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Registrations will only be taken online. Non-members may register AND join MCAN at a discount.
Cost: $45 for members; $75 for nonmembers.
Plenary Speakers
Ian Bowles
Rob Pratt
Warren Leon
Organized & hosted by:
MCAN & MIT's Technology & Culture Forum.
Michael Avery, one of the lawyers suing George W. Bush for illegal electronic surveillance, will speak about violations of the Constitution and federal laws that have occurred during this administration. He will discuss various ways in which citizens can hold their president accountable for the violations of rights that have taken place in the name of a "war on terror".
Michael is professor of law at Suffolk University Law School and director of its Civil Litigation concentration. He speaks frequently on the topics of constitutional law and/or police misconduct. He's had extensive involvement with the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, Center for Constitutional Rights, Civil Liberties Union of MA and National Lawyers Guild, which he recently served as president. In addition to more than 20 years of private practice, he taught at the law schools of Boston College, Georgia State Univ., Northeastern Univ. and Yale Univ.
Arlington Street Church, Ministry for the Earth/Social Action Film Series ACT IV of Spike Lee's award-winning documentary, "When the Levees Broke" will be shown. ACT IV focuses an the return of New Orleans residents and their attempts to rebuild. The movie will be followed by a discussion.
Chimpanzees' ability to learn and express themselves in sign language sheds light on their emotional life and thought processes. As intermediaries between humans and other animals, chimpanzees can open the door to achieving greater protection and compassion for all nonhuman species.
Theodora Capaldo, PhD, will speak on the use of chimpanzees in research and testing, its ethical and medical consequences, and the role of chimpanzees as ambassadors for all animals in research. Her talk will include a presentation and information on NEAVS' national campaign "Project R&R," and on legislation (in collaboration with HSUS and others) that is being introduced on behalf of the 1,300 chimpanzees currently in U.S. laboratories.
5:15 PM - SOCIAL DINNER - let us get to know you!
Stay and enjoy Grasshopper's delicious unlimited vegan buffet for $9.50 + tax + tip. Includes appetizers, soups, salad, numerous entrees, and fresh melons.
No RSVP needed, just come on by! Everyone is welcome; bring your friends.
LOCATION for seminar and dinner:
Grasshopper (an all-vegan restaurant)
1 North Beacon St.
Union Square, Allston (Boston)
617-254-8883
Evelyn Kimber
Boston Vegetarian Society
617-424-8846
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Lou Dobbs is the anchor and managing editor of CNN¹s Lou Dobbs Tonight as well as a best-selling author and syndicated columnist.
Equal time will be provided for prepared remarks and questions from the audience.
Racism and war (at home and abroad) are parts of a system of oppression that affects all of us. We must all (including white, middle-class/privileged peace activists) work together to overcome the racism that fuels our wars abroad.
Program includes: PAIN: testimony from casualties of war abroad and at home: Iraq vets, CORI victims; ANALYSIS: antiracist dialogue about war abroad and at home; ACTION: antiracist next steps for peace following the leadership of communities of color.
Co-Sponsored by DORCHESTER PEOPLE FOR PEACE and COMMUNITY CHANGE, INC. Joined by Boston City Counselor CHUCK TURNER
Refreshments will be served.
Program starts at 6:45.
Wheelchair accessible.
Please call 617-282-3783 if you need childcare or a ride, or
have other needs.
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.
In this movie about a filmmaker named Oscar (Oscar Alvarez, the internationally recognized Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez-Alea (1928-1996) tackled the problems men have in conceding authority and autonomy to women in Cuba.
In 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.
Workers at Smithfield’s Tar Heel pork processing plant have faced over a decade of human rights, health and safety, and environmental abuses. This Thanksgiving, help us say that Massachusetts does not want products made under these conditions by joining us at Hannaford’s in Quincy. With your help, Stop & Shop, Market Basket, Shaw’s, and Food Master have reconsidered selling Tar Heel made products. Hannaford’s is the last supermarket chain in Eastern Massachusetts to sell Tar Heel made products. With your help, we can educate Hannaford’s and its shoppers to see that products made under these conditions do not live up to our community standards.
Contact Info:
Jennifer at Jobs With Justice
617-524-8778
When you see the three entree choices, you may want to attend today and tomorrow (see below)!
Join us at My Thai Cafe Vegetarian in Brookline for a four-course fixed holiday menu that is specially designed to offer favorites of the season like pumpkin and butternut squash, presented with the exotic blends of Thai cuisine. Varied flavors, textures, and beautiful presentation/eye appeal were all considered in planning this meal offered at $20.50+T+T.
Arrive any time. Open seating at friendly group tables, so never hesitate to arrive alone!
When you see the three entree choices, you may want to attend today and tomorrow (see below)!
Join us at My Thai Cafe Vegetarian in Brookline for a four-course fixed holiday menu that is specially designed to offer favorites of the season like pumpkin and butternut squash, presented with the exotic blends of Thai cuisine. Varied flavors, textures, and beautiful presentation/eye appeal were all considered in planning this meal offered at $20.50+T+T.
Arrive any time. Open seating at friendly group tables, so never hesitate to arrive alone!
Filmmaker Kim Snyder, fueled by the same rage at an unresponsive system that has spawned many a great social documentary, has taken up the fight for the more than 500,000 sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome living in the United States today. Afflicted with CFS herself, she sets out to learn more about this baffling malady, examining not only the medical mystery, but the reaction of society to the uncertain and the inexplicable.
Since 1970, Native Americans have gathered at noon on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US thanksgiving holiday. Many Native Americans do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims and other European settlers. Thanksgiving day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands, and the relentless assault on Native culture. Participants in National Day of Mourning honor Native ancestors and the struggles of Native peoples to survive today. It is a day of remembrance and spiritual connection as well as a protest of the racism and oppression which Native Americans continue to experience.
For Information:
United American Indians of New England/LPSG
(617)522-6626
The Earth's climate has been pushed dangerously "out of balance" by reliance on fossil fuels. This film depicts the powerful influence on national energy and environmental policy wielded by ExxonMobil, but also offers hope about what we can do.
Please join the First Parish of Concord Green Sanctuary Committee and North Bridge Alliance for Democracy as they sponsor this provocative showing and discussion.
Discussion afterwards will be led by Tom Jackson, the film's director, and Ross Gelbspan, climate change investigative reporter.
For information please call (978) 369-1181.
"Every Little Thing" is a documentary set at La Borde, an innovative psychiatric clinic where patients are liberated to actively participate in the running the facility, and where Felix Guattari developed the model of psychotherapy.
Among the many distinctive aspects of La Borde is the annual summer tradition in which the patients and staff work together to perform a play, and the film follows the production of an absurdist contemporary German work.
With a hint of humor and irony, Sergio Arau tells the story of California's near economic collapse due to a sudden disappearing of the Mexican population.
To be introduced by a guest presenter.
Venue #: 617-495-3366
Contact: Kit Barron
Dr. Jeff Taylor will speak and answer questions about such topics as the conflict between isolationism and imperialism, the lack of difference between the two major parties on foreign policy, and the "Jeffersonian" tendencies of the American people vs. the "Hamiltonian" outlook of the foreign policy elite. The talk will also include analysis of recent political developments such as the failure of the Democratic-controlled Congress to oppose the Iraq war and the growing interest in the Ron Paul presidential candidacy.
Jeff Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Western Illinois University. His book, Where Did the Party Go? William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy, was published by University of Missouri Press in 2006.
Dr. Taylor is appearing courtesy of the Antiwar League of Boston.
contact: Doug Fuda at 617-331-1491
Free and open to the public.
The MBTA on October 10th started broadcasting
continuous [corporate] radio ads and "music" at South
Station, North Station and Airport Station with a plan
to expand the continuous radio broadcast system-wide
after Thanksgiving. This will adversely monopolize
this historic First Amendment public space:
1. Curtail and Interfere with Conversations of all
MBTA patrons
2. Curtail and Interfere with Reading of all MBTA
patrons
3. Target ads to all School Children who use the MBTA
4. Eliminate Subway Musician Performances
We, the undersigned, support the diversity of
expression of patrons and artists in the subway. We
petition Governor Deval Patrick and Massachusetts Bay
Transportation Authority Board of Directors to stop
the T-Radio broadcast.
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.
IMPEACH VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY -- (Congressional Record, House of Representatives - November 07, 2007)
(Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. KUCINICH. "Mr. Speaker, yesterday I brought articles of impeachment before this House. The articles have been referred to the Judiciary Committee, and the people of the United States now have a chance to become engaged in a broad discussion about the importance of this action."
"People ask, why now? Well, recently, the administration asked for millions of dollars to be included in the defense budget to retrofit Stealth B-2 bombers with 30,000-pound bombs that can be used to bomb nuclear research labs in Iran at Natans and Bushir. Think of the humanitarian and ecological disaster that would come from that kind of a bombing."
"This administration, which took license to go to war based on lies, must be held accountable. And the Vice President must be held accountable for his role in bringing about the war against Iraq and in trying to beat the drums for a war against Iran."
"As has been pointed out here, we have so many needs here at home. We have people who are losing their homes, losing their pensions, losing their jobs, losing their health care, and we must bring discipline in this House to hold this administration accountable unto the law, so we can begin to focus on a domestic agenda and stop waging aggressive war."
"Impeach the Vice President."
TOLL-FREE PHONE NUMBERS FOR THE U.S. CAPITOL SWITCHBOARD
US House of Representatives Web Sites
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.