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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.
MIRA members, staff and allies--such as Greater Boston Legal Services -- have responded to the devastation of families caused by the March 6th Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on a defense contractor in New Bedford, MA. ICE rounded up and incarcerated around 350 textile workers, mostly women, leaving nearly 200 children separated from their parents. Families, neighbors and friends have done their best to care for these unfortunate victims, with limited resources. Three days later, a Boston Globe editorial referred to the episode as "the U.S. immigration system at its worst".
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, MIRA is the only statewide organization that unites community groups, human service providers, civic and religious leaders, state and local agencies, legal services & labor organizations to work together to uphold the rights and opportunities of newcomers.
AIDboston is celebrating its 10th Anniversary with Dr. Balaji Sampath (AID Jeevansaathi) & Kalpana Karunakaran. Association for India's Development (AID) is a non-profit US organization committed to promoting sustainable, equitable and just development in India.
EVENT IS FREE, OPEN TO PUBLIC,FREE FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED.
Balaji Sampath is a central figure in AID. He has made several vital contributions in planning and executing large-scale campaigns in health, literacy and improving quality of education in India. His work has culminated in the Hundred Block Plan (HBP).
Balaji & AID Chennai received the MIT Technovator Award
Dr. Sampath and AID-team has established Ganini Computer and Information Centers, which are low cost computer education and information centers. Each center serves about 30-60 villages. The team developed a mathematical model for malnutrition studies from data gathered as part of the Arrogya Iyyakam project. This project was adjudged one of the ten best projects in the world by UNICEF. Dr. Sampath's team has also developed the use of a digital data card for use in Self Help Groups and other development related areas. The impact of their work has been seen in several villages, where technology is actively used, and which are now able to generate their own funds and are able to sustain their own community development programs.
Kalpana Karunakaran is a key figure in rural development and empowerment associated with the Tamil Nadu Science Forum (TNSF) and All India People's Science Network (AIPSN). In 1999, she also became involved with the Arogiya Iyakkam (Health Movement) a grass-roots community health and malnutritioning monitoring program which lead to State coordination for the People's Health Assembly (PHA). She continues to be actively involved with their community health, micro-credit and women's empowerment programs.
Peace and War will celebrate Mother’s Day with an evening of folk songs. We will serve refreshments, enjoy one another’s company, and share in singing songs of all kinds. Pete Seeger’s birthday takes place shortly after this, so we will mark that occasion; and, in addition, we will honor a wonderful Newton folk singer and activist-artist, Alice Aronow.
This remarkable documentary film by Academy Award nominee Connie Field reveals the human dimension of the worldwide health crisis and examines the remarkable case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what BBC calls “one of the world’s best health systems”. Beautifully filmed in Cuba, South Africa, The Gambia, Honduras, and Venezuela, ¡Salud! accompanies some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals - now serving in 68 countries - through their personal stories.
It offers a glimpse into the Latin American Medical School (ELAM) in Havana, now the largest medical school in the world, where 30,000 low income students from 27 countries – including nearly 100 from the USA – receive free medical education in exchange for pledging to return to their countries to help build health care systems for the poor.
Sponsored by the Newton-Cuba Solidarity Group and the July 26th Committee. For more information, call 617.916.2265
Support HB 1722! Part of Clock in for Equality - National Day of Action for Workplace Equality at the Massachusetts State House, Room 350 from 10 am -12 noon. Please join Jobs with Justice and numerous other organizations in educating your legislators and ask them to support HB 1722. A short lobbying training and all necessary materials will be provided by Mass Transgendered Political Coalition. Sponsered by Mass Transgendered Political Coalition and Gay and Lesbian Labor Activist Network.
The recent Facing Race conference convened in NYC (3/22-24 2007) challenged social justice workers to name, frame, and explain the continuing significance of race in contemporary U.S. society. Ty dePass, activist, writer, and founding member of Greater Roxbury¹s D7 Roundtable, will explore the growing contention over colorblindness or social justice.
Suggested readings: Toward a Structural Racism Framework by Andrew Grant-Thomas and john a. powell
Please bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided. $5 contribution requested. RSVP (617) 523-0555 or ernestine@communitychangeinc.org
The current public discourse around race assumes that we live in a color-blind society where the American Dream is attainable by all individuals who work hard enough. This deeply flawed discourse obscures the racial disparities in employment, education, criminal justice, housing, health care, etc. and provides a powerful but faulty rationale for leaving our systems and institutions the way they are. The issues presented at the Community Change Brown Bag Discussion Series are concrete examples of the structural racism that affects the lives of all, most acutely communities of color. The 2007 Series places these issues in their social/historical context and gives attendees a truthful discourse, as well as ways to put that discourse into action, in order to challenge institutional and systemic racism.
RALLY STARTS AT 3:30PM IN PARK
IN FRONT OF ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH
135 LAFAYETTE ST., SALEM, MA
SPONSORS: NEIGHBOR 2 NEIGHBOR, THE GREATER BOSTON STOP THE WARS COALITION, PEOPLE UNITED FOR PEACE
In appreciation for all of you who cannot get away in the middle of the day to make it to the Olsen Auditorium talks, Earthwatch Institute will be hosting a short presentation on Climate Change in our office next Tuesday (May 15th) from 5:30-6:00 PM (and again Wednesday at 10AM).
As a recently trained Climate Project Presenter, I will be using a subset of Al Gore’s slideshow to briefly explain what climate change is, what it means for us and what we can do about it. Questions will be more than welcome after the slideshow, if you wish to stay on.
As this is an informal venue, please RSVP (to me) if you plan on attending, so we can set up the appropriate amount of chairs in our “Red Room”
Tina Woolston
Assistant to the Chief Science Officer
Earthwatch Institute (takes money from Starbucks)
3 Clock Tower Place, Suite 100
Maynard, MA 01754-0075
(978) 450-1225
(800) 776-0188 ext. 225
Boston Globe Columnist, National Book Award Winner, and Peace Activist, James Carroll, who will speak on "How we got into the War on Iraq" based on his newly released book "House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power"
All Saints Church, 1773 Beacon, Brookline, corner of Beacon and Dean Road.
Meet James Carroll and discuss the undue influence of the Pentagon in determining US foreign policy.
Book signing and reception afterwards, birthday cake celebrating Brookline PeaceWorks five years of antiwar activism. Free, handicap accessible.
More information at 617 738-8029, peace@texnology.com
All Out for Mumia Abu-Jamal! Join Danny Glover, Cynthia McKinney and many others in Philadelphia!
The Rally is set for Thurs, May 17 at 9:00 a.m. in front of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 6th and Market Streets.
Jericho Boston is organizing buses to Philadelphia.
Buses will be leaving from Roxbury Community College at midnight on May 16 and return following the protest. For bus tickets, contact Jericho Boston at 857-204-0072. Tickets are $30 (donations needed) .
download flyer
to download May 17 literature
The oral argument in the case of death row, political prisoner, Mumia Abu-Jamal, is scheduled on May 17, 9:30 am, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Ceremonial Courtroom, 1st Floor, U.S. Courthouse, 6th and Market Streets. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and the National Lawyers Guild, which have filed amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs, are also participating.
This case concerns Mr. Abu-Jamal's right to a fair trial, the struggle against the death penalty, and the political repression of an outspoken journalist. Racism and politics are threads that have run through this case since his 1981 arrest. The complex issues under consideration are of great constitutional significance.
An evening with refreshments, a talk on gleaning by Oakes Plimpton, and the Agnes Varda documentary The Gleaners and I (2000, France) to celebrate a new non- profit forming: Boston Area Farm Gleaning Project
Oakes Plimpton is the coordinator of the Boston Area Farming Gleaning Project [BAFGP] and has been present at the creation of farmers' markets, community gardens, community land trusts, and CSAs. He's one of the little known heroes of local agriculture.
Now he's re-establishing the practice of gleaning.
Gleaning is a Biblical term referring to the ancient law requiring farmers to let poor people onto their farms after harvest to "glean" whatever produce was left in the fields. There is no such law now, and farmers often plow under produce either because they planted too much, it's over-ripe, or insect, animal, or frost damaged. Despite cosmetic appearances, this food is still edible and nutritious. The Project has been operating for three years already. Oakes, who also manages the Arlington Farmers' Market, tried to persuade Food For Free and some of the others who receive gleaned produce to take on this project, but nobody took on the project. He saw the necessity for a new organization and is looking for help with the challenge.
Children are increasingly at risk from a pervasive and familiar source: the consumer culture. Under-resourced urban communities, particularly communities of color, are targeted by advertisers and are disproportionately affected. The influences are many: from McDonalds' food, to violent video games, to a must-have sneaker label, alcohol and tobacco advertising, ora materialist values. In this presentation Juliet Schor will report on her research inside the advertising agencies which market 24/7 to our children, as well as on the results of her study on how consumer involvement is affecting children in the city of Boston.
PRESENTER: JULIET SCHOR Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Boston College, Juliet Schor is the author of the national best-seller, The Overworked American: the Unexpected decline in Leisure, a book widely credited for influencing the national debate on work and family. She appears frequently on national and international media, and profiles on her and her work have appeared in scores of magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and People magazine. Schor¹s latest book is Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture (Scribner, September 2004)
Respondent, Consumerism and Systemic Racism: Susan McDonald, Program Director, Youth Voice Collaborative, YWCA
Moderator: Donna Bivens, Co-Director, Women¹s Theological Center
Suggested Contribution - $20 (More if you can, less if you can¹t) All proceeds to benefit Community Change
Please RSVP to Paul Marcus or 617-523-0555
The program will be sponsored by the Newton Human Rights Commission, with several panelists speaking. This is the second in a series on immigration that is being sponsored by the HRC.
Alice Rothchild is doing a series of readings, dates below-- She is a physician from Brookline and has been very active in Jewish Voices for Peace and with a medical group that visited with and worked with Palestinians.
Alice says:
"Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience" has just been published by Pluto Press in London with distribution by University of Michigan Press in the US. This book is both a personal journey and a reflection on my experiences in Israel and Palestine with the Jewish Voice for Peace, Health and Human Rights Project. I invite you to come to book readings, bring your friends and family, and read the book! I will keep you updated about Boston readings and and encourage folks to check the calendar of events on my website as I will be doing readings in a number of other places as well and also would appreciate invitations to read.
book reading and discussion at Cambridge City Hall, invited by City Councilor, Marjorie Decker
contact: Nicole Bukowsik, assist to City Councilor nbukowski@CambridgeMA.GOV (617) 349-4276
address: Sullivan Chamber, Cambridge City Hall 795 Mass. Ave, Cambridge, Mass. 02139
William Rodriguez, custodian and last man out of the WTC on 9/11, will speak at the International Community Church. Rodriguez carried 15 survivors from the basement to safety, felt and heard explosions yet re-entered the North Tower three times. He has traveled the world speaking to heads of state and has been honored by the White House five times.
The Greater Boston Stop the Wars Coalition invites you to a discussion of the way forward with presentations by Joe Gerson (American Friends Service Committee), Anne Miller (NH Peace Action), Dorotea Manuela (Boston Rose Parks Human Rights Day Committee), and Eljeer Hawkins (Socialist Alternative).
Informal reception to follow. For more info: info@stopthewars.org , or (617) 482-3090.
$10 donation requested, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Open to the public.
To download the flyer about the event, go to: massglobalaction.org.
Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility (GBPSR) has organized the conference "The Medical and Societal Consequences of the War in Iraq: Strategies for Promoting True Security", at Boston's historic Old South Church in Copley Square.
Distinguished speakers will discuss the high rates of injuries, mental illness, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among returning US soldiers and the high number of civilian casualties in Iraq. Please email me at becky.cyr@gmail.com if you would like me to send you the flyer for the complete lists of topics.
The Academy Award-nominated film The Ground Truth will also be shown at 3:00pm.
The goals of the conference are to contribute to the growing movement to stop the Bush Administration's plan to escalate the troop level, to help stop this war and prevent future wars, and to offer ideas to promote true security.
Please join us! To reserve a seat, please email Lynn Martin at Ldmartin@fas.harvard.edu. The registration fee is $10. Seating is limited to the first 200 registrants, so reserve a seat today!
Alice Rothchild is doing a series of readings, dates below-- She is a physician from Brookline and has been very active in Jewish Voices for Peace and with a medical group that visited with and worked with Palestinians.
Alice says:
"Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience" has just been published by Pluto Press in London with distribution by University of Michigan Press in the US. This book is both a personal journey and a reflection on my experiences in Israel and Palestine with the Jewish Voice for Peace, Health and Human Rights Project. I invite you to come to book readings, bring your friends and family, and read the book! I will keep you updated about Boston readings and and encourage folks to check the calendar of events on my website as I will be doing readings in a number of other places as well and also would appreciate invitations to read.