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12:30 - 4:00 pm EVERY SUNDAY"Bostonians For The Overthrow Of King George" weekly vigil
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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.
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.
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 Steve Iskovitz (Green party member and concerned person who is working in southern Louisiana):
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
For Boston area drop off: Cambridge Senior Center (617) 349 6043.
806 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
We're also looking for someone who's willing to help deliver the boxes from the Senion Center to the local shipping point in Carlisle.
For more information:
Email terra or call Christy Barbee at (978) 369 4343
www.reliefdatabase.org
www.citizenactionteam.org
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.
Please join local activists, Jobs With Justice, the children of Tar Heel Plant worker, and the children of the Workmen¿s Circle on December 10th from 1:00-2:30 pm at Johnny's Food Master, 105 Alewife Brook Pkwy, Somerville, MA.
We need this event to be a success, and we need your help to make it happen! We need to call all our members and ask them to come out and support these kids! Can you give an hour or two to help make this happen? Contact Jennifer at jennifer@massjwj.net or (617) 524-8778 and let her know!p>
FREE to the public
Limited Seating
RSVP: Coalition for a Strong United Nations
email: info@strongUN.org
phone: 617-304-6555
This conference is an opportunity to deepen your understanding of international human rights and the role you play in their enforcement on this 58th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Recent reports published by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the American Friends Service Committee, the American Civil Liberties Union, and others have demonstrated that the human rights of all Americans are in jeopardy. Panelists at this conference will discuss the human rights of people in prisons through the lens of United Nations human rights treaties.
The panelists will lead workshops demonstrating how we, in Massachusetts, can connect our advocacy to the mechanisms of international law as applied at the United Nations. These actions include: preparation of nongovernmental shadow reports of government actions, working with the Special Rapporteur process, and identifying responsibilities of local and state governments under human rights treaty law.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
1:00 REGISTRATION (sign up for one of the three workshops)
1:15KEYNOTE: Blanche Wiesen Cook, author, biographies of Eleanor Roosevelt: "Human Rights issues in the U.S. in the context of international law and oversight of UN treaty bodies"
2:00 PANEL: Strategies for Implementing Human Rights
Moderator: Rev. Ed Rodman, Professor of Urban Theology,
Episcopal Theological School
Martha Davis, Northeastern University School of Law: "Obligations of state and local governments under ratified treaties"
Gillian Gilhool, Women's International League for Peace &
Freedom: "Shadow reporting process through the UN system"
Tonya McClary, Director of AFSC's Criminal Justice Program:
"Working with the UN Special Rapporteur process"
2:45 WORKSHOPS by each panelist
4:14 REPORT BACK from workshops with discussions
5:00 CLOSING
Presented by the Coalition for a Strong United Nations in partnership with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Massachusetts CEDAW Project.
A presentation/slide show by Inez Hedges and Victor Wallis, based on their 26-day trip to South America: including Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Venezuela. Victor and Inez found hope in what they sawin today's political developments in Latin America, and look forward to a conversation at the Progressive Potluck about possible conclusions we may draw from all that is happeningin these countries.
· 6:00 Potluck supper
· 7:00 Presentation
Victor Wallis teaches in the liberal Arts department at the Berklee College of Music and edits the journal Socialism and Democracy. Inez Hedges is founder and co-director of the Cinema Studies program at Northeastern University and is the author, most recently, of Framing Faust: Twentieth-Century Cultural Struggles. Inez and Victor have been Somerville residents since 1989.
For more information: 617-767-1984, duncanujp@hotmail.com
The Newton Dialogues regular meeting will be on Sunday, December 10, at 7:30, at the Eliot Church in Newton Corner. John Tirman, the Executive Director of the MIT center for International Studies, will discuss the HUMAN COST OF THE WAR IN IRAQ. Specifically, his topic will be an analysis of the Johns Hopkins Iraq Mortality Study, showing that our invasion has led to over 600,000 Iraqi deaths. Mr. Tirman is the author and editor of ten books on global issues. Please join us to learn more about the tragic impact of this corrupt war on the Iraqi civilian population.
International Law and Occupation: The Wall, Home Demolitions, and Targeted Assassinations-Domestic and International Legal Challenges
Marwan Dalal
Senior Attorney, Adalah -- The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
Visiting Scholar, Columbia University Law School
Harvard CRCS Privacy & Security Seminars
Abstract: Touch-screen voting machines store records of cast votes in internal memory, where the voter cannot check them. Because of our system of secret ballots, once the voter leaves the polls there is no way anyone can determine whether the vote captured was what the voter intended. Why should voters trust these machines?
In January 2003, I drafted a "Resolution on Electronic Voting" stating that every voting system should have a "voter verifiable audit trail," which is a permanent record of the vote that can be checked for accuracy by the voter, and which is saved for a recount if it is required. I posted the page with endorsements from many prominent computer scientists. At that point, I became embroiled in a nationwide battle for voting transparency that has continued now for several years.
In this talk, I will discuss the basic principles and issues in electronic voting, and comment on recent events.
Sally Castleman of Election Defense Alliance feels that David Dill should be challenged: "if we can't disabuse David Dill of his fantasies that Voter-Verified paper trails of any sort will solve anything, at least we can have a presence at this meeting to set the audience straight!"
The "34-Day War" in Perspective: the 2006 Israeli offensive in Lebanon and its aftermath
Elaine Hagopian , Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Simmons College
Ara Sanjian, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History and Director, The Armenian Research Center, University of Michigan – Dearborn
David Barsamian, Founder and Director, Alternative Radio
Free and Open to the Public
For more information, please go to: armeniansforlebanon.com or email sevag@armeniansandtheleft.com
Directions
On July 12, 2006, Hezbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border attack triggering a wide scale military response from Israel. The attack, described by Amnesty International as a campaign of collective punishment, targeted vital Lebanese infrastructure, generated more than one million refugees, destroyed around 30 thousand homes and caused over 1200 civilian casualties.
In this panel discussion, three experts on the Middle East discuss the war on Lebanon in the context of the ongoing Arab- Israeli conflict, examine how Lebanese political factions and civil society –including the country's Armenian community– responded to the ensuing humanitarian and political crisis, and analyze how the Israeli offensive was portrayed in the U.S. media.
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.
Join United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 791 for A UNION SOLIDARITY MARCH in support of the Kendall Cinema Workers fight for a fair Contract! 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. KENDALL SQUARE CINEMA, One Kendall Square Cambridge, MA 02139. For Information please call the Local 791 union office at 1-800-535-2752
Film Screening and Presentation:
Media Relations: Breaking the Barriers of Conspiracy Theory -
And Demanding Accountability from the Media
Please come Friday night to kick off the weekend's events and hear presentations by Colonel Bob Bowman - Former Director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the U.S. Air Force in the Ford and Carter administrations who will challenge the official US government version of the events of 9/11/01, and John Albanese - Film producer of "Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime" who will offer a Film Screening and Presentation on "Media Relations: Breaking the Barriers of Conspiracy Theory - And Demanding Accountability from the Media".
patriotsquestion911.org
Also please feel free to email
In the spirit of the Courageous American Patriots who, on December 16, 1773 said “No!” to the lack of representation and tyranny to which the colonies were subjected by Great Britain by tossing crates of British tea into Boston Harbor, the Boston 9/11 Truth Committee will enact the "9/11 Truth Boston Tea Party" on December 16, 2006, calling upon “All American Sons and Daughters of Liberty to reunite at the birthplace and the birth time of the American Revolution to cast off the tyrannies imposed on the American public and the world justified by the lies and deceit of the official 9/11 Commission Report."
In solidarity with the defiance and historic resonance of the 1773 activists, we will be posting 9/11Truth Tea Party Proclamations throughout Boston prior to the Tea Party. Make History! Come to Boston! Come hear “The Connected-Dots Heard Round the World!” Join 9/11 Truth Patriots from Boston, Central Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont as we gather at historic Faneuil Hall to deliver the 911 Truth Boston Tea Party Proclamation, to raise the Bill of Rights Flag, to publicly denounce the deliberate attempt of our Government to derail and avoid a complete and truthful investigation of the events of that horrible day and, when it was finally forced to have any investigation, the glaring omissions and distortions of the official 9/11 Commission Report; to demand an immediate and genuinely independent re-investigation; and to announce the reestablishment in Boston and across the Nation of Elected Citizens Grand Juries by which the pre-Revolutionary War colonists legally threw off the yoke of tyranny. Following the Proclamation, We will proceed to the original Tea Party site at the Seaport Ave. Bridge over Fort Point Channel, carrying crates containing copies of the 9/11 Commission Report. There, national leaders of the 9/11 Truth Movement will declare its proved-false conclusions ‘null and void’ and cast a larger-than-life-size replica of the 9/11 Commission Report into Boston Harbor.
9:00 -11:00 AM -
Pre-Event Passing out of 9/11 Truth Stocking stuffers on
Commons and Downtown Crossing
11:30 AM - Gather at FANUEIL HALL to hear, Historical Figure Ethan Allen, and 2006 Election 9/11 Truth Candidates
12 NOON – Reading of The Proclamation by Colonial Citizens of New England National 9/11 Truth Movement Leaders- Dr. Bob Bowman - Kevin Barrett - Barbara Honegger
1:00 PM – March to Boston Harbor
2:00- 3:00PM – Press Conference & National 9/11 Truth Speakers
3:00-3:30 PM - Casting of the 9/11 "Omission" Report into Boston Harbor
4:30 - 5:30 PM
At the Democracy Center 45 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
Political 9/11 Truth Candidates:
Bob Bowman (FL-DEM)
Craig Hill (VT-GP)
Peter White (MA-IND)
Chris Garvey (NY-LIB)
Dennis Morrisseau (VT-IND)
Mary Maxwell (NH-REP)
Impeachment and 9/11
Running 9/11 Truth candidates for office
6:00 - 8 PM
At the Democracy Center 45 Mt Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA New
England Regional Activist Meet Up and Networking with-
Gabriel Day and Les Jamieson
Boston 9/11 Truth
- Reopen the 9/11 Investigation, Demand the Truth -
Voice Mail: 617-401-8047 | © 2006 Boston 9/11 Truth
patriotsquestion911.org Also please feel free to email chris.gruener@comcast.net or call Chris Gruener at 617-965-6552 for more information.
http://boston911truth.org/teaparty/index.html
For the past seven months, over 70,000 teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico have been on strike -- not only for better pay and education, but an end to the dictatorship of governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. They were joined by townspeople, famers, students, housewives, and indigenous groups who took over the city, occupying streets and government offices, to demand drastic changes in government priorities to serve the people's needs.
In July, a march of 2,000 women marked a turning point in the struggle -- the women seized the state's TV and radio station, Channel 9, and began broadcasting...
JOIN US -- to see films about the Channel 9 takeover, and women's participation in the struggle in Oaxaca!
Followed by discussion, with: * Rosalba Solis, Latin American Cultural Family Network * Diana Iranzo, Boston for CIPO-RFM (Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca-Ricardo Flores Magon)
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation has called for protests around the world in solidarity with the people of Oaxaca.
Gather outside the Mexican Consulate at 20 Park Plaza in Boston at Noon on December 22 to demand:
-- Freedom for the political prisoners of Oaxaca
-- Justice for the families of the murdered and disappeared of Oaxaca
-- The resignation of Gov. Ulises Ruiz
-- The withdrawal of the Federal Preventitive Police from Oaxaca
For more information e-mail Sean at wrldhealer@yahoo.com or call 978-809-8054 or (before 12/20) 207-947-5631