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Support Peace Abbey Radio!This is a plea for funds to apply for a new radio station based at the Peace Abbey in Sherborn just outside Boston. WZBC's John Grebe and WMBR's David Goodman are involved in the project. PEACE ABBEY RADIO - Urgent Appeal! A group of activists and radio producers are applying to the FCC this October for a license to start a new, progressive, non-commercial, educational radio station (tentatively) to cover listeners in southern MA and northern RI. The studio will be based at the Peace Abbey in Sherborn, MA with a remote studio in Boston. This will be an independent, non-corporate station managed as much as possible by consensus decision- making and with as diverse a staff as possible. Programs also will be distributed over the web, as pod- casts, on CD, and other channels of transmission, in order to reach as many people as possible. WE NEED TO RAISE $3,000 BY FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2007 TO PAY FOR AN ENGINEERING STUDY AND FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE ON THE APPLICATION!! WE NEED TO RAISE ANOTHER $3,000 BY AUGUST 31, 2007 TO HIRE A LAWYER TO HELP WITH LEGAL ISSUES ON THE APPLICATION!! All money raised is tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. MAKE CHECKS OUT TO: Peace Abbey/Life Experience School and put the words "Radio Station" on the subject line. Please mail to David Goodman, 65 Cornwall Street, #108, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130. Please contact David Goodman with any questions or other suggestions. Much thanks! David 617-522-1446 (home) 781-492-5816 (cell) |
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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.
Sometime this fall, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) will decide whether to approve the sale of Verizon's landlines in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont to North Carolina-based FairPoint Communications. The sale gives Verizon an easy way to abandon its less profitable rural landline customers, while retaining more profitable wireless and large business customers. Verizon picked tiny FairPoint because of an obscure tax loophole that allowed them to avoid paying up to $700 million on the sale!
If approved, the proposed Verizon sale to FairPoint sets a dangerous precedent with national implications for all rural areas. Fill out your name and address information to tell to the Federal Communication Commission to Stop the Sale!*
We encourage you to take action by September 2, 2007. Sign this petition here!
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.
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.
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
We are happy to report that a new shipment of olive oil has arrived. The most recent harvest was excellent and per case prices are less than they were last year.
As with our previous shipments, this oil comes directly from the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees, PARC, a non-profit, non- governmental organization in the West Bank. PARC works with 15 different small cooperatives. This shipment comes from the Mazare' Al Nubani/ Ramallah and the Kufr Thulth, Jayous and Azzoun cooperatives. The labels are printed in the West Bank and the oil is bottled at the PARC bottling facility in Aram. PARC is a member of the International Fair Trade Association, and is the only Palestinian organization that has received the Palestine Standards Institution certification for its olive oil.
OLIVE BRANCH OLIVE OIL DONATIONS
As with past shipments, a percentage of the proceeds of olive oil sales is donated back to organizations working directly with Palestinians. Past recipients include:
Palestinian Medical Relief Society Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions Birthright Unplugged American Friends Service Committee-Middle East Crisis Fund American Near East Refugee Aid Olive Harvest Coalition Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees Ibdaa Cultural Center International Solidarity Movement US OMEN Ta’ayush
THE IMPORTANCE OF OLIVE OIL TO THE PALESTINIAN ECONOMY
Olive oil is the backbone of the Palestinian agricultural economy. Eighty percent of cultivated land in Palestine is planted with olive trees, and the olive harvest provides between 25 to 50 percent of a farming family’s annual income. Olive trees, many of which are hundreds of years old, hold a deep significance in the culture and economy of the Holy Land. As the political and economic situation in Palestine continues to deteriorate, with increased restrictions on the mobility of people, goods and services, olive oil has become a matter of basic survival for many Palestinian families. Buying this oil is a constructive and tangible way to help alleviate poverty and build peace.
PARC assists at every stage of the olive oil production process, from helping farmers to reclaim rocky land, conserve water and implement sensible environmental practices (like re-cropping, dry-land farming and recycling of waste materials) to setting up regional labs for farmers to test their olive oil. PARC strictly monitors the quality of the oil, testing and re-testing it at its main laboratory to ensure that it meets all specifications. Extra-virgin olive oil comes from the first pressing of the olives, contains no more than 0.8% acidity, and is judged to have a superior taste. There can be no refined oil in extra-virgin olive oil.
Palestinian farmers traditionally care for their trees without the use of pesticides or sprays. PARC is currently working with international agricultural organizations to obtain organic certification for its olive oil, which should be finalized in the next few months. Because both light and heat are known enemies of olive oil, Olive Branch Olive Oil comes in a dark green glass bottle that is optimal for storage.
Available in 750ml bottles, by the case (12 bottles, $145), or more.
For ordering and other info, please email us at palestinebostonoliveoil@yahoo.com or call Susie at 781-648-6307.
In honor of Hiroshima Day, we will gather on Georges Island together for a short service and a picnic together. The tragedy of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will never end as long as we keep funding the military industrial complex. We are called to come together on this day to remember all those who have perished as a result of war and to particularly remember those who have been destroyed because of U.S. military power.
Please meet at the Boston Harbor Islands Ferry (near the Aquarium) at 10:00am and we will plan to take the 10:30 ferry. Get there early as we will need to purchase tickets. Please let Jason know if you need any assistance: jason@commchurch.org
Watch last Friday's edition of NOW (unusually good). Channel 44, 10:30am today (Sunday 8-5-07). Also available archived online.
Will one military lawyer's fight for a Guantanamo Bay detainee lead to the prison's demise?
We look at a strong blow to the Bush Administration's detainee policy, and the military lawyer who dealt it. This week David Brancaccio talks with Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift, whose Supreme Court victory on behalf of his client, a Guantanamo Bay detainee, successfully challenged the Bush administration's detainee policy.
"He took for himself the power of being the legislature, the power of being a judiciary, and the power of being an executive. He became a king in this small sphere," Swift said of Bush's policies.
Swift's stunning Supreme Court win also laid the foundations for the current Congressional debate over how to try those accused of terrorism. Will this development in the war on terror deliver swifter justice or false hope?
Starts: 7/29/2007 - 12:00pm
Ends: 7/29/2007 - 5:00pm
You are invited to the New England Impeachment Summit working toward the impeachment of V. P. Richard Cheney and Pres. George Bush this coming Sunday in Worcester from 1 pm to 5 pm at Clark University, Jefferson Bldg. Rm. # 213. This summit is intended to bring together the efforts of New England members of other groups that primarily promote impeachment.
We will be focused on Impeachment only. While many other important and serious issues may come up, this Summit is about impeachment. The work must begin in earnest and begin now. If the VP and President are to be impeached, there is precious little time left to see that accomplished. Thus, our efforts to unify our voice. We feel the need is urgent and essential. There is much to be done.
We would like to have some idea of how many people to expect on Sunday. Please let me know how many of you plan on coming.
Susan Serpa, Moderator, North East Impeachment Summit
And please be sure to sign up with your Congressional District Impeachment Committee!
Join the Arab American community for Tafaddalu '07.
$10/adult includes Arabic food and refreshments
617-335-1342
Newton Dialogues is planning to have our annual Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance Event at the Newton Center Green on SUNDAY, August 5 at 12:30 PM.
There will be a short silent vigil followed by individual witness, readings, and songs.
If you would like to speak or read a short poem or statement, please send an email (as soon as possible) to ntndlg@comcast.net to let us know. (Please limit your statements or readings to 3-4 minutes.)
5:30 St John United methodist Church 80 Mt Auburn,
6:30 Procession to Watertown Square,
7PM Commemorative Vigil in Watertown Sq.,
8PM, Watertown Sq. Dock on Chas river and launching Candle boats, 9PM Closing. Watertown Citizens for Environmental Safety , Watertown's Voice for Peace, the Environment, and Social Justice
Sisters United - For Women by Women, Sponsored by: Union of Minority Neighborhoods & United South End Settlements. Developing Political and Economic Empowerment to advocate for CORI Reform. Bring out your natural talents, use them to create your economic base. Get support & support others. To find political power & advocate for CORI Reform. Child Care Provided.
contact Jackie Lageson at 617-201-3238 or Jackie.Lageson@gmail.com.
August 6th National Conference Call to Discuss 'DAYS of DECISION' Week of Coordinated Actions and Delegations to Congressional Offices
The Declaration of Peace will facilitate a National Conference Call --
Monday, August 6, 2007 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Phone: 1-712-432-2500 Then input the Access Code: 12131415 #
We encourage all local organizers and activists to participate on the call, to discuss:
~ Coordinating delegations to Congressional offices, this month, and
~ Organizing nonviolent actions for the nationwide Days of Decision, September 14 - 21, 2007
-- to pressure Congress to Defund the War and Establish A Comprehensive Peace Plan for Iraq.
Your input and participation are greatly needed!
Come hear about our campaign for "A New England that Works for Everyone." Get a briefing and more information about our current contract negotiations for 12,000 janitors all across the region, how community members and organizations can plug into the campaign, and also how we are growing their union with new organizing.
Please RSVP to 617-878-7400 and let us know if you are attending. Hope to see many of you then!
We're heading into a watershed moment on Iraq. This September, General Petraeus will give his long- anticipated status report on the escalation—and Congress will hold a huge vote on whether to set timelines to end the war. If there was ever a time to step up the pressure, this is it. So, we're making August one of the biggest-ever months of local action to end the war.
Will you join us for the kick-off meeting to launch and plan August's big campaign? It's right near you in Newtonville.
Here are the details: Host: Mansi Saboori — fellow MoveOn member Where: Mansi's place in Newtonville ( email her or sign up with moveon.org for full address) When: Tuesday, Aug 7 2007, 7:00 PM
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.
From 12 noon to 3 pm in the Persky Room, Higgins University Center at Clark University, Worcester, MA . Directions .
If Massachusetts is like other states, most of the apparel, textiles, and other products that it buys are made in sweatshops. Join the statewide coalition of community organizations, labor unions, and faith-based groups fighting to ensure that taxpayer dollars are not used to exploit workers in Massachusetts and abroad.
Contact Tylea Richard with questions and for more information: (917) 547-1014 or tylea@sweatfree.org
Driven by anti-materialism and a belief that the impending apocalypse will render cars useless and leave bicycles in power, Black Label Bike Club (BLBC) battles mainstream consumer culture and rival gangs for its vision of a better tomorrow. Pulling threads from Critical Mass and the wider bike counterculture, B.I.K.E. explores such themes as radical politics, personal artistic vision, global responsibility, relationships, group formation, and perhaps most prominently, pain and love.
Quincy Wal-Mart at Noon 301 Falls Blvd, Quincy, MA,
Northborough Wal-Mart at 4:30 pm 200 Otis St. Northborough, MA.
As part of the Send Wal-Mart Back to School protest, UFCW Local 1445, local community leaders, WakeUpWalMart.com supporters, teachers and students will gather at two Wal-Mart stores to inform citizens and consumers that Wal-Mart's irresponsible corporate behavior has led to failing grades for their treatment of workers, children, and taxpayers.
The "Send Wal-Mart Back to School" campaign, which launches in over 50 other cities across America over the next two weeks, will include local activists, WakeUpWalMart.com supporters, and (best of all) teachers and students, who will help distribute over 100,000 "Wal-Mart's Failing Report Cards" to local consumers and citizens. The WakeUpWalMart.com "Wal- Mart's Failing Report Card" asks local residents to consider Wal-Mart's failing grades for child labor, gender discrimination, poverty-level wages, and affordable health care for workers.
Please stop by and help send Wal-Mart back to school!! For more information please contact Jim.
The racist attack on the Jena 6 (Jena, Louisiana) proves that, 50 years after the civil rights movement, Jim Crow is alive and well. We need a new civil rights movement to crush racism, from the Jena 6 to the racist abuse that occurs on the streets of Boston every day. Only our protest can change a system dedicated to racism and injustice. Come to a meeting to discuss who benefits from racism, why Jim Crow still stalks the halls of our schools, and most of all WHAT WE CAN DO TO DEFEND THE JENA 6.
Sponsored by: International Socialist Organization
e-mail isoboston@yahoo.com
617-648-0561
Michael Moore's stunning new film, "Sicko," continues to play locally. Highly recommended!
The Coolidge Corner Theatre (Brookline) has four showings of "Sicko" most days at least thru Thu 8-9- 07. This is a nonprofit venue, we think less likely to oppress viewers by making them sit thru multiple slick ads and offensive previews.
Following on the heels of his Palm d'Or winning FAHRENHEIT 9/11 and his Oscar winning film BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Moore's new documentary SICKO! sets out to investigate the American healthcare system. Sticking to his tried-and- true one-man approach, Moore sheds light on the complicated medical affairs of individuals and local communities.
Featuring:
Ahmad Kawash - Palestine American Congress and long- time Palestinian activist; Ahmad has just returned after spending a month in Lebanon and Jordan.
* The U.S./Lebanon assault on the Nahar al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp
* Hamas, Gaza and the Struggle Against Imperialism in Palestine
*Update on the Organizing for the September 22-29 Anti- War Encampment in Front of Congress and the September 29 National March on Washington DC
The next Boston Militant Labor Forum forum will be Friday, August 10 at 7:30 PM on the recent US Supreme Court decision against school desegregation. We hope you will join us for this event which will discuss the impact of the decision on desegregation programs in Boston, Cambridge and Lynn, MA and how it can be fought.
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