Start: 6:00 pm
Evening event with the Walk for a Nuclear Free Future in North Andover
Merrimack Valley People for Peace is hosting a potluck supper followed by a program for the Walk for a Nuclear Free Future. Renowned activist and organizer Bruce Gagnon of Keep Space for Peace will be the speaker at the event.
Wednesday April 7, 2010
Start: 9:00 am
End: 11:00 am
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!
If you are committed to making a change in Boston this site will be an invaluable resource in keeping you informed on whats going on around the city as well as our groups progress, development and organizational efforts.
Start: 11:00 am
Honduras: 9 Months After the Coup
Voices from the Honduran Resistance Speaking Tour
Dr. Juan Almendares - is a Human Rights Activist and internationally recognized
Honduran Medical Doctor A torture survivor himself, Dr. Almendares has been
targeted by death squads on several occasions in the past. Dr. Almendares is the
former Dean of the Medical School and subsequently Rector of the Autonomous
University of Honduras (UNAH). He received the 2001 Barbara Chester Award for
his groundbreaking efforts with prisoners, victims of torture, and the poor and
indigenous populations. In 2007 Dr. Almendares was the sole recipient of the
Humanitarian Award from Inter-Action in Washington DC.
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Help protect your local library!
Please turn out for our libraries and
the workers who make them great!
Citywide Stakeholders Meeting
to Protect Our Libraries!
Start: 7:00 pm
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!
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
--a forum, book signing, and reception for David Wylie –- long-time
Cambridge City Councilor and School Committee Member, and author of the new
book by this title
Hear David's thoughts about how to deal with the continuing threat of
nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, based on his decades
of advocacy, research, and government service
Free and open to the public • Light refreshments will be served
Sponsored by the Cambridge Peace Commission
Start: 8:00 pm
Please Join AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
For a Forum at Harvard University
Why Working People
Are Angry
and Why Politicians Should Listen
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
Thursday April 8, 2010
Start: 9:00 am
Start: 2010 Apr 8 - 9:00am
End: 2010 Apr 11 - 5:00pm
Start: 5:15 pm
Start: 2010 Apr 8 - 5:15pm
End: 2010 Apr 9 - 5:15pm
Looking Past, Looking Forward: The History and Future of the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Start: 6:15 pm
Start: 2010 Apr 8 - 6:15pm
End: 2010 Apr 9 - 9:00pm
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.
Pizza and Refreshments: 6:15PM
Program: 7-9PM
Open to the Public.
For program information, call 781-648-1245.
Start: 6:30 pm
The Village of Tamaquito, Colombia and the Cerrejón Open Pit Mine
Speaker: Jairo Fuentes Epiayu (In Spanish with English interpretation)
Jairo Fuentes Epiayu is the leader of the Indigenous Wayuu village of Tamaquito, Colombia and the Governor of its Traditional Council.
The village of Tamaquito has been profoundly affected by the proximity of the internationally-owned Cerrejón mine, the largest mining operation in Colombia and one of the worlds largest open-pit coal mines. All of the coal from Cerrejón is exported, and it is sent to many parts of the world including Massachusetts. Jairo Fuentes Epiayu will discuss the effects of large scale mining on an impoverished and isolated region of Colombia in the context of international investment, Indigenous and human rights, and the hidden costs of coal power generation.
Monday, April 5, 7:10PM
Harvard Law School, Pound 100
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Friday April 9, 2010
(all day)
Start: 2010 Apr 8 - 9:00am
End: 2010 Apr 11 - 5:00pm
End: 5:15 pm
Start: 2010 Apr 8 - 5:15pm
End: 2010 Apr 9 - 5:15pm
Looking Past, Looking Forward: The History and Future of the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
End: 9:00 pm
Start: 2010 Apr 8 - 6:15pm
End: 2010 Apr 9 - 9:00pm
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.
Pizza and Refreshments: 6:15PM
Program: 7-9PM
Open to the Public.
For program information, call 781-648-1245.
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
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.
Start: 5:30 pm
Start: 2010 Apr 9 - 5:30pm
End: 2010 Apr 11 - 7:00pm
 Ninth Annual Walk for a New Spring
Join Us
from
Burlington, Vermont
to
The United Nations, New York City
March 20, 2010 - May 1, 2010
Please Join Us by walking for an hour, a day, or for the entirety.
Saturday April 10, 2010
(all day)
Start: 2010 Apr 8 - 9:00am
End: 2010 Apr 11 - 5:00pm
(all day)
Start: 2010 Apr 9 - 5:30pm
End: 2010 Apr 11 - 7:00pm
Ninth Annual Walk for a New Spring
Join Us
from
Burlington, Vermont
to
The United Nations, New York City
March 20, 2010 - May 1, 2010
Please Join Us by walking for an hour, a day, or for the entirety.
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
 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.
Sunday April 11, 2010
End: 5:00 pm
Start: 2010 Apr 8 - 9:00am
End: 2010 Apr 11 - 5:00pm
End: 7:00 pm
Start: 2010 Apr 9 - 5:30pm
End: 2010 Apr 11 - 7:00pm
Ninth Annual Walk for a New Spring
Join Us
from
Burlington, Vermont
to
The United Nations, New York City
March 20, 2010 - May 1, 2010
Please Join Us by walking for an hour, a day, or for the entirety.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
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.
Meanwhile, we are very interested to hear any and all plans you may already have for tax day. This, as always, is a great opportunity to talk to people about where our tax dollars are being spent. (You can just reply to this e-mail.)
The ‘25 percent’ campaign is working on a tax day flier; we hope to get that to you all this week, along with ideas around tax day – and information about what is going on.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
Environmental Action 2010
Mobilizing the Grassroots for a Greener New England
MEET THE EXPERTS – LEARN NEW SKILLS – NETWORK – AND BE INSPIRED
Start: 11:00 am
End: 2:30 pm
MARY ZEPERNICK
"Legalize Democracy"
Mary Zepernick has worked with women's issues and organizations since the 1970s. In 1982, she joined the staff of the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, later serving on its U.S. Section board, including two terms as president (she is serving on the national board again). In 1986, she founded a WILPF branch on Cape Cod and wrote a political column in the Cape Cod Times for 14 years.
Start: 2:30 pm
End: 5:30 pm
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
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!
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Wahu Kaara, the leading debt relief activist from Kenya
This event is part of the Exploring the Roots of Poverty Speaking Tour
sponsored by Jubilee USA, http://www.jubileeusa.org/index.php, which is
exploring the economic and political systems that impoverish developing
nations and what we can do about it.
An inspiring speaker, Ms. Kaara has spent the last thirty years working
tirelessly for justice in her native Kenya and throughout the African
continent.
At 4 p.m. Ms. Kaara will give a prpesentatin on debt relief as a
significant tool for progress in the fight against world poverty. At 5:30
p.m. she will preach at a joyful, music-filled worship celebration, and at
6:45 p.m. a reception for her will allow participants to meet Ms. Kaara and
Tuesday April 13, 2010
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Start: 7:30 pm
The Walpole Peace and Justice Group will be showing the award winning documentary, View from a Grain of Sand. Filmed by Meena Nanji,the film documents the state of women in Afghanistan through the eyes of three Afghan women: a doctor, a teacher, and a rights activist.
Wednesday April 14, 2010
Start: 9:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
Start: 10:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
Join with peace and justice activists this Wednesday as we protest hate-monger Sarah Palin’s appearance in Boston. Palin is appearing at a rally on the Boston Common sponsored by the Tea Party Express.
On the day before Tax Day, we will call attention to how a large share of the federal budget is spent on the military and call for funds to be used for jobs, healthcare, housing, public services and the environment. We will be distributing the flyers attached to this message.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
a slide show lecture about teaching, traveling the country, and working with a human rights group doing theater in the community.
Lia Gladstone is a published and produced playwright, filmaker and poet. She spent the past year as professor of English and Drama at American
University in Kabul. Her presentation includes writings by students: letters addressed to American students, commentaries on their own experience as well as monologues for Kabuli characters, e.g., about the Sharia Law signed by Karzai, shocking people world-wide. This piece was accepted by a playwrights festival in the US.
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:30 pm
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Come celebrate! Over the past year we've assembled a powerful Green Justice Coalition. Forty unions, community, environmental, and faith groups are winning good home retrofits and good "green" jobs for working class communities and communities of color.
Join us and meet the power in our coalition at Community Labor United's Annual Awards Dinner.
Start: 6:45 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
Meet Andeisha Farid and learn about the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO)
Andeisha Farid is executive director of Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO), based in Kabul, Afghanistan. AFCECO operates orphanages in Afghanistan and Pakistan that serve more than 450 children of diverse ethnicities. While providing children a safe and nurturing environment, AFCECO also instills leadership values of tolerance and an appreciation for education.
Thursday April 15, 2010
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Start: 3:30 pm
Rally and march on Shaw's Prudential
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
 This year on Tax Day, UJP member groups will protest the use of tax money for the runaway military budget. We will call to shift at least 25% of the $706 billion FY2011 military budget to fund human needs, and specifically we will call for defeat of the $33 billion FY2010 supplemental appropriation for the war in Afghanistan.
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Join the Tax Day Protest Action! We will have hand- outs.
Your signs should speak to or include:
*Do you want your taxes spent on human rights abuses by Israel?
*Why should the U.S. give Israel $ 8 million EVERY DAY?
*Why is the U.S. giving Israel $30 billion dollars worth of weapons over the coming decade = $192 for each individual tax-payer?
*We should use tax money to build Palestinian homes-not pay for Israel to destroy them.
Check out US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation - www.endtheoccupation.org for more sign ideas or just come and be a presence with Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights (BCPR).
Start: 5:30 pm
Morristown, a film by Anne Lewis, is a working class response to globalization. Through a critical examination of changes taking place in one small community in the southeastern U.S., this documentary opens up issues of plant closings, capital flight, low-road development strategies, and the new Latino immigration to places like Morristown. The film provides no easy answers, but it culminates in a successful union organizing drive among Latino immigrant poultry workers. Its basic message is that solidarity among working people across borders of race and nation is a real possibility worth imagining.
Start: 6:00 pm
A FABULOUS EVENING OF DELICIOUS INTERNATIONAL CUISINE AND LIVE LATIN MUSIC!
THIS EVENT WILL RAISE FUNDS FOR THE CAMBRIDGE-EL SALVADOR SISTER CITY YOUTH-TO-YOUTH DELEGATION WHICH WILL BE VISITING SAN JOSE LAS FLORES, EL SALVADOR IN JUNE OF 2010
THE MONEY WE RAISE WILL ALSO HELP FUND A COMPUTER CENTER FOR THE SCHOOL CHILDREN OF SAN JOSE LAS FLORES.
SUGGESTED DONATION $10.00
Sponsored by: Cambridge-El Salvador Sister City Youth-to Youth Delegation.
Phone: 617-899-4990
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm
 Why We Fight
Come to a community screening and discussion of this award-winning film.
Thursday, April 15, 6:30pm
Somerville Public Library
79 Highland Ave.
Co-sponsored by Rep. Denise Provost, Somerville Climate Action, and Somerville/ Medford United for Justice with Peace.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Sponsored by Boston University Anti-war Coalition and BU Students for Justice in Palestine
Start: 7:00 pm
*The War on Democracy* is a John Pilger award-winning documentary that rebukes the United States' intervention in foreign countries' domestic
politics, and its "/War on Terrorism/". It focuses on US intervention in Latin America.
Pilger interviews several ex-CIA agents who purportedly took part in secret campaigns against democratic countries and who he claims are
profiting from the war in Iraq. He investigates the /School of the Americas/ - dubbed the /School of Assassins /- at Fort Benning, Georgia,
where Latin American torture squads were trained.
/"I've heard people say that what happened in Abu Ghraib is an isolated incident. And I have to just shake my head and say 'are we on the same
planet? Aren't you aware of our history?
Start: 7:15 pm
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Friday April 16, 2010
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Opening Reception
Contact: wygallery@gmail.com
The Henry Wong and You King Yee Memorial Gallery (W/Y Gallery) and the Chinese Progressive Association invite you to This Land Is Our Land, a historical exhibition honoring the fifteenth anniversary of Boston Chinatown’s victorious Parcel C struggle.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Looking Forward: Iraq & Beyond
Discussion & Reception with Raed Jarrar, Political Analyst
Join Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund in welcoming Raed Jarrar, Iraqi-born political analyst, for a reception and discussion in Cambridge. Mr. Jarrar will cover the situation in post-election Iraq and President Obama's promise to withdraw all US troops from Iraq by the end of next year.
Saturday April 17, 2010
Start: 10:00 am
End: 3:00 pm
 September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows will cosponsor a peace assembly and parade in Groton today with the Groton-Dunstable Regional Middle School Peace Club. New York City firefighters, police officers, and ground zero construction workers will attend.
In 2004, students from the middle school began building the biggest book in the world and selected peace as a topic. Called the Pages for Peace Project, the book includes letters from people all over the world, including the Dalai Lama, Nobel laureates, folk singers, and politicians.
Start: 10:30 am
End: 12:30 pm
A talk by Raed Jarrar. Spnosored by the Ethical Society of Boston.
Free - Donations accepted
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Join Mass-Care and the Universal Health Care Education Fund on April 17:
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Cambridge UJP, Cambridge Rindge and Latin students, and UFCW Local 791 will picket the Porter Square Shaw's Market. Cambridge UJP has to 'adopted' the Porter Square Shaw's Market -- to boycott it and urge others to boycott it, and to picket there on Saturday afternoons from 3:00 to 4:00.
More than 300 Members of UFCW Local 791 have now been on strike for over a month at the Shaw's Distribution Center in Methuen. These workers wish to return to their jobs with a fair and equitable contract that preserves full-time jobs, work rules and provides good wages and benefits. Rather than engage in real negotiations, Shaw's has cut off the strikers' health insurance, threatened to hire permanent replacements, and told workers to either "take or leave" an offer inferior to the so-called "last best and final" offer that workers soundly rejected on March 7th.
Start: 4:30 pm
A talk by Raed Jarrar
“We Will Not Be Silent.” On August 12, 2006, Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi political analyst wore a t-shirt with these words printed on it in Arabic and English as he boarded a JetBlue flight at the JFK International Airport from New York to California. He was hassled and kept off the plane because of the Arabic script, which prompted Mr. Jarrar and the American Civil Liberties Union to file a lawsuit against JetBlue and the U.S. Transportation Security Authority. The slogan that Mr. Jarrar exhibited that day reflects his tremendous work to promote a more nuanced understanding of the Middle East within the U.S.
Sunday April 18, 2010
Start: 11:00 am
End: 2:30 pm
Earth Day
ELIZABETH SAUNDERS
"Protecting Ourselves from Toxic Chemicals in Our Everyday Lives"
Current government policies allow toxic substances to end up in our bodies without our knowledge or consent. We have seen that ignoring early warning signs can result in serious illnessThe tragic histories of lead and mercury, for example, demonstrate the harm caused when government and industry do not take action to protect public health. We will discuss how to create proactive policies to prevent harm before the damage is done, and choose the safest alternatives based on: choice, progress and innovation; rigorous science; individual and corporate responsibility; and democracy.
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
 Resist the Raids! Stop Detentions and Deportations!
Drumming & march in solidarity with all detainees-
3rdSunBatey & Resist the Raids!
Join Efforts & Drums to Stand in Solidarity w/ Immigrants
in the I.C.E. Detention Unit at South Bay House of Correction ! ! !
RAIN LOCATION:
Encuentro 5
33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor
Chinatown (short walk from Orange Line)
Click on Link to view flyer
Start: 4:00 pm
Raed Jarrar is an Iraqi architect, blogger, activist,
and consultant to the American Friends Service Committee
Maryam Shansab is an Afghan-American activist
and PhD student at Tufts Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences
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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?
