Friday, October 16 & Saturday, October 17, 2009

Boston

The 93 day march around the planet begins!

Come Join Us as we celebrate the start of the World March For Peace and Nonviolence

Oct 2nd, Gandhi’s Birthday, 7PM
Celebrate with professional musicians, dancers, and artists followed by a candle lighting ceremony to mark the first day of the World March.

Oct 3rd, Stonewalk, 9AM
The Peace Abbey to Natick Common and back with the raising of the World March for Peace and Nonviolence banner to be displayed until January 2nd.

Each day of the ninety three days individuals are asked to pick a day to visit The Peace Abbey and light a vigil candle. You may email your chosen date or sign up on the form at The Peace Abbey.

The Consulate General of Venezuela presents:
a concert in solidarity with Palestine & Honduras
featuring:

Dame Pa Matala
revolutionary hip hop and folk music
and from Palestine: Sabreena Da Witch
with
The Foundation Movement, Natural Bliss & los trovadores por Honduras
FREE!

more info: 781 724 0752

cosponsored by: Boston Boycott Divestment Sanctions
Proyecto Hondureño
and MLK Bolivarian Circle


El Consulado General de Venezuela en Boston presenta
un concierto en solidaridad con el pueblo de Palestina y de Honduras

Dame pa Matala
hip hop y musica folklórica revolucionaria
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The Grassroots Use of Technology Conference (GUT-C) brings together community organizers and technology innovators. The goal is
straightforward: To help build progressive social change by:

• bringing hundreds of organizers together
• connecting them to each others' skills and experience
• thinking critically about the state-of-the-art tech tools
• prioritizing economic and racial justice

As you know, for 10 years, grassroots activists and change makers have come together with technology geeks for this exciting conference! Now is an opportunity for you and your members to be key partners in creating this exciting conversation with a cutting edge community of critical thinkers and tech practitioners.

A broad collaborative of nonprofits, academic, and community activist organizations has come together with the Organizers' Collaborative to make this happen.

Friday, October 16 (Opening Party)
Saturday, October 17 - Sunday, November 11, 2009 (Film Festival)

Somerville (Party) & Boston (Festival)

The Boston Palestine Film Festival is proud to announce that our third annual film festival opens October 16 and extends a full two weeks through November 1. The 2009 program is available on our web site at http://www.bostonpalestinefilmfest.org/.

Please join us:
OPENING PARTY
The Center for Arts at the Armory at 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville
Friday October 16
7-11PM

Featuring live performances by Maysoon Zayid & Remi Kanazi

Ralph Nader will be on a book signing tour in Connecticut and Boston this week.

Ralph will be speaking and holding Q/A sessions about single payer national health insurance.

And he'll be signing his new book -- his first book of fiction -- Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us! (Seven Stories Press, 2009).

Malalai Joya, the young woman who the BBC has hailed as the "bravest in Afghanistan", has published her memoirs, A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Woman Who Dared to Speak Out. 

Joya, now 31, was the youngest ever woman elected to the Afghan Parliament in 2005 and is an outspoken critic of the Karzai government and NATO occupation. She will be speaking in the Boston area between October 29-31 as part of a North American tour to speak about her new memoir, co-written with Canadian activist and writer Derrick O’Keefe.

With U.S. President Obama considering escalating the war in Afghanistan with over 40,000 more troops, Joya’s speaking tour and book release is timely. “Afghan women like me, voting and running for office, have been held up as proof that the United States has brought democracy and women’s rights to Afghanistan,” Joya writes. “But it is all a lie.”

Prof. Joel Kovel, author of 
 
Overcoming Zionism
Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine


Speaking this week:

Thur October 29
Noon
Harvard Law School, Pound 335  
Sponsored by Justice for Palestine, a Harvard Law School Student Organization

7pm
E5 in Chinatown 
(fifth floor of 33 Harrison Ave - 
near the Downtown Crossing subway)

E5 Forum is very comfortable with having as few as five and as many as
 fifty people at an event. The point of the event is not the numbers
 but, in the spirit of the Social Forum process, building productive
 social relationships across political and thematic differences - hence
 the comfort with a small audience. After the event - at around 9pm -
 we usually all go out for dinner at a nearby restaurant. 

Friday October 30
6:30pm
MIT, Room 4-337

Malalai Joya, the young woman who the BBC has hailed as the "bravest in Afghanistan", has published her memoirs, A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Woman Who Dared to Speak Out. 

Joya, now 31, was the youngest ever woman elected to the Afghan Parliament in 2005 and is an outspoken critic of the Karzai government and NATO occupation. She will be speaking in the Boston area between October 29-31 as part of a North American tour to speak about her new memoir, co-written with Canadian activist and writer Derrick O’Keefe.

With U.S. President Obama considering escalating the war in Afghanistan with over 40,000 more troops, Joya’s speaking tour and book release is timely. “Afghan women like me, voting and running for office, have been held up as proof that the United States has brought democracy and women’s rights to Afghanistan,” Joya writes. “But it is all a lie.”

Speaker: Gladys Monterroso

Gladys Monterroso is a Guatemalan lawyer, university professor, secretary for the Encuentro por Guatemala political party, and wife of the Guatemalan Human Rights Ombudsman, Sergio Morales. Gladys was kidnapped and tortured in March 2009.

Gladys is touring various U.S. cities with the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA to speak out on violence and impunity in Guatemala, and the need for immigration reform here in the U.S. ?I speak out in order to break the silence and impunity, to put an end to the uncontrollable violence in Guatemala that forces thousands to migrate to the US,? she said.

Gladys' talk at MIT is co-sponsored by the MIT chapter of Amnesty International, the Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA, the Guatemala Solidarity Committee of Boston, and Amnesty International Local Group 133 of Somerville.

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): Amnesty International

America’s stalwart fighter against corporate abuse, best selling author and presidential candidate will talk about new strategies to build economic equality and his new book, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us.

In his first work of fiction, Nader tells the story of what would happen if the country’s richest and most powerful decided to act for the common good, challenging corporate power and fixing our government - in a way that actually benefited hard working families.  This is his only Boston-area book appearance!

Praise for “ONLY THE SUPER-RICH CAN SAVE US”