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.
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.
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.
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
Discussion of issues that arise in introducing peace and justice issues at the local level: how to respond to ‘it's not a local issue’, problems that may arise and strategies for dealing with them
THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON
SUNDAY SPEAKERS FORUM presents...
Prof. ARTHUR KUBICK
The June 28th coup in Honduras continues with growing repression on the part
of the new government: beatings, detention, disappearances, killings. From
Sept. 19-26, the Quixote Center sponsored their seventh human rights
accompaniment delegation to Honduras since the coup began. There we
witnessed this repression first-hand, but at the same time experienced the
commitment of so many people to building a society rooted in social justice
and equality. (The delegation's report can be read at www.quixote.org) Our
speaker will share his experiences and explore ways to continue solidarity
with the people of Honduras.
Art Kubick is a retired professor and former director of the Center for
Mexico-US Solidarity Network invites you to join us for a discussion of popular education in Zapatista indigenous communities and urban locations with feminist activist sociologist Patricia Hernandez. Draw connections between women’s struggles, education for liberation and social movements in Mexico and US.
The head of a controversial United Nations fact-finding mission to the Gaza Strip and a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations will discuss assertions that Israel and Palestinian fighters committed war crimes during three weeks of fighting in the Middle East last winter.
Join us to celebrate INEAS’ 15th Anniversary at the Roslindale Village. This fundraising evening will commence at the Select Café on Belgrade Ave. featuring poetry recitation by poets Beatrice Green, Betsy Lister and Wafaa’ Al-Natheema. Then words will be transformed to music at the Birch St. Bistro where a live jazz band will perform for the rest of the evening.
Hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Core Curriculum, the Honors Program, and the Departments of History and Political Science at Boston University
This day-long conference will bring together authors from two recent books co-edited by Professors Charles Ogletree and Austin Sarat. They will discuss the various ways we confront the law’s failures as well as imagine a nation without capital punishment.
Morning Panel: When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice

*Professor Douglas Berman, Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law

*Professor Mary Dudziak, University of Southern California

*Professor Patricia Ewick, Clark University

*Professor Linda Meyer, Quinnipiac University School of Law
Afternoon Panel: The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment

The economic crisis is not over and has always been there for poor women and their families. The National Jobs for All Coalition has been sponsoring First Friday demonstrations around the country to call attention to the continuing jobs crisis and an inadequate safety net. Survivors Inc along with NJFAC will educate legislators and the media to the plight of poverty growing larger in Massachusetts.
Living wage jobs for all.
Raise TANF grant levels to the poverty line.
Abolish Time Limits for families on TANF.
Access to four year college, Higher Ed. for TANF Moms and all low-income folks.
Access to Adequate Housing, Stop Foreclosures and Evictions.
CORI Reform now.
Healthcare for All.
Dahr Jamail (left) and Mohammed Omer (right), co-recipients of the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, being congratulated by John Pilger in London on June 16, 2008.
Photo by Paul de Rooij, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
MOHAMMED OMER, "The Voice of the Voiceless", was born and raised in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. A journalist for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, he has had articles and photographs featured in publications around the world.
In conjunction with the World March for Peace and Nonviolence - Reach into Every Household And Empower Women! President Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize and now there must be a PEOPLE MOVEMENT to support his efforts for peace. One man cannot do it alone! The people must show support for nonviolence!
Special Local Guest – Tina Chery, Founder of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute
Ask Questions – Hear Arun Gandhi – Make Plans
NO ADMISSION - Donations Voluntary
While President Obama has been wrestling with the request for a troop surge in Afghanistan, activists from the Tri-Town Peace Groups (Newton Dialogues on Peace and War, Watertown Citizens for Environmental Safety, and Waltham Concerned Citizens) have decided to call for a "surge" - in anti-war activity.
In answer to that call, to do our part as Americans, to support the troops, and to back up our nation's true leaders, we are asking the the people of Newton, Watertown, and Waltham to help kick off the surge by marching from Watertown Square to Waltham Common on Saturday, November 7th.
The U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan are escalating. Saber-rattling against Iran is reaching dangerous levels. Extra-urban U.S. bases in Iraq are expanding in size and permanence. Meanwhile the U.S. government refuses to use its power to break the siege of Gaza.
Mexico-US Solidarity Network invites you to join us for a discussion of popular education in Zapatista indigenous communities and the role of urban academics as resources in constructing an autonomous education system.
Patricia Hernández, a sociologist specializing in education & gender, has worked since 2001 with indigenous communities to develop their primary and secondary schools, following a model of "autonomous education." She worked intensively with indigenous teachers—called "education promoters" (promoter@s)—to develop the secondary school for indigenous children living in the Zona Selva Tzeltal. Local leaders, who oversaw the project, wanted the community's demands for land, food, peace, justice and democracy to serve as the content for classes on history, language and mathematics.
In conjunction with the World March for Peace and Nonviolence - Reach into Every Household And Empower Women! President Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize and now there must be a PEOPLE MOVEMENT to support his efforts for peace. One man cannot do it alone! The people must show support for nonviolence!
Ask Questions – Hear Arun Gandhi – Make Plans
NO ADMISSION - Donations Voluntary
At Clark University, Cynthia Enloe is a research professor in International
Development, Community & Environment and director of the Women's Studies
program. Her research centers on women's place in the political world; her
writings cover a range of issues including gender-based discrimination, as
well as racial, ethnic and national identities. She will have just returned
from New Zealand where, she claims, "they're thinking about militarization
of the South Pacific!" She will be exploring how taking seriously the
diverse lives and ideas of women in several countries can make us smarter
about the causes and costs of war
Her book titles (incomplete list) point the way -- 'The Morning After:
Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War'; 'Does Khaki Become You? The
Militarization of Women's Lives'; 'Bananas, Beaches & Bases: Making Feminist
Dahr Jamail (left) and Mohammed Omer (right), co-recipients of the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, being congratulated by John Pilger in London on June 16, 2008.
Photo by Paul de Rooij, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
MOHAMMED OMER, "The Voice of the Voiceless", was born and raised in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. A journalist for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, he has had articles and photographs featured in publications around the world.
The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center honors Paul Rusesabagina, The real-life hero portrayed by Don Cheadle in the film Hotel Rwanda giving the Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Lecture and Distinguished Poet Sonia Sanchez giving a reading of her work.
Roundtable Discussion on the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Special Guest: Christine King Farris, Professor and Director of the Learning Resources Center at Spelman College And sister of Martin Luther King, Jr.
With
- Clayborne Carson, Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Center & Professor at Stanford University
- Hardin Coleman, Dean of the School of Education at Boston University
- Walter Fluker, Executive Director of the Leadership Center and Professor at Morehouse College
- Isabel Wilkerson, Professor of Journalism at Boston University
Once again the Smedley Butler Brigade, Veteran’s For Peace, Chapter 9, is relegated to the end of Boston's Veterans Day Parade simply be cause the parade organizers don’t care for our messages of peace.
We gladly march behind the street sweepers in a show of opposition to war or the glorification of war. We believe that the best way to honor veterans is to abolish all war and bring all veterans home, out of harms way.
Please show your support by joining us this Nov 11th . Our presence has made a difference. We will meet at 1200 at the corner of Charles and Beacon streets. This is the northwest corner of Boston Commons, just across the street from the Boston Public Garden.
Honor Veterans Day at a community forum with Howard Zinn
BU Professor Emeritus Howard Zinn is a historian, playwright, and
social activist. He was an Air Force bombardier during World War II.
In this Veterans Day forum, Dr. Zinn will talk about three wars in
U.S. history – the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II.
This event is free and open to all.
For more info: contact Daryl Bridges (daryl.l.bridges@gmail.com).
Sponsored by Coalition for Social Justice. Coalition Supporters: Mass.
Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice; Mass. Jobs With Justice; UAW
Local 2324; Howard Ryan, SEIU Local 615*, and individual BU faculty,
staff, students, and alumni. * Organization listed for identification
purposes only.
The Coalition for Social Justice brings together students and support
Paul K. Chappell graduated from West Point in 2002. He served in the army for seven years, deployed to Baghdad, and will be leaving active duty in November 2009 as a Captain.
He is the author of Will War Ever End?: A Soldier’s Vision of Peace for the 21st Century and The End of War: New Ideas for Achieving World Peace (April 2010), and he is working on his third book, Peaceful Revolution.
Witness for Peace Tour w/ Martha Lucia Giraldo Villano - Speaking about "false positive" extrajudicial killings, Plan Colombia, the National Movement of Victims, and the importance of memory.
We will have a SPECIAL Vigil Against the War to call for withdrawal of US Troops from Afghanistan. As the false debate continues over whether 40,000 troops is 'enough to win', 'enough to not lose', or enough to keep us involved in propping up an illegitimate regime, we need to speak out to oppose not only the deployment of additional troops in this foolish adventure, but for the complete withdrawal of US Troops from Afghanistan. You are encouraged to make and bring your own signs (please be careful to spell "Afghanistan" properly - A F G H A N I S T A N ) and we plan to supply additional signs. If you wish, bring candles and/or flashlights.
a talk by Greg King, progressive Boston union activist who has family ties to Thailand and has visited many times. Greg will illuminate some of the reasons for the current political strife in that country, with background information on Thai politics.
Since 2000, the U.S. government has provided nearly $5 billion in military
and police aid to Colombia. Despite claims of an improved human rights
record, thousands of civilians are being killed by this U.S.-funded
military. Further, Colombian human rights groups report a 68% increase in
murders by the armed forces in a recent five-year period over the previous
five years. And the rate of such extrajudicial slaughter is still on the
rise! Setting human rights conditions on U.S. funding to the Colombian
military clearly has been ineffective in stemming these killings or bringing
those responsible to justice.
Ms. Giraldo Villano is the daughter of a small-scale farmer who was executed
by the National Army. She is active in the Victims of State Crimes Movement,
in which she works with other victims organizing to demand their right to
Representatives in 2006 on a popular mandate to bring the troops home and stop selling America to corporate interests. As Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi sets priorities for Congress.
There is no military solution in Afghanistan. The more U.S. troops that are sent to prop up the corrupt regime, the harder it will be to make peace. But under Speaker Pelosi’s leadership, Congress continues to support war and occupation. Congress must cut off the funds to bring all our troops home from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.
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.
Paul K. Chappell graduated from West Point in 2002. He served in the army for seven years, deployed to Baghdad, and will be leaving active duty in November 2009 as a Captain. 
