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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.
This is an invitation to join the Boston Tea Party Conference call,
should you wish to join in. Participant call in: 402-756-9100; Access code: 680903#
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.
"A cell phone captured video of a 23-year-old student being administered multiple Taser shocks by UCLA police on Tuesday. The UCLA student was hit with the Taser shocks multiple times while he was in the Powell Library Computer Lab. According to the paper, (Mostafa) Tabatabainejad did not show ID to community service officers who were conducting a random check," reports NBC.
Watch the video above and witness as the cops bark at Tabatabainejad to get to his feet as simultaneously shock him over and over until he begins crying and screaming for them to stop.
Police are given extensive training on the use of stun guns and in most cases that training involves taking a taser shot and feeling the effects. Depending on each individual's physiology, it takes at least a minute to be able to even stand after a single Taser shot. Over a hundred deaths have occurred in America as a result of taser shocks and Taser's own manual discourages repeated shocks, yet the history of their use tells us that police simply administer repeated shocks until "compliance is gained." This is a euphemism for torture.
The video and the eyewitness reports describe multiple taser shots as Tabatabainejad begs and pleads while at one point screaming, "Here's your Patriot Act, here's your f---ing abuse of power."
The officers repeatedly order Tabatabainejad to stand even as they administer further shocks - sending 50,000 volts of current that override the nervous system and temporarily paralyze muscles shooting through his system again and again. He can't stand and the cops know it, they just get off on the maniacal ego power trip of torture and this is why Tabatabainejad is hit again and again despite his screaming and the protests of the onlookers.
We need to set a precedent now whereby police who use taser stun guns and any other kind of unreasonable force as implements of torture, simply if an individual refuses to have their 4th amendment right illegally violated, are instantly fired, sued and can never work in any sector of government, policing or security again.
ACTION: Call UCLA and demand an investigation into this
incident.
BE POLITE. 310-825-4321
WHAT: Various Oaxaca-based human rights organizations have asked the Oaxaca Solidarity Network to help increase the international presence here by organizing educational delegations to Oaxaca to observe the current, ongoing government repression in the city, and to develop international solidarity efforts.
October 30 this year marked the arrival of some 4000 federal riot (Federal Preventative Police/PFP) police to break up a non-violent popular movement calling for true participatory democracy and an end to widespread government corruption and grinding poverty. Since the PFP arrived in Oaxaca, there have been 7 murders, more than 100 arbitrary detentions, hundreds of wounded and searches without warrants of homes of many popular leaders. There are documented reports of torture and disappearances.
ITINERARY: During the 5 days in Oaxaca, delegates will have a series of meetings with families of the murdered, detained and disappeared, leaders of the popular movement, government officials, human rights activists, journalists, local grassroots indigenous rights organizations, representatives of the business community, police representatives, and U.S. Consul staff. The itinerary also includes a day-long trip to Tlaxiaco, in the Mixteca Alta region, where we’ll meet with the human rights organization Nu’u Ji Kaandi, and people who recently were arbitrarily detained because of their participation in the non-violent social movement..
WHO: Our trip is being organized and hosted by the Oaxaca Solidarity Network, in collaboration with various human rights organizations, and is sponsored by Rights Action. The Oaxaca Solidarity Network is a collective of concerned U.S. and Mexican citizens working to raise international awareness of the non-violent popular social movement here, and create international pressure to end the widespread human rights violations throughout the city and state of Oaxaca.
We invite ANY interested persons or organization to join our delegation. The Oaxacan Solidarity Network and the Red Oaxaqueña de Derechos Humanos have specifically asked for solidarity and for human rights observers, so we are particularly interested in the participation of activists, journalists, lawyers, professors, students and others who, upon return to the U.S. or Canada, can work effectively to put the current abuses into the international spotlight.
COST: This will be a ‘pay-as-you-go’ delegation. Delegates are responsible for their own travel costs to and from Oaxaca; we are also asking for a $100 fee to be paid to the Oaxaca Solidarity Network, to help pay for our costs in planning, hosting and translating for this delegation. We estimate that room, board and travel will cost $55/ day.
CONTACT: Jacob Muller, Oaxaca Solidarity Network,
info@oaxacasolidarity.org
THE EMERGENCY DELEGATION:
The emergency human rights delegation to Oaxaca is being
offered to promote international awareness and solidarity. Participants will
meet with key players on both sides of the conflict:
Participants in the delegation will gain a detailed, balanced and informed glimpse into Oaxacan civil society today, and the dangerous crisis it is facing.
The goals of the delegation are twofold: to provide an in- depth understanding of the Oaxacan popular movement and the government’s response, and to spread that awareness widely upon the delegates’ return to the U.S. and/or Canada. It is our hope that such knowledge and awareness can aid in the growing movement of international solidarity with the people of Oaxaca.
The pressure of international solidarity can help curb the violence, arbitrary detentions and murders of Oaxacans involved in the movement for true democracy and a politics based on hope, respect and justice.
From Carol Moore, a DC activist
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
From Steve Iskovitz (Green party member and concerned person who is working in southern Louisiana):
As most of you probably know, I'm down here in southern Louisiana working with Emergency Communities, providing relief to Katrina victims.
If you have any of the following items which you're looking to give away, there are people down here in Plaquemines Parish who can use them:
warm clothes-- it doesn't get as cold down here as it does in Boston, but with the dampness and winds, it can get cold in the winter, toys, sports equipment-- a lot of kids down here whose lives have been disrupted, looking for things to do. Today after dinner I played hockey with a little boy in the dining area, with a broken hockey stick and a plastic disk of some sort that was lying around.
tools: Since virtually all buildings were ruined by the flood, many people are involved in rebuilding. There was talk of setting up a tool-lending operation, but someone pointed out that this could be quite inconvenient, and why not utilize the extra tools people probably have lying around in areas not affected by disaster?
Here are some of the tools people have suggested:
hammers
nails
hack-saw blades
wood files, metal files
screwdrivers-- phillips or flathead
crowbars
drywall tape
drills and bits
nailguns
If you have these items and would like to donate them, you should package them tightly in boxes, label the contents, address them to:
Steve Iskovitz Emergency Communities 36342 Highway 11 Buras, LA 70041
Then contact Terra Friedrichs, who will co-ordinate shipping. Here's her contact info:
Boston area people: We're looking for someone who's willing to help deliver the boxes to a drop-off point in Carlisle, Mass.
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.
The Transgender Day of Remembrance was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder in 1998 kicked off the "Remembering Our Dead" web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Since then, the event has grown to encompass memorials in dozens of cities across the world.
Evan R. Hempel is a writer from Boston, MA. He is a transgender activist, who works in cancer healthcare. He does work with Mass Trans Political Coalition, Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Coalition, and The Network/La Red. He has been published in Pinned Down by Pronouns. He also serves as co-chair of LGBT Affinity Group at Dana-Farber, and sits on the the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Diversity Committee.
Dr. Mallat, a leading academic, legal scholar and democracy activist, is running for President of Lebanon. He holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Law at Universite Saint-Joseph in Beirut and is currently a visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton at Princeton University. He has taught international and Islamic law at London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Yale Law School,and other major universities.Over a period of two decades, Dr. Mallat has had consistent record of intervention and reflection on issues of human rights, crimes against humanity, the democratic process, and the rule of law, engaging the international judicial, political, and media arena topromote creative and pragmatic solutions. His many publications include The Renewal of Islamic Law: Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr, Najaf and the Shi'i International (Cambridge University Press).
BETWEEN 2 AND 3 P.M., DR. MALLAT WILL BE MEETING WITH LEBANESE STUDENTS IN BOSTON AREA-UNIVERSITIES. THE MEETING WILL BE HELD AT THE FARES CENTER.
Directions to Tufts University: http://www.tufts.edu/home/maps/?p=medford
For further information contact: Fares Center - Omar A. Dauhajre 617-627-6560
A talk on The talk will be given by Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center of the Kennedy School of Government, and Former Deputy Israeli National Security Advisor
Join us for an evening of facilitated conversation, where you can speak safely from your own place of wisdom about a volatile place in the world that touches all our lives:
This is an opportunity to deepen our understanding as well as our capacity for listening and empathy. The intent is not to convince one another of our political opinions or to promote debate.
Through facilitated groups and circles, we aim to create a space that expands our ability for conversation and fosters peace building and a sense of community and connection.
Sponsored by:
Watertown Citizens for Environmental Safety (WCES)
Watertown’s Voice for Peace,the Environment and Social Justice
Please email wces@rcn.com or call 617-395-6635 if you plan to attend, so we may ensure a sufficient number of facilitators.
Parts 1 and 2
The remaining parts will be shown in December and January.
Part 1: Did You See A Green Line?
Part 2: The Market Square is Empty
In Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles.
Total time: 110 minutes
Followed by Discussion
Chaim Yavin has been the anchor of Israel’s Channel 1's news broadcasts since the founding of Israeli television in 1968. The director of more than 80 television documentaries, he is known as “Mr. TV” and “the face of Israeli news.”
At age 72, Yavin embarked on a two and a half year journey in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. With a small hand-held camera he spoke with and filmed hundreds of settlers, soldiers, and Palestinians. He produced a five-part documentary, The Land of the Settlers: A Journey Log.
Channel 1, the state television station that Yavin helped found, chose not to televise the documentary. Channel 2, a commercial channel, aired it in the summer of 2005. In a September 2005 Boston Globe op ed piece, Yavin described the reaction:
“It created uproar. The settlers demanded my resignation, while others said the series was an eye-opener. For most TV viewers in Israel I have been for years the objective anchorman and documentarist, and now people were asking, ‘Whatever happened to this guy? Where is his objectivity?’”
For more information and upcoming events, visit
Friends of Ashland Library
John Conyers, Jr, is the Ranking Member, U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. Rosanne M. Leipzig, is Professor and Vice Chair for Education at Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and also Deputy Editor, Geriatric Medicine (4th Edition)
6:00 pm Reception ($20, students $5)
7:30 pm Forum (free)
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, Manhattan
(accessible entrance: 243 Thompson Street)
SUBWAYS: A, B, C, D, E, F, V trains to “West 4th St.”
R train to “8th St.” • 1 train to “Christopher St.”
RESERVATIONS NOT REQUIRED
BUT RSVP TO ASSURE A SPACE: pnhpnyc@igc.org or 212-666-4001
The film explores the ideas and histories of groundbreaking artists Marshall McLuhan and Paik Nam-june, hippy idealists such as Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey, counterculturalists such as John Brockman and Stewart Brand, cyberneticists such as Robert W.Taylor and Heinz von Foerster, and terrorist Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.
MassCOSH's 30th Anniversary: 30 years of hard work, one night of incredible fun! Don't miss the birthday party of the year, celebrating 3 decades of fighting for safe, healthy working conditions. From 6 PM ? 1 AM at Club Lido, 1290 North Shore Road Revere, by Wonderland T; Individual tickets: $40 min. donation requested Call Khadijah Britton for information on Sponsorships, Ad rates, In-kind donations or Limited-Income ticket prices: 617-825-7233 x14 or email MassCOSH.org.
Please join us for a panel discussion with five Middle Eastern women who will talk about their lives and the emerging challenges that they face as Middle Easterners in the United States.
Moderated by Lesley University Professors Arlene Dallalfar and Rose Marie Knickles.
Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by Lesley University's Women Studies Resource Group and the Social Science Division at Lesley College.
A one-day symposium featuring panels on Tufts graduate student research work conducted in Cuba under the Tufts-Cuban Experience Program, and lectures by two noted Cuban scholars.
Symposium Schedule:
9:00-9:30am Registration
9:30-11:00am Graduate Student Panel I:
Sustainability and Development of Social Welfare:
A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to the Cuban Model
11:30-1:00pm Lecture on Sustainable Development in Cuba by Dr. Richard Levins,
John Rock Professor of Population Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health
1:00-2:00pm Lunch
2:00-3:30pm Graduate Student Panel II:
Politics and Practices of Governance & Civic Participation in Cuba
4:00-5:30pm Lecture on Cuba Today:
Politics and Civil Society by Dr. Rafael Hernandez, University of Havana,
Cuba's Advanced Institute of International Relations,
and current Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies
at Harvard University
5:30-7:00pm Reception
For more information call: 617-627-3363
Meeting outside Park Street T-stop at 11:30am
March, Rally and Outreach from 12-2pm
Boston for Bhopal will be carrying coffins and bearers representing those who died and are dying daily in Bhopal to raise awareness about this ongoing disaster. At the end of our march, we will hear from Klare X. Allen of Roxbury Safety Net who is working to prevent parallel injustices from taking place in Boston with the BU Biolab.
Please join Jewish Voice for Peace-Boston for a demonstration "to end the siege of Gaza and call upon Israel to embark upon negotiations with the Palestinian legitimate representative. Israel and the international community must respect the political choice of the Palestinian people."
Arrowsmith Press will celebrate the publication of three books and two broadsides. Jason Shinder's widely anticipated-and already much talked about-stunning new book of poems, Arrow Breaking Apart, will be published in two editions, including a signed, limited version, lettered A to Z. Some of these poems have already appeared to great acclaim in the American Poetry Review and other leading journals. The limited edition includes a signed broadside. We will also release two books by and about Daniel Berrigan, S.J., whose first book of poetry was a Lamont Poetry Selection in 1957. The poet and peace activist is widely regarded as the most important voice on behalf of non-violent civil disobedience since Martin Luther King, Jr. Beyond Alchemy is a selection of poems with an introduction by Maureen McLane. Conscience, Consequence is a brief anthology of essays about Father Berrigan, including pieces by Howard Zinn, Fanny Howe, James Carroll, and Lawrence Rosenwald.
We will also publish a limited edition broadside of a poem by Gail Mazur, Borges in Cambridge, 1967, as well as Handmade Shoes by Liam Rector. Two of this country's most highly regarded poets, Mazur and Rector will be present to read their poems and inscribe them. Daniel Berrigan and Jason Shinder will also be on hand to read and sign books.
The Boston Organizing Committee for the World Social Forum is hosting an evening of discussion and a light dinner to explore how the global struggles of Africans are shaped by the dynamics of race, class and gender in a neoliberal world economic order. This program is part of a series in preparation for the World Social Forum 2007, Nairobi, Kenya.
Speakers: Zine Magubane, a scholar who has explored how colonialism has shaped how we look at ourselves & others, will be speaking about race and gender dynamics on both the continent and in the diasporas.
Chengiah Ragaven is both an academic and human rights activist. His talk will look at the emergence of a neoliberal South Africa out of the grassroots struggles of that country's working people.
Jeanne Koopman has examined gender roles shape economic development and how neoliberalism, in turn, impacts the former.
At the beginning of the program we will screen a short documentary, "How Big is Africa?" The talks and discussion will be followed by a light dinner. Suggested donation is $5.00.
For more information about the Boston Organizing Committee for the WSF and this event, please visit: http://www.lfsc.org/wsf
To download the flyer, please visit: http://www.massglobalaction.org/projects/flyer-2006-12-02.pdf
Dr. KumKum Modwel quit a
promising career at Union Carbide because she recognized the
catastrophic threat that the plant posed to its workers and to
the city of Bhopal. She was exposed to the gas during the
disaster and will talk about her experiences at Union Carbide,
as a survivor, and her return visit to Bhopal 20 years later.
More information at
Come out and hear from union leaders in Iraq about the conditions that they organize under and ways that we can help them build solidarity.
Joe Hill, the "man who never died", was the most renowned writer of labor songs the United States has produced. After emigrating from Sweden to the U.S. in 1902, Hill bummed his way around working as a musician, longshoreman, machinist, and lumberjack. In 1910 he joined the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a revolutionary industrial union, and remained an active and dedicated member until his frame-up and execution in 1915 for a murder he almost certainly did not commit.
Joe Hill was the most prominent of a group of songwriters who transformed the IWW into a singing union as it fought the capitalists and strove to establish industrial democracy. Most of HIil's songs are set to the melodies of religious hymns and popular songs of the early 20th century. Several, including "The Preacher and the Slave", "Casey Jones the Union Scab", and "Mr. Block" still have wide currency.
Bo Widerberg's "Joe Hill" film was produced in Sweden in 1971. It is an above-ground color movie which tells the story of Hill's life and the circumstances of his death. The movie was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971 aand subsequently played in first-run theaters around the world. Since then, it has rarely been seen and the IWW and the Lucy Parson's Center are fortunate to have located this copy. .
We will be showing the recently released documentary Sir! No Sir. This prize winning film is the story of the anti war movement among GIs
during the Viet Nam War
Admission is $5 to support these great organizations!
Assembling Peace parties are designed to create a setting in which veteran activists can gather, network and socialize in a fun, relaxed and positive setting while encouraging interested newcomers to learn about and participate in political and social awareness and action. At an Assembling Peace party you can expect to find a variety of activist groups speaking and tabling, musical and theatrical performers, film, books, art, food, beer, wine, coffee, food, dancing, massage and more.
We are especially interested in having organizations set up information tables and providing a speaker on the subjects of the anti-war movement, global justice, class, human rights, racism, sexism, environmental sustainability, labor, trade, capitalism, socialism, etc. We are also seeking musicians, artists, massage therapists, food, volunteers, donations, etc.
Assembling Peace IV is a fundraiser for the Stop the Wars Coalition (STWC). The Stop the Wars Coalition is an anti-war group that formed out of the organizing efforts in the Boston area during 2005 to stage a mass rally against the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After successfully staging a rally and march on October 29, 2005 featuring Cindy Sheehan and 3,000 participants; the October 29^th Coalition evolved into the Greater Boston Stop the Wars Coalition, which has continued to stage anti-war protests, host speakers, hold meetings, stage teach-ins and push the "How Many More campaign in the Boston area.
Mass Global Action is organizing a "welcome back benefit" with Noam Chomsky and several other public intellectuals and activists, "What's Next? Creating another world in a time of war, empire and ecological devastation." He will be joined by an organizer of the upcoming United States Social Forum. Additional speakers have been invited (see Encuentro 5 for updates and to download flyers)
Emmanuel Church is close to the MBTA Green Line's Arlington Street T-stop. Online ticket purchasing will begin on Wednesday, 10/18/06. The regular ticket price is $20 (with low-income/unemployed/student tix available for $10). All proceeds will benefit the new Boston movement-building space and organizing center, encuentro 5. For more information, please send an e-mail to info@encuentro5.org or call 617-482-6300.