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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.
Please make your tax-deductible donation payable to "Al-Awda, PRRC". Indicate "Lebanon Palestine Emergency Fund" in the memo section.
Checks or money orders should be mailed to: Al-Awda, PRRC PO Box 131352 Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
Or you can make a secure online donation using your credit card via website. Please email us at info@al-awda.org to let us know that your online donation is intended for the 'Lebanon Palestine Emergency Fund'.
Tel: 760-685-3243 Fax: 360-933-3568 E-mail: info@al-awda.org Website: al-awda.org
We are all receiving requests for donations to help Lebanon.
Our listener Amy Hendrickson of Brookline Peaceworks urges you
to contribute as described here.
As of July 9, 2006, 3547 people were engaging in solidarity fasts around the nation and in 22 other countries. If you are interested in joining, you can sign up on Code Pink Boston's website calendar for times you pledge to fast. Please sign up for a time that makes sense in your life. 24 hours is the suggested time, but do as little or as much as works for you. Some people do juice fasts, others drink only water. The important thing is to let people know what you are doing and why. Attending vigils and/or demonstrations with appropriate signs is a good way to spread the work and prepares people for the Declaration of Peace Campaign on 9/21/2006. Send email to encubed1@yahoo.com for additional information.
No student of history can escape the parallels between what is going on in Lebanon now and the start of World War I. The question is, do we have political will, and the sanity, to stop it. Those who are not interested in history are at the mercy of the present, so we might as well review. Please go to: A Tale of Two Resolutions.
I believe the Secretary of State should not be an insider bureaucrat, but an independent watchdog - and advocate - for our democracy. Please join me in starting to make this a reality by lending a hand in our petition campaign now. It's fun and a great way to get the word out about our campaign - and lay the groundwork for an upsurge of democracy in November! THE PETITION CAMPAIGN NEEDS YOU NOW!
Call Pat Keaney, petition coordinator, at 857-829-1882, or email
her.
Jill' email.
We are just a few days away from the deadline for signature collection to get on the ballot. To be on the ballot in November, we need 5,000 certified signatures. We currently have about 2,000, with several thousand more in the process of being certified.
IF YOU WANT AFFORDABLE, UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE, YOU NEED DEMOCRACY TO GET THERE! The legislature's recent shameful action - killing the proposed referendum for a constitutional right to health care by sending it to a "study" committee to die - is a bitter illustration that democratic reform is needed to enable the solutions for which there is enormous public support and critical need. This initiative was supported by a 2:1 margin by the people of Massachusetts. Yet the insurance industry again won out over the will of the people. We urge disappointed health care advocates to join us in this campaign for democratic reform.
SEIZE THE MOMENT! HELP GATHER SIGNATURES.
[NOTE: Our special friend John Bonifaz is also running for Secretary of the Commonwealth on the Democratic ticket (has sufficient signatures). Jill Stein would not try to beat Bonifaz if he wins the Democratic nomination.]
Regular Museum hours through November 1st: 10 am to 6 pm daily
Fridays and Sundays during July and August: Indoor shows on Fridays at 8 pm and big puppet programs in the Circus Field on Sunday afternoons starting around 2:30 pm.
Admission free, donations welcome.
All donations are tax deductible.
Phone: 802-525-3031
Fundraising campaign website.
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.
“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.
We provide posters, literature, info on impeachment, answer questions, tee shirts, gather signatures on petitions for impeachment to be sent to Congress and our Mass. legislators.
A 2nd Benefit Concert for the Lebanese Red Cross and an appeal for
ceasefire and calm in the region. A two hour concert featuring the Berklee College of Music Ensemble
$20 at the door / ALL proceeds go to the Lebanese Red Cross
Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee
Phone: 617-524-3507
Email
Come to "Not Your Soldier" National Action Camp to learn how to stop recruiters and fight the war! There will be training tracks for youth and for adults to make sure everyone is learning the skills they need to get the job done.
The camp will take place at the historic Voluntown Peace Trust, in Voluntown CT, close to Providence RI. We'll stay in dorm style bunks, and have access to beautiful land, hiking and a lake for swimming. All the food and lodging will be covered by your registration fees. You just need to get yourself there!
You can get there easily by bus, train, car or plane. Travel scholarships are available. Camp registration fees are $100 per adult, and $25 per student.
For info, contact War Resisters or Steve at 212.228.0450x102.
Meet briefly at the statue to exchange thoughts, then walk silently around the Yard and nearby streets, returning to the statue by 12:30pm.
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
5:15 PM - SOCIAL DINNER (optional, but encouraged!) Stay and enjoy Grasshopper's delicious unlimited vegan buffet for $8.95 + tax + tip. Includes appetizers, soups, salad, several entrees, and fresh melons. Let us get to know you!
LOCATION for seminar and dinner: Grasshopper (all-vegan restaurant) 1 North Beacon St., Union Square, Allston (Boston)
Info:
617-424-8846 BVS
617-254-8883 Grasshopper
No RSVP needed, just come on by!