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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

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.

 “Not by Might, Nor By Power But By My Spirit....” Zechariah 4:6  

sponsored by Taanit Tzedek and Gaza Freedom March

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

 "/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."

Please join us for our monthly vigil to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

For more information call 617-926-8560 mailbox 2.

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.

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.