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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.
MEETINGS WILL CONTINUE EVERY MONDAY PRIOR TO THE EVENT ON MARCH 24th.
PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS DEMONSTRATION.
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.
Please consider signing the petition calling for a Filibuster to end the war. It takes only one Senator and 40 more abstentions (not even a yes vote) to stop funding for the war. The Republicans have used this tactic three times in the last month.
MIRA members, staff, and allies are responding to the devastation of families caused by Immigration and Customs Enforcement's raid on workers at a defense contractor in New Bedford, MA. ICE rounded up and incarcerated around 350 textile workers, mostly women, leaving many children stranded. [About 60 have been released for humanitarian reasons, mostly related to child care. About two dozen are being held at the Fort Devens detention center, and the rest have been taken to detention centers in Texas, Pennsylvania, Florida, and possibly others across the country.]
Bi-lingual attorneys or mental health workers who can help with this crisis pro bono, please call MIRA central number: 617-350-5480 x210
Call Mon. 3/12 to find out what goods are needed and how to donate them: Helena Marques, Immigrant Assistance Center (508) 735-1953
"Emergency" legislation proposed by the Patrick administration will roll back community planning rights and environmental protections for tidelands - a key gem among the lands that make up the public trust. Specifically, the bill privatizes a portion of these invaluable lands by legislating a new category- landlocked tidelands - and removing it from the public domain. This eliminates environmental permitting for developers and removes requirements for community input, public benefit, and preserved public access to any such development.
The bill would also retroactively legalize permits - recently deemed illegal by the Supreme Judicial Court - for the massive NorthPoint project in Cambridge. The Patrick administration, which is rushing to the aid of the project, now includes several highest-level appointees with recent direct ties to the NorthPoint developers. Gregory Bialecki, the attorney who led NorthPoint's fight against the citizens' lawsuit to stop the illegal permitting, is now permitting czar. Dan O'Connell, former top executive of the managing partner of NorthPoint - Spaulding and Slye Colliers - is Secretary of Housing and Economic Development. This is insider influence on steroids.
The bill is the latest in a series of attacks on community planning rights and environmental protections, reflecting the growing muscle of the real estate development lobby. As a hedge against pre- emptive legislative action, we encourage concerned citizens to call their legislators as soon as possible. Our grassroots coalition has already been key to stopping several such lobbyist-driven bills. Our voices can help make the difference once again.
PLEASE URGE YOUR LEGISLATORS TO:
* OPPOSE THE TIDELAND PERMITTING BILLS filed by the Patrick Administration and the similar Rodrigues bill, H847.
* INSIST ON FULL PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR ANY TIDELANDS LEGISLATION, INCLUDING FULL DISCLOSURE of campaign contributions from developers to proponents.
* KEEP TIDELANDS - & PUBLIC LAND IN GENERAL - INTACT AS A PUBLIC TRUST.
Mass. Coalition for Healthy Communities 617-852-4727
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. Proponents of HR 811 expect the bill to come for a vote during mid- March 2007.
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.
An excellent bill was introduced on Wednesday by Progressive Caucus leaders Lynn Woolsey, Barbara Lee and Maxine Waters. This bill, H.R. 508: The Bring the Troops Home and Iraq Sovereignty Restoration Act, is the first comprehensive exit plan and includes these major provisions:
--withdrawal of US forces and military contractors within six months of
the bill's enactment;
--repeal of authorization for the use of force;
--prohibition of permanent military bases in Iraq;
--provides economic aid to the Iraqi people; and
--fully funds health care for U.S. veterans.
Read more about HR 508
Congressional Switchboard toll-free numbers
Grass Roots Activists for Peace suggests the following:
*** Call your Congressperson today and ask them to support HR 508.
*** Call and ask for the office of the Speaker of the House; ask aid for
Nancy Pelosi's leadership support on this bill.
Co-Sponsors of H.R. 508:
Rep Frank, Barney [MA]
Rep McGovern, James P. [MA]
Rep Brown, Corrine [FL]
Rep Carson, Julia [IN]
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO]
Rep Cohen, Steve [TN]
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI]
Rep Davis, Danny K. [IL]
Rep Ellison, Keith [MN]
Rep Farr, Sam [CA]
Rep Fattah, Chaka [PA]
Rep Filner, Bob [CA]
Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ]
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY]
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX]
Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH]
Rep Lee, Barbara [CA]
Rep Lewis, John [GA]
Rep Nadler, Jerrold [NY]
Rep Payne, Donald M. [NJ]
Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. [IL]
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA]
Rep Waters, Maxine [CA]
Rep Watson, Diane E. [CA]
Read the bill and follow its progress (Search for "HR 508").
US Rep. Barney Frank indicated yesterday by phone with a member of Newton Dialogues that he is planning to vote FOR the supplemental appropriations bill, thus continuing funding the war.
Please call Barney Frank at
Congressman Barney Frank
2252 Rayburn H.O.B.
Washington, DC 20515-2104
(202) 225-5931
or any Congressperson: 1-888-851-1879
To email Frank your opinion on this matter: house.gov/frank/contact.html
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.
The Boston IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) will be holding a organizing training class on from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Registration: $5
(sliding scale for Students / Seniors / Unemployed)
For more information contact: bostgmb-I@iww.org
Updates on the New Bedford factory workers detained by B.I.C.E. with reports from Dave Goodman and Home Fries.
Dustin Langley of the Troops Out Now Coalition with an update from Washington DC on the peace encampment, the march on the Pentagon, and protests at the Capitol building.
Excerpts from Ford Hall Forum "You Don’t Know Us: Voices from the Moderate Muslim Majority" with Ali S. Asani, professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture at Harvard University, and Mona Eltahawy, award-winning New York-based journalist and commentator, international lecturer on Arab and Muslim issues.
A roundtable discussion on Boston hotel workers (members of UNITE HERE) who have called for a strike against Starwood Hotels. With Brian Lang, VP of UNITE HERE Local 26 and a representative of Starwood Hotels to be determined.
RADIO with a VIEW is produced by Marc Stern and David Goodman for the Independent Broadcast Information Service in cooperation with WMBR, Cambridge
Jim Harney, a photojournalist and storyteller, traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border & the Mexico- Guatemala border in the thick of our national debate on the fate of some 12 million undocumented people. Latin American migrants run a gauntlet of brutality, riding on the outside of freight trains, trekking through deserts, hoping to find in the U.S. a future denied to them in their homeland by economic imperialism. His presentation illustrates the human cost of globalization, as he shares some of their stories and explores the forces driving them to make the dangerous journey north.
Jim is artist-in-residence for Posibilidad, a Maine-based nonprofit that engages people in conversation around the excluded of society. For more than two decades, this former priest has traveled to and lived with the poor in Venezuela, Haiti & the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Iraq, Colombia, Chiapas, Guatemala and El Salvador. Also, following his presence at protests of the World Trade Organization here and abroad, his photos and narratives have unmasked corporate violence.
Please join us for the Boston Vegetarian Society's
3rd Sunday Seminar (FREE) and Dinner
4:00 PM Seminar (FREE)
5:15 PM Vegan Buffet Dinner (not free)
This Powerpoint presentation will examine some of the evidence that supports following a vegetarian diet to reduce the risk of heart disease, including studies by Dean Ornish and Caldwell Esselstyn. It will also discuss some of the myths about vegetarian diets, current values for protein and calcium needs for veg'ns and how to fill them, and more!
5:15 PM - SOCIAL DINNER (optional, but encouraged!)
Stay and enjoy Grasshopper's delicious unlimited vegan buffet for only $9.50+ tax (and remember the tip jar by the cash register for the hard-working staff!). Includes appetizers, soups, salad, several entrees, and fresh melons. Let us get to know you!
No RSVP needed, just come on by! Everyone is welcome.
We are moving full speed ahead to providing a transformative experience in peacebuilding this summer for 30 Palestinian, Israeli, and American youth.
We hope you will all join us at our inaugural event on March 18th, 2007 from 4- 6pm in the Ellsworth Theatre at Pine Manor College. The afternoon will feature short documentary and animation films made by last years campers in Vancouver, jazz & Klezmer music by Paula Zeitlan, performances by Pine Manor chorus and dance students, and Sufi dancing by our own Theatre Director and Camp Co-Director, Ibrahim Miari. Middle Eastern Food will be provided by local restaurants.
More information about the March 18th Inaugural event can be found on our
website.
The event is co-sponsored by the Boston chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace.
The Labor and Worklife Program and the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School invite you to a public symposium featuring Liu Cheng, Professor of Law and Politics at Shanghai Normal University: 12:15- 1:30pm. Professor Cheng will address vital new developments in Chinese labor law aimed at protecting the legal rights and interests of poorly represented migrant workers and the future of labor law and labor relations in China. Open to the public. Free Buffet Lunch Served.
For more information email janastasopoulo@law.harvard.edu
Special Candlelight Vigil to mark the Fourth Anniversary of the Iraq Invasion 5P.M.-7P.M. in Newton Center at the corner of Beacon and Centre Streets. This Vigil is being held in conjunction with thousands of other vigils being held across the country to mark the 4th anniversary of the US Invasion of Iraq, to honor the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi men, women and children as well as the over 3000 dead U.S. servicemen and women and almost 40,000 wounded U.S. servicemen and women, and to urge Congress to take immediate action to Bring the Troops Home Now and End the Shameful War in Iraq. We will ALSO hold our ongoing Thursday evening Vigil Against the War in Iraq.
March 19, 2004 will be the 4-year anniversary of the start of the current War in Iraq. There will be rallies and vigils across the country to mourn the loss of more than 3000 young men and women in the service.
You don't have to travel to DC, not even to Boston - there will be a Peace Vigil in Lowell on that day.
Greater Lowell for Peace and Justice (GLPJ) will be in downtown Lowell, on Monday March 19, from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM. We will be at Kearney Square, at the intersection of East Merrimack and Prescott Streets.
We hope to have a large crowd, to show that Lowell cares. Come for the hour, come for a half hour, whatever fits your schedule. Bring your own sign or peace flag or candle, carry one of ours, or just stand with us.
For questions, contact Chris 978-808-9809
For those committed to health in rich and poor nations alike, "Salud" examines the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls "one of the world's best health systems." From the shores of Africa to the Mississippi Delta "Salud" hits the road with some 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hears and minds of international medical students in Cuba- now numbering 30,000. There stories bring home the complex realities confronting the movement to make health care a human right. One of the people featured in the film is Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School and Founding and Director of Partners In Health.
Two FREE Showings that are open to all
Tuesday March 20 2:30 to 5:15
Room E-175
Thrusday March 22 6 pm
Discussion to follow this showing.
Room A 300
Community College stop on orange Line
10 minute walk from North Station
Contact: Margaret Witham 617.504.7265
Dr Pollack is Director of Research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Open to the Public.
Description: Lecture and Panel Discussion. Ali Abu Awwad from Hebron and Nella Cassouto from Jerusalem will describe the painful losses their families have experienced and how they have turned to reconciliation as their hope for the future.
Moderator: Thomas J. Fitzpatrick, SJ, Director, Pontifical Biblical Institute in Jerusalem
Cosponsors: Boston College Theology Department/Gasson Chair in Theology; BC Jesuit Community; Jesuit Institute; Office for University Mission and Ministry; Center for Jewish-Christian Learning
Admission: Free. All are welcome.
Contacts: Peggy Lee (will help arrange parking)
Gloria Rufo 617-552-3882
Refreshments will be served.
Dr. Joudah is both a poet/translator and a doctor who has spent extended time in Darfur, as well as Zambia. When not doing humanitarian medicine with Doctors Without Borders, he lives in Houston and works in the Emergency Room of Houston's VA Hospital. He was born in Texas to Palestinian refugee parents, raised in Libya and Saudi Arabia, and returned to the US for college and medical school.
Joudah's translations from the Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish, one of the premier Arabic-language poets in the world and often nominated for the Nobel Prize, has recently appeared from Copper Canyon press, "The Butterfly's Burden" (2007) and a first collection of his own, "The Earth in the Attic," is currently short- listed for the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Prize. His poetry reading will be 5:15 Wednesday March 21, Schwartz 3.
Dr Joudah's visit to Brandeis co-sponsored by: English and American Literature, PAX, STAND, the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, African and Afro-American Studies, the Interculutural Center and the Office of Academic Services: Health Professions Advising.
Join Dorchester People for Peace and ACORN to watch: "The Ground Truth", a film that shows Iraq through the eyes of US troops.
This unsparing movie takes soldiers through recruitment, boot camp, Iraq, and their return home. After the film we'll discuss the war's impact on veterans and families, and what we can do.
Wheelchair accessible; childcare and transport available by calling 617-282-3783 in advance.
Boston-Cambridge Alliance for Democracy's Agenda for its next meeting.
The chapter will consider localization in its many aspects as our answer to corporate globalization. Bring your suggestions for how most of us can participate in organizing a Boston-area council of organizations to promote local and regional self-reliance. We are pro-democracy...If you feel this is not "the answer", let us hear yours. Come, & thanks!
Open to All --- Refreshments
"A true story about the everyday leaders who refuse to sit back as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict escalates. Described as a "riveting documentary, blazing with a kind of spiritual grace, while remaining firmly grounded in a tragic reality."
Sponsored by Newton Dialogues
"There can be no doubt that behind all the actions of this court of justice, that is to say in my case, behind my arrest and today's interrogation, there is a great organization at work.and the significance of this great organization, gentlemen? It consists in this, that innocent persons are accused of guilt, and senseless proceedings are put into motion against them.." (The Trial, Franz Kafka).
Convenient to the Orange and Silver Lines; wheelchair access provided.
Tickets: $18.50-$23, $15.50 for students & seniors;
special "Pay What You Can" on Wed. night (minimum $5) available two hours before curtain at the Box Office. Special ASL performance on Friday March 23 at 8pm and Saturday March 24 at 2pm.
Week of justice movie night sponsored by Northeastern's Progressive Student Alliance. Film TBA.
The Ford Hall Forum Free Public Lecture and Discussion Series presents Marshall Goldman, Davis Professor of Russian Economics at Wellesley College (Emeritus) and associate director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, and Uri Ra¹anan, director of the Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy and professor of international relations at Boston University, will explore the impact of the Kremlin¹s concentrated political power in an age of booming oil and gas wealth.
Come join the conversation.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Presenter: Nancy Price, Alliance for Democracy National co-chair and Western Coordinator of the Alliance for Democracy's "Defending Water for Life Campaign"
What should be Private Property? What should be Common Wealth?
By weaving Satin ribbons representing Nature's Gifts to all - *Sky, Land, Water, Animals* - and interweaving our *Cultural Heritage*, a *Tapestry of the Commons* emerges that supports all life on the planet. Then together we unweave the ribbons as we assess the current state of our common wealth and explore the concepts of:
The Lucy Parsons Center and the IWW are proud to host the Boston Book Launch for "The Industrial Workers Of The World: Its First One Hundred Years: 1905 Through 2005" written by long time LPC collective member Jon Bekken and Fred W. Thompson. Wob singer Bill Bumpus will perform to start the night and then Jon will discuss the history of the IWW as it moves into its second century.
Anti-war figure, Cindy Sheehan, and Boston City Councilor, Felix Arroyo, will speak out against the Iraq War
Who: Goldstar Mother for Peace, Cindy Sheehan who made international news by camping outside George Bush’s ranch as well as outspoken war critic and Boston City Councilor at large, Felix Arroyo.
What: This speaking event is a fundraiser for the Saturday, March 24 protest against the war taking place the following day on Boston Common. Both Cindy and Felix will have the chance to address the audience as well as take questions.
Contact: Brian O’Connell, 617-947-8983
Sponsored by Concord-Carlisle Adult and community education
Keynote Speaker: Marc Breslow - Director, Mass Climate Action Network
View Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”
See exhibits, demonstrations and presentations by energy conservation, community & youth groups, town government, and businesses dealing with the problem of global warming .
Learn the facts about global warming and what we must do about it.
Families and individuals of all ages are welcome.
Contact CCACE at (978) 318-1540, Berni Jenkins or Lori Pazaris
This years Boston Zine Fair is Saturday, March 24th & Sunday the 25th, 10am-6pm at the Massachusetts College of Art (Mass Art)
The Boston Zine Fair is a weekend-long event with the aim of bringing together zinesters, artists, small presses and other producers of independent media. There are also numerous hands-on workshops and discussion panels which give us the opportunity to learn new skills to use in our own creative enterprises, as well as to explore the importance of independent media in a corporate-owned world. The Boston Zine Fair is free and open to the public. Please come and participate!
ADMISSION IS FREE. If you want to table, it's $15 (full table) for the weekend, and $10 for a half table.
Presented by Black Ocean and the Papercut Zine Library
Korten's classic bestseller, When Corporations Rule the World, was one of the first books to articulate the destructive and oppressive nature of the global corporate economy.
Now, ten years later, in his new book, The Great Turning, Korten shows that the problem runs deeper than corporate domination -- with far greater consequences.
Korten was one of the first speakers ever sponsored by the fledgling Alliance for Democracy, alongside its founder and legendary Texas journalist, Ronnie Dugger.
New England's largest conference for citizen activists protecting public health and the environment. MEET THE EXPERTS - LEARN NEW SKILLS - NETWORK - AND BE INSPIRED. Join us in celebrating our 20th annual environmental leadership conference. The conference will offer over 35 workshops to help you develop skills and strategies to win your fights against pollution in your communities. See all of the conference workshops, browse the silent auction prizes, learn more about the speakers, see who is cosponsoring the event, register, and get directions to Wentworth at www.toxicsaction.org over the upcoming weeks.
Registration is $50 to cosponsor, $30 pre-paid and $35 at the door. Breakfast, a reception, and childcare are included.
Email Jamie or call her at (617) 747-4362 with questions.