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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").
If you live in the 4th Congressional District of MA or know others who do, you can help stop the demolition of public housing in New Orleans.
What 4th District Residents Can Do:
Call US Representative Barney Frank to let him know that you support: Immediate cessation of the demolition plans for New Orleans public housing. A Congressional investigation into the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) decision to demolish thousands of livable public housing apartments in New Orleans. The right of displaced public housing residents to return home to New Orleans immediately. In Metro Boston the 4th Congressional District includes Brookline and Newton. Call Barney Frank now at 202-225-5931 (DC office) or 617-332-3920 (District Office, Newton).
Why Barney Frank? US Representative Barney Frank is the new Chair of the House Committee on Financial Services, which has oversight of HUD.
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.
12:00 noon Hacking Democracy
Looks at electronic election fraud.
1:30 The Secret Government
A 1987 PBS special on the history of the secret government, focusing on Iran-Contra, and
the ramifications for our republic.
3:30 America: From Freedom to Fascism
The most powerful documentary we are showing. Explores the history of the Federal
Reserve, the IRS and the police state.
6:15 Beyond Treason
Atomic soldiers, agent orange, and depleted uranium through the army experts and men
harmed.
BVS is pleased to co-sponsor another series of FREE vegan nutrition and cooking classes with The Cancer Project, a Washington DC based nonprofit committed to advancing cancer prevention and survival through nutrition education and research. These classes have gotten rave reviews and are great for anyone wanting to learn to make health promoting, scrumptious meals!
All sessions are FREE and include tasting of recipes. Registration is requested.
Sunday, 2/11/2007, 3-5 PM: Fueling Up on Low-Fat Foods/ Favoring Fiber Sunday 2/11/2007, 5-7 PM: Discovering Dairy Alternatives/ Replacing Meat
Classes begin with a short instructional video on nutrition by Neal Barnard, MD, and dietitians from The Cancer Project. 4-5 recipes will be demonstrated for each class, with tastings!
LOCATION
Parish Hall
First Baptist Church
71 Bond Street
Norwood, MA 02062
The church is next to the Norwood Library. Parish Hall is directly behind the main church building. Free parking in church lots is available.
Chef Sualua Tupolo is a Certified Vegetarian/ Vegan Chef. He is Executive Chef/ Director of Culinary Arts and Food Service at Atlantic Union College. Born in American Samoa, he was Touring Chef for three governors of American Samoa, preparing meals for special government functions. Recently, he gave a cooking class for the U.S. House of Representatives. He was Executive Chef and culinary instructor at Weimar Institute Lifestyle Center, Weimar, California.
More information on classes:
Remember to register so Chef Tupolo will be prepared with enough food!
Evelyn Kimber
Boston Vegetarian Society
617-424-8846
We’ll be having a DC Lobby Day Reportback and Planning meeting. This will be an opportunity to report on/hear about the meetings with our MA Congresspeople which took place on January 29th, and to plan next steps together for this pressure Congress campaign.
This space is wheelchair accessible.
Susan Lees and Shelagh Foreman
UJP Iraq Campaign: Pressure Congress
Workmen's Circle Screening of the new documentary Young Jewish and Left with special appearance by Co-Director Irit Reinheimer, $5.
Young, Jewish, and Left was shot throughout the US and focuses on Jews who came of age after the New Left movements of the 60's and 70's. Activists from the previous generation provide historical context. The film will be followed by a group discussion. Co- sponsors include GesherCity Boston, Kavod House, Keshet, and Organized Voice (The Alumni Community of the Jewish Organizing Initiative)
Despite the recent Democratic victory, we still have much to be concerned about regarding electoral irregularities and theft of votes. The Republicans did again try to steal the election, but this time were unsuccessful, aside from a handful of elections, because the Democrats generated enough votes to nullify those efforts. John Bonifaz, founder of the
Newton Dialogues on Peace and War Monthly Public Meeting (7:30 PM) - Co-sponsored by the Newton Chapter of Progressive Democrats, the Ward 5 Democratic City Committee, and the Newton Chapter of Democracy for America. At Eliot Church, 474 Center Street-at the corner with Church Street, Newton Corner.
Description:
"Last November I went for nine days to the West Bank to the town of Beit Sahour to conduct a puppet workshop with an on-and-off company of about twenty. We built puppets and masks from garbage retrieved cardboard. And on Palestinian Independence Day, November 15, the Palestinian Branch of the Bread and Puppet Theater performed on Manger Square, Bethlehem a short spectacle titled “Independence” consisting of four stories made from recent local incidents."
-- Peter Schumann
Exhibit details:
Mon., Feb. 12, 5-7 pm: opening reception, with "Voices from the Community: perspectives from local youth participating in the Bread and Puppet residency at the BCA," held from 6:30-7:00 pm;
Tues.-Fri., Feb. 13-16: regular gallery hours (which include the Cheap Art Store): 11 am-6pm [Friday hours extended during show time];
Sat.-Sun., Feb. 17-18: one hour before and after each performance (see separate announcements)
The symposium features an in-depth interview with Bread and Puppet Theater’s Founder and Artistic Director Peter Schumann, conducted by Dr. John Bell (Puppet Historian, Emerson College professor, and author of Puppets, Masks and Performing Objects); followed by a Q&A.
Legacy of Torture: The War Against the Black Liberation Movement PLUS three acclaimed Newsreel Films on the Black Panther Party
In 2005 several former members of the Black Panther were held in contempt and jailed for refusing to testify before a San Francisco Grand Jury investigating a police shooting that took place in 1971. The government alleged that Black radical groups were involved in the 34-year old case in which two men armed with shotguns attacked the Ingleside Police Station resulting in the death of a police sergeant and the injuring of a civilian clerk.
Plus from the archives: three acclaimed Newsreel Films on the Black Panther Party: Off the Pig (15 min); Mayday (14 min); and Repression (14).
Formed in 1967, the Newsreel film collective was dedicated to chronicling and analyzing current events. In their time, they produced more than three dozen films throughout the US and abroad. By working directly with the Black Panthers, Newsreel was able to explore realities often ignored by traditional media outlets, while producing documents that the Panthers and other activists could use in organizing their own communities. The results speak for themselves and stand as true testimonials to the spirit of community self-defense and political savvy the Panthers are celebrated--and were targeted--for.
The Battle of the Terrorists and the Horrorists is a black and white dance and puppet show with a few colored exclamation marks!! As the U.S. sets out to achieve victory over the terrorists, it becomes necessary to make citizens acquainted with the promoters of victory: the horrorists. Under the banner of the two major divinities who rule over our present day existence — the God of Everything and the God of Nothing — the horrorists demonstrate, with the help of a cardboard citizenry, the progressive stages on the way to victory, including Ice Cold Reality, a dumbshow, which describes a week of horror under the feet of the occupier. The march to victory is a giant sailboat that drowns in stormy seas, and war is genocide. The show ends with an enormous Popol Vuh puppet reciting distorted excerpts from the ancient Mayan Council Book. The show will be performed by the Bread & Puppet Company, along with a large number of local volunteers, including members of the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band.
$12 general admission
[students, seniors, & groups of 10 or more $10]
Labor in China is a Harvard Labor and Worklife Forum with Chair: Tim Costello, Director, Global Labor Strategies, Ellen David Friedman, Visiting Lecturer, School of Government, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China, Dinghong Yi, Professor and Director, Department of Labor Economics, School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University, China, Xiaodan Zhang, Professor, Social Sciences, York College, CUNY.
Meet Rosa Isabel Davila Alonzo and Maria Elena Mendina Vallejo, worker-owners of the Nueva Vida Women's Sewing Cooperative, Nicaragua and Gilberto Garcia from the Center for Labor Studies and Support, El Salvador. Hear about the Massachusetts Sweatfree Campaign to make sure the state buys "sweat-free" goods and services. 12:30 pm in JALSA Conference Room, . Sponsored by JALSA and Sweatfree Communities.
PUBLIC LECTURE presented by:
Rt Hon David Miliband MP
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom
Lecture will be followed by extended question and answer period
MODERATOR: RONALD G. PRINN, M.I.T.
Jimmy Tingle!
The Raging Grannies!
GRAP invites you and your guest to a PARTY
to celebrate and encourage the peace work of grassroots groups in the greater Boston area.
NO More $$$ for War Day On February 17 people in cities across the country will take to the streets to demand that Congress vote to stop funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Boston and surrounding communities activists will take to the streets on Saturday, Feb. 17 for a mobile speakout against the war.
We will gather at 11:00am at the Action Center, 284 Amory St. (the Brewery), Jamaica Plain and then take to the streets in a car caravan lead by a sound truck to speakout against the war and hand out flyers and stickers for March 17.
Troops Out Now
National Office: 212-633-6646
The Everything is Fine Circus features Pinky (the Federal Emergency Elephant), The Rotten Idea Theater Company, The Axis of Beagle and more. The show will be performed by the Bread & Puppet Company, along with a large number of local volunteers, including members of the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band. Take note that if some of the circus acts are politically puzzling to adults, accompanying kids can usually explain them.
$10 / $5 students and seniors / children 2 and under free
This film shows the influence that the largest company in the world has on governments, the media and citizens and what fan be done about global warming. While the Earth's climate is pushed furthur out of balance by increasing use of fossil fuels, ExxonMobil continues to exert undue influence aroung the world-making record profits while ignoring climate science for which there has been overwhelming consensus for over ten years. Send email to suren@fairjobs.org for additionalinformation.
As the world watched in horror, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Like many who watched the unfolding drama on television news, director Spike Lee was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster, but by the slow, inept and disorganized response of the emergency and recovery effort. Lee was moved to document this modern American tragedy, a morality play witnessed by people all around the world. The result is WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS. The film is structured in four acts, each dealing with a different aspect of the events that preceded and followed Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans.