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03 / 3
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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03 / 4
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!
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03 / 5
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
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03 / 6
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!
Music, dancing and readings by students and activists!
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
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03 / 7
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
FATHER MELO MORENO
Start: 7:00 pm
John Tierney
Congressman from Massachusetts’ Sixth District
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03 / 8
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!!
Picket Line at Popeye's
For more information contact Mariela Alvarez at Centro Presente (617) 629-4731 x225,
malvarez@cpresente.org.
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03 / 9
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03 / 10
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
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Raed Jarrar,
AFSC Iraq Consultant |
Iraq: Elections, Occupation and the Withdrawal of US Forces
The stakes could not be higher for Iraq than they are right now.
This month marks seven years since the 2003 US-lead invasion and occupation of Iraq. It also marks the second general elections since the beginning of the occupation and six months before the date by which President Obama promised to remove U.S. combat forces.
Iraq’s general elections will result in a new Government that will govern Iraq as the US military presence ends.
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03 / 11
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Open to: the general public
Sponsor(s): MIT Model United Nations
For more information, contact:
Jen Kwok
mun-exec@mit.edu
Start: 7:00 pm
please come and bring your friends
Agenda Items
- Film Just Married
- BDS
- Finances
- New Business
- Announcements
Start: 7:00 pm
Friends of Ashland Public Library
Documentary Film & Discussion Series
This is Howard Zinn’s last recorded public talk at Boston University. Seating himself at a table, the 87-year old Zinn asks the audience of students, facility, and guests if they mind if he sits down. “After all,” he reminds them, “you’re seating down.” Zinn’s humor and warm, relaxed mood delight the audience throughout his talk. Zinn’s subject is provocative. He questions three “holy wars” in U.S. history: the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and World War II. He questions them because the “notion that any war is a good war serves to justify all war.”
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03 / 12
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.
Sponsored by the Sacco & Vanzetti Commemoration Society, BAAM, ABC, Community Church of Boston, Mass. Global Action, Socialist Party and all those who fight against
capitalism and for a better society.
To download a flyer for the event please go to http://www.saccoandvanzetti.org
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.
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03 / 13
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).
The conference is co-organized by Profs. Bedross Der Matossian (MIT) and Christopher Capozzola (MIT) and sponsored by the Faculty of History, the Center for International Studies (CIS), the Office of the Religious Affairs, and the Program on Human Rights & Justice (PHRJ).
The goal of the conference is to discuss and examine America's evolving policy toward the Armenian Genocide from the earliest years of World War I through the present day.
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*
*On March 13th, We are Taking a Bite out of Bank Crime!*
The rebellion will begin at 21 Bollard St. at 5:00 with a walking tour of foreclosed homes, with tenants and owners speaking in front of their homes. The tour will end back at 21 Bollard where there will be food and music. Once the sun goes down there will be a *block-wide video intervention *entitled *72 Hours* homes in the neighborhood will have their windows lit up with shadow projections evoking the lives of former residents. In addition, one vacant home will be opened for a sound installation to which visitors will be invited.
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03 / 14
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.
SOMOS/WE ARE is an initiative that inspires immigrants to take action in reclaiming their humanity and in supporting legislation that truly reflects what immigrants are worth and deserve.
Start: 7:00 pm
"Just Married" is a documentary about Israel's apartheid marriage laws that discriminate against Arabs and Palestinians.
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03 / 15
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03 / 16
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
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03 / 17
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Additional Locations:
Lowell • Office of Rep. Niki Tsongas • 11 Kearney Square • Wednesday, March 17, 12:00 p.m.
Worcester • Public Library, Banx Room • 3 Salem Square • Wednesday, March 17, 12:30 p.m.
Hyannis • Office of Rep. Bill Delahunt • 146 Main Street • Friday, March 19, 3 p.m.
Register to attend!
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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03 / 18
Start: 7:00 pm
Real democracy the US could learn from. 
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03 / 19
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
Unnatural Causes is a groundbreaking film series that reveals some reasons why some of us get sicker more often and die sooner. There’s more to our wellbeing than genes, behaviors, and medical care; Unnatural Causes documents how inequities in the rest of our lives – the jobs we do, the stress we experience, the neighborhoods we live in – can get under the skin and disrupt our biology as surely as germs and viruses. Solutions lie not in more pills but in more equitable social policies.
Please join us for a viewing and community conversation of the film
BECOMING AMERICANS:
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03 / 20
Start: 8:45 am
End: 4:30 pm
Nonviolent Peaceforce invites you to a one day...NONVIOLENT CONFLICT INTERVENTION TRAINING
The Nonviolent Conflict Intervention Training lets you explore how nonviolent methods can lessen or prevent conflict— in your daily life, in your community, and around the world. The NCI curriculum was developed by Nonviolent Peaceforce of North America
"http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org"
The one-day workshop is filled with hands-on exercises will introduce you to:
Basic nonviolent communication and conflict resolution methods
How you can use these skills when you come across conflict in your daily life
Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am
Salem Peace Committee invites you to vigil with us to say
NO funding wars and occupations
YES to funding people's needs: housing, health, food, education, jobs, clean elections, peace
Start: 12:00 pm
... to call for an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the siege of Gaza and the detention without charges of thousands of detainees in the phony "war on terror."
Bring signs and ideas for chants, if you have them. We will have some, too.
Committee for Peace and Human Rights, Stop the Wars Coalition and United for Justice with Peace
For information call Susan McLucas, (617) 776-6524, CPHR, or Mass Peace Action, (617) 354-2169.
Start: 12:00 pm
March 20 is the 7th Anniversary of our country's invasion of Iraq. On Saturday, March 20, there will be a vigil and march to remember that we still occupy Iraq and Afghanistan, and acknowledge the human toll.
Any one who would like to join this event should gather at the Natick Common Bandstand at 12:00. We will then walk to the Natick Army Base where we will read the names of those from Massachusetts who have lost their lives in these conflicts. We will also remember in silence the Iraqi and Aghanistan civilians, dead and wounded in this long conflict.
This is a peaceful, but clear message to remind all of us that we are at war with no real end in sight.
The Peace Abbey has offered the use of the memorial stone which honors unknown civilians killed in wars for this occasion. If enough people would like to participate we would push the stone on its caisson from the Peace Abbey in Sherborn to the Natick Common.
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
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Start: 8:00 pm
The Boston Interpreters Collective's
Second Annual Birthday Bash/Fundraiser
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03 / 21
Start: 2:00 pm
Jeff Klein will appear on Jimmy Myers' radio talk show. Jeff has been to Palestine twice in the past year. He will discuss the current flare-up in US-Israel relations and the Israeli plans to expand settlements in Palestinian East Jerusalem
Start: 7:00 pm
In 2005, Palestinian civil society activists called on the international community to begin a movement to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel in response to long standing political and human rights issues and the inability to have a meaningful “peace process.” As activists have responded around the world, we see increasing actions and calls for BDS.
What is the history behind this movement? It is easy to see the campaign against Caterpillar or other industries that support the occupation, but how do we understand the terms, the pros and cons of academic boycott, cultural boycott, etc? How do we as activists in Boston respond to this call? Is this something that should be central to our work or not?
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03 / 22
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)
The Cambridge-El Salvador Sister City Committee
The Cambridge Peace Commission
and Cambridge City Councilor Marjorie Decker invite you to
A welcoming reception for José Edgardo Alemán Molina, the new Consul General
of El Salvador in New England
Please join us in welcoming José Alemán as the new representative of the
government of El Salvador in New England, as we also commemorate the 30th
anniversary of the murder of Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero by the
Salvadoran military. We will both commemorate Msgr. Romero¹s vision and
sacrifice and welcome the official representative of the administration of
President Mauricio Funes, who was elected in March 2009.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:00 pm
The Cambridge City Council will be considering a resolution in support of
the 25% campaign -- a realistic campaign for cutting military expenses by
25%.
Public comment at 5:30, council meeting at 6:00.
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
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03 / 23
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:30 pm
Poster Art: Standing for Peace and Justice is co-sponsored by Cambridge United for Justice with Peace, the Lesley University Division of Creative Arts in Learning and Violence Transformed 2010, an annual series of visual and performing arts events that celebrates the power of art, artists and art-making to confront, challenge and mediate violence in contemporary society.
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:15 pm
Event POSTPONED to April 27
Boston College's Professor Charlie Derber will speak to his hopeful book, "From Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy" (Paradigm Publishers, February 2010); he will be joined by activists campaigning for peace as well as environmental and economic justice.
Contact: Suren Moodliar 617-968-0880 suren@fairjobs.org
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03 / 24
Start: 12:00 pm
Big Wall Street banks brought on America's worst financial crisis since the great depression. While their actions destroyed America's jobs, homes, and hope, the big banks got billions in taxpayer bailouts--and went back to business as usual. It's time to tell the banks to start paying for America's recovery by investing in GOOD JOBS NOW!
Sponsors: Greater Boston Labor Council, AFT-MA, Boston Building Trades Council, Community Labor United, Jobs with Justice, Mass. AFL-CIO, Mass. Building Trades Council, North Shore Labor Council, SEIU State Council, UNITE/HERE N.E. Joint Board
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:00 pm
The mayoral-appointed Boston School Committee is slated to vote for yet another round of budget cuts on Wednesday, March 24, at 6:00 PM. This year, FY 2011, the committee plans to approve a budget reduction of $32.5 Million.
Enough is enough. Instead of accepting budget reductions, the committee ought to demand more: more funding; more resources.
How can our schools be expected to do more each year with less? How can some of our schools be labeled ‘underperforming’ when they have been under-resourced?
Parents' groups are organizing a rally to demand that the school committee reject the mayor's proposed budget, and adopt a budget that fully funds children's needs.
Start: 6:45 pm
End: 8:30 pm
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03 / 25
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Comedy performances followed by a discussion with HKS students and HKS Lecturer Marshall Ganz.
Co-sponsored with the Forum Office at the Institute of Politics, HKS Israel Caucus and HKS Palestine Caucus.
RSVP at Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101486629891145
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
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Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
“Marx in Soho" is a one-man play written by Howard Zinn and performed by Robert Weick. The premise of this romp through Marxist and anarchist ideas is that Karl Marx achieves agreement with the masters of the afterlife for a chance to clear his name from negative judgments of the history of his ideas and of 20th century socialism. Bob Weick, National Touring Actor and Barrymore Award nominee has presented over 170 performances of Zinn's play from Maine to California. Co-sponsored by the International History Institute and the Department of Political Science.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Do you blog, have a website, or Tweet on a regular basis? Want to find out strategic ways to use these skills for social justice work? Join us for a panel discussion on using your own or an organization’s blog, website, or social media sites in order to create social change.
Start: 7:15 pm
End: 8:15 pm
 NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
Truth and consequences of the Gaza invasion
Moderated by Professor Duncan Kennedy
Sponsors: HLS Justice for Palestine, HLS Middle East Law Students Association, National Lawyers Guild-HLS Chapter, the Alliance for Justice in the Middle East at Harvard University, and the Palestine Caucus at Harvard Kennedy School
Start: 8:30 pm
The Legislative Working Group for UFPJ will be hosting a Conference call.
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03 / 26
Start: 8:00 pm
Maya Angelou is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary black
literature, a mesmerizing vision of grace, swaying and stirring when she
moves. She is a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil rights
activist, producer, and director.
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03 / 27
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Boycotts helped end South African Apartheid. We are joining in the world wide movement to hang up on Motorola. Motorola Israel is exclusively used by Israeli settlers living illegally in the Occupied PalestinianTerritories. These products normalize the expropriation of Palestinian land and apartheid practices that make life in Jewish-only settlements tenable.
Join us in Boycotting Motorola
Start: 2:00 pm
The Boston University community will hold a memorial event for Howard Zinn.
This memorial will be addressed by family and friends of Howard including Frances Fox Piven, Jim Carroll, Noam Chomsky, Betty Zisk and others. Members of Howard's family will participate.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Informal Talk by Garry over Dinner with Photo Presentation
Suggested Donation for dinner plate and beverages ($5-$15)
For the past three years, Garry has been working as an economist on poverty-, vulnerability-, and labor-market- related issues in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in various organizations. Recently he completed his first assignment in the Gaza Strip for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. More generally, as a social scientist, Garry studies dynamic complexity and change in social systems.
Start: 7:00 pm
Hear about the Lemon Tree house in Ramle, Israel, described in Sandy Tolan's book of that name, and about Open House, the Arab and Jewish children's peace center that is in the house now. Speaker will be Yehezkel Landau, who co-founded Open House with Dalia Landau, the girl who grew up in the house. Professor Landau will tell us about his interfaith-based work on the Mideast conflict.
Sponsored by Cambridge Friends
Cambridge traffic department has agreed not to ticket in the area that evening.
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03 / 28
Start: 5:00 pm
Start: 2010 Mar 28 - 5:00pm
End: 2010 Mar 29 - 8:00am
This Spring, The Leadership Campaign will work with our legislators towards the goal of passing "An Act to Create a Repower Massachusetts Emergency Task Force" by Earth Day, 2010.
The Leadership Campaign will work on our campuses and in our communities to build power. And three times this spring, we will gather together to demonstrate the depth of our commitment by refusing to sleep in our homes, dorms, and apartments powered by dirty electricity.
* February 20th-21st, Amherst Common Sleep-out
* March 28th-29th, Cambridge Common Sleep-out and March
* April 21st-22nd, Boston Common Earth Day Sleep-out and Lobby Day
Start: 7:00 pm
A panel discussion on the Afghanistan War featuring four panelists with some very different opinions about the war. The event is sponsored by the UNH Peace and Justice League and Young Americans for Liberty but is designed to be a balanced and educated discussion of the war with no bias towards one side or the other. The set-up of the event will allow for each panelist to give a brief introduction of themselves, who they are, and why they are on the panel, but after that the event will primarily be based off of audience participation as attendees will be allowed to ask questions to be answered by any or all of the panelists.
This event is free and open to the public.
The panelists are:
Lieutenant Colonel Brian C. Ruhm
Commander of Air Force ROTC at UNH. LtCol. Ruhm deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan from June to November 2005 as a member of the Office of Security and Cooperation – Afghanistan, to support Operation Enduring Freedom.
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03 / 29
End: 8:00 am
Start: 2010 Mar 28 - 5:00pm
End: 2010 Mar 29 - 8:00am
This Spring, The Leadership Campaign will work with our legislators towards the goal of passing "An Act to Create a Repower Massachusetts Emergency Task Force" by Earth Day, 2010.
The Leadership Campaign will work on our campuses and in our communities to build power. And three times this spring, we will gather together to demonstrate the depth of our commitment by refusing to sleep in our homes, dorms, and apartments powered by dirty electricity.
* February 20th-21st, Amherst Common Sleep-out
* March 28th-29th, Cambridge Common Sleep-out and March
* April 21st-22nd, Boston Common Earth Day Sleep-out and Lobby Day
Start: 11:00 am
VENEZUELAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MEMBER
MODESTO RUIZ
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03 / 30
Start: 12:00 pm
Start: 2010 Mar 30 - 12:00pm
End: 2010 Apr 3 - 2:00pm
In this series of talks Afro-Venezuelan leaders will discuss race, social inclussion, legislation and the construction of Venezuela's XXI Century Socialism. On a special event on Saturday April 3rd,they will be joined by Bill Fletcher, former President of Trans Africa Forum and co-author of “Solidarity Divided: The Crisis of Organized Labor and a New Path to Social Justice”.
Guest Speakers:
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03 / 31
(all day)
Start: 2010 Mar 30 - 12:00pm
End: 2010 Apr 3 - 2:00pm
In this series of talks Afro-Venezuelan leaders will discuss race, social inclussion, legislation and the construction of Venezuela's XXI Century Socialism. On a special event on Saturday April 3rd,they will be joined by Bill Fletcher, former President of Trans Africa Forum and co-author of “Solidarity Divided: The Crisis of Organized Labor and a New Path to Social Justice”.
Guest Speakers:
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Special Event Hosted by:The University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Women & Work and the Labor Extension Program
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
 The continued wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the conflict in the Middle East and the bloated Pentagon budget are sucking billions of taxdollars that should be spent on health, education, jobs and the environment. Yet under Obama, the peace movement has lost its steam. What strategies can be effective to rebuild the peace movement? Where can we find new allies? What are the most effective tactics we can use?
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
The film View from a Grain of Sand will be screened.
Shot in refugee camps of Pakistan and the war-torn city of Kabul, three remarkable Afghan women lead us through the maze of Afghanistan's complex history, informing this examination of how international interventions, war and the rise of political Islam have stripped Afghan women of their freedom over the last thirty years.
Q&A after with
Rachel Williams of Afghan Women's Mission & UJP
Plus
Maryam Shansab of UJP Afghanistan/Pakistan Task Force
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04 / 1
(all day)
Start: 2010 Mar 30 - 12:00pm
End: 2010 Apr 3 - 2:00pm
In this series of talks Afro-Venezuelan leaders will discuss race, social inclussion, legislation and the construction of Venezuela's XXI Century Socialism. On a special event on Saturday April 3rd,they will be joined by Bill Fletcher, former President of Trans Africa Forum and co-author of “Solidarity Divided: The Crisis of Organized Labor and a New Path to Social Justice”.
Guest Speakers:
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Join us April 1, 2010 as we ask Senator Kerry and Senator Brown to uphold the Clean Air Act, create green jobs, make our communities healthy and our nation secure. Our March for Clean Air and a Safe Climate starts at noon at Government Center T station, goes to Senator Kerry's and Senator Brown's offices, and from 1 to 2 pm delivers letters to the senators.
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
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| Antiwar Protest, DC, March 20 |
President Barack Obama will be in Boston for a $500 a plate fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee. The fundraiser will take place in the State Room on the 33d floor of 60 State Street in downtown Boston, near Government Center and Faneuil Hall.
Peace and justice groups will protest President Obama's war policies and giveways to the banks, saying:
• Bring our troops and war $$ home
• Fund national healthcare, not international warfare
• Jobs not Drones
• $$ for education, not for occupation
Medea Benjamin, founder of the women's antiwar group CODEPINK: Women for Peace and of the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange, will be in Boston to address the protesters.
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Note: This is not a ticketed event - admission is free and open to the public.
Commentator
Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and Director, Humanities Center at Harvard.
Moderated by
Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Start: 7:00 pm
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Start: 2010 Mar 30 - 12:00pm
End: 2010 Apr 3 - 2:00pm
In this series of talks Afro-Venezuelan leaders will discuss race, social inclussion, legislation and the construction of Venezuela's XXI Century Socialism. On a special event on Saturday April 3rd,they will be joined by Bill Fletcher, former President of Trans Africa Forum and co-author of “Solidarity Divided: The Crisis of Organized Labor and a New Path to Social Justice”.
Guest Speakers:
Start: 3:30 pm
End: 5:00 pm
A Conversation with Arundhati Roy and Noam Chomsky
Moderator: Amy Goodman
Please join us for a conversation with Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things and Field Notes on Democracy, and MIT professor of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, author of Hegemony or Survival and the forthcoming book, Hopes and Prospects, as they discuss the threats to democracy in the United States, India, and worldwide.
Start: 11:30 pm
The Friends Meeting of Cambridge (Quakers) sponsors a Good Friday Silent Vigil for Peace on the Boston Common, near the Park Street T stop, every year. The vigil this year is this Friday, April 2, beginning with a silent Quaker Meeting at the Beacon Hill Meetinghouse, at 6 Chestnut Street, from 10:30-11:00am. The group then walks down to the vigil site on Tremont Street and remains there from about 11:15 until 2:00pm, when they return to the Meetinghouse for another period of silent meeting followed by a meal at 2:30.
All are welcome to stop by for as long as you like and join the silent meetings before and after the vigil and to share lunch.
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