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« Wednesday March 03, 2010 »
Wed
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

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:

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.

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