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STOP SNEAK ATTACK ON IRANCALL YOUR SENATORS RIGHT NOW AND DEMAND THEY
In case you thought it was just an aberrant moment of lunacy last week when Lieberman pressed General Petraeus for an attack on Iran, just before the weekend he introduced an amendment to the defense bill to authorize exactly that. No, we are not kidding. He has drafted language that any impartial observer would interpret as a DECLARATION OF WAR against Iran, and he is pressing for a vote as fast as possible. |
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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.
Petition to sign.
"We do not support construction of new nuclear
reactors as a means of addressing the climate crisis.
Available renewable energy and energy efficiency
technologies are faster, cheaper, safer and cleaner
strategies for reducing greenhouse emissions than
nuclear power."
You can vote Yes in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll by texting the word "impeach" to 30644.
See and hear Walter, Joe, Abbey, random pedestrians (One even honked.) and a supporting cast of spontaneous volunteers all explaining the Honk Experience. (You can hear them when the cars aren't honking anyway.) No honks were added.
This took five hours in the cutting room. It's derived from thirty minutes of source shot over a two hour period on July 30th.
Cuencavision the local Spanish cable TV that carries some TV from Cuba. It includes Cubavision news from 1 to 1:30 PM weekdays and News from Telesur at Noon. The current schedule is viewable as a pdf file by clicking on the "Media Kit Cuencavision" link. Telesur is a major initative by several Latin American countries to provide an alternative to the US dominated media.
Cuencavision a local low power Spanish TV station in Boston is picking up Telesur and Cubavison TV and rebroadcasting them during the day. Cuencavision is carried on Cablevision in Boston and Brookline on Channel 26. It can also be received directly on Ch 58 in a limited area of its Albany Street, Boston, Transmission Site.
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.
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.
Please join us at the Pioneer Valley Relocalization Workshop, Sunday, Sept. 30! Hear inspiring speakers from local grassroots organizations blazing the trail for revitalized, sustainable communities in the Pioneer Valley. There will be workshops, tabling, local food, arts and more. We are honored to have as keynote speaker Frances Moore Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet, who is launching her new book, "Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, & Courage in a World Gone Mad".
Registration
For more information:
Call Eli, (617) 821-1453 or email her.
World Vegetarian Day kicks off World Vegetarian Awareness Month, and what better way to celebrate than with a 4-course vegan gourmet meal among friends new and old.
No animal ingredients
$$$ 27.00 !!! includes tax.
Service is EXTRA!!!
Pay on site after the meal. Cash or check (made out to Veggie Planet) only; No credit cards.
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Boston Vegetarian Society
The Global Warming Action Coalition of Lexington is sponsoring a free Environmental Film Series. The screening will be followed by lively and informative discussion.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time. The film opens with a short history of Peak Oil, a term for the time in our history when world oil production will reach its all-time peak and begin to decline forever. Cuba, the only country that has faced such a crisis – the massive reduction of fossil fuels – is an example of options and hope. (53 minutes)
Judy and Sidney Swartz
Director’s Chair of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies
and Professor of Politics, Brandeis University
Open to the Public
For more information contact: 617.627.6560
Documentary look at the 1996-97 effort of the dancers and support staff at a San Francisco peep show, The Lusty Lady, to unionize. Angered by arbitrary and race-based wage policies, customers' surreptitious video cameras, and no paid sick days or holidays, the dancers get help from the Service Employees International local and enter protracted bargaining with the union-busting law firm that management hires. We see the women work, sort out their demands, and go through the difficulties of bargaining. The narrator is Julia Query, a dancer and stand-up comedian who is reluctant to tell her mother, a physician who works with sex workers, that she strips. (75 min.)
Pulitizer Prize-winning author and co-founder of The American Prospect, Paul Starr, discusses his new book at a Cambridge Forum moderated by Robert Kuttner, editor of The American Prospect and Senior fellow at Demos, a New York-based think tank.
In Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism, Starr articulates the "liberal principle" of constitutionally balanced power with protected individual freedoms that has given prosperity to America for the past two centuries. But, this is now being being undermined by constant conservative attacks. How, given two terms of Bush, can this tradition be restored? Or, is it too late? Has this valued tradition become obsolete under attack by right wing, religious pundits?
Charlie Savage is author of the new book, "Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy"
President [sic] Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution. Is such an interpretation of presidential power necessary in age of terrorism and imminent security threats? Or, as one critic suggests, will these new tools "lie around like a loaded weapon" for any future president, liberal or conservative, to impose his or her own agenda on the country?
Charlie Savage, Boston Globe reporter and winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, addresses the Bush administration's expanding executive powers and what it means for the future of our country.
Historian, professor and activist Aviva Chomsky
discusses current immigration policy and her new book
"They Take Our Jobs: And 20 Other Myths About Immigration". Please come and share
stories of how recent immigration policy has impacted
the Jamaica Plain community.
FREE!
Agape (pronounced "ah gah' pay") is a lay Catholic Community in the Diocese of Worcester. The are active in ecumenical and interfaith outreach, dedicated to prayer, simplicity, nonviolencem and sustainability and will be celebrating their 25th anniversary.
Presentations from prominent peace activists, including Gandhi grandson Arun Gandhi, Western Mass activist Randy Kehler, and a panel of students from Boston College.
The day includes tours of Agape's straw bale house, including solar energy, compost toilet, organic garden, hermitage and vegetable oil fueled car, among other features of the sustainable community.
Demonstrate Saturday October 6th at 1:00pm at Maverick Square Plaza to demand the release of political prisoners framed for terrorism in El Salvador, and then join us for a brief march to the Consulate of El Salvador, 143 Border St. in East Boston. Sponsored by the CISPES (Committee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador) and the Cambridge El Salvador Sister City Project and Centro Presente.
The US is not the only country where right wing politicians use phony terrorism charges to smear opponents. Right now in El Salvador popular organizers are on trial facing prison terms of 50 years for organizing non-violent protests against unjust economic policies.
Join the Harvard Trade Union Program for Ian Ruskin's reknown one-man play about Harry Bridges, one of the most influential labor leaders in American history.
This event is free and open to the public but is ticketed. Reserve your tickets today by phone: 617.495.9265 or email.
Sponsored by the Harvard Trade Union Program Alumni Association and the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School.
The Boston-area solidarity group Colombia Vive, created 20 years ago, works to inform the public about the situation in Colombia; organizes opposition to U.S. military aid to Colombia; sponsors visits of human rights defenders, religious workers, trade unionists & grassroots activists to New England; and supports humanitarian aid efforts in Colombia. It does not endorse any of the armed actors in the Colombian conflict, instead supporting the non-governmental organizations and others in civil society there who are working for peace, social justice & human rights.
Members of the organization will educate us about the harmful effects of military aid ("Plan Colombia"), as well as the many positive social movements in country. Other Colombia Vive foci are the needs of Colombia's vast numbers of displaced people, the environmental impact of the "drug war" and immigration legislation to assist Colombians.
In six sessions, we will explore the rise of the Jewish left, from its 19th century origins to its tumultuous history in the 20th century. Class meets October 7 & 14, November 4 & 11, December 9 & 16.
The goal of the course is to assist contemporary young Jewish activists in making sense of our history and in using its lessons to critically reflect on what it means to be a progressive Jew in the 21st century.
Course instructor is Paul Saba. Cost: $50 for members and $65 for non-members. If price is a barrier, contact the Workmen’s Circle.