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Dean Stevens led and two other Community Church members were part of a delegation to El Salvador this past summer. Hear the story of their visit to El Higueral--a tiny, remote, mountain village of subsistance farmers. These peasants have been deeply affected from the '80s to the present by the consequences of globalization, northward emigration, U.S. aggression and the heavy-handed suppression of dissent. Learn about the many Sister City initiatives, triumphs, doubts and difficulties. The struggle continues!
The travelers carried clothing and school & health supplies with them; they brought back crafts and coffee, which will be on sale (great gifts!). This experience will finish with a special Central American luncheon by our Salvadoran cook, Luis Alonzo Guzman.
Books - DVDs - COFFEE - LEMONADE
FREE ADMISSION - FREE DOCUMENTARY DVD
Friends Meetinghouse, 5 Longfellow Pk. Cambridge near Harvard Square T
For forty years Hartsough has been doing nonviolent peacemaking in the US, Kosovo, the former Soviet Union, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and the Philippines. Since May 1999 Hartsough has been working full time for the creation of a global Nonviolent Peaceforce or, as Gandhi called it, a Shanti Sena. The vision is for the peaceforce to include hundreds and eventually thousands of trained international peaceworkers who would be available to do nonviolent peacemaking, peace-building and peacekeeping at the invitation of local peacemakers in areas of conflict. The hope is to develop a model of peacemaking on a larger scale which can be replicated by others around the world and help the world "discover" an alternative to violence and war as a means of resolving conflict.
A free public forum: How will global warming affect the economy, environment, and quality of life of the northeastern United States? What can we do to prevent the most severe consequences?
Dr. Peter C. Frumhoff, director of science and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists and chair of the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA) team, will present findings from the new NECIA report and describe the ways in which we can pursue a lower emissions pathway.
Q&A session with the audience.
Sponsored by Sustainable Belmont. Co-sponsors: the Lexington Global Warming Action CoailtionLexington Global Warming Action Coalition, Belmont Public Schools, the Belmont Vision 21 Implementation Committee, and the Belmont League of Women Voters.
For more information, email
A week-long event at MIT and Harvard is being held with talks given by doctors who have worked for Doctors Without Borders, screenings of the film Invisibles, and an informational booth available on the MIT campus during the first two days of the event.
See the schedule for the week and learn more at
Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres) is an internationally-based, non-governmental organization providing humanitarian and medical relief in over 70 countries around the world.
Co-sponsored with the MIT Public Service Program. This program is FREE and open to the public; no registration is required, but seating is first come, first serve.
On Monday, October 29th, the Colombian Ambassador to the US, Carolina Barco Isakson, is speaking at Brown University. Members of the Brown community are planning a picket demonstration to protest the Colombian government's brutal repression of unarmed social movements; pursuit of a colonial "free trade" agreement with the US; repeated refusal to bring government-controlled death squads to justice; and the US government's uncritical support of these policies.
We're calling for a protest outside Ambassador Barco's talk to add to this growing pressure. Conscientious Americans need to stand in solidarity with Colombian activists as they risk their lives for justice. Ambassador Barco must answer for her government's well- documented atrocities.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
On human rights in Colombia:
On the proposed US-Colombian "free trade" agreement:
Contact: Jake Hess
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 Kendal Square than Mass. Ave.
On selected Monday from October 1st through December 10th a different Cuban film will be screened. All screenings are free and open to the public.
Here is a reveiw of the film from the Guardian (10 Feb 2000): Of all the dozens of films produced in Cuba through Castro's insistence on the importance of the cinema, Memories of Underdevelopment is the most sophisticated. So much so, in fact, that those opposed to the revolution tend to call it a magnificent and unrepeatable fluke, produced as it was by a film institute that was virtually a Marxist ministry. Those in favour cherish it as a landmark that avoids almost all of the radical cliches.
This will be a basic workshop for c-r activists who table in high schools, colleges, special events, etc. We will also talk about the various ways we can gain access to high schools and colleges.
Bill Sweet
AFSC/Cambridge, MA
Boston/UJP Counter-recruitment
617-661-6130
Free and Open to the Public Mearsheimer and Walt (heard earlier this month on Truth and Justice Radio)
In March 2006, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt published an article entitled “The Israel Lobby” in the London Review of Books that ignited a storm of controversy. They argued that a group of pro-Israel activists was manipulating U. S. foreign policy to benefit the state of Israel at the expense of the United States’ own national interests. Publication of a book length study developing their proposition has done little to calm the rhetoric of their critics or their defenders. What evidence do Mearsheimer and Walt point to in backing up their claim that the “Israel Lobby” is guiding policy decisions in Washington? What changes do they recommend to align U.S. Middle Eastern policy with the nation’s genuine interests abroad? These are questions that John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt address as they discuss their controversial book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy at Cambridge Forum, Monday, October 29 at 7:30 p.m.
Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the codirector of the Program on International Security at the University of Chicago. Among his previous books is The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.
Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and served as the academic dean of the Kennedy School from 2002 to 2006. He is the author of Taming American Power: The Global Response, among other books.
Cambridge Forum, dedicated to promoting citizen engagement with pressing contemporary issues, is taped and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited CDs are available to the public by contacting us. Select forums can be viewed in their entirety on demand by visiting our website and clicking on the WGBH Forum Network.
Dr. Otero is a 2002 Venezuelan graduated physician. After working in rural Venezuela for one year, he volunteered with the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders for 18 months.
Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres) is an internationally-based, non-governmental organization providing humanitarian and medical relief in over 70 countries around the world.
Co-sponsored with the MIT Public Service Program. This program is FREE and open to the public; no registration is required, but seating is first come, first serve.
A documentary by Iason Athanasiadis, Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation/Harvard University. Athanasiadis will be present for the showing.
Followed by a Panel Discussion with Rami Khouri Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative; Editor-at-large, the Daily Star and Director of the Issam Fares Center for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut Ehud Eiran Research Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government Dr Kayhan Barzegar Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, Belfer Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government,
For missing information, contact: Zeina Ghaleb Saab.
Ellen Cantarow, Jack Cole, Howard Zinn, Robert Zevin and Louis Font, Esq
INVITE you to a fundraising party for "The Different Drummer" the GI rights coffeehouse at Ft Drum, NY, which is celebrating its First Anniversary ..
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Home of Ellen Cantarow and Jack Cole 27 Austin Rd., Medford, MA.
Gifts to the project's sponsor, Citizen Soldier
are fully tax deductible.
Tod Ensign, Dir., Citizen Soldier
A small panel of local folks involved in local and sustainable food will lead a discussion on the true costs of food and if/how everyone in Boston could be able to afford to eat locally and sustainably. Also addressed will be how to effectively grow and distribute clean, local & sustainable foods in Boston.
Please join Jamey Lionette and guests for a discussion of these questions.
This event also celebrates the publication of "Manifestos On The Future Of Food & Seed" edited by Vandana Shiva, which includes a chapter by Jamey Lionette.
"The shocking hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers catapult a small Long Island town into national headlines, unmasking a new front line in the border wars: suburbia."
We are hosting a free human rights film series this fall, with the goal to provide opportunities for local residents to learn more about some of today's most pressing and relevant human rights issues. Each film will also include a facilitated discussion and outlets for action. Please feel free to call me, Nate Snell, any time at 978-273-8791 if you have any questions about the film series. Hope to see you there!
Our Bodies, Our Minds (67 min) is about feminists who are sex workers. Actress, Nina Hartley defends her career choice by stressing that it is a choice, one not coerced or forced as other feminists might imply. Erotic filmmaker, Candida Royalle expresses her brand of feminism by creating her own erotic films, "from a woman's point of view." And dominatrix Mistress Delilah uses her earnings to pursue a Ph.D. Alvin's interest in the subject matter arose out of an experience with a friend of hers from high school. "She told me she was working part-time as a stripper, but I had always thought of her as such a feminist person" she says. After going to see her friend perform at a gentlemen's club in New York, Alvin realized that there was more to the issue than what anti-pornography feminists might lead you to believe. The result was Our Bodies, Our Minds, a provocative documentary that allows these feminists to discuss their perspectives on pornography, free expression, and sex work, without resorting to cheap exploitation.
Jointly sponsored by WFCIA and CMESHU
For more information about this event, please contact
Elizabeth Lawler at 617-495-3816
For those committed to health in rich and poor nations alike, "Salud" examines the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls "one of the world's best health systems." From the shores of Africa to the Mississippi Delta "Salud" hits the road with some 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba- now numbering 30,000. There stories bring home the complex realities confronting the movement to make health care a human right. Featured in the film is Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School and Founding Director of Partners In Health.
Campus Map
Community College stop on Orange Line (T)
10 minute walk from North Station
Margaret Witham
617.504.7265
IRAQ FOR SALE uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so.
ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR ROBERT GEENWALD (WALMART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE) TAKES YOU INSIDE THE LIVES OF SOLDIERS, TRUCK DRIVERS, WIDOWS, AND CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN CHANGED FOREVER AS A RESULT OF PROFITEERING IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF IRAQ.
Extended informal discussion after the film. Refreshments will be served.
There is an inexpensive parking garage next to the library and some parking on the street. Pearl Street is just off Mass. Ave in Central Square
Presented jointly by the Women's lnternational League for Peace and Freedom, and the Cambridge Peace Commission.
Admission is free For further information call 617-244-8054
In the summer of 2002, Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan, a Palestinian and an Israeli, travelled together from the south to the north of their country of birth, traced their trajectory on a map and called it Route 181. This virtual line follows the borders outlined in UN Resolution 181 that was to partition Palestine into two states.
As they travel along this route, they encounter men and women, Israeli and Palestinian, young and old, civilians and soldiers, filming them in their everyday lives. Each of these characters has their own way of evoking the frontiers that separate them from their neighbours: concrete, barbed-wire, cynicism, humour, indifference, suspicion, aggression...
Please join us ... free film, free refreshments, & free door prizes. [donations are accepted]
Why should YOU care? It's your money that pays for the occupation & illegal Israeli settlements.
Citizens confidence in government is in a downward trend since the last presidential election, and disillusion and disengagement continue to spread. Why is this happening, and how can we stop it?
Frances Moore Lappe, the author of sixteen books including the 1971 three-million-copy bestseller, Diet for a Small Planet, has some suggestions.
Lappe reveals an emerging trend that stands in marked contrast our current "thin democracy." She explores developments from clean election initiatives to fair trade economies, from evolving standards of corporate accountability to emerging forms of citizen involvement. Lappe submits that there are signs of a burgeoning new worldview that empowers individuals and emphasizes community. She calls this new alternative "living democracy" and challenges us all to find entry points for involvement with this historical breakthrough.
Featuring: Sharon Smith, Anthony Arnove, Melida Arredondo,
Jeremy Scahill, Jennifer Roesch, David Zirin, Yusef Salam,
Hadas Their, Adrienne Kinne, Liam Madden, Tod Ensign,
Deepa Kumar, Son of Nun, Sam Farber, and many more.
Local contact info in Boston: 617-648-0561
Transportation is being arranged from Boston to NYC, contact above.
Dinner: 5:00 pm -- Program: 6:00 pm
Suggested donation: $5 dinner, $5 programTraducción
inglés-español / español-inglés
Cindy Jaquith will also present a class on Sunday, November 4 at noon:
The Struggle for the Emancipation of Women in the Middle East: From the Baku Congress of 1920 to Today
T Blue Line to Maverick Station, bus or walk 5 blocks down Meridian to Bennington at Liberty Plaza
Kevin Knobloch is president of the Union of Concerned Scientists, based in Cambridge, where he oversees all of the organization's research, public education and legislative programs. He is knowledgeable about a wide range of environmental & arms control issues, including natural resource & clean energy economics, advanced technology vehicles, nuclear weapons, forest conservation, global warming, renewable energy and corporate responsibility.
Kevin was director of conservation programs for the Appalachian Mountain Club in Boston and worked for six years on Capitol Hill in key legislative positions. He was also an award-winning newspaper journalist, writing for several Massachusetts publications. He serves currently on the boards of a few regional environmental organizations.
Presented by The Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA (GHRC), the Guatemala Solidarity Committee of Boston, and Amnesty International Group 133 of Somerville
Ruth del Valle Cóbar is the co-founder of the Movimiento Nacional por los Derechos Humanos (National Movement for Human Rights), a network for dozens of human rights institutions, and she spearheads the Unidad de Protección a Defensores y Defensoras de los Derechos Humanos (Human Rights Defenders Protection Unit). Due to her efforts, she has been threatened and her office was raided and looted in February of this year.
A discussion will follow, led by Ruth and Marty Jordan of GHRC.
For more information, please contact
René at 617-696-2116 or
Kelly at 617-666-7284.
PROPOSAL BY A DEAR LISTENER/SUPPORTER...
Here's a new idea worth passing on to all here in the US. How about joining in a general, national strike on what is traditionally election day, November 6, to express our collective resistance to the unconscionable desecration of the values and principles which we as decent human beings expect our government to represent in its actions here and abroad?
So much has happened that so many of us have felt so helpless about changing in these dark years under the Bush administration. To stop everything, or as much as we possibly can, even if for one day only, would be a way to remind ourselves and them that our actions and their actions, too, are the result of choices that we all make every day.
Source: article by Garret Keizer in the October 2007 issue of Harper's Magazine.
Congress will be debating war appropriations again, and the Senate - as the Republicans have routinely demonstrated - has the power to filibuster any appropriations it doesn't like. A filibuster in the Senate would effectively force an end to the war. So if each of us does our part in exposing the filibuster option, then we can apply tremendous pressure on our senators, the likes of which they haven't felt in decades!
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."
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.
Dennis Kucinich is determined to force the impeachment issue, by bringing it as a privileged resolution before Thanksgiving 2007.
We need hundreds of additional volunteers right now to help get these posters up, to really give the impeachment movement maximum visibility. We'll be picking up the full 25,000 11x17 posters this Tuesday, and start shipping priority mail the same day. So please, if you are anywhere near a college campus email us and we'll put you in contact with other volunteers in your area. If you've already volunteered, start organizing some other activist friends to join the Impeach Team.
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.
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.
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.
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.