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12 / 2
Start: 4:30 pm
 Worcester Peace Works and friends will demonstrate against sending more troops to Afghanistan
Tell President Obama that we want some of the /*CHANGE*/ he promised us.
We need to keep demonstrating because the folks in Washington do not hear very well
We must make this demonstration BIG. Be sure to come. Bring friends and relatives.
Bring Signs.
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:30 pm
We will be standing in protest on Wednesday, 4:30 - 6:30 pm, at the Gloucester Rotary, Exit 11 off Route 128N. Please bring signs, flags, etc. The rotary is the same place that we hold our peace vigil every Saturday from 12-1 pm.
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
In response to President Obama's Tuesday night speech calling for a marked increase in American troops being sent to Afghanistan, there will be a candle-light vigil calling for peace---and in particular protesting the escalation of our involvement in Afghanistan.
Please come with a candle and a desire to solve our problems without bombs and bullets. There will be similar gatherings at that time across the Cape.
The event is sponsored by Cape Codders for Peace and Justice and the Falmouth Anti-War Vigil.
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Troops Home Now from Afghanistan!
Stop the Escalation!
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 6:30 pm
Cambridge UJP will vigil to protest escalation of the Afghanistan war.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Merrimack Valley People for Peace
Vigil to protest the increase of troops in Afghanistan, if it is announced by the President on Tuesday. Everyone is welcome. Please bring friends,
signs and outrage.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Made in L.A. is an Emmy award-winning documentary about three Latina
immigrants working in a Los Angeles sweatshop and their fight to
win labor protections from a trendy clothing retailer. It is a story about
immigration, the power of unity, and the courage it takes to find your
voice.
For more information, contact: 617-301-4392 or mobilization@uusc.org
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12 / 3
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
On December 3, we will focus our Thursday evening Vigil in Newton Center (5PM-6PM at the corner of Beacon St. & Center St.) on expressing our deep opposition to further involvement of American armed forces in the war in Afghanistan. We know this is a difficult time of the day for most people, but this is the kind of event that demands that we each stop and consider whether this is the time to stand up against this unacceptable decision on the part of the President whom most thought would bring an end to this foolish and destructive war.
Sponsor: Newton Dialogues on Peace and War
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm
An evening with Gabriel Camacho, AFSC Project Voice New England Regional Organizer
Reception from 6:30-7:00, Presentation 7:00-8:30, Discussion 8:30-9:00
Please RSVP: 617-661-6130 x135
Three years have passed since the historic mass mobilizations which put millions of immigrants marching in the streets of small and major cities throughout the country. After years of workplace and residential raids, over a quarter of a million immigrants have been detained and deported, tearing framilies and communities apart.
Start: 6:45 pm
End: 9:00 pm
THURSDAY FILM SERIES BACK AT CENTRAL SQUARE LIBRARY
The Monthly Peace and Justice Film Series presents the Award winning PRAY
THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL
An extraordinary documentary of a small band of Liberian women who came
together in the midst of a bloody civil war, took on the violent warlords
and corrupt Charles Taylor regime and won a long-awaited peace for their
shattered country in 2003.
An Extended Discussion will follow the film. FREE Refreshments will be
served.
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12 / 4
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12 / 5
Start: 9:30 am
End: 10:30 am
Walpole Peace Group
Please join us for a peace vigil in protest of President’s Obama’s plan to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
It is regretful that President Obama is sending additional troops and escalating the war. The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan has served as a lightening rod for violence and is not the way to build peace. In his speech, President Obama linked the necessity of sending troops to 9/11 while most military analysts agree that al Qaeda has a small presence in Afghanistan. Most of the fighting is by the war lords left over from the Soviet war, the Taliban, internal in-fighting. We should shift our focus from military operations to provision of humanitarian aid, education, building bridges with the Afghan people. We should bring our troops home now.
Start: 10:30 am
End: 11:30 am
In the event of an Obama decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, Arlington-Lexington UJP will hold a vigil at it’s monthly vigil time, on Saturday, Dec 5. We will express our dismay and outrage over continuing this war which is having devastating effects on the Afghan people, the troops and for people here at home suffering from the billions of dollars not being spent on healthcare, education, housing, jobs and other human needs.
Sponsor: Arlington-Lexington UJP
Please bring signs
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Forget the malls: Shop Palestine! Support Fair Trade!
Tania Maxwell and Janice Hayden are getting together to host
an Open House / Palestine Market just in time for holiday
shopping. Bring cash, checks, and credit cards to the
open house to purchase:
Olive Branch Olive Oil (Extra Virgin, Fair-Traded, and delicious!)
Za-atar
Olive oil soap
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12 / 6
Start: 10:30 am
End: 1:00 pm
Many of our community groups have been active this week protesting the Afghanistan escalation. Let’s share what we’ve done, and think together about next steps, including media work. And let’s also discuss the idea of a cross-community MLK event.
Other agenda items so far include:
-Report on 25% campaign
-Next UJP strategy conference
-UJP input on status of UfPJ
-UJP involvement in ACLU "Sunlight on Surveillance" project
We won’t be having our socializing half-hour because the 25% taskforce will be meeting prior to our meeting. But please bring food!!
Agenda items should go to Vicky Steinitz at vicky.steinitz@gmail.com
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
The Greater Newburyport Vigil against a troop increase in Afghanistan will take place at the usual time and place:
For questions, call Barbara Haack 978-363-2245
Start: 7:30 pm
NOTE: The venue has been changed!
On the siege in Gaza and its continued human, political and
economic consequences one year after Israel's Invasion
Nancy Murray: Report on The Gaza Freedom March
www.gazafreedommarch.org
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12 / 7
Start: 7:00 pm
Alborada Films Presents:
Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela
SCREENING (Followed by Q&A with the director Pablo Navarrete)
February 2009 marked 10 years since Hugo Chavez took office, following
a landslide election victory, and launched his revolution to bring
radical change to Venezuela. While wildly popular with many in his
country, Chavez's policies and his outspoken criticisms of the U.S.
government have made him powerful enemies, both at home and abroad.
Filmed in Caracas in November 2008, this feature-length documentary
takes a journey into the heart of Venezuela's revolution to listen to
the voices of the people driving the process forward.
Pablo Navarrete is an independent British-Chilean journalist,
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12 / 8
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Start: 6:00 pm
Alborada Films Presents:
Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela
SCREENING (Followed by Q&A with the director Pablo Navarrete)
February 2009 marked 10 years since Hugo Chavez took office, following
a landslide election victory, and launched his revolution to bring
radical change to Venezuela. While wildly popular with many in his
country, Chavez's policies and his outspoken criticisms of the U.S.
government have made him powerful enemies, both at home and abroad.
Filmed in Caracas in November 2008, this feature-length documentary
takes a journey into the heart of Venezuela's revolution to listen to
the voices of the people driving the process forward.
Pablo Navarrete is an independent British-Chilean journalist,
researcher and filmmaker. He is the Latin America editor for ‘Red
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Start: 6:00 pm
Boston University School of Education and Axis of Hope Center for International Conflict Prevention are co-hosting tonight’s lecture by Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor and professor of linguistics (Emeritus) at MIT. Chomsky has been a controversial critic of American policies for over 30 years and has received honorary degrees from over 20 world-renowned universities. Axis of Hope uses interactive workshops such as this to teach today's youth to develop trust, compassion and empathy for others.
More Info
http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/calendar/event.php?id=93487&cid=17&oid=0
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12 / 9
Start: 2:00 pm
 Elaine Hagopian, Professor Emerita, Simmons College
For more information, email cmes@fas.harvard.edu.
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:30 pm
This on-campus event will incorporate Afghan voices into the hot debates surrounding Afghanistan today. Fortunately, in conjunction with Tufts Institute for Global Leadership, we have put up a forum where two Afghan students, as well as a speaker from a Harvard University think tank, will be sharing distinct perspectives on the military intervention in Afghanistan.
Matan Cherov, from Harvard Belfer Center, will provide an overview of the United States foreign policy objectives in Afghanistan, followed by two Afghan students sharing contrasting perspectives, particularly on the question of troop withdrawal and escalation of war.
Maryam Shansab, a PhD student from Tufts Medical School and a member of the UJP Afghanistan Task Force, will be making the case why an American withdrawal will end the miseries the current war has brought upon the ordinary Afghans.
Start: 6:45 pm
The UJP Planning Group meets the second Wednesday at AFSC and fourth Wednesday by conference call.
Start: 7:00 pm
Alborada Films Presents:
Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela
SCREENING (Followed by Q&A with the director Pablo Navarrete)
February 2009 marked 10 years since Hugo Chavez took office, following
a landslide election victory, and launched his revolution to bring
radical change to Venezuela. While wildly popular with many in his
country, Chavez's policies and his outspoken criticisms of the U.S.
government have made him powerful enemies, both at home and abroad.
Filmed in Caracas in November 2008, this feature-length documentary
takes a journey into the heart of Venezuela's revolution to listen to
the voices of the people driving the process forward.
Pablo Navarrete is an independent British-Chilean journalist,
researcher and filmmaker. He is the Latin America editor for ‘Red
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12 / 10
Start: 3:00 pm
 Workers’ Rights are Human Rights!
International Human Rights Day
Hearing on Immigrant Workers’ Rights
Help us celebrate the 61st Anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
and advocate human rights in the workplace at a Workers’ Rights Board Hearing.
Hear testimony by immigrant workers, and workers’ rights experts, on workplace issues and challenges including:
• Rev. Peter Morales, President, Unitarian Universalist Association
• Rabbi Barbara Penzner, Temple Hillel B’nai Torah
• Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Director, Amnesty International USA
• Horace Small, Executive Director, Union Minority Neighborhoods
Start: 6:30 pm
The indigenous adivasi population of India has borne a disproportionate burden of sacrifice for its progress. Although tribals constitute 8% of India's population, they are 40% of the 60 million people displaced by large projects from 1947 to 2004. Today, the lives of the already marginalized adivasi communities of Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Maharastra are being battered by violence and displacement. These communities that have been at the receiving end of economic and social exploitation and also victims of a non-participatory and undemocratic paradigm of development.
Start: 6:30 pm
What do you do when the FBI comes knocking at your door? Do you know what your rights are and how to assert them?
Join us for a discussion of federal repression in the Muslim and Arab communities, with a focus on the case of Tariq Mehanna.
Panelists will also discuss the history of repression against the Black Liberation and Puerto Rican independence movements, highlighting strategies of self defense that have worked in the past.
This event will include video excerpts with legal information on how to protect yourself, your family, and your community.
**Co-sponsored by the Free Tariq Committee and Jericho Boston**
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12 / 11
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:30 pm
The United Nations climate change conference is happening right now in Copenhagen. Will it be the turning point in the fight for a safe climate? World leaders have said that they don't plan to agree on a legally-binding climate agreement at this conference.
We are running out of time.
Join us in solemn solidarity with the citizens of those nations who will soon face a challenge to their very survival posed by climate change. Call for a science-based international climate treaty and effective U.S. legislation to get us back to the level of 350ppm of atmospheric CO2 concentrations.
Join with us in holding our leaders accountable. We need a Real Deal in Copenhagen!
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Start: 7:00 pm
Malden Grassroots presents:
BATTLE IN SEATTLE
Its November 1999, and five days are about to rock the world as tens of thousands of demonstrators take to the streets of Seattle in protest of the World Trade Organization’s Ministerial Meeting. A demonstration to stop the WTO talks quickly escalates into a full-scale riot, and soon a State of Emergency is declared. The streets are mayhem, and the WTO is paralyzed.
Lasting an hour and forty minutes this film stars Andre Benjamin, Woody Harrelson, Martin Henderson, Ray Liotta, Michelle Rodriguez, and Charlize Theron. Writer/Director Stuart Townsend brings together this talented ensemble to intertwine different points of view from
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12 / 12
Start: 3:00 pm
Consumer Caroling with Activist Music for the People (AMP) - Winter 2009
Come, Sing out about the Sillyness of consumerism during the Holiday Season!
We will take Holiday music/melodies that you've heard all your life and change the lyrics to sing about topics such as: Wall Street Bailout, Consumerism, Sweatshops, War, Justice, democracy, TV, the Big Banks, Peace, etc, etc!
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12 / 13
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON
SUNDAY SPEAKERS FORUM presents...
Prof. SMRITI RAO
Smriti Rao is assistant professor of economics and global studies at
Assumption College in Worcester and a member of the progressive Dollars &
Sense collective. She states, "I grew up in India--born around the time PM
Indira Gandhi was throwing Coca-Cola out of the country, entering college
when Coke was being invited back in--so naturally I ended up becoming an
economist!" Her areas of interest are economic development in general and
gender inequality in particular.
Prof. Rao's talk will argue that the current recession provides us with a
reminder of the perils of unfettered markets. She feels that a close look at
Start: 6:30 pm
6:30 pm come shop for Palestinian crafts from Folk Art Mavens, and Palestinian olive oil
7:15 pm presentation and discussion on the Jewish National Fund by Hannah Schwarzschild from Philadelphia Jews for Just Peace
Alice and Dan's at 44 Cypress St, Brookline
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12 / 14
Start: 6:00 pm
Join us to honor the Association of Haitian Women of Boston and Women in Black.
We need volunteers to bring food and beverages for our usual sumptuous dinner, to call DPP members and community relations and invite them. Email or call Mike at 617-282-3783 or mikeprokosch@verizon.net if you can help.
Wheelchair accessible; call 617-282-3783 at least a week before the party if you need childcare, transportation, or have other needs to attend.
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12 / 15
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Brewing Tea in a Kettle of War is a cinema verité film that will look at the impact of economic assistance in Afghanistan from the viewpoint of a village and three reconstruction workers. The viewers of the film will experience from the inside out three divergent approaches to using economic development as a tool for protecting and improving the lives of people who live in extremely marginalized communities and the impact of this work on peacemaking.
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
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12 / 16
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:15 pm
Hear how the violent loss of a loved one stirred two families to an unrelenting quest for peace and reconciliation
Please visit our website for directions and parking: bidmc.org/PatientAndVisitorInformation.aspx
Welcome by Paul Levy, CEO, BIDMC
Lisa Hartwick, MSW, LICSW Director, Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery, BIDMC
Robi Damelin & Mazen Faraj of the Parents Circle ：Families Forum
Start: 7:00 pm
Connecting the Issues: the Economy, the Climate Crisis, & War and Peace
This conversation brings together 2 outstanding, long-time labor-movement activist intellectuals. It focuses on strategies for labor at this critical moment, particularly those that involve systematic collaboration with the peace/anti-war movement, climate justice movement, the single-payer health movement and the diverse coalition that elected Obama.
It also introduces the Majority Agenda Project as a potential solution to the strategic dilemma facing labor organizers: They care about a number of important issues that fall outside the traditional collective bargaining relationship but have to concentrate their work on areas prioritized by the needs of current campaigns.
Jeremy Brecher, author of Strike!
 Jeremy is a leading labor historian, writer, and documentary script writer best known for the labor history Strike! For more than two decades Brecher and the late Tim Costello have studied and written about labor and globalization, writing such well-known books as Building Bridges: The Emerging Grassroots Coalition of Labor and Community and Global Village or Global Pillage.
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12 / 17
Start: 6:30 pm
“Not by Might, Nor By Power But By My Spirit....” Zechariah 4:6
sponsored by Taanit Tzedek and Gaza Freedom March
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 11:59 pm
Join the encuentro 5 community for an informal evening with music, poetry, and great conversations on Thursday, December 17 at 7:00 p.m.
All our resident organizations and many of the city-wide coalitions using e5 have promised to turnout their constituencies. Music includes performances from Simon Rios and Sergio Reyes.
For directions to e5: visit our website: http://www.encuentro5.org
Start: 7:00 pm
"/Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think
we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to
be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about
it/." ~John Lennon**
Showing Thursday, December 17th, in Cambridge:
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/the US vs John Lennon
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"...It was when the Lennons moved to New York in the early '70s and took
a more active role in the anti-war movement, making friends with
radicals like Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Black Panther Party
founder Bobby Seale, that the government got interested--and
paranoid--and men like President Richard Nixon, FBI director J. Edgar
Hoover, and right-wing Sen. Strom Thurmond began actively looking for
ways to silence him."
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12 / 18
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12 / 19
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Please join us for our monthly vigil to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
For more information call 617-926-8560 mailbox 2.
Start: 4:00 pm
During Immigrant Rights week, people are shining the light of faith from coast to coast. In the spirit of the holidays, we are asked to welcome the stranger and reach out to those less fortunate, and those who are the objects of fear-filled actions. Interfaith Worker Justice will be joining with the national New Sanctuary Movement and other faith-based organizations and congregations in support of just and humane immigration reform. This vigil is to share the message that people of all backgrounds are standing on the side of love to keep immigrant families together and to end the raids and deportations.
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12 / 20
Start: 7:30 pm
The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra will present its 37th annual Christmas concert. The concert will feature the premiere of Blue Butterfly, in tribute to the late Brother Blue.
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12 / 21
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12 / 22
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12 / 23
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12 / 24
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12 / 25
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12 / 26
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12 / 27
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12 / 28
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12 / 29
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12 / 30
Start: 5:30 pm
Start: 6:45 pm
The UJP Planning Group normally the second Wednesday at AFSC and fourth Wednesday by conference call. Due to the holiday we are meeting this time on the 30th at AFSC. Major agenda is to plan the Feb 13 strategy conference.
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12 / 31
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
 We will be standing out in solidarity with those who are marching in Gaza. We too will raise our voices to call for an END TO THE SIEGE OF GAZA.
There will be a VIGIL at 4 PM. At 6 PM we will be joining the end of the "FIRST NIGHT" PARADE and marching to Park Street.
WEAR BLACK.
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