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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:
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.
Excerpts from Peter Schumann's Bread and Puppet Symposium on Subversive Papier-Mache, recorded Monday 2/12/07 (with moderator, Prof. John Bell of Emerson College)
Excerpts from "Marx in Soho" with actor Bob Weick and Question and Answer session with playwrite and historian Howard Zinn (thanks to Chuck U of WMFO and "Free of Form" Radio for the recording)
"Grace Notes" with Grace Ross
Dr. DuBois was a prophet of Black Liberation and anti-imperialism. He was a frequent speakerat the Community Church of Boston and gave his last public address in this country at the Community Church. The Church has hosted the yearly W.E.B. DuBois Memorial Address since 1982, where we invite activists and leaders who honor the memory of Dr. DuBois to share their work, words, and passion with us.
Sean Gonsalves was born on Cape Cod and raised in Oakland, CA--"home of the Black Panther Party, Angela Davis, Hell's Angels & Tupac Shakur". He has been a syndicated columnist and reporter for the Cape Cod Times for the past ten years, as well as a frequent guest on talk radio. Sean's work has appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Washington Post & Boston Globe. He recently contributed an essay to Living a Life of Value, a remarkable anthology of 75 writings edited by Jason Merchey, and will soon be featured in a book about African-American columnists.
A new holy war is growing within the conservative evangeical community, with implications for both the global environment and American politics. For years liberal Christians and others have made protection of the environent a moral committment. Now a number of conservative evangelicals are joining the fight, arguing that the stewardship of the planet is a biblical impoerative and calling for action to stop global warmimg.. But they are being met head-on by opposition from their traditional evangelical brethern who adamantly support the Bush administration in downplaying the threat of global warming and other enironmental perils. The political stakes are high: Three out of four evangelical voters chose George W. Bush in 2004. "Is God Green?" explores how a serious split between conservative evangelicals over the environment and global warming could reshape American politics.
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.
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]
Please join us to celebrate Mardis Gras and the launch of What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation a new anthology edited by the South End Press collective. Editors and contributors to what Barbara Smith calls a "clear-eyed and fascinating analysis of what Hurricane Katrina has to teach us about politics, power, human connection, and working for justice" will read from the book and answer questions.
Sales of What Lies Beneath and pass-the-hat donations will go to the People's Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition.
The 10th Annual Homelessness Marathon will be broadcast live starting Tuesday night, Feb. 20 until Wednesday morning, Feb. 21.
The Homelessness Marathon is the world’s leading radio broadcast focusing on homelessness and poverty, airing on over 100 radio stations in the United States. This unique program will air in the Boston area on WMBR 88.1FM (and streaming live at wmbr.org), MIT’s student- and community-run radio station. The program is formatted in one-hour segments, with each hour focusing on a specific topic related to being homeless in America. There are panels of experts, and call-ins from listeners, with a priority given to those who are actually homeless. The host, “Nobody,” and his guests are in an outdoor broadcast booth all night long, with a microphone set up for people who are out on the street that night.
The Homelessness Marathon airs from a different city each year. In 2001 it originated in Harvard Square, Cambridge. This year it will be in Fresno, California, hosted by local community radio station KFCF and an ad hoc committee of activists on poverty and housing issues.
“We picked Fresno,” explains the Homelessness Marathon’s director, Jeremy Weir Alderson, “partly because of the extraordinary cruelty with which homeless people are being treated there.” Allegedly, in the course of making sweeps, the City of Fresno has thrown away people’s money, ID’s, sleeping bags and tents as well as a list of items Alderson calls “particularly shocking,” including someone’s false teeth, a cane, a wheelchair, the ashes of someone’s dead grandchild and a tent thought to have kittens inside (the kittens were never seen again).
No to environmental classism and racism! No to reckless fueling of climate change! No to global warming! No Merrill Lynch funding TXU!
Join us in a street theater die-in in front of Merrill Lynch?s Boston Branch. We will provide costumes: tyvec hazard suits, masks, and lots of coal to splatter around.
Help us stop the funding of 11 new dirty coal-fired power plants in Texas. These plants will be built in low income rural communities, causing asthma and other environmental devastation. These plants will cause more greenhouse gases than some countries. These plants will cancel out the entire reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through the Kyoto Protocols in Japan. These plants are the equivalent 14 million new cars on the highway. These plants are the biggest step backwards our country could take in fighting climate change.
Contact Joshua Russell (203.246.3951) or Jonathan McIntosh (617.304.9668) with questions and to RSVP.
For more information on TXU see www.dirtymoney.org
For more information on similar local issues see: "No Chelsea Power Plant"
Meet under the train schedule board (in the main lobby).Please show up on time for costumes and prep.
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.
One country has already experienced "peak oil". When the USSR collapsed, Cuba's access to cheap energy disappeared almost overnight. How they managed through community, conservation and cooperation to work past hunger and paralyzed transportation and industrial systems is the inspiring and hopeful account detailed in this 2006 film.** They found solutions such as replacing large farms with small local organic gardening and developing localized economic systems not only healthier, but also led to more close knit communities.
The North Bridge Alliance for Democracy is the local chapter of the Alliance for Democracy, a national non- partisan group working to limit corporate influence on government, elections, public policy, and media. We meet monthly in Lincoln and welcome your participation! For more information on North Bridge AfD please call 781-259-8104.
A documentary viewing the Lebanese Civil War, as well as its roots and aftermath, through the eyes of an old theater. The stories of actors, directors, soldiers, and civilians intersect and intertwine at the Grand Theater, giving us a vivid portrait of a city under siege. As the atrocity and absurdity of war escalates, the lines between war and theater, and between performance and reality, are blurred.
Chuck Turner is a long-time progressive leader. A member of the Boston City Council, he is an outspoken opponent of the Iraq war, a champion of quality public education for all kids, and a strong supporter of a healthy environment, civil rights, and good government. He is widely known for his efforts to connect communities, convene coalitions, and strengthen progressive organizing.
Minimum Donation of $20 Requested. Checks Payable to Committee to Re-Elect Chuck Turner.
Please RSVP to (617) 304-5330 or Eric@EricWeltman.com
Directions:
Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons Speaker: Joseph Cirincione, Senior Vice President, Center for American Progress
These programs are free and open to the public; no registration is
required, but seating is first come, first serve.
For more information, please go to
A Zoë Chip is placed in your brain at birth to record your entire life. When you die, the footage from your life is edited into a "Rememory"-- a film shown at your funeral pieced together by an editor. A toy for the privileged, Zoë Chips are changing the face of human interaction, but there are those who are against this emerging technology, and believe that memories are meant to fade. Alan Hackman (Robin Williams) is the best "cutter" in the business. His ability to grant the corrupt absolution of the sins of his clients has put him in high demand. However, his talent for viewing life without emotion has shaped him into a cold distant man and has made him unable to experience life in the first person. He believes he is a "sin eater" and his work provides him with the ability to absolve the dead of their sins. While cutting a Rememory for a high- powered colleague, Alan discovers an image from his childhood that has haunted him his entire life. This discovery leads him on a high intensity search for truth and redemption.
Free, however, donations accepted, which will support relief and reconstruction efforts in Lebanon as part of the 'Boston to Lebanon' campaign
The symposium seeks to provide both a forum for lively discussion and debate integrated with planning sessions for Greater Boston. The two-day event will feature intellectual discussions on the History of Christian Progressivism, Jesus’ Call to Peacemaking, the Theological Support for Gay Marriage.
We will also hold interactive sessions that seek to develop a cross- denominational, cross-tradition Progressive Christian Council that will work towards a public policy agenda regionally and nationally.
Speakers and panelists include: Prof. Richard Parker, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Rev. Debra Haffner, Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing; Rev. Anne Fowler, President of Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry; Frederick Clarkson, Founder of Talk2Action.org, Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, Executive Director of New Orleans Interfaith Worker Justice, and others.
The symposium seeks to provide both a forum for lively discussion and debate integrated with planning sessions for Greater Boston. The two-day event will feature intellectual discussions on the History of Christian Progressivism, Jesus’ Call to Peacemaking, the Theological Support for Gay Marriage.
We will also hold interactive sessions that seek to develop a cross- denominational, cross-tradition Progressive Christian Council that will work towards a public policy agenda regionally and nationally.
Speakers and panelists include: Prof. Richard Parker, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Rev. Debra Haffner, Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing; Rev. Anne Fowler, President of Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry; Frederick Clarkson, Founder of Talk2Action.org, Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, Executive Director of New Orleans Interfaith Worker Justice, and others.
10am-beyond-supper (tentatively) Sat-Sun 2-24 and 2-25-07
Greetings Friends and Comrades!
Come together in Boston, February 24-25, for the Northeast Anarchist
Consulta to strategize, organize, and prepare for a massive Week of
Resistance this May in defense of migrant workers' rights and in
opposition to the Biotech Convention [coming to Boston 6-9 May].
Learn more:
RSVP if you plan to come
and for location information.