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07 / 8
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07 / 9
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.
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07 / 10
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
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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.
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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.
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07 / 14
Start: 6:45 pm
End: 8:30 pm
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07 / 15
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07 / 16
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.
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07 / 17
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07 / 18
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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07 / 19
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07 / 20
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Jobs with Justice Solidarity Summer School Workshops - All workshops take place on Tuesday evenings from 6:00 to 7:30 through August 24 at the United for a Fair Economy, 29 Winter Street, Boston. Come at 5:00pm for the action planning meeting. Participants: Interns & volunteers from Jobs with Justice and other social justice activists!
July 20: Right wing ideology vs. the Public Sector: How have conservatives tried to demonize the public sector and the idea of government?
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07 / 21
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 12:45 pm
Additional Locations:
Boston • Office of Sen. John Kerry • One Bowdoin Square (12:00-1:30)
Lowell • Office of Rep. Niki Tsongas • 11 Kearney Square
Worcester • Public Library, Banx Room • 3 Salem Square (12:30pm)
Hyannis • Office of Rep. Bill Delahunt • 146 Main Street (Friday at 3-4pm)
Register to attend!
The war is now entering what is traditionally the season of most intense fighting. US casualty figures are running about twice what they were a year ago, with an average of 2-3 US troops and 1-2 other NATO troops being killed each day. As the US congressional elections approach – and as Afghanistan prepares for a significant meeting of international donors and supporters on July 20 – the war managers have little to show for all their efforts so far.
Start: 12:00 pm
Additional Locations:
Brockton • Office of Rep. Stephen Lynch • 155 West Elm Street (12:00-12:45) (NEW!)
Lowell • Office of Rep. Niki Tsongas • 11 Kearney Square
Worcester • Public Library, Banx Room • 3 Salem Square (12:30pm)
Hyannis • Office of Rep. Bill Delahunt • 146 Main Street (Friday at 3-4pm)
Register to attend!
The war is now entering what is traditionally the season of most intense fighting. US casualty figures are running about twice what they were a year ago, with an average of 2-3 US troops and 1-2 other NATO troops being killed each day. As the US congressional elections approach – and as Afghanistan prepares for a significant meeting of international donors and supporters on July 20 – the war managers have little to show for all their efforts so far.
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07 / 22
Start: 5:00 pm
It's a year since Hyatt fired the entire housekeeping staff in all three of its Boston hotels and replaced them with temp workers doing more work for almost half the pay. Most of the workers are immigrant women from every continent. Many are my age and older, and have great difficultly finding new jobs.
Big hotel companies across the country are anticipating a big rebound after the past two lean years. Join your union sisters members of HERE (Hotel and Restaurant Employees) Local 26 on Thursday July 22 to pressure the hotel chain and demand: Bring Back the Hyatt 100!
Picket at the Hyatt Regency Boston!
For more information, contact Jaimie McNeil at Local 26, 617-832-6650.
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
On July 21st The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics will release The Story of Cosmetics, in partnership with Annie Leonard and Free Range Studios (creators of the internet phenomenon and educational tool, The Story of Stuff). PLEASE JOIN US for the Boston viewing party the next day, THURSDAY July 22nd, at WorkBar Boston (which, isn't a bar, by the way), from 6:00-9pm. Burritos and refreshments provided. RSVP and details below.
The new video, The Story of Cosmetics, will show people that many cosmetics ingredients are unsustainable toxic petrochemicals, and that the system of regulating chemicals in personal care products is, like other chemical policies in the US, badly broken. We will outline solutions and directly link to online actions.
Celebrate natural beauty at
The Story of Cosmetics video launch party!
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07 / 23
Start: 1:00 am
Start: 2010 Jul 23 - 1:00am
End: 2010 Jul 25 - 11:00pm
Start: 7:00 pm
Palestine Education Network is a project of NH Peace Action
An invitation to Palestine-focused groups!
Speakers:
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07 / 24
(all day)
Start: 2010 Jul 23 - 1:00am
End: 2010 Jul 25 - 11:00pm
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07 / 25
End: 11:00 pm
Start: 2010 Jul 23 - 1:00am
End: 2010 Jul 25 - 11:00pm
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07 / 26
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.
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07 / 27
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07 / 28
Start: 6:45 pm
End: 8:30 pm
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07 / 29
Start: 5:30 pm
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Come to a Cook-out and Report Back from the Massachusetts delegation to June's Save Our Homes Conference. Join Massachusetts HUD tenants in solidarity and have a great, mid-summer time!
Enjoy pot luck food from around the globe; music by a local DJ; and hear about the victories MAHT tenants helped to win.
RSVP: 617.267.2949
$5.00 Donation Suggested.
Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants is the only resident-run, membership coalition providing organizing and technical assistance to HUD tenants in Eastern and Central Massachusetts. Our mission is to preserve and improve at -risk HUD buildings as permanently affordable housing by building grassroots leadership development, strong tenant unions, and solidarity among HUD-subsidized tenants.
Find us on Facebook and on the web at saveourhomes.org/maht
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07 / 30
Start: 1:00 am
Start: 2010 Jul 30 - 1:00am
End: 2010 Aug 9 - 11:00pm
This year, youth around the world are on the move organizing for a nuclear free future. This summer, Think Outside the Bomb, the largest youth-led anti-nuclear network in the US, is organizing a global convergence near Los Alamos, New Mexico where the nuclear industry began.
Disarmament Summer is a cross-cultural alliance of youth working together to re-ignite hope from below and build a grassroots consensus-based nonviolent direct action movement. In partnership with the Tribal Environmental Watch Alliance, TEWA Women United, the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment, Products of Atzlan youth group, and the Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum, we are committed to collective liberation, a sustainable future, and an end to the cycle of nuclear violence.
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07 / 31
(all day)
Start: 2010 Jul 30 - 1:00am
End: 2010 Aug 9 - 11:00pm
This year, youth around the world are on the move organizing for a nuclear free future. This summer, Think Outside the Bomb, the largest youth-led anti-nuclear network in the US, is organizing a global convergence near Los Alamos, New Mexico where the nuclear industry began.
Disarmament Summer is a cross-cultural alliance of youth working together to re-ignite hope from below and build a grassroots consensus-based nonviolent direct action movement. In partnership with the Tribal Environmental Watch Alliance, TEWA Women United, the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment, Products of Atzlan youth group, and the Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum, we are committed to collective liberation, a sustainable future, and an end to the cycle of nuclear violence.
Start: 6:15 pm
On Saturday, July 31, the Youth Programs Committee welcomes the "Walk for Seven Generations" to the Cambridge Friends Meeting House. Monks, nuns, and friends from the Leverett Peace Pagoda begin a ten day walk in Dorchester that morning. Around 6:15 pm, there will be a community potluck and sharing circle. All are joyfully welcome to the evening gathering and/or to join the walk for whatever time is doable for them. The walk will end on Nagasaki Day at the Leverett Peace Pagoda where there will be a remembering ceremony at 11:00 am. For information about the potluck, call Lynn Lazar 617-354-7348 or Skip Schiel, 671-441-7756. To connect with the walk call Tim Bullock, 413-485-8465.
See photos of the 2007 walk
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08 / 1
(all day)
Start: 2010 Jul 30 - 1:00am
End: 2010 Aug 9 - 11:00pm
This year, youth around the world are on the move organizing for a nuclear free future. This summer, Think Outside the Bomb, the largest youth-led anti-nuclear network in the US, is organizing a global convergence near Los Alamos, New Mexico where the nuclear industry began.
Disarmament Summer is a cross-cultural alliance of youth working together to re-ignite hope from below and build a grassroots consensus-based nonviolent direct action movement. In partnership with the Tribal Environmental Watch Alliance, TEWA Women United, the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment, Products of Atzlan youth group, and the Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum, we are committed to collective liberation, a sustainable future, and an end to the cycle of nuclear violence.
Start: 7:20 pm
The film “Countdown to Zerø” opens at Kendall Square Cinema on July 30th. This controversial film begins to explore the case for a nuclear weapons free world. Variety calls Countdown to Zerø “a politically urgent picture; it will also literally scare the breath out of what will certainly be a worldwide audience.“
The film has problems -- it does not criticize dangerous US nuclear policies nor chart the path to nuclear abolition, and it accentuates fear of terrorism. But it focuses more attention on the nuclear abolition issue.
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08 / 2
(all day)
Start: 2010 Jul 30 - 1:00am
End: 2010 Aug 9 - 11:00pm
This year, youth around the world are on the move organizing for a nuclear free future. This summer, Think Outside the Bomb, the largest youth-led anti-nuclear network in the US, is organizing a global convergence near Los Alamos, New Mexico where the nuclear industry began.
Disarmament Summer is a cross-cultural alliance of youth working together to re-ignite hope from below and build a grassroots consensus-based nonviolent direct action movement. In partnership with the Tribal Environmental Watch Alliance, TEWA Women United, the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment, Products of Atzlan youth group, and the Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum, we are committed to collective liberation, a sustainable future, and an end to the cycle of nuclear violence.
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08 / 3
(all day)
Start: 2010 Jul 30 - 1:00am
End: 2010 Aug 9 - 11:00pm
This year, youth around the world are on the move organizing for a nuclear free future. This summer, Think Outside the Bomb, the largest youth-led anti-nuclear network in the US, is organizing a global convergence near Los Alamos, New Mexico where the nuclear industry began.
Disarmament Summer is a cross-cultural alliance of youth working together to re-ignite hope from below and build a grassroots consensus-based nonviolent direct action movement. In partnership with the Tribal Environmental Watch Alliance, TEWA Women United, the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment, Products of Atzlan youth group, and the Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum, we are committed to collective liberation, a sustainable future, and an end to the cycle of nuclear violence.
Start: 7:00 pm
 http://www.brooklinebooksmith.com/events/mainevent.html
writers & readers series
IN-STORE EVENTS
- Free and open to the public
- Seating begins at 6:30pm
Andrew Bacevich, BU professor and former military official, wowed readers and pundits with The Limits of Power, his exploration of the end of American exceptionalism. His new book, Washington Rules, takes on our current military policy. Publishers Weekly calls it "an unsparing, cogent, and important critique."
The bestselling author of The Limits of Power critically examines the Washington consensus on national security and why it must change
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08 / 4
(all day)
Start: 2010 Jul 30 - 1:00am
End: 2010 Aug 9 - 11:00pm
This year, youth around the world are on the move organizing for a nuclear free future. This summer, Think Outside the Bomb, the largest youth-led anti-nuclear network in the US, is organizing a global convergence near Los Alamos, New Mexico where the nuclear industry began.
Disarmament Summer is a cross-cultural alliance of youth working together to re-ignite hope from below and build a grassroots consensus-based nonviolent direct action movement. In partnership with the Tribal Environmental Watch Alliance, TEWA Women United, the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment, Products of Atzlan youth group, and the Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum, we are committed to collective liberation, a sustainable future, and an end to the cycle of nuclear violence.
Start: 6:00 pm
Worldwide Crisis, Worldwide Resistance - International Responses to the Economic Crisis
Wed. August 4th, 6pm, Our Saviour's Lutheran Church (NOT handicap accessible), 28 Paris St., East Boston. (Maverick stop, Blue line)
Resistance to the effects of the economic crisis is everywhere in Boston. From fighting public services cuts and evictions to fighting racist scapegoating, working class people are neck-deep in organizing and a powerful movement is building out of it. We are not alone.
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08 / 5
(all day)
Start: 2010 Jul 30 - 1:00am
End: 2010 Aug 9 - 11:00pm
This year, youth around the world are on the move organizing for a nuclear free future. This summer, Think Outside the Bomb, the largest youth-led anti-nuclear network in the US, is organizing a global convergence near Los Alamos, New Mexico where the nuclear industry began.
Disarmament Summer is a cross-cultural alliance of youth working together to re-ignite hope from below and build a grassroots consensus-based nonviolent direct action movement. In partnership with the Tribal Environmental Watch Alliance, TEWA Women United, the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment, Products of Atzlan youth group, and the Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum, we are committed to collective liberation, a sustainable future, and an end to the cycle of nuclear violence.
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08 / 6
(all day)
Start: 2010 Jul 30 - 1:00am
End: 2010 Aug 9 - 11:00pm
This year, youth around the world are on the move organizing for a nuclear free future. This summer, Think Outside the Bomb, the largest youth-led anti-nuclear network in the US, is organizing a global convergence near Los Alamos, New Mexico where the nuclear industry began.
Disarmament Summer is a cross-cultural alliance of youth working together to re-ignite hope from below and build a grassroots consensus-based nonviolent direct action movement. In partnership with the Tribal Environmental Watch Alliance, TEWA Women United, the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment, Products of Atzlan youth group, and the Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum, we are committed to collective liberation, a sustainable future, and an end to the cycle of nuclear violence.
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08 / 7
(all day)
Start: 2010 Jul 30 - 1:00am
End: 2010 Aug 9 - 11:00pm
This year, youth around the world are on the move organizing for a nuclear free future. This summer, Think Outside the Bomb, the largest youth-led anti-nuclear network in the US, is organizing a global convergence near Los Alamos, New Mexico where the nuclear industry began.
Disarmament Summer is a cross-cultural alliance of youth working together to re-ignite hope from below and build a grassroots consensus-based nonviolent direct action movement. In partnership with the Tribal Environmental Watch Alliance, TEWA Women United, the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment, Products of Atzlan youth group, and the Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum, we are committed to collective liberation, a sustainable future, and an end to the cycle of nuclear violence.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am
Please join us for a peace
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Peace Vigil, Action Messages, Music, and Candleboat Floating
Commemorate the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 65 years ago on August 6 and 9, 1945
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