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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.
Belkis Urdaneta represents a human rights organization based in Maracaibo, in the oil-rich Venezuelan state of Zulia. She has been a community outreach worker for years, both in the capital of Caracas and most recently in the border state of Zulia. Through the Fundacion Buena Nueva, Belkis works with Colombian refugees as well as poor Venezuelans, and she teaches at the Cecilio Acosta Catholic University. She will share a grassroots perspective on the role of U.S. policy toward Venezuela.
This tour is sponsored by Witness for Peace, New England region, which brings human rights leaders and community activists from throughout the Americas to inform citizen groups here of social and economic conditions there. Through such tours, educational and religious organizations are called upon to work for the reform of policies that contribute to poverty and oppression.
Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Price: $8
A feature documentary directed by Academy Award nominee Connie Field, ¡Salud! spans three continents to portray the philosophy and health professionals that place Cuba on the map in the worldwide movement for health. ¡Salud! accompanies some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals now staffing public health systems in over 60 countries.
How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death Featuring Norman Solomon - Narrated by Sean Penn Directed & Written by: Loretta Alper & Jeremy Earp Approx. 72 minutes - 2007
War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.
The theme of this vigil will be to remind people to vote in the October 16 Congressional election, with signs like "Vote Tomorrow, Vote For Peace". We'll have a big "Vote For Peace" sign, and we'll have other signs there but if you can please bring your own. We'll also have candles and candle holders there.
The location will be the corner of Market and Prescott Streets in Downtown Lowell, near the Niki Tsongas campaign headquarters. Some people from the Tsongas campaign office may join us.
MIT Building 54-100
The Tall building with the weather dome on top and a
big hole in the ground floor. It's near Ames St. and
closer to Kendall Square than Mass. Ave.
(Presidential Award for Excellence in Science,
Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring in 2005)
(The Warner-Babcock Institute and Beyond Benign)
Everyday choices...our future in the balance
Everyone is invited to this important, free presentation. Imagine a world where all of society demanded environmentally friendly products!
Green Chemistry seeks to reduce or eliminate hazardous materials at the design stage and create materials and products that have negligible impact on human health and the environment. Learn about the history and background of Green Chemistry and discuss the opportunities for a safer future.
Sponsors: Concord-Carlisle Adult & Community Education: www.ace.colonial.net & Concord Climate Action
Shinjuku Boys (53 min) introduces three onnabes who work as hosts at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo. Annabes are women who live as men and have girlfriends, although they don't usually identify as lesbians. As the film follows them at home and on the job, all three talk frankly to the camera about their gender-bending lives, revealing their views about women, sex, transvestitism and lesbianism. Alternating with these illuminating interviews are fabulous sequences shot inside the Club, patronized almost exclusively by heterosexual women who have become disappointed with real men. This is a remarkable documentary about the complexity of female sexuality in Japan today.
Ursula Biemann’s Writing Desire (23 min) is a video essay on the new dream screen of the Internet and how it impacts on the global circulation of women’s bodies from the third world to the first world. Although under-age Philippine 'pen pals' and post-Soviet mail-order brides have been part of the transnational exchange of sex in the post-colonial and post-Cold War marketplace of desire before the digital age, the Internet has accelerated these transactions. Biemann provides her viewers with a thoughtful meditation on the obvious political, economic and gender inequalities of these exchanges by simulating the gaze of the Internet shopper looking for the imagined docile, traditional, pre-feminist, but Web-savvy mate. Writing Desire delights in implicating the viewer in the new voyeurism and sexual consumerism of the Web. However, it never fails to challenge pat assumptions about the impossibility for resistance and the absolute victimization of women who dare to venture out of the third world and onto the Internet to look for that very obscure object of desire promised by the men of the West. This tape will promote lively discussion on third world women, the sex industry, mail order brides, racism and feminist backlashes in the West, and on women’s sexuality, desire, and new technologies.
Journalist and international aid worker Philip Winslow discusses his latest book, Victory for Us Is To See You Suffer.
The free program takes place in the meetinghouse at First Parish in Cambridge (corner of Church Street and Massachusetts Avenue)in Harvard Square. Accessible by the Red Line. Co-sponsored by Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the MIddle East.
Since the summer, a broad coalition of organizations and global justice activists from Washington, DC and around the country have been working to plan four days of actions and events, during the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, to confront institutions that put profit over people everywhere.
It is unclear whether the discussion will be narrowly limited to the National ADL refusal to acknowledge Armenian Genocide OR whether its history of spying on activists, working closely with law enforcement, or supporting South African Apartheid, will be 'allowed.'
Joan Blades, well known for co-founding the e-advocacy group MoveOn.org with Wes Boyd, has set out to empower the motherhood movement with a new organization, MomsRising.org. With this online effort, she and co- founder Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner hope to mobilize citizen activists and existing organizations to push for stronger maternity leave laws, improved health care coverage, and fair wages, among other issues.
Equal time will be provided for the speaker¹s remarks and questions from the audience. Come join the conversation!
-FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC-
On 9/11/01 three steel framed World Trade Center buildings (one of which was not even hit by a plane) collapsed into their own footprint at nearly free fall speed! Have you ever wondered if the explanation given by the 911 Commission for the collapse of these buildings was really a lie? Come find out why millions of people all over the world have come to realize the "Official" story can not possibly be true!
Free to the public. Donations requested to support the educational work of Boston911Truth.org
For More Information: Contact Chris Gruener at 617-965-6552
On October 18th, One Million Voices, an organization led by Israelis and international figures (with the support of SOME Palestinians) is organizing a public event in Jericho and Tel Aviv, simultaneously. The event may or may not include performances by renowned artists Brian Adams and Ilham Madfa'i. Many Arab performers (including the rap group DAM and Ilham el- Medfay) were misled into joining but are now pulling out, as is the case for Brian Adams according to an article in Al-Akhbar.
According to the widely accepted boycott criteria advocated by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), the event falls under the category of normalization projects and violates the call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), endorsed by over 170 Palestinian civil society organizations, trade unions, political parties, and grassroots movements.
One Million Voices participants are required to sign a one-sided "mandate" for a loosely described two-state solution (i.e. apartheid), and also parroting language implying that "both sides" are equally wrong.
Featuring: Arun Gandhi &
Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams
Free on-campus housing offered to all attendees and
travel scholarships will be available!
Our Festival brings together an amazing array of vegetarian natural food providers, top national speakers and chefs, and educational exhibitors in a fun and welcoming environment. It is a chance to talk directly to food producers, learn the newest items in the marketplace, taste free food samples, shop at show special discounts, or simply learn what vegetarian foods are available and where you can find them!
Benefit concert from the world-renowned South African musical group "THULA SIZWE" (11-man a capella song and dance group) for the new cardiac surgery hospital of EMERGENCY in Sudan.
$5 admission
Box Office 617-627-3493
Guest speakers from Partners in Health and Emergency USA will introduce the event.
From our friend Amy Hendrickson of Brookline Peaceworks: EMERGENCY originated in Italy, and has built hospitals in places where they are needed, Afghanistan in 2002, for instance-- great group to help (in my opinion).
Come celebrate Palestinian arts and culture, and learn the realities of life in Palestine. Activities and presentations for adults and children.
If you can help, please go here and indicate what you
can do and what if anything you can provide:
Palestinian groups are welcome to have a table; please contact Bob Cable (bob.cable@hotmail.com) by October 17th if you would like to reserve a table; he'll let you know if there are any spots left.
(Table arranging deadline is Wed Oct 17)
At the end of the Civil War, with the rebellion put down and slavery ended, America seemed to belong to Lincoln's "plain people." But "government of the people" and economic democracy were betrayed by political parties that fanned memories of the war to distract Americans from government of the corporation.
In a brilliant reconsideration of the so-called Gilded Age, Beatty provides a fresh look at a time when an oligarchy of wealth triumphed over democracy, when dreams of freedom and equality died of their impossibility.
Telephone: (978) 369-9763
Taped Information: (978) 369-9609
"Sunlight is Life" weaves technology, politics and social policy together with humor and compelling graphics to clearly demonstrate that the end of the era of cheap oil is upon us and that renewable energy is ready here and now to help define the path to a sustainable future in the post-petroleum world.
We expect to sell out all seats (we already have about 200 registrations from out of state). This would also help the conference planning committee in its planning for this conference. As you can see from the list of speakers, this will be a wonderful conference.
We are also looking for volunteers to help in local set up during the two days of the conference, so please let me know if you are available to help in this.
Keynote Address:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Panelists:
Naim Ateek * Anat Biletzki
Diana Buttu * Noam Chomsky
John Dugard * Farid Esack
Noura Erekat * Jeff Halper
Donald Wagner * David Wildman
Other Participants:
Phyllis Bennis * Joan M. Martin
Nancy Murray * Bishop Thomas Shaw
FOSNA Main Office
PO Box 9186, Portland, OR 97207
Credit Card Registration#: (503) 653-6625
Conference Local Phone#: (617) 491-0700