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12:30 - 4:00 pm EVERY SUNDAY"Bostonians For The Overthrow Of King George" weekly vigil
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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. Signs available. Flyer upon request.
Organizer: Sandy Coy.
Some signs available. Park on Park St. (a small street off Route 133 right behind the park).
Host: Greater Lowell for Peace and Justice
Join a Friday fast and/or protest in solidarity with illegally detained, often tortured prisoners at Guantanamo and other post 9/11 gulags around the world. The fast began about a year ago 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.
Here 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 shut down the gulags and to try those responsible for illegal, brutal treatment of thousands of detainees, most of whom are Arab and Muslim men. Susan and Phoebe will be wearing orange jumpsuits. It would be great if folks would join us. There are four more suits people could wear.
Camp Democracy opened on the Mall in Washington on Tuesday 9/4, and will run through September 21st. We need you to come and join us now!
Here's what the Washington Post had to say about us recently.
Schedule of upcoming events
If you live outside of the Washington, D.C., area and you come, we will find you a free or cheap place to stay. You can make it easier for us by signing up here.
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
“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.
“You may not have heard about the fight to save the UMass Boston College of Public and Community Service (CPCS)--the most diverse progressive college in New England--but a recent CPCS alumnus encourages you to click the link below to check out (and hopefully sign) a new e-petition demanding that the Boston Globe Cover the Crisis at CPCS.
“The students, staff and faculty really need everyone's help as the Umass Boston administration has just fired 1/3 of their faculty, and canceled 40 percent of their courses. This move is clearly in retaliation for a months-long campaign by the CPCS community to remove the administration's handpicked autocratic Dean from office. Meanwhile, the Boston Globe--Boston's "paper of record"--refuses to cover the story, even as they significantly over-cover less serious stories at local private universities like Harvard and Boston University. If CPCS has a chance of survival, it will be because bad publicity stays the hand of conservative UMass leadership. With enough signatures on this petition, you can help ensure that the Globe, and the rest of the regional press corps, does its job, and exposes a true injustice that has dangerous repercussions for democratic higher education in the public interest.
A quick note to let you know that Greg Palast will be on the Jim Santos Show on Boston's Progressive Talk (AM 1200/1430) on Sunday, September 17. He's scheduled for 4 p.m. (the show airs from 2 to 5 p.m.) Tune in and get a preview of what to expect on Thursday, September 28, when Greg will speak at a fundraiser for Election Defense Alliance and the Alliance for Democracy.
The New England Committee to Defend Palestine and Jericho Boston Invite you to A Benefit for Palestinian Political Prisoners
Featuring:
*Palestinian speakers
*Current and former US Political Prisoners
*Music by PRESENTE! and VCR
*Palestinian food
When: Sunday, September 17, 6:00 p.m.
Where: Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave. 5th Floor, Boston
(near the Chinatown stop on the Orange Line T)
In September, 1970, over 3000 Palestinian refugees in Jordan gave their lives in a revolutionary uprising against the repressive "US" and Zionist puppet government of the Jordanian monarchy. In September, 1982, "Israel," in an effort to crush Palestinian resistance in Lebanon, slaughtered over 2000 refugees in Sabra and Shatila. In September 2000, "Israel" murdered 13 Palestinians, marking the beginning of the Al Aqsa Intifada.
Zionist aggression over the past months in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, is a continuation of Israel's 70 year assault on the people of Palestine and Lebanon. By late August, more than 200 Palestinians had been killed and hundreds wounded in this latest period of escalated attacks.
Although the Zionists have intensified their assault on Palestinians because of their defeat in Lebanon, 2006 marks an important turning point in the history of regional resistance to this aggression--the rise of a more and more united regional movement to reclaim sovereignty over Arab land by Palestinian, Lebanese, and Iraqi resistance fighters.
Over the past few months, resistance movements in Palestine and Lebanon have acted with extreme courage. The Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza captured an "Israeli" soldier in order to press for the release of Palestinian political prisoners, who number more than 10,000 and now include over 65 elected leaders. Hizbollah captured two "Israeli" soldiers to press for the release of Lebanese political prisoners.
Join us for an evening in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance.
Event will include
--Information about Palestinian political prisoner defense campaigns
--Statements from current and former US political prisoners
--Palestinian food
--Music by PRESENTE! and VCR
All proceeds will go to Palestinian political prisoners and their families.
New England Committee to Defend Palestine
Jericho Boston.
Please join us for food, slideshow, music, and presentations at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Recreation Center, 28 Mulberry St., Worcester (exit 15 off Rt 290).
All proceeds will go to benefit Lebanese Red Cross and Local Relief
Efforts
Tickets available at the door. $20 Suggested Donation (adult), $10
(under 12).
For reservations contact: LebanonDinner@yahoo.com
Organized by Central Mass for Peace in the Middle East
You can download the invitation at wogan.org/docs/LebanonInvitaion.pdf
Thanks. Lara Jirmanus, Central Massachusetts for Peace in the Middle East.
This weekend, a film called "The Ground Truth" is premiering at the Landmark-Kendall Theater in Kendall Square, Cambridge. It is about the hidden toll of the war in Iraq, and features returned Iraq War Veterans and military family members telling "the ground truth" about the war. The film played to rave reviews at the Sundance and other film festivals around the country. .
If you live near New York City, please join us if you can on Tuesday, September 19, to protest while Bush is addressing the United Nations. We will gather at 9:00AM at a location to be announced and march beginning at 9:30AM. Click here to download a leaflet you can photocopy and distribute to help get the word out. United for Peace.
Please join us at a reception honoring the energy of the UN IDP 2006 in the Curley Room, Boston City Hall, on Wednesday morning. Free of charge. All are welcome.
Round-robin participatory readings on strategic nonviolence. Ally
yourself with Gandhi on this 100th anniversary of his launch of
Satyagraha-Truth Force-nonviolent resistance to an oppressive
system. Each person in turn will read a paragraph taken from Gandhi,
Gene Sharp, Brian Martin, Peter Ackerman, or others that tie together
into a picture of growing people-power in S. Africa, India, Denmark,
Alabama, Poland, and Bolivia. After a short break we will consider
questions and freely discuss implications for today’s people power.
Refreshments will be served.
SPONSOR: Boston-Cambridge Alliance for Democracy. For information, phone Dave Lewit at 617-266-8687.
The Alliance for Democracy is a major sponsor of the weekend water activist conference “Our Communities, Our Water: Connecting the Local and the Global,” September 22-24, University of Massachusetts' Campus Center in Amherst. You can find all the details, including workshop descriptions, schedules, and speaker bios, and register for the conference, by clicking on the banner on the Alliance's home page(theallianceforedemocracy.org, link above) or by going directly to Mass Global Action.
Ray Rogers of the Killer Coke Campaign will be speaking Friday evening, 7:00 p.m., at our opening keynote along with Armando Flores from El Salvador. Francis Moore Lappe will be the keynote speaker on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. Both of these events are open to the public.
On September 22-23, 2006 thousands of environmentally and
technologically savvy people will fill Boston’s City Hall Plaza to
learn about and celebrate what exists now and what is possible in the
field of sustainable energy and transportation. AltWheels is the largest alternative transportation and energy show in the Northeast,
and this year we anticipate over 16,000 visitors at the festival.
Dr. Caldicott has devoted 35 years to educating the public about the hazards of the nuclear age. She will speak about her new book, Nuclear Power is NOT the Answer. The event is in Newburyport, near the Seabrook Nuclear Plant, where Helen Caldicott was key in protesting with the Clamshell Alliance years ago. There will be tables of information and items for sale from the various groups on the North Shore and Southern New Hampshire who are co-sponsoring this event. Plan to arrive by 6:30 to take it all in. Helen Caldicott will sign books following her talk. Suggested donation is $10. Parking is available nearby and the hall is handicap accessible.
This summer, MoveOn members picked three big goals to put
first in our work, and "health care for all" was at the top of the list.
The Lexington Global Warming Action Coalition is sponsoring a talk by Professor Kerry Emanuel, a hurricane expert, Lexington resident and author of a new book: Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes. The talk will take place in Cary Memorial Hall, 1605 Mass. Ave., Lexington at 7:30 PM.
Professor Emanuel's research interests focus on tropical meteorology
and climate, with a specialty in hurricane physics. He is the author
of a study in the journal Nature on the link between human-induced
global warming and increasing hurricane strength. He concluded that
hurricanes in both the North Atlantic and the western basin of the
North Pacific had undergone a startling increase in power over the
past 50 years. The increase showed up in both the duration of the
storms and their peak wind speeds. The cause, Emanuel suggested, was
a rise in tropical sea surface temperatures due, at least in part, to
the atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping
gases caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
His book, Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes, was
recently released by Oxford University Press and is aimed at a
general audience. The book will be available for sale that evening
and Professor Emanuel will stay to sign them. The book is now
available at Sundial Bookstore in Lexington at a special LexGWAC
discounted price.
There is no charge for admission.
For more information email: Info@Lexgwac.org
STOP Pretending...
that they didn’t steal the election in Florida in 2000
that they counted the votes in Ohio in 2004
that everything will be just fine this November
Come hear Greg Palast, award-winning journalist and author of The Best
Democracy Money Can Buy and Armed Madhouse.
The greatest investigative reporter of our time--Tribune Magazine
Upsets all the right people--Noam Chomsky
7:30 pm, Thursday, September 28
First Parish Church, Harvard Square, Cambridge
Corner of Church Street and Massachusetts Avenue
Suggested Donation: $10-$20
Proceeds benefit Election Defense Alliance and the Alliance for Democracy.
Election Defense Alliance (www.ElectionDefenseAlliance.org) is a
coordinating body for more than 100 grassroots groups working at the
local and state levels to restore integrity and public control of the
voting process in the U.S., and to ensure that our elections are
honest, secure, transparent, and worthy of the public trust. The
Alliance for Democracy (www.TheAllianceforDemocracy.org) is a
non-partisan organization working nationally and locally to limit the
power of large corporations over government, elections, and public
policy development.
To purchase tickets or for more information, contact The Alliance for
Democracy at 781-894-1179, or email afd@thealliancefordemocracy.org
Co-Sponsored by Velvet Revolution (www.velvetrevolution.us)
Sponsors/endorsers: Boston Mobilization, Massachusetts Global Action,
Boston/Cambridge Alliance
You can read excerpts from Greg’s new book on-line
(gregpalast.com/madhouse/index.php/category/excerpts)