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12:30 - 4:00 pm EVERY SUNDAY"Bostonians For The Overthrow Of King George" weekly vigil
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Meet briefly at the statue to exchange thoughts,
then walk silently around the Yard and nearby streets,
returning to the statue by 12:30pm.
Southeast corner of Rt 27 and 30 (nearest to Brooks Pharmacy).
Come for all or part. 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.
[From Carol Moore, a DC activist]
After November 8th - whether or not Republican vote frauders steal the election -- grass roots activists will be gearing up to IMPEACH BUSH (and Cheney!). We'll take NO MORE EXCUSES from the Democrats.
Here are just a few of the many resources that will help us accomplish these goals. Check out the ones that most reflect your interests!
DON'T BOMB IRAN SITES
democracyinaction.org/
stopwaroniran.org/
afterdowningstreet.org/iran
antiwar.com/
groups.yahoo.com/group/stopiranwar
dontattackiran.org/
campaigniran.org/
codepink4peace.org/
peace-action.org/
traprockpeace.org
unitedforpeace.org/
worldcantwait.net
WhyAttackIran.Com
women4peace.org/
worldcantwait.org/
psr.org/documents/psr_doc_0/program_4/iran_attack.pdf
HONEST ELECTIONS SITES
BlueRevolution.us
videothevote.org
reportvotingproblems.org/
honestelections.us/
blackboxvoting.org/
verifiedvoting.org/
votefraud.org/
protectmyvote.rescueourdemocracy.org/
IMPEACHMENT SITES
afterdowningstreet.org
impeachbush.org/
impeachbush.tv/
impeachbushcoalition.blogspot.com/
impeachbush.meetup.com/
impeachpac.org/ -
impeachnow.org/
harpers.org/TheCaseForImpeachment.html
thenation.com/doc/20060130/holtzman
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
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.
11am at
COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON, 565 Boylston St. (Copley Square), Boston:
SPEAKERS FORUM: Danni West & Jason Lydon
"Gentrification by Genocide"
Systems of white supremacy target and displace People of Color throughout the United States and world-round. We will be examining how the impacts of the human-made disasters of Katrina/Rita are playing out and relate to us as Northeasterners. We will also be looking at how the policies affecting People of Color and poor folks in New Orleans coincides with those here in Boston.
Danni West is a fabulously queer organizer with the Groundwork Collective and various other projects for collective liberation and is currently living in Jamaica Plain. Jason Lydon is the Congregational Director at the Community Church of Boston, has worked with the "stop the bio-lab" campaign in Boston for well over a year and works with the Groundwork Collective as well.
noon-5pm at 1415 Hyde Park Ave. 3rd floor, Boston
No Sweat Apparel concludes its first annual open warehouse sale! This is your chance to shop the complete No Sweat catalogue in real time, in person. You can examine the goods, try on anything in stock, meet the staff, have a free cup of fair trade coffee and yummy organic snacks, do all your holiday shopping and pay no shipping on any size purchase!
While you're here, check out some fabulous artwork sponsored by
Bienestar International, Inc., Manufacturers of No Sweat Apparel
1415 Hyde Park Avenue, Suite 3.60, Boston, MA 02136.
1.877.992.7827
noon-8:30pm at The Democracy Center, 45 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge:
THE INDYMEDIA RADICAL FILM FEST (second day, fundraiser) The Democracy Center, 45 Mt. Auburn St. (corner Bow St.) Harvard Sq., Cambridge.
ADMISSION: $5 suggested donation
We will be showing political documentaries and feature films from all over the world. Among the films to be shown are "The Taking of the Media Oaxcanstyle," "Victor Jara: The Right To Live in Peace," "Tongues Untied," "Favela Rising," " Fourth World War," "Tragedy in Jakarta," "Free Voice of Labor," "This is What Democracy Looks Like." For a full listing and movie descriptions, check our website at:
3pm at Lucy Parsons Center, 549 Columbus Ave., Boston:
The New England Committee to Defend Palestine Commemorates the 89th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917 in which Britain--then colonial ruler of Palestine--promised Zionists a "home" on land owned by the indigenous people of Palestine.
For this year's Balfour commemoration, we will be showing films from the Al-Rowwad cultural center in Aida Refugee Camp near Bethlehem.
Aida camp has been one of the areas in the West Bank hit hardest by the Zionist military assault since the beginning of the Second Intifada. In 2002, the Zionists began building the Ghettoization wall around Aida camp within 20 meters of its houses. The village now stands enclosed by the wall with sniper towers overlooking its streets.
Al-Rowwad Center has upheld a mission of maintaining Palestinian culture among the children of the camp under military occupation and genocidal economic strangulation. The program will include scenes of life in the camp as presented by the refugees who live there, as well as their perspective on Palestinian history.
Program:
--Introduction Concerning the Balfour Declaration
--Short films from Al-Rowwad:
"Al-Nakba," a narration of the life of a refugee from 1948 now living in Aida Refugee camp.
"The Exam," a drama about a young Palestinian woman living in Aida camp who must navigate curfew and checkpoints to attend an exam and fulfill the requirements of her education.
Excepts from "We Are the Children of the Camp," a theatrical piece with music and traditional Debka performed by the children of Aida, dramatizing the history of Palestine.
7-9pm at First Parish Church, 3 Church St., Harvard Sq., Cambridge:
Bob Watada, with additional speakers and performers including Antonia Juhasz (author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy At a Time), Raed Jarrar (Iraq Project Director at Global Exchange), and Rostam Pourzal (President, US Branch, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Invervention in Iran).
Bob Watada's son, Lt. Ehren Watada, is the first US commissioned officer to refuse to deploy to the unlawful Iraq war and occupation. Based on this refusal, he has been charged with "contemptuous words" towards President Bush and conduct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman.
On August 24, the Article 32 pre-trial hearing investigator recommended a general court martial on all charges. On September 15, an additional specification under the charge of conduct unbecoming and officer and a gentleman was added for comments Lt. Watada made during an August 12 speech to the Veterans For Peace national convention. Lt. Watada stated that "to stop an illegal and unjust war, soldiers can choose to stop fighting it."
These charges represent the first military persecution of an objector for First Amendment speech since 1965 and, if convicted, Lt. Watada faces over eight years in military prison.
Bob Watada, Ehren's father, currently is touring the country to raise awareness of his son's courageous actions, organize support, and raise money for Ehren's defense. Public events are underway from Texas to North Carolina to Maine from October 26 to November 17.
Watada, a draft resister, served in the Peace Corps during the 60's rather than go to Vietnam. Years later, he was Executive Director of the Hawaii State Campaign Spending Commission, where his work exposed corruption and kickbacks that led to the imprisonment of major politicians.
7:30pm at Harvard Science Center, Hall B (1 Oxford St., Cambridge):
"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
Brookline Question 5 on election day:
We have the opportunity to actually influence the outcome of the vote on the Anti Iraq war referendum question on Nov 7 -- by standing at our polling places and handing out a small version of the text below.
If you would like to do it for a few hours either in the morning or evening on Nov 7, please let David Klafter know, and he can suggest which polling place would be most useful, as well as getting the handouts to you.
Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a resolution calling upon the President and Congress of the United States to end the war in Iraq immediately and bring all United States military forces home from Iraq? Call 617-835-6703 or email dbklafter@gmail.com.
4:30pm at MIT E51-345 (Cambridge):
The Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar~~established in 1985~~Professor Philip S. Khoury, Chair Return of the Middle East Cold War: A View from the Region's New Ideological Battle Front Speaker: Rami G. Khouri, Syndicated Columnist and Director, Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut
Rami Khouri is Palestinian-Jordanian, with U.S. citizenship. He is an internationally syndicated political columnist and the host of Encounter, a weekly current affairs talk show on Jordan Television. He also hosts a weekly radio program, and he spent the 2001 academic year at Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow. He was editor-in-chief for the Jordan Times newspaper for seven years. He often comments on Middle East issues for the BBC, NPR and CNN
Co-sponsored with the Technology and Culture Forum at MIT and the Center for International Studies
This program is free and open to the public; no registration is required, but seating is first come, first serve.
2pm at Harvard KSG: [This should call for a major protest]
Reporting on the War on Terror
Chris Isham, chief of investigative projects, ABC News
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA)
Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369 (Harvard KSG)
RSVP: sarah_donahue@ksg.harvard.edu
6-8pm at Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA. Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building:
Frances Moore Lappe and the Small Planet Institute are delighted to invite you to an upcoming event in your part of the world:
Consumer Democracy: When Voting Isn't Enough
What does it mean to participate as an active citizen in a living democracy? Is it enough to vote on election day? Millions of Americans have found a new way to vote - with their dollars instead of a ballot, every day instead of just once a year. Every day, shoppers cast their votes for socially and environmentally responsible products. Is consumer citizenship the new frontier of democracy?
The Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at the Kennedy School Small Planet Institute - 25 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 203, Cambridge, MA,
7pm Radical Film Night at the Lucy Parsons Center
Every Wednesday night at 7pm
Always Free
November 8 - Horns and Halos (2002)
HORNS AND HALOS captures the unlikely connection of three men - an ex-con turned celebrity biographer, a janitor cum underground publisher, and U.S. President George W. Bush - whose paths to power and popularity become tangled in a controversial book.
In October 1999, an article appeared in the New York Times indicating that publisher St. Martins Press had recalled FORTUNATE SON, the first published biography of George W. Bush, when it was revealed that the author, J.H. Hatfield, served five years in prison for solicitation of capital murder. At the time of its recall, the book was a bestseller, no doubt due to the book's allegations that Bush had been arrested for cocaine possession in 1972.
Several weeks later, small underground imprint Soft Skull Press, led by the self-styled "punk of publishing" Sander Hicks, announced that it would re-publish the book. They began operating out of a makeshift office in the basement of the building where he divides his time as the super.
Set against the backdrop of the fierce 2000 presidential campaign, Horns and Halos follows Hatfield and Hicks as they battle lawyers, media and mounting debt to get FORTUNATE SON back on shelves. After facing a lawsuit, a thrashing on 60 Minutes, and bankruptcy, Soft Skull attempts to make one last splash at the Book Expo of America. Hatfield reluctantly reveals his sources for the book's cocaine allegations, and the fallout is explosive.
Lucy Parsons Center, 549 Columbus Avenue, Boston's South End
Telephone: 617.267.6272
6:30 pm Ford Hall Forum and United for a Fair Economy present:
The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide with Meizhu Lui, Executive Director, United for a Fair Economy; Rebecca Adamson, Founder and President of First Nations Development Institute and Founder of First Peoples Worldwide; and Betsy Leondar-Wright author and Communications Director, United For a Fair Economy.
Ellsworth Theater, Pine Manor College, 400 Heath Street,
Chestnut Hill (Green Line D train to Chestnut Hill stop)
For every dollar in assets possessed by the average white family in the United States, the average family of color has less than a dime. Why is the distribution of wealth in our nation so uneven? Does public policy even when well intentioned reinforce existing inequalities? Do race and ethnicity continue to play a pivotal role in defining the haves and have-nots in our society? In this panel discussion, three leading experts on the wealth divide will explore the economic histories of Native Americans, Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, and European Americans, and tackle the relationship between race and finances in the United States.
Alex Minier 617-373-5800
7-9pm at MIT 54-100, Cambridge: Chiapas Media Project
A screening of three short films by indigenous filmmakers
The Chiapas Media Project is a bi-national partnership that provides tools and training so that marginalized indigenous communities can establish their own information outlets. The project provides video cameras, editing equipment, computers and appropriate training so that communities in Chiapas can tell their own stories in their own words. Aasia Mohammad of the Chiapas Media Project will introduce the three films and lead a discussion afterwards.
Films:
"Water and Autonomy," about the water challenges that people face in Chiapas and how communities are finding solutions
The event is free and open to the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Western Hemisphere Project, The Technology and Culture
Forum, Tecschange, MIT Womens Studies
For more information, contact:
Kendra Johnson
5pm at MIT Bartos Theater
(Weisner Building, Media Lab (E15-070)), 20 Ames Street, Cambridge:
CIS STARR FORUM: "IRAN, NORTH KOREA AND THE SECOND NUCLEAR AGE" ---Can we live with a nuclear Iran and North Korea? Will we have to? ---Would nuclear arsenals in Iran and North Korea prompt nuclear arms races in Asia, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf? ---How is the post-Cold War "Second Nuclear Age" different from the first?
* DAVID ALBRIGHT
* BARRY POSEN
* JIM WALSH
* JOHN TIRMAN (moderator)
MIT's Bartos Theater
9am Fri thru 3pm Sat at Monument Sq., Concord:
"Eyes Wide Open"
A moving exhibit of the boots of Iraq soldiers -
Monument Square, Concord, beginning with set up at 9am Friday, November 10 and continuing for 30 hours.
If you can volunteer to staff the exhibit for a 2 hour shift, please contact Rev. John Hudson, Pastor of West Concord Union Church at
RevJFHudson@aol.com_ or (978) 287-5395 (cell phone).
Grassroots Actions for Peace
9am-4pm at the Peace Abbey, Sherborn:
The New England Peace Studies Association (NEPSA) invites high school and college students and faculty to their November 11th conference:
ENVISIONING PEACE: PRACTICAL STRATEGIES.
This one-day gathering at the Peace Abbey is organized to network and meet others, who will share practical, effective, non-violent ways to work and succeed developing personal and community based strategies that honor the importance of "inner peace" while creating the environment for peace in our communities and the world.
Featured events: A play by True Story Theater
(truestorytheater.org), videos about nonviolence in history, and a variety of workshops including: High School Organizing, Psychological Issues in The Peace Movement, Understanding Conflict in The Middle East Grassroots activism, War Resisters League, and more.
Cost: $25 faculty, $ 5 student
For more info call 508-650-3659 or email kathleen.kautzer@regiscollege.edu
11am at
COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON, 565 Boylston St. (Copley Square), Boston:
MILITARY FAMILIES SPEAK OUT
"Honoring Veterans for Peace"
Community Church of Boston
2:30-4:30pm at the Goodnow (Public) Library, 21 Concord Rd., Sudbury:
Dr. Marcia Angell (former editor, NEJM, and author of "The Truth About the Drug Companies:
How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It")
Will talk about "The REAL Way to Universal Health Care"
Sponsored by LWV Sudbury
978-443-8609
noon-6pm at AFSC, 2161 Mass. Ave., Cambridge:
Nonviolent Direct Action Training Workshop
The facilitators will be Sam Diener, co-editor of Peaceworks Magazine and Elisabeth Leonard of Code Pink, WILPF and UJP. As usual, the format will be interactive and designed to meet the needs of the particular enrolees. We are asking people to make firm commitments ASAP so that we can count on a viable group for the design of the workshop.
Subjects to be covered: the Elements, Characteristics and Practice of Nonviolent Engagement; Strategy Development/Campaign Building; Affinity Groups/Group Process/Action Planning; Strategic Considerations for Risking Arrest; Using the Media.
Call Elisabeth at 617 561-9139 or 617 661-6130 (AFSC) today to sign up
7:30pm in Newton:
Newton Dialogues will present a panel discussion of the implications of the November 7 elections. We will have local politicians and academics on hand. What next for our country? Check our website for details
[$$$$] 8pm at Kresge Auditorium (Bldg W16), MIT, Cambridge:
The Arab Students Organization present:
FREEDOM DANCE By El-Funoun Popular Dance Troupe
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