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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
Or contact Chris at Northeastern University 857-334-5084 The march will begin at 12:30 p.m from 23rd and Constitution, N.W. Thousands of Latin American residents of the US, and Latin America solidarity activists will march on the Pentagon March 17, 2007 to demand an immediate end to the war in Iraq and an end to US militarization of Latin America including demanding the closure of the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ending the occupation of Haiti, and closing the Army School of the Americas at Ft. Benning, GA. We will additionally demand to free the Cuban Five, end hostility toward Cuba, Venezuela, and Bolivia, and freedom for Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican political prisoners. Those who wish to march as part of a Latin America contingent should gather at 23rd and Constitution, NW by 12:30pm on March 17. Bring signs and banners that highlight our Latin America demands. There will not be a rally at the assembly area, as we want to hit the streets and march to the Pentagon. There will be a rally at the Pentagon. It is important that everyone make the effort to get to the assembly location at 23rd and Constitution early. Try to get to the site by noon - don't miss the march! If you are coming by bus or driving from out of town, make sure your group is leaving early enough to get you to the assembly site no later than noon. At the assembly site, between 8 a.m. and 12:30, there will be a pre-march People's Assembly in the park at 23rd and Constitution. Contingents and organizations will be providing information displays and literature tables. We will be joined by the famous Bread and Puppet Theater. There will be children's activities, including sign- making for the march, where our children can also pick up anti-war balloons. There will be a large Impeach Bush tent with impeachment materials and a place for impeachment advocates from around the country to gather and meet. |
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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.
MIRA members, staff, and allies are responding to the devastation of families caused by Immigration and Customs Enforcement's raid on workers at a defense contractor in New Bedford, MA. ICE rounded up and incarcerated around 350 textile workers, mostly women, leaving many children stranded. [About 60 have been released for humanitarian reasons, mostly related to child care. About two dozen are being held at the Fort Devens detention center, and the rest have been taken to detention centers in Texas, Pennsylvania, Florida, and possibly others across the country.]
Bi-lingual attorneys or mental health workers who can help with this crisis pro bono, please call MIRA central number: 617-350-5480 x210
Call Mon. 3/12 to find out what goods are needed and how to donate them: Helena Marques, Immigrant Assistance Center (508) 735-1953
"Emergency" legislation proposed by the Patrick administration will roll back community planning rights and environmental protections for tidelands - a key gem among the lands that make up the public trust. Specifically, the bill privatizes a portion of these invaluable lands by legislating a new category- landlocked tidelands - and removing it from the public domain. This eliminates environmental permitting for developers and removes requirements for community input, public benefit, and preserved public access to any such development.
The bill would also retroactively legalize permits - recently deemed illegal by the Supreme Judicial Court - for the massive NorthPoint project in Cambridge. The Patrick administration, which is rushing to the aid of the project, now includes several highest-level appointees with recent direct ties to the NorthPoint developers. Gregory Bialecki, the attorney who led NorthPoint's fight against the citizens' lawsuit to stop the illegal permitting, is now permitting czar. Dan O'Connell, former top executive of the managing partner of NorthPoint - Spaulding and Slye Colliers - is Secretary of Housing and Economic Development. This is insider influence on steroids.
The bill is the latest in a series of attacks on community planning rights and environmental protections, reflecting the growing muscle of the real estate development lobby. As a hedge against pre- emptive legislative action, we encourage concerned citizens to call their legislators as soon as possible. Our grassroots coalition has already been key to stopping several such lobbyist-driven bills. Our voices can help make the difference once again.
PLEASE URGE YOUR LEGISLATORS TO:
* OPPOSE THE TIDELAND PERMITTING BILLS filed by the Patrick Administration and the similar Rodrigues bill, H847.
* INSIST ON FULL PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR ANY TIDELANDS LEGISLATION, INCLUDING FULL DISCLOSURE of campaign contributions from developers to proponents.
* KEEP TIDELANDS - & PUBLIC LAND IN GENERAL - INTACT AS A PUBLIC TRUST.
Mass. Coalition for Healthy Communities 617-852-4727
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. Proponents of HR 811 expect the bill to come for a vote during mid- March 2007.
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.
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.
Soul Brown of The Griot House and Touch FM Radio joins us to talk about the "Peace Broadcast" and the related Peace Pagoda-sponsored "Walk for a New Spring." It's all about ending war overseas and bringing peace to our streets here in the city.
Religion on campus with the Veritas Forum - interview with Executive Director Daniel Cho. Plus excerpts from Veritas Forum at MIT and "Living Machines: Can robots Become Human?"
GRACE NOTES with Grace Ross.
The "Culturizer" Bruce Sylvester with an art review.
RADIO with a VIEW is produced by Marc Stern and David Goodman for the Independent Broadcast Information Service in cooperation with WMBR, Cambridge
"A Story and a Song" is a new production that has been developed by Aparna Sindhoor, artistic director of Navarasa Dance Theater, based on women's stories. An interactive dialogue between Kannada folk tales and Native American tales--along with narratives from contemporary grandmothers, friends & family--it is a tale of women, environment & love. The performance encompasses spoken word, dance, theater & contact improvisation in a powerful way.
Boston Anti-Zionist Action will be protesting outside Wellesley High School this Sunday afternoon March 11. We'll be there before 2:30. Please come - ask me for a ride if you need one - and ask other people to come help protest against the zionist/US/UN war on Sudan; against zionist and US imperialism; for an end to demonization and oppression of Muslims, Arabs and Africans; and for freedom for all of Palestine.
The pro-war rally there is called "Wellesley for Darfur: An Afternoon of Music, Advocacy and Action" and is happening from 3 to 5 including music, pro-war propaganda speakers and an "action fair".
***** CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY *****
with INCITE! Boston Women of Color Against Violence
Presenting, as part of our film series on Global South Women's Movements,
A Fundraiser Film Screening & Discussion.
Suggested donation: $7, based on ability
(All proceeds will go to support GABRIELA's work)
GABRIELA is a mass women's organization in the Philippines working to free women from all forms of oppression, whether intimate violence, landlessness and economic exploitation, lack of reproductive healthcare - or foreign domination by the U.S.
Come hear about this amazing movement's work organizing peasant women, squatters, students, and the urban poor! JOIN US for a discussion, and celebration of International Women's Day -- and women's resistance!
With:
Darlene Lombos, organizer/film-maker
Representatives from GABRIELA Network
Members of Boston Women of Color Against Violence
and others!
About the Film Series:
Too often the roles of Global South women in struggles for economic and social justice are ignored. Or they are mentioned in passing, without a full look at the richness of their experiences, and lessons they offer us all.
617-947-0759
INCITE! Boston Women of Color Against Violence
This is Newton Dialogues Monthly Public Meeting
As you may know there's currently a mobilization going on all over the country of people urging their representatives to vote against the next Iraq War funding request. This vote may take place as early as Monday, March 12.
Marty Meehan is now chairman of the Armed Services Committee and we want him to urge the members of this committee to join him in opposing this latest war funding request.
If you can send a letter or email, or call Meehan's offices to express your opinion on this matter.
Meehan's Washington office: 202-225-3411
Meehan's Lowell office: 978-459-0101
Email Address: martin.meehan@mail.house.gov
CUT OFF THE WAR FUNDS - END THE WAR NOW - BRING THE TROOPS HOME On Monday, March 12, antiwar activists from around the country will began camping in front of the Capital building at 3rd St. right on the Washington DC National Mall. We will be there with tents, banners, placards, signs, noisemakers, etc. demanding that Congress stop the BS and simply cut off the war funding, end the war now and bring the troops home. We need you to join us. We need you to march on the Pentagon on March 17. Moreover, if there was ever a time to be in the streets, blocking traffic, occupying bridges, organizing walk-outs from coast to coast to stop this criminal war, THIS IS THE TIME!
Troops Out Now Coalition
For the latest Encampment updates - check the Encampment blog
Graeber's publications span theories of value, the anti-globalization direct action movement, political culture in Madagascar, and re-thinking anthropology as anarchism.
At Harvard, Graeber will discuss his recent work, including his essay "On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets: Broken Windows, Imaginary Jars of Urine, and the Cosmological Role of the Police in American Culture" (available for circulation on request).
David Graeber is the author of:
Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams (Palgrave, 2001)
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2004)
Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar (Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2007)
Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire. (AK Press, forthcoming 2007)
Space for this event is limited. To reserve a spot and to request a copy of the paper, please RSVP to Peter Alagona
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. In the words of John Reed, "No matter what one thinks of Bolshevism, it is undeniable that the Russian Revolution is one of the greatest events in human history."
Nearly a hundred years since the Revolution the recent and living events in Oaxaca/Mexico, Venezuela, Bolivia, and even France show the potential for another "October". What did the Russian Revolution mean and what important lessons can workers and youth draw from it today in an age of capitalist globalization and imperialist wars?
Presented by the Workers International League
Email: rhodeisland@newyouth.com
All of us have stories. Learn about people here at Brandeis, their struggles and joys. Experience a magical form of theatre that brings true stories to life in a moment. Witness people's amazement when they see the essence of their story captured, in drama, song, and movement.
Performed by Boston’s own improvisational Playback Theatre company:
True Story Theater
Often the audience is moved to tears by the courageous struggle portrayed or to laughter when witnessing familiar human foibles in the common human condition.
Sponsored by Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Studies at Brandeis.
7:45 AM Back Bay Station Banner Action and Flyering
11:40 AM Down Town Crossing Banner Action and Flyering
7:00 PM Community Church of Boston Movie Screening
GATHER at 7:45 AM inside of the hall at Back Bay Station for a banner action and flyering of morning commuters.
REGROUP at 11:40 outside of the Bath & Body Works in Downtown Crossing. We will decide where we want our banner(s) and where in the crossing we want to be flyering lunchtime traffic. Lunchtime action should be finished around 1:00 or 1:30.
MOVIE SCREENING: to end the day with a sense of community, unity, and warmth, there will be a little fundraiser in support of the San Francisco 8. At Community Church of Boston, above the Globe Restaurant on Copley Square, around 7 PM we will start our gathering with grounding discussion around who the San Francisco 8 are and some local implications. The film "Legacy of Torture: War Against the Black Liberation Army" will be shown and dialogue will follow. Suggested Donation: $5.00- $50.00. This location has an elevator for those who may need it.
You are cordially invited to a very special speaking event relating to the death penalty.
Billy Neal Moore, who spent 16 years on death row, came within days of execution, and was subsequently freed due to exemplary behavior, is being hosted by the Community of Sant'Egidio on Tuesday, March 13.
The Agape Community, a lay Catholic Nonviolent Community in Central MA, founded in 1982, was deeply involved in Billy's case when members of the community contacted Billy for the first time in 1984, which led to six years of correspondence and many trips to death row, the final one being on the day of Billy's scheduled execution in 1990.
ROOT FORCE is going after every company involved in targeted projects with a full spectrum of no-compromise direct action, dedicated to driving company after company away until the projects collapse. Whether individual or corporate, every collaborator in ecocide and genocide will be held responsible.
For more information about Root Force or the Road Show, contact Root Force, PO Box 1302, Tucson, AZ 85702-1302
A radiation exposure-setting body, the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), is poised to release their report, Recommendations, to allow more and higher radiation exposures to people, animals and the environment. ICRP says it is accepting comments on their document Draft ICRP Recommendations, but they are not issuing an official comment period. Further, Recommendations is missing its abstract, editorial and summary. Since these are the portions that many of the public and press will read, it should go without saying they need to be included for comment before this document is approved and finalized.
PLEASE TAKE ACTION:
View letter then sign it!
For further information contact Cindy Folkers at 301-270-6477.
Community Change Inc.
Brown Bag Anti-Racism Discussion Series 2007
Changing the Public Discourse around Race
The human-made disasters surrounding the storms of 2005 are ongoing and outrageous. The right of return must be guaranteed for all internally displaced peoples. We will watch the movie "I Won¹t Drown on That Levy" and "You Ain¹t Gonna Break My Back," by Critical Resistance and discuss ways to help with current organizing work and campaigns against prisons, both nationwide and locally.
Presenter: danni west
danni west is a 21 year old white anti- racist queer organizer, agitator
and educator for positive change. While living in Boston, she is currently
working with the Groundwork Unitarian Universalist Collective, Critical
Resistance¹s Amnesty Campaign, and various other projects for collective
liberation.
Please bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided. $5 contribution requested.
RSVP (617) 523-0555 or ernestine@communitychangeinc.org
Protest immigration against the horrible raids and detentions that took place in New Bedford and have taken place around the country.
Boston MayDay.org
617-290-5614
PLAN ACTIONS TO END THE WAR IN IRAQ AND PREVENT THE PLANNED ATTACK ON IRAN
What is needed - plan forums, develop handouts, organize lobbying, initiate a media campaign, place ads in newspapers, hold rallies, engage in education and outreach, raise money, USE OUR POWER AND OUR CREATIVITY to JOIN TOGETHER, SPEAK OUT, AND SAY NO MORE!!
Sponsors:
Middle East Crisis Coalition
United for Justice with Peace
Stop the Wars Coalition
Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights
United for Justice with Peace Israel-Palestine Task Force
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Code Pink
American-Arab Antidiscrimination Committee of Massachusetts
Massachusetts Peace Action
For more information, contact the Middle East Crisis Coalition
Movie Night at the Peace Abbey!
$5 donation
Supports the Peace Abbey & Military Families Speak Out
Frustrated punk rocker Otto quits his supermarket job after slugging a co-worker, and is later dumped by his girlfriend at a party. Wandering the streets in frustration, he is recruited in the repossession of a car by a repo agent. After discovering his parents have donated his college fund to a televangelist, he joins the repossession agency (Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation) as an apprentice "repo man". During his training, he is introduced into the mercenary and paranoid world of the drivers, befriended by a UFO conspiracy theorist, confronted by rival repo agents, discovers some of his one-time friends have turned to a life of crime, is lectured to about cosmic unconsciousness by the repo agency grounds worker, and finds himself entangled in a web of intrigue concerning a huge repossession bounty on a 1964 Chevy Malabu driven by a lunatic government scientist, with Top Secret cargo in the trunk.
The Ford Hall Forum Free Public Lecture
and Discussion Series presents this lecture on moderate muslim voices
in America with
Ali S. Asani and Mona Eltahawy
moderated by Jeff Jacoby
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The world’s 1.4 billion Muslims encompass an enormous range of beliefs and practices, a world of cultures—from Arab to post-Soviet to Indian to American, and a wide spectrum of movements—from liberal progressive to Islamist. However, today’s headlines all too often highlight the familiar stories of violence and extremism within the Islamic world. Is religion truly the driving force behind these actions? Where is the space for voices of the moderate majority to be heard? In our country, where many became acquainted with Islam only in the context of September 11th, how can we better understand this major world religion? Tonight, Prof. Ali Asani and Mona Eltahawy explore the tensions within modern Islam and how we can better understand them.
Ali S. Asani is currently Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture at Harvard University. He is also a member of the board of directors of the American Islamic Congress as well as the Academic Council of Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University.
Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning New York-based journalist and commentator and an international lecturer on Arab and Muslim issues. Jeff Jacoby is an op-ed columnist for The Boston Globe.
4th part of 4-PART SERIES
Speakers:
Matthew Bunn, Senior Research Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
Geoff Forden, Science, Technology and Global Security Working Group, STS, MIT
Marvin Miller, Senior Scientist Emeritus, Center for International Studies, MIT
Moderator:
Owen Cote, Center for International Studies, MIT
These programs are free and open to the public; no registration is required, but seating is first come, first serve.
Childcare available, please call.
The recent raids in New Bedford that rounded up over 350 immigrant workers and separated parents from their children is just the latest example of the government’s brutal attack on immigrants. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) claimed to be targeting “illegal” immigrants, but as the force that is unjustly detaining workers and breaking up families, ICE are the real criminals.
In the meantime, Congress is trying to pass new immigration “reform.” But the only policies that Republican and Democratic Party politicians support are ones that will continue to exploit immigrant workers, through a temporary worker program and increased criminalization of immigrants.
We need to fight for full legalization and a moratorium on all deportations! We need to send that message that no one is illegal! Come to a discussion of how we can fight for the rights of immigrants and all workers, and stop the attacks and deportations.
Sponsored by: International Socialist Organization isoboston@yahoo.com 617-648-0561
People of all religious faiths, those who identify as "spiritual but not religious," and anyone else who wishes to demonstrate care for the earth, are invited to join together to walk for swift, bold, and comprehensive political action to respond to the challenge of global warming.
By walking each day and holding inspirational interfaith programs each evening, we will focus public attention on the moral urgency of comprehensive public policy to reduce greenhouse gases. The Walk will culminate in an interfaith service and public witness in Boston on Saturday, March 24, 2007.
Denise Frizzell - 508-397-4056.
1. The families of those affected by the police raids on New Bedford immigrant workers are in need of diapers [cloth or pampers], and non-perishable baby foods and regular food. In Boston these are being collected so far at: COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON, 565 Boylston Street. The first load of collected materials will be delivered directly to the people that need them on FRIDAY the 16th, after 12 noon. For office hours, please contact Jason Lydon at the church: 617-266-6710.
If you wish to help to gather these items, or if you know of other sites where materials are being gathered, please contact Gary Dotterman at 617-738-4279.
2. There is a need for Spanish and Qiche translators. If you know of anyone who can assist, please contact MIRA at 617-350-5480, ext 212.
Dinner 6:30 pm
Program 7:30 pm
Suggested donation: $5 dinner, $5 program
Traducción inglés-español / español-inglés
T Blue Line to Maverick Station, bus or walk 5 blocks down Meridian to Bennington at Liberty Plaza
Sponsor: World Can't wait: Drive out the Bush Regime
Description:
Screening of "Healing Iraq" , a powerful 15 minute documentary interview with an Iraqi surgeon who lived and worked thru the U.S. sieges of Fallujah. This will be followed by an informal talk by Evan Lyon, of Partners in Health on the health consequences of the Iraq War. this will be the impetus for a CALL to ACTION for activists to help organize teach-ins and other activities to oppose the Bush Regime's policies of War and Aggression.
Contact person: Maria Sanchez: 617-461-5165
Come celebrate the release of the latest issue of everyone's favorite locally-produced magazine of class struggle theory and practice, the Northeastern Anarchist!
Food and drink provided. Suggested donation to be determined.
The Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights invites the public and members of other peace groups to join it in a demonstration against Caterpillar on Saturday, March 17th. The demonstration will be held from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM outside Milton CAT, Caterpillar’s largest distributorship in the Northeast, located in Milford, MA. Please gather in the Porter Square Shopping Mall (by Dunkin’ Donuts) on SATURDAY March 17, between 8:30 am and 9:00 am; the group will then drive out to Milford. The Milton CAT distributorship is located at 100 Quarry Road, Milford, MA 01757.
Hear Ed Quinn speak about the successful new Woburn green high school and what it could mean for growth and development in other cities and towns - muncipal, business and residential
Ed will show us his PowerPoint presention on the lessons learned and the process Woburn went through building a green program from scratch. He will go into the planning and the marketing to the community, both residential and business, and discuss grant research and preparation as well as the results of their efforts to date. The formal presentation will take about an hour.
Afterwards we will have ample time for thorough Q&A, and Ed has offered to meet with individuals and small groups for more in-depth discussion and specific questions.
Ed is the principal of Quinn Consulting in Woburn, which provides economic planning and analysis, and green building planning and implementation.
Sponsored by the Center for Democracy and the Constitution, a Lexington-based non-profit
For those who cannot go to Washington, DC there will be a local solidarity demo in Boston on the Common at Park Street 1 PM - 2 PM as part of the "From Every Village Green" campaign against the war. If you have signs or appropriate banners please them. There will be a few extra signs and banners.
Demo sponsored by the Committee for Peace and Human Rights which holds a weekly Saturday afternoon vigil on the common from 1 PM - 2 PM.
On Tuesday, more than 500 armed homeland security officers descended upon Michael Blanco Inc in New Bedford, MA. Over 350 employees, "mostly mothers with young children", were swept up in the raid, *shackled together in groups of three by their wrists and ankles* and marched to buses bound for Fort Devens, 100 miles away.
Community activists in New Bedford have scrambled to locate the children and their parents. One baby who was breast-feeding had to be hospitalized for dehydration because her mother remained in detention, authorities said. One mother was located in Texas after her 7-year-old child called a state hot line set up to help reunite the families.
This is not a new story, but the story keeps getting more horrific. In recent months raids have hit nearly every state in the country. According to ICE's own numbers *over 500 people are deported from this country everyday* *!* Each one of these deportations has a very human element that is about families and children. It's time that we pressure the President to "Stop the Raids" and lead on passing a Fair and Humane Immigration Reform Bill. Everyday we wait hundreds of more families are torn apart, children abandoned, and communities disrupted.
In New Bedford, families will be holding a huge rally at the federal building here calling for the release of all detainees, a congressional hearing on the raids, and immediate passage of humane and fair immigration reform.
*What you can do:*
*- Come to New Bedford, MA and join us on Saturday, March 17th at 2:30 pm.*
*- Organize a march or rally at a federal building in your city or town for Saturday, March 17.*
*- Call your Congressperson and ask them to "Release the Families and Stop the deportations!"*
*- Donate to the relief effort for the affected families of New Bedford.*
So please join the families in New Bedford and all the other cities and towns that have had ICE raids tear at the fabric of their communities by moving to action on *Saturday, March 17*. It's time for us to say *"ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!"*
Sponsored by the
Mira Coalition
(508) 979-4684 or (508) 996-8113
The Boston IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) will be holding a organizing training class on from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Registration: $5
(sliding scale for Students / Seniors / Unemployed)
For more information contact: bostgmb-I@iww.org
Jim Harney, a photojournalist and storyteller, traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border & the Mexico- Guatemala border in the thick of our national debate on the fate of some 12 million undocumented people. Latin American migrants run a gauntlet of brutality, riding on the outside of freight trains, trekking through deserts, hoping to find in the U.S. a future denied to them in their homeland by economic imperialism. His presentation illustrates the human cost of globalization, as he shares some of their stories and explores the forces driving them to make the dangerous journey north.
Jim is artist-in-residence for Posibilidad, a Maine-based nonprofit that engages people in conversation around the excluded of society. For more than two decades, this former priest has traveled to and lived with the poor in Venezuela, Haiti & the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Iraq, Colombia, Chiapas, Guatemala and El Salvador. Also, following his presence at protests of the World Trade Organization here and abroad, his photos and narratives have unmasked corporate violence.
Please join us for the Boston Vegetarian Society's
3rd Sunday Seminar (FREE) and Dinner
4:00 PM Seminar (FREE)
5:15 PM Vegan Buffet Dinner (not free)
This Powerpoint presentation will examine some of the evidence that supports following a vegetarian diet to reduce the risk of heart disease, including studies by Dean Ornish and Caldwell Esselstyn. It will also discuss some of the myths about vegetarian diets, current values for protein and calcium needs for veg'ns and how to fill them, and more!
5:15 PM - SOCIAL DINNER (optional, but encouraged!)
Stay and enjoy Grasshopper's delicious unlimited vegan buffet for only $9.50+ tax (and remember the tip jar by the cash register for the hard-working staff!). Includes appetizers, soups, salad, several entrees, and fresh melons. Let us get to know you!
No RSVP needed, just come on by! Everyone is welcome.
We are moving full speed ahead to providing a transformative experience in peacebuilding this summer for 30 Palestinian, Israeli, and American youth.
We hope you will all join us at our inaugural event on March 18th, 2007 from 4- 6pm in the Ellsworth Theatre at Pine Manor College. The afternoon will feature short documentary and animation films made by last years campers in Vancouver, jazz & Klezmer music by Paula Zeitlan, performances by Pine Manor chorus and dance students, and Sufi dancing by our own Theatre Director and Camp Co-Director, Ibrahim Miari. Middle Eastern Food will be provided by local restaurants.
More information about the March 18th Inaugural event can be found on our website.