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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
“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.
Program Director of Sunday Social Justice Education for Kids age 6-15; part time 12 hr/wk; salary is $10,500 annually. We expect to hire the Director by mid-July 2006, and the expectation is for the SJE program to begin September 2006. Go to commchurch.org/ssjdirector.doc for a detailed job description. Application requested by 7/1/06.
Despite its attempt to create a socially responsible image, Starbucks' failure to meaningfully embrace Fair Trade coffee has left coffee farmers and their children teetering on the brink of starvation in the Global South. A new documentary, Black Gold (blackgoldmovie.com), reveals in detail the pained existence of coffee farmers under the purchasing practices of Starbucks and other multinational corporations. In Starbucks cafes, baristas are paid a poverty wage and the company insures a lower percentage of employees than Wal-Mart. Starbucks baristas are organizing a union (starbucksunion.org) with the Industrial Workers of the World for a better life on and off the job. In response, the company has waged a fierce and relentless anti-union campaign that tramples on workers' rights. In this union-busting operation unburdened by the law, Starbucks routinely retaliates against baristas for supporting the union. In addition, Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz recently broke the union of roasting plant employees. If you or your group is interested in getting involved with the campaign on the ground floor please contact IWW organizer and Starbucks barista Daniel Gross at dgross@iww.org or 917-577-1110.
Hello! My name if Jeff Tanzer. I have been distributing 911 Truth material at Harvard Square in Cambridge and other areas on a weekly basis, and I am writing you to invite you to join me. I've been handing out handbills and deception dollars and engaging in spirited conversation with people as they walk by. I would appreciate anyone joining in on this project with me who shares my desire to spread 911 Truth. You would be welcome to join me for a morning's leafleting or to help me plan and carry out other actions to communicate the truth to people about the events of 9/11/01. I have a supply of materials and do not ask for donations. However, If anyone is serious about involvement then I will certainly appreciate you contributing to the materials costs of this project.
I can be emailed at dexterousdigits@yahoo.com , also my phone
contact is 978-741-4921. Please call ONLY between 5:30 & 6pm. I
recommend bringing signs for when we hand out literature, and I
am always open to additional ideas for how to make 911 Truth
more visible. Blogs, computer stuff, etc is nice too, but a face
and our message needs to be presented to the public. As things
get more dangerous in this country we all need to take a little
time and have the courage to put this out for all to see. I
hope you will consider joining me.
Jeff Tanzer, Salem MA
Please vote in support of Kevin at the poll on this website and spread the word- don't let the gov't and academia hang Kevin for his support of 9-11 Truth...
MADISON, Wis. -- University of Wisconsin-Madison officials are reviewing the background of a UW-Madison lecturer after a state lawmaker demanded he be fired for his beliefs about Sept. 11, 2001.
Kevin Barrett has a doctorate and lectures on Islamic culture and religion. He is also co-founder of a group that believes some in our government arranged the Sept. 11 attacks.
In some circles, especially academic ones, the debate over what really happened on Sept. 11 continues. The issue now is whether such radical beliefs belong in the college classroom...
[TJR hosts note with frustration that the poll offers no option for those of us who AGREE with Barrett's "radical" belief: "The alternative theory is that they must have at least had some inside help, and more likely that the whole thing was an inside job from start to finish," Barrett said. "By far the strongest hypothesis at this point is that 9/11 was an inside job designed as a war-trigger cover operation … designed to launch a series of wars -- not just one war but a long series of wars."]
Workers at Verizon Wireless (VZW) lack basic workplace rights and receive inadequate health and retirement benefits. When they have tried to organize to fix these problems, VZW has conducted a campaign of illegal firings, threats, intimidation, and worker surveillance and has even shut down Northeast call centers and moved them to "right to work" states.
Pledge not to buy Verizon Wireless, or pledge to switch your cell phone carrier.
For more than a decade, Verizon Wireless has shown total disregard for labor law and the rights of workers to a voice in the workplace and to a fair contract. Workers at VZW who want a union voice have been fired and laid off, harassed and intimidated by supervisors, required to attend "captive audience" meetings and mandatory anti-union training. Call centers that had a growing number of union supporters were shut down between 2000 and 2004, putting 2,000 people out of work in MA, NY, and NJ. Verizon Wireless has refused to abide by the agreement it made with CWA to remain neutral in union organizing efforts in the Northeast and is instead using endless litigation to prevent employees from making use of the agreement. There are numerous complaints of labor law violations pending against Verizon Wireless.
The contrast between Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless, which supports full employer neutrality and card check, couldn't be clearer. At Cingular, where there is true neutrality, more than 17,000 workers have joined CWA just since July 2005, when those agreements went into effect at what was AT&T Wireless. It's clear that when fear and intimidation are removed from the workplace, workers choose a union voice. That's what is happening at Cingular and that's exactly what would happen at Verizon Wireless.
Winner of the Best International Documentary 2006 at Tribeca Film Festival In March of 2004, just as the insurgent movement strengthened, several members of one National Guard unit arrived in Iraq carrying digital video cameras. This is the movie they made with director Deborah Scranton and a team of award-winning filmmakers. It's the first war movie filmed by soldiers themselves on the front lines in Iraq. It is edited down from 1000 hours of tape filmed over one year. Funnier, spicier and more wrenching than stories other people might tell about them, like any true story about war, The War Tapes engages the hard, tense, passionate, always difficult and sometimes beautiful way relationships develop and change.
Demonstration to denounce Israel's war crimes in the Gaza Strip and the collective punishment of the Palestinian People.
On June 30, Amnesty International declared that "deliberate attacks by Israeli forces against civilian property and infrastructure violate international humanitarian law and constitute war crimes."
With the destruction of electricity and water supplies, a humanitarian crisis of huge proportions is impending. We must break the silence that is allowing Israel to operate with total impunity against the 1.4 million people who live in the Gaza Strip, half of whomare under the age of 14 years old.
We are drafting an open letter to be sent to the press and delivered to Israel Consul General Meir Shlomo on July 12.
Please plan to attend - and bring signs calling for an End to Israel's War Crimes, and saying "NO to Collective Punishment".
Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights
Global warming, alternative energy, water quality, deteriorating parks, sprawl, pollution... The next governor will make all the difference for the state's environment. Come hear more from the candidates and their environmental positions.
Free admission, but space is limited. Please RSVP www.sierraclubmass.org/forum
Sponsored by:
Massachusetts League of Environmental Voters,
Massachusetts Sierra Club
Environmental League of Massachusetts
Appalachian Mountain Club.
Supporting organizations also include Clean Water Action - MA, Climate Change Action Brookline, Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, Conservation and Recreation Campaign, Conservation Law Foundation, Environmental Defense, Friends of the Blue Hills, Island Alliance, MassBike, MassPIRG, Save the Harbor/Save the Bay, Trustees of Reservations, WalkBoston.
Moderator: Steve Curwood, Executive Producer and host of Living on Earth.
Community Change Brown Bag Anti-Racism Discussion Series
THE WEALTH GAP
What Does It Have To Do With 'RACISM'?
Does lifting up the 'racial' aspect of wealth inequality undermine efforts to build movements for economic justice?
Is the term 'racism' an adequate analytical tool?
Do the words 'white supremacy' close the space for dialogue and limit cross racial movement building?
The ways we talk about race are critical to our analysis of the problems we face and the solutions we propose. Come discuss these crucial issues with CHAKA A. K. UZONDU of United for a Fair Economy.
Please bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided. $5 contribution requested. RSVP (617) 523-0555 or ernes-@communitychangeinc.org
This series brings together people who are interested in continuing the dialogue about the struggle against racism. Each noon session will be brief while providing an opportunity for networking and opportunities for taking action. Participants will become acquainted with one another and will engage in discussion centered on the topic of the day.
Come for all or part of the vigil. Corner of Rt 27 and 30 by the Middlesex Bank and Cochituate Post Office. We got a LOT of positive feedback from the traffic passing by at our first one, and only a few negatives. Hope you can join us. Pass the info on. To request a flyer in Word, send your request to Sandy Coy.
The location will be Kittredge Park, at the intersection of Route 38 and Route 133 in Lowell. We'll have some signs but could use more if you want to bring one. It's time for the anti-war majority to show its strength!
For membership in the Greater Lowell for Peace and Justice
United for Justice with Peace, Cambridge
Left in Lowell
Think out Loud
WUML