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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.
Meet briefly at the statue to exchange thoughts,
then walk silently around the Yard and nearby streets,
returning to the statue by 12:30pm.
Southeast corner of Rt 27 and 30 (nearest to Brooks Pharmacy).
Come for all or part. Bring a candle, lantern, or flashlight.
Organizer: Sandy Coy.
Join the Boston Tea Party Conference call,
Participant call in: 402-756-9100; Access code: 680903#
Socialist Alternative Radio, 91.5 FM Boston
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 illegal detentions. The fast began in 2005 when Nobel Peace Laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Adolpho Esquivel, (Argentina), along with others around the world, chose this method to seek the release of our unjustly detained and tortured brothers and sisters.
In Boston, local activists Susan McLucas and Phoebe Knopf have joined the Friday fast and will protest every Friday in front of the JFK Building from noon to one. The action, which is rooted in nonviolence, includes speakers, music, hand-outs and petitions to create public pressure to stop all illegal detentions and to try those responsible for the illegal treatment of thousands of detainees, most of whom are Arab and Muslim men. Susan and Phoebe will be wearing orange jumpsuits.
Doris Tennant and Ellen Lubell (of Newton) are representing a Guantanamo prisoner pro bono, so they are providing their time at no charge. However, their costs, including their own travel and that of a translator, translator fees, and Freedom of Information Act requests, are running at least $20,000 for this year, and will likely continue at that same pace or more. Most of the other attorneys who are representing Guantanamo detainees are members of large law firms that can cover these types of expenses, but in their case the two of them are the firm.
If you would like to make a contribution to help them defray costs, it would be much appreciated. Please make your check payable to "Tennant Lubell Detainee Fund." Your contribution will NOT be tax-deductible, but they promise to put it to good use to help provide fundamental legal rights to a man who remains in indefinite detention.
Doris Tennant, Esq.
Tennant Lubell, LLC
288 Walnut Street, Suite 500
Newton, MA 02460
617-969-9610, X 101
Fax: 617-969-9611
Please consider signing the petition calling for a Filibuster to end the war. It takes only one Senator and 40 more abstentions (not even a yes vote) to stop funding for the war. The Republicans have used this tactic three times in the last month.
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").
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.
The Story of Easter is one of hope. Even after great suffering there lies the possibility of rising up to continue in the struggle. While the Prison Industrial Complex certainly does not provide any avenues for hope the movement to dismantle it does. In the spirit of liberation from suffering we will use our time to discuss, explore, and involve ourselves in the movement to abolish our current prison system.
Jason Lydon is our Congregational Director.
The renowned American historian Howard Zinn, author of "A People's History of the United States" will address the roots of U.S. policy towards Cuba, while Salim Lamrani, the editor of "Superpower Principles: U.S. Terrorism against Cuba" will explain the case of the Cuban Five and their justified presence in U.S. territory.
Other participants will speak about the International Campaign for the visitation rights of the families of the Cuban Five
Sponsored/endorsed by: Northeastern student chapter of the ACLU, Professor James Rowan (clinical director of NEU Poverty Law Clinic), July 26 Coalition of Boston, National Lawyers Guild, Center for Constitutional Rights, International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five
617-522-9478
Email Contact
Release the Families! Stop the Deportations! Stop the Raids! Full Legalization! Sponsors: MIRA Coalition, CEDC New Bedford, Centro Presente, SEIU Local 615, Jobs with Justice, Brazilian Women's Group, ROCA, Inc., Irish immigration Center, Boston May Day Coalition, Agencia Alpha, Immigrant and Refugee Center, NOAH, CCEMA,NALACC, Gaston Institute
MIRA Coalition
617-350-5480 x217
Material Donations: Sardines, Oil, Beans, Spaghetti & sauce, Potatoes, Sugar, Coffee, Dish Soap, Detergent, MASECA (corn flour), sanitary napkins; diapers in all sizes; Baby wipes; Bottles and bottle liners; baby formula; all types of baby food; Canned food, bottled water. Donations should be dropped off between 8:30am and 4:30pm, Monday through Friday ONLY at 2 Acushnet Ave, New Bedford at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Convent.
Presented by The Graduation Pledge Effort With:
In preparation for the demo at the Marathon on April 16th, we are holding an organizational meeting. Any group interested in participating in this please let me know and have someone from your organization show up, so that we can have a good idea of our numbers and coordinating ability.
Alex is a disgruntled waitress at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class, Alex & cohorts attempt to go on a rampage. Meanwhile, General Karprov and Spider plot to involve the inept anarchists into their plans to derail the prime-minister-to-be's campaign.
The film features a number of cameos including appearances from the likes of Miranda Richardson and Nigel Planer as vile DHSS clerks, Robbie Coltrane as the ultimate yuppie, Rik Mayall as a union boss, Paul McCartney, Shane MacGowan, Jennifer Saunders, Kathy Burke, Koo Stark, Dawn French, Bill Wyman, Jools Holland, Adrian Edmondson and Lemmy.
Becky Pierce of New England War Tax Resistance and other long-time war tax resisters will outline methods, choices, risks, and support resources for refusing to pay part or all of your federal income tax.
Learn how you can join with Cindy Sheehan and tens of thousands of others in this rapidly growing movement. Info: 617-282-3783
Joseph Gerson author of Hiroshima Eyes and The Sun Never Sets will discuss his new book Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World. Dr.Gerson is the NewEngland Director of Programs for the American Friends Service Committee.
If you can come to this meeting please call me (Amy Hendrickson) at 617 738-8029 so that we can let the restaurant know how many people to expect.
A documentary about the chasm between the scientific understanding of global warming and political action.
Journalist Ross Gelbspan, one of the film's stars, will answer questions from the audience following the screening.
advance tickets: $9, $7 (seniors/children) at door: $10, $8
proceeds to benefit a new online environmental
journalism project of
Green Decade Coalition/Newton
Info: 617 527-1237
Hugo Chavez elected president of Venzuela in 1998, is a colorful, unpredictable folk hero, beloved by his nation's working class and a tough-as-nails, quixotic opponent to the power structure that would see him deposed. Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when he was forcibly removed from office. They were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, he returned to power amid cheering aides. Their film records what was probably history's shortest-lived coup d'état. It's a unique document about political muscle and an extraordinary portrait of the man The Wall Street Journal credits with making Venezuela "Washington‚s biggest Latin American headache after the old standby, Cuba."
The "Friday Night at the Movies" series presents films of social and political significance. See the Friday night movies on our big screen the second Friday of each month! Films are followed by a discussion. Free admission. Donations gratefully accepted.
His first appearance will be at Harvard U Kirkland JCR 95
dunster St Cambridge
contact # (617) 495-2272. Time is 2PM to 3PM.
Second appearance, same day Friday, April 13 Boston
University Morse Auditorium 602 Commonwealth Ave
Boston
Contact # (617)353-3635. Time: 4:30PM to 6PM.
For further information please visit the Kucinich website I have contacted the parking facilities department at BU and the situation will be atrocious but I hope that some of you might still attend.They informed me that there are many open house events that day on the campus and that there will be a Red Sox game beginning at 7PM. Morse auditorium is one block from Kenmore Square. (Green Line C or D cars.)
Thousands of people across the country will gather at local (iconic) sites to have their pictures taken and those pictures will be sent to Congress and the media and put on the web. People will be holding signs, some of which will say: "Step it up Congress!Cut Carbon 80% by 2050"
9-11AM: Brookline, Coolidge CornerStrollathon (benefit for MCAN and our local chapters)
10AM: Newton Community Service Center
Newton Green Decade Coalition
492 Waltham St., West Newton
NOON: Lexington Rally
Bandstand in Hastings Park
Speakers include:
Mrs. Peggy McKibben
Dr. Ted McIntyre
Senator Jim Marzilli (Arlington)
Senator Robert Havern (Lexington/Arlington)
Representative Will Brownsberger (Belmont)
Dr. Marc Breslow (Massachusetts Climate Action Network)
Representative Ed Markey has also been invited to speak
Lexington Global Warming Action Comm
1-2:30PM: Inconvenient Truth
slideshowSudbury, Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School
Sudbury EDC
2-4PM: One Earth, One Climate Rally
Parkman Bandstand,Boston Common
The rally will feature speakers such as journalist
Ross Gelspan and music by singer/songwriter Chad
Hollister. At 1PM preceding the rally, children and
adults will form a human chain across the Common to
mark what may be Boston's future waterfront, if polar
melting continues unchecked.
You are invited to a Community Forum in support of the detained workers in New Bedford and for an immigration reform that unites families and defends workers’ rights. Everyone in the community is invited to speak out.
Housing, tenants, health, and legal services information will be available to the community at the forum.
617-524-3541 X303 or Norma Rosario at 617-524-4029 or Magalis Troncoso at 857-719-9055
Opening reception, Saturday, April 14, 6-9 pm
“Art and War” discussion, Sunday, April 15, 3-5 pm
with Kevin Bowen (poet), Kermit Dunkelberg (actor),
Donald Shambroom (sculptor) & Chip Troiano (photographer)
It will be a day full of discussion, debate and planning action. Come and let your voice and outlook be heard in this forum hosted by Boston Socialist Alternative. The event is FREE and OPEN to the public.
Below is a schedule for the day. If you can't come for the entire event, make sure to try to show up to learn about and talk about the topics that particularly interest you.
11am--Coffee, Bagels, Opening Remarks.
11:30--"Death of the American Dream," a discussion about the growing class divide in the US and the implications. The discussion will be lead off by Tom Crean, candidate for the Executive Board of the United Federation of Teachers.
From 1pm to 2pm, we will be splitting up into five workshops. These workshops are:
1. Fighting Wal-Mart Wages: Rebuilding the Labor Movement, hosted by Jeff Booth, member of the Harvard Union of Clerical Workers (HUCTW)/ AFSCME Local 3650 and "Reform HUCTW"
2. Reproductive Rights Under Attack: Fight the Christian Right! Hosted by Gevevieve Morse, President of Students of Salem for Peace
3. Northern Ireland: Nationalism, Unionism and Socialism, hosted by Dave Owens, a local historian.
4. Youth Resistance to War and Military Recruiters, hosted by Halsey Bernard, Iraq Veterans Against the War
5. Stop the Raids! How Can Immigrant Rights be Won? Hosed by Aleida Vilchez
From 2pm to 3pm, we will have lunch on premises
At 3pm, there will be a DEBATE!
Should We Support Progressive Democrats?
Bryan Koulouris, Editor of the Boston Organizer vs. Paul Collins, Anti-Racist Co-ordinator for Democratic Socialists of America
4:30--"Reform and Revolution" introduced by Margaret Collins, Bronx Save Our Parks
Afterwards, stick around for dinner. After that, stick around for the party!
Red Line to JFK/UMass. Shuttle Bus to UMass-Boston campus.
boston@socialistalternative.org or 617-825-0831
Cynthia, who passed away in February at 99, worked for many years in the peace and justice movements in Boston, and was widely know for her steadfast wartax refusal over many years. Though Cynthia had many sides, and the memorial won't be a WTR event, many resisters and ex-resisters from Boston's NE WTR are expected to attend, as well a delegation of wartax refusers from the Pioneer Valley.
Earlier in the day (at 11 a.m.), a presentation on wartax refusal will be given during CCB's regular Sunday service by Larry Rosenwald and Deirdre Doran. All are welcome to attend.
Coulter will be joined by: JILL STEIN & WARD MOREHOUSE
WE ARE LOSING 80 ACRES A DAY OF OPEN SPACE IN OUR COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, WE ARE LOSING OUR COMMONS THAT SHOULD BE IN THE PUBLIC TRUST. WHY? WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? COME HEAR AUTHOR/ACTIVIST COULTER TALK ABOUT SAVING THE PUBLIC LANDS, THE COMMONS, THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
You are invited to:
Admission is free. Coulter will sign copies of The Rule of Property at a special prepublication purse of $5 for one copy, $10 for three, and more discounts for larger quantities. (List prices will be $6.95.)
Co-sponsored by Program on Corporations Law and Democracy (POCLAD), Massachusetts Coalition of Healthy Committee (Mass CHC), Mass Global Action.
Launch of IMPORTANT new Real Democracy pamphlet series beginning with RULE OF PROPERTY...