Truth and Justice Radio
|
|
|
LOCAL EVENT ANNOUNCEMENTS |
|
[NOTE: MANY 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, listeners are advised to consult webpages listed here and/or sign up with pertinent organizations to receive email notifications.] |
Additional Local Event Announcements at:
|
|
|
Weekly Events Announcements |
Sun |
Mon |
Tues |
Wed |
Thur |
Fri |
Sat |
Future |
|
|
CONTINUING EVENTSback to top |
12:30 - 4:00 pm EVERY SUNDAY"Bostonians For The Overthrow Of King George" weekly vigil
|
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.
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.
Volunteer help needed immediately for election prep, 3 jobs
Job 1.
Needed: anyone with lots of time to quickly build simple web site
*needs to be secure
*single purpose, no complicated links or other usual web features
*will probably display something akin to spread sheets, with numbers
and text (analysis/ explanations) both
*public-facing design
*may need some color-coding depending on some formula
*will receive data in spurts, will need to be constantily updated
*will want some interface to "push" data out, in addition to
displaying it
needed by thurs, nov 2.
Job 2.
Volunteers needed for data entry
On election day, Election Defense Alliance is going to have the capability to do 'real-time" analysis of the returns as they are announced. We will be able to run comparisons of the 'official' outcomes against historical and demographic data, and any exit polls we're able to commission -- so we can determine if the announced results are within the range of normal or too anomalous. This has not been done in the past on election night and we expect it will be incredibly important. (It might even influence whether people decide to protest, whether and where recounts will be ordered, etc..)
To do this, though, we immediately need to prepare our databases by
having people plug data into spreadsheets.
* 22 people are needed for 10 - 20 hours each. * need people to enter
data (supplied) into spread sheets (supplied).
* work to begin immediately.
* to be completed by Wednesday, November 1.
Not glamorous, but critically important!
Job 3.
Someone with PHP experience to help with project already underway
You can forward these requests to others as well, as long as you know their leanings; we certainly don't want anyone sabotaging our efforts!
Please respond to me. THANKS.
Sally Castleman
sallyC@ElectionDefenseAlliance.org
(781) 862-0454
From Leslie Cagan, National Coordinator, United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) unitedforpeace.org
As incredible as it might seem, the Bush Administration appears to be actively planning a military strike against Iran - the beginning of a war which could dwarf even the Iraq war in its grim potential for devastating global conflict.
We have now learned that U.S. minesweepers have been ordered to follow the U.S.S. Eisenhower. This is an even more ominous signal of preparation for military action, since such ships would not normally accompany a strike force on routine deployments.
Here’s how you can help: A petition has been created by UFPJ member group Peace Action, one that rejects any U.S. military action against Iran and demands direct negotiations. Working with other groups within UFPJ, Peace Action will deliver these petitions to Congress at the earliest feasible date - and your signatures are needed to do that effectively!
Please go to peace-action.org/Iranpetition.html and sign the "No War with Iran!" petition today! This petition is directed to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and copies will go to Chairs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and House Committee on International Relations.
Another member group of UFPJ, After Downing Street Coalition, also has a petition - afterdowningstreet.org/iran - that is directed to Bush and Cheney.
Help Organize The EARLY VOTE Movement To Protect Our Registrations
Here is an action page to organize your friends to early vote and to report any problems you experience to give legal activists the evidence to take action and DO something about it. ACTION PAGE: peaceteam.net/earlyvote.php
We are already hearing reports of secret purging of the Democratic voter rolls in various states, just the way we know for a FACT things like this happened in the last couple elections. At least some of these rumors are most certainly true. The problem is, if we wait until election day to move proactively to head off such things it will be that much harder to overturn or reverse them. The question is, what can we DO to prevent such wrongdoing BEFORE we have all the evidence. To head it off at the pass, so to speak.
The answer is to get AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE to early vote, to test the integrity of our voting system.
WANT TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE GRACE ROSS FOR GOVERNOR CAMPAIGN?
Email: volunteer.grace4gov@gmail.com
WANT TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE JILL STEIN FOR STATE SECRETARY CAMPAIGN?
email info@jillstein.org
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
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.
From Mass National Lawyers Guild: Our civil liberties are in jeopardy on the MBTA - AGAIN!
On October 10, 2006, MBTA police began conducting so-called "random" searches of handbags, briefcases, backpacks and other carry-on items belonging to passengers entering subway or commuter rail stations. Using police dogs, electronic scanners and physical searches, the MBTA police are conducting very broad searches for, among other things, "inflammable or combustible liquid, acid, poisonous substances, biological or hazardous material, or any kind of device or substance that could be used as a weapon...."
We are challenging the MBTA's search policy because it DOES NOT prevent the MBTA thugs from: (1) reading or inspecting any printed or written materials you may have with you; (2) demanding personal information to prove your identity or citizenship status; or (3) arresting you for carrying personal items other than explosives.
***** WE NEED TO WORK TOGETHER IN THIS FIGHT FOR OUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
The National Lawyers Guild is mounting an education campaign, as we did in the summer of 2004, at T stations throughout the Boston area, and WE NEED VOLUNTEERS to pass out leaflets and "I DO NOT CONSENT TO A SEARCH" buttons.
The action started Wednesday, October 25, 2006, and continues through Tuesday, October 31, 2006, MORNINGS from 6:30am to 9:00am and AFTERNOONS from 4:30pm to 7:00pm.
EVEN IF YOU CAN ONLY WORK ONE SHIFT, THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE IMMENSELY TO EDUCATING OTHERS IN OUR COMMUNITY ABOUT THIS VITAL ISSUE.
*****BI-LINGUAL AND MULTI-LINGUAL VOLUNTEERS ESPECIALLY NEEDED*****
Please contact us at nlgmass_mbta@yahoo.com to express your interest in participating in this action, part of a larger campaign to combat further violations of our civil liberties.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION TO FIGHTING FOR OUR CIVIL RIGHTS!
In Solidarity, D. Michael Coy, MBTA Education Campaign Coordinator National Lawyers Guild, Massachusetts Chapter, Inc. nlgmass.org
[Related suggestion: If you are stopped, always ask the one who stops you to show her/his ID, including job position, a copy of the search policy, and a copy of the decision stating where that time's searches are to be made and the criteria for selecting searchees.]
11am at COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON, 565 Boylston St. (Copley Square), Boston:
LINDA MARIE WEIBRECHT & the COVEN of CAULDRON "Celebrating Samhain: The Coming of Winter" commchurch.org
2-4pm at Leverett House (Harvard):
The Harvard Society of Arab Students will host the "Wheels of Justice"
at Leverett House Junior Common Room, 25 De Wolfe St., Cambridge
Wheels of Justice Presents: Eyewitness Accounts of Life Under Occupation in Palestine and Iraq with...
* Dr. Hassan Fouda (Egyptian), member of the Executive Committee of Al-Awda, The Council for the National Interest, and the U.S. Board of Directors for the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
* Joe Carr (American), member of the Christian Peacemaker Team's May 2005 delegation to Iraq in Baghdad, Karballa and Fallujah and the International Solidarity Movement's 2003 delegation to Gaza, Palestine With a Palestine/Israel Internet Video Conference featuring... from Jenin, Palestine:* Sari Sammour, writer from Jenin refugee camp -- Sari will speak about the impact of occupation on Palestinian families and social life.
* Amin Al-Ahmad, Coordinator of Activities for Sharrik Youth Center in Jenin -- Amin will speak about the impact of occupation on Palestinian children and youth.
And from Jerusalem, Israel: * Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Director of Rabbis for Human Rights -- Arik will speak about the work of Rabbis for Human Rights to uphold Palestinian rights in the occupied territories by protesting and attempting to halt the Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes, the disruption by Israeli settlers of the Palestinian olive harvest, and Israel's construction of the separation wall on Palestinian-owned land.
2-3:15pm at 64 Hunter Ave., Hudson (RSVP requested):
Home-Brewed Democracy & Home-Baked Muffins! A houseparty for ballot
question 2, and ALSO meet Rand Wilson, Independent Candidate for
State 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 candidates 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.
4:30pm-6:30pm CAMBRIDGE PEACE COMMISSION 10th ANNUAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AWARDS-"Celebrating the Voices of Courage and Peace" The Cambridge Peace Commission invites you to celebrate with the 2006 recipients. Remarks will be by Civil Rights Advocate Charles Ogletree and a musical performance by Emma's Revolution. Suggested donations: $10/adults and $5/children or whatever you can joyfully contribute. Light refreshments will be served. RSVP was originally sought by October 22nd.
Cambridge College, 1000 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge Cathy Hoffman 617-349-4694 or email peace@cambridgema.gov or their website
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. Lexington Global Warming Coalition
2pm at MA Statehouse (24 Beacon St) Gardner Auditorium
(be prepared to withstand search by the state’s armed thugs)
Film showing: An Inconvenient Truth
Senate President Robert E. Travaglini House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi Senator Pamela Resor Representative Frank I. Smizik with Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light (MIP&L) and Smartpower
Invite you to a screening of AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH A climate change documentary featuring Al Gore
Encourage your state legislators to attend as well. Informal discussion immediately following the film.
"Change is possible. We know that, and we can alter our relationship with the world around us to create a sustainable future." Al Gore, Campus Earth Summit, 1995
MIPandL.org or call 800.406.5374
USaction.org
6pm at Boston City Hall in the Councilors Chambers:
There will be a public hearing on The Plan to Prevent Terrorist
Attacks on Shipments to and from the BU-BSL4 BIOLAB. Please be
present.
Cornelia Sullivan corneiliasull@hotmail.com
7pm at Waltham Public Library, 735 Main Street, Waltham:
“Iraq for Sale.” This new film from acclaimed producer Robert
Greenwald is a blistering indictment of war profiteering.
The Waltham series is free. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Ridgely Fuller, 781-790-1419.
Noon-1:30pm at Community Change Library on Racism (14 Beacon Street,
Room 605, Boston):
Community Change Brown Bag Anti-Racism Discussion Series
The C.O.R.I. System: Its Uses & Needed Reform
A Conversation with Fran Fajana, staff attorney
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
About 3 million individual records are maintained in the state's CORI (which stands for Criminal Offender Record Information) system. Created in the early 1970s, the system was put in place to ease law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies' access to criminal records. 30 years later, the CORI system is now widely used by employers, landlords and other private accessors to make life-altering decisions. But do these accessors know how to read records? Are the records accurate? Are CORI records unfairly used to deny people second chances thereby impeding public safety?
Please bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided. $5 contribution requested. RSVP (617) 523-0555 or email ernestine
This series brings together people who are interested in dialogue about the struggle against racism. Each noon session will be brief while providing an opportunity for networking and opportunities for taking action. Participants will become acquainted with one another and will engage in discussion centered on the topic of the day.
4pm and 5pm: GOODBYE PARTY TO THE WTO
Converge at 5pm, 70 JFK St, Cambridge (Harvard Square T)
Leaders of the World Trade Organization say the WTO is on shaky
ground, and we couldn't agree more. Join us for a goodbye party as
the Director-General of the WTO, Pascal Lamy, comes to the Institute
of Politics in Cambridge, MA to make his case and meet with corporate
and government officials.
Join us at 4pm for signmaking and props-making at 45 Mount Auburn Street. Then we will converge on the site of the event to throw the WTO a goodbye party it won't forget! It's the day after Halloween, so costumes are welcome. Plus, bring noisemakers, instruments, party hats, props, friends, affinity groups..
Hope you'll join us for this week of action. The problems haven't gone away, and neither have we! Global Justice Revival Project
6-7:30pm at MIT Museum, Main Gallery:
“Getting from Here to There: How to move towards a sustainable energy
policy”.
Speakers include: John Heywood, Mechanical Engineering and Director, Sloan Automotive Lab, MIT; Stephen Ansolabehere, Political Science, MIT.
A collaboration of the MIT Museum, the Energy Research Council, and the Technology and Culture Forum.
This series is free and open to the public; no registration is
required, but seating is first come, first serve.
web.mit.edu/tac
Fall 2006 Schedule
Refreshments will be served.
6-7pm in Lowell (LAST ONE THIS YEAR)
Please join GLPJ for our Candlelight Peace Vigil.
We'll meet at our usual spot, Kittredge Park in Lowell (at the
intersection of Route 133 and Route 38.) There's parking on Park St.
which is a small street off Route 133 right behind the park..
We intend to shine a little light into the darkening year, so please bring a candle that you can safely hold for an hour, or a flashlight or lantern to shed some light..
This will be GLPJ's final weekly vigil this year. We'll start our weekly vigils again in the spring. Stay tuned to our list for any upcoming actions/events we'll be holding during the winter months, including our anti-recruitment campaign in the local schools and our first ever Movie night!.
***Also, our friends at NashuaPeace.org will be having a Vote For Peace vigil on Monday, Nov. 6, from 5:30-7:00 PM in front of Nashua City Hall..
***Our next meeting will be Sunday, November 5, from 4:00-6:00 PM at the Coalition For A Better Acre (CBA), 517 Moody St., Lowell, 3rd floor..
http://www.greaterlowellpeace.org/
http://www.nashuapeace.org/
http://www.lunenburgprogressives.org/
http://www.merrimackvalleypeopleforpeace.org/
http://www.grassrootsconcord.org/
http://leftinlowell.com/
http://www.justicewithpeace.org/
http://www.democracynow.org/
http://www.uml.edu/thinkoutloud/
http://www.wuml.org/
7pm Radical Film Night at the Lucy Parsons Center
Every Wednesday night at 7pm
Always Free.
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Based on a script originally written by Orson Welles, this Charlie
Chaplin film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his
sociopathic methods of attaining income. At the time of its release
(1948) it caused protest in many US cities over what was seen as a
critical view of capitalism. Chaplin later left the country for
Europe during the McCarthy era..
Lucy Parsons Center, 549 Columbus Avenue, Boston's South End Telephone: 617.267.6272 Lucy Parson's Homepage
7-9pm at Northeastern University School of Law, Knowles Building,
400 Huntington Avenue, Room 94
Free Book Reading
“Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and
How to Fight Back” By Michele Simon.
Sponsored by the Massachusetts Public Health Association and the Public Health Advocacy Institute Roberta Friedman, MPHA: 617-524-6696, ext. 103; rfriedman@mphaweb.org
7-9pm: Massachusetts Ballot Question 2 event at 25 Woodlawn Avenue in Northampton..
If you can make the event, please RSVP to Joe Dinkin at 978-223-5868 or JoeDinkin@gmail.com. For more information on Yes on 2, visit the campaign’s web site via johnbonifaz.com.
6:30pm at KSG, Taubman, Building, Wiener Auditorium:
Arab Caucus Film screening of "West Beirut"
an award-winning film about about the civil war in Lebanon, by long time Quentin Tarentino cameraman Ziad Doueiri.
Come at 6:30pm for Pizza and Baklava! Stay on after the movie for a discussion with Kennedy School students from Lebanon.
For more information, contact Hala at hala_audi@ksg08.harvard.edu
<6:45pm at Cambridge Public Library, 45 Pearl Street (Central Sq),
Cambridge:
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the
Cambridge Peace Commission invite you to a screening of the powerful
film depicting conditions in Iraq: THE GROUND TRUTH
"The Ground Truth" premiered last month in theaters in eight major cities across the country. The film is about the hidden toll of the war in Iraq - and features returned Iraq War Veterans telling their own stories of the war and what it has done to them and their families.
Nancy Lessin and Charley Richardson, co-founders of Military Families Speak Out (msfo.org) were involved with the making of this film, assisted the film maker and know many of the Iraq War Veterans and Military Families featured in the film.
The event is free and will be followed by extensive discussion. Easy
parking nearby.
7pm at the Waltham Public Library, 735 Main Street, Waltham: Waltham Concerned Citizens have organized a series of talks Andrew Sapp, U.S. Veteran of the Iraq War. With a total of 19 years of military experience, Andrew served in Iraq with the Massachusetts National Guard and will talk about his experiences.
The Waltham series is free. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Ridgely Fuller, 781-790-1419.
7pm at College Ave Methodist Church, 14 Chapel Street, Somerville
FREE FILM Screening: Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
Free refreshments & door prizes.
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land is the 8th in our free film series "Unveiling Palestine" - a hard-hitting, humorous and compelling exploration of a land and its people.
This critically acclaimed video exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites work in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over news reporting about the Middle East conflict. Combining American and British TV news clips with observations of analysts, journalists and political activists, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides an historical overview, a striking media comparison, and an examination of factors that have distorted U.S. media coverage and, in turn, American public opinion.
It analyzes and explains how the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media, and Israeli colonization of the occupied territories appears to be a defensive move rather than an offensive one. The documentary also explores the ways that U.S. journalists, for reasons ranging from intimidation to a lack of thorough investigation, have become complicit in carrying out Israel's PR campaign.
“Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land should be required viewing for every citizen in the United States" ~ Robert McChesney | University of Illinois, host of Media Matters
Center for Palestinian Human Rights divestmentproject.org/films or call 617-230-2835
7pm at MIT: The Internet and Social Isolation
W11-Main Dining Room
Speakers:
Noboru Tsubaki, Visiting Artist, MIT Office of the Arts
Japanese Media Artist, Head of Space Design Section, Kyoto University
of Art and Design
The Rev. Amy McCreath
MIT Episcopal Campus Chaplain and Coordinator, The Technology and
Culture Forum at MIT
Xaq Frohlich
MIT Graduate Student, Science, Technology and Society
Technological advances in media and communications are creating myriad new ways for people to connect, relate and educate one another. Yet several recent studies show that we are lonelier than ever, politically polarized, and civically disengaged. What's going on? What is your experience?
This gathering will begin with short presentations and move into conversation as we sort out the problems and possibilities of relating in the 21st century.
Refreshments will be served. Co-sponsored with the MIT Office of the Arts. This program is free and open to the public; no registration is required, but seating is first come, first serve. web.mit.edu/tac or call 617.733.9515.
1pm at Boston Common, Brewer Fountain (near Park St T)
What: The BOSTON COAL PARTY, a global warming street drama featuring
patriots vs. billionaire coal and oil barons in a modern recasting of
the Boston Tea Party.
Organized by Boston Climate Action Network, Clean Water Action, Loyal to Big Oil, and Sierra Student Coalition. Cosponsored by BOLD (Breath of Life: Dorchester) Teens, Climate Crisis Coalition, Religious Witness for the Earth, Sierra Club (Boston Chapter) and United for Justice with Peace.
Why: Part of the second annual International Day of Climate Action, the Boston Coal Party will coincide with hundreds of public events around the globe calling attention to the annual Kyoto Protocol meetings being held this November in Nairobi, Kenya. Asthma, heat-wave deaths, pest-borne disease, and deforestation are already on the rise in New England. Around the world, unprecedented famine, forced migration, and ethnic conflict are growing as glaciers, lakes, and rivers shrink. Hurricanes and other catastrophic climate threaten humans and all other species worldwide. The ecological, economic, and social effects of global warming demand immediate action from citizens, social groups, and leaders in business and government.
Loie Hayes for Boston Climate Action Network, 617-278-1885
Brian Thurber, Clean Water Action, 617-338-8131, x209,
bthurber@cleanwater.org
For more information about the International Day of Climate Action,
see globalclimatecampaign.org
7:30pm in Lynn:
Lynn Health Task Force Presents A Night With Don White!!
Celebrating the Lynn Health Task Force?s coming of age!! Help us
celebrate 21 years of health care advocacy in Lynn. Come to this
exciting concert and fundraiser at First Lutheran Church, 280
Broadway, Lynn starting at 7:30 PM. Tickets: $20.
(781) 244-1419
LynnHealthTaskForce.org
8pm at Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave., Chinatown (Boston)
Free Film: Iraq for Sale
encuentro5.org
11am at
COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON, 565 Boylston St. (Copley Square), Boston:
SPEAKERS FORUM: TBA
7:30pm at Harvard: "Salud" the film - a Free Screening!
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 hears and minds of international medical students in Cuba- now numbering 30,000. Their stories bring home the complex realities confronting the movement to make health care a human right.
Harvard Science Center , Hall B, 1 Oxford Street , Cambridge
Q&A and Discussion following the film with
Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School and Founding Director of Partners In Health
Gail Reed , MS, Producer and Executive Producer of Salud!
Arachu Castro ,PhD, MPH, Harvard Medical School , Co-Director of the
Cuban Studies Program
Co-sponsored by Partners In Health * The Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School * François Xavier-Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health * Cuban Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
*Seating is on a first-come first-serve basis. There are no tickets required for this event.
SaludTheFilm.org
Contact: Cate Oswald 617 432 2504
Catherine_Oswald@hms.harvard.edu