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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.
GREG PALAST, investigative journalist and author of the books, "Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and "Armed Madhouse."
Conversation with MA-based filmmaker Melanie Perkins. Her documentary movie, "Have You Seen Andy?" premiers on the Cinemax cable channel on June 12th.
News report on Pentagon's attempt to silence dissent against the Iraq war by charging soldiers who protest with violating the Military Uniform Code of Justice.
Film review with The Culturizer, Bruce Sylvester.
Leftist, progressive and civil rights movements of all kinds in the United States, since the early of 1900s, have suffered the effects of participants "selling out" and becoming part of the system they claim to detest. Saturday, June 8th was the annual Gay Pride Parade. The mainstream gay and lesbian movement is a perfect example of the above mentioned problem. We will discuss this year's militarist gay pride theme and look at how this movement is falling into similar assimilationist pitfalls as many social movements before it.
Jason Lydon is a queer activist, anti-militarist, and the Congregational Director of the Community Church of Boston.
A PEACE AND JUSTICE CONGREGATION SINCE 1920
The next Newton Dialogues meeting 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."
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.
Ed Kinane went to Iran in Feb. 2007 as part of a Fellowship of Reconciliation "civilian diplomacy" delegation.Come and get the full picture. Let our voices be heard before there's another invasion.
This facility is wheelchair accessible. Light refreshments will be served. Everyone is welcome.
Sponsor: Dorchester People for Peace. Contact Information: 617/282-3783.
Dr. Wisam Breegi is a Mandaean refugee who fled Iraq in 1991. He was involved in human rights issues and was outspoken regarding his disapproval of Saddam Hussein s government regime. In 1992 he came to the United States with his wife and young son. Today, he is working to preserve the Mandaean culture, history and traditions.
Come learn about the Mandaeans, a unique and ancient pacifist religious community. Hear about their current situation in Iraq and Iran, the threats they face as a religious minority, and what s being done to prevent the extinction of this ancient culture.
SPEAKERS:
*LeiLani Dowell* - National Organizer F.I.S.T. (Fight
Imperialism Stand Together), Rainbow Solidarity with
the Cuban Five
*Mia Campbell* - Women's Fight Back Network,
Revolutionary Poetry
*Rev. Franklin Hobbs* - Director Boston HIV State of
Emergency Committee
*Gerry Scoppettuolo* - Stonewall Warriors,
International Action Center
The Cuba Five: These U.S.-held political prisoners were jailed merely for having infiltrated CIA-backed right-wing terrorist commando organizations to monitor and stop attacks on Cuba from U.S. soil.
Advances in LGBT rights and HIV Care in Cuba. Come hear about the advances in free gender reassignment surgery, medical care and possible government-endorsed civil unions or marriage. We in the U.S. and elsewhere need a radical solution to end the HIV epidemic.
Discussion to follow
Directed by Julien Temple (ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS, EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY), this punk rock documentary from 1979 is shot as a parody of wartime documentary films. Immortalizing the punk rock spirit on celluloid, Temple infuses his film with a genuine sense of anger prevalent in the U.K. at the time. Centering the film around the experiences of the U.K. Subs proves to be a masterstroke, offering all the gritty realism of life in Britain at the tail end of the 70s.
The Boston branch of the International Socialist
Organization invites you to attend SOCIALISM 2007. To
coordinate transportation and housing from Boston,
please contact
A weekend of political debate, discussion and entertainment
SOCIALISM 2007 is a three-day event cosponsored by Socialist Worker that will bring together socialists and other activists involved in struggles across the country. Among the more than 100 events at Socialism 2007 are films, music and--of course--political discussions, on topics ranging from imperialism and the U.S. war machine, to the hidden history of international working-class struggle, to Marxist theory.
Featured speakers include...
John Pilger, journalist, activist and filmmaker,
Amy Goodman, host, Democracy Now!
Jeremy Scahill, author, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Laura Flanders, radio host, Air America
Anthony Arnove, author, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
Kelly Dougherty, Camilo Mejía, and Garrett Reppenhagen, Iraq Veterans Against the War
Jeffrey St. Clair, author, Grand Theft Pentagon
Sharon Smith, SW columnist and author, Subterranean Fire
Dahr Jamail, independent journalist covering the Iraq war
Barbara Becnel, anti-death penalty activist and advocate for the late Stan Tookie Williams
Dave Zirin, Nation sports columnist and author, What's My Name, Fool?
Paul D'Amato, author, The Meaning of Marxism Dr. John Carlo
s, bronze medalist, 1968 Mexico City Olympics, where he raised the Black Power salute
Phil Gasper, editor, The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document
and many, many more.
Registration for all four days of the conference is $85. Register Here!
Faleh Abood Umara
General Secretary
Southern Oil Company Union
Iraq Federation of Oil Workers
Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein
President Electrical Utility Workers Union
Iraq Federation of Trade Unions
(First woman to lead an Iraqi national union)
Hear directly from Iraqi trade unionists about the role that the labor movement is playing in working against privatization, for a fair oil law and creating a secular, progressive Iraq.
Light refreshments will be served
National Tour Co-sponsors:
US Labor Against the War (USLAW)
American Friends Service Committee
Campus sponsor: Labor Resource Center
Russ Davis 617-524-8778
Join author Chip Smith, and labor leader Jeff Crosby and others for an examination of the impact of privilege and ways to challenge its effects on our society.
The Cost of Privilege is one of those rare books that manages to blend first-rate analysis around racism and white supremacy, with first-rate class analysis as well. The result is that the reader gains invaluable insights into the ways in which capitalism and white supremacy have interacted to produce and reproduce injustice, and the ways in which the working class has remain divided by the promise of white privilege to some of its members. This is an important and insightful volume. --Tim Wise, author, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
Sponsored by Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) Community Change, Inc.
Endorsed by Dorchester People for Peace District 7 Roundtable Cambridge Eviction Free Zone
We call upon Palestinians in the United States to join us on June 15- 17, 2007, in Chicago to participate in a preparatory meeting for the historic Popular Palestinian National Conference, Palestinians in the US: Reclaiming Our Voice, Asserting Our Narrative. The Conference is scheduled to take place in May of 2008, to coincide with the 60 Year Anniversary of Al Nakba.
The U.S. Palestine Conference Network (USPCN) is not an organization. It is an open arena and network where Palestinian-American organizations, associations, village and town-based clubs and Palestinian individuals residing in the U.S. can come together. The purpose of the Conference is to empower us to assume a key role in realizing Palestinian national and human rights. We have an obligation to become full participants in the national struggle by developing a principled, inclusive and nonpartisan voice.
We pledge to ensure an inclusive meeting where all views are respected. We are aware of the diverse outlooks and opinions amongst Palestinians in the U.S. and we invite the participation of all community members who are willing to commit to making the Popular National Conference a reality. All participants must accept and support the Fundamental Palestinian National Principles (al-Thawabet al- Wataniyyah al-Filastiniyah):
-- Self-determination and equality for the Palestinian people
-- Return of all Palestinian refugees to their original homes, lands, properties and villages (a natural right supported by international law and UN Resolution 194)
-- End of Zionist occupation and colonization of Palestine
Application Process
Please confirm your interest in attending the Chicago Preparatory Meeting by emailing your application to PalestineConferenceUSA@yahoo.com or by faxing it to 703-821-1874. (ORIGINAL DEADLINE WAS JUNE 6, 2007.)
Registration fee of $50 will be collected onsite in order to cover meals and material costs. Please do not hesitate to contact us at PalestineConferenceUSA@yahoo.com if you have any questions.
SALT OF THE EARTH is based on a 1950 strike by zinc miners in Silver City, New Mexico.
Made during the height of the McCarthy era by a group of blacklisted filmmakers who were among the best and the brightest Hollywood talent of the day, the story unfolds against a backdrop of social injustice.
In the course of the strike the characters of Ramon and Esperanza Quintero, a Mexican-American miner and his wife, play out a riveting family drama.
Esperanza’s emergence as a self confident fighter and Ramon’s struggle to come to terms with this new aspect of his wife’s character add an extra dimension to this powerful story of class struggle in the United States during the 1950s.
Traducción inglés-español / español-inglés Suggested donation: $5 For more information: 617-569-9169 or email bostonmlf@verizon.net.
Visit themilitant.com and pathfinderpress.com websites for news, analysis, books, and pamphlets.
Directions: T Blue Line to Maverick Station, bus or walk 5 blocks down Meridian to Bennington at Liberty Plaza.
Program starts promptly at 4:00 p.m.
Senator Kerry will talk about the war and our future
in Iraq and take questions from the audience. The event, hosted by the
Natick Democratic Town Committee, is free and open to
the public.
An evening of images and stories from the delegates experiences, including work on the Olive Harvest, an internship with the legal group Addarmeer assisting political prisoners, etc. There will also be a showing of short films made by Palestinian youth during last year's digital video workshop program in refugee camps. It is our hope that the program, piloted last year by one of our delegates will be continued and expanded this year with your help. A light supper and refreshments will be served.
Email or call 781/391-1547 for info.
Henri Picciotto will be visiting Boston from Jewish Voice for Peace in Oakland and wants to meet YOU! Please come to a presentation and wide ranging discussion of the Arab League Proposal and get to know an important member of the national staff.
This event is sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace.
Send email to
6:00 pm gather at Arlington Town Hall in Arlington Center
6:30 pm short "Peace Parade" from Town Hall to the Regent Theatre led by a brass band
7:00 pm Concert and Cultural Program at the Regent Theatre, 7 Medford St. in Arlington
We hope you will join us for an uplifting evening of creative resistance featuring live music and performances spanning genres including gospel-soul, hardcore folk, hip-hop, rock, spoken word, dance, New Orleans street band music and more – all presented as a creative protest to the disastrous war in Iraq. "Start the Music, Stop the War" is an attempt to bring together young and old, city and suburb, black, brown and white to say that the war must end now – but to say it through the truth spoken by music and song and poetry and dance. We hope that the diversity of our performers and artistic genres will make June 23 at the Regent Theater a memorable event that will inspire participants to connect with each other and continue working for the kind of country and world that we can be proud of.
Look at the lineup...
· Kemp Harris: Gospel-Soul
· Soul of Change: Hip-Hop
· Jake Brennan: Hardcore Folk
· The Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band
· In the Public Interest: Electric, Eclectic Rock
· Ketchup: Spoken Word
· Mr. Them: you won't believe this
· Status Quo: Hip-hop dance
· Desiree Rivera: Spoken Word
$20 General Admission for the 7:00 pm concert if purchased in advance - $23 day of show:
$10 College Students and Low Income if purchased in advance – $13 day of show;
$5 High School Students if purchased in advance - $8 day of show
To purchase your tickets send your check (made out to United for Justice with Peace) and mailing address to: Start the Music c/o American Friends Service Committee 2161 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge MA 02140. (Tell us how many General Admission, College/Low Income, and High School tickets you want) For checks received by June 18 we will mail you your tickets.
Or you can purchase your tickets online ($2.50 service charge) at www.regenttheatre.com/events/protest.htm and click on the "Order Now" box
Or you can get your tickets directly at the Regent Theatre Box Office Tuesday – Saturday 12pm – 5pm and 1 hour before the show on the 23rd: 781-646-4TIX (4849)
This is a benefit for UJP.