Emeline Michel is. "a captivating performer, versatile vocalist, and one of the premier Haitian songwriters of her generation."

$30/ $20 for students with ID

Details: www.afab-kafanm.org. 

.State Building & Human Rights: Afghanistan & Pakistan

Public Speaker Series

presents

A Panel Discussion: A Focus on Pakistan’s Judiciary and Media
“Custodians of Democracy or Tyrants of the Future?”

with

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.

For more information call 617.661.0974 or email: cambridgeelsalvador@gmail.com

UJP Planning Committee meeting

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

Halbert Jones,

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 11^th 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.

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”

Info: Milton Jones 617-825-1917 or jonesforpeace08@gmail.com

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.

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.”

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

Agenda:

• 25% Solution campaign:  report on special Senate race interventions and next steps
• Afghanistan: report on Zoya talks and next steps
• Brief evaluations of recent activities -- strategy conference, Oct. 7th 8th anniversary leafleting, Oct. 17 anti-war rally
• 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
• Community leaders interactive list serve

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