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06 / 15
Start: 3:30 pm
End: 6:00 pm
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End: 7:00 pm
STRIKE OUT SB1070 AND HB2281!! Start: 7:00 pm
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06 / 16
Start: 12:00 pm
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06 / 17
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Class impacts our personal identities, our institutions, and our work for social change. In the United States , discussing class issues is taboo; and often more challenging to talk about than race, sexuality and religion. Feelings of shame, and/or guilt at being poorer or richer than others lead to secrecy and silence, which only perpetuates myths around class in America and reinforces the growing divisions among us. In this period of renewed hope, increased engagement, and financial crisis, it is more important than ever to gain experience and skills in talking about class. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
This event has been cancelled due to a change in Ann's schedule. Please attend her talk in BostonJust Back From The Gaza Freedom FlotillaStart: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
Socialism 2010: Ideas for Changing the World Chicago, June 17–20 Oakland, CA, July 1–4 http://www.socialismconference.org/
Breaking the Siege of Gaza! Featuring: Flotilla Massacre Eyewitness | |||||||||||
06 / 18
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Day 12/Night 12: Voices of Liberation hosts an OPEN MIC/SPOKEN WORD/ART night Come join us for our Friday Art night! Listen to youth, watch their performances and share your work or other people’s work that inspires you! Bring friends and meet us in front of the State House. Mass Hope 2010 is a continuous 24 hour, 7 days a week vigil in front of the Massachusetts State House to protest Senate Amendment 172.1, to raise awareness of this amendment to the general public and to demand that the Senate, the Congress and Governor Patrick retract and veto SA 172.1. For more information, please visit us at the State House, anytime, day or night! Visit www.masshope2010.com or call Lily Huang from the Student Immigrant Movement, 857-204-5550. Start: 7:00 pm
The Coolidge begins a week-long run of this searing documentary that traces the Mormon Church’s battle against gay rights and its role in the promotion and passage of Proposition 8 in California, the measure that banned marriage equality in the state. Start: 7:00 pm
Just Back From The Gaza Freedom Flotilla
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06 / 19
Start: 9:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
A Conference for Teens (Ages 13-18) The Massachusetts Peer Leadership Institute is a statewide conference for peer leaders* to connect with each other and to build skills. The workshops offered will address the topics/issues that young people are working on. In addition, peer leaders will meet and connect with other peer leaders and learn best practices from each other. Start: 1:00 pm
Start: 2010 Jun 19 - 1:00pm
End: 2010 Jun 21 - 9:00pm
15th Annual World Peace and Prayer Day June 19-21, 2010 Blue Star Equiculture invites you to participate in a weekend of music, history, horses, and prayer for peace, on Burgundy Brook Farm in Palmer, MA. Blue Star is hosting this weekend honoring the horse and Mother Earth as part of the 15th annual World Peace and Prayer Day. Saturday June 19: Songs for the Solstice, a benefit concert 1pm- 9pm (Adults: $10, Children $5) Start: 2:00 pm
End: 5:30 pm
The deadly Israeli attack May 30 on a humanitarian flotilla delivering aid to blockaded Gaza has aroused the condemnation of the world, further isolated Israel's intransigent regime, and challenged the U.S. to review its Middle East policy lest it, too, face isolation. There is a new situation and new opportunities to build the movement to end the siege of Gaza and US support for the occupation of Palestine. Three speakers will lead off our discussion: • Ann Wright was a passenger on the Challenger 1, one of the six boats in the Gaza flotilla that was raided by Israeli commandos on May 31, and will give us an eyewitness report. She is a retired U.S. army colonel who also served as a State Department diplomat. She resigned her State Department post in 2003 to protest the war in Iraq. (After the conference Saturday night, Ann will also give an in-depth presentation at the Palestinian Cultural Center - NOT on Friday night as previously posted). Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Just Back From The Gaza Freedom Flotilla
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06 / 20
(all day)
Start: 2010 Jun 19 - 1:00pm
End: 2010 Jun 21 - 9:00pm
15th Annual World Peace and Prayer Day June 19-21, 2010 Blue Star Equiculture invites you to participate in a weekend of music, history, horses, and prayer for peace, on Burgundy Brook Farm in Palmer, MA. Blue Star is hosting this weekend honoring the horse and Mother Earth as part of the 15th annual World Peace and Prayer Day. Saturday June 19: Songs for the Solstice, a benefit concert 1pm- 9pm (Adults: $10, Children $5) Start: 12:00 pm
End: 5:30 pm
Music, Speakers, Kids' Activities, Raffle, ExhibitsSee the full schedule and info at www.bikesnotbombs.org/greenroots Visit the UJP Table! Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The Majority Agenda Project stands for : Jobs, Peace, Health, Environment-One Agenda The Majority Agenda project believes the country is at a crossroads facing converging crises. These three crises are: 1) an economic crisis that extends to heath care, education, and housing; 2) A catastrophic threat posed by climate change and 3) a complex crisis around issues of war, global security and control over natural resources. Start: 6:30 pm
Just Back From The Gaza Freedom Flotilla
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06 / 21
End: 9:00 pm
Start: 2010 Jun 19 - 1:00pm
End: 2010 Jun 21 - 9:00pm
15th Annual World Peace and Prayer Day June 19-21, 2010 Blue Star Equiculture invites you to participate in a weekend of music, history, horses, and prayer for peace, on Burgundy Brook Farm in Palmer, MA. Blue Star is hosting this weekend honoring the horse and Mother Earth as part of the 15th annual World Peace and Prayer Day. Saturday June 19: Songs for the Solstice, a benefit concert 1pm- 9pm (Adults: $10, Children $5) Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:00 pm
This event is sponsored by the JCRC's Israel Action Center, and co-sponsored by J Street, along with the Anti-Defamation League, New England Region; Hillel Council of New England; Hadassah; Temple Beth Abraham; Temple Beth Am; and Temple Beth Shalom of Needham. Start: 7:30 pm
Speakers include: - Joshua Rubenstein, Director of the Northeast Region of Amnesty International USA, which is campaigning to “Fight Terror With Justice” For more info contact terry@peacefultomorrows.org. | |||||||||||
06 / 22
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Please join us for a party to celebrate the release of the book "South Asia at a Crossroads: Conflict or Cooperation in the Age of Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense, and Space Rivalries". The book is edited by Subrata Ghoshroy and Goetz Neuneck and published by Nomos Publishers, Germany. Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Hundreds of supporters are gathering at Fenway Park to protect the Affordable Housing Law, which has created 58,000 homes in urban, suburban, and rural areas across the state and approximately 80% of the new affordable housing over the past decade outside the large cities. If the Affordable Housing Law is repealed, we would lose a critical tool for creation of new affordable housing [RSVP] | |||||||||||
06 / 23
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Part VII: Unnatural Causes Film and Discussion Series
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Equity & Access to a Quality Education is a Right! Sponsored by the Coalition for Equal Quality Education Endorsed by Chuck Turner, Charles Yancey, Richard Stutman of BTU, USLW Bus driver's local, other community groups. Please publicize and come fill the place. Coalition for Equal Quality Education - www.equalqualityeducation.org • EqualQualityEducation@gmail.com
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06 / 24
Start: 7:00 pm
The Boston Coalition for Justice in Bhopal is a community group that works for justice and a life of dignity for the survivors of the Bhopal Chemical Disaster in Bhopal, India. The campaign is calling for 'No More Bhopals', more effective regulation of the chemical industry, and greater rights for marginalized communities to protect them from chemical harm and corporate crimes. | |||||||||||
06 / 25
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06 / 26
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:30 pm
Hands Across the Sand is a movement made of people of all walks of life and crosses political affiliations. This movement is not about politics; it is about protection of our coastal economies, oceans, marine wildlife, fishing industry and coastal military missions. Let us share our knowledge, energies and passion for protecting all of the above from the devastating effects of oil drilling. | |||||||||||
06 / 27
Start: 4:00 pm
Boston Organizing Committee for the World Social Forum The Honduran Resistance will honor the martyrs & victims of the ongoing repression of the June 28, 2009 Coup We invite the Latino American Community and all peace and justice loving people to share an afternoon of solidarity against the despotic government and violation of human rights that continue in Honduras | |||||||||||
06 / 28
Start: 9:00 am
Start: 2010 Jun 28 - 9:00am
End: 2010 Jun 30 - 5:00pm
18th and Final Peaceable Schools and Communities Summer Institute | |||||||||||
06 / 29
(all day)
Start: 2010 Jun 28 - 9:00am
End: 2010 Jun 30 - 5:00pm
18th and Final Peaceable Schools and Communities Summer Institute Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Join us at the 2010 Massachusetts Gubernatorial Forum on Energy and the Environment, and hear what our gubernatorial candidates have to say about their views on important environmental and energy-related issues! During the forum, the gubernatorial candidates will be addressing asked by the media, various local environmental advocacy groups, and—if time permits—the audience. The questions will likely cover a range of topics, including the environment, environmental health, and energy-related issues. All gubernatorial candidates are invited; currently, the confirmed participants are Governor Deval Patrick (Democratic Party) and Dr. Jill Stein (Green-Rainbow Party). This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please e-mail cleanwateractionma@gmail.com. We would also greatly appreciate that any and all guests who are planning to attend send an RSVP to the email listed above.
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06 / 30
End: 5:00 pm
Start: 2010 Jun 28 - 9:00am
End: 2010 Jun 30 - 5:00pm
18th and Final Peaceable Schools and Communities Summer Institute Start: 5:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
WE ARE CELEBRATING OUR MANY MEMBERS, FRIENDS, SUPPORTERS AND OUR WORK! Start: 6:45 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Regularly scheduled UJP planning group meeting. Representatives and members of UJP member groups or those interested in UJP are welcome to attend. Submit agenda items to chair. See this page for chair and agenda. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Salvadoran community leaders lead panel on the challenges and achievements of President Mauricio Funes’ first yearSpeakers: | |||||||||||
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07 / 2
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07 / 3
Start: 10:30 am
End: 11:30 am
Arlington UJP is holding a peace vigil on Saturday, July 3 from 10:30-11:30 at the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Medford St. near the Starbucks. | |||||||||||
07 / 4
Start: 12:00 pm
4th of July jingoism got you down? Then come to our Sixth Annual | |||||||||||
07 / 5
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07 / 6
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
MUSIC, DANCING, DISCUSSION, FOOD | |||||||||||
07 / 7
Start: 6:00 pm
The Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance is working to support safe access to medical marijuana for people suffering from serious and terminal illnesses, when their doctor recommends it. Over the last year, we’ve obtained endorsements for this reform from the Mass. Breast Cancer Coalition, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Mass. Bar Association, Mass. Nurses Association, Mass. Public Health Association, and many other public health and community groups. Join us for a screening of “Waiting to Inhale,” an award winning documentary about the science and politics related to medical marijuana reform. | |||||||||||
07 / 8
Start: 7:00 pm
President Obama has made disarmament a priority. Among the modest steps his administration has taken is the negotiation of the “New START” treaty with Russia. Massachusetts' new senator, Scott Brown, will play a major role in determining whether or not the treaty is ratified or if the future of arms control and disarmament will be thrown into chaos. | |||||||||||
07 / 9
Start: 7:00 pm
Nine passengers--among them a nineteen-year-old American citizen--were shot dead by Israeli forces when on May 31st they descended upon the Mavi Marmara passenger vessel in international waters in the dead of night. The flotilla, which carried more than 600 passengers from nearly 40 countries, was attempting to breach the illegal blockade of Gaza and to bring ten tons of humanitarian aid to civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Scott was traveling on the Challenger I, an American-flagged ship, when it was forcibly overtaken by the Israeli military. He was brought to the Israeli port of Ashdod, detained and then deported along with hundreds of other activists, journalists and human rights workers.
Hamann will speak about his personal experience on the flotilla, the illegality of Israel’s actions, his detainment in Be’er Sheva Prison and about the shameless brutality of the Israeli police and Navy that he witnessed firsthand. Despite soldiers’ efforts to confiscate all media taken by flotilla passengers, Scott was able to smuggle out his own video footage of the Israeli raid.
Sponsored by United for Justice with Peace Palestine Task Force and Code Pink Greater Boston
Directions to Calvary Church
The church is in East Arlington on the corner of Mass. Ave. and Linwood St. Linwood St. is a short dead end street that ends within sight of beautiful Spy Pond. The church is near the Minuteman Bicycle Path and is between Capitol Theater and Arlington Center. Arlington is between Cambridge and Lexington. From Route 2 East: Exit at Lake Street, turn right, go to Mass. Ave. (approx. 1 mile) and turn left. Church will be on the left about 1/2 mile. From Route 93 South: Exit at Medford Square, right at rotary, left in the square, right at Route 16 West, go to Mass. Ave. and turn right. Parking: Park on Mass. Ave. and surrounding streets. Please do not park in the semicircular driveway in front of the church. Bus #77 (Arlington Heights) from Harvard Sq. runs past Calvary Church, United Methodist.
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07 / 10
Start: 12:00 pm
Say no to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer when she comes to Boston! | |||||||||||
07 / 11
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07 / 12
Start: 7:00 pm
Community Change’s “Racism and White Privilege” Summer Film Series July 12: “What Makes Me White?” and “Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible.” July 26: “Dance Me Outside,” challenging stereotypes about First Nations people. August 9: “Brick By Brick: A Civil Rights Story,” a TV documentary following three families in Yonkers, NY as they confront racial discrimination in housing and schools. August 23: “Confederate States of America,” a Spike Lee mockumentary about an alternative history where Confederates win the US Civil War. | |||||||||||
07 / 13
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Another Boston is Possible, A Powerful Social Justice Movement is Necessary. Hear activists from tenant, youth, transportation, workplace, immigrant, and environmental justice struggles as they report back from the U.S. Social Forum and connect forward with the struggles going on in the streets of Boston. Refreshments will be served; Child care available; Wheelchair accessible; Spanish interpretation.
We all have been under assault by a system that cares more about bank profits than people’s lives. We also know that there have been exciting examples of growing mass movements in Boston in response to those attacks. | |||||||||||
07 / 14
Start: 6:45 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Regularly scheduled UJP planning group meeting. Representatives and members of UJP member groups or those interested in UJP are welcome to attend. See this page for chair and agenda. Write ujpcoalition@gmail.com for conference call phone number. | |||||||||||
07 / 15
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Please join us as the Watertown Citizens for Environmental Safety celebrates its 31st Annual Meeting and Potluck Dinner with a presentation on the Majority Agenda Project with Professor Mark Solomon.
A benefit for Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund
You're invited to a benefit for 
Scott Hamann, 29 year old filmmaker from Portland, Maine, had joined the Gaza Freedom Flotilla to document its mission when it fell victim to a deadly Israeli attack by IDF navy commandos. On July 9th he will speak about his fi rst-hand experiences and show his own footage from the raid.
