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The Mass health care "reform" bill passed in 2006 is being watched by reformers in other states. Does this plan cover everyone? Does it address the rapid escalation of health care costs? Does it continue to rely on the marketplace model and leave health care planning to the business decisions of health insurance companies?
Diana Stein is professor emeritus in biology at Mount Holyoke College and an Amherst Town Meeting member. Jackie Wolf is a retired sociologist and co-chair of MassCare: the Campaign for Single-Payer Health Care in Mass. Both are members of the League of Women Voters Amherst Health Care Committee and have been speaking on the topic of health care reform for several years. They will discuss the above questions and offer proposals for better health care plans for our state and nation.
Iraq Veterans Against The War Winter Soldier Hearings House Party Fundraiser
Sponsored by
Smedley D. Butler Brigade,
Veterans For Peace,
Liam Madden, and Iraq Veterans Against The War.
phone: 617-332-1764
At Home of our friends Sev and Louise Bruyn,
48 Glenwood Ave., Newton Center.
During the Winter Soldier Investigation (WSI) in 1971 of war crimes in Vietnam, for it is the Winter Soldier who is the true patriot, Vietnam Veterans Against The War, (VVAW) brought together over 100 veterans to testify as to the true nature of the atrocities and war crimes happening in Vietnam. Now Iraq Veterans Against The War (IVAW) again will make public the testimony of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, the Winter Soldiers, as well as Iraqi and Afghan survivors in a public investigation called Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan on March 13-16 in Washington D.C.
The budget for this undertaking is large, and Veterans For Peace is organizing house parties around the country to help fund this important event. Excerpts from the film of the original Winter Soldier Investigation will be shown, and WSI participant Joe Bangert, Liam Madden, and Howard Zinn will speak. Please join us for refreshments and conversation, and bring your checkbook and give generously.
If you cannot come but want to donate, send a check made out to IVAW to: Nate Goldshlag, 37 Ottawa Rd., Arlington, MA 02476
For more info about this fundraising event.
We are pleased to present Kumar Sidhartha, MD, who will offer a fascinating topic -- how to apply critical thinking to analyze medical news. Dr. Sidhartha is a vegan MD practicing in Massachusetts.
How do you make sense of conflicting media headlines related to your health? One report concludes a food is good for you, another report claims the same food is harmful.
How do you weed out misleading information in medical advertisements and know if a product is worth considering for your health?
Please join us for a lively, interactive discussion with Dr. Sid.
5:15 PM - SOCIAL DINNER - let us get to know you!
Stay and enjoy Grasshopper's delicious unlimited vegan buffet for $9.50+ tax (and remember the tip jar by the cash register for the hard-working staff!). Includes appetizers, soups, salad, numerous entrees, and fresh melons.
No RSVP needed, just come on by! Everyone is welcome; bring your friends.
Eduardo Suarez will talk about barn-raising type installations of solar hot water systems that have been organized in Western Mass and Wilson Rickerson will talk about the new federal, state and city programs offering incentives for solar installations.
Jin Asian Cuisine is one of the largest Chinese restaurants in Massachusetts, but their wait-staff report many labor issues, including unpaid wages and discrimination.
Take a moment to send a letter to Jin Asian Cuisine to tell them respect workers rights and obey Massachusetts labor laws.
Join people of all faiths as they hold an event at the State House to pledge themselves to addressing climate change.
10-11am in Nurse's Hall in the State House.
At the event MICAN will urge the legislature to support a set of principles in tackling climate change and energy issues.
To RSVP or questions email MCAN
or call Loie Hayes at 617-278-1885.
These programs are co-sponsored by the NE American Friends Service Committee, United for Justice with Peace, Arlington United for Justice with Peace, Lexington Justice with Peace Committee, Waltham Concerned Citizens, and Weston Dialogues for Peace and Justice.
Parking and Public Transportation - If you are driving, there is a parking lot behind the Watertown Library and a parking lot and street parking at St. John’s. For public transportation, take the #71 Bus from Harvard Square. For the Library, get off at the last stop (Watertown Square) and walk two blocks down Main Street; for St. John’s, get off at the stop across the street from Starbucks.
Manuela is a spirited and independent teenager sent to a boarding school when her mother dies. The Prussian principal runs the school with an iron hand, believing that discipline and hunger strengthen a girl's character. Like the rest of the girls, Manuela develops a crush on Elizabeth Von Bernburg, a young teacher who believes it's important to be the children's trusted friend. Manuela's mistake is to announce her love in front of guests and students at a party following a school play.
The film was groundbreaking in a number of ways: firstly for its all-female cast; secondly for its sympathetic portrayal of lesbian pedagogical eros and homoeroticism revolving around the passionate love of a fourteen-year-old for her teacher; and thirdly for its co-operative and profit-sharing financial arrangements (although in practice these ultimately failed).
Todd Gitlin, professor of sociology and journalism at Columbia University and one-time president of SDS, brings his political insights to the 2008 presidential campaign on the eve of the February 5 super-primary. Why have Republicans been so much better than Democrats at getting and exercising power?
The electoral system in Venezuela is one of the most transparent. More than 50% of the electoral tables are audited once the voting booths are closed.
If you want to learn more about a verifiable voting system, come to the event below.
The Venezuelan National Electoral Council invited the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) to serve as international observers of the Referendum on Constitutional Reforms this past December. On Sunday, December 2, 2007 three representatives of the NLG participated in an electoral observer mission in Caracas and will discuss their findings and overall experience next week in Boston.
What are the impacts of the current US war in Iraq? Are we heading towards unending war in the Middle East, involving more nations such as Iran? What realistic possibilities exist for withdrawal? What sort of government or situation is likely to result? How has this war damaged US foreign relations and ability to conduct diplomacy? What are the effects on terrorism? What is the real agenda of our government planners, what is at stake, and who stands to gain? What are the human costs? The costs to the US economy and social programs?
Professor Noam Chomsky will be speaking to answer these questions and more as he addresses "The Impacts of the Iraq War." As the war stretches on and threatens to spread into unending war in more countries, this is an important time to hear from Professor Chomsky, deepen our understanding of the workings of power, and consider how we can best work towards lasting peace and social justice.
Doors open at 6:00pm. Musical introduction by a Brass Quintet, doing American shape note and Bulgarian village harmonies. Noam Chomsky will speak followed by a question and answer period. Next will be a slideshow by Carl Kurz, founder of Bikes Not Bombs, giving an illustrated history of BNB's beginnings in war-torn Nicaragua, and an updated overview of BNB's international and youth work today. Noam Chomsky has been a Bikes Not Bombs donor and member for more than 12 years, and he will be speaking as a benefit for Bikes Not Bombs.
We suggest you get your tickets in advance, and the easiest way to do this is online. Tickets are on sliding scale and you can choose how much to donate, but we do encourage you to be generous! Suggested ticket price is $15-$50, with $7 suggested for student/low-income. The event is free to anyone with a current Roxbury Community College ID.
*DIRECTIONS*
Roxbury Community College (RCC) is at 1234 Columbus Ave. The Main Stage
takes up the entire first floor of the Media Arts Building, which is at
the corner of Columbus Ave and Malcolm X Blvd. The Media Arts Center is
directly across Columbus Ave. from the Roxbury Crossing T stop on the
Orange Line. It is across Malcolm X Blvd from the Reggie Lewis Track
and Field Center. The Southwest Corridor Bike Path runs alongside
Columbus Ave and directly in front of the T station - from there you'll
cross Columbus and find campus bike racks. For car parking, going
southwest (with RCC on your left and the T station on your right,
Tremont and Malcolm X Blvd behind you) once you pass the final large
brick building of RCC, turn left onto Cedar Street, and and immediate
right into a large parking lot.
Avi Chomsky will discuss her book "They Take our Jobs and 20 Other Myths on Immigration" which talks about commonly held misconceptions about immigrant communities living in the US.
Aviva dispels the racist lies and propaganda spouted by politicians, who seek to fan the flames of anti- immigrant sentiment throughout the U.S. Boston CISPES will also provide a critical piece of analysis missing from the immigration discussion: how U.S. free trade policies force Latin America¹s poor to leave their home countries in search of economic opportunity in the north.
Suggested donation=$5 (No one will be turned away for lack of funds!) Copies of Aviva¹s book will be available for $14.
For more information please email CISPES or tel: 617.576.1709
Why is it that Pakistan is at the epicenter of local and global crisis?
Dr. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center at Boston University, will give a presentation and Q&A session on the current situation in Pakistan: a complex nation of 160 million which struggles in the face of military rule, human rights abuse, violent politics, extremism, and much more.
He will also discuss the pro-democracy movement in the country which, according to Prof. Najam, signifies a "democratic society trapped inside an undemocratic state."
The first "green" expo for consumers in Boston will feature exhibitors of renewable energy, green building, green jobs, as well as a kids' area, a book and film festival, a bazaar, and a "green" food court.
The Bayside Expo Center is just one mile from downtown Boston without all the hassle and with plenty of parking. An easy exit off the Southeast Expressway (I- 93)--- located and next to the Commuter Rail and the JFK/UMass stop on the MBTA Red Line.
Our source for this: MCAN
As global financial markets come unhinged, as people lose their homes and livelihoods, as the cost of war escalates, as workers and borders cross one another, it is time to think about the economic system that structures our choices and determines much of our life chances...
Join renowned scholar and economic geographer Richard Peet as he helps navigate this often hidden world. An informed and rigorous thinker, Peet is also a charismatic and trenchant critic of the rule of capital.
Richard Peet teaches geography at Clark University. For a video of a presentation by Richard to a scholarly crowd at UC Berkeley.
Encuentro 5 regulars will remember Richard Peet's stirring presentation on South Africa as we readied our delegation to the 7th World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya.
Original songs of political and social vision, as well as traditional songs in English and Spanish from across the Americas. Dean combines a distinctive style and with with an intricate guitar form and expressive singing voice. He enjoys sharing an eclectic repertoire that celebrates the Earth and annoys the narrow minded!
Ticket prices:
WC members: $10 advance, $12 at the door
Non-members: $12 advance, $14 at the door
Bring home-baked goods and get in for half price (must
arrange in advance)
Dave Czesniuk is the director of operations at Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society. He has managed several healthy development, violence prevention & diversity programs or research initiatives serving both youth and adults. These projects utilize the power and appeal of sport to create social-change oportunities for the global community. Dave was previously a sport psychology consultant and instructor at the U.S.M.A., West Point.
The discussion will focus on recent trends in sport that Dave has addressed with colleagues, students, program constituents and the mass media over the past year. He will also share feedback gained from studying sport and those who participate in it, his 15-year exploration of the various perspectives of sport in society.
Topics will include, but are not limited to,
impeachment and ending the occupation of Iraq.
It was repeated meetings with constituents that
eventually convinced Wexler to take a serious look at
impeachment -- and now he's pressing a campaign to
advance hearings in the Judiciary:
Sign up if you haven't already.
IndependentPrimary.Com is holding a "Tsunami Tuesday"
on-line primary thru February 1st.
[This organization ran an on-line primary prior to NH,
and found that Kucinich got the most votes!]
We're going to find out the choices of independent- minded Americans. We'll announce the results by email on February 2nd and hold a press conference for the media before February 5th.
This is an exciting [not to mention frightening] time to be an independent-minded American.
IndependentPrimary.Com Please remember to cast your vote and tell at least five of your friends to cast theirs too!
U.S. war provocation against Iran: Another Tonkin
Gulf? Take Action NOW to Stop War on Iran!
The Bush Administration has initiated an extremely dangerous war provocation just off Iran's coast, in the Strait of Hormuz. With Bush on his way to the Middle East to mobilize a collection of oil-rich U.S. client states against Iran, the U.S. government is working overtime to create a phony public-relations incident to heighten tensions in the region and threaten a new war.
Congressman Robert Wexler's campaign office says that (unlike most of our Democratic Reps) he is pushing hard to force a committee hearing on Rep. Dennis Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment, recently introduced into the House of Representatives and referred to the Judiciary Committee.
This fight is not over. We must continue the pressure on our representatives or else Congress and its fellow lackey media will take no notice. That would be a historic mistake – one we must prevent Congress from making.
We stand at a critical juncture in our efforts. Forget all of those arguments that it is too late or that we have run out of time. You can’t run the clock out on our Constitution. Those of us dedicated to this fight – Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the online community, and millions of patriotic Americans – must keep the pressure on. Please continue to spread the word and help deliver accountability to the corrupt Bush-Cheney administration.Congressman Conyers needs a huge kick in the tail.
Please sign on to Congressman Robert Wexler's petition to help push the issue.
TOLL-FREE PHONE NUMBERS FOR THE U.S. CAPITOL SWITCHBOARD
US House of Representatives Web Sites
Before the holiday break, in defiance of the perverse decision by Harry Reid to bring forward the version of the FISA bill with telecom immunity, and thanks to your voices and leadership of Senator Dodd, this was beaten back by filibuster.
We need to keep beating them back by continuing to speak out on this.
And we have a new incipient national leader on this, John Laesch, who is running for the old Dennis Hastert seat (IL-14) in a special primary election coming up in very soon (March 5th). Please submit the action page sponsored by John, and please also consider making a donation to encourage him to keep standing strong on the issues you care about.
As the Democratic nominee in 2006, John Laesch polled 40 percent against the powerful incumbent Hastert in the general election, and John is in the running again. With numbers like that, and especially given the shift in public sentiment in the last two years, this is a very winnable race.
Excerpt of John Laesch's recent message:
President Bush and the National Security Agency enlisted the help of telecommunications companies to spy on American citizens without the FISA required warrants. Now Bush wants Congress to give the telecom companies permanent immunity from prosecution. I ask you to fight Telecom Immunity Telecom immunity means that corporations who worked with the government to illegally spy on our citizens would never have to answer for their actions.
This bill exemplifies how wealthy corporations have more rights than U.S. citizens. Large telecommunications companies spied on Americans, violating the 4th Amendment, the right to privacy, and now Congress and the president wants to give them a get out of jail free card. We need to protect the Constitution of the United States. Please join me in calling our U.S. Representatives.
Tell your senators and Senator Reid to vote against this awful legislation.
S 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, titled "To establish the National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism, and for other purposes".
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.
What part of exercising power doesn't Harry Reid get? The Washington Post reports him "pleading" with the White House. And yet, it is his decision which version of the FISA bill to have the Senate consider, and by choosing to bring forward the bad one, he is knowingly forcing opponents of yet another "get out of jail free card" for Cheney cronies to get 60 votes to strip it out of the bill. Or filibuster yet again.
Call the Harvest Cooperate at 617-661-1580 and ask for Marc Cutler, Manager of Operations. Tell him to stop union busting and give Deon Furtick his job back with back pay for hours missed!
Contact the Harvest Employee Organizing Committee
Matthew Andrews
617-633-1857
At the end of January, thousands of people all over the world will march, speak, celebrate, and dialogue in villages, rural zones, and urban centers, in the context of hundreds of decentralized self-organized actions. They will mobilize over a one-week period in January, culminating in a Global Day of Mobilisation and Action on the 26th to show that another world is possible.
At the same period, the "old" world will meet in Davos for the World Economic Forum, bringing together its economists, experts, ideologies and techniques that produce violence, exploitation, exclusion, poverty, hunger and ecological disaster, depriving people of human rights and our Earth of its resources.
The World Social Forum is an open space where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organisations come together to raise issues, debate ideas, formulate proposals, share experiences, and build networks for effective action. These movements are opposed to a world ruled by capitalism and all forms of imperialism and domination.
Since the first worldwide encounter in 2001, the World Social Forum has become a permanent global process seeking and building alternatives to neo-liberal policies.
World Social Forums have taken place at the end of January at different sites throughout the world every year for the past seven years, and this spirit of diversity will continue to be reflected in the activities planned for the Global Day of Mobilisation and Action in 2008.
Our website is the main connection tool for all participants in the decentralized WSF 2008. Invite your friends to join and contribute through action spaces, present your action, upload your videos, publish news and connect your actions with those of others.
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.
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.