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04 / 11
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Start: 2010 Apr 8 - 9:00am
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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
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04 / 12
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04 / 13
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.
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04 / 14
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.
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04 / 15
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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04 / 16
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.
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04 / 17
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.
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04 / 18
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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04 / 19
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04 / 20
Start: 6:30 pm
Debate sponsored by the Politics and History Club
Lawrence R. Hartenian, PhD, Professor of Politics and History will be debating one of his colleagues, and he'll be arguing that US troops should leave now.
Also, that same night, beginning at 7:30PM, a few groups on campus will be holding an anti-violence march and a peace rally. The plan is that after the debate people can go out to the rally.
Start: 7:00 pm
GreenPort Forum
Can we solve the current environmental crisis in an economy driven by profit and dependent on growth? Or must we rethink and transform economic institutions and their underlying values? In fact, we are already surrounded by a rich diversity of economic practices and institutions rooted in values of sharing, cooperation, sustainability, equality, subsidiarity/local-first, democracy, and justice. This “solidarity economy” is growing in every continent, often in response to the crises created by the dominant system.
In this interactive workshop, presenter Julie Matthaei, Professor of Economics at Wellesley College and co-founder of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network, will introduce the solidarity economy framework, and related practices and institutions, with special focus on the emergence of sustainable technologies and lifestyles.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
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04 / 21
Start: 11:30 am
End: 2:30 pm
IT'S DECISION TIME FOR YOUTH JOBS!
Join us to demand funding for our future!
Meet at Government Center @ 11:30
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
 Teens and adult allies from across the state are encouraged to attend. The demonstration will include a rally, creative actions at US Senate offices and Boston City Hall, a march to the State House, and lobby visits with state legislators. Join us to make our voices heard at the city, state, and federal levels!
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Additional Locations:
Lowell • Office of Rep. Niki Tsongas • 11 Kearney Square
Worcester • Public Library, Banx Room • 3 Salem Square
Hyannis • Office of Rep. Bill Delahunt • 146 Main Street (Friday at 3-4pm)
Register to attend!
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Start: 5:00 pm
Start: 2010 Apr 21 - 5:00pm
End: 2010 Apr 22 - 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: 6:15 pm
End: 8:15 pm
Massachusetts Peace Action presents a screening of View from a Grain of Sand followed by a discussion.
About the movie View from a Grain of Sand: http://www.viewgrainofsand.com/
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.
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04 / 22
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Start: 2010 Apr 21 - 5:00pm
End: 2010 Apr 22 - 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: 11:30 am
End: 1:30 pm
Start: 4:30 pm
Which future do you want?
War … or JOBS?
It is time for us to choose.
And it really is that simple.
Rally to Fund Jobs/ Cut Military Spending by 25%
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On April 15, Boston taxpayers will send $1.4 billion dollars to the Pentagon.
We can cut military spending by 25% - close unnecessary military bases overseas, stop defense contracting waste and fraud and even end the war in Afghanistan, - and still have plenty left for veterans benefits, active duty soldiers and real security.
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04 / 23
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04 / 24
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
The Peace & Social Concerns Committee of the Friends Meeting of Cambridge and The World Citizens Party of Massachusetts cordially invite you to come and hear
- Dave Wylie, (former Cambridge City Councilor) author of City, Save Thyself! Nuclear Terror and the Urban Ballot, on the growing role of urban leadership in building a peace system of enforced law
- Winston Langley, Provost of UMass Boston, author on international law, leading member of World Citizens Party on WCP goals and the International Criminal Court
- Jill Stein, Green-Rainbow Party candidate for Massachusetts governor, regarding her candidacy as it relates to the goals of the World Citizens Party
Start: 6:00 pm
Music to support TAREK MEHANNA and all political prisoners!
$10 - 30 sliding scale suggested donation.
Any donation over $15 gets you a FREE CD with entrance!
All Ages! Wheelchair Accessible. No alcohol, please.
Featuring performances in support of Tarek by 8 artists featured on the CD!
NATURAL BLISS (boston's pre-eminent female emcee, gritty hip-hop to reckon with)
BROADCAST LIVE ( NY-based radical hip hop and spoken word for liberation.)
spiritchild (freedom singer of the south bronx, hip hop for cultural revolution then evolution)
SISTAH MIA (community activist from the bronx, revolutionizing youth through hip hop)
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04 / 25
Start: 10:30 am
Presented by the Ethical Society of Boston
The founder of Pilgrim Watch will provide an overview of the organization and its mission, and discuss why nuclear power in not an answer to global warming.
Program Speaker: Mary Lambert, Founder, Pilgrim Watch, Program is Free.
Public Welcome, Coffee & Discussion to follow.
For further information call 617-739-9050 or visit BostonEthical.Org.
Start: 11:00 am
End: 2:30 pm
Celebrating Labor and the International Workers' Holiday
UNITE-HERE
“Hotel Workers Rising - Standing with the Hyatt 100”
On August 31, Hyatt fired its longtime housekeeping staff at its three Boston-area hotels. Many of the fired housekeepers worked for their hotels for over 20 years. Many were required to train their replacements before being fired. Their replacements are being paid minimum wage. The firing of the "Hyatt 100" housekeepers stands as the most dramatic example of Hyatt's contributing to the nation's unemployment problem and healthcare crisis. The incident has drawn the ire of workers and community leaders alike, including Massachusetts Governor, Deval Patrick, who said that he would call on state agencies to boycott the three Boston-area hotels if the housekeepers were not recalled.
Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston St.
Boston, MA 02116
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
The Maia Project – Water for Gaza
 
Start: 5:00 pm
Start: 2010 Apr 25 - 5:00pm
End: 2010 Apr 30 - 8:00pm
April 25th to April 30th, 2010 (At Various Locations)
Start: 6:30 pm
Please join us in meeting and greeting Mr. Areikat during an informal evening over a community style dinner.
This meeting will include an introduction by Mr. Areikat, followed by an extended informal Q&A session.
Mr. Areikat served for 11 years at the Negotiations Affairs Department (NAD) of the PLO inRamallah, most recently as its Deputy Head and Coordinator- General (2008-2009).
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Book reading and discussion, second edition of Broken Promises, Broken Dreams by Alice Rothchild
sponsor: Boston Workmen’s Circle
contact: 617-566-6281
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04 / 26
(all day)
Start: 2010 Apr 25 - 5:00pm
End: 2010 Apr 30 - 8:00pm
April 25th to April 30th, 2010 (At Various Locations)
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
The Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Boston presents a series of talks by DR. NOLY FERNANDEZ
A Venezuelan Physician from the Wayuu Indigenous People, and National Director of the Indigenous Health Department.
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Start: 7:00 pm
Start: 2010 Apr 26 - 7:00pm
End: 2010 Apr 30 - 6:00pm
Presented by Palestine@MIT
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04 / 27
(all day)
Start: 2010 Apr 25 - 5:00pm
End: 2010 Apr 30 - 8:00pm
April 25th to April 30th, 2010 (At Various Locations)
(all day)
Start: 2010 Apr 26 - 7:00pm
End: 2010 Apr 30 - 6:00pm
Presented by Palestine@MIT
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:15 pm
Come hear Boston College's Prof. Charles Derber speak on his hopeful book, From Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy.
Additional climate, peace, and economic justice speakers will join this conversation. The meeting will be moderated by Paul Shannon of AFSC.
The time bomb of Global-Warming / capitalist consumerism can and must be solved through both individual and institutional change. People have more power than we think. We need to release ourselves from the bonds of hopelessness and denial, so we can transform both ourselves and our institutions.
This will be an ideal event for peace activists to engage in discussions about military-climate change connections.
Start: 7:30 pm
The Walpole Peace and Justice Group is sponsoring a talk by Benjamin Day.
The health reform plan just passed by Congress leaves millions of people with no or limited health coverage and does little to control costs. Benjamin Day will speak on the MassCare campaign for a single, publicly financed health insurance plan. This plan will cut costs and provide comprehensive health care to all residents in Massachusetts. Almost all developed nations have some form of universal, publicly financed health care which covers all people while realizing enormous savings. The single payer plan will give the Town of Walpole vital relief, removing the health insurance cost from the town budget, freeing up those funds for other badly needed town services and education.
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04 / 28
(all day)
Start: 2010 Apr 25 - 5:00pm
End: 2010 Apr 30 - 8:00pm
April 25th to April 30th, 2010 (At Various Locations)
(all day)
Start: 2010 Apr 26 - 7:00pm
End: 2010 Apr 30 - 6:00pm
Presented by Palestine@MIT
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 9:45 pm
 Information session for the community to learn about the latest risk assessment of the the BU Biolab.
Eight years and three flawed risk assessments later, the National Institutes of Health and Boston University are still trying to convince the community that the BSL4 lab they plan to open in the Roxbury/South End neighborhood of Boston will not present a danger to the community. And so the NIH Blue Ribbon Panel and Tetra Tech, the latest firm to try its hand at assessing the lab’s risks, are coming to Boston to tell us what they’ve been up to.
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm
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04 / 29
(all day)
Start: 2010 Apr 25 - 5:00pm
End: 2010 Apr 30 - 8:00pm
April 25th to April 30th, 2010 (At Various Locations)
(all day)
Start: 2010 Apr 26 - 7:00pm
End: 2010 Apr 30 - 6:00pm
Presented by Palestine@MIT
Start: 7:00 pm
 Join renowned journalist John Ross for an evening connecting the people of Latin America and the United States... No ordinary scribe, Ross’ writing and presentations blend beat generation poetry with magical realist prose all while rooted in concrete social struggles and real politics... Ross leaves his audiences inspired to action and craving social change...
Here's Nation Books on his latest book: "John Ross—poet, journalist, and globetrotting troublemaker—has lived in what the Aztec-Mexicas described as "the umbilicus of the universe" since the great Mexico City earthquake of 1985 crushed out as many as 30,000 lives. Over the years, he has watched the city—El Monstruo—pick itself up, bury its dead, and come battling back.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:45 pm
 Come hear this expert on our nation's budget - learn where it goes and what you might do to change our priorities.
Start: 7:30 pm
Richard Heinberg to Speak in Lexington
Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow In Residence at the Post-Carbon Institute and one of the world's foremost peak oil educators, will discuss how the rapid depletion of fossil fuels and accelerating global climate disruption are creating unprecedented challenges for global society in the twenty-first century.
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04 / 30
End: 8:00 pm
Start: 2010 Apr 25 - 5:00pm
End: 2010 Apr 30 - 8:00pm
April 25th to April 30th, 2010 (At Various Locations)
End: 6:00 pm
Start: 2010 Apr 26 - 7:00pm
End: 2010 Apr 30 - 6:00pm
Presented by Palestine@MIT
Start: 11:30 am
End: 12:45 pm
Start: 6:00 pm
$5 tickets will go ON SALE STARTING TUESDAY, MARCH 30, and will be available for purchase online at harvard.com, at Harvard Book Store, and over the phone with a credit card (617.661.1515).
Start: 6:00 pm
Start: 2010 Apr 30 - 6:00pm
End: 2010 May 1 - 6:00pm
 The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference which will begin at the United Nations in May is widely considered to be a make or break point for ending the spread of nuclear weapons.
On April 30-May 2, people will gather in New York City from around the world to call for Peace and Human Needs: Nuclear Disarmament Now!
An international conference is planned at Riverside Church, April 30-May 1 to bring US and international participants together for analysis and to plan for future actions for nuclear weapons abolition, peace, environmental sustainability, economic justice. See updated conference details here.
On Sunday, May 2, we will take to the streets for a march and rally in Midtown Manhattan.
Start: 7:00 pm
Please join
Dorchester People for Peace
in the STAND AGAINST RACISM
with the YWCA and more than 500 other organizations across the country in a national day to promote diversity and equality.
Free community screening and discussion of
"Blue Eyed, Brown Eyed"
An award winning documentary which offers viewers a chance to watch a full-length workshop with America's most dynamic diversity trainer, Jane Elliott.
Start: 7:00 pm
Join renowned journalist John Ross for an evening connecting the people of Latin America and the United States... No ordinary scribe, Ross’ writing and presentations blend beat generation poetry with magical realist prose all while rooted in concrete social struggles and real politics... Ross leaves his audiences inspired to action and craving social change...
Here's Nation Books on his latest book: "John Ross—poet, journalist, and globetrotting troublemaker—has lived in what the Aztec-Mexicas described as "the umbilicus of the universe" since the great Mexico City earthquake of 1985 crushed out as many as 30,000 lives. Over the years, he has watched the city—El Monstruo—pick itself up, bury its dead, and come battling back.
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05 / 1
End: 6:00 pm
Start: 2010 Apr 30 - 6:00pm
End: 2010 May 1 - 6:00pm
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference which will begin at the United Nations in May is widely considered to be a make or break point for ending the spread of nuclear weapons.
On April 30-May 2, people will gather in New York City from around the world to call for Peace and Human Needs: Nuclear Disarmament Now!
An international conference is planned at Riverside Church, April 30-May 1 to bring US and international participants together for analysis and to plan for future actions for nuclear weapons abolition, peace, environmental sustainability, economic justice. See updated conference details here.
On Sunday, May 2, we will take to the streets for a march and rally in Midtown Manhattan.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am
Please join us for a peace vigil as we call for the end of Afghanistan and Iraqi wars and the redirection of funds to human needs. Tragically, the number of U.S. service personnel killed in Afghanistan since the beginning of the war reached 1,000 on February 23, not to mention the thousands of Afghanistan troops and civilians killed and wounded and the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have fled the ongoing fighting.
For the Walpole Peace and Justice Group
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
This event is endorsed by UJP. Print and distribute the flyer attached below.
12pm Everett City Hall to Chelsea
1pm Chelsea City Hall to East Boston
2pm Lopresti Park, East Boston
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
 On May 1, 2010, the Boston May Day Committee is organizing a march and rally starting on Boston Common at 12 noon. It will be joined by a procession from Boston’s North End featuring large cut-out images of the 8 immigrant workers known as the May Day martyrs.
In the Common, we are proud to announce a special performance of the famous radical theater group Bread and Puppets and a series of speakers that will address the major demands for May Day.
The 1:00 p.m. March from the Common will focus on local anti-worker employers and the federal Immigration & Customs Enforcement agency.
May Day organizers are concerned that:
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 7:38 pm
GREG MORTENSON TO RECEIVE 2010 SALEM AWARD
Greg Mortenson is the recipient of the 18th annual Salem Award for Human Rights and Social Justice for his work promoting peace and building schools for children, especially girls, in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Join us for the award dinner and ceremony!
Register for the Award Ceremony at 7:30 PM
(Free to Salem residents and students of Salem State College, as detailed below.)
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05 / 2
Start: 11:00 am
End: 2:30 pm
Celebrating Labor and the International Workers' Holiday II
DAVID J. COHEN
"Labor's Untold Story: Lessons from the Past"
The labor movement is in crisis and many of the lessons from our past can
help us figure out how better to organize and how to deal with a two-party
political system that is largely unresponsive to the needs of poor and
working people.
David Cohen has been active in the labor movement for 38 years, both as a
rank & file elected leader and on staff for UE (United Electrical, Radio &
Machine Workers of America). UE is well known for its commitment to
militant, democratic rank & file unionism. Besides being involved in union
negotiations and organizing, he is also part of the UE Educational Dept.
(Dave is also the son of long-time CCB member, Abe Cohen!)
Music by Stan Strickland and Josh Rosen
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 5:30 pm
 
Join with thousands from around the world for an International Day of Action. Bring your posters, your drums, your children and your neighbors to say to the world and the leaders who will come to the UN for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty:
• We want a Nuclear Free Future!
• Fund Human Needs, Not War!
• End the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan!
• Protect the planet instead of destroying it with war and nuclear proliferation!
The rally begins at 2:00 with speakers, performers and greetings from the international delegations. At 3:30, we will march across town to the United Nations ending with the International Peace & Music Festival. There will be music from around the world as well as tents and tables with information and organizing resources so that we can continue our work for a safe, nuclear-free, peaceful and just world for all!
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
The Iranian Human Rights Forum at MIT presents:
Shahriar Mandanipour, author of "Censoring an Iranian Love Story"
(claimed by NPR as the Best Debut Fiction of 2009)
Iran's 2009 presidential election, took plac
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Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:30 pm
Daoud Nassar- 
Interfaith Presentation--All Christians, Jews & Muslims are Welcome
Start: 6:45 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Presented by The World in Watertown; Watertown/Belmont Amnesty International Chapter; & the Arsenal Center for the Arts
Panel discussion with Q&A from audience moderated by Rep. Jonathan Hecht
The personal stories of human rights abuses your neighbors endured in their home countries and how these individuals have turned their experiences into positive contributions to their communities here in the U.S.
Participants:
Cesar DeOssa from Columbia (Drug Cartel)
Raouf Jacob from Sierra Leone (Civil War / Genocide)
Nikan Milani from Iran (Persecution of Baha'is)
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Start: 5:30 pm
End: 6:30 pm
The US Marine corps is staging a weeklong series of pro-war propaganda events around Boston May 3-9. Included are displays of weapons in Copley and Faneuil, children's events, and even a mothers day event--this is disgusting. They have been advertising all over the subways. Here is the schedule from their website:
http://www.marines.mil/community/MarineWeekBoston/Pages/ScheduleofEvents.aspx
This presents many anti-war protest opportunities.
JOIN AN ANTI-WAR PROTEST. COPLEY SQUARE IS ONE OF THE LOCATIONS WHERE THE MARINES ARE HAVING A WEAPONS AND MILITARY HARDWARE DISPLAY. WE WILL HAVE BANNERS AND A SOUND SYSTEM FOR SPEAKING. PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN BANNERS AND SIGNS , TOO. TELL THE MARINE RECRUITERS THEY ARE NOT WELCOME IN BOSTON !!
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Come out to hear some of the insights from Re:Imagining Change, chat with the author, connect with community, and pick up your very own copy of the book! We'd love to see you!
The book Re:Imagining Change -- How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements and Change the World is an interactive and accessible resource guide to smartMeme's story-based strategy tools and methodology. The book outlines how to apply narrative power analysis to effectively frame issues and offers plenty of juicy case studies and analysis, including a call for our movements to innovate our storytelling techniques in the face of the looming ecological crisis.
Start: 6:30 pm
Tèt Ansanm! (Heads Together): Boston Solidarity for Haiti
Join other Boston-area students & residents for video screenings and the news that doesn't make it to the mainstream -- and discuss how we can advocate for human rights and Haitian self-determination.
We've been asking..."what can we do from Boston?" The answer is: "a lot!" Our advocacy matters. Why are Haitian voices not being heard in development efforts? Why is food aid composed of American, not Haitian rice? Why, three months out, are many camps still without services? Find out, and channel these joint voices along with others. It all starts with this meeting!
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The City of Cambridge will present its annual Holocaust remembrance -- candle lighting and music
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Start: 7:30 pm
 The House of Peace and the North Shore Coalition for Peace and Justice will present a delegation of 70 leading Japanese peace activists, including three A-bomb survivors. Take advantage of this historic and rare opportunity to meet with and listen to a major delegation sent to the United Nations in a time of world nuclear peril from the only country, as yet, to suffer nuclear holocaust.
The 70 activists are members of a 2,000 strong delegation from Japan journeying to the United Nations in New York City, joining thousands of others from across the United States and around the world, to address the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference. They are urgently appealing to the United Nations to make an unequivocal commitment to the abolition of all nuclear weapons.
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05 / 6
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Join Mass JwJ to deliver a message of solidarity with striking Shaw's Warehouse workers at the Central Square Shaw's from 5-6PM on Thursday May 6th! For more information contact jwj@massjwj.net.
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
 The Think Outside the Bomb National Youth Network is coming to Boston as part of its 40+ city tour of the USA beginning at Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference and culminating at a New Mexico Convergence in August. The tour will be a rad space with a focus on collective liberation. Each stop will be unique to that community but will include: speakers, addressing issues relevant to that community, trainings, education, exchanges of ideas, live music, and a traveling photo/art exhibit that will show the horrors of and resistance to nuclearism. The tour will also feature a free cafe!
Start: 6:30 pm
Husam Zomlot, visiting scholar at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, explores the current prospects for the two state solution in the Middle East. Are there ways to develop greater mutual understanding in the region? What are the prospects that they can be pursued successfully?
Start: 6:45 pm
End: 9:01 pm
 THURSDAY FILM SERIES BACK AT CENTRAL SQUARE LIBRARY
The Monthly Peace and Justice Film Series
CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY,
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05 / 7
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
Hey Goldman Sachs! We want our Government Back! The very companies that crashed our economy are now trying to stop efforts to rein in their uncontrolled greed. Help us stand up to the big banks that are spending hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying to prevent financial reform. Join us on May 7th at noon outside of Goldman Sachs- 125 High St, Boston. For more info email jennifer@massjwj.net
Sponsored By Jobs with Justice, Americans for Fairness in Lending, MCAN, and Many Others!
Start: 7:00 pm
Narrated by the late, acclaimed historian, Howard Zinn
Featuring: Howard Zinn, Matt Damon, Marisa Tomei, Morgan Freeman, Josh Brolin, Bruce Springsteen, Kerry Washington, Jasmine Guy, Jackson Browne, John Legend, Sandra Oh, Viggo Mortensen, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Mike O’Malley, Benjamin Bratt and more!
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Start: 9:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED
Join us May 8 and:
• hear the inside story of the war with an Afghanistan veteran, an Afghan-American woman, and the author of Ending the US War in Afghanistan: A Primer
• discuss the war’s impact on our jobs, our families, and the economy
• make plans to go back to your workplace and union
Our list of individual and union sponsors is in formation.
For information contact Mike Prokosch, mikeprokosch@verizon.net and 617-282-3783.
Start: 11:30 am
End: 4:30 pm
Start: 2:30 pm
End: 4:30 pm
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Sing out in support of Shaw’s striking workers. Join the Strike Singers on Saturday, May 8 at 5:00 PM at the Porter Square Shaw’s, White Street, Cambridge for a sing-out that will bring Shaw’s management to their knees. Bring your guitar, flute, harmonica or voice.
Start: 7:00 pm
Prof. David Ray Griffin, acclaimed philosopher, theologian, author and 9/11 researcher, will speak.
$10 donation ($5 students/seniors)
Info: (617) 244-6643
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05 / 9
Start: 7:00 am
End: 10:30 am
The 14th Annual Mothers Walk for Peace raises funds to support families statewide who have lost loved ones to violence by raising funds for the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute <http://www.louisdbrownpeaceinstitute.org>.
Registration starts at 7:00 AM. The walk route stretches approximately 3.6 miles from Town Field Park in Fields Corner (1565 Dorchester Ave., through Codman Square and ending back at Town Field Park -- all in Dorchester.
The walk allows the Peace Institute to continue the following work:
• Assisting and supporting the families of homicide victims;
Start: 11:00 am
End: 2:30 pm
Mothers' Day
ASSOCIATION of HAITIAN WOMEN in BOSTON
"Before and After the Earthquake"
The Association of Haitian Women in Boston (AFAB) is a grassroots organization founded by a group of "sisters" from different social, religious and economic backgrounds. For over 20 years, it has been a strong political voice in the Haitian community. AFAB's mission is to empower Haitian women by helping them develop the individual and collective capacity to improve their status, thus the ability to effect positive changes in their and their families' lives.
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm
All are invited to this anti-war vigil led by mothers. The vigil starts with a reading of Julia Ward Howe's "Mother's Day Proclamation," which introduced this holiday in 1870 as a day for women to oppose war.
Howe, known best for writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," worked with the widows and orphans of soldiers on both sides of the Civil War, and saw how the effects of the war go beyond the killing of soldiers in battle. Horrified by her experience of the realities of war, she determined that peace was one of the most important causes of the world.
Start: 7:00 pm
Celebrate the great tradition of Latin American radical culture through song and music in our first Peña Foklórica at MESA sin fronteras, dedicated to Violeta Parra.
Musicians: Rafael Medina, Sergio Reyes
+ Open Mic.
Bring your voice, history, song and spirit!
MESA sin fronteras is a burgeoning worker-run social club @ encuentro 5
www.mesasinfronteras.org and www.encuentro5.org
Light snacks and refreshments offered for suggested donations.
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05 / 10
Start: 5:30 pm
 We present a screening of a new documentary based on the work of the late historian Howard Zinn, The People Speak, which aired recently on the History Channel. CHHIRJ joins the chorus of voices from around the globe expressing sadness over the death of this dynamic writer, teacher, activist and historian. We hope you will join CHHIRJ on May 10th as we screen The People Speak and celebrate the life of a man whose words inspired many.
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Massachusetts Peace Action presents a screening of View from a Grain of Sand followed by a discussion.
About the movie View from a Grain of Sand: http://www.viewgrainofsand.com/
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.
Print the attached flyer.
RSVP to jessica@masspeaceaction.org
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05 / 11
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Shaw's is the official sponsor of Red Sox, but we are the official members of Red Sox Nation! Join striking warehouse workers and the supporters to give out Boycott Shaw's Balloons at Fenway park on May 11th from 5-8PM. For more info email John at jlandsman@ufcw.org
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Join organizers and activists in Cochabamba, Bolivia and New York City for a live interactive conversation as part of the 
