Palestine Summer Encounter participants live with a local family, study Arabic and volunteer with a local church, school, hospital, nonprofit or humanitarian organization. They also have an opportunity to visit sites of historic, political and religious significance such as Jerusalem, Jericho, the Galilee, Hebron, Nazareth and the Dead Sea. Participants can join the program for 1, 2 or 3 months.
More information is available at middleeastfellowship.org/pse2006.
"Olive Branch” Extra Virgin Olive Oil (First
Cold Pressed)
Available in 750ml bottles, by the case (12
bottles), or more.
Now more than ever, important to Palestinian
farmers.
For ordering and other info, call Susie at 781-648-6307.
May 10th will likely see a vote in regards to gay marriage and Massachusetts will have an answer to this long debate. But the question of queer politics will not be gone. Marriage affects some, but the issues affecting queer, genderqueer, bisexual, transgender, lesbian, gay, people are far reaching. Today we will discuss some of what that means through stories and discussion.
Jason Lydon is the Congregational Director at the Community Church of Boston. He is an out queer person and member of the Massachusetts Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth. Jason's focus within the queer community, right now, is with those affected by the prison industrial complex.
SHARE THE MORNING WITH US
Mattapan Square/ Blue Hill Ave. To register, call: (617) 298-2976
On Sunday, April 30, four young Asian Americans were attacked by the Quincy Police. The Chinese Progressive Association and local Asian American organizations are calling a Community Meeting to discuss the incident -- and to share information on experiences of police misconduct. We invite Quincy residents and concerned community members to please join us!
Background:
In early Sunday morning, April 30, Chinese Progressive Association organizer
Karen Chen and three of her friends were brutally assaulted by the Quincy
police, while coming home from a Chinese engagement party. All are young
Chinese Americans.
While pulled over at a curb next to Super 88, they were approached by a state trooper. As they spoke with the trooper, a Quincy police car pulled up. Without warning, a police officer jumped out and pepper-sprayed all three directly in the eyes at close range. Karen, who is just over five feet tall, was tackled by three male officers, receiving a black eye, swollen face, and bruises. Another friend was knocked unconscious.
Throughout the incident, the police repeatedly yelled at the victims, used profanities, and called them names. Four innocent Asian Americans were taken to the police station in handcuffs and falsely charged with resisting arrest and/or disorderly conduct.
Chinese Progressive Association
33 Harrison Ave, 3rd fl., Boston, MA 02111
(617)357-4499 www.cpaboston.org
A group is gathering at 33 Harrison, 5th Fl, 6pm Sunday, (Chinatown, walking distance from T Green Line Boylston stop)
Watertown's Voice for Peace, the Environment, and Social Justice) Annual Meeting and Potluck Dinner SUNDAY, MAY 21, 5:30 to 8:30pm at St. John's United Methodist Church, 80 Mt. Auburn Street, Watertown.
Here's the program for the evening:
We are particularly pleased that Dr. Michael Klare has agreed to join us. If you have not had the opportunity to hear him speak, you don't want to miss this event. Dr. Klare has been the Professor of Peace and World Security at Hampshire College since 1985 and was formerly the Director of the Program on Militarism and Disarmament at the Institute of Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.
Professor Klare, who is the Defense Editor for The Nation magazine, has written extensively on U.S. defense policy, the arms trade, and world security affairs, and is author of Resource Wars, The New Landscape of Global Conflict. His most recent book is Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call 617-926-8560.
Check out the WCES Calendar at www.watertowncitizens.org
Lexington Global Warming Action Coalition and Sustainable Belmont are sponsoring the talk. Ms. Kolbert's recent three-part series about global warming in the New Yorker received wide acclaim and alerted many to the critical problems of climate change facing the world and the need for immediate action.
Her new book expands on her three-part New Yorker series. Journalist Kolbert examines the immediate and far-reaching consequences of global warming, drawing on history and cutting-edge science and discussing the contentious political debate surrounding the issue.
The reviewer in the Cleveland Plain Dealer stated: "It might be the most important book you read this year." From a review in Scientific American: "Pithy and powerful, the opening of Elizabeth Kolbert's book about global warming, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, echoes that of another book that also originated as a series of articles in the New Yorker magazine. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring starts in much the same way, with a fable about a town that lived in harmony with its surroundings and that fell silent. The question is, can Field Notes galvanize a national movement to curb global warming in the same way Silent Spring sparked one to curb the use of pesticides? The enduring impression (0f the book) is of deep, sober, rooted authority--the same impression Silent Spring conveys. The book is a review of the scientific evidence and of the failure of the politicians we chose. Field Notes has scientific authority as well. Kolbert is not a scientist, but she reports regularly on science, and she may well have talked to every researcher on the planet studying global warming.
Kolbert’s last sentence in the book is: 'It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.'
Cary Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Ave., Lexington
Sunday, May 21, 7:30pm.
Her book is available at Sundial Books in Lexington at a special GWAC price of $18. It will be for sale at the talk and Ms. Kolbert will be signing them following her presentation. Admission is free. For more information, see www.lexgwac.org
SAVE THE DATE! May 22, morning, there will be an anti-Condi
and anti-Bush demo at BC-- where Condi is scheduled to get an honorary degree,
much to the disgust of many members of the faculty and many students.
We invite you to be a presence at BC beginning as early as you can arrive on Beacon Street in front of the BC Stadium to protest the graduation address and honorary degree to be awarded to Condoleezza Rice on Monday, May 22nd at 10 am.
We have this quote from
official Boston College administration publicity: "Among American
universities, Boston College has played a unique role in preparing its
graduates for careers in public service," said Jack Dunn, University
spokesman. "In welcoming Secretary Rice, we seek to celebrate her
commitment to diplomacy and public service as well as her distinguished career
in the field of higher education."
If it rains,
the location will be in the arena with less seating capacity. In any event, we hope that thousands of us
will be there to express our outrage at this disgrace.
We understand
that 200 faculty are opposed and that many student groups are involved in
planning witness and protest. We will
be bringing banners with Christian themes and hope to have a thoughtful,
prayerful presence with fasting as an expression of repentance for our crimes
in Iraq.
We urge you to
get information out to as many people as possible. We must plan on being at Boston College, especially those
Catholic Christians among us, to say what we think about Jesus, the gospel of
nonviolence and the scandal done to the truth of Jesus' words by this
invitation to speak, but more outrageously, to "honor" a war criminal.
We pray that
people will consider fasting, praying over the enemy love holiness of Christ's
message and the desecration of the teachings of Christ that Condoleezza Rice's
honorary degree represents.
Suzanne and
Brayton Shanley for the Agape Community;
John and
Carrie Schuchardt, The House of Peace
Agape
Community
2062 Greenwich
Rd. Ware, MA. 01082
www.agapecommunity.org
peace@agapecommunity.org
413-967-9369
From: Deborah
Levenson-Estrada <levensod@bc.edu>
To: faculty-issues@listserv.bc.edu
Subject: Graduation
Date: Thu,
18 May 2006 17:08:41 -0400
To concerned
faculty: many of your colleagues will protest the granting of an honorary
Doctor of Laws degree to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice at commencement by
wearing armbands and/or stickers, standing and turning our backs as the degree
is given, and holding letter-size signs saying Not in My Name during her
speech. If you share our sense that awarding Secretary Rice this honor is a
mistake, rather than staying away from graduation, we encourage you to attend
the ceremony and join with others in these gestures of dissent.
Please note that the planned protests are
intended to be forceful and clear but also silent, respectful, and
non-disruptive. We understand that this is a day devoted to celebrating the
accomplishments of our students and their families. Still, as we have been
arguing since the provocative decision to honor Secretary Rice was announced,
failing to protest the event would be interpreted as approval of both her
behavior in office and the ruinous policies of the Bush administration.
Outreach Committee
Hi MGA supporters,
On Monday, May 22nd, 2006
from 9:00 - 12 noon the antiwar movement will make common cause with the Boston
College community and people of faith in challenging Condoleezza Rice and the
Boston College leadership that awarded her an honorary doctorate in law.
We will gather at 9:00
a.m. at Cleveland Circle and then march to Boston College. Several local music
groups, including the Foundation and the Reagan Babies will be appearing as
will theologians, activists and organizers.
The march and rally will
be a peaceful and lively expression of our dissent while always remaining
respectful of the Boston College graduating students.
To download a flyer, get
directions, and get more information, visit: www.stopthewars.org
Regards,
Jason Pramas <jpramas@igc.org>
MassGlobalAction
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May 22, 8:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Just Outside the Boston
College Campus
A peaceful, but lively and
fun activity on the day Condi Rice will be speaking at the Boston College
Commencement and receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. This occasion
provides a perfect opportunity for people, within and without the college
community, to express our distress and dissatisfaction with almost every facet
of the current administration's actions at home and abroad. There will be
several popular youth bands as well as 2 groups of people doing outreach to
veterans and immigrants. Accompanying media work will feature talk shows with a
veteran, a student and a peace and justice activist.
This event is sponsored by
Stop the Wars Coalition, Mass Global Action, UJP, Brookline Peaceworks, Newtown
Dialogues, Agape Community, Pax Christi, outraged BC faculty and students. Send
email to suren@fairjobs.org for
additional information. 617/968-0880.
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At
Brookline High School at 7 P.M. on Monday, May 22, A PBS Frontline film
made by a Brookline resident will be shown: A
Question of Torture. Panel discussion follows.
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6:15pm
We are having series Linux
install fests at TecsChange. It's a
chance to learn how to install gnu/Linux on your computer and get a quick start
on what it will do. We will be focusing on Ubantu version. See ubuntu.com/
If you want to bring your
own computer to install it on, be our guest.
(no need to lug the monitor).
Or just come in and learn
how to do it on our computers that we will donate to other organizations.
Monday May 22th
The install fest will
start at 6:30 PM, the presentation will be about 7:15. Please let us know if
you are planning to come so we will be prepared for you.
Some background is
available at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/
TecsChange is at 83
Highland St. (just up the hill from Roxbury
Community College)
tecschange.org/directions.html for complete directions
617-442-4456
Charlie Welch for
TecsChange
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TUESDAY, MAY 23, 2006
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Tuesday, May 23rd 2006 (no
time stated)
Hang Up on Verizon
Wireless! Help us hang up on Verizon Wireless
at an action at the
Verizon Wireless Store on Arch St, Boston
(Downtown Crossing T
Stop.) Bring an old cellphone to throw away
in front of the store. For
more information contact Amanda
Shapiro at (617) 524-8778
or ashapiro@fas.harvard.edu.
Have an old cellphone that
doesn’t work? Give it to JwJ for
Verizon Action.
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Tues May 23 from noon to
1pm
Support the House
Leadership Compromise on Nurse Staffing! Help Nurses Ensure Safe Staffing
Levels! There will be a critical House vote on the MNA's safe staffing bill on
Tuesday, May 23rd. Come by during your
lunch hour to rally for quality patient care. Noon to 1, Nurses Hall in the
State House. For more information, contact Riley Ohlson at rohlson@mnarn.org. Website:
massnurses.org/safe_care
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Tuesday Weekly Antiwar
Vigil 5:30-6:30pm Copley Square
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 2006
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National Day of Out(R)age
BOSTON
DATE: Wednesday May 24,
2006
TIME: 1:30 2:00 PM RALLY
/ 2:00 3:30 PM PRESS CONFERENCE
PLACE: Outside the MA
State House, Beacon Street, Boston, MA
CONTACT: Colin Rhinesmith,
617-633-0501
acmeboston.org (Action
Coalition for Media Education, Boston Chapter)
Join ACMEBoston on May 24
for a National Day of Out(r)age to protest the telephone companies¹ lobbying
efforts in Congress to rewrite the nation¹s telecommunications laws, in the
wake of recent press reports that reveal that these same companies provided
information on tens of millions of American citizens to the U.S. government.
Two bills (House Bill 5252
and Senate Bill 2686) are being considered in Congress RIGHT NOW that would:
* Reduce local control of
video franchising and our public rights of way!
* Open the doors for the
telecommunications giants to discriminate against low-income communities and
communities of color!
* Undermine the ability for PEG access centers
to receive adequate funding, channels, and facilities‹negatively impacting
thousands of access centers across the U.S. and reducing the diversity of
voices and faces on cable TV.
* Create a two-tiered Internet: (1) A fast
lane for those who can afford to ride on it, and (2) a dirt road for everybody
else. This action would threaten the
openness of the web, bringing the Internet as we know to an end!
Learn more and Take Action
Today! www.saveaccess.org and
www.savetheinternet.com/
Come to the Rally and Join
the May 24 Massachusetts Coalition! State Representative Gloria Fox, Mel King,
The Massachusetts Chapter of the Alliance for Community Media, Communications
Workers of America District 1, MASSPIRG, PEG access centers in Worcester, Fall
River, Lowell, Boston, and Cambridge, Community Change Inc., Boston
Neighborhood Producers Group (BNPG), Project: Think Different, Boston Chapter
of the Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME), students and teachers at
UMass Boston, Boston College, and Emerson College and local bloggers,
podcasters, and videobloggers.
This event is part of a
nationwide day of protests coordinated by
SaveAccess.org, a national
coalition of community media organizations and individuals.
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The Boston 911Truth Group
proudly presents the first of four films:
"September 11
Revisited"
Wednesday May 24, 2006, 7:00
pm, at the West Newton Cinema, 1296 Wash. St. [Rte 16] West Newton, MA 02465.
The showing is free. Donations will be graciously accepted.
This film is rated PG-13
[Parents Strongly Cautioned]: it features eyewitness accounts and news footage
that was shot on September 11, 2001 and was never shown again…..until now.
IT HAS BEEN OVER 4 YEARS SINCE THE
WORST TERRORIST ATTACK TO EVER HIT AMERICA, BUT HAS THE STORY REALLY BEEN TOLD?
Boston
9/11Truth Committee proudly presents: "September
11 Revisited"
Film
features eyewitness accounts and news footage shot on
September 11, 2001 and never shown
again...until now.
The
showing will be followed by a question and answer period and discussion.
Were the Twin Towers and
WTC 7 actually brought down by explosives?
Why were all videos of the attack on the Pentagon confiscated?
Was it simple “coincidence” that multiple war games coincided with the attacks,
leaving our air defenses too confused to respond in time?
Is it possible that US Officials were involved?
Directed by DUSTIN MUGFORD
on INFAD MEDIA PRODUCTION
Featuring BYU Physics
Professor Stephen E. Jones, Claremont Professor Emeritus David Ray Griffin and
MIT Research Engineer Jeff King
Titles for the other three
films on the paramount issue of 9-11-01 truth are: “Loose Change”, “Truth &
Politics: Unanswered Questions about 9/11” and “Face the Facts”. Dates for
these films will be announced at this showing on May 24.
Radical Film Night at the Lucy Parsons Center
Every
Wednesday night at 7pm
Always
Free
549
Columbus Avenue
Boston's South End
Telephone: 617.267.6272
Web:
lucyparsons.org
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THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2006
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FRIDAY, MAY 26, 2006
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Through Barbed Wire
presents
Spoken Words of the Lifers
in Massachusetts Prisons
Family members and friends
will read poems written by men and women
confined within Walpole,
Shirley, Norfolk, Bridgewater, Framingham,
Gardner and Concord.
Join us and bring friends
on Friday, May 26th, 2006 7 to 9:30pm
Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston Street
Boston MA 02116
Refreshments will be
available/Contributions appreciated
For more information: throughbarbedwire@yahoo.com
Jason - (617) 266-6710
www.commchurch.org
Sponsored by the Community
Church of Boston, Jericho Boston, Pen New
England, Statewide Harm
Reduction Coalition and Through Barbed Wire
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SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2006
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Saturdays 11-11:45am
Quincy City Hall
Saturdays noon-1pm Natick
Center (Rt 27 & 135)
Saturdays noon-1pm Sudbury
Town Hall
Saturdays 1-2pm Park
Street T station
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SUNDAY, MAY 28, 2006
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11:00am
THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON SUNDAY SPEAKERS
FORUM presents
Memorial Day weekend
MAUREEN & MICHAEL
HEARN
"Support Our Troops:
End the War in Iraq!"