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Saturday June 19, 2010
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.
* A peer leader is a young person who is committed to building leadership skills and works to make the community a better place by doing advocacy work, building networks, leading workshops, mobilizing youth and striving towards positive change.
WEBSITE: http://www.youthworkcentral.org/other-projects/peer-leadership-institute.html
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
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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
Ann Wright, Retired Army Colonel and former US Diplomat presents:
The Truth About the Attack at Sea
"People were thrown on the deck. Windows were blown out. Flash bangs were used. One of our journalists was hit with something of an electric shock. … One of the women was hit in the face, in the nose, with one of the liquid-filled balls. They were very excessively rough, excessively forceful… They weren’t stopping us at all. We were already dead in the water, and yet all of this force was used on us." - Ann Wright, Democracy Now, June 3, 2010
Sunday June 20, 2010
(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
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
 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.
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
Ann Wright, Retired Army Colonel and former US Diplomat presents:
The Truth About the Attack at Sea
"People were thrown on the deck. Windows were blown out. Flash bangs were used. One of our journalists was hit with something of an electric shock. … One of the women was hit in the face, in the nose, with one of the liquid-filled balls. They were very excessively rough, excessively forceful… They weren’t stopping us at all. We were already dead in the water, and yet all of this force was used on us." - Ann Wright, Democracy Now, June 3, 2010
Monday June 21, 2010
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”
- Joshua Jacobson, Litigation/Controversy Department of WilmerHale who represented six Bosnian-Algerian men wrongfully detained at Guantanamo Bay in the case Boumediene v. Bush
- Terry Rockefeller, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, working for trials for the 9/11 perpetrators that respect international law and the U.S. Constitution.
For more info contact terry@peacefultomorrows.org.
Tuesday June 22, 2010
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
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]
Start: 6:00 pm
Start: 2010 Jun 22 - 6:00pm
End: 2010 Jun 26 - 6:00pm
Wednesday June 23, 2010
(all day)
Start: 2010 Jun 22 - 6:00pm
End: 2010 Jun 26 - 6:00pm
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Part VII: Unnatural Causes Film and Discussion Series
In the winter of 2006, the Electrolux Corporation closed the largest refrigerator factory in the US and moved it from Michigan to Mexico for cheaper labor. As personal finances of laid off workers spiraled downward, health followed. In the year after the plant closure, the local hospital's caseload tripled because of depression, alcoholism and domestic abuse. Heart disease and mortality are also predicted to rise affecting workers, their families, and entire communities.
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
Thursday June 24, 2010
(all day)
Start: 2010 Jun 22 - 6:00pm
End: 2010 Jun 26 - 6:00pm
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.
Start: 7:00 pm
 A benefit for Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund
Friday June 25, 2010
(all day)
Start: 2010 Jun 22 - 6:00pm
End: 2010 Jun 26 - 6:00pm
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm
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Saturday June 26, 2010
End: 6:00 pm
Start: 2010 Jun 22 - 6:00pm
End: 2010 Jun 26 - 6:00pm
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.
Sunday June 27, 2010
Start: 4:00 pm
Boston Organizing Committee for the World Social Forum
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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
Poetry and Music
FREE Event
Monday June 28, 2010
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
$300 (Scholarships and group discounts available)
($100-$300 for returning participants based on economic resources)
Using the Peaceable Schools framework as a guide, core faculty and participants will reflect on how commitments and strategies for peace and justice have shaped our work as individuals and in community. Through keynotes, reflection groups, workshops and Open Space, we'll share effective practices in school and community contexts.
A NOTE TO RETURNING INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS
We hope this final institute will be an opportunity to connect with past participants, workshop leaders, and keynotes. Institute 'alums' will be particularly welcomed to share their insights, current practices, and ideas for peace building and social change.
Tuesday June 29, 2010
(all day)
Start: 2010 Jun 28 - 9:00am
End: 2010 Jun 30 - 5:00pm
18th and Final Peaceable Schools and Communities Summer Institute
$300 (Scholarships and group discounts available)
($100-$300 for returning participants based on economic resources)
Using the Peaceable Schools framework as a guide, core faculty and participants will reflect on how commitments and strategies for peace and justice have shaped our work as individuals and in community. Through keynotes, reflection groups, workshops and Open Space, we'll share effective practices in school and community contexts.
A NOTE TO RETURNING INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS
We hope this final institute will be an opportunity to connect with past participants, workshop leaders, and keynotes. Institute 'alums' will be particularly welcomed to share their insights, current practices, and ideas for peace building and social change.
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.
Wednesday June 30, 2010
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
$300 (Scholarships and group discounts available)
($100-$300 for returning participants based on economic resources)
Using the Peaceable Schools framework as a guide, core faculty and participants will reflect on how commitments and strategies for peace and justice have shaped our work as individuals and in community. Through keynotes, reflection groups, workshops and Open Space, we'll share effective practices in school and community contexts.
A NOTE TO RETURNING INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS
We hope this final institute will be an opportunity to connect with past participants, workshop leaders, and keynotes. Institute 'alums' will be particularly welcomed to share their insights, current practices, and ideas for peace building and social change.
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
WE ARE CELEBRATING OUR MANY MEMBERS, FRIENDS, SUPPORTERS AND OUR WORK!
Hot Dogs, Burgers, Drinks, & GOOD COMPANY
AFFECTED BY CORI?
THE LEGAL TEAM FROM GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES WILL BE AT THE BBQ TO BEGIN THE PROCESS OF GETTING YOUR RECORD SEALED!
For more information, call 617-522-3349 or email UMNUNITY@GMAIL.COM.
Start: 6:45 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Salvadoran community leaders lead panel on the challenges and achievements of President Mauricio Funes’ first year
Speakers:
José Alemán, Consul General to El Salvador;
A representative from the FMLN;
José Palma, activist with the Student Immigrant Movement
What: Salvadoran “State of the Union”-style report-back from government representatives and community activists about President Funes’ first year in office and the current victories and challenges affecting Salvadorans in the U.S.
Contact:
English: Eli Latto (Boston CISPES), 617-576-1709, boscispes@speakeasy.net
Spanish: FMLN Boston, (617) 840-2231, fmln.boston@gmail.com
This event is co-sponsored by the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (Boston CISPES), Cambridge-El Salvador Sister Cities, and Neighbors United for a Better East Boston (NUBE).
Saturday July 3, 2010
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.
Sunday July 4, 2010
Start: 12:00 pm
4th of July jingoism got you down? Then come to our Sixth Annual
ANTI-IMPERIALIST PICNIC
Build World Peace
Celebrate Independence for all Nations
Meet the radicals in your community, and their children, and their dogs
Eat lots of great food (we will have a vegan friendly grill)
Sunbathe and blow bubbles
Play Frisbee / Football / Futbol
Sing radical folk songs (bring your musical instrument!)
Have fun!
Radical unity beyond Boston's May Day!
We will be there early to stake out a picnic table.
Look for our banners.
You can RSVP at:
http://www.meetup.com/stopthewars/
or
Tuesday July 6, 2010
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
MUSIC, DANCING, DISCUSSION, FOOD
By traveling to Cuba with humanitarian aid without a U.S. government license, Pastors for Peace challenges the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba as well as the blockade on the minds of the Americans about the achievements of the Cuba people.
Wednesday July 7, 2010
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.
Thursday July 8, 2010
Friday July 9, 2010
Start: 7:00 pm
 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.
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.
Saturday July 10, 2010
Start: 12:00 pm
Say no to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer when she comes to Boston!
Say 'No' to Anti-Immigrant Racism!
East Coast Protest at the National
Governors Association annual meeting
En Español
Monday July 12, 2010
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.
Tuesday July 13, 2010
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.
Wednesday July 14, 2010
Start: 6:45 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Friday July 16, 2010
Start: 9:00 am
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a serious disorder that impacts clinical practice for a rapidly growing percentage of community-based clinicians as many combat veterans to normal civilian and social environments. Many veterans return with not only physical wounds of war like traumatic brain injury (TBI), but mental wounds that are not immediately evident - which highlights the need for effective screening techniques. A RAND Corporation study released in April 2008 found that 18.5% of US service members who have returned from Afghanistan and Iraq report current symptoms of PTSD and/or depression - and the percentage grows even higher among veterans who have seen multiple deployments.
Sunday July 18, 2010
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Radical Organizing Methods
3 Sundays from 5-7, July 18, 25, and August 1, at CLVU, 284 Amory St. (in the Brewery), JP
We will look at what makes a radical organizing method by examining winability, strategy/tactics, coalitions, spirituality, building a majority movement, role of political education, and the effectiveness of well known organizing methods such as 1-1’s, story-telling, relationship-building. The format will be group discussion.
Facilitator: Steve Meacham
Supporters of the Radical Organizing Conference (ROC) process are pleased to announce our third annual Summer Institute.
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