Lucy Parsons Center Radical Film Nights Present

Mes de Independencia? Independence Month?:

A Critical Look at U.S. intervention in Central America Past & Present

Sept. 23^rd Boston Interpreters Collective presents ‘Sin Nombre’.

An Evening of Readings and Conversation with James Carroll
Celebrating Peacework's 37 Years in Print

For more information, email mrochemahd@aol.com or srochemahd@gmail.com.

Keep People in their Homes!

UJP co-sponsors Thursday’s “Quarantine” of Bank of America

SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL: CAMBRIDGE' RESPONSE TO THE CLIMATE CHANGE EMERGENCY

Hear top scientists testify to what residents and the City should do.

Nonviolent Peaceforce is offering 2 basic workshops in third-party intervention, a special type of peacebuilding based on mediation in cross-cultural settings. To sign up contact jrk1956@comcast.net or call Judy 617 876-5485.

NP an unarmed, civilian peacekeeping force that is invited to work in conflict zones. Our mission is built upon Gandhi’s ultimate vision: to create a Shanti Sena, or an army of hundreds of peacekeepers.  The Boston Chapter of NV Peaceforce started a few years ago and offers trainings for those interested in peacebuilding.  You don’t have to enlist in the shanti sena, but can use the workshop to build your command of mediation skills in your family, organization or neighborhood.

National Call For Action And Endorsements at the

G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, PA

Sept. 19 – 25, 2009

Endorsers (list in formation): Iraq Veterans Against the War Chapter 61, Pittsburgh; PA State Senator Jim Ferlo; Veterans for Peace Chapter 047, Pittsburgh; National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations; Thomas Merton Center Pittsburgh; Codepink Pittsburgh Women for Peace; Bail Out The People; Green Party of Allegheny County; World Can’t Wait; ISO (International Socialist Organization); WILPF (Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom) Pittsburgh; Socialist Action; Ohio Valley Peace

Students and workers, home owners and tenants, immigrants and veterans will speak out together with Art MacEwan, Carlotta Starks, Jill Stein, Charlie Derber, Brian Corr, and City Life at an interactive People's Summit!

Why?   On September 24 and 25th, central bankers and finance ministers from the 20 most powerful countries will gather in Pittsburgh to make deals behind closed doors about our jobs, homes, health, and environment!

For more info call 617-482-6300 or visit http://www.MassGlobalAction.org/g20

Sponsors:  Mass. Global Action, Jobs with Justice, American Friends Service Committee, CISPES, Democratic Socialists of America, Progressive Students Association, and the Majority Agenda Project.

The flyer is attached, please print and distribute.

Join us on Friday, September 25th!

Come celebrate 25 years of accomplishments, and recognize BNB’s founder and current International Programs Director, Carl Kurz, as he departs for a two year sabbatical.

On July 4, 1984 - 25 years ago - Bikes Not Bombs was born on a flight from Boston to Managua, Nicaragua. Carl Kurz was on board with two bicycles, brought south to support health workers, labor unions and teachers working to rebuild a land ravaged by war.

Twenty years ago, it seemed like a miracle was happening when the Cold War ended peacefully. We were handed the chance to walk away from the nuclear nightmare and redirect billions of Cold War dollars to neglected needs at home. The promise of a "peace dividend" remains, however, unfulfilled.

Now we are spending more money on the military than we ever did during the Cold War. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the excessive costs of the Military Industrial Complex are depleting our public resources amidst a global economic crisis. But we also now have the best chance in twenty years to challenge rampant military spending, and to reclaim the post-Cold War promise of a demilitarized economy.

Sept. Moving Vigil -Wayland

Saturday Sept. 26th

Vigil:  12:00 noon  - 1:00 PM

Meeting: 1:00 - 2:30

Rt. 27 and Rt. 20

Meeting at Wayland Library, 5 Concord Rd.

The September Moving Vigil of MetroWest Peace Action will be in Wayland at the intersection of Rt. 27 and Rt. 20 with a meeting to follow at Wayland Library.

Healthcare - not Warfare, Military Out of Afghanistan

We are a coalition of individuals and groups in the area between Boston and Worcester whose aim is to strengthen the voice and impact of peace groups in the area through application of non-violent principles.

We welcome anyone interested in these goals and all vigils and meetings are open to the public.

Contact:  Carol Coakley coakley50@earthlink.net

General meeting of the organizing committee for the Boston October 17 antiwar mobilization.    Info:  Cole Harrison or Shelagh Foreman.

Visit the mobilization's web site.

Live Music, Potluck (bring food to share), and Kids' Games-- People before Profit!

Bank Tenants Association (City Life /Vida Urbana) members have occupied a vacant foreclosed building to fight against banks' greed and provide housing for those in need. This is just the beginning... Come celebrate the struggleand show your support!

For more information, call 617-524-3541 or visit www.clvu.org.

Learn about Microlending to Reduce Poverty at the Al Filipov Peace & Justice Forum

Al Filipov was among passengers and crew aboard American Airlines flight 11 which was directed into the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001. The Al Filipov Peace & Justice Forum was established to articulate those issues about which Al cared deeply and to demonstrate how one person can make a profound impact on the lives of those in his or her community. This year's speaker is Jessica Jackley, co-founder of Kiva.org, the world's first peer-to-peer online microlending website. Kiva's mission is to connect people, through lending, for the sake of alleviating poverty.

FREE

MARTINA M. CRUZ
"Working Families and the Economic Crisis"

Martina Cruz is a member of the Lawrence School Committee and active with
Latinos United for Justice. She is an endorser of Welcoming Massachusetts, a
pro-immigrant organization working toward just and humane immigration
policies. In 2006, she was one of eleven Latino elected officials from the
U.S. chosen as international observers during the presidential election in
Venezuela.

Since she came to the U.S. nearly 25 years ago, Martina has led a life of
activism based on Liberation Theology. Because of her efforts organizing for
the rights of immigrants, women & workers and against war, she was asked to
run for School Committee. She won and now continues her social justice work
there and "in the streets", where she assists indigent families in crisis to

The Under The Hood Cafe ( http://underthehoodcafe.org/ ) is a center
of GI resistance and an active duty chapter of Iraq Veterans Against
The War at Fort Hood, Texas - the largest army base in the country.
It is in serious need of funds to keep going, and the Smedley Butler
Brigade of Veterans For Peace is stepping up to help. But to do that
we need *you*.

At this fundraiser we will show some videos about the cafe, share some refreshments, and have some
music.   Victor Agosto (left), Afghanistan war resistor who just spent 30 days in jail for refusing to deploy in Afghanistan, will be speaking at the event.

Directions are at

 Come together as a community rooted in a Jewish commitment to social justice for a program of readings, reflection, and singing.  Whatever your upbringing – whatever your level of Jewish knowledge – however you might define your own spirituality – we invite you to join us! 

Advanced payment not required.  See www.circleboston.org for information about the suggested donation to attend. Contact info@circleboston.org or 617-566-6281 with questions.

Pizza and Politics with filmmaker Robert Greenwald, President of Brave New
Films and producer of "Rethink Afghanistan" among other political documentaries

Event Speakers: Robert Greenwald, President of Brave New Films and Robb
Moss, Rudolf Arnheim Lecturer on Filmmaking, Harvard University

Location: Kirkland House Junior Common Room, Harvard

Lucy Parsons Center Radical Film Nights Present

Mes de Independencia? Independence Month?:

A Critical Look at U.S. intervention in Central America Past & Present

Patrick Bond, radical geographer and political economist and Director of the
Center for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu Natal, will spend next
week at Suffolk University as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar. Public
events include the following:

Tuesday, September 29, 1 PM -- lecture "Climate Change: What's Wrong with Carbon Trading" Sawyer 427/429, 8 Ashburton Place

Wednesday, September 30, 7 PM -- lecture, "South African Politics in the
Zuma Era," Donahue 311, 41 Temple Street. Preceded by reception in the
McDermott Conference Room, first floor of the same building.

Thursday, October 1, 1 PM -- debate on "The Current Crisis and the Future of
Capitalism" with Patrick Bond, David Tuerck (Director of the Beacon Hill

Verizon locals, Jobs with Justice, AFL-CIO and central labor councils are sponsoring a united labor march and rally for jobs and economic recovery.  One year after the federal government gave big business and the banks hundreds of billions of dollars for the bail out, corporations aren't creating the jobs that were promised.

We need jobs and we want to work.  On October 1, let's put the heat on coprporations doing business in Massachusetts to provide the good jobs our communities need!

Kickoff at the state house, march through downtown Boston and the financial district, end at the Federal Reserve Bank (600 Atlantic Ave) for a 5:30 rally.

Information: call Jobs with Justice 617-524-8778 or go to massjwj.net