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March 17: March on Pentagon!
Reserve your bus seat today for the March on the Pentagon!
Buses will depart from the Roxbury Community College parking lot
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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.
Joseph Romm, Executive director of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions and author of Hell and High Water: Global Warming - The Science, The Solution, and the Politics.
A report on the occupation of Congressman Edward Markey's office in Medford, MA.
Excerpts from an MIT Technology and Culture Forum and MIT Student Pugwash sponsored presentation by nuclear weapons and foreign policy expert Joseph Cirincione, Senior V.P. of the Center for American Progress.
Topics this month: For peace on the brink of our country's expansion of
war; Reflecting on justice and peace during Lent and Women's History
Month.
Contact: sandycoy@verizon.net.
DISSENT! offers a historical survey of printed images that represent resistance to oppressive religious, political, and social institutions and practices. The objects in the exhibition share two attributes: they are multiple images printed from reproducible matrices, and they challenge the status quo. The show conveys the elasticiy of the medium, covering an array of art from high to low. It includes "fine art" prints as well as posters, plying cards, T-shirts, and postcards, and showcases a range of artists from the celebrated to the amateur. As early as the 16th century, anonymous woodcuts criticized the Roman church's malfeasance; in the early 20th century, Pablo Picasso responded to the tyranny of General Francisco Franco by etching postcard-size prints to be sold at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris; and over 30 years later, unidentified Harvard students printed images on whatever was at hand to publicize discontent with the University's positions on the Vietnam War, ROTC, and civil rights issues. For 500 years, artists have deployed all manner of prints to "speak truth to power."
Contact info@bostonmayday.org about carpooling to this event from Boston.
Homeland Security is disappearing thousands of immigrant workers from their homes and workplaces every week. Its agents are forcibly breaking up families, trampling civil liberties, and violating due process rights. They have attacked union worksites and day laborer centers and tried to bust union organizing drives. Raids, arrests, and deportations have become a regular feature of life in towns which not one year ago witnessed historic mobilizations for immigrant rights.
Supporters of immigrant rights need to regroup and think out how best to address this national crackdown.
Immigrants in Danbury have led the struggle in Connecticut, including the defeat of Mayor Boughton's proposal in 2005 to deputize state troopers to deport immigrants. But Homeland Security has disappeared 23 immigrant workers from Danbury in 4 months. Mayor Boughton encourages the arrests and lends the resources of City Hall to terrorize the immigrant residents of Danbury.
Endorsed by the Western CT Central Labor Council, The Latin American Student Organization of Western Connecticut State University, and the Graduate Employees Student Organization of Yale University.
For more information call 203-512-3452
'Stop the Raids' Forum Announced"
Join us this coming Sunday. Tea and cookies will be served. All are welcome. Event is free.
Anat Biletzki, former president of Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, will speak on Israel/Palestine/Lebanon from a human rights perspective.
Biletzki currently teaches philosophy at Boston University. For more information please contact Karen Klein at lencer@verizon.net.
Congressman Meehan is a graduate of the UML Political Science Program. He will address Dr. Fred Lewis’ classes and other Political Science classes on the situation in Iraq.
Congressman Meehan, now chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee, will have just returned from a one-week trip to Iraq. He will discuss and answer questions about the overall situation, the Constitutional implications of congressional confrontation of the President and other critical matters of public concern.
Keynote Speaker: Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group, Washington D.C., a national expert on the effects of toxic chemicals on children's health, will discuss "pollution in people" and the link between toxic chemicals and chronic illnesses and disabilities. This is a rare event to see Ken's engaging and exciting presentation. Please come and bring friends and neighbors with you! The event is co-hosted by Representative Frank Smizik (D-Brookline).
For more information please contact Elizabeth Saunders at Clean Water Action & the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow: 617-338-8131 x203.
Brown Bag Anti-Racism Discussion Series 2007
Changing the Public Discourse around Race
Please bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided. $5 contribution
requested.
RSVP (617) 523-0555 or ernestine@communitychangeinc.org
This Tuesday, February 27th, five of us from the area will have a bench trial for disorderly conduct when we protested the surge and the war on January 10th by standing in the road on Rt 27. We hope many of you will be able to come and stand out for peace. Our appointment is for 2 PM and it will be a good opportunity for Metrowest folks to get together and speak up for peace.
The "Sherborn Five" are Carol Coakley, Lewis Randa, Judy Rich, Louise Coleman, and Sarah Beagle.
Speaker: Gilbert Burnham
Center for Refugee and Disaster Response
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Co-sponsored with the Technology and Culture Forum and the Center for International Studies.
This program is free and open to the public; no registration is required, but seating is first come, first serve.
For more information call 617.253.0108.
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.
ALL FILMS BEGIN AT 7PM at CARY LIBRARY in the Large Meeting Room
Discussion following. Refreshments will be served.
A Debate With:
Alan Dershowitz and Noam Chomsky
Total time: 85 minutes
Followed by Discussion
After ten minute opening statements, moderator Brian Mandell opens the debate for questions from the diverse audience at the Kennedy School of Government, Institute of Politics. Their questions and reactions add to this lively heavyweight debate.
United States government role in the conflict is a central issue. Documentary Film Series participants who viewed some or all of Chaim Yavin’s “The Settlers” will especially benefit because the U.S. role was not examined in that series but often questioned during discussion.
This debate was filmed several months ago and will benefit anyone seeking to learn more about this key Middle East situation
Noam Chomsky, Professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance," "Power and Terror," and "Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians."
Alan Dershowitz, Professor of Law at Harvard University. He is the author of "The Case for Israel" and "The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can Be Resolved."
Documentary films are shown at the library every 4th Tuesday of the month.
Refreshments served.
The Smedley D. Butler Brigade Chapter 9 of Veterans For Peace met Sunday and decided to move the Occupation Project to John Kerry's office at 1 Bowdoin Square Tenth Floor Boston at 9 AM on Wednesday February 28. We need a good turnout of veterans and others.
The pledge we will try to get Kerry to sign says:
I, Sen. John Kerry, pledge to vote against the supplemental spending measure that President Bush will seek in 2007 from Congress to fund the war in, and occupation of, Iraq. I will take leadership in getting other Senators to also vote against the supplemental.
We will read the names of American and Iraqi dead in the office, with a bell ring after each name.
The occupation will go on all day Wednesday until closing time and, if Kerry has not signed, will continue on Thursday. At some point some veterans and others may not leave when the office closes.
We urge other groups and individuals to come join us inside and outside the office. A presence on the street is very important. We will try to get wide media attention.
Nate Goldshlag
Co-Coordinator, Smedley D. Butler Brigade Chapter 9 of Veterans For
Peace
nateg@pobox.com
Chronicles the life of Ida B. Wells, an early Afro-American activist who protested lynchings, unfair treatment of Afro-American soldiers, and other examples of racism and injustice toward Afro-Americans around the turn of the century..
Please join us for a meeting at Marty Meehan's office in Lowell on Thursday, March 1, at noon. His office is at 11 Kearney Square, in the Lowell Sun building.
We'll be meeting with his staff person Roger Lau. Our main message will be to ask Marty to take leadership to cut off funding for escalating the war.
We plan to have people there from across his district.
Can you come?
If yes: please contact
Lenore so she can contact you with any last minute information.
If no: Please call Marty Meehan's office on Thursday or Friday and ask him to take leadership in cutting off funding to escalate the war? His number is 978-459-0101
GRAND JURY PRIZE WINNER AT THE 2005 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. THE FILM LAUNCHES A NONPARTISAN INQUIRY INTO THE FORCES - POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND IDEOLOGICAL- THAT DRIVE AMERICA TO FIGHT.
INSPIRED BY President Dwight Eisenhower's 1961 Farewell Address in which he warned Americans about the dangers of the "military-industrial complex", filmaker Jarecki weaves unforgettable stories of everyday Americans touched by war with commentary by a "who's who" of military and Washington insiders.
The film explores a half- century of U.S. foreign policy from World War 11 to the Iraq war, revealing how as Eisenhower warned, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war. On a deeper level what emerges is a portrait of a nation in transition -drifting dangerously far from her founding principles toward a more imperial and uncertain future.
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.
With Allison Macfarlane , Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom, The Belfer Center, Harvard University; George Mason University; Andrew Kadak , Professor of Practice, Nuclear Engineering, MIT; Victor Reis , Senior Advisor, Office of the Secretary, US Department of Energy; John Durant (moderator), Director, MIT Museum
These programs are free and open to the public; no registration is required, but seating is first come, first serve. For more information call 617.253.0108.
The award-winning, Lebanesiest Extravaganza of the year, every year… is back!
All you can handle of Lebanese delicacies international tunes spun by DJ Eddy K belly dancing performances by Lilya and lots of earth-shattering dabke!
LIBANISSIMO sells out every year!
Tickets are limited; make sure to by yours now:
7$ online ( http://web.mit.edu/lebanon )
7$ at Lobby 10 booths (Feb 28–Mar 2)
10$ at event on Friday (if any are left!)
prices cover dinner & entertainment
cashbar for alcoholic beverages
March 03, 2007 - March 14, 2007
Global Exchange and Code Pink invite you to celebrate the empowerment of women across borders during International Women's Day in Venezuela. Learn about the struggles and gains of Venezuelan women in advancing their rights, ending violence and poverty and working toward peace and social justice.
a href="http://www.globalexchange.org/tours/765.html">Tour info Cost: $1450
Contact Carlos Martinez with any questions about this trip, 1-800-497-1994 ext. 247.
Explore Non Violent Civil Disobedience to End the Wars, Bring the Troops Home and Declare Peace!! We will be urging our members of Congress to introduce/support legislation to those ends. Some of us will be focusing on stopping the Bioterror Lab. Each group will be developing their own Affinity Groups, strategies and actions.
Grace Ross and Elisabeth Leonard will be the trainers.
The session will be from 1 to 5 PM on March 3rd at the AFSC
To register and for more info, e-mail Elisabeth or call 617/561-9139.
The Arctic is now experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on earth. Over the next 100 years, climate change is expected to accelerate, contributing to major physical, ecological, social, and economic changes, many of which have already begun. Changes in arctic climate will also affect the rest of the world through increased global warming and rising sea levels. Come hear one of the world's top experts in Arctic Marine Science.
Speakers are invited to address ideas on how to get out of Iraq. This is event is sponsored by the Church's Social Justice Committee and promoted by Lexington Justice and Peace Committee.
We are approaching the fourth anniversary of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. Despite some debate in Congress, and promises from some of our representatives that they would oppose supplemental war funding, their willingness to take a public leadership role is limited. Our troops continue to die and there appears to be no end in sight. More worrisome, there are strong indications that the Bush administration is planning a preemptive strike on Iran.
On March 24, there will be a major rally, march, and concert on Boston Common from 11 AM to 5 PM to call for an end to the war, bring the troops home now. This effort will bring together global justice and peace groups from across New England. We are calling on all concerned citizens of Lexington to help organize a significant presence at this event and to mount an ongoing campaign to pressure on Congress for clear, decisive action to end the war.
Arthur Camins
Lexington Justice and Peace Committee