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« Thursday April 01, 2010 »
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Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm

 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
Antiwar Demonstation, Washington DC, March 20 2010
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: 7:00 pm

 

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