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LOCAL EVENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
Week of 22 October 2006
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[NOTE: In these frantic times for activists, MANY, perhaps even MOST, events are being organized, or changed, on such short notice that we don't know of them by Sunday morning. To be notified of short notice events, our listeners are advised to consult sources listed here and/or sign up with pertinent organizations to receive email notifications.] |
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12:30 - 4:00 pm EVERY SUNDAY
"Bostonians For The Overthrow Of King George" weekly vigil
at Harvard Square by the T- Stop and Newsstand.
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.
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12-1pm Amherst Peace Vigil
Town Common, Amherst
For more, contact Mark Watkins
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1:30pm Cambridge Peace Vigil
Mass. Ave., and Garden St., next to Cambridge Common.
---------- Every Tuesday----------
Tuesday Weekly Anti-War Vigil 5:30-6:30pm Copley Square
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NOON-12:30 PM: Harvard-Cambridge Walk for Peace
Starts at John Harvard Statue, Harvard Yard.
Every Wednesday. All are welcome.
Meet briefly at the statue to exchange thoughts,
then walk silently around the Yard and nearby streets,
returning to the statue by 12:30pm.
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7 PM: Radical Film Night
Lucy Parsons Center
549 Columbus Avenue
Boston's South End
Telephone: 617.267.6272
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5-6 PM: Antiwar Vigil in Newton
Corner of Beacon and Center Streets, Newton Center
Organizer: Newton Dialogues on Peace and War
---------- Every Thursday----------
6:30PM: Wayland Anti-War Vigil (weekly)
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.
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6-7 PM: "Stop the War" Lowell Peace Vigil
Kittredge Park, at the intersection of Routes 38 and 133, Lowell
Some signs available. Park on Park St. (a small street off Route 133 right behind the park).
Host: Greater Lowell for Peace and Justice
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5-6 PM: Veterans for Peace vigil
West Side Rotary, Augusta, Maine
---------- Every Friday----------
Noon-1PM in front of JFK Federal Building, Boston.
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.
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12:30 PM: Women in Black Vigil
Lithgow Library, Augusta, Maine
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4:30-6 PM: Protest AIPAC - every Friday
Kennedy Sch of Govnt
79 JFK St, Harvard Sq, Cambridge
Organized by AntiWar League
---------- Every Saturday----------
11am-1pm on WZBC: Sounds of Dissent with John Grebe
Saturday Anti-War Vigils
- 11-11:45am Quincy City Hall
- 11 - Noon Waltham Center, Embassy Park, 226 Moody St
- Noon-1pm Natick Center (Rt 27 & 135)
- Noon-1pm Sudbury Town Hall
- 12:30 PM Needham Center on the Green
- 1-2pm Park Street T station
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WANT TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE GRACE ROSS FOR GOVERNOR CAMPAIGN?
Email: volunteer.grace4gov@gmail.com
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WANT TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE JILL STEIN FOR STATE SECRETARY CAMPAIGN?
email info@jillstein.org
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Work a Day for Peace 2006 runs through November 11- Here's some things you can still do to join the campaign commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Gandhi's Satyagraha
Take the Resolution of Nonviolence!
Hold a Gathering!
Tell Friends and Family about Work a Day for Peace Opportunities
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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.
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Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
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
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PURCHASE OLIVE OIL PRODUCED IN PALESTINE
“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.
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“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.
Here's the petition link
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2006
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11am at COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON, 565 Boylston St. (Copley Square), Boston: TRIZ RIVERA, HECTOR PIZARRO & ALLISON COLLONA
"The 'Don't Wait 'til We're Dead!' Campaign"
Beatriz, Hector & Allison are founders and leaders of a new youth-created and youth-run after-school program called "Beantown Society". The program was begun as a way to address the levels of violence with which youth in Boston are forced to live. Last fall, Beantown Society launched a successful campaign that attempts to stop youth violence using three strategies.
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Noon to 12:20pm in Wayland:
YOU ARE INVITED to participate in the monthly Justice/Peace Prayer Circle in the outdoor plaza at St. Zepherin Church, 99 Main St, Cochituate (Wayland) (across from Liberty Pizza).
For more info, contact Sandy Coy at
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6:30pm: Ford Hall Forum at Faneuil Hall, Boston
Democracy vs. Victory:
Why the “Forward Strategy of Freedom” Had to Fail
with Dr. Yaron Brook, President and Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute, contributing writer for The Objective Standard.
After Sept. 11th, the Bush administration declared that we must bring freedom to the Middle Eastern nations that threaten us; thus, the Forward Strategy of Freedom. Dr. Brook will examine the inherent flaws of the Forward Strategy of Freedom and explore what should replace it.
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7-9pm at First Parish Church UU, 225 Cabot St, Beverly:
Three professional women from Palestine and Israel (one Muslim, one Israeli, one Christian) will speak out calling for an end to war, bloodshed, and occupation. Sponsored by North Shore Coalition for Peace and Justice, Cape Ann Forum, Merrimac Valley People for Peace, First Universalist Church of Essex, Social Action Committee of the UU Society of Rockport, and North Shore Progressives. Sherif interviewed these women on TWIP October 15.
or Jake Pace 202-689-9790
MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2006
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7pm: View the film "Iraq for Sale", Lincoln Public Library (Tarbell Room), Bedford Rd at Trapelo Rd, Lincoln. No cost.
Contact Lynn Gargill (781) 259-1173 for more info.
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8pm at Brandeis (each of four evenings, the first tonight):
There will be four free campus showings of “An Inconvenient Truth,” the acclaimed Al Gore film on global warming, as follows:
Monday October 23 at 8pm in Golding Auditorium;
Tuesday October 24 at 8pm in Lown Auditorium;
Wednesday October 25 at 8pm in Lown Auditorium;
Thursday October 26 at 9 pm in Golding Auditorium
More info: kathryn@brandeis.edu
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2006
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4pm at Hampshire College, Robert Crown Center:
Judith Butler, FFIPP-USA board of directors member, will deliver the ninth annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture, "Universality and its Paradoxes: Hidden Histories of Post-Zionism."
FFIPP-USA, PO Box 2091, Amherst MA 01004
or 413-253-0676
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7PM at the Ashland Public Library: Documentary Film Series
Two Extraordinary Films on Cuba:
BLOQUEO and THE POWER OF COMMUNITY: HOW CUBA SURVIVED PEAK OIL
Featuring voices from the streets of Havana, the Cuban countryside, and those involved in the Cuba solidarity network, Bloqueo (or blockade) lets Cubans speak for themselves about how they have been affected by this policy and what it means to live in Cuba today.
Bloqueo examines the effects of the 40-year-old embargo, the reasons for its implementation, and why it has endured for so many decades. In addition to exploring the embargo’s tremendous impact on the lives of the Cuban people, Bloqueo looks at the successes that have made Cuba a model in healthcare, environmental stewardship, and other arenas. Bloqueo demonstrates how Cuba’s policies in these areas have forged an alternative and more sustainable system. (2004, English and Spanish with English subtitles; 43 minutes)
When Cuba lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1990’s, the country faced an immediate crisis - feeding the population - and an ongoing challenge: how to create a new low energy society. Cuba transitioned from large, fossil-fuel intensive farming to small, less energy-intensive organic farms and urban gardens, and from highly industrial society to a more sustainable one.
In their own words the Cuban people tell the story of hardship, ingenuity and triumph over sudden adversity -through cooperation, conservation and community. As the world approaches Peak Oil, Cuba provides a valuable example of how to successfully address the challenge of reducing energy use. (2006, 53 minutes)
Followed by Discussion
Community Room - Ashland Public Library
Free and open to the public. No reservation necessary
Documentary Film Series is always the fourth Tuesday of the month.
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6pm at JFK School of Government, Weiner Auditorium, Taubman Bldg:
The Middle East Initiative and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, in collaboration with Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (FFIPP) Present "Alternatives to Wars in the Middle East"
A panel discussion by two members of Combatants for Peace
The Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, FFIPP-USA, has organized a national campus tour for two members of the "Combatants for Peace", October 21- November 4, 2006.
Yonatan Shapira is a former Captain in the Israeli Air Force Reserves. In 2003 Yonatan initiated a group of Israeli Air Force pilots who refused to fly attack missions on Palestinian territories.
Bassam Aramim is a former member of Fatah, who served a 7-year prison sentence after being arrested in Hebron when he was 17 years old.
The "Combatants for Peace" movement was started jointly by Palestinians and Israelis who have previously taken an active part in the cycle of violence, Israelis as soldiers in the Israeli army (IDF) and Palestinians as part of the violent struggle for Palestinian freedom. After brandishing weapons for so many years, and having seen one another only through gun-sights, they no longer believe that the conflict can be resolved through violence and have decided to put down their guns, and to fight for peace. http://www.combatantsforpeace.org/
FFIPP-USA is an American-based network of faculty, with an affiliated student network, dedicated to educating the academic community about the conflict in Palestine/Israel and promoting a just peace for Palestinians and Israelis.
(see Wed announcements for Brandeis and Boston College appearances)
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7pm: The North Shore Labor Council Presents Democracy Series Movie
“Night: A Day without a Mexican” at the Gulu-Gulu Café, 56 Central
Square, Lynn. Come early if you want to enjoy sandwiches and solidarity.
or 617-524-8778.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2006
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2-4pm at Brandeis University, Shiffman Room 219:
Alternatives to Wars in the Middle East:
A National Campus Tour of Israeli and Palestinian
Combatants for Peace
Contact: Professor of Sociology Gordon Fellman
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7:30pm at Boston College, Merkert Room 127:
FFIPP National Campus of the Combatants for Peace, Bassam Aramim and Yonatan Shapira (Palestinian and Israeli refuseniks), October 23- November 4, 2006
(see Brandeis above for background information and websites)
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7pm in Shrewsbury - Pre-Strike Rally
UMass RNs Set to Strike on October 26 at 6 a.m.
Make Stand Against Unnecessary Concessions
Froshinn Club, 25 North Quinsigamond Ave., Shrewsbury
Join the Nurses on the Picket Line Outside the UMass Memorial Medical Center's University Campus on Oct. 26th or Any Day Throughout the Strike.
The 830 registered nurses at UMass Memorial/University campus have served notice on the hospital that they plan to go out on strike on October 26 at 6 a.m. The strike authorization was approved by 94 percent of those voting in late September the largest strike authorization vote in MNA history.
or 508-756-5800.
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7:30pm: Concord Festival of Authors (continuing series)
Sarah Chayes (“The Punishment of Virtue”)
(recently we heard her interviewed on Democracy Now)
"gripping and dramatic account of her four years on the ground in Afghanistan..." Unveiling the complexities and traumas of Afghanistan’s postwar struggles, she reveals how the tribal strongmen who have regained power - after years of being displaced by the Taliban - have visited a renewed plague of corruption and violence on the Afghan people, under the complicit eyes of U.S. forces and officials.
Emerson Umbrella, 40 Stow St., Concord
Free and open to the public.
978-371-0820
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2006
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3pm at the Lucy Parsons Center:
Doohickey Reproductive Health Event
The Doohickey Project Will Present An Evening of Abortion Options, Reproductive Freedom, and Sexual Health. All Genders Welcome.
The Doohickey Project, on a nationwide tour, is a group with a focus on reproductive health, abortion access, and options. This evening will include a playful workshop about anatomy, physiology, and look at abortion options. Doohickey will present an amazing puppet show that links abortion struggles to all other struggles, including battles for racial justice and gender liberation. Workshops on reproductive parts and function then set the groundwork for understanding conception, menstrual cycles, and fertility. The abortion options workshop is a look at how clinical abortion is threatened and inaccessible to many and will provide an overview of what choices we have. Want to learn about herbs and other options? Want to start a local DIY health collective? Want to get to know your own body better? Come join in this important discussion. Let's work together for reproductive justice.
Disclaimer: This will not be a forum for discussing the ethics of abortion. This will be a safer space for people of color, transgendered people, and those that have had abortions. If you compromise their or others' safety and comfort, you will be asked to leave. Doohickey and LPC are not experts on these topics, just passionate about them. We believe that sharing information and supporting each other is an empowering way to grow and learn.
All LPC events are free and open to the public.
(617) 267-6272 or
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5:30pm: Meet at Diesel Café, Davis Square, Somerville.
Join the fight for Justice at Smithfield! Help us get bacon made
in the Tar Hill Smithfield plant off the shelves in New England
until workers rights are respected. Join members of the
Solidarity Committee to leaflet on Smithfield's workers' rights
abuses in front of Market Basket & Johnny's Food Masters in
Somerville and around Boston.
or 617-524-8778.
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7:00 PM ($$) WORKSHOP SERIES: WHITE PEOPLE CHALLENGING RACISM - Moving from Talk to Action
The WPCR workshop will be offered through two adult education programs this fall: Arlington Community Education and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. Dates and times for each are listed below. WPCR is now in its 8th year. More than 500 people have taken the course during this time. Please consider joining us this fall! The goals of this workshop series are 1) to develop a greater awareness of the systems that privilege white people at the expense of people of color and 2) to build the skills and confidence we need to effectively challenge these systems. We will discuss short readings and videos, and share everyday situations in which we did not speak up or act as we wish we had. Using these situations to role-play, we'll explore strategies for effective action and practice them. Together we will draw up concrete plans for challenging racism in ourselves and in our communities. This workshop series focuses on how white people can take a stand against racism, and welc!
omes everyone.
Arlington Community Education, 869 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, Starts October 26, Five Thursday sessions, 7-9pm.
781-316-3586
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8pm at the Belmont Theater, 376 Trapelo Rd., Belmont
Massachusetts ADC is presenting 2 award winning films with commentary by their directors:
1) Just Your Average Arab (Directed by Raouf Zaki)
A satirical look at Arab American life in the post-9/11 world.
Winner of Best Film by Audience Vote at Boston Film Festival 2006
2) One Man’s Treasure (Directed R.G. Shalhoub)
Examines Syrian-American peddlers in Boston as junk passion becomes obsession becomes demolition.
Winner of the Grand Festival Special Recognition Award at the 2006 Berkeley Video and Film Festival
All are welcome! Food and beverage available!
For more info please contact ADC's executive director Caline Jarudi at
caline@adcma.org.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2006
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6:30pm at Encuentro 5 (33 Harrison Ave, Boston’s Chinatown):
Join Gabe Camacho & Kim Foltz for a report back on the Border Social Forum. The discussion is entitled, "On the Global Movement of Migrant Workers"; also connect with the ongoing preparation for Nairobi's January, 2007, World Social Forum. The event will be followed by a wine & cheese-style reception.
OR 617-482-6300.
To download the flyer, please visit
massglobalaction.org/projects/flyer-2006-10-27.pdf.
DIRECTIONS:
>From the subway lines
Red Line: Downtown Crossing (Chauncy Street Exit)
(3 blocks)
1. Take Chauncy Street Exit
2. Go right on Chauncy - go 0.3 mi
3. Arrive at 33 Harrison Ave (on right hand side)
Green Line: Boylston Street Stop (All Lines)
1. Head east from Boylston St - go 0.2 mi
2. Turn right at Harrison Ave - go 0.1 mi
(3 blocks)
Silver & Orange Lines: Chinatown Stop (2 blocks)
1. Head east from Essex St - go 0.1 mi
2. Turn right at Harrison Ave - go 0.1 mi
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2006
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FUTURE EVENTS
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2006
11am: NEXT WEEK'S COMMUNITY CHURCH FORUM (10/29)
LINDA MARIE WEIBRECHT & the COVEN of CAULDRON
"Celebrating Samhain: The Coming of Winter"
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2-3:15pm at 64 Hunter Ave., Hudson (RSVP requested):
Home-Brewed Democracy & Home-Baked Muffins! A houseparty for ballot question 2, and meet Rand Wilson, Candidate for Auditor
Our years as activist have shown us something's wrong in Massachusetts politics. Despite our reputation as the bluest of blue states, not much truly progressive legislation ever gets enacted. Two-thirds of all races for seats in the State Legislature are uncontested. There's little competition, and less accountability. But one simple, achievable reform can break the logjam all progressive legislation faces, and make our legislators more accountable to us. This is why we (Sherry Zitter, Barbara Clancy and Dave Handrick, and Dave & Karen Gray) are supporting Question 2 through this houseparty.
To build a new party! Rand Wilson, a long-time grassroots organizer and activist, is running as an independent candidate for State Auditor against the otherwise unopposed Joe DeNucci. However, this is not a symbolic protest candidacy. Rand's campaign for auditor is part of a larger movement to build a useful independent progressive political party. Here's why Rand is running: If Rand wins 3% of the vote, (which is just about certain to happen) it will establish a ballot line for a new Working Families Party. Then Mass. voters can use “cross endorsement” to build third parties that support major-party candidates who will go to bat on their issues, but will focus on the issues of most concern to the grass roots. Rand's model is the New York Working Families Party. Using 'cross-endorsement' strategically, the NY WFP gets close to 200,000 votes on its line in statewide races, has provided the margin of victory to progressives in US Congressional races, and elected WFP candidat!
es to New York City Council, and Albany Commons Council.
More importantly the WFP has proven its power in moving economic justice issues. It’s a record any organization in Massachusetts would have reason to be proud of.
Come to the party, meet Rand, and learn more about how we can change the face of politics in Massachusetts.
This is a campaign of big ideas; but we need more than vision to win. We need people and money too. Please come and bring friends. Light refreshments will be provided.
For more information and to RSVP, email sherry@sherryzitter.org
Or call 978-562-3372.
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7:30pm: The Lexington Global Warming Action Coalition is presenting a talk by Kevin Knobloch, President of Union of Concerned Scientists on Global Warming and its Effects on New England, Cary Hall, Lexington.
The talk will report on the results of a just-released two-year study conducted by the Union of Concerned Scientists and a team of independent scientists from universities across the Northeast and the nation.
The report includes projections for average annual temperatures, extreme heat days in major NE cities, and changes in snow, drought patterns and extreme precipitation events. According to UCS, the study concludes that Global warming is poised to substantially change the climate in the Northeast if heat-trapping emissions are not curtailed. The extent and impacts of the change depend on the choices that governments, businesses and citizens make today.
Cosponsored by Sustainable Belmont, is free and open to all.
Boston Area Event Connections
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