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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.
Beginning today, people around Boston will be contacting the Boston City Council to ask them to schedule hearings about the Biolab.
We are asking that three hearings be scheduled:
--> Transportation
---> Preparedness
----> Evacuation
We would like the transportation hearing to be scheduled in JULY.
COULD YOU to take a few minutes to call and email one or more of the Councilors listed below? Contact information is below.
=*=*= PLEASE CALL AND EMAIL =*=*=
STEPHEN MURPHY, Chair of the Public Safety committee, 617-635-4376, Stephen.Murphy@cityofboston.gov
Other Councilors on the Committee:
MICHAEL FLAHERTY, Vice chair, At Large, 617-635-4205, Michael.F.Flaherty@cityofboston.gov
FELIX ARROYO, At Large, 617-635-3115, Felix.Arroyo@cityofboston.gov
SALVATORE LAMATTINA, District 1, E. Boston, Charlestown, City Hall/Beacon Hill/Islands, 617-635- 3200, Salvatore.LaMattina@cityofboston.gov
CHARLES YANCEY, District 4, Dorchester & Mattapan, 617- 635-3131, Charles.Yancey@cityofboston.gov
FOR MORE INFO on the campaign and the Biolab, visit:
On June 21, 2007, Reps. Mike Doyle (D-Penn.) and Lee Terry (R-Neb.) and Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) introduced the Local Community Radio Act. Passing this bipartisan bill will bring more diversity of views and music to your radio dial and re-connect communities to a medium that has been largely overrun by massive corporate conglomerates. This legislation needs your support today.
The bill opens the dial to Low Power FM radio stations. These stations are community driven and locally oriented, providing news and information often ignored by mainstream radio -- information crucial to healthy communities and a vibrant democracy.
Current rules deprive many communities across the country from access to local radio. If enacted, this bill will clear more space for better, more independent and local programming that will bring diversity back to the airwaves.
Support this legislation today and help bring local radio to your community!
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
Dennis Kucinich, the man who had the courage to call for the impeachment of Cheney when nobody else would raise their hand, has now FURTHER stepped up to the plate to add an action button for the National Cheney Impeachment Poll to his own presidential campaign web site in a prominent position on ALL pages. So many of you have written us to ask if there wasn't more we could do to support Dennis, and so at our end we have set up a donations page dedicated specifically for his campaign.
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.
MA Senator John Kerry, in Natick on Saturday, June 16th, 2007
for a public forum on the Iraq war.
Join us for a public meeting on the potential layoffs at Alcatel-
Lucent in North Andover from the workers & retirees point-of-view.
For Information Call: Gary Nilsson CWA Local 1365
Union Office: 978-374-6038
or visit UnionVoice.org.
In Boston, in Washington DC and around the country, we will demand:
Assemble outside the ACLU office at 12:30pm
211 Congress Street (corner of Congress & High)
Procession will reach JFK Federal Building
1:15 PM to 1:30 PM
Boston March
If you can arrive at 12 noon and want to wear an orange jumpsuit, email jamargolis@earthlink.net or call (617) 482 3170 x 314.
Thanks to your input, bills to speed privatization of state "surplus" lands* and remove your in key land use decisions have been beaten back for over three years! But the powerful developer lobby is still pushing to get their hands on these irreplaceable public resources.
Do you feel the new Boston biolab will boost the regional economy by creating jobs and expanding bio industry? Or is it a bioweapons program, using viruses and lethal bacteria in sometimes classified experiments? Is there a risk that dangerous biological and chemical agents could be accidentally released? Do you agree on the use of taxpayer's money for the biolab? Which will make your town safer and stronger - the biolab or more police, fire fighters, teachers, and library personnel?
Come to the library to discuss these probing questions with quest speaker Joan Ecklein, former Professor of Sociology, UMass/Boston and Co-chair of the Boston Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Ecklein presented information on the Boston BioLab before the United Nations' Sixth Review Conference of the States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention in Geneva in November, 2006.
Discussion after film with ideas, resources and actions, you will most likely never learn from mainstream media.
Join the New England Medical Center Nurses for an Informational Picket to Protest Unsafe Staffing & Practice Conditions. In the wake of chronic understaffing and oftentimes unsafe patient care conditions, the registered nurses of New England Medical Center plan to demonstrate outside the entrance to the facility from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. The RNs are protesting the hospital's failure to respond to repeated requests for additional staff and equipment that nurses need to keep patients safe.
We will be picking up the work around House Bill 1723, Petition of Rep. Carl M. Sciortino, Jr., and others relative to the construction of new correctional facilities and providing for an investigation of incarceration and its impact on public safety. This bill establishes a five-year moratorium on the construction/expansion of new jails, houses of corrections, and prisons. It also creates a Special Commission to determine more effective, less harmful means of ensuring public safety. If you'd like to work on this campaign please join us.
Please see the text of the bill and testimony in support provided at the May 8th, 2007 Judiciary Committee hearing at MassDecarcerat.org.
At the intersection of sports and politics…
You'll find heroes.
You'll find villains.
You'll find oppression.
You'll find protest.
You'll find a platform.
And you'll find Dave Zirin.
The story of Jacobo Arbenz, Guatemalan President ousted by a CIA coup. Arbenz had led the successful 1944 revolt against the military dictatorship, a regime that had oppressed Guatemala since colonialism. Arbenz, the son of Swiss immigrants, was celebrated as a national hero. Elected President in 1950, Arbenz was not a member of any party - he didn't issue any manifestos. But he began to fulfill his promises - farmers got their own land. "The first act of justice since colonial times," said Arbenz.
In the early 1950s, with the Cold War intensifying, then Vice President Richard Nixon said, "Arbenz is not a Guatemalan President." Nixon called him "a foreigner, manipulated by foreign powers." The young President of Guatemala was soon overthrown, declared a traitor, and chased out of the country.
In Spanish with English subtitles.
In the early days after the New Bedford raid, a volunteer contacted local comedian Jimmy Tingle and he has agreed to do a fundraiser for the New Bedford Immigrant Families/Ninos Fund on June 27 at 7:30. Please send this out to your lists so that we can have a sold out house!
Tickets are $40 an can be bought online.
Information and ticket sales: Jimmy Tingle Off Broadway Theater.
Do you want the media to do a better job covering the issues that matter most to you and your community? Now is your chance to voice your concerns about local media directly to policymakers from Washington.
On June 28, the Federal Communications Commission will hold an official public hearing on media localism in Portland, Maine. This is the fifth in a series of six official hearings on media localism nationwide and the only one in New England -- so it's critical for you to be there!
The FCC is attempting to change the rules so that a handful of big media companies can swallow up even more local newspapers, radio stations and TV stations.
This hearing in Portland is your chance to speak out. It's free and open to the public and will feature an open microphone session for you to tell the FCC how the media are serving your community. For fact sheets and flyers that provide useful tips on testifying, please visit.
For more information visit StopBigMedia.com.
DIO (Do-it-ourselves: radical urban sustainability skillshare network) will meet at Lucy Parsons Center and then walk around the neighborhood to identify edible weeds growing in the cracks of the sidewalks and in nearby parks. Anyone interested please come. While none of us is expert, many of us have some knowledge to share.
Contact Jules or Ellie for more info: 617-492-2340
All LPC events are free and open to the public (though donations are greatly appreciated). If you have any questions, call us at (617) 267-6272.
After assembling, there will be a MARCH to the BUSH COMPOUND (permits have been granted).
People of conscience will converge on Kennebunkport, ME, for a rally and march.
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA, NATIONAL MEDIA, the WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORP and our local news media will be present, so WE NEED TO TURN OUT THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS FOR THIS EVENT! Speakers will
include:
David Swanson from AFTER DOWNING STREET
John Kaminski, president of MAINE LAWYERS for
DEMOCRACY
Peter Kellman, president of the SOUTHERN MAINE LABOR
COUNCIL
Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Melida and Carlos Arredondo from MILITARY FAMILIES
SPEAK OUT
MUSIC includes Pat Scanlon and band
STREET THEATER: We will be mourning the loss of LADY LIBERTY, as a 7'-tall statue of her will be lying in a casket. People are asked to wear black and join in the funeral procession.
LOGISTICS and HOUSING: Please visit the website.
For more info, contact organizer Jamilla.THIS EVENT IS BEING ORGANIZED BY: The Kennebunk PEACE Department, Maine Lawyers for Democracy and The Maine Campaign to Impeach.
Discover your power in combating global warming at the Lex Be Green eco-friendly fair
For more information please contact:
Polly Jo Kemler - 781-674-2155
Anne Kelly 781-862-9665