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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.
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.
When trade relations with the socialist bloc collapsed in 1990, Cuba lost 80 percent of its pesticide and fertilizer imports and half its petroleum--the mainstays of its highly industrialized agriculture. Challenged with growing food for 11 million in the face of the continuing US embargo, Cuba embarked on the largest conversion to organic farming ever attempted. "The Greening of Cuba" profiles Cuban farmers and scientists working to reinvent a sustainable agriculture based on ecological principles and local knowledge rather than imported agricultural inputs. In their quest for self-sufficiency, Cubans combine time-tested traditional methods with cutting edge biotechnology.
Part of the Ministry for Earth Film Series Established during the Winter of 2006, the Ministry for Earth Film Series is sponsored by both Arlington Street’s Green Sanctuary Committee [about] and Social Action Committee [about]. The series explores environmental concerns and a discussion follows each film. All films are free and open to the public (a donation will be accepted). Films will begin at 12:45pm in the Clarke Room.
Free and Open to the public. At a time when women are facing a double jeopardy in Iraq from US forces and Islamic militia, this is an extraordinary opportunity to hear what is really happening.
"I was already in my 50's when I first came across the full range of arguments for a plant-based diet," says Mike Anderson, writer and producer of the radical documentary "Eating." "...the arguments are so powerful, yet virtually unknown in the mainstream. I was angry because of what I had been doing to my body, the environment, and the animals I was eating."
"After investing a year of almost full-time research, I felt compelled to do something to spread the word and help turn plant-based diets into mainstream diets," Anderson says.
The result was the impressive feature length documentary "Eating," which many view as the best film ever done on the food industry and disease. We will show the 30 minute segment on the environment and animals.
Environmental Waste: Did you know that approximately 80% of corn, 80% of grain, and 95% of oats are fed to farm animals? ...and that 50% of the fish catch goes to feed those same animals?
The film demonstrates how our animal-based diet consumes 1/3 of our raw material and fossil fuel, uses 1/2 of our fresh water, pollutes fresh water, poisons our food supply, destroys topsoil, destroys forests, destroys biodiversity, and destroys species. It also addresses animal abuse in the factory farm system. "Eating animals is one of America's socially acceptable aspects of violence," says the narrator. (http://www.vegparadise.com/media1.html)
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. The Seminar is FREE!
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...
Come talk, meet and listen to students from other schools in Boston/Cambridge and from around the world in this rare opportunity to discuss global affairs and how the perpetuation of war is affecting us all. Is it good? Necessary? Can it be prevented?
Whether American or Iranian, Israeli or Palestinian, religious or secular, democrat or republican, moderate or extremist of any kind - come share!!!
This regional social dialogue is a chance for you to share your thoughts and opinions. Forget about the media and politicians; hear different perspectives of other students like you.
Dr. Gregory Payne, an Organizational and Political Communication Professor at Emerson College, will moderate the event. After the events of 9/11 Dr. Payne started the American-Saudi exchange program among many achievements in his vast career.
We hope to see you soon and hear your perspective, Students for Peace
Join Mass Senior Action Council for Senior Action Day, Great Hall, State HouseBoston, MA. Do you care about access to Prescription Drugs? Affordable Housing? Universal Health Care? Home Care? Join us at the Massachusetts State House for a day when seniors? voices will be heard loud and clear. Visit your elected representatives. For More Information call: Eastern Mass 617-442-3330, Central Mass 508-755-7878, Southeastern Mass 508-993-2680, Western Mass (413) 734-7381 x113
?Stop the Wal-Mart Tax!!? This tax-day (Tuesday April 17th) Wake Up Wal-Mart will be leafleting and holding rallies at post offices across the country to demand that our legislators and state officials close the Wal-Mart tax loophole, and to raise the issue that, if honest Americans can pay their taxes, why can?t Wal-Mart? 12pm to 1pm and again at 5pm to 6pm at the South Boston Postal Annex (near South Station) Please join us and help ?Stop the Wal-Mart Tax!? Contact Jim Carvalho for further information: 781-727-9036 or jim_Carvalho@yahoo.com.
In lieu of a lecture, we will be a showing of the film, Dimming the Sun, winner of the2007Earthwatch Institute Film Award, given in conjunction with the National Geographic Society at theEnvironmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital.
The amount of sunlight reaching Earth is dimming”a surprising fact given the international concern over global warming. Dimming the Sun www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/ (UK, 2006, 56 min.) documents the progress that has been made in slowing and halting solar dimming after the imposition of pollution controls. However, this progress comes at an ironic price: evidence is mounting that without pollution we will lose the cooling effects of global dimming, and accelerate global warming instead.
All lectures take place from 12-1 PM in the OLSEN AUDITORIUM at 4 Clock Tower Place, 5th floor in Maynard, MA.
More information as well as directions to Clock Tower Place can be found at http://www.earthwatch.org/events or by calling 800-776-0188. Free parking is available in the Clock Tower Place parking lots. The Olsen Auditorium is handicap-accessible through the main entrance in Building 2.
A special thank you to Clock Tower Place and Wellesley Management for donating the use of the Olsen Auditorium for this event!
Join Carlos Mauricio this week and hear an eyewitness report from the first human rights delegation to inspect the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) —- a new School of the Americas-style police training facility in El Salvador.
BACKGROUND
In 1982 professor Carlos Mauricio was abducted by the Salvadoran National
Police, detained for two weeks and tortured. In 2002, Carlos was a
plaintiff in an historic, successful lawsuit that held two retired
Salvadoran generals liable for the crimes of troops under thier command.
In March of this year, Carlos joined Father Roy Bourgeois and Lisa Sullivan-Rodriguez of School of the Americas Watch in investigating the new International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA), a police training school sponsored by the U.S. in San Salvador.
SPONSORED BY Boston CISPES (Committee In Solidarity with the People
of El Salvador) and SOA Watch New England. Founded in 1980, CISPES is a
leading U.S. organization supporting the movement for social justice in El
Salvador.
CONTACT Boston CISPES at 617.576.1709
March for Jobs & CORI Reform. Come be part of the movement to reform the CORI system. 10:00am at Roxbury Crossing. Rain location: 1pm in the State House. For more information contact the Boston Worker Alliance at: march@bostonworkersalliance.org. For Materials visit: www.bostonworkersalliance.org .
Join Carlos Mauricio this week and hear an eyewitness report from the first human rights delegation to inspect the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) -- a new School of the Americas-style police training facility in El Salvador.
Moderated by Democratic Socialists of America National Steering Committee Chair Joe Schwartz, (Prof. of Political Science, Temple University*) * Organizational affiliation given for identification, only.
Is there a better way to organize society than the predator/prey system of capitalism? Is there a way to achieve socialism without creating a totalitarian society? Or, is it true, as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said, that "There is No Alternative"? Professors Gar Alperovitz and David Schweickart have both outlined their visions for a post-capitalist world in their books, America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy and After Capitalism. Join us for a lively discussion about what a post-capitalist world will really look like.
On Thursday, April 19, PEN New England’s Freedom-to- Write (FTW) Committee, in partnership with the Cambridge Forum, will host Writing on the Walls, a panel discussion about writing in, from, and about American prisons. The event will take place at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church at 3 Church Street in Harvard Square, Cambridge, at 7:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public. Books by the participants will be available for sale and signing courtesy of the Harvard Bookstore.
The panel, moderated by Dr. H. Bruce Franklin, Rutgers University professor and author of Prison Writings in 20th Century America, will feature: • Jennifer Gonnerman, former Village Voice reporter, author of the National Book Award finalist Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett; • Jimmy Santiago Baca, former inmate who, during five years in a maximum security prison, found a passion for poetry. Winner of a Pushcart Prize and an American Book Award, he is the author of A Place to Stand and The Importance of a Piece of Paper; • Jean Trounstine, author of Shakespeare Behind Bars: The Power of Drama in a Women’s Prison, documenting her ten years of work at Framingham Women’s Prison teaching literature and writing; • Dwayne Betts, former inmate of eight years and gifted poet, subsequently founded the YoungMenRead book club at the Washington, DC, bookstore he managed; subject of a recent feature article in the Washington Post, he’s now a Writer in Residence at the DC Creative Writing Workshops and a Cave Canem fellow.
Ford Hall Forum presents Is Global Warming a Cause For Alarm? with [global warming denier] Richard S. Lindzen (Alfred P. Sloan "Professor" of Atmospheric Science at MIT and member of the National Academy of Sciences) Sunday, April 22, at 6:30-8:00 pm at the Old South Meeting House (Boston, MA) Ford Hall Forum presents śIs Global Warming a Cause For Alarm?ť with Richard S. Lindzen. Sunday, April 22, at 6:30-8:00 pm. Followed by an open discussion. Admission is free and open to all. Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street (corner of Milk St.), Boston, MA. Wheelchair accessible and conveniently located near the State St. and Downtown Crossing stops on the MBTA. For more information call Ford Hall Forum 617-373-5800 or visit www.fordhallforum.org.
"The Ground Truth"
Our returning vets have asked us to listen to their stories.
This film provides us that opportunity.
Parking is available next door behind the Police and Fire Station.
FREE. ALL ARE WELCOME.
"Broken Promises, Broken Dreams" probes beyond the geopolitical realities confronting Israelis and Palestinians. It is a soul searching, painfully honest examination of ordinary people bonded in a tragic embrace. Ultimately this powerful book is about healing festering wounds and narrowing irreconcilable differences. It deserves the widest readership.” - Bernard Lown, MD, Professor emeritus Harvard School of Public Health, Co-recipient Nobel Peace Prize click here to view more advanced praise for the book. A tour of Israel/Palestine that turns Birthright on its head. Broken Promises, Broken Dreams focuses a physician’s lens on the human rights violations and related atrocities being perpetrated against Palestinians under Israel’s brutal military occupation. A brief stint in Israel ‘proper’ followed by an extended tour through the OPTs foregrounds starkly the hypocrisy of moral ambivalence in the face of the occupation’s harsh physical realities. Alice Rothchild’s medical expertise reveals the failure of unilateral ‘solutions’ to the conflict, mired as they are in empty rhetoric that masks ongoing aggression and its devastating human toll. This candid travel diary offers an implicit plea for an internationally coordinated, culturally integrated, feminist path towards peace, anything short of which would appear insufficient and self-defeating.” - Terri Ginsberg, former Adjunct Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College
Moyers 90-minute video to air 4-25-07 on PBS
David Swanson | Record of Iraq War Lies to Air April 25 on PBS
David Swanson writes, "Bill Moyers has put together an amazing 90-minute video documenting the lies that the Bush administration told to sell the Iraq war to the American public, with a special focus on how the media led the charge."
Boston Democratic Socialists of America/MIT Young Democratic Socialists Forum
The Pink Tide: Resistance and Regeneration in Latin America
Wednesday, April 25 7:00 pm (promptly) Room 4-149, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
speakers: Maria Aguiar, Grassroots International* Peter Winn, Tufts University* Jose Antonio Lucero, Temple University* Kendra Fehrer, MLK Bolivarian Circle* *Organizational affiliation given for identification, only.
Resistance to the neoliberal "Washington Consensus" is growing in Latin America as governments and popular movements work to build a model of regional prosperity and independence out from under the thumb of the US government and international corporate investors. Our speakers are scholars and activists with deep involvement in Latin America, who will help us explore and understand these historic times.
For more information, including speaker bios, a PDF flyer, and directions, go to http://dsaboston.org/calendar.htm#0425. You can also call 617-354-5078.
What is the impact of the Military Commissions Act on one of America’s most long standing civil liberty, “Habeas Corpus? Established by the Magna Carta in 1215, Habeas Corpus provides prisoners the right to know the charges against them. The Military Commissions Act, passed with no public notice in October, 2006, eliminates a prisoner’s right to Habeas Corpus protection in trials by special military commissions. Currently prisoners being held as enemy combatants at Guantanamo are affected, but many questions remain to be answered. Could the Military Commissions Act also be applied to American citizens? How can suspension of Habeas Corpus in military commission trials be permitted under the Constitution?
These issues will be discussed by Massachusetts’s attorney Jerry Cohen, and Nancy Murray, Education Director, ACLU of Massachusetts at Cambridge Forum on Wednesday, April 25. The program begins at 7:30 p.m. at First Parish, 3 Church Street, Harvard Square, in Cambridge.
6:30 PM: Leading up to theimpeachment action at Faneuil Hall
Brookline PeaceWorks will be showing an excellent impeachment film, and having a discussion
Coolidge Corner Library
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
Fellow citizens, you are cordially invited to an
IMPEACHMENT!
It shall be a People's Impeachment, where WE THE
PEOPLE shall impeach Bush and Cheney by Public
Proclamaton.
Patriotic citizens, we are calling YOU, to do your
duty and come historic Faneuil Hall in the city of
Boston, Massachusetts on April 28th, at 12 noon.
April 28th has been designated as a national day of
action on impeachment. (See: http://www.a28.org/)