit, please contact Suren Moodliar, Mass. Global Action, at 617-482-6300.
Nalda Vigezzi, co-chair of the National Network on Cuba, will give a brief update on the case of the Cuban Five. Ask her questions and discuss.
MISSION AGAINST TERROR is a critically acclaimed Cuban- Irish co-production written and directed by Roberto Ruiz and Bernie Dwyer. The film raises the question, "Why are people who fight terrorism imprisoned in the U.S. while known terrorists are allowed to walk the streets of Miami freely?"
It follows the case of five Cubans currently serving long sentences in U.S. jails for trying to prevent terrorist attacks on Cuba. It depicts the long history of violence against innocent Cubans by right-wing groups based in Miami supported by the U.S. government. The film shows historic footage of terrorism against Cuba and provides a moving depiction of the case of the Cuban Five. It features interviews with Cuban National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon, former CIA agent Philp Agee, attorney Leonard Weinglass, Cuban activist from Miami Andres Gomez, and family members of the Cuban Five. 48 minutes, 2004.
The event is sponsored by Newton Cuba Solidarity and the July 26th Committee of Boston.
For information visit us or call 617-916-2265.
With the declining political influence of the Religious Right, what is the better way for Christians to engage politics? If neither secularism nor withdrawing from politics altogether is the answer, what is the way forward? How can faith communities learn the principles of faithful political witness and involvement on the basis of the kingdom of God?
These questions are the basis of Jim Wallis's important new book, The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America. In it, he articulates a newly emerged strategic spiritual social action plan to successfully attack a wide range of social issues from international poverty to global warming--based upon linking evangelical zeal with liberal social commitment.
Jim Wallis discusses this new strategy. Marshall Ganz of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government will moderate the public discussion.
Wallis, founder of Sojourners, a global faith and justice network, also wrote the New York Times bestseller, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It.
Join Rev. Harold Bronk, Rev. June Cooper, Prof. Jim Green, Phil Johnston, Sue Kirby, Giovanna Negretti, and other members of the Workers' Rights Board to hear testimony about the crisis in care at human service agencies. Family members, persons with disabilities, workers, and employers will testify on the crisis facing the state funded system of group homes and day programs that provide services to people with developmental disabilities and mental illness.
For more information contact Jennifer Doe at (617) 524-8778.
Help ensure high quality education for all MA K-12 students by reforming MCAS now.
We will be asking the Governor, our representatives and senators to reduce the weight of the MCAS and use a range of evidence to determine graduation as has been done successfully in other states.
a. If possible, please make appointments with your Representative and Senator to meet with them on February 13 (11:30 am or after). Appointments can be made now, and let us know if you would like assistance in making appointments. Even if you can’t make appointments before, please come anyway and we will direct you to your legislators’ offices.
b. Call the Governor, your Representative and your Senator anytime on February 13, or during the week of February 11-18 and ask for their support of MCAS Reform. Governor’s Phone #: 617-725-4005 – State Phone #: 617-722-2000.
c. Email the Governor, your Representative and your Senator anytime February 13, or during the week of February 11-18 and ask for their support of MCAS Reform. To email the Governor: Go to Mass.gov. Click on “contact the Governor’s office” and you will be directed to an email form.
For more information on the MCAS Reform effort.
Thanks in part to our protest last year, this boondoggle for bond-lawyers (Chapter 40T) was tabled. Now it's back again as S146/H159, and community voices are needed again to stop this measure that strikes at the heart of local democracy and our pocketbooks!
The bill would enable real estate developers to create their own special purpose "governments" within cities and towns, without critical public interest protections like transparency, accountability, and public participation in decision-making. These new government-like structures -- run by unelected private property owners -- will enable developers to issue tax- exempt bonds and levy property "assessments" (functionally equivalent to taxes) to subsidize private and potentially unwanted development, and even scoop up invaluable public land inside their districts.
These private sub-municipalities could be formed with the consent of only 80% of landowners/acres. Not only would tenants have no voice in their creation or their decision-making, but they could also be stuck paying the bill for these shaky finance schemes, along with unwitting homeowners.
The bill is scheduled for a public hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 1 p.m. before the Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures, and State Assets.
PLEASE EMAIL OR CALL the committee members and your
legislators, and ask them to:
Stop this dangerous step (S146/H159) into uncharted
private governance.
Seek ways to accommodate infrastructure/financing
needs through existing mechanisms, which provide
public safeguards.
Speak with House Speaker DiMasi and Senate President
Murray, and ask them to defeat this privatization
effort, once and for all.
Question Technology Night!
"Secrets of Silicon Valley" is a shocking expose of
the hidden downsides of the Internet revolution and
also a funny and moving meditation on America's love
affair with technology. Told without narration, the
film chronicles a tumultuous year in the lives of two
young activists grappling with rapid social change and
the meaning of globalization on their own doorsteps.
Beyond Good & Evil: Children, Media & Violent Times
(2003)
This video examines how the "good and evil" rhetoric,
in both the entertainment and the news media, has
helped children to dehumanize the enemies, justify
their killing and treat the suffering of innocent
civilians as necessary sacrifice. The interviews
include media scholars (Robert Jenson, Robin
Andersen), child psychologists (Diane Levin, Nancy
Carlsson-Paige), teachers (Merrie Najimy, Brian
Wright), educators (Eli Newberger and Betty Burkes),
and the children themselves.
Description: Shlomo is an Ethiopian boy airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel in 1984 as part of Operation Moses. While neither a Jew nor an orphan, he is a seeking to fulfill his Ethiopian mother's wish that he live. Shlomo ultimately finds a new identity through the love of his old and new life. Co-sponsored with the Outreach Center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Agenda:
Discuss the Feb. 3 meeting
Watch some video of the meeting
Make plans for next efforts for
IMPEACHMENT AND END OF IRAQ OCCUPATION!
Contacts:
Email Herb Chasan or all him at 508-380-1196,
or email Sandy Coy.
The Documentary Film & Discussion Series presents the film "Energy Crossroads: A Burning Need to Change Course" (2007, 54 min.). The event is free and open to the public. Viewers are invited to stay for discussion. Refreshments are served.
Most experts agree that global peak oil production, when demand exceeds supply, will occur within the next 15 years and will drastically change the very fabric of our industrialized world. Will America be up to the task as it consumes 25% of the world's energy, 85% of which comes from non-renewable fossil fuels?
Energy Crossroads exposes the problems associated with our energy consumption and also offers concrete activities for everyone to be part of the solutions in this decisive era. The film features passionate individuals, entrepreneurs, experts and scientists at the forefront of their fields.
The Friends of the Ashland Library is a non-profit, volunteer organization committed to supporting programs at the Ashland Public Library.
This Pasadena conference will be held at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California. The conference commemerates the 60th Anniversary of Al-Nakba. There will be speakers & workshops, plus a Concert for Peace.
Friends of Sabeel North America
PO Box 9186
Portland, Oregon 97207
(503) 653-6625
Every day countless youth, primarily low-income youth and youth of color, are targeted by the United States Armed Services for enrollment. Over and over again they tell lies and make false promises to manipulate young people into signing up to "serve their country". Raul will discuss with us the work being done on a state and national level to empower youth and young adults to speak for themselves and organize together against the military industrial complex.
Raul Matta works with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in Western Massachusetts on counter-recruitment in schools and with HIPP (Help Increase the Peace Program). He is also a member of the newly developed Anti-Racism Collective (ARC) at Hampshire College.
As concern about climate change builds and global security is challenged by the ever-increasing demand for energy worldwide, policy makers and the public debate the best ways to provide sustainable energy. Nuclear power is a popular solution, but it raises concerns about environmental consequences and security risks as more countries demand this energy source. This forum will discuss the challenges that energy issues create for global security, as well as how scientists and policy makers might work together to confront these issues to promote safe, sustainable solutions for current and emerging energy problems. Expert panelists will discuss various aspects of these complex challenges, and then student participants will meet in working groups to discuss potential pathways to energy security and sustainability.
The days are lengthening and it's a perfect time to think about the growing season ahead. We are pleased to have Frank Albani, an organic farmer, as our speaker. Frank is President of the Mass. Chapter of the Northeast Organic Farming Association, and Director of Soule Homestead Education Center in Middleboro. For many years Frank has worked to educate people about the benefits of local organic farming.
He will speak about organic produce farming in Massachusetts and give a brief overview of where we are and what it might take to create real sustainability in our food system, and the small steps that people are taking toward that goal. He will explain a little about Organic Certification, eating in season, and food buying choices including the farmers market model and Consumer Supported Agriculture (CSA) model, where consumers buy shares in a farm's output, and receive a certain amount of fresh, locally grown produce every week.
5:15 PM - SOCIAL DINNER - let us get to know you!
Stay and enjoy Grasshopper's delicious unlimited vegan buffet for "only" $9.50+tax+tip. Includes appetizers, soups, salad, numerous entrees, and fresh melons.
No RSVP needed, just come on by! Everyone is welcome; bring your friends.
LOCATION for seminar and dinner:
Grasshopper (an all-vegan restaurant)
1 North Beacon St.
Union Square, Allston (Boston)
617-254-8883
Note: We'll have a special introduction this month of some BVSers who volunteer in rescue and adoption with the House Rabbit Network. If you would consider adoption (or fostering) of a domestic bunny in need, these natural vegetarians can be affectionate, interesting, joyful companions! They can be litterbox trained.
Please RSVP Tickets (They are going fast!)
For ticket reservations, please email BWA Jobs Chair: Hakim Cunningham Or call 617-427-8108.
The Boston Workers Alliance (BWA) is an organization for unemployed and underemployed workers, fighting for employment rights. Please join us for a night of celebration, appreciation, food, entertainment and community. We are proud of our recent victories around CORI reform, and ask you to help us continue our work for justice and the uplift of our community.
Organizations and businesses are encouraged to purchase a quarter page advertisement in the BWA Program Booklet at $125.
Additional personal donations as well as donated gifts for a silent action are accepted and appreciated.
Please mail all donations c/o Boston Workers Alliance to:
51 Roxbury Street
Roxbury, MA 02119
"A personal recommendation on this one. I saw them the last time they played Community Church and they were great." Charlie Welch, act-ma
The Prince Myshkins (Rick Burkhardt, accordion, and Andy Gricevich, guitar) are the funniest and most bitingly brilliant political satirists you’ll ever encounter. They also happen to be two of the most accomplished young players to come down the pike, as well as the tightest ensemble you've ever heard.
"Their music is really hard to describe or categorize, but you will find within their magic, the strangest and most amazing confluence of Kurt Weill's cabaret sensibility, Tom Lehrer's bitingly comedic irony/satire, Gilbert and Sullivan's clever verbosity, and Woody Guthrie's razor sharp political pen. All of this and none, or more, I'm not sure which. YOU MUST COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF WHAT I MEAN. I've been affected in a profound way by this duo." Dean Stevens
They are also playing Friday, Feb 15 -- Leverett, MA, at the Echo Lake Coffee House with Charlie King.
U.S. war provocation against Iran: Another Tonkin
Gulf? Take Action NOW to Stop War on Iran!
The Bush Administration has initiated an extremely dangerous war provocation just off Iran's coast, in the Strait of Hormuz. With Bush on his way to the Middle East to mobilize a collection of oil-rich U.S. client states against Iran, the U.S. government is working overtime to create a phony public-relations incident to heighten tensions in the region and threaten a new war.
Congressman Robert Wexler's campaign office says that (unlike most of our Democratic Reps) he is pushing hard to force a committee hearing on Rep. Dennis Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment, recently introduced into the House of Representatives and referred to the Judiciary Committee.
This fight is not over. We must continue the pressure on our representatives or else Congress and its fellow lackey media will take no notice. That would be a historic mistake – one we must prevent Congress from making.
We stand at a critical juncture in our efforts. Forget all of those arguments that it is too late or that we have run out of time. You can’t run the clock out on our Constitution. Those of us dedicated to this fight – Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the online community, and millions of patriotic Americans – must keep the pressure on. Please continue to spread the word and help deliver accountability to the corrupt Bush-Cheney administration.Congressman Conyers needs a huge kick in the tail.
Please sign on to Congressman Robert Wexler's petition to help push the issue.
TOLL-FREE PHONE NUMBERS FOR THE U.S. CAPITOL SWITCHBOARD
US House of Representatives Web Sites
Another Day, Another FISA Veto Threat By The Bully In The White House
Yesterday, Bush again put the self interest of himself and his giant telecom criminal co-conspirators above our national security, by threatening to veto the FISA update bill unless we gave them all get out of jail free cards. And if Congress were to bend over yet again, he would still probably veto it to demand even more changes and/or defy other major provisions with a signing statement, as he so outrageously did with the recent defense bill.
We must be just as relentless as the criminals who are working overtime to gut our constitution. We have had two successful filibusters so far, and it looks like we're going to need a third. And we need strong opposition in the House too, for that is our last bulwark.
Tell your senators and Senator Reid to vote against this awful legislation. Look up of local district phone number for all members of Congress.
S 1959 "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007" must be stopped at all costs. (It's already been approved by the House of Representatives by a HUGE majority.)
Pick up your phone and contact our US Senators' offices to instruct them to vote "NO" on S.1959, titled "To establish the National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism, and for other purposes".
If this bill is passed, and becomes law, your words and actions could be considered terrorism. S 1959 EVISCERATES FREE SPEECH, and empowers the govt. to declare ANYTHING they deem an "extremist belief system", instantly make you a terrorist, resulting in stripping of US citizenship, torture, and/or execution, with no habeas corpus rights, no ability to challenge even in the US Supreme Court.
What part of exercising power doesn't Harry Reid get? The Washington Post reports him "pleading" with the White House. And yet, it is his decision which version of the FISA bill to have the Senate consider, and by choosing to bring forward the bad one, he is knowingly forcing opponents of yet another "get out of jail free card" for Cheney cronies to get 60 votes to strip it out of the bill. Or filibuster yet again.
And what greater hero do we have than Dennis Kucinich, still standing strong as ever on every issue that matters. Here is his own leadership statement opposing telecom immunity.
And yet, even now, powerful corporations are pouring money into Dennis's district, to try to buy his seat out from under him by threatening him in his own primary. They are running malicious attack ads in heavy rotation. Please consider making a donation to Dennis now, to help him fight back.
Call the Harvest Cooperate at 617-661-1580 and ask for Marc Cutler, Manager of Operations. Tell him to stop union busting and give Deon Furtick his job back with back pay for hours missed!
Contact the Harvest Employee Organizing Committee
Matthew Andrews
617-633-1857
At the end of January, thousands of people all over the world will march, speak, celebrate, and dialogue in villages, rural zones, and urban centers, in the context of hundreds of decentralized self-organized actions. They will mobilize over a one-week period in January, culminating in a Global Day of Mobilisation and Action on the 26th to show that another world is possible.
At the same period, the "old" world will meet in Davos for the World Economic Forum, bringing together its economists, experts, ideologies and techniques that produce violence, exploitation, exclusion, poverty, hunger and ecological disaster, depriving people of human rights and our Earth of its resources.
The World Social Forum is an open space where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organisations come together to raise issues, debate ideas, formulate proposals, share experiences, and build networks for effective action. These movements are opposed to a world ruled by capitalism and all forms of imperialism and domination.
Since the first worldwide encounter in 2001, the World Social Forum has become a permanent global process seeking and building alternatives to neo-liberal policies.
World Social Forums have taken place at the end of January at different sites throughout the world every year for the past seven years, and this spirit of diversity will continue to be reflected in the activities planned for the Global Day of Mobilisation and Action in 2008.
Our website is the main connection tool for all participants in the decentralized WSF 2008. Invite your friends to join and contribute through action spaces, present your action, upload your videos, publish news and connect your actions with those of others.
Comcast has given us a glimpse of a world without Net
Neutrality, and it's a chilling sight.
An investigation by the Associated Press caught the
cable giant secretly inspecting online communications
and crippling users' ability to share information with
one another.
On 11-1-07, Free Press filed a legal complaint
demanding that the FCC take action to protect the free
flow of information on the Internet. By joining our
complaint, you can help stop Comcast and other
gatekeepers.
The MBTA on October 10th started broadcasting
continuous [corporate] radio ads and "music" at South
Station, North Station and Airport Station with a plan
to expand the continuous radio broadcast system-wide
after Thanksgiving. This will adversely monopolize
this historic First Amendment public space:
1. Curtail and Interfere with Conversations of all
MBTA patrons
2. Curtail and Interfere with Reading of all MBTA
patrons
3. Target ads to all School Children who use the MBTA
4. Eliminate Subway Musician Performances
We, the undersigned, support the diversity of
expression of patrons and artists in the subway. We
petition Governor Deval Patrick and Massachusetts Bay
Transportation Authority Board of Directors to stop
the T-Radio broadcast.
Congress will be debating war appropriations again, and the Senate - as the Republicans have routinely demonstrated - has the power to filibuster any appropriations it doesn't like. A filibuster in the Senate would effectively force an end to the war. So if each of us does our part in exposing the filibuster option, then we can apply tremendous pressure on our senators, the likes of which they haven't felt in decades!
Petition to sign.
"We do not support construction of new nuclear
reactors as a means of addressing the climate crisis.
Available renewable energy and energy efficiency
technologies are faster, cheaper, safer and cleaner
strategies for reducing greenhouse emissions than
nuclear power."
See and hear Walter, Joe, Abbey, random pedestrians (One even honked.) and a supporting cast of spontaneous volunteers all explaining the Honk Experience. (You can hear them when the cars aren't honking anyway.) No honks were added.
This took five hours in the cutting room. It's derived from thirty minutes of source shot over a two hour period on July 30th.
Cuencavision the local Spanish cable TV that carries some TV from Cuba. It includes Cubavision news from 1 to 1:30 PM weekdays and News from Telesur at Noon. The current schedule is viewable as a pdf file by clicking on the "Media Kit Cuencavision" link. Telesur is a major initative by several Latin American countries to provide an alternative to the US dominated media.
Cuencavision a local low power Spanish TV station in Boston is picking up Telesur and Cubavison TV and rebroadcasting them during the day. Cuencavision is carried on Cablevision in Boston and Brookline on Channel 26. It can also be received directly on Ch 58 in a limited area of its Albany Street, Boston, Transmission Site.
Doris Tennant and Ellen Lubell (of Newton) are representing a Guantanamo prisoner pro bono, so they are providing their time at no charge. However, their costs, including their own travel and that of a translator, translator fees, and Freedom of Information Act requests, are running at least $20,000 for this year, and will likely continue at that same pace or more. Most of the other attorneys who are representing Guantanamo detainees are members of large law firms that can cover these types of expenses, but in their case the two of them are the firm.
If you would like to make a contribution to help them defray costs, it would be much appreciated. Please make your check payable to "Tennant Lubell Detainee Fund." Your contribution will NOT be tax-deductible, but they promise to put it to good use to help provide fundamental legal rights to a man who remains in indefinite detention.
Doris Tennant, Esq.
Tennant Lubell, LLC
288 Walnut Street, Suite 500
Newton, MA 02460
617-969-9610, X 101
Fax: 617-969-9611
Action Alert: The Alliance for Democracy warns us to oppose Holt bill (HR 811). We call for a ban on the use of Direct Recording Electronic voting equipment (DREs) and to require the use of paper ballots.
AFD urgently calls upon all citizens to call their Representatives to demand amendments to rectify the defects in HR 811, specifically to ban the use of DRE voting machines and require the use of paper ballots in all elections in the United States.
1. DRE systems must be banned.
2. All voting must be by voter marks on a paper ballot.
3. All recounts must be by hand counting of paper ballots.
4. All elections must have a statistically significant verification.
5. All recounts at every level of government must be by hand counting.
6. All software must be subject to public disclosure.
7. No connections to the Internet should be allowed.
8. All election records should be available to the public.
Go to for on-line information and a link to a printable flier.
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
We are happy to report that a new shipment of olive oil has arrived. The most recent harvest was excellent and per case prices are less than they were last year.
As with our previous shipments, this oil comes directly from the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees, PARC, a non-profit, non- governmental organization in the West Bank. PARC works with 15 different small cooperatives. This shipment comes from the Mazare' Al Nubani/ Ramallah and the Kufr Thulth, Jayous and Azzoun cooperatives. The labels are printed in the West Bank and the oil is bottled at the PARC bottling facility in Aram. PARC is a member of the International Fair Trade Association, and is the only Palestinian organization that has received the Palestine Standards Institution certification for its olive oil.
OLIVE BRANCH OLIVE OIL DONATIONS
As with past shipments, a percentage of the proceeds of olive oil sales is donated back to organizations working directly with Palestinians. Past recipients include:
Palestinian Medical Relief Society Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions Birthright Unplugged American Friends Service Committee-Middle East Crisis Fund American Near East Refugee Aid Olive Harvest Coalition Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees Ibdaa Cultural Center International Solidarity Movement US OMEN Ta’ayush
THE IMPORTANCE OF OLIVE OIL TO THE PALESTINIAN ECONOMY
Olive oil is the backbone of the Palestinian agricultural economy. Eighty percent of cultivated land in Palestine is planted with olive trees, and the olive harvest provides between 25 to 50 percent of a farming family’s annual income. Olive trees, many of which are hundreds of years old, hold a deep significance in the culture and economy of the Holy Land. As the political and economic situation in Palestine continues to deteriorate, with increased restrictions on the mobility of people, goods and services, olive oil has become a matter of basic survival for many Palestinian families. Buying this oil is a constructive and tangible way to help alleviate poverty and build peace.
PARC assists at every stage of the olive oil production process, from helping farmers to reclaim rocky land, conserve water and implement sensible environmental practices (like re-cropping, dry-land farming and recycling of waste materials) to setting up regional labs for farmers to test their olive oil. PARC strictly monitors the quality of the oil, testing and re-testing it at its main laboratory to ensure that it meets all specifications. Extra-virgin olive oil comes from the first pressing of the olives, contains no more than 0.8% acidity, and is judged to have a superior taste. There can be no refined oil in extra-virgin olive oil.
Palestinian farmers traditionally care for their trees without the use of pesticides or sprays. PARC is currently working with international agricultural organizations to obtain organic certification for its olive oil, which should be finalized in the next few months. Because both light and heat are known enemies of olive oil, Olive Branch Olive Oil comes in a dark green glass bottle that is optimal for storage.
Available in 750ml bottles, by the case (12 bottles, $145), or more.
For ordering and other info, please email us at palestinebostonoliveoil@yahoo.com or call Susie at 781-648-6307.
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.
Join the Boston Tea Party Conference call,
Participant call in: 402-756-9100; Access code: 680903#
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Join a Friday fast and/or protest in solidarity with illegal detentions. The fast began in 2005 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.
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 stop all illegal detentions and to try those responsible for the illegal treatment of thousands of detainees, most of whom are Arab and Muslim men. Susan and Phoebe will be wearing orange jumpsuits.