NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
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?
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.
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03 / 13
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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* | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
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 / 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
03 / 17
Start: 12:00 pm
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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
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: 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 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 ... 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. 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. Peace activists will hold a march and rally in Washington March 20 targeting the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, occupation of Palestine, and calling for reparations for Haiti. They will call for money to be directed for jobs, healthcare and education. The protest is organized by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and endorsed by the National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations, U.S. Labor Against the War, and others. The event is not organized by UJP or UFPJ. A.N.S.W.E.R. writes: 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 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. The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) The Cambridge City Council will be considering a resolution in support of 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. 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 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. Presented by Beacon Press and Suffolk University. Chris Cooper and other actors will give readings from Zinn’s plays, and Jeff Zinn will have an onstage conversation with former Boston Globe theater critic Ed Siegel. The event is free; to reserve a seat, call 617-573-8282. http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/02/21/a_passion_for_playwriting/
“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. Comedy performances followed by a discussion with HKS students and HKS Lecturer Marshall Ganz. RSVP at Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101486629891145 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. 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 The Legislative Working Group for UFPJ will be hosting a Conference call. Maya Angelou is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary black 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. 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. Informal Talk by Garry over Dinner with Photo Presentation 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. Cambridge traffic department has agreed not to ticket in the area that evening. 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 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 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 VENEZUELAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MEMBER
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: 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: Special Event Hosted by:The University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Women & Work and the Labor Extension Program 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 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: 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. 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: 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.
Note: This is not a ticketed event - admission is free and open to the public.
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: A Conversation with Arundhati Roy and Noam Chomsky 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. 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. 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: Many new signs, good weather is forecast.
In this conversation our speakers will consider race and Venezuela’s 21st Century socialism. They will be joined by community leaders and activists in a spirited 2-hour meeting that will include a light refreshments and Venezuelan cuisine. Join labor organizers, musicians and friends as they come
Amy Goodman is host of “Democracy Now!” Bill McKibben, educator, noted environmentalist, and the author of more than a dozen books, including the influential work The End of Nature. Co-sponsored by Peace and Justice Studies , Communications and Media Studies , Jonatham M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Stockholm Environment Institute, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, Tufts Institute of the Environment. "The voices Loeb finds demonstrate that courage can be another name for love."—Alice Walker How do we keep on working for change in tough political and economic times, and overcome the political demoralization, frustration, and paralysis, that so many people are feeling these days? The Village of Tamaquito, Colombia and the Cerrejón Open Pit Mine
Evening event with the Walk for a Nuclear Free Future in North Andover Please take a moment to view the website and any interested Black Men please sign up and join the website which has been created for this Black Men's Leadership Group. The site contains all events (able to export to iphone or other cells, outlook, ical) and also features the various committees and issues which we decided to form and focus on, Education, Politics, Criminal Justice, Arts, etc. its all there! Honduras: 9 Months After the Coup Dr. Juan Almendares - is a Human Rights Activist and internationally recognized Help protect your local library! --a forum, book signing, and reception for David Wylie –- long-time Boston CISPES presents: Part of the Lucy Parsons Center Radical Film Series The academy award-nominated "El Salvador: Another Vietnam" examines El Salvador's civil war in light of the Reagan administration's decision to draw the line against so-called "communist interference" in Central America. With clips from the unreleased documentary "Return to El Salvador" and a short film about Marcelo Rivera, an anti-mining activist who was recently murdered. A brief discussion will follow on the neo-liberal policies that the U.S. imposes upon El Salvador, how they are currently threatening the nation's sovereignty, and how you can get involved! Please Join AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
Looking Past, Looking Forward: The History and Future of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict ARAB-AMERICAN IDENTITY AFTER 9/11: ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND COMEDIC PERSPECTIVES featuring Professor Nadine Naber and Comedian Dean Obeidallah. It will be held at Tufts University on April 8. On April 9, the Center for Arabic Culture will feature a full comedy performance by Dean Obeidallah. Details will be forthcoming from Center for Arabic Culture. The Village of Tamaquito, Colombia and the Cerrejón Open Pit Mine
Looking Past, Looking Forward: The History and Future of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict ARAB-AMERICAN IDENTITY AFTER 9/11: ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND COMEDIC PERSPECTIVES featuring Professor Nadine Naber and Comedian Dean Obeidallah. It will be held at Tufts University on April 8. On April 9, the Center for Arabic Culture will feature a full comedy performance by Dean Obeidallah. Details will be forthcoming from Center for Arabic Culture. South Africa now has its 4th post-Apartheid president... But the country is more unequal than ever! It is also under consideration for a World Bank loan to “modernize” it ailing electrical power generation and distribution infrastructure. Revamping its grid would normally be a decisive opportunity to set a new course, redress inequalities and deveop a green strategy. But activist-intellectual Patrick Bond warns that the opposite seems likely with the Bank loan. It will strengthen the private sector and sharpen the gap between rich and poor: urban residents prepay their electricity at 4 times the rate of large transnational corporations. Further, the proposed loan will finance the world's 4th largest coal-fired plant and raise rates on working people. Please Join Us by walking for an hour, a day, or for the entirety. Please Join Us by walking for an hour, a day, or for the entirety. Please Join Us by walking for an hour, a day, or for the entirety. The community brunch will be meeting again on Sunday, April 11 from 10-1, at the AFSC office – just before tax day. Please mark your calendars. Environmental Action 2010 MEET THE EXPERTS – LEARN NEW SKILLS – NETWORK – AND BE INSPIRED MARY ZEPERNICK Congressman Bill Delahunt hosts a forum on Afghanistan policy, honoring a commitment he made to Cape Codders for Peace and Justice. Since he first read alongside Allen Ginsberg the day "Howl" was first read, Michael McClure has been one of the most prominent voices decrying the destruction of the environment, war, and injustice. Join us for the book launch of his stunning new collection "Mysteriosos". Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door, and can be purchased by calling the Grolier Poetry Bookshop at (617) 547-4648 or here. Justice and peace are poetics--join us during National Poetry Month for this special event! Wahu Kaara, the leading debt relief activist from Kenya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ninth Annual Walk for a New Spring
Daniel Ellsberg, best known for his courageous effort to end the Vietnam War by making the Pentagon’s secret history of the War public, has long been a trenchant critic of U.S. foreign and military policies. Having served as a senior figure in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and senior staff at RAND, he speaks with an insider’s knowledge and with the commitments of one of the country’s most dedicated nonviolent activists. He is the author of “Secrets” and most recently chapters of his “nuclear memoir” which appear on TruthDig. 
