POSTPONED to April 10th
Events
Monday February 15, 2010
Tuesday February 16, 2010
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The Majority Agenda Project together with Louise and Severyn Bruyn invite you to a reception, fundraiser, discussion and book-signing at the Bruyn's home.
Bill will discuss the deepening crisis and how the peace, climate change and labor movements might work together strategically to impact the ongoing national debate. Bill was recently interviewed on the Bill Moyers Show and is co-author of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor & and New Path toward Social Justice. He is the AFL-CIO's past Education Director and formerly President of TransAfrica Forum. Today he works for the American Federation of Government Employees.
Suggested Donation Levels $25 - $50 - $75
Please RSVP to Paul Shannon at AFSC: 617-497-5273.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Screening of Rethink Afghanistan
Wednesday February 17, 2010
Start: 7:00 pm
Come hear Bill Fletcher speak about strategies for social change that will help us move off the sidelines to the center of the national debate as a full-fledged “player”.Bill is co-author of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path toward Social Justice. He is past Education Director of the AFL-CIO, SEIU Field Services Director, & President/CEO of TRANSAFRICA.
Thursday February 18, 2010
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
We join a nationwide series of Brown Bag Lunch Vigils on the theme, "Healthcare Not Warfare", sponsored by Progressive Democrats of America. We will carry signs "Stop the Afghanistan War" and present petitions to Sen. Kerry's staff. We hope to continue this vigil every month.
Since President Obama announced Dec. 1 that he will escalate the Afghanistan war by sending 30,000 additional troops, the disastrous failure of the Administration's war policy is becoming more apparent.
Start: 7:00 pm
In 1968, Safiya Bukhari witnessed an NYPD officer harassing a Black Panther for selling the organization’s newspaper on a Harlem street corner. The young pre-med student felt compelled to intervene in defense of the Panther’s First Amendment right; she ended up handcuffed and thrown into the back of a police car.
Start: 7:30 pm
Photos and Reflections from an Annual Visitor to Pakistan
An Illustrated Talk by Rachel Williams
A "Beverly Reads Program
Saturday February 20, 2010
Start: 8:00 am
End: 6:00 pm
Physicians for Human Rights is thrilled to invite you to: Physicians for Human Rights National Conference *Health and Human Rights in 2010*
Physicians, nurses and public health specialists in the U.S. and abroad face a daunting task: building, and often rebuilding, health systems that are accessible to all; fighting infectious pandemics like HIV/AIDS; preventing and treating disease; providing humanitarian relief to people facing natural or man-made disasters; and more.
The last 20 years have shown the world that brilliant bio-medical advances cannot alone bring health to the world's poorest people. Medicine must go hand-in-hand with human rights to eliminate health disparities and ensure a healthy population.
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 2:00 pm
In 2008 we voted for REAL change.
Get it done now. Get it done right.
Start: 1:30 pm
First Anniversary Celebration and New Member Meeting
MetroWest Peace Action formed a year ago this month as a coalition of suburban groups working for pece and justice. Through information sharing, moving vigils and combined energies we have, I hoped, raised the level of discussion and exposure and met some wonderful new partners.
On Feb. 20th we will meet to review the past year and plan for the future. At the same time we would like to encourage people to come and say hello and perhaps join us as we work nonviolently for a better world.
It is pot luck vegetarian.
Sarah Fuhro and I will do a brief workshop on the military budget. " How Big Is It? "
Sat. Feb. 20, 2010
1:30 - 3:30 PM
Peace Abbey
2 N. Main St.
Sherborn, MA
contact: coakley50@earthlink.net
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm
Join us to commemorate Haiti's history and support her recovery...
A Night of Live Music, Haitian Food, and Discussion
Featuring: Op from the Foundation Movement and Brian O'Connell
For more info, visit: www.encuentro5.org
Suggested Donation: $5 -$15
(The money raised will go to support grassroots organizations
in Haiti and local Haitian communities here in Boston.)
Sunday February 21, 2010
Start: 11:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON
SUNDAY SPEAKERS FORUM presents...
RICHARD BECKER
Richard Becker is a noted writer and commentator on Middle East affairs and
has contributed to various books and videos on the region. His recent book
(of the same title) provides a sharp analysis of historic and current events
in the struggle for Palestine--from the division of the Middle East by
Western powers and the Zionist settler movement, to the founding of Israel
and its regional role as a guardian for U.S.interests, to present-day
conflicts and the prospects for a just resolution. The book is an
introduction to the heroic efforts of the Palestinian people to achieve
justice in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
Tuesday February 23, 2010
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:30 pm
Does the rule of law still animate lawyers at all levels of our nation's government and economy? Civic advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader '58 will discuss the subject with former FCC general counsel Bruce Fein '72 and field questions from the audience.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers who served in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The soldiers were witness to, and participated in, military actions which changed them immensely. Dana Golan, veteran IDF lieutenant, is the executive director of Breaking the Silence. She will present a talk based on interviews with female IDF soldiers about their experiences in the Occupied Territories. Join us for this unique opportunity to hear the perspective of female IDF soldiers.
Start: 7:00 pm
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featuring
El-Hajj Mauri' Saalakhan
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Her 2 youngest children are still missing, and she and her oldest son were handed over to the U.S. and secretly imprisoned in Afghanistan for 5 years.
Since 2003, sister Aafia has been caged in solitary confinement, shot, and severely abused.
Start: 7:30 pm
This film is a documentary about Howard Zinn (Historian, civil rights and peace activist).
The film will be introduced by Paul Shannon from the American Friends Service Committee, who will also show some archival footage of Zinn in Boston.
The venue is wheelchair accessible and the event is FREE.
Sponsored by Arlington/Lexington United for Justice with Peace.
Wednesday February 24, 2010
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers who served in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The soldiers were witness to, and participated in, military actions which changed them immensely. Dana Golan, veteran IDF lieutenant, is the executive director of Breaking the Silence. She will present a talk based on interviews with female IDF soldiers about their experiences in the Occupied Territories. Join us for this unique opportunity to hear the perspective of female IDF soldiers.
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Conference Call Briefing with Zia Mian
AFSC will sponsor an open conference call briefing with Zia Mian on Pakistan. He will explain the relationship between the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, how they relate to the decades old India-Pakistan conflict, the roles of the United States, and how to move toward a comprehensive peace settlement.
When President Obama announced the sending of an additional 30,000 US troops to the war in Afghanistan he named Pakistan as a key partner in the war effort. He challenged the government of this nuclear power, which is consumed in a civil war to assist the US military, NATO forces and the Government of Afghanistan in destroying a Taliban network.
Saturday February 27, 2010
Start: 8:30 am
End: 2:00 pm
In tough times, labor activists need new strategies.
Find out more at Jobs with Justice's…
"Troublemakers" School
Workers' Rights and Contract Fights. Employee Free Choice is in trouble and workers' rights are under attack. What are the next steps for labor law reform? How should we respond to the growing attack on our standard of living?
Come to the "Troublemakers" School for work-shops on hot topics:
• Building a stronger local union
• Workplace organizing
• Contract campaigns
•Fighting layoffs and organizing the unemployed
• Community and labor alliances
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
The US occupation and the Fight to Rebuild a Country Free From Exploitation
Hear reports from medical personnel just back from relief efforts, and Ashley Smith, who reported from Haiti during the 1994 occupation. Smith has been active in the Haiti solidarity movement since the 1990's. He has written about Haiti for the International Socialist Review, ZNet, and CounterPunch.
The program will be followed by the regular monthly meeting of New England United. Proposed agenda includes:
•THE MARCH 20 ANTIWAR MARCH ON DC
•NEW CAMPAIGNS TO END THE SEIGE OF GAZA
•EVALUATION OF JAN. 30 CONFERERNCE
•THE NEXT REGIONAL CONFERENCE
Sponsored by New England United - www.newenglandunited.org
Call David at 508 653 5534
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
David Swanson is an activist for democracy...Come see him for free at the Harvard COOP as he completes his 50+ city tour for his new book Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union.
Daybreak is a thorough investigation of how Bush/Cheney altered the way American government works and deteriorated the Constitution and Bill of Rights. It includes clear plans for how we may reclaim democracy, declare our rights, and truly set out for a new America.
Books are available for purchase at the Harvard Coop Bookstore!
Sunday February 28, 2010
Start: 10:30 am
Program Speaker: Professor Charles Derber, Professor of Sociology, Boston College
Monday March 1, 2010
Start: 2:00 pm
The Coolidge Corner Theatre will host a special benefit screening of Jonathan Demme’s moving documentary The Agronomist. The internationally acclaimed director, recipient of this year’s 2010 Coolidge Award, will introduce the film and answer questions after the screening. Proceeds from this event will go to support Haiti earthquake relief through the on-the-ground nonprofit organization, Partners in Health.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Host: Boston University: Students for Justice In Palestine!
Come see a screening of the documentary, "Bil'in Habibti" directed by Israeli activist and filmmaker Shai Pollak. Bil’in is a Palestinian village that is struggling to exist. It is fighting to safeguard its land, its olive trees, its resources… its liberty. By annexing close to 60% of Bil’in land for Israeli settlements and the construction of Israel’s separation wall, the state of Israel is strangling the village. Supported by Israeli and international activists, Bil’in residents peacefully demonstrate every Friday in front of the “work-site of shame”. And every Friday the Israeli army responds with violence, both physically and psychologically.
Tuesday March 2, 2010
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Sponsored by Dorchester People for Peace.
Join us to vigil and leaflet, marking the 1000th death of a US service member in Afghanistan, the killing of many thousands of innocent Afghan civilians and the waste of hundreds of billions of dollars on a futile and unjust occupation.
DPP says:
BRING THE TROOPS AND THE WAR MONEY HOME!
FUND OUR NEIGHBORHOODS - CUT MILITARY SPENDING!
Death toll in Afghan war nears 1,000
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Noam Chomsky is a prolific author of several dozen books and an Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT, where he taught for over half a century. He will be speaking as part of Boston University Israel Apartheid Week.
Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an annual international series of events held in cities and campuses across the globe. The aim of IAW is to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system and to build Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns as part of a growing global BDS movement. Last year, more than 40 cities around the world participated in the week's activities, which took place in the wake of Israel's brutal assault against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. IAW continues to grow with new cities joining this year.
Contact BU Students For Justice in Palestine, Ian Chinich busjp@bu.edu
Wednesday March 3, 2010
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Mark Perry
Analyst and Author of Talking to Terrorists:
Why America Must Engage with its Enemies
This event is open to the public.
Co-sponsored by the Middle East Initiative and the Middle East Forum at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Start: 5:30 pm
Take Action to Demand Equal Quality Public Education!
FULL Funding for Boston’s Public Schools!
Stop the Corporate Takeover of Education!
Money for Education NOT for War & Wall St.!
Start: 6:30 pm
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges discusses his new book.. Has the United States become a society impressed only by spectacle? Have our media shortened our attention spans and our government blurred the edges of the truth enough so that we can no longer tell the difference between reality and fantasy?
Start: 7:00 pm
Boston DSA Forum
Speakers:
Grace Ross, former Green Party gubernatorial candidate, and staffer for the Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL), and author of the forthcoming book, Main Street Smarts: who got us into this economic mess and how we get through it...
Melonie Griffiths, Tenant and Economy Project Organizer for City Life-Vida Urbana, the Jamaica Plain-based social justice organization which has been organizing community members to resist evictions and save their homes.
Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz (D-Boston), co-sponsor SB1609, of one of the MAAPL-supported bills, which would protect tenants from eviction in fore-closed properties.
Start: 7:00 pm
Qumsiyeh, a teacher at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in occupied Palestine, previously served on the faculties of Yale and Duke Universities and the University of Tennessee. He is currently the president of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement between People and the coordinator of the Popular Committee to Defend Ush Ghrab (PCDUG), an author, blogger, and a co-founder of Wheels of Justice Bus Tour. See http://www.qumsiyeh.org
Sponsored by Tri-Town Alliance of Watertown, Newton and Waltham; United for Justice with Peace; Sabeel; Living Stones Ministry -- Church of the Good Shepherd, Watertown; and Codepink.
Other speaking events:
Thursday March 4, 2010
Start: 9:00 am
End: 11:30 am
Please join the Labor Resource Center for the next session of our
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
The Massachusetts Student Action Coalition (MSAC) is an independent network of Massachusetts state school students and supporters united against fee hikes, tuition increases, and budget cuts.
Higher education is indispensable to the development, continuance, and refinement of both democracy and the modern economy. It was for this reason that higher education, like primary and secondary education before it, was made public in the first place.
We believe that STUDENTS ARE NOT CUSTOMERS. Rather, they are society's most valuable cultural, political, and ECONOMIC INVESTMENTS. For every $1 the state of Massachusetts invests in public higher education, it recieves $8 back in economic growth.
Start: 6:45 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The Monthly Peace & Justice Film Series is presenting
Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Thursday, March 4, 6:45-9:00 PM
At the Central Square Library, 45 Pearl St.
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Join a conference call briefing with Kevin Martin, Executive Director of Peace Action on the Nuclear Posture Review and the impact on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference and Senate action on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the US-Russia talks on START.
After reading the New York Times front page article about the internal debate between the White House, the National Security Council and the Pentagon on nuclear disarmament, you realize how critical it is to rebuild the nuclear disarmament movement and have a solid turnout in NYC for the international day of action on May 2 For Peace and Human Needs: Nuclear Disarmament Now!
Friday March 5, 2010
Start: 7:30 am
End: 9:30 am
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Symposium
Drone Warfare: New Robotics & The Legality of Targeted Killings
- 12:30-5pm Hauser 104
- Non-pizza Lunch, Wine Reception to follow
Panel: Unmanned Military Robotics: Drones & Your iPhone
- Missy Cummings, MIT Humans and Automation Lab
- Ken Anderson, American University
- Tad Oelstrom, Harvard Kennedy School
Panel: Targeted Killings of Alleged Terrorists
- Gabriella Blum, Harvard Law School
- Afsheen John Radsan, William Mitchell College of Law
- Jonathan Manes, ACLU National Security Project
- Brett McGurk, Council on Foreign Relations (Moderator)
Start: 8:00 pm
Paul Baker Hernandez - Eco-Minstrel performing Songs of Loveliness and Courage
Saturday March 6, 2010
Start: 12:00 pm
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Prof. Noam Chomsky will speak at the Harvard Memorial Church, offering a critical perspective on the foreign policy of the Obama administration. Prof. Chomsky is renowned for both his work in the field of linguistics and as a critic of U.S. policies. He is often considered to be one of the most respected and influential intellectuals alive. Mr. Chomsky is currently a Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at MIT. Start: 3:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
This event will be postponed to April. A People's Celebration of Howard Zinn! Save the date! More information will be available soon.Local activists and students are organizing a celebration honoring Howard Zinn on March 6th. Please save the date! More details will follow soon! All are welcome to help plan the festivities. Join us at the next planning meeting, Sunday, February 14th, 12:30-2:30 at the UNITE HERE building in Encuentro5, 33 Harrison Ave, 5th Fl, Boston, MA. See the Facebook page Start: 7:00 pm
Doors Open at 7:00 PM Suggested Donation: $10.00
Performers Include: Ben Tousley – Folksinger (photo left) Chris Nauman with Kenny Selcer – Acoustic music to shake the soul Linda Schiffman – Tokyo 2008 Champion Whistler and Accompanist Jeremy Weiser George Capaccio – Storyteller
Sunday March 7, 2010
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Rally on the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day
The Greater Boston chapter of Code Pink Women for Peace invites you and all who yearn for an end to war to celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day by rallying and marching for peace. We propose the following theme: Bread and Peace--Women Say NO to War! Plan: Rally at Copley Square at 1pm (begin to gather starting at noon), march to Park Street T at 2, end with a brief silent vigil to mourn the dead and a final call to action before dispersing. Endorsed by Raging Grannies, Women's Fightback Network, and United for Justice with Peace. Start: 4:00 pm
PROYECTO HONDURENO & CENTRO PRESENTE Invite you to join us for a special presentation
Start: 7:00 pm
U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges in the Obama EraJohn Tierney
Congressman from Massachusetts’ Sixth District
Sponsored by the Cape Ann Forum Monday March 8, 2010
Start: 12:00 pm
In the past weeks the Popeye's workers have negotiated an agreement with representatives of the Kenmore Square Popeye's restaurant to pay the wages that the company owes them. Popeye's has not complied with the agreement they have signed and so the workers are returning to their campaign and THEY NEED YOUR SUPPORT!! Wednesday March 10, 2010
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Iraq: Elections, Occupation and the Withdrawal of US ForcesThe stakes could not be higher for Iraq than they are right now. Thursday March 11, 2010
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Open to: the general public Start: 7:00 pm
please come and bring your friends Agenda Items
Start: 7:00 pm
Friends of Ashland Public Library Friday March 12, 2010
Start: 7:00 pm
Program: Short video, a presentation by an anarchist activist and a socialist activist, music, and a lively debate to understand the revolutionary message of Howard Zinn. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Editors Felix Kuehn & Alex Strick van Linschoten will discuss this harrowing autobiography by Taliban member Abdul Salam Zaeef. The book begins with the author’s early childhood before turning to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Zaeef’s decision to join the mujahideen resistance. Countering conventional accounts that the Taliban emerged in the 1990s, Zaeef maintains that the movement existed as early as the 1970s. The author traces his rise in the Taliban to his appointment as ambassador to Pakistan in 2000, and his subsequent arrest and imprisonment in Guantnamo Bay after September 11 and the fall of the Taliban regime.
Saturday March 13, 2010
Start: 10:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
Did You Know About The Green Wave In Boston? GREEN WEEK: March 8-15 An educational call to action on the protection of climate change. Start: 10:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
A one-day conference entitled "America's Response to the Armenian Genocide: From Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama," will take place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Start: 1:00 pm
End: 4:10 pm
Shuhada Street used to be the principal street for Palestinians in the city of Hebron, including residents, businesses and a very active market place. Today, because it runs through the Jewish settlement of Hebron, Shuhada Street is closed to Palestinian movement and is a ghost town which only Israelis and tourists are allowed to access. Hate graffiti has been sprayed across the closed Palestinian shops and Palestinians living on the street have to enter and exit their houses by climbing over neighbor's roofs.
Actions around the world are demonstrating what its like for streets to be occupied. Start: 5:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
*WALKING TOUR AND VIDEO INTERVENTION FOLLOWED BY FOOD AND MUSIC* Sunday March 14, 2010
Start: 1:00 pm
As part of the national initiative SOMOS/WE ARE, the Local Chapter of the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC) invites you to a public action in support of a Just and Humane Immigration Reform. We are going to have popular theater, music and testimonies from the immigrant community.
Start: 7:00 pm
"Just Married" is a documentary about Israel's apartheid marriage laws that discriminate against Arabs and Palestinians. Tuesday March 16, 2010
Start: 12:00 pm
Let's keep the momentum going! Please sign up for this gathering right away! We could have a vote on health care reform by the end of next week, so it's time for action. Health insurers in MA and all over the country are already mobilized, continuing to pour billions of dollars into killing reform and ready to raise premiums for all MA residents. Now is the time to tell our Senators and Reps: If Big Insurance wins, we all lose! Let's get reform done!
Start: 5:15 pm
End: 6:15 pm
Celebrate Rachel's life,, commemorate her tragic killing, pledge to work for peace and justice Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:00 pm
A talk by Humaira Awais Shahid, journalist, activist, and former legislator, Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, Pakistan; 2009-2010 Fellow, Radcliffe Institute Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
In 1993 the Brazilian police massacred 21 people in Rio di Janeiro. Out of the tragedy Grupo Cultural AfroReggae emerged - a community-based organization that takes youth out of shantytown gangs and fights back against violence with art. Join us for a panel discussion with activist, journalist, and author Damian Platt as he discusses how culture has put violence and terror on notice in one of the most dangerous places in South America--and how activists in Boston are doing similar work every day. Platt will be featured on Tom Ashbrook's "On Point" the morning of the event, his only stop in New England on his visit from Rio di Janeiro. Panelists include: SAPNA PADTE, Director of Consulting & Training, Teen Empowerment, Boston Wednesday March 17, 2010
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Additional Locations:
Boston joins a nationwide series of Brown Bag Lunch Vigils on the theme, "Healthcare Not Warfare", sponsored by Progressive Democrats of America. We will carry signs "Stop the Afghanistan War" and "Bring the Troops Home". We plan to continue this vigil every month on the third Wednesday. The folly of the Obama Administration’s war policy in Afghanistan becomes clearer every day. After a huge month-long operation secured U.S. control of the Marjah area, the lies underlying that plan were revealed. Marjah is a rural area, not a “city of 80,000” people as the mainstream media repeated endlessly. ;"The campaign's goals are to convince Americans that a new era has arrived in the eight-year-long war, the Washington Post reported, as well as to gain the confidence of Afghans. Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
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