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12 / 16
Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery
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

Jeremy Brecher and Elaine Bernard: Strategies for Labor/ Peace/ Green Alliance
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 BrecherJeremy 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.
12 / 17
Gaza: One Year Later: An Interfaith Response
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

 

Holiday Party
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

"The US vs John Lennon"
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."
A People's Guide to the Healthcare Debate
Start: 7:30 pm

 
12 / 18
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Vigil to end the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
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.

Interfaith Candlelight Vigil for Immigration Reform
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.
12 / 20
In Memory of Brother Blue: Aardvark Jazz Orchestra’s Annual Holiday Concert
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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HR-4321: Comprehensive Immigration Reform in Age of Obama
Start: 5:30 pm

UJP Planning Group
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.
12 / 31
First Night Against the Wars - Let Gaza Live!
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm

First Night Against the WarsWe 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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"Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela" (film)
Start: 6:45 pm
End: 9:00 pm

THURSDAY FILM SERIES BACK AT CENTRAL SQUARE LIBRARY

The Monthly Peace and Justice Film Series

"This is a rare film about Venezuela, a country in extraordinary transition. Watch this film because it is honest and fair and respectful of those who want to be told the truth about an epic attempt, flaws and all, to claim back the humanity of ordinary people". John Pilger (journalist, author and documentary filmmaker)

 

An Extended Discussion will follow the film.

 

 

FREE       Parking Nearby

Refreshments will be served.

SPONSORED BY THE WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM AND THE CAMBRIDGE PEACE COMMISSION.
01 / 8
Merrimack Valley Annual Potluck Dinner
Start: 6:30 pm

The Merrimack Valley People for Peace will be hosting our annual pot-luck gathering. This year we are having it in Lowell and all 24 Iraqi families have been invited and most are coming. If you would like to meet some of the Iraqi families please let me know you would like to attend and I will save you a spot. We need to know how many people are going to attend so we know how many tables and chairs to set up.
What:  Pot Luck Dinner
Where:  St. Anne's Episcopal Church, Merrimack & Kirk Street, downtown Lowell
When:  Friday, January 8th at 6:30 PM
01 / 9
25% Campaign Workshop
Start: 3:00 pm

Redirecting Military Spending to Meet Human Needs

The 25% Solution Task Force of UJP is conducting an interactive workshop on military spending and the campaign to redirect it to meet human needs at home. With the U.S. facing devastating economic and environmental crises, with our states and cities forced into layoffs and cutbacks, now is the moment to demand a shift in our country's priorities. 
  
About the workshop 
01 / 10
Why Not Health Care 'Reform' that Puts People before Profits?
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm

THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON
SUNDAY SPEAKERS FORUM presents...

ANN ELDRIDGE MALONE, R.N.

Ann Malone's experience includes clinical education, community nursing &
health and social justice activism. She is currently a clinical instructor
for UMass-Boston and the MGH Institute for Health Professionals, taking
students out to the neighborhoods of Dorchester, South Boston & Charlestown
to learn from community members about their health needs. Ann is active with
a number of state, regional & national health care reform organizations and
is director of the Alliance to Defend Health Care, a Boston-based group
uniting a range of health professionals with the public to advocate for
health reform.

Ann will discuss the legislation currently being deliberated by Congress,
01 / 11
Raj Patel- The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
Start: 6:00 pm

 
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Future of Earth is Not for Sale!
Start: 11:30 am

 

               
                 


Lunchtime Demonstration
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 1:30 pm

 Gaza Freedom March/Code Pink call on all people of conscience to demonstrate at the Israeli Consulate. Break the siege of Gaza! Justice for all Palestinians!

 (Bring signs from First Night)

The Gaza Freedom March has only just begun

New Times for the Peace Movement: Discussion Meeting
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm

Escalation of the Afghanistan war and new times for the peace movement: UJP holds political discussion meeting for the whole coalition

There was a wave of protests after Obama's speech sending more troops to Afghanistan, but now what do we do?  We are in a new period for peace and justice activism.   The principal public concern is economic recession, not war.   The country's first African American president is personally appealing but continues war policies.  The antiwar movement seems confused and the national coalition United for Peace and Justice is in crisis.   Meanwhile, the climate crisis keeps getting worse and nothing much is being done about it.   Clearly UJP needs to adjust to the new circumstances -- but how?
 
On Wednesday, January 13 the UJP planning group will host an expanded meeting for free ranging political discussion of these issues; all UJP groups, activists and members are invited to attend.  People are encouraged to present strategy discussion papers and action proposals from different perspectives; however, the meeting will not make any decisions.  Specific proposals may be adopted at the Feb. 13 UJP strategy meeting.
 
Often we are so busy doing things that we don't step back and consider the big picture.  Bringing our thoughts together in dialogue we will rediscover our many points of agreement, identify the challenges in communicating our message and begin to form action plans to move foward.   Let's hear everyone's ideas, there is lots of energy in working together!
01 / 14
Community Forum in Aftermath of Haiti Earthquake Disaster
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:00 pm

The Cambridge Health Alliance, in collaboration with the City of Cambridge, will be hosting an open community forum.   This is a public forum for people to share their feelings and concerns about the aftermath of the earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010.  All members from the public are invited to attend.  Healthcare professionals and interpreters will be on-site to provide support.

Emmanuelle Dupiton from Haitian Consulate of Boston will be in attendance to share how the Haitian Consulate of Boston can assist members during this difficult time.

Counseling is also available to residents of Cambridge, Somerville, Malden, Chelsea, Revere, Everett, and Winthrop or to those who have a primary care provider at Cambridge Health Alliance by calling 617.665.3980.

Peace in The Era of Obama
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm

 
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