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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.
They aren't content with just manipulating government. Now they want to "be" the government.
A bill known as Chapter 40T is moving swiftly through the legislature that would enable real estate developers to create their own special purpose governments within cities and towns. This allows critical functions of local democratic government to be replaced by the rule of unelected developers with personal financial interests to advance.
CALL YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS IMMEDIATELY. They might vote on it before end of session on July 31. Mention all three bill numbers/names – H159, S146, and "Chapter 40T."
Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities
617-821-1453.
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
07/07/07: Many of you have written to ask us when we were going to call for the impeachment of Bush as well as Cheney. Of course we have done Bush impeachment action pages before, and were focusing on Cheney on the premise that he was not only the least popular, but also the most guilty. But now Bush has thrown himself in the middle of the worst of the Cheney scandals, and so we have launched a new action page calling for the impeachment of them both.
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.
Every sunday over the Summer, "A Revolutionary Act" will play from the film series the great activists of this United states have created. The activists include: United for peace and justice, Stop the Wars coalition, Code Pink, Robert Bowman, David Ray Griffin, Pat Scanlon, In the Public Interest, Insurrection, and many more.
Is democracy possible when corporations wield constitutional rights against communities and people? In your community, who decides if corporations can pollute or drive local businesses out? Looking for a Real Paradigm Shift?
Come to Democracy School!
Global Exchange is bringing the famous Daniel Pennock Democracy School, created by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), to San Francisco! This empowering weekend-long training teaches a dramatic new way of looking at our role as citizens and confronting the power and rights used by corporations to deny the rights of people and the earth.
Join Global Exchange for The Daniel Pennock Democracy School September 7-9, 2007 San Francisco, CA
[Deadline for Registration: July 23, space is limited to 20 participants]
Cost: $300: All attendees receive a 350 page background reading packet by mail upon registration. Some meals are also included. Tuition is nonrefundable after August 6.
415.575.5540
Enough is enough and this July 23rd a new phase in the movement for peace and justice will be launched. We call it the Orange Revolution because starting that day will wearing orange will signify that you want Congress to START IMPEACHMENT and STOP THE WAR.
Wearing or displaying orange will be our signal to one another--and to the world--about where we stand. Anything orange will do: a t-shirt, a wristband, a ribbon--get creative and post your images and ideas on ImpeachSpace.com. Here are a couple of items to get you started:
Orange "Drive out the Bush Regime" bandanas Available at World Can't Wait
Orange "Impeach Bush and Cheney" t-shirts Available at BeachBlogger.net
Are you concerned about how the “must pass” MCAS harms all students – disproportionately affecting students of color -- by increasing the drop-out rate, lowering graduation rate, “teaching to the test,” narrowing curricula, and decreasing motivation to learn?
LISTEN and DISCUSS with REP. CARL SCIORTINO
co-sponsor of the MCAS Reform Bill to develop a multiple assessment system to determine student competence
LEARN WHAT YOU CAN DO!
Please bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided. $5 contribution requested.
RSVP (617) 523-0555 or email Janet
Sick and tired of the war, the White House war- mongers, and fed up with a Congressional "opposition" that refuses to take these war-criminals down (via impeachment), even when a majority of Americans want them to?!
Please join the Davis Square End the War Committee in Somerville, in the heart of Davis Square, Monday July 23rd for a rush-hour rally "Honk-Out" as we demand that Congress:
"Impeach the War Criminals and End the War, Now!"
Monday, July 23rd. approximately 5-7pm (or until the end of rush-hour) (in the heart of Davis Square, accross from the Somerville Theatre)
Bring noisemakers, wear orange (for impeachment!), and make signs calling for passing traffic to "Honk to Impeach Dick Cheney!" "Honk to Overthrow King George!" and "Honk to End the War Now!" Let's show the local media, the politicians, and community at large how Bostonians feel about impeachment and the war! (We will also be distributing literature and gathering support for impeachment and the anti-war movement from locals in the area during the rally.)
Joe Ramsey's email Davis Square End the War Committee
Check out the Consulate website for further details.
Perhaps you have already seen it. Perhaps you haven’t seen it yet. Here is your chance to see and discuss it. Al Gore says the debate about the science of global warming is over. He’s wrong. There is a strong fight back. For example, James Taylor, senior fellow for environmental policy at the Heartland Institute, writes in the June 30 Chicago Sun Times: "In his new book, The Assault on Reason, Al Gore pleads, "We must stop tolerating the rejection and distortion of science. We must insist on an end to the cynical use of pseudo-studies known to be false for the purpose of intentionally clouding the public's ability to discern the truth." Gore repeatedly asks that science and reason displace cynical political posturing as the central focus of public discourse."
We have begun a very exciting work plan including short- and long-term goals to implement a moratorium on jail and prison construction/expansion in MA, in support of HB 1723, "an act relative to incarceration... ." We will continue with this at our July meeting. Please join us!
Get involved and help organize the Sept. 22-29 Encampment Against the War in front of Congress and the Sept. 29 National March on Washington DC Stop the War at Home and Abroad! Troops Out Now! Impeach Bush & Cheney for War Crimes!
"In Memory of the Land and People," a film by Robert Gates (1977; 50 min.), captures all the outrage and sorrow and indignity to the land and its people that strip mining represents. "This film should never be shown again," -Montana Senator Frank Dunkle.
"Moving Mountains," a film by Virginia Bendl Moore (2006; 30 min.), surveys the issues surrounding modern- day Mountaintop Removal coal mining in West Virginia including the effects on the environment, economy, human health, and human wellbeing. Told by the people most directly affected, this piece offers a look at the devastation the experience for the price of energy, electricity, and big business.
A discussion will follow the films.
DON'T LET A FRANCHISE COMPANY TRASH JANITORS' RIGHTS!
Rally at 99 Sidney St, Cambridge MA starting 4:45 PM. On Monday, June 11, property manager, Justin Hemenway of Forest City decided to change to an irresponsible cleaning contractor. The new company, Jani-King, is now cleaning at 129 Franklin St., 100 Landsdowne St. and 23 Sidney St. Jani-King has refused to hire the workers who had been cleaning these buildings. Jani- King provides no health benefits, pension, vacation or sick days and pays no unemployment insurance, workers compensation insurance or social security taxes. Call Justin Hemingway at 617-679-9401 ext 10 and ask him to reconsider his decision to hire Jani-King and encourage him to hire a responsible contractor!
For more information call SEIU Local 615, Justice for Janitors (617) 523-6150.
3pm: Fast Food Nation
6pm: Divided We Fall
First, see Michael Moore's SICKO! The main theme of the movie is that American society needs to focus on the "we" and not the "me" in healthcare. Then See "SALUD!", a film on Cuban Healthcare.
SALUD! examines the curious case of Cuba, a cash- strapped country with what the BBC calls "one of the world's best health systems." Featuring Dr. Paul Farmer of Partners in Health, the subject of Tracey Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains.
Interesting material on this site on Cuban healthcare and a critique of US healthcare.
LATER: Join Us for a CUBA DISCUSSION Thursday August 16, 6:30 Coolidge Corner Library, 31 Pleasant Street Dr. Martin Schotz and his wife Jane Crosby, Newton residents, are in Cuba right now, with Pastors for Peace. They will present a comprehensive picture of life in Cuba including healthcare, social and cultural life, and the history of the island since the revolution. Questions and Answers Welcomed!
Free, Co-sponsored by Brookline PeaceWorks and the July 26th Coalition for Cuba Solidarity
This Community Forum will discuss and explore community responses to the recent US Supreme Court decision opening the door to a return to de facto segregation. This forum, the first in three, will present and create discussion about the broad implications of the recent Supreme Court decision, developing several opportunities for community members and organizations to shape the discourse around this major event. This discussion will serve as a platform for raising awareness and encouraging change in the current state of affairs for people of color and poverty. Highlighting the devastating effects of the economics of segregation.
Presenters: Jeannette Huezo, METCO parent; Diego Huezo-Rosales, METCO student; Paul Marcus, Commubity Change,Inc.; Jean M. McGuire, Metrpolitan Council for Educational Opportunity. Moderator is Amaad Riveria, Racial Wealth Divide Project at UFE.
To RSVP or for more info email Amaad Rivera.
Apply for the Washington, DC 2 Day Training on July 27th and 28th, 2007
UNITE HERE is leading the fight to organize hundreds of thousands of low-wage workers in hotels, casinos, industrial laundries, and airports throughout North America. Our union, with over 450,000 members, is at the forefront of battles for workers' rights, immigrants' rights and living wages. UNITE HERE organizes the women, people of color and immigrants washing dishes, making beds and folding laundry. We are looking for passionate and committed people who want to become full-time union organizers.
Requirements: desire to fight for justice and organize the unorganized. Bilingual English/Spanish a plus. How to Apply: Fill out an online application or for more Info contact email Moe.
3pm: Shut Up and Sing
6pm: An Inconvenient Truth.
Sanho Tree, Director of the Drug Policy Project Institute for Policy Studies
It is no secret that current policy ignores the effects of racism and poverty that helps drive the illicit drug economy. In the US, these roots include decaying school systems, lack of inner city and rural jobs, shortage of affordable housing, lack of health care, and social alienation. International challenges include exportation of the "War on Drugs" to Colombia and Afghanistan, "counternarcotics" aid to repressive regimes, and environmental destruction caused by our eradication and fumigation policies.
Why have these policies not succeeded despite hundreds of billions of dollars having been thrown at the problem? Are there alternatives to the current drug war quagmire? Sanho Tree, Director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, will dissect the politics behind these failed policies and suggest avenues for fundamental reform.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Lorena Peña Deputy to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN) From the Salvadoran leftist party, FMLN.
Vijay Prashad: Dispatches from Latin America: On the Frontlines Against Neoliberalism.
With music by local activist/musician Sergio Reyes.
For more information, or to get involved in the planning, contact Boston CISPES: 617.576.1709
The National Grassroot Immigrant Strategy Conference will take place at the University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, VA.
Organized by the
Green Grease Monkey, a Boston-based collective that specializes in recycling waste vegetable oil for use as fuel, is offering a women-only workshop to learn how to make a car or truck run on grease!
The workshop features a special introduction that covers the basics of the diesel engine and instruction by Tamara Trejo-Perez, who learned engine conversion at the Yestermorrow Design and Build School in Warren, VT.
There will be two cars on hand, one that the Green Grease Monkeys convert and another that can be worked on by participants. For more information call: 857-829-1882.
Cost of the workshop is $50. Lunch will be pot-luck.
A compelling theatrical telling of authentic personal stories by those directly affected by the criminal justice system. This is a collaboration of theater artists and social justice advocates working together with ex-prisoners and their loved ones to bring a powerful, articulate, personal voice of prison experience to the public for the purpose of healing, education, empowerment and social change. $10 Suggested Donation; refreshments available.
Starts: 7/29/2007 - 12:00pm
Ends: 7/29/2007 - 5:00pm
We would like to get at least one representative from every group in the Northeast that is working on impeachment and every town that has passed an impeachment resolution. But we don't need more than one or two representatives of each group. This is not a protest or rally. It's a summit for local groups in New England and New York (...and possibly other states too) working on impeachment to help us all coordinate our efforts for maximum effect.
Please RSVP to tompage1@yahoo.com and patrioticresponse@yahoo.com
And please be sure to sign up with your Congressional District Impeachment Committee!
NIRS is proud to invite you to participate in the August 8 - 14 Southeast Convergence for Climate Action
Secluded site near Asheville, NC
Social Justice * Energy Justice * Climate Justice * Non-violence * Democracy skills Week-long intergenerational training retreat (“Action Camp”) - learn about false solutions to climate change ("clean coal" and nuclear) - build real-world skills for real climate solutions; organizing; action.
Registration required - come for all or part. Low cost ($50 -- $100, sliding scale)...scholarships available. Meals and tent camping included in registration OR stay in area motels; limited Asheville home-stays possible.
A Community Organizing for Deep Democracy retreat will be held August 10-12 in Humboldt County, California. This workshop will help participants effectively organize to reclaim citizen sovereignty from corporate control.
A rally and march to the Bush estate in Kennebunkport, Maine is scheduled for August 25, featuring spekers, music, and more. Camp Casey will be set up for 10 days, with free camping for activists (by reservation).
Event organizer: Jamilla El-Shafei, 603-969-8426