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Filibuster for PeaceNow that Bush has vetoed the supplementary appropriations bill to continue the war, and the Democrats have caved in to his pressure. People will now be looking for ways
to terminate funding in a veto proof way. That is a filibuster. It takes only one Senator and 40 more abstentions (not even a yes vote) to stop funding for the war.
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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.
Representative Dennis Kucinich (Democrat - Ohio, and a 2008 Presidential Candidate) filed three articles of impeachment of VP Dick Cheney on Tuesday, 4/24/07. (see these articles below)
House Resolution (HR) 333 first goes to the House Judiciary Committee headed by John Conyers. The committee will then forward it to the main body. NOW is the time to contact your Representative and Senators to let them know that is essential for the future of our fragile democracy that House members give careful consideration to the Articles and vote to impeach Dick Cheney.
TOLL-FREE PHONE NUMBERS FOR THE U.S. CAPITOL SWITCHBOARD
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
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.
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.
ELIZABETH DE LA VEGA, former federal prosecutor and author of the new book, "United States Vs. George Bush, et.al." Ms. de la Vega explains the case for impeachment of the president and vice president...
Part 2 of Marc Stern's interview with author, feminist scholar, and "red diaper baby" Bettina Apthekar...
Reports from the Peace Abbey's Courage of Conscience Award (veteran peace activist Frances Crowe is the recipient) and the 2007 Wake Up The Earth Festival...
Grace Notes with Grace Ross...
Art review by our resident culturizer, Bruce Sylvester...
BioJustice 2007 is a weeklong celebration of sustainable food and alternatives to corporate healthcare. It is being developed by a wide coalition of public interest groups, activists, farmers, scientists, and concerned citizens, working together in response to the biotechnology industry's international convention scheduled for the new Boston Convention and Exhibition Center during May 6-9, 2007. Logan Perkins is the lead organizer for Protect Maine Farmers, an organization working to ensure that Maine's farmers have all the tools that they need to be successful now and in the future. Ben Grosscup is an organizer for the Massachusetts Chapter of the Northeast Organic Farming Association.
The parade is a tour of Roxbury and the South End and will not only go by the proposed Bio-lab site, but also go by other sites of environmental racism and injustice in this neighborhood. 8 of the 10 trash disposal/collection sites from the City of Boston are all in Roxbury.
Parade Start from Dudley Commons at the intersection of Magazine St., Blue Hill Ave and Dudley Street.
Parade Schedule:
11am Parade begins with speakers [people from other
communities who have passed resolutions to ban biolabs
from their towns]
11:15 Parade start, Klare is leading the charge with
Safety Net there will be speakers, community members,
giant puppets, radical marching band, street
performers
Come to a forum around research performed by two students at the Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) about Boston University's controversial level-4 biolab as a Service Learning project. Level-4 labs study highly contagious microorgansisms that can be used in biological weapons or bioterrorism. The diseases that they cause are generally incurable. The students will present their work and then experts or panelists will speak/answer questions.
Featuring:
Naomi Williams (BHCC student)
Alix Fitzpatrick (BHCC student)
State Representative Gloria Fox (D)
Klare Allen (Community Leader/Leader of Safety Net)
Dr. Lynn Klotz (senior scientist, Center for Arms
Control and Non-Proliferation)
Hosted by Rasheed Khalid, Assistant Professor, BHCC
Science Dept.
By MBTA:
Community College station on the Orange Line (then
follow the signs into the building)
(Free and open to the public)
"Sir! No Sir!" The story of GI resistance to the Vietnam War.
Followed at 10:30 P.M. by "The Ground Truth." The story of current resistance within the military to the Iraq war.
Reception: 6:00 to 6:45 p.m.
Program: 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
All proceeds from the sale of tickets will support relief and reconstruction efforts in Lebanon as part of the “Boston to Lebanon” campaign.
Tickets: $25.00 Seniors: $20.00 Students: $10.00 Tickets may be purchased at the door.
Bassam Saba is a world-renowned instrumentalist, conductor, and composer. He is recognized internationally for his masterful performance on the Nay, Flute, Oud and Violin and for his original compositions. Other performers in the Ensemble include April Centrone, Percussionist, Matt Kilmer, Percussionist, Thomas Bramerie, Double Bassist, and Ramzi Moufarej, Pianist.
The Series honors the legacy of the late Dr. Evelyn Abdalah Menconi, known for introducing Arab cultural traditions to the public and highlighting achievements of gifted Arab-Americans.
For program information, please call 781-762-4160 or
781-648-1245.
Open to the public - Wheelchair accessible - Plenty of
free parking
Sponsored in part by Lebanese Club at MIT
Why is the U.S. targeting Iran? What are the dangers of a wider war? What can citizens do?
Speakers:
·Noam Chomsky, writer and scholar, MIT
·Prof. Fatemeh Keshavarz, author, chair of Asian and
Near Eastern Languages & Lit., Washington University
·Niki Akhavan, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military
Intervention in Iran
Suggested donation: $10
MIT students: $5 (ID required)
Sponsored by The Middle East Crisis Coalition
Mouth-watering Middle Eastern dishes at a bargain price, and in the good company of new and old friends.
Sabra Restaurant 45 Union Street at the corner of Langley Rd. Newton Center, MA 617-964-9275 Sabra is across the street from the Newton Center stop on the Green Line D trolly. There is street parking, plus Sabra is one block from a parking lot in Newton Center -- meters free after 6 PM.
PRICE: $13.50 includes tax. Tip is extra, which can be left on the table.
RSVP -- it is most helpful to RSVP by Monday 9 A.M. because Sabra will place their order for food ingredients. However, late RSVPs are always welcome!
Drawn from the raw material of their drifts and detours, here's an album of radical diaries and personal documentaries from two of the West's bravest makers. Gritty glimpses of edgy experience in marginalized cultures, their authentic film stories afford rare access and insight into the lived poetry of a dozen-plus autonomous zones.
A road-savvy Snider freight-hops her way up and down the Coast, tracking from Frisco punk rockers to apocalyptic messengers of the Sonoran desert, gambling and engaging with the losers and visionaries that she meets along the way. Criss-crossing her paths are the barefoot pilgrimages of Portand-based Renwick, whose wise eye and wild heart celebrate the secret meanings of animals and humble things, the agonies and ecstasies of outsider life.
Americans expect to be protected from fraudulent business practices and deceptive marketing by federal law. For example, investors and employees cheered when Enron executives were convicted of conspiracy to defraud in it financial claims. Could the same indictment be made of the Bush administration's public claims that led the American people to accept the war in Iraq? Elizabeth de la Vega a former federal prosecutor with 21 years experience in handling criminal fraud cases thinks yes. In her new book, U.S. v. Bush, a Fraud Worse than Enron, she details her legal reasoning. Written as an actual presentation to a federal Grand Jury, her legal arguments seeks an indictment of the Bush administration on one charge: "Conspiracy to Defraud the U.S. in violation of Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 371."
Elizabeth de la Vega will discuss her book.
Jay Wexler, Associate Professor of Law at Boston
University School of Law, will moderate.
Cambridge Forums are open to the public. Open
discussion follows speaker
presentation.
On Wednesday May 9 there will be a hearing of the Program and Services Committee of the Newton Aldermen on a resolution concerning Boston University's Level 4 Biolab. This is the laboratory BU is proposing to build in the South End/Roxbury area that will work with the world's most lethal pathogens.
This is an opportunity for Newton citizens to express our concerns and/or opposition to this lab being built in the middle of a densely populated urban area only a few miles from Newton. The towns of Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville have already passed resolutions expressing their opposition to this laboratory.
Newton City Hall Second Floor - Room Posted. Please be
at the meeting by 8:45 as the subject will be
discussed about 9 PM.
Newton Dialogues on Peace & War
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University will host Daniel Levy, Senior Fellow and Director of the Middle East Programs at both New America Foundation and The Century Foundation. He is a former official Israeli negotiator and advisor in the Prime Minister's office. He was also the lead Israeli drafter of the Geneva Initiative.
Comparing the treatment of mass murderer Luis Posada to that of the Cuban Five is a telling lesson in the hypocrisy of Bush’s war on terror.
Demand the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles! BOSTON GLOBE EDITORIAL EXCERPT April 21, 2007: “Venezuela is the most logical place for Posada to face trial. Failing that, the United States should comply with a 1971 international convention, under which any nation that refuses to extradite a suspect in an airliner attack is obligated to try that person itself. Either in the United States or Venezuela, Posada should be subject to a fair and comprehensive hearing on the murder charges, not the trivialities of an immigration offense.”
Initial sponsors: July 26 Coalition of Boston and International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five.
Kate Taylor - singer, songwriter and
member of the New
England and North Carolina rooted Taylor family - will
perform her array
of home-made and classic songs at the 25th Anniversary
WAND Mother's Peace
Day Celebration.
Wheelchair accessible
and conveniently located near the Park Street, Downtown
Crossing, and State
Street stops on the MBTA.
Pre-show reception: 5:30 pm
General seating. Tickets: $15, students/seniors $10.
781-643-6740
Widely respected for her depth and diversity, Kate Taylor will weave her musical magic through the peace- themed program, Celebrating Women's Voices for Peace. The evening will feature local women, young and old alike, speaking out on the critical issues of the day. Taylor will be accompanied by John Sheldon, a songwriter who has collaborated musically with the Taylor family for decades and has several releases of his own, along with his niece, Meredith Sheldon, a talented young singer currently touring with the Ben Taylor Band.
Kate Taylor will share her rich blend of folk rock and blues, rooted in the soul and gospel sounds of her southern upbringing as WAND, Women's Action for New Directions, marks its 25th anniversary. In 1982, a group of women inspired by Helen Caldicott, founded Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament in the Boston area.
Over the years, WAND has celebrated Mother's Day in its original spirit, as a day for Peace. Inspired by Julia Ward Howe's vision in 1872 of Mother's Day as a time when everyone (especially mothers) should come together to speak out against war and work for peace, this year's benefit will be a mix of audience participation, dramatizations, and musical performances.
About the Book: The tales in Evelyn Shakir's Remember Me to Lebanon: Stories of Lebanese Women in America are set in various eras, from the 1960s to the present and occasionally hark back even to the turn of the twentieth century. Protagonists range in age from a teenager who resists her father's understanding of honor, to an elderly woman who returns from the grave for one last try at whipping her family into shape. Most of the stories dramatize personal issues involving negotiation between generations and cultures. But others have a political dimension-one is set against the backdrop of the Lebanese civil war; another is a response to 9/11, narrated by a woman who keeps watch all day on the Arab family next door. (Remember Me is published by Syracuse University Press.)
About the Author: Evelyn Shakir, daughter of Lebanese immigrants to the United States, and a pioneer in the study of Arab American literature is author of Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States (Praeger 1997), which will soon appear in an Arabic-language edition. As a Senior Fulbright scholar, she has taught American literature to university students in both Lebanon and Syria; under the auspices of Bentley College (where she is professor emerita), she has taught similar courses in the kingdom of Bahrain. She holds degrees from Wellesley College, Harvard University, and Boston University.
Mike Palecek, former federal prisoner for peace, small- town newspaper reporter, editor, publisher, and the Iowa Democratic Party nominee for Congress, Fifth District, 2000.
* While working at a weekly newspaper in the Nebraska Sandhills he wrote a column against the first Gulf War: "I don't support the troops." His column was cancelled, the family was threatened, they left to find their own paper to operate.
* The tiny newspaper Ruth and Mike ran in the early '90s in southeast Minnesota won the Newspaper of the Year Award from the Minnesota Newspaper Association. The paper went out of business later that year.
* Mike worked as a reporter, editor and publisher at the Ainsworth [Neb.] Star-Journal, Byron [MN] Review, Cherokee [IA] Daily Times, and the N'West Iowa Review. He also wrote for the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Rochester Post-Bulletin, Norfolk Daily News and The National Catholic Reporter
* Mike ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000 and won the nomination of the Iowa Democratic Party for the Fifth District. He walked from his home in Sheldon to the IRS office in Sioux City [one week walk] to turn in a crossed-out tax form saying he would not pay for war, as part of his campaign. [In a previous run as a write-in candidate he walked from the Air National Guard Base in Sioux City to the base in Fort Dodge to protest Clinton's bombing of Yugoslavia.]
* He received over 65,000 votes in a conservative district on an anti-prison, anti-military, pro- Hispanic immigration platform.
* Palecek left newspaper work in 1997 to concentrate on novels.
Join the Boston Medical Center Nurses for an Informational Picket During National Nurses Week to Protest Management's Unfair Labor Practices and Blatant Disrespect for its Nurses from 11 am - 4 pm on East Newton Street in front of the hospital.
While BMC CEO Holds a "Tea Party" for Nurses Inside The Building Nurses Will be on the Street to Show the Public How Boston Medical Center Really Treats its Nurses. Support the BMC nurses as they fight to protect their contractual rights to vacation time, overtime pay and respect for their union rights.
Access By Car
For more information contact the Massachusetts Nursing Association (MNA) at 781.821.4625
Mazieh Meshkini's story of women at 3 stages of life in Iran. The first part centers on a young girl on her 9th birthday who is told she can no longer play with the boys she has been playing with only the day before because she is now a "woman". The second part is about a young woman who decides to enter a bicycle race against her husband's wishes. Finally, the third part shows us an old woman who has come into some money and is now free to do what she wants. The way she chooses to use this freedom, however, makes one wonder just how free she is.
The Cambridge-El Salvador Sister City Project will present a benefit concert starting at 7:30 pm at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church located at 1151 Mass. Ave. Harvard Square. The concert will feature Sol y Canto, Willie Sordillo, Mario Romero, Dean Stevens, Los Padres Beli Beli, and a dance performance by Cynthia Orellana. Tickets are available by phone at 617-349-4694.