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Two important Stop the BU Biolab events on Tax Day. Get your taxes done early and join us!
The City Council Hearing at 6PM should be very interesting as our scientists challenge BU and the Boston Public Health Commission on how they have ignored the ban on RDNA research in the City of Boston.
April 15th
The Status Conference is at 9:30 at the Federal Court House
Judge Saris IS PRESIDING
Please join the Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights
Tax Day Demo
April 15th 4:30 - 6pm
Metrowest Peace Action is sponsoring a monthly Peace Vigil this Saturday, April 18th from noon to 1:00 on Framingham Green, with a meeting to follow at First Parish Unitarian Universalist of Framingham in the Huntley Room. Everyone is welcome to join us and stand out for peace.
General David Petraeus is the commander of the US Central Command and is in charge of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is speaking on "21st Century Leadership - Lessons from the U.S. Military".
FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.stopthewars.org info@stopthewars.org
Registration 9:00 am. Opening Plenary 10:00 am.
Develop strategies to build a solidarity movement with Palestine in New England.
Workshops include:
• Introduction to Zionism
• Why does the US support Israel?
• Campus action for divestment from Israel
• History of Palestinian resistance
• Building a community movement for Palestine & more!
Featuring:
Where: Harvard Square T-Mobile, 1438 Massachusetts Ave. near The Body Shop
AND
Coolidge Corner Verizon Store, 285 Harvard Street
Newton Dialogues on Peace and War
ndlg@comcast.net • www.newtondialog.org
P.O. Box 610395, Newton, MA 02461
Barney Frank: “CUT THE MILITARY BUDGET”
Sunday, April 26, 7:00 p.m.
at the Eliot Church, 474 Centre Street, Newton Corner
Invest in Our Future: Stop Budget Cuts!
April 27 – 28, 2009 [New York City]
“The Economic Crisis, The Global Economy, and the Economy We Want” is a three-part series.
Part 1 (Tuesday, April 21) is an expanded, improved version of the workshop given at the Dorchester People for Peace January meeting.
Part 2 (April 28, with Tim Costello of Global Labor Strategies and Adrian Boutureira of United for a Fair Economy) covers the international dimensions of the US crisis and economy over the past 60 years.
Part 3 (May 5, with Stephanie Luce of Solidarity) looks at what we want and how to build the power to get it.
Next Wed April 29 at 5 PM in Davis Sq.
406 Highland Avenue
Somerville, MA 02144
Other actions are:
Noon at:
100 Federal St, Boston
Noon at:
Monarch Place, Springfield, MA
3PM at:
Winthrop Ave, Lawrence, MA
4PM at:
365 Main St, Worcester, MA
The Afghanistan/Pakistan Puzzle
A Public Discussion led by
Shelagh Foreman, Program Director, Massachusetts Peace Action and member, Afghanistan Working Group, United for Justice with Peace
American Jews for a Just Peace - Boston
invites you to the first annual
Hilda Bernstein Silverman
A public program co- sponsored by the Newton Human Rights Commission and Newton Dialogues on Peace and War
Doors open 6:30 P.M., Program begins at 7:00 P.M. sharp
Audience participation will follow
Moderator:
Fr. Walter Cuenin – Catholic Chaplin at Brandeis University
It is widely acknowledged that we are losing the war in Afghanistan. Is the solution more troops or a political one using negotiation, alliances and aid? What has life been like for the Afghan people since the occupation? Can we or they afford 7 more years of fighting? As the Obama administration is seeking it’s own strategy how can we be effective advocates for peace? These questions and others will be addressed at this timely forum.
Speakers:
On behalf of the Chelsea, East Boston, and Everett May 1st Coalition. We are community based organizations with a long history of organizing and providing services for the immigrant populations of our respective cities. Between our communities of East Boston, Chelsea, and Everett, we have been organizing residents for over ten years to celebrate May 1st as International Workers Day annually with marches and rallies through the main streets of our cities. 
UJP is a co-sponsor of the Event which is organized by the May 1st Coalition of Chelsea, East Boston and Everett.
Congresswoman Barbara Lee: A Progressive Assessment of the Obama
Administration's First 100-days -- a public panel discussion
Other panelists:
Page Gardner--Women's Voices, Women's Vote;
& Coolidge Corner Verizon Store, 285 Harvard Street
Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University presents Najim Azadzoi, Paul Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Gould, and Nick Mills: Afghanistan's Untold History and the Road Ahead; moderated by The Boston Globe's Alan Berger. Followed by an open discussion and book signing.
Video, Slide Show and presentations: report from a recent study tour
Vietnam today is bustling, colorful, spirited and changing into something new. 
A 16-person national study tour visited the country in Jan. 2009 hosted by the Vietnam Women's Union. The group learned about the VWU, a 13-million member grassroots organization that has considerable influence on national policy. The legacies of war was another theme as a US Vietnam vet met with three former NLF fighters in a moving encounter.
Military Mom and Author Susan Galleymore
With Art, Poetry, and Refreshments!
Just in time for Mother's Day, a moving portrait of what it means to be a mother in time of war...
