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
Pax Christi Boston invites you to into Conversation with Voices for Creative Nonviolence.
Kathy Kelly,
Nobel Peace Prize nominee and co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence in Chicago (www.vcnv.org) shares her insights about the costs of violence that she has witnessed in Haiti, Bosnia, the Occupied West Bank, Beirut, Jordan, Baghdad, Gaza, Pakistan, and the US.
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 Agape Community Annual St. Francis Day Celebration
Speakers:
Kathy Kelly, veteran peace activist, initiator of the Voices in the Wilderness campaign in Iraq, and current coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-violence.
Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg, poet, educator, a founder of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality (IJS), speaking on the Jewish Roots of Nonviolence.
Raymond Helmick SJ, Boston College School of Theology, who has worked for reconciliation for years in the Middle East.
Skip Schiel, photo-journalist, teacher, Quaker, Agape Mission Council, photos and comment on this year's multi-year trip to Gaza and The West Bank.
Talal Eid, an Imam beyond borders, peace lover and activist, educator, advocate of freedom of religion, believes in reviving the Abrahamic connections.
Members of UJP and its affiliated groups will gather on Saturday, October 3, from 1-5pm, for our next strategy conference. This time, we'll meet at the Democracy Center, 45 Mt. Auburn St., in Harvard Square. The agenda will include a new film on Afghanistan, building the October 17 protest, revising the UJP structure, and reports from UJP task forces.
To start off the program we will view the powerful and thought-provoking new film, Rethink Afghanistan, by noted documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald. The film, which has been released in installments over the past four months, is now complete and addresses the 2009 escalation, the costs of the war, the impact on Pakistan, on Afghan women, the civilian casaualties, and the security implications for Americans. We will also mention how UJP members who view the film Oct. 3 can organize screenings in their communities or house party screenings in their own homes. View the trailer at left.
The film will be followed by a discussion on the peace movement's response to the Afghan war. While Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold and conservative columnist George Will have come out against escalation in recent days, and while 51% of the American public opposes the war according to polls, the Pentagon and much of the Washington establishment appear determined to send more troops and escalate the conflict once again. The peace movement must raise our voices and continue to increase the political cost of escalation so that the Obama Administration "rethinks" its war policy.
Afghanistan is in the news again.What really is happening there?What impact is the growingUnited States’ military presence having in this war-torn country?What role should we play in Afghanistan?Andrew Bacevich, professor of International Relations at Boston University, is joined by Charles Sennott, founder of GlobalPost, to discuss the challenges the Obama administration faces in Afghanistan.
For three weeks, Maya Wind and Netta Mishly, both from Israel, have been explaining to audiences across the country why they refuseto serve in the Israeli military.They refuse to rule over an occupied people. They refuse to detain Palestinians without charge. They refuse to guard checkpoints, to enforce a siege, to usher in a humanitarian disaster.
Wednesday, October 7th is the 8th anniversary of the war on Afghanistan, a war which UJP was formed to oppose.
To mark this date, the Cambridge and Somerville/Medford UJP community groups will be standing out at T- stops from 5:30 to 6:30 PM. We will be distributing information about the costs of the war, for Afghans, for US troops and for our communities, and alerting people to the Oct. 17th anti-war rally at Copley Square. We will gather at the Central Sq., Harvard Sq., and Porter Sq. T-stops in Cambridge and at Davis Sq. in Somerville.
With Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff authored The Race Beat, winning a Pulitzer for the work in 2007. Klibanoff, former managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution and a distinguished journalist (with a successful stint at the Boston Globe), is currently managing editor of the Cold Case Truth and Justice Project.
Benefit to send Boston youth on the Gaza Freedom March
New Year’s Day, 2010
Human Rights Watch has called the siege of Gaza “a serious violation of international law”.The conscience of humankind is shocked.Yet the siege of Gaza continues.Join people from around the world on January 1, 2010 on the mile long march to Gaza.The world will be watching.www.gazafreedommarch.org
The Monthly Peace & Justice Film Series is presenting “Rethink Afghanistan” — its October film — on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 (the second Thursday of each month at the YMCA).
Benefit for the North Shore Coalition for Peace and Justice
DEAN STEVENS, folksinger, songwriter, and peace activist, has delighted audiences of all ages throughout the Americas for over 25 years. An exuberant performer, he has established himself as a formidable creator and interpreter of a wide spectrum of songs in English and Spanish. His own material explores a variety of personal and social topics, paints sketches of people and places, celebrates the Earth, and annoys the narrow-minded.

I am writing to some of you for the first time and to others with new information about the American Association for Palestinian Equal Rights (AAPER).They have asked me (along with Paige Austin of the Kennedy School at Harvard) to help coordinate a Silent March in Boston on October 10 to call attention to the injustices faced by the Palestinian people.We need all of the help we can get…and that means people who would commit to walking with us.
Fabulous items; Silent Auction; Raffle; Samosas! Don’t miss out!
Grassroots International is a great JP based group that supports organizing by farmers all over the world on the issue of resource rights (land, food, water). If you have anything in your basement you don't want and would like to contribute to the yard sale, please bring it to the yard sale in Jamaica Plain on October 3. Come to shop and have fun!
Where are we headed on the Social Justice Tour? Mattapan Square, Blue Hill and River Street, Mattapan/Dorchester Border, Blue Hill Ave and Morton St, Dorchester – Codman Square, Washington St and Talbot Ave, Dorchester/Roxbury – Grove Hall, Blue Hill Ave towards Warren St – walk to the Save A Lot on Warren St, Note: ACORN Members may be planning a neighborhood action as well.
Join Boston WILPF and local Congolese activists at a vigil to raise awareness of the devastating war in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the sexual violence accompanying it.
It will take place on Saturday, October 10 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM in Harvard Square to begin "Breaking the Silence/Congo Week”.
The rain date is Sunday, October 11 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM.
We are doing the Honk! Festival again this fall, on October 9-11, at Davis Square and environs, and we are fully expecting it to be as exciting as it was last year. (For images of last year's festival, including the parade, see www.honkfest.org.)
Some exciting aspects planned for this year's Honk! Festival include:
Friday afternoon and evening honking by guest bands and local host bands, traveling by MBTA to East Cambridge, East Boston , Boston Common, and other communities in the metropolitan area.
Guest artists from Rome (Titubanda) and New Orleans (the Pinettes, an all-woman brass band).
On October 10-11, 2009, we will gather in Washington D.C. from all across America to let our elected leaders know that now is the time for full equal rights for LGBT people. This is simply a major national strategy to kick start our national grassroots Equality Across America campaign. We will gather. We will strategize. We will march. And we will leave energized and empowered to do the work that needs to be done in every community across the nation. This is only the beginning.
Our single demand: Equal protection in all matters governed by civil law in all 50 states.
Our philosophy: As members of every race, class, faith, and community, we see the struggle for LGBT equality as part of a larger movement for peace and social justice.
Open House. On the 150th anniversary of abolitionist John Brown's attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, view an exhibit of personal papers and other documents related to his raid, trial, and execution; find evidence of continuing arguments about the morality and meaning of Brown's actions.
The exhibition "John Brown: Martyr to Freedom; American Terrorist -- or Both?" will be open for viewing at the Massachusetts Historical Society from October 12 - December 23, 2009.


Steve Early is the author of "Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home" (Monthly Review Press, 2009). Steve is an experienced labor organizer and journalist, spending many years fighting alongside sisters and brothers in the Communication Workers of America.
Bryan Koulouris is the editor of the Boston Organizer newsletter and the editorial coordinator of Justice newspaper.
This will be an important discussion following up from the October 1st demonstration against the jobs massacre. The meeting will grapple with the question: "Which way forward for the labor movement?"
FUND OUR COMMUNITIES / CUT THE MILITARY BUDGET …into the Boston Election!
JOIN US NEXT TUESDAY! Members of Dorchester People for Peace and members of other 25% Coalition groups will be outside the UMass Campus Center from
5:45-6:30pm with a banner and leaflets highlighting the demand that City Council candidates support a cut in military spending with the funds redirected to urgent local needs.
As part of 'Our Voices, Our Vote,' a civic participation campaign, Centro Presente would like to invite you to 'A New Era of Women in Politics,' a panel discussion to talk about how to increase civic participation and equal political representation of women in politics.
Not enough women, and of course not enough immigrant women, are involved in political life. As women in positions of leadership in the community it is our responsibility to promote dialogue between women active in politics and other women, in order to make political life more accessible to women from immigrant backgrounds at municipal, state and federal levels.
For more information please contact:
Patricia Montes at 617 629 47 31 ext. 211 or by email
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
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.
All troops home now from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq!
End the siege of Gaza and all US support for the occupation of Palestine!
Fund Jobs, Health Care and Environmental Protection, not War & Nuclear Weapons!
Saturday, October 17 will be the date for a march and rally to protest the Afghanistan/Pakistan war, the continued occupation of Iraq, the militarist U.S. policies with respect to Palestine, Iran, and nuclear weapons, and the impact of the military budget on human needs at home.
As the Obama administration weighs whether to further escalate troop levels in Afghanistan, the moment could not be more timely to raise our voices in protest!
Malden Grassroots sponsors Community Cookout and Justice Fair, Oct. 18
Three community groups to be honored.
Malden-area community and advocacy organizations gather for a Grassroots Community Cookout and Justice Fair on Sunday, Oct. 18, from 2 - 6 p.m. atthe First Parish in Malden, Universalist. Children and families are welcome, and the free event takes place rain or shine.
The annual event, sponsored by Malden Grassroots, brings together human service, advocacy, and direct-action community organizing groups for information sharing, networking, and planning on pressing social and economic issues. Visitors and participants are welcome to bring food and beverages to share.
Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund would like to invite you to our Piano Music for Peace concert with Russell Sherman & Proteges. Come enjoy the sound of beautiful piano music while supporting our quest for peace.
Selections will include: Debussy, Ravel, Liszt and Chopin
Refreshments will be served.
Donation: $75
RSVP: requested by Friday, October 16th to julia@masspeaceaction.org
Questions- call Mass Peace Action at 617-354-2169
Abdulsattar Younus, a member of “La’Onf,” a coalition of Iraqi civil society organizations working for the nonviolent transformation of their society, has been brought to New England by September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. The members of La’Onf include women’s organizations, human rights groups, humanitarian aid, trade unions, student groups, arts and culture organizations.
Cuba's Fidel Castro is a survivor. Having outlasted nine U.S. Presidents and survived numerous assassination attempts by the CIA, Castro has ruled Cuba for 43 years and, whether you love him or hate him, he must be considered one of
the most important political figures of the 20th century.
Fidel, a documentary by Cuban-American journalist, Estella Bravo, is a sympathetic portrait of the Cuban leader that was commissioned by Channel 4 in Britain, and won the Distinguished Achievement for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking from the Urbanworld Film Festival in New York.
The film spans a period of 40 years of Castro's rule from his early childhood and college days to his Presidency of Cuba and includes interviews with Harry Belafonte, Nelson Mandela, Alice Walker, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Sydney Pollock, and others.
During the economic boom of the 1920s, thousands of immigrant Jewish factory workers managed to build the house of their dreams, a cooperative apartment complex at the edge of Bronx Park. Then they were hit by the Great Depression. At Home in Utopia bears witness to an epic social experiment across two generations in the Coops – a place the local cops called “little Moscow” – where people tried to change the American dream into one that included racial justice and workers’ rights.
Film Description: Zeina lives in Dubai. In the midst of a divorce, she sends her son Karim to stay with her sister in Kherbet Selem, a small village in the South of Lebanon, to spare him from his parents' fighting. A few days later war breaks out in Lebanon, and Zeina begins a desperate trip to reunite with her son.
Complimentary pizza and soft drinks will be available starting at 6:00 pm.
RoxVote Forum with District 7 City Council Candidates Chuck Turner & Carlos Henriquez
RoxVOTE 2009, a non-partisan coalition of Roxbury community organizations, resident associations, and others united around the desire to increase voter participation in Roxbury, is holding a District 7 City Council Candidates’ Forum on Wednesday, October 21st from 6:00-8:00 PM at Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley Street, Roxbury.
As part of the Boston Interfaith Film Series, Coexistence International will host a screening of the inspiring documentary film "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" (2008), an award winning film by Gini Reticker and Abigail F. Disney.
It is the story of a group of Liberian women who were instrumental in bringing peace to their country after decades of civil war. It chronicles the development of this interfaith women's movement amidst intense violence and poverty, and we hear the compelling stories of the movement's leaders. The Liberian women's peace movement provides a stunning example of the unifying power and resilience of grassroots activism.
Abdulsattar Younus, a member of “La’Onf,” a coalition of Iraqi civil society organizations working for the nonviolent transformation of their society, has been brought to New England by September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. The members of La’Onf include women’s organizations, human rights groups, humanitarian aid, trade unions, student groups, arts and culture organizations.
What should sane people do in the face of hysterical allegations of "death camps" and euthanasia, and equation of Obama with Hitler and Stalin? What can we do to get health care reform that really works for America?
SPEAKERS:
- Chip Berlet - Senior Analyst at Political Research Associates, co-author of Right Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort.
- Rashi Fein - Professor of Medical Economics, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School, author of nine books, former senior staff person on President Kennedy's Council of Economic Advisors, he helped develop the initial legislation for Medicare.
New Hampshire Peace Action Education Fund Annual Event and Fundraiser
with guest Speaker Bill Hartung, Director of the Arms and Security
Initiative at the New America Foundation. He is the co-editor of Lessons
from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War (Paradigm Press, 2008). His previous books
include “And Weapons for All” (HarperCollins, 1995), a critique of U.S. arms
sales policies from the Nixon through Clinton administrations, and “How Much
Presented by Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)
Don¹t miss Grahame Russell of Rights Action's Boston stop on his national
tour! Recently returned from Guatemala and Honduras, Grahame speaks on local
resistance to transnational mining corporations and the coup in Honduras.
Join CISPES as we kickoff our Stop the Suits Campaign. Help put the pressure
on Pacific Rim and Commerce Group, two North American mining companies suing
the country of El Salvador for $177 million in "lost profits" under CAFTA!
Cosponsored by the Salvadoran Initiative for Education and Culture (ISEDUC),
Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA), Committee in
Solidarity with the Honduras Resistance, and Jobs with Justice.
Last Thursday, we held a successful benefit forum on Breaking the Siege of Gaza. 85+ people attended the event and the speakers and slides were great. Hear a full report at the meeting and the amount that was collected to help send Boston youth to join the Gaza Freedom March and discuss what else we can do to help with this important effort to break the siege.
President Obama will speak at MIT this Friday, October 23 about clean energy.
Peace activists will be present to tell President Obama:
End the war in Afghanistan! NO to escalation
All U.S. troops home now from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq
Fund Clean Energy, Not Wars for Oil
Fund Our Communities, Reduce Military Spending
We will gather at 11:00 with signs and leaflets across from the main MIT building, 77 Mass. Ave. - in the grassy area near the street, before one reaches the Student Center. The MIT police have designated this area for protests.
RAIN OR SHINE! (Water would just make it that much more realistic & we’ve got to be ready!)
Gather en masse in downtown Boston's Christopher Columbus Park, on the waterfront (Aquarium T stop) to participate in positive attention-getting and imagination-catching activities. The focus will be on the iconic image of sea level rise to draw attention to the threat of global climate change.
Travel from community events to the downtown location will be an important part of the day. Costumes, floats and theatrical events will draw attention to 350 and increase attendance. Participants in many morning 350 events will make their way independently (by foot, T, bicycle, roller-blades, canoe, and decorated vehicles) to downtown Boston.
THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON
SUNDAY SPEAKERS FORUM presents...
Non-Violence or Violence to Resolve Conflict (part II)
LANA HABASH
"Pacifism through the Eyes of Its Victims"
People around the world continue to resist the genocidal violence of
Anglo-American colonialism and imperialism by the means available to them.
Pacifists maintain that non-violence is the only legitimate response. What
effect does the promotion of pacifism have on the struggles of colonized
people and the survivors of western imperialism? Join us for a discussion of
pacifism-- through the eyes of its victims.
Lana Habash is a Palestinian mom and organizer. Her work focuses on the
struggle to free Palestine and other anti-racist/anti-colonial struggles.
She is a member of the New England Committee to Defend Palestine, the Qawem
Coalition, and Jericho Boston.
Zoya is a representative of the intrepid grassroots organization RAWA (the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan), which for 30+ years has been on the ground in Afghanistan in the outspoken forefront of women’s rights and national emancipation. She is visiting various US cities during October 2009, and her discussion of RAWA’s “withdraw now” position on US/NATO intervention in their country has been encouraging and useful to hundreds of US peace activists.
Join the Cambridge-El Salvador Sister City Project, CISPES, and Councillor Marjorie Decker for a report from visits to our sister city, San José Las Flores, El Salvador. Greg and Zander Jobin-Leeds, Pat Goudvis, and Cindy Weisbart will describe their visit, including the situation after the recent national elections, as well as the community's efforts to prevent multinational mining companies from devastating their region. The event will include photographs and video footage and more.
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
Gladys Monterroso, Attorney; Professor; Secretary General of the Encuentro por Guatemala Party.
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.
Opportunity for comments and questions to follow presentation.
Abdulsattar Younus, a member of “La’Onf,” a coalition of Iraqi civil society organizations working for the nonviolent transformation of their society, has been brought to New England by September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. The members of La’Onf include women’s organizations, human rights groups, humanitarian aid, trade unions, student groups, arts and culture organizations.
Malalai Joya has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." At a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old.
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
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.”
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.
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!
Join your neighbors, the Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants, other community based organizations, elected public officials, city candidates and friends and supporters to SPEAK OUT for legislation to SAVE AT RISK HOUSING!
Nationally more than 360,000 HUD subsidized apartments have been lost due to owner decisions to convert to market rents.
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.”
Panel discussion covering the many aspects of the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the war against Gaza
Presented bythe American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of Massachusetts (ADCMA) and The Palestine Cultural Center for Peace
Guest speakers:
Dr. Assaf Kfoury: Professor & Political Activist; Boston University Omar Baddar: Political Scientist & Human Rights Activist based in Washington , DC . Ahmad Amara: Clinical Instructor & Global Advocacy Fellow, human rights program, Harvard law school
The Consulate General of Venezuela presents:
Human Rights Watch has called the siege of Gaza “a serious violation of international law”.
Join the American Energy Revolution!
Malalai Joya has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." At a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old.
Malalai Joya, the young woman who the BBC has hailed as the "bravest in Afghanistan", has published her memoirs, 
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.
