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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#
Socialist Alternative Radio is live on 91.5 FM in the Boston area, or 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 illegally detained, often tortured prisoners at Guantanamo and other post 9/11 gulags around the world. The fast began about a year ago when Nobel Peace Laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Adolpho Esquivel, (Argentina), along with others around the world, chose this method to seek the release of our unjustly detained and tortured brothers and sisters.
Here in Boston, local activists Susan McLucas and Phoebe Knopf have joined the Friday fast and will protest every Friday in front of the JFK Building from noon to one. The action, which is rooted in nonviolence, includes speakers, music, hand-outs and petitions to create public pressure to shut down the gulags and to try those responsible for illegal, brutal treatment of thousands of detainees, most of whom are Arab and Muslim men. Susan and Phoebe will be wearing orange jumpsuits. It would be great if folks would join us. There are four more suits people could wear.
From 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.
DART is now accepting applications for the 2007 DART Organizers' Institute, a paid, four-month field school for people interested in launching a career in community organizing. Participants will undergo a combined classroom and field training, covering such topics as:
.. Entering a community
.. Identifying and training local leaders
.. Strategic planning and issue cutting
.. Relationship and community building
.. Direct Action on community issues
.. Fundraising
.. Congregation-based coalition building
The DART Center has built coalitions throughout the country that have won important victories on a broad set of justice issues including:
.. Education reform in low-performing public schools
.. Job Training
.. Drugs and Violence
.. Criminal Recidivism
.. Living Wage
.. Neighborhood Revitalization, etc.
The DART Organizers' Institute combines a 7-day classroom orientation with 15 weeks of infield training at a DART host organization. This is a paid training program that includes a $6,500 living stipend, transportation to the classroom orientation and host city, and mileage reimbursement during the infield training. DART will also pay for room, board, and tuition during the 7-day classroom training. DART will work to place successful graduates of the program into full-time salaried positions.
Graduates from the four month DART Organizers' Institute have gone onto accept Executive Director and Associate Community Organizing positions throughout the country. We continue to train the best of those working to build the power of low-to- moderate income communities to win victories on important issues in their community.
The program starts June 17, 2007 and runs through October 7, 2007. Host organizations are located in several cities throughout Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, Kentucky, and Indiana. Applications are being accepted now.
Although it may be helpful, no direct experience is necessary. Organizer Trainees (OTs) hired to participate in the DART Organizers' Institute must demonstrate a desire to pursue community organizing as a long-term professional career. A master's degree or similar life experience is preferred, though not obligatory. Candidates must have a college degree or be graduating prior to June 1, 2007. Candidates must also display a workmanlike diligence, be driven to produce sustained results, have proven capacity to build relationships of trust, create and execute a plan, act professionally, feel comfortable working with congregations, be accountable and willing to hold others accountable, demonstrate disciplined thought and action, and work in a team setting. OTs must also have access to a car during their training and be flexible regarding relocation. Fluency in Spanish/English is a plus and people of color are encouraged to apply.
Ben MacConnell
DART Network
820 New York Street
Lawrence, KS 66044
institute@thedartcenter.org
If you have any questions, please call (785) 841-2680. You may also download applications or view profiles from previous OTs at the DART website. The 2007 DART Organizers' Institute Application deadline is January 1, 2007.
Grace Ross' campaign is very excited to host initial meetings for putting together a state-level focused peace campaign.
We chose two sites so that the December 17th meetings would be as accessible as possible for activists across the state! Please come to whichever meeting is most convenient to you.
If you come to one meeting in this process, this is the one to come to! This is going to be brainstorming and then we'll have to be in touch more anyway to do all the implementation. We can arrange for some people to call in and be on a speaker phone - let us know.
In December, 2004, Matt Dumont encouraged us by observing that "even in the heart of The Beast there are self-defeating forces". How prophetic! Now he returns to warn: "Waking up to a few Democratic victories and a slightly chastened Bush felt like relief from a long nightmare. But then comes time for some thoughtful reflection about who the Democrats really are and what they are capable of."
Matt is a long-time friend of CCB and one of its most popular speakers. His decades of experience in community psychiatry were described in his book, Treating the Poor: A Personal Sojourn through the Rise & Fall of Community Mental Health (1994). He has also written many provocative articles in Mother Jones, Vogue and Boston magazines.
Help Workers in Guatemala and Kenya Who Have Been Scrooged by Jones Apparel Group: 1,222 workers in Guatemala and Kenya have lost their jobs and have slim prospects of working in the apparel sector again because they dared to stand up for their rights at work to a fair wage, decent working hours, and a respectful workplace. Jones Apparel Group (JAG) has the power to achieve a just resolution for these workers, demand their reinstatement and payment of their legally owed severance because they are the principal buyers of products from these factories. Please help us urge JAG to do the right thing during this holiday season: Contact Jones Apparel Group corporate offices, Ira M. Dansky, Executive VP, General Counsel, & Secretary, Phone (215) 785-4000, Fax: (215) 785-1795 or email: Idansky@jny.com and tell him that you want to see the workers in Kenya and Guatemala back in their jobs. Rally starts at 12 noon in front of the Nine West in Faneuil Hall Market Place (North Marketplace Building).
A panel discussion on this recently passed law which affects animal advocacy. (Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the only vegan in Congress, was hoped to attend but he cannot.) Sponsored by Mass. Action for Animals (MAfA)
THE MASSACHUSETTS CAMPAIGN FOR A U.S. DEPARTMENT OF PEACE invites you to this special concert!
Wishes for happy holidays and for a more peaceful world, for our own country and for all people.
Linda Nathanson
Newton Dialogues on Peace & War
Check our Web site for updates and information.
Newton Dialogues
When a male store manager fingers a woman for shoplifting, two female strangers unexpectedly come to her aid -- and soon the man is dead. The three women are put on trial for the killing, and a female psychiatrist appointed by the judge, who wants the psychiatrist to diagnose the women as insane, tries to find the motive behind the crime. She soon learns that they all have endured brutal treatment by the men in their lives. Before the trial is over, the psychiatrist has started to question her own feelings towards men, including her husband. Directed by Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris at the height of Radical Lesbian Separatism. In Dutch with English subtitles.
Meeting at Cambridge Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park
(10-minute walk west on Brattle St from Harvard Square T
station), Cambridge
REFRESHMENTS!
Join Richard Krushnic (of Boston's Affordable Housing Office) and Dave Lewit (editor of BCA Dispatch) - just back from Venezuela where they and nine other Bostonians observed the elctions up close - to discuss the following questions:
Will the opposition to Hugo Chavez again try a coup?
How is the revolution going?
How were we treated as Yankees?
What's life like for the ordinary person?
New England Alliance for Democracy
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
The Committee for Peace and Human Rights, Boston will be having a day before Christmas Eve peace witness/vigil from 1pm--2pm this Sat. Dec. 23 outside the Park Street T stop in Boston. Bring signs expressing the theme of peace on earth and stopping war. Bring your friends and families. We will have a microphone for people to speak out against war. For contact info call Michael Borkson at 617-794-0546. nosanctions@yahoo.com
The story of Christmas is one that shapes the winter holiday season. The story of Jesus and the faith of the people is inspiring and moving. There is another story that goes along with the birth of Jesus. King Herrod called for the death of all Jewish boys born within a year of the coming of Jesus. Today Rachel's children are all those murdered, exploited, and abused by the state. The birth of Jesus is mark for celebration but we must also remember Rachel's children.
Jason Lydon is the Congregational Director at the Community Church. Being raised both Christian and Unitarian Universalist, he has had the opportunity to celebrate and look deeply into the story of Christmas.
Presenting Parts 3 & 4 of The Land of the Settlers: A Journey Log
Part 3: Behind the Fence
Part 4: The Rule of Netzarim
(Part 5 will be shown in January.)
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?’”
Parts 1 and 2, and most documentaries, can be borrowed. Visit Friends of Ashland Library Documentaries
Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap anarcha- feminist farce was immediately banned by the government. Directed by Vera Chytilova during the Prague Spring. In Czech with English subtitles.
NO TE RAJES: a 30 minute documentary by Caitlin Manning and the Videoactivista collective about the movement of peaceful civil disobedience that took over the heart of Mexico City for 49 days July trough September of this year. The movement was catalyzed by the fraudulent elections in July 2006. The documentary provides background and context for the current upsurge of social unrest in Mexico.
VICTORIA DE LOS SANTOS; a powerful 10 minute documentary by the Mal de Ojo collective on the events in Oaxaca City in early November. For several months beginning in March 2006, the center of Oaxaca City was occupied by protestors demanding the removal of the governor, Ulises Ruiz. The video was shot on the streets during the attempted takeover of Radio Universidad by the Federal Police, and provides insight into who is involved in the Oaxacan movement and why it is occurring.
DISCUSSION
We plan also to call an activist in Oaxaca for a brief update to complement the videos and discussion.
FOR INFO OR A DVD COPY of No Te Rajes, contact caitlin_manning@csumb.edu
6:00pm Social, music, silent auction, raffle, food.
7:00pm Screening of film: "Sir, No Sir"
8:45pm Discussion with Vietnam Vets and Iraq Vets who refuse to continue fighting
9:15pm Silent Auction & Raffle Winners Announced
Proceeds raised at this event will benefit Military Families Speak Out (Massachusetts chapter) and People United for Peace (project of Boston Mobe).
Sponsors: MFSO, PUP/BostonMobe, HOPE Church, Central Congregational Church, Hispanic Church of Boston, and Milky Way/Bella Luna.
Source of this information: Melida Arredondo (stepmother of Alex Arredondo, killed in Iraq; her husband, Alex's father Carlos Arredondo, attempted to kill himself upon hearing the news of his son's death)