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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.
Solidarity Alert! Clear Channel Workers on Strike for Justice! A strike fund has been established to help out the families of workers from Painters DC 35 and IBEW 103 on the line at Clear Channel Outdoor in Stoneham. The strike is entering its second month, and members are hanging tough. Friends can send checks to Painters' DC 35, 25 Colgate Road, Roslindale, MA 02131, made payable to: DC 35 Billboard Strike Fund. On behalf of the 25 families....thank you. You can also show your support by standing with the workers on the picket line. The line is locate at 89 Maple Street Stoneham MA.
Read more about the strike and workers' struggles at Clear Channel.
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
Cindy Sheehan did WAY more than her share. When will you do yours? What's the last thing Cindy said to you? "It's up to you now." It's always been up to us alone. Do you get it?
The new initiative to go out into our communities and gather more votes for the National Cheney Impeachment Poll (already with more than 50,000 votes) looks like it will work brilliantly. We now have a page set up with full instructions and a link to the printable pdf vote gathering sheet.
We are asking each of our participants to dedicate just one hour this summer, wherever you happen to be where there are other people, to fill up at least one of these vote sheets. The sooner you can do that faster we can make impeachment happen. This is the one single MOST IMPORTANT thing you can do next to make this a reality.
Last week's Congressional vote is profound evidence that STILL not enough of us are speaking out yet.
Of course the pathological failure of Congress to press for impeachment, and of Cheney in particular, is diagnostic of all other ills. Until Congress actually confronts a criminally out of control White House there is fundamentally nothing to constrain them from smirking and sneering their way to even greater disasters for America in the next 18 months. Impeachment is the one thing that Congress can do which cannot be vetoed, or stalled in the courts they now predominantly control with crony appointments.
Do you want a peace movement to succeed? Understand that until the day they are constitutionally removed from office there can NEVER be even a glimmer of peace. And the best place to start is by removing the least popular, and most guilty, of them all.
True democracy is not driven by charismatic celebrity personalities. Democracy only works when each of us does whatever we personally can do, whatever thing, however small, however UN-celebrated, to make it work. At the moment when each of us does that, policy change will happen instantaneously.
The people's movement does not need a "face". What it needs is a BODY. What it needs is MASSES of us engaged in caring about making policy change happen, each of us doing what we can do to make that a reality. And now that you have already voted in the poll yourself there are a million other things you can do to build the momentum of the people's impeachment movement.
Can you write an alert? Draft your own in your own words and send it to everybody you know, and send them to the Action Page above.
Do you have a web site of your own? Add an action button for the impeachment poll as dozens of sites have done already, and you can display a dynamic tally as the votes add up. Here's where you get the code.
Do you ever post to blogs? Use that activity to encourage everyone you can to vote in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll.
Do you EVER send an email to anybody? Add the three line signature below to all your emails automatically by making it your email signature setting. Do the same thing with your blog posts too.
So again, ask yourself, what have YOU done to make this happen? Get off of your ass. There is nobody else who can carry your piece of democracy on their shoulders. Stop expecting or depending on spokespeople to speak for you or represent you. We can more efficiently and directly transmit your messages, but we don't have to give you the power. You already had it. Now, use it.
Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.
The three lines to add to your email signature...
Vote in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll
Add this text to your own email and blog signatures!
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.
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.
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.
Dorotea Manuela and Sergio Reyes are members of the Boston May Day Coalition. This past January, they were part of a small delegation of local activists who traveled to Africa to join thousands of other progressive and radical activists at the World Social Forum in Nairobi. Their objective was clear: to propose the transnationalization of the struggle for migrant workers' rights. The Boston delegation was focused and participated only in workshops, presentations & discussions about that issue!
A series of proposals, including parts of the Boston group's proposal, were formally acknowledged in a closing Migrant Workers' Rights Assembly. The international implementation of those agreements is now a challenge for activists who are used to working only locally. However, the future of a really comprehensive solution to the exploitation and victimization of nearly 200 million migrant workers in the world depends on coordinated transnational action.
A PEACE AND JUSTICE CONGREGATION SINCE 1920
Throughout the twentieth century, American singers and songwriters have raised their voices in protest. From the poignant to the caustic, from the ballad to the anthem, the American topical song has played a powerful role in shaping political consciousness, anti- establishment culture, and even social change. Who were the singers and what did they protest? How did the marginalized anti-war movements of the 1940s and 1950s prefigure the protests against Vietnam? Why were songs so vital to the civil rights movement, both for supporters and for the marchers themselves? Featuring selections from more than fifty topical songs from 1940 to 1984, this program will explore the principles, the yernings, the anger, and the underlying optimism that have characterized the American protest song.
It'd be great if you could come - we could have a wonderful time, be festive, have ice cream, chat along the way . . . . . do let me know whether you can come, and if you have suggestions about people I should get in touch with but might not have, do suggest them to me.
A couple of logistics things:
1) If people want to park near the start-point of the parade, I'll drive them back to that point once the parade's over - my house is just a few blocks from the end point.
2) I'll bring the Wellesley Peace Group signs. Other signs are welcome, but need not to be disrespectful of veterans - this is after all a Veterans' Parade, and I'm in favor of respectfulness in any case.
Larry Rosenwald
781/283-2634
For many years, internationally renowned conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim has used music to bring together young Israeli Jews with Palestinians and other Arabs. He and his closest friend, the late Palestinian literary scholar, Professor Edward Said, brought together Arab and Israeli musicians to perform in Weimar on the 250th anniversary of the birth of Goethe; and together they founded and nourished the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which now embraces eighty Arab and Israeli musicians aged thirteen to twenty-six in a unique musical collaboration dedicated to furthering the cause of peaceful co-existence in the Middle East. The film "Knowledge is the Beginning" chronicles summer workshops in Weimar and Seville, Barenboim's visit to Ramallah and Jerusalem in May 2004, as well as highlights of the 2005 European tour.
At 3:45pm, there will be a showing of the extraordinary follow-up film, "The Ramallah Concert", which captures the triumphant performance of the orchestra in Ramallah, Palestine, on August 21, 2005.
These MFA screenings will be co-presented by the Boston Jewish Film Festival.
Schedule:
1400pm: Caravan to debate, Keene NH
1600pm Doors open, Manchester NH
1900pm Presidential debate, Manchester NH
We are calling all Dennis Kucinich supporters (and those who are seriously considering Congressman Kucinich in his presidential run) to join together on Sunday, June 3 on the campus of St Anselm's College in Manchester, NH to visibly show our support as the Democratic candidates gather for a nationally televised debate.
The Cheshire County Committee to Elect Dennis Kucinich President will lead a caravan to St Anselm's leaving Keene from our office at 29 Center Street (behind the Court House downtown) at 2:00 pm on Sunday June 3. Needless to say people are welcome to go on their own, as well. Here are some important details:
1.) The Democratic Presidential debate will be held on Sunday, June 3 from 7-9 P.M. in the Sullivan Arena at Saint Anselm College, 100 St Anselm Dr, Manchester NH. Directions can be obtained at www.anselm.edu
2.) Supporters who wish to hold signs will obtain the signs at the designated supporter site. This is a designated rally area in the parking lot in front of the Joan of Arc Residence Hall. This is in sight of the Sullivan Arena, site of the debate.
3.) The earliest supporters can arrive is 4 P.M. Enter the main entrance and park where directed.
4.) All signs must be carried in and carried out. Signs cannot exceed 4' x 8'. All signs must be hand held, nothing can be staked.
5.) We are not yet aware of any food or water arrangements so to be sure to bring some!
6.) We will provide a spirited presence before the debate begins and we look forward to opportunities to speak with the national media. Be prepared with a thoughtful sentence or two about why you've come out to support Dennis Kucinich.
7.) Signs will be provided but you can also join us in the office at 29 Center Street (Keene NH) for sign- making on Sunday, June 3 at 12:30.
8.) For those interested, a car caravan will leave from the office at 29 Center St in Keene at 2:00 pm. There should be some extra spaces for those who need a ride.
We will have a huge debate watch party starting at 7 pm until midnight. We will have lots of food and free soft drinks. Dennis will join after the debate/spin room and meet everyone.
Let us know you'll be there.
Contacts in NH:
New Hampshire campaign HQ: 603-749-2818
Christina Kraich-Rogers 603-997-6123
Kucinich for President 2008 603-997-6123
The Seacoast 9-11 Questions Group has endorsed the truth squad action outside the Democratic debate at St. Anselm's on Sunday, June 3.
Various 9-11 Truth / Questions groups from New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York will meet outside the Democratic Debate at St. Anselm's College (Manchester, NH) for 9-11 "truth squad" action. We will be wearing black 911Truth.org T-shirts and carriying 9-11 signs. For more information contact George Corrette, phone 603- 446-3561.
The FCC deadline for public comments ends on Monday, June 4. Phone and cable giants are lobbying the FCC to hand control of these airwaves to them. We need to get more than 250,000 comments to the FCC. You can help put the public's interests before those of corporate gatekeepers by taking action:
If used right, this public "spectrum" could revolutionize the Internet in America. Its wireless signal passes through concrete buildings and over mountains; it can connect tens of million of Americans who are being passed over by Internet providers like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast.
Broadcast television channels will soon vacate these airwaves when they go digital by 2009. These public airwaves would revolutionize the ways we connect to laptops, cell phones, PDAs, music players and other mobile Internet devices. They can deliver an open Internet into your house without the need for a telephone wire or cable modem.
Phone and cable lobbyists are pressuring the FCC to hand over this spectrum to companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast. Their plan is to horde this valuable public assert and stifle competitive and cheaper alternatives to their established networks.
This would be a disaster. After years of phone and cable company control over Internet access, the United States has fallen to 16th in the world in high-speed Internet rankings, with few choices and some of the highest prices for the slowest speeds in the world. We will continue this decline as long as we let AT&T, Verizon and Comcast dictate the terms of Internet access for the majority of Americans.
Help us end their stranglehold and demand a better Internet for everyone:
Act Now: Keep the New Internet Open to All: savetheinternet.com/airwaves
6:30 PM - Arrive, check-in, socialize
7:00 PM - Chef Graham Schave introduces the menu
7:10 PM - Dinner begins
MENU - no animal ingredients (see
Our menu is created by Graham Schave, a vegetarian chef who was one of Veggie Planet's founding cooks.
COST: ***** $$$$27.00 ***** per person, including tax but not including gratuity. Pay on site after the meal. Cash or check (made out to Veggie Planet) only; Veggie Planet does not take credit cards.
RESERVATIONS: Seating is limited, so please reserve. Open seating. We'll have small tables for four and friendly group tables, so never hesitate to arrive alone to a BVS dinner! Many of us found at the last gourmet dinner that the smaller tables enhanced having good conversations!
LOCATION: Veggie Planet 47 Palmer Street in Club Passim Harvard Square, Cambridge
Large phone companies faced a massive public outcry in 2006 when they attempted to pass a terrible telecommunications bill in Washington. Now they're pushing a law in Boston that would undercut local authority, threaten public access channels and cut off many communities in Massachusetts from accessing new technologies.
Attend Legislative Hearing in Boston
The hearing will be open to public comments. Please take the time on Tuesday to go to the state house and voice your opposition to this bill.
WHAT: Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy on Senate Bill 1975.
WHEN: Tuesday, June 5
TIME: 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
WHERE: Massachusetts State House, Gardner Auditorium, Boston [NOTE 1: IF YOU ARE NOT A BIGSHOT, YOU MUST PASS THROUGH A FASCIST CHECKPOINT TO GET IN. NOTE 2: VERY DEFICIENT SOUND; BRING YOUR HEARING AIDS.]
Every community -- rich or poor, rural or urban -- deserves the benefits of new technology and competition.
With your help, we stood up the phone companies in Washington. It's now time protect media policy in your home state.
The future of the Internet, cable TV and local media is threatened in Massachusetts.
You can help stop this bad bill by taking action today. The Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy is holding a hearing on Senate Bill 1975 on Tuesday. Here's how you can help:
Email Your State Legislators:
Phone companies are spinning Massachusetts state representatives with promises to bring competition to cable television and broadband Internet services. This is all nonsense. Your legislators need to hear from you today. Tell them to oppose SB 1975.
All Out to the Local 8751 Picket Line!
*Tuesday, June 5th*
*11:00 AM*
*First Student / Laidlaw* *The Schrafft Center, Charlestown
USW L. 8751, Boston School Bus Drivers Union is asking for your support for this important struggle against the multi-national First Student Corporation. This union has always been in the forefront of struggles against racism, sexism, anti-LGBT bigotry, war and poverty. This predominantly immigrant local has always stood strong in support of the rights of ALL workers - documented and undocumented.
We hope that you will come out in solidarity with USW L. 8751 on June 5.
Ellen Bravo, author of "Taking on the Big Boys, or Why Feminism is Good for Families, Business and The Nation"
Ellen Bravo is speaking:
Tuesday June 5, 6pm
at Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall
700 Boylston Street, Copley Square, Boston
For more info: 617-859-2383
Wednesday June 6 (time unstated) at the Jamaica Plain Forum First Church in Jamaica Plain 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain For more info: (617)541-0500 x302
Sat. June 9 at approximately 12:10 pm during the Sounds Of Dissent radio program on WZBC, 90.3 FM
Tuesday June 5, 2007, 6pm
Taking on the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism is Good for Families, Business, and the Nation. Ellen Bravo will tell stories from decades of frontline 9to5 campaigns for income equity, family leave, and an end to sexual harassment and insecure temp work. In debunking myths from the Big Boys, she combines outrage with humor, and facts with personal narratives. Bravo goes beyond smashing the glass ceiling to redesigning the building from the bottom up.
6pm, Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall , Copley Square, 700 Boylston St, Boston. For more info call 617-536-5400.
7 pm at First Church of Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain. For more info call 617-541-0500 x302.
Grassroots International and Spontaneous Celebrations invite you to an evening with physician, author, and activist Alice Rothchild, author of Broken Promises, Broken Dreams Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience "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
Tuesday, June 5 from 7 to 9 pm
Spontaneous Celebrations
45 Danforth St., Jamaica Plain
Co-Sponsored by: Center for New Words, Jamaica Plain Forum and Jewish Voice for Peace, Boston
This is a free event. Middle Eastern food will be available for purchase.
contact: Daniel Moss at Grassroots International
617-524-1400
dmoss@grassrootsonline.org
On Wednesday June 6 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. The resolution being discussed addresses the issue of the safety of a laboratory working with the most deadly pathogens in a highly populated area subjecting Newton residents to a very high level of risk.
Newton City Hall Second Floor - Room Posted. Please be at the meeting by 8:15 as the subject is scheduled to be discussed after several other short items.
Thu Jun 7 at 6:45pm
THE GREAT TURNING with David Korten First Thursday Film Series
"The Great Turning", an inspiring talk by David Korten, founder of Positive Futures Network. Korten looks at the dark side of our consumption habits and sees hopeful possiblities. He urges us to replace the 5000 years of dominator control stories and replace them with new stories affirming life values of cooperation, community and interdependence.
Extended informal discussion after the film. Refreshments will be served. Parking: free on street, affordable garage next door.
Free admission.
Send email to
In the Film Series, UNVEILING PALESTINE, "Children of Fire" will show on Thursday, June 7, Cambridge
*When/where*
Thursday, June 7th, 7 pm
243 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
at the corner of Broadway & Windsor; entrance to the building is on Windsor St (if you are driving and have parking questions, email pfsoto@mynas.com)
Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends! Free film, free refreshments, & free door prizes. [donations for room rental are accepted, not expected] At this film, we are also giving away free copies of Remember These Children, a 30-page glossy brochure .
*Children of Fire* 50 minutes
When filmmaker Mai Masri returned to her hometown of Nablus after a fourteen year absence, she discovered a new generation of Palestinian fighters: the children of the Intifada.
Winner of the Award of Public at the Freminin Pluriel Festival, Children of Fire captures their courageous story on film and paints a daring portrait of the Palestinian uprising.
"Dramatic, bravely filmed...if you closed your eyes you could have been witnessing the Nazi occupation of the Warsaw Ghetto." - Daily Express
Intifada means uprising. The first Intifada (starting in 1987) is understood to be a spontaneous phenomenon (consisting mostly of rock throwing), in protest of Israel's brutal repression in the occupied territories, which included extra-judicial killings, mass detentions, house demolitions, deportations, etc. A second Intifada started when Ariel Sharon - with Likud party members and hundreds of Israeli riot police - visited the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. The compound is the third holiest site in Islam for the majority of Muslims.
Why should YOU care? It’s your money that pays for the occupation & illegal Israeli settlements.
Do-It Ourselves: Radical Urban Sustainability Skillshare Network
(Thu Jun 7, 7pm)
June discussion: edible weeds- identifying and finding
Meet leading activists and social entrepreneurs from across the country. Empower yourself with new information and campaiging tools. Join the movement that -- with your help -- will put people before corporations. The conference will run from Friday June 8th through Sunday, June 10th.
Transnational corporations are the most powerful institutions in the world today. Our media, medicine, food, jobs, water, energy, culture and government are either controlled or heavily influenced by corporate giants. As they jockey for position in the expanding global economy, these huge corporations respect no boundary and wreak havoc in rapacious pursuit of short- term gains.
Are you ready to join others and do something about it? Taming the Giant Corporation is a conference that will give you an opportunity to learn, debate and organize around putting corporations in their place and restoring the rightful power of the public's interest. Join those who have won battles against corporate might: Lois Gibbs, Amy Goodman, Ralph Nader and many more, including Public Citizen Directors Lori Wallach, Sidney Wolfe, Tyson Slocum and Laura MacCleery. Read the agenda and speaker list on the conference Web site.
Please email us if you plan to attend. We will send you a special invitation to join Public Citizen for lunch during the conference.
Friday, June 8, 2007
Support Your Librarians from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.! Please join Boston Public Librarians and Jobs With Justice as we distribute informational leaflets outside the Boston Public Library Foundation Annual Gala. BPLPSA – CWA local 1333 has been in contract negotiations with the City of Boston and the Library for a year but the primary issues of staffing, salaries, and health care remain unresolved.
We will gather at the corner of Boylston Street and Dartmouth Street at 6:00 p.m. and leafleting the event around the Boston Public Library until 10PM.
For more information email
Sunday, June 10, the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and United for Peace and Justice are sponsoring a two-day mobilization in Washington, DC to protest against the 40 year-old illegal Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip.
Facilitated by Leslie Cagan, Phyllis Bennis, Josh Ruebner. Speakers include Cindy and Craig Corrie of The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, and about 20 others.
Under the banner, "The World Says No to Israeli Occupation," the US Campaign and UFPJ will hold a massive rally and teach-in starting at 1 pm on Sunday June 10 in Washington DC, followed by a grassroots lobbying day on Monday, June 11. The Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights is arranging affordable transportation from Boston to Washington DC and back.
If you want to go and need a ride, please contact the Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights this afternoon to reserve your seat by calling (703) 622-9151.
Payment and confirmation of passenger count are due the bus company Mon 6-4-07, so you need to act today! The bus will leave from the corner of Beacon Street and Charles Street in Boston at 12:00 am Sunday morning, June 10 or, if you prefer, midnight Saturday night, June 9. Again, the phone number to call this afternoon is: (703) 622-9151.
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
PO Box 21539
Washington, DC 20009
202-332-0994
The next Newton Dialogues meeting will be held at the Newton Library on Monday, June 11, 7 P.M.
We will be showing the inspiring and challenging film, "Knowledge is the Beginning." This film documents the founding, by Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said, of an orchestra made up of young people from all over the Middle East. It has been called "a metaphor for what could be achieved there." [ALSO BEING SHOWN (FOR $$) 1:30pm at MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS on SUNDAY JUNE 3.]
For many years, internationally renowned conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim has used music to bring together young Israeli Jews with Palestinians and other Arabs. He and his closest friend, the late Palestinian literary scholar, Professor Edward Said, brought together Arab and Israeli musicians to perform in Weimar on the 250th anniversary of the birth of Goethe; and together they founded and nourished the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which now embraces eighty Arab and Israeli musicians aged thirteen to twenty-six in a unique musical collaboration dedicated to furthering the cause of peaceful co-existence in the Middle East. The film "Knowledge is the Beginning" chronicles summer workshops in Weimar and Seville, Barenboim's visit to Ramallah and Jerusalem in May 2004, as well as highlights of the 2005 European tour.
Newton Dialogues on Peace & War