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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.
Venezuela : Democracy, Development, and Regional Integration- A New Vision for the Americas
We invite you to travel to Venezuela with Global Exchange to dig past the headlines and explore the changes occurring in Venezuela, Latin America and the hemisphere as a whole. On a Global Exchange tour to Venezuela you will meet with human rights activists, rural agricultural workers, labor unions, community activists, journalists, and government as well as opposition figures, and see for yourself the unprecedented social change that is occurring at this historic time in Venezuela and the region. At the crossroads of the Andean mountains, the Caribbean coast, the Amazon rainforest, and the Amacuro River Delta, Venezuela's wondrous natural diversity and beauty combined with its visionary social justice agenda guarantee an exciting -- and unforgettable -- experience.
Cost: $1500 (includes $50 late fee)
We strongly urge people of color to apply. A
limited number of partial scholarships are available for low-
income applicants.
for more info contact Charlie Welch
Democracy Now! is accepting applications for internship
positions for the winter/spring semester in New York City.
Please email admin@democracynow.org for more information.
Some of the highlights include:
* "Inside Corporate Media: Can it Tell the Truth?" -- a panel moderated by Phil Donahue featuring Juan Gonzalez of the Daily News, MSNBC commentator Flavia Colgan, author and media critic Jeff Cohen and Chicago Sun-Times columnist Laura Washington.
* A discussion on "Winning Alternatives" with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman, filmmaker Robert Greenwald and Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation.
* "Media Policy is a Civil Rights Issue" with former FCC Commissioner and NAACP Executive Director Ben Hooks, Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, Mark Lloyd of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and others.
* A panel on hip-hop activism with Davey D of KPFA-FM, Rosa Clemente of R.E.A.C.Hip-Hop, Detroit hip-hop artist Ilana "Invincible" Weaver, San Diego's Brotha Los, Adrienne Maree Brown of the Ruckus Society and Youth Media Council's Malkia Cyril.
* "The Press at War and the War on the Press" featuring famed White House correspondent Helen Thomas, media critic Eric Boehlert, Sonali Kolhatkar of the Afghan Women's Mission, and Paul Rieckhoff of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
* "Watchdogging the Media" with David Brock of Media Matters for America, Janine Jackson of FAIR, media critic Norman Solomon, and radio host and author Laura Flanders.
* A look at the new media landscape with Dan Gillmor from the Center for Citizen Media, Jay Rosen of New York University, Afro-Netizen's Chris Rabb, Ellen Miller of the Sunlight Foundation and Chris Nolan of Spot-on.com.
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.
We will have a high visibility antiwar tent in the Copley Square Area from noon to seven. We will be talking to people and handing out information about the war and the Jan. 27th Antiwar demo.
The tent will probably be at the corner of Dartmouth St. and Boyston near the old entrance to the Boston Public Library. For questions on the day of the event call 617-566-2861.
Simulationsly there will be videos showing at Community Church.
The following is the schedule for movies:
1:00pm - Mc Libel (60 minutes) The true story of a postman and a gardener who took on McDonald's and wouldn't say "McSorry," in a legal battle since described as "the biggest corporate PR disaster in history." McDonald's loved using the UK's libel laws to suppress criticism. Major media organizations like the BBC and The Sun had crumbled and apologized. But then McDonald's sued penniless activists' Helen Steel and Dave Morris. In what became the longest trial in English legal history, the "McLibel 2" represented themselves against McDonald's USD$19 million legal team. Seven years later, in February 2005, the marathon legal battle finally concluded in the European Court of Human Rights. And the result took everyone by surprise - especially the British Government.
2:15pm - Hidden in Plain Sight (71 minutes) This documentary presents different points of view, which illuminate the turbulent reality of Latin America, demystify the policy-making process and shed light on some of the most complex and urgent problems facing us today.
Enter noted scholars Noam Chomsky, Eduardo Galeano, Christopher Hitchens, and Michael Parenti, who broaden the debate about the School of the Americas (now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) to include such subjects as militarism, corporate globalization, national security, and international terrorism. Personal accounts from victims/survivors of the violence and repression in Latin America raise questions and concerns about the nature and consequences of U.S. policy in Latin America.
3:30pm - The Fourth World War (78 minutes) From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, 'the North' from Seattle to Genova, and the 'War on Terror' in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq. It is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in this war. While our airwaves are crowded with talk of a new world war, narrated by generals and filmed from the noses of bombs, the human story of this global conflict remains untold. "The Fourth World War" brings together the images and voices of the war on the ground. It is a story of a war without end and of those who resist.
5:00pm - Flag Wars (90 minutes) Flag Wars is a poignant account of economic competition between two historically oppressed groups, seen through the politics and pain of gentrification. The events in "Flag Wars" unfold against a backdrop of racism, homophobia, and tensions between privilege and poverty. Mix in government zoning boards, the court system, lending institutions, and civic leaders, and you've got a film that literally hits people "where they live." "Flag Wars" explores the complexity of gentrification, and the contradictions between intention and result, belief and action. It goes beyond merely assigning blame or labeling people as "good guys" or "bad guys" to examine the relationship between housing, heritage, and public policy.
6:45pm - The Last Graduation (55 minutes) Among the reforms that followed the 1971 uprising at Attica, prison college programs proved to be amazingly effective tools in turning inmates' lives around. In New York State, the recidivism rate for prison college graduates was only 11 percent, as contrasted to nearly 60 percent for the general prison population.
The Last Graduation frankly explores the issues from the advent of higher education in prison to the last graduation from the Marist College program at New York's Greenhaven Prison in 1995. Prisoners, former prisoners, educators and corrections officials tell their own stories of struggle, triumph and ultimate defeat at the hands of the Contract with America of The 104th Congress.
7:50pm - Prison in the Fields: False Progress in Central Valley (20 minutes) Can the citizens of Delano, California, a poor Hispanic community and the birthplace of the United Farm Workers, defeat the city council's decision to build a second government prison? Another prison would destroy their farmlands and vineyards, and jobs would be lost. There is already high unemployment, poor educational facilities, and no resources for the depressed population. A grassroots movement developed to protest the decision. Age level: high school to adult. p>
There will be a party after these events.
Check out www.stopthewars.org for more background information.
We have planned a varied and generous fixed menu, so that each person can enjoy numerous delectable appetizers and entrees. There will be table service, not a buffet.
We will be served "family style" at friendly tables of 8, so don't hesitate to attend alone! As tables of 8 fill up, they will be served.
* No animal ingredients *
$15 per person includes tax & service!!
ALL ARE WELCOME - Your friends and family are invited!
The Cambridge Peace Commission and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom will present the film: SIR! NO SIR! The suppressed story of the GI Movement to End the War in Vietnam.
Produced in 1984, "Gaza Ghetto" (82 minutes) explores the very issues that caused the intifada and continue at the heart of the conflict. Even as the political status of Gaza and the West Bank evolve, the uncertainties and harshness of land confiscations and military occupation remain key.
Moments of tragedy and joy--a grandmother dies, a child is born-- are intercut with scenes in which Israeli politicians, soldiers and settlers discuss responsibility for military occupation. Includes footage of Ariel Sharon and Ben Eliazer in the 1970's and 1980's, and exposes their longstanding positions. [winner of Grand Prize, Festival dei Popoli - Italy]
"If I told you what I'd seen, would you believe me?"
with
Sean Donahue, Resistdance (Amanda Pankhurst), Witness for Peace,
The Reagan Babies, The Scallywags, Taina Vargas, The Collective.
Joy and hope in song for 2007, with CommUnity Voices.
"The Ground Truth" is a critically acclaimed documentary film. It will be followed by a discussion with Iraq Veterans and Military Families Speak Out
End the war in Iraq! Bring the troops home now! Bring the money home now! MARCH ON WASHINGTON Saturday January 27, 2007
On Monday, Jan. 29th, we will take our message directly to the new Congress in a lobby day.
Buses, Minivans, Planes and Trains: UJP will be sending buses to
Washington, DC. For bus sign up and much more transportation
information, please see the United for Justice with Peace
website. You can download flyers from
United for Justice with Peace
ujpcoalition@yahoo.com
617-491-4857
"Water First"(Amy Hart), filmed in Mlawi and S. Africa, aims to raise awareness of the magnitude of the global water crisis. What can we do to assure that everyone everywhere has access to the most basic necessity of life? and "Water Warriers" (Liz Miller) One community's determination to fight water privatization. A short version of an hour-long piece that will premiere this winter.
Renee Lopes-Pocknett is associate director of Frederick Douglass Unity House (FDUH) at the Univiversity of Massachusetts/Dartmouth. FDUH was created in 1995 as part of the University's efforts to acknowledge the unique circumstances of its increasingly diverse student body. It provides a supportive environment for the academic, cultural, recreational and social pursuits of UMass/Dartmouth students of color--African, Asian, Latino & Native American.
Ms. Lopes-Pocknett is also a founder of Society Organized against Racism in Higher Education (SOAR), a well-established group which this fall held a successful two-day conference at UMass/Dartmouth for students from SOAR chapters at numerous New England colleges.