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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.
Our webmaster, Jerry Sobieraj, and his partner in peace, Ed Goodstein, have created a comprehensive listing of Peace Candidates for every national race in 2006. The candidates are evaluated only with respect to the War in Iraq, and need to recognize the war as misguided as well as call for an immediate redeployment of our troops to qualify as a Peace Candidate.
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.
“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.
Join the United for Justice with Peace Coalition at the Bandstand on Boston Common on Sunday, October 1 as we call on the Bush administration and Congress to:
Bring the Troops Home Now - to a Society that Works for Everyone
End the War on Iraq and Oppose Future Military Invasions!
End Economic Injustice!
End Racism!
Holly Near: Singer, Songwriter and Activist
Elena Letona: Executive Director, Centro Presente
Andy Zapp: Iraq Veterans Against the War (preliminary list)
The rally will top off a week of peaceful, non-violent protest to end the Iraq war, in Boston and around the country. These activities are part of the national Declaration of Peace Campaign*.
declarationofpeace.org/
The campaign is ongoing until the U.S. withdraws from Iraq and supports a comprehensive peace plan. United for Justice with Peace
617-491-4857
This meeting will take place at the Coalition for a Better Acre (CBA) offices
at 517 Moody Street, 3rd floor, in Lowell.
Everyone is welcome, feel free to come by and say hello.
BVS is pleased to co-sponsor another series of FREE vegan
nutrition and cooking classes with The Cancer Project, a
Washington DC based nonprofit committed to advancing cancer
prevention and survival through nutrition education and
research. Attendees of the earlier classes gave rave reviews
for instructor Chef Tupolo and these classes! Note that Chef
Tupolo will be one of our chef presenters at the Boston
Vegetarian Food Festival on Oct. 21!
Food for Life Nutrition and Cooking Classes for Cancer Prevention and Survival
Instructor: Chef Sualua Tupolo
All classes are 6 PM - 8 PM, are FREE, and include tasting of recipes.
You can attend any one or all classes in the series.
Registration is requested. Just give name(s) to Evelyn Kimber at 617-424-8846 or email her.
Sun, 10/01/06: Fueling Up on Low-Fat Foods/Favoring Fiber
Mon, 10/02/06: Discovering Dairy Alternatives/Replacing Meat
Tue, 10/03/06: Planning Healthy Meals/Antioxidants and Phytochemicals
Wed, 10/04/06: Immune-Boosting Foods/Maintaining a Healthy Weight
Trevor Paglen (co-author of "Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights")
Terminal Air
(Institute for Applied Autonomy and Trevor Paglen) with Andrew Woods
Slide presentation and discussion of the CIA's Extraordinary Rendition
program. Event with the Institute for Applied Autonomy.
Tad Hirsch (Institute for Applied Autonomy) and experimental geographer Trevor Paglen will present early research for their new project, Terminal Air, an interactive installation that enables audiences to track a fleet of CIA-operated aircraft around the world. These airplanes, which were first uncovered by an international network of amateur aviation enthusiasts and later reported on by various investigative journalists, are known to be involved in "extraordinary rendition"--the practice of illegally transporting terrorism suspects to secret overseas military bases for torture and interrogation. Paglen will also talk about Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights, which he co-wrote with journalist AC Thompson. Andrew Woods of Harvard Law School will also speak.
For more info: <> or 617-253-4415
TJR soundman FreemanZ deserves our moral support during attorney arguments on his wiretapping case at the Massachusetts Appeals Court. (In a frighteningly familiar pattern, our friend FreemanZ was unjustly convicted in District Court of “wiretapping” after he OPENLY recorded a Boston police officer’s inappropriate confrontation with demonstrators.) This is a very brief opportunity for people to display interest in this case by being present in the courtroom. From Government Center T stop, cross Tremont Street, then climb stairs to the plaza above and behind Center Plaza. That’s Pemberton Square. Enter the taller of the two courthouse buildings..
Synopsis: Working alone in Iraq over eight months, filmmaker Laura Poitras creates an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. Her principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six and Sunni political candidate. An outspoken critic of the occupation, he is equally passionate about the need to establish democracy in Iraq, arguing that Sunni participation in the January 2005 elections is essential. Yet all around him, Dr. Riyadh sees only chaos, as his waiting room fills each day with patients suffering the physical and mental effects of ever-increasing violence. Poitras gained remarkable access to the Sunni community, U.S. military and the U.N., resulting in "My Country, My Country," a powerful mosaic of daily life in Iraq not seen in the mainstream media. A co-production with the Independent Television Service (ITVS), produced in association with American Documentary | P.O.V.
The filmmaker: Laura Poitras' last film, Flag Wars, a documentary about gentrification in Columbus, Ohio, received a Peabody Award, won Best Documentary at the 2003 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival, and received numerous other awards. "Flag Wars" launched the 2003 P.O.V. season on PBS and was nominated for both a 2004 Independent Spirit Award and a 2004 Emmy Award. Poitras' other films include "Oh say can you see..." and "Exact Fantasy." She resides in New York City.
Becky Pierce of Dorchester People for Peace (and many other social action groups) is a carpenter and is going to New Orleans Oct. 7-26 as a reconstruction volunteer. She would like to take or ship some donated tools for ACORN and People's Organizing Committee, groups she's working with that need more tools.
If you can donate any tools from the list below, or can contribute to shippings costs for donated tools, please call Becky at 617-282-3783.
On October 5th, academic institutions across the United States will join together in the first national effort to study the unprecedented action of our Government in indefinitely detaining hundreds of individuals claimed to be "enemy combatants."/ "Guantanamo: How Should We Respond?" will explore, in Teach-In format, the legal, political, and moral implications of the Detention Center at the United States Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A group of attorneys and academics dedicated to the rule of law has long struggled to secure for the detainees the rudiments of American due process -- a fair hearing before impartial judges consistent with American law and international norms of human rights. The Guantanamo Teach-in is an opportunity to understand, participate in, and critique these efforts.
Teach-Ins have played an important role in earlier protest movements, providing a forum for professors and students to discuss and debate issues of intense national importance. The Guantanamo Teach-In will continue this noble tradition. It will be comprised of both a "virtual" Teach-In which will be simulcast from Seton Hall, and supplementary on-campus Teach-Ins at hundreds of campuses across the country.
Learn more about the Teach-In and Guantanamo Bay:
Please join the Northampton Committee to Stop the War in Iraq at Textron Systems, producers of the Cluster Bomb at their factory at 201 Lowell Street in Wilmington, Ma. from 11:30 am to 2 pm to say NO to this cruel antipersonnel weapon that our government sold to Israel for use in Lebanon and Palestine. WE have also used them in Afghanistan and Iraq.
We will vigil and leaflet the workers as they go to and from the plant at lunch time and across the street at the Mall. Bring signs. Textron is off 93 north, exit 38. Take route 129 to Reading and Wilmington then right turn to Wilmington still on 129 past West St. and Woburn St. to Textron on left. Park across street at Mall.
Information: Frances Crowe, 413-586-4950
"Deserves merit and attention...one of the most important documentaries of recent times."
" "In January of 2001, American director James Longley traveled to the Gaza Strip. His plan was to stay for two weeks to collect preliminary material for a documentary film on the Palestinian Intifada. It was during his stay that Ariel Sharon was elected as Israeli Prime Minister. As violence erupted around him, Longley threw away his return ticket and filmed for the next three months, acquiring nearly 75 hours of footage. Gaza Strip, his first feature documentary, is an extraordinary and painful journey into the lives of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip struggling with the day-to-day trials of the Israeli occupation. Filmed in verité style and without narration, Gaza Strip at last gives voice to a population largely ignored by mainstream media."
" Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends! Free film, free refreshments, & free door prizes. Donations are accepted.
" SDP shows a new film every first Thursday of the month as part of its film series, Unveiling Palestine.
Speakers include:
Dr. Ali Asani, Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture, Harvard University;
Scott Schaeffer-Duffy, co-founder of the Worcester Catholic Worker;
Dr. Elaine Hagopian, Prof. Emerita of Sociology at Simmons College;
Dr. sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar, Center for Middle-East Studies, Harvard University.
Info: Cornelia Sullivan 617-262-9461.
AFSC will be hosting 20 leading Japanese peace and nuclear weapons activists here in Boston October 5-7. They leave shortly for New York, where they will be working to influence the debate and decisions of the U.N. General Assembly which opened yesterday, and we have a range of activities scheduled for them here and in New Hampshire. The main public event here in Boston will be the October 5 program at the Cambridge Central Square Library co-sponsored by WILPF, the Cambridge Peace Commission, and Mass. Peace Action.
The delegation will include 4 younger activists (2 women and 2 men,) 9 other women, and 7 other men.
They have asked that we find home stays for as many as possible, both to reduce costs and to have the opportunity to engage more deeply with U.S. activists and to see how we live.
If any of you are in a position to host one or more of these dedicated activists, please let me know. You can reach Joe Gerson via AFSC (617-661-6130) or on his cell phone at (617-216- 0576.)
Professor Noam Chomsky: Noted Scholar, Author & Linguist
Michael Avery: President of the National Lawyers Guild
Salim Lamrani: Editor of “Superpower Principles: U.S. Terrorism Against Cuba”
Exactly 30 years ago, on October 6, 1976, a Cuban plane was blown up in mid-air killing all 73 people aboard, including the Cuban junior fencing team. This was the first terrorist attack against a commercial airliner. Do you know that the perpetrators of this crime are living in the U.S. and have never been prosecuted? Why not? Join us to hear about the on-going hostilities against Cuba, including the case of Five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters who are imprisoned in the United States.
MIT Room 10-250
There will be signs on two routes, from the Main Entrance of MIT at 77
Mass. Ave. and from the Kendall Sq T Stop. Note that the room is under the main dome.
Donation: $10, $5 for students & low-income
Book: Superpower Principles available $12
Sponsored/endorsed by: MIT Western Hemisphere Project, Howard Zinn, Comité International por la Libertad de los Cinco, Mass. Chapter of National Lawyers Guild, and July 26 Coalition of Boston.
Contact link or call (617) 522-9478
National tour contact
Conserve for Peace:
Come to a day of learning about Simple Sustainable Living
How can we reduce our energy consumption and dependence on Oil
Nonviolent Spirituality that resists Materialism and War.
Begins promptly at 10 am, come and experience
Rabbi Sheila Weinberg: Opening Comments and Reflection
Kai Wu-Doctoral Candidate at Umass, renewable energy systems specialist
Juanita Nelson-Tax Resistance and Forever War
Kristen Brennan & Daniel Staub-Sustainable Living Family, Springfield-
urban homesteading, radical simplicity
Music--Raging Grannies of Northampton
Liturgy celebrated with Fr. David Gill, SJ
Vegetable Oil and Hybrid Cars,Solar Energy;Simple Living Tips
Please bring your own lunch-Begins at 10AM promptly
Agape Community
2062 Greenwich Road
Ware, MA 01082 413-967-9369
Agape Email Link
CORI JUSTICE & PEACE DAY
LEGAL, HEALTH, HOUSING & EMPLOYMENT RESOURCES
SPEAK OUT FOR JOBS & CORI REFORM
CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES, FOOD, MUSIC, SPEAKERS
If you’re unemployed, working two jobs & still not making it, can’t get a job because of your CORI, or just sick & tired of being “sick & tired,” join us for this festive day of unity, struggle, community and fun. Family & friends are welcome.
For more info contact Chuck Turner’s Office (617) 427-8100 or visit the Boston Workers Alliance
Western Mass 9/11 Truth Alliance
will be participating in two public film events:
On Tuesday, October 10th at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, see:
9/11 Press for Truth, Presenting the screening will be its writer, Kyle Hence
And on Thursday, October 19th at the - Media Education Foundation
The 9/11 Truth Alliance will be presenting a new film called:
911 Mysteries - Part 1: Demolitions
Note these following comments on this film:
"Excellent. The best of the 9/11 movies."
--David Ray Griffin, author of The New Pearl Harbor
"WOW! is my reaction to this movie. Great insight into demolitions
and what really happened on 9/11/2001."
-- Steven E. Jones, physics professor, Brigham Young University
"An outstanding contribution to understanding 9/11. Simply superb."
-- James H. Fetzer, Scholars for 911 Truth
7:00 pm Gathering and refreshments
7:30 - 9:00 pm Program
Scott Schaeffer-Duffy is founder and co-director of the Catholic Worker Community in Worcester. Scott will talk about what it means to be a peacemaker in today's world. In recent years, he has travelled to Sudan, Iraq, Palestine and Kosovo, bringing his message of justice and nonviolence.
Sponsored by Pax Christi Metrowest
For more information email link
(Also FREE babysitting if request gets to me on time!)