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THIS IS AN URGENT ACTION ALERTS 1959 "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007" must be stopped at all costs. (It's already been approved by the House of Representatives by a HUGE majority.) Pick up your phone and contact our US Senators' offices to instruct them to vote "NO" on S.1959. If this bill is passed, and becomes law, your words and actions could be considered terrorism. S 1959 EVISCERATES FREE SPEECH, and empowers the govt. to declare ANYTHING they deem an "extremist belief system", instantly make you a terrorist, resulting in stripping of US citizenship, torture, and/or execution, with no habeas corpus rights, no ability to challenge even in the US Supreme Court. ____________AN URGENT CALL TO ACTION FROM THE VENEZUELA SOLIDARITY NETWORK SHOUT OUT FOR VENEZUELA: NOVEMBER 30TH THROUGH DECEMBER 7TH TELL CONGRESS: NO US SPONSORED COUP ATTEMPT IN VENEZUELA Venezuela is under direct threat!!! New evidence has been uncovered about plans to overthrow the democratically elected government of Venezuela, and even to assassinate its president, Hugo Chavez. The time for American citizens who favor justice and non-intervention to spring into action is not the day after a coup, but the days before! Email us or Call us at 202-544-9355 or 520-243-0381 ____________STOP ILLEGAL DOMESTIC WIRETAPS! |
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Come celebrate activism, community and our struggles for justice as the Community Church of Boston awards the 2007 Sacco & Vanzetti award to City Councillor Chuck Turner. Councillor Turner will be honored for his decades-long service to the community and ongoing activism, and will present a talk to help us answer the question, "Where do we go from here? Strategies for the 21st Century."
Speakers at the event this year will also include City Councilor Felix Arroyo; Executive Director of METCO, Jean McGuire; community organizer for over 55 years, elected politician, and former Adjunct Professor at MIT, Mel King; musician, songwriter, and faculty member at Berklee College of Music, Danielle Scott; and others.
The event is also a fundraiser for the Community Church of Boston. Tickets are available for $20.00, $5.00 for youth and seniors. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. All are welcome! This event is co-sponsored by the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute and Safety Net.
As we commemorate the injustice afforded Sacco and Vanzetti 80 years ago we lift up the work and struggle of those who are fighting today for justice to reach all people.
Join kids from the Workmen's Circle as they hold a public rally in the Longwood area to demand Free & Fair Elections. The Workmen's Circle is a membership- based progressive Jewish community and cultural center in Brookline. Members of the Workmen's Circle have long supported workers' right to organize a union. A free and fair election means that employees are free to decide whether they want to unionize in a fair secret ballot vote. Management, rather than interfering, respects this decision and allow workers.
In commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
This panel is part of a three day series organized by Jericho Boston.
Let us remember and honor, not only the political prisoners being held in the US, but also those being held everywhere in the world, in places like Palestine, Turkey, the Basque Country to name a few.
We are honored to have as speakers: Ashanti Alston (former Black Liberation Army Political Prisoner) Edwin Cortes (former FALN Prisoner of War) Jihad Abdul- Mumit (former Black Liberation Army Political Prisoner) Pam Africa (MOVE! Organization, ICFFMAJ) Ward Churchill (American Indian Movement, Author) Speaking on their struggle and of their people's struggle to overcome the fierce repression and imperialism unleashed onto them for their fight for self determination and freedom from oppression.
CORI and other draconian laws are being passed to keep people, especially people of color, marginalized and disenfranchised.
Join us to strategize to bring our freedom fighters home and liberate our communities!
Sponsors: Jericho-Boston (617)830-0732, and NECDP.
Tune in to Radio Venezuela en Vivo - BROADCASTING LIVE NOW - Caracas is one hour ahead of East Coast
Radio Mission Statement
Venezuela En Vivo is a live web-streaming internet radio based in Caracas, Venezuela, and broadcast in English, French and Portuguese by a group of Venezuelan and international journalists, academics and activists living and working in Venezuela.
The radio will report on the latest breaking news in and around the day of Venezuela´s December 2nd Constitutional Reform Referendum; cover the destabilization attempts against the democratic electoral process; put the events in to context with interviews and analytical content; and act as an alternative source of news to the mainstream media, which has proven time and again unable to report independently and unbiased on Venezuela.
The radio will begin periodic broadcast on Thursday, November 29th and will continue in to the following week. Special 24 hour coverage will take place on December 2nd.
English, French, Portuguese languages in different hours. Our best guess for English is 4-5pm and 6-8pm EST.
In order to promote dialogue and express various ideas, Students for Peace and the Boston University Palestinian-Israeli Peace Alliance are hosting an event on December 2, 2007 to foster communication about the conference and its results. The event will open with a short presentation by Boston University International Relations Professor Charles Dunbar, about the conference. Afterwards, the floor will open up to you, the participants, so that you can engage in
dialogue with others and voice your opinion in an intellectually stimulating setting.
There will be no political agenda promoted or presented and everything is off the record so feel free to say anything.
After the open dialogue portion there will be Middle- Eastern cuisine and entertainment by the ABAN duo (Arab and Jewish musicians) to allow smaller group conversation.
Co-sponsors to date: ARABSA - BU Arab Student Association, MITSI - MIT Students for Israel, PJA Harvard Progressive Jewish Alliance.
Two and a half months ago thousands of people from all 50 states and over a dozen countries fasted on the day that the U.S. Congress returned from its summer recess. Our message to them: It's time to step it up and pass strong climate legislation!!
They haven't done that yet, but there's a chance they'll pass an important bill when they return from their Thanksgiving break. It is likely that Congress will vote on a federal energy bill in the first week of December. This energy bill could be a pretty good bill, depending in large part upon the success of the grassroots lobbying campaign that USCEC and other groups have been waging for weeks. This bill has the potential to begin to turn the U.S. away from fossil fuels and toward the clean energy revolution we so desperately need.
I plan to be up on Capitol Hill that entire week, starting the morning of Monday, December 3rd. I'll be on the 91st day of my climate emergency fast. I will spend every day that week, if necessary, buttonholing Senators and Representatives, going to their offices, going to key committee hearings, urging them to stand up strong for renewable energy, energy efficiency and cleaner cars and against subsidies for oil, coal and nuclear power.
Will you join me? Ted Glick (on liquid-only fast 90 days now)
Walden Bello is Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, Professor of Sociology and Public Administration at the University of the Philippines, and a Fellow of the Transnational Institute. He is the author of numerous books on Asian issues and globalization, including Dilemmas of Domination: the Unmaking of the American Empire (2005).
An academic as well as an activist, Bello obtained his PhD in sociology from Princeton University in the US in 1975 and has been a full professor at the University of the Philippines at Diliman since 1997. He has also served as visiting professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (2002), UC Irvine (2006), and UC Santa Barbara (2006). He also taught for four years, 1978-82, at UC Berkeley. He was Chancellor's Fellow at UC Irvine in 2004 and was awarded an honorary PhD by Panteion University in Athens, Greece, in 2005.
For more informationa: Suren Moodliar
Telephones: 617-482-6300 (wk); 617-968-0880 (cell)
On June 28, 2007 the US Supreme Court decided that race could no longer be a factor in assigning children to specific public schools. What would be the impact on METCO if the program was required to share existing and future seats in suburban communities on an equal basis between Blacks and Whites? This forum, hosted by Brookline's Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Celebration Committee, will discuss and explore community responses to the decision, consider its broad racial implications, and ask whether the doors to de facto segregation have been reopened.
Free, but pre-registration is recommended
For more information call 617-730-2700
Check it out! Far-right war criminal John Bolton will be at Amherst College Monday evening. Will YOU be there to "greet" him? I sure will!
Ex-ambassador Bolton to visit Amherst By Kristin Palpini Staff Writer [Amherst Bulletin] Published on November 30, 2007
Straight talk about international affairs is a speciality of former United Nations ambassador John R. Bolton, who will give an address at Amherst College Monday night.
Bolton's talk, "Dealing with Rogue States After Iraq," will commence at 8 p.m. in the Cole Assembly Room. The event is free and open to the public.
Join us for a discussion of the causes of climate change and its effects on the treasures of the Northeast.
Join us for a journey through vibrant images, climate science and thought-provoking predictions about the future of New England. After a brief introduction to climate change and some of the global effects already occuring, an outline of the impacts of climate change on the Northeast will be presented, including forecasts for the future of skiing, snowmobiling and fishing, as well as on some of the Northeast’s signature landscapes: spruce forests and sugar maple trees.
This lecture is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Tina Woolston
Earthwatch Institute
(978) 450-1225
(800) 776-0188 ext. 225
Signs and banners welcome; a few will be provided along with orange jumpsuits to help people connect visually with the starkness of the detainment. Join us for a solidarity vigil outside the federal JFK building in Government Center for one hour on Wed, December 5.
The Supreme Court will hear the two consolidated cases testing the legal rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 10 a.m. - the only case scheduled for that day. Boumediene v. Bush (06-1195) and Al Odah v. U.S. (06-1196) - whether Guantanamo Bay detainees have a constitutional or common law right to challenge their detention through habeas claims in U.S. federal courts (consolidated, one hour hearing).
Boston solidarity vigil organized by Witness Against Torture's Boston Bureau and Friday Action for the Rights of Detainees.
Contact: Scott Langley, 214-226-0503
Discussants: Laurie Wen and Toby Anekwe
"documentary film in its strictest sense: preferring to let the footage, and the ghosts therein, do the talking. "Fight Back" gives us a stirring portrait of passionate, and remarkably well-organized, political activism by people who were fighting for their lives. .." (Nick Poppy, Indiewire)
Co-sponsors: HSPH AIDS TANK, HMS AIDS Action Initiative/Physicians for Human Rights, HSPH Africa Health Forum, REEL Epi.
For more info, contact Anya
Throughout the month of December, we'll be showing documentaries that chronicle the Palestinian Struggle against the Zionist Occupation.
Fifty one million, including 21 million children, live as America's "Missing Class", a notch above the poverty line, but too high to receive government services designed for the poor. Typically, parents work long hours at low pay, are not home to help educate their children once they become adolescent and just one paycheck or divorce or un-covered serious illness away from losing everything and sliding into poverty. What are the unique problems of these families? What is it like to "live a day" in their shoes? How do these families avoid crisis but never totally lift themselves up the economic ladder?
The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America, by Katherine Newman and Victor Tan Chen, examines the daily struggles of nine "missing class" families.
Katherine Newman is Malcolm S. Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton and author of eight award winning book on poverty, downward mobility and school violence. Victor Tan Chen is a Harvard doctoral candidate in sociology and social policy. He is founding editor and president of INTHEFRAY Magazine, a publication that seeks to question, inform and inspire conversation about identity and community.
This film is a vivid and compassionate portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Through the voices of Israelis and Palestinians of diverse backgrounds, it explores the issues that divide them and reveals their hopes and fears.
.. . the film describes in a compelling way a common yearning for peace, pointing the way toward a resolution of this tragic conflict that would meet the deepest needs of both societies, and it calls for new American diplomatic leadership. Landrum Bolling, a Quaker with the Foundation for Middle East Peace, who has had a distinguished career as an informal advisor to world leaders and as a peace advocate, is the narrator
Extended informal discussion after the film. Refreshments will be served.
There is an inexpensive parking garage next to the library and some parking on the street. Pearl Street is just off Mass. Ave in Central Square
Presented jointly by the Women's lnternational League for Peace and Freedom, and the Cambridge Peace Commission.
Grassroots International invites you to join us for an evening with Luis Antonio Pasquetti, national project coordinator of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST)
Dessert and coffee
hosted by Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly in Jamaica Plain, Boston
Please email or phone 617.524.1400 to RSVP and to get directions.
We hope to inspire your financial support, so please bring your checkbook!
The Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia invites you to the screening of the feature film "Naseem" to remember and to mark the 15th Anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India. The film will be introduced by Arpita Banerjee who will also recite a poem on the occasion.
This 1hr 25min film narrates a story of a young Muslim girl (Naseem) and her grandfather in the backdrop of rising communal tensions in India at the time of Ayodhya's Babri Masjid demolition. Naseem and her family went through the tumults of grave communal strife and through her eyes the film deftly underlines the politics of fear and intolerance in India. Such identity politics demonizes and alienates minority communities in the attempt to instigate a strident Hindu identity. It justifies the treatment of other religious minorities as guests, who must accommodate themselves in accordance with the culture of the host society - it is "our country, love it or leave it."
Contact for info.December 1st is World AIDS Day. While many have come to believe that HIV/AIDS is no longer the epidemic it once was they are gravely mistaken. HIV public health measures are not sufficiently reaching African-American, Latin@ and Haitian communities in Massachusetts and all other states in the United States. Because of this neglect communities of color are disproportionately affected by the reality of living with HIV/AIDS. Let us not forget that while anyone is living with HIV/AIDS we are all living with HIV/AIDS.
Reverend Franklin Hobbs currently rents an office on the 4th floor of the Community Church of Boston for Healing Our Land, an HIV/AIDS harm reduction ministry with and to marginalized communities struggling to address HIV/AIDS. In 2005, Rev. Hobbs, as Director of Healing Our Land, led a grassroots movement that resulted in the Boston City Council voting 13-0 to declare an HIV state of emergency on Boston's communities of color.
Throughout the month of December, we'll be showing documentaries that chronicle the Palestinian Struggle against the Zionist Occupation.
Comcast has given us a glimpse of a world without Net
Neutrality, and it's a chilling sight.
An investigation by the Associated Press caught the
cable giant secretly inspecting online communications
and crippling users' ability to share information with
one another.
On 11-1-07, Free Press filed a legal complaint
demanding that the FCC take action to protect the free
flow of information on the Internet. By joining our
complaint, you can help stop Comcast and other
gatekeepers.
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.
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.