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09 / 6
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Paving the Way to Prosperity
Last year, we marched on Labor Day calling for health care reform—and we won!
But the economic crisis, created by the greed of the big corporations, continues to devastate our nation:
♦ We have lost 8 million jobs.
♦ 1.2 million families have lost or are losing their homes.
♦ Millions of workers have seen their rights to organize and bargain for better wages and working conditions trampled.
This deep and widely felt pain creates the conditions for change, brought about by a true movement of the majority for an America where:
♦ Moms and dads have jobs to support their families, shop at local stores, and revive the American Dream.
♦ The super-rich who have benefited the most from our recent prosperity pay what they really can to maintain the road to renewed prosperity for all of us.
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09 / 7
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:00 pm
In 1979 Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House.
In 1986 Ronald Reagan removed them.
Next week, Bill McKibben and a team of students from Unity College in Maine will be traveling to Washington D.C. to deliver one of the original Carter panels to President Obama, asking him to reinstall solar on the White House, and to follow this symbolic gesture with substantial legislative action.
We're calling it the Solar Road Trip, and we hope you'll be able to celebrate with us when the panel makes a stop in Boston on its way to D.C.
Here are the details of the event:
5:30pm - Bicycle pedal-powered climate rock band, Melodeego
6:00pm - Guest Speakers, including Bill McKibben, Tony Cortese of Second Nature, representatives from Students for a Just and Stable Future and Interfaith Power and Light
Start: 7:00 pm
COME SEE AND DISCUSS
THE SACRED RUN
the lotus and the feather
First Nation people from North America and Japan were joined by volunteers from 13 countries on a ceremonial run finishing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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09 / 8
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09 / 9
Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am
Join a meeting of organizational representatives who are working to build turnout in Greater Boston, and Massachusetts, for the One Nation Working Together march in Washington, DC, October 2. Contact Jose Perez for info.
Start: 6:45 pm
End: 8:30 pm
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09 / 10
Start: 7:00 pm
 The Community and Resistance Tour seeks to communicate about current struggles for justice and liberation, from the current BP Oil Drilling Disaster devastating the Gulf Coast to nooses hung in the northern Louisiana town of Jena. From women organizing inside prisons to cultural resistance. The tour also seeks to connect communities of liberation, and to build relationships between grassroots activists and independent media. This tour is for anyone interested in issues of health care, education, criminal justice, housing, or the ways in which systems of racism, patriarchy and other forms of oppression intersect with these struggles.
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09 / 11
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
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| Jose Perez |
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| Juan Cofield |
Time change! Conference starts at noon. Potluck Lunch!
Marking the anniversary of 9/11, the conference will hear a presentation by an invited speaker from the Roxbury Mosque on the controversy over the Islamic Center in Manhattan and anti-Muslim agitation in New York and Boston.
The conference will discuss the economic crisis and the One Nation Working Together mobilization which will rally progressive movements in Washington, DC on October 2.
Juan Cofield, President of NAACP's New England Area Conference, will address the conference, as will Jose Perez, Massachusetts organizer of One Nation and an organizer for SEIU Health Care Workers 1199. Cofield and Perez will explain the importance of a united mobilization at this time, describe the organizing being done in Massachusetts, and talk about how peace activists can get involved.
Start: 1:00 pm
Join us for a public flag washing on the anniversary of September 11, as part of our weekly anti-war protest at Park St Station on
Saturday September 11 at 1pm.
Start: 7:00 pm
Join Sergio Reyes of the Boston May Day Committee and Latin@s for Social Change for a survey of the radical changes and advances in Latin American constitutional development. Using his firsthand impressions of the process in Bolivia and a textual analysis of the new constitution of the Plurinational Republic of Bolivia, Reyes will provide his assessment and lead the conversation. Additional speakers and experiences will be announced shortly. Sponsored by the Boston May Day Committee.
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09 / 12
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09 / 13
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Help build the JVP campaign demanding that TIAAâ€CREF divest from companies that support the Israeli occupation of Gaza & the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
At this meeting, you can:
Start: 7:00 pm
Please come and help build a local contingent for the Anti-War group going to Washington on Oct. 2. Time is running out and we need everyone to get involved. This will be one of the largest demonstration we have seen but everyone has to help make it a large Anti-War demo.
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09 / 14
Start: 9:00 am
Start: 2010 Sep 14 - 9:00am
End: 2010 Sep 21 - 5:00pm
A global telesummit for building a culture of peace
Featuring over 50 inspiring peacebuilders
Get engaged in creating the shift to a world at peace
www.peaceweek.info
Start: 1:00 pm
Start: 2010 Sep 14 - 1:00pm
End: 2010 Sep 23 - 9:00pm
Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002—and became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately more heroic, than the caricature created by the media. And when the government tried to turn his death into war propaganda, they took on the wrong family. From her home in the Santa Cruz mountains, Pat’s mother, Dannie Tillman, led the family’s crusade to reveal the truth beneath the mythology of their son’s life and death.
Featuring candid and revelatory interviews with Pat’s fellow soldiers as well as his family, Amir Bar-Lev’s emotional and insightful film not only shines a light on the shady aftermath of Pat’s death and calls to task the entire chain of command but also examines themes as timeless as the notion of heroism itself.
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09 / 15
(all day)
Start: 2010 Sep 14 - 9:00am
End: 2010 Sep 21 - 5:00pm
A global telesummit for building a culture of peace
Featuring over 50 inspiring peacebuilders
Get engaged in creating the shift to a world at peace
www.peaceweek.info
(all day)
Start: 2010 Sep 14 - 1:00pm
End: 2010 Sep 23 - 9:00pm
Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002—and became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately more heroic, than the caricature created by the media. And when the government tried to turn his death into war propaganda, they took on the wrong family. From her home in the Santa Cruz mountains, Pat’s mother, Dannie Tillman, led the family’s crusade to reveal the truth beneath the mythology of their son’s life and death.
Featuring candid and revelatory interviews with Pat’s fellow soldiers as well as his family, Amir Bar-Lev’s emotional and insightful film not only shines a light on the shady aftermath of Pat’s death and calls to task the entire chain of command but also examines themes as timeless as the notion of heroism itself.
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:30 pm
When: Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Where: State House steps • 24 Beacon St. • Park St T • Boston
(New Time and Place!) September 15's Brown Bag Vigil will start at 11:00 at the State House. We will join Jobs with Justice for a press conference announcing the One Nation Working Together mobilization in Washington on 10-2-10 and explain why peace activists are going to Washington. If time permits we will then move down to our usual location, Sen. Kerry's office, at about noon.
Additional Locations:
Lowell • Office of Rep. Niki Tsongas • 11 Kearney Square (12:00 noon)
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!
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Come join us for a night of networking, drinks and raffles! Bring your friends to meet the members of Boston NOW, make new friends, and mingle with nonprofit leaders and professionals.
The National Organization for Women works to ensure equality for all women in all areas of life and to promote a truly equal partnership with men. NOW actively fights against sexism, racism, violence and homophobia.
Boston Chapter, National Organization for Women, Inc (Boston NOW)
1105 Commonwealth Ave
Suite 201
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-254-9130
Fax: 617-254-9134
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
 Michal Goldman, a Waltham-based documentary filmmaker, will present and lead a post-screening discussion of her latest work "At Home in Utopia." The story of working-class immigrants starting a cooperative housing colony in the 1920s Bronx, the film holds deep resonance in today's economic crisis.
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09 / 16
(all day)
Start: 2010 Sep 14 - 9:00am
End: 2010 Sep 21 - 5:00pm
A global telesummit for building a culture of peace
Featuring over 50 inspiring peacebuilders
Get engaged in creating the shift to a world at peace
www.peaceweek.info
(all day)
Start: 2010 Sep 14 - 1:00pm
End: 2010 Sep 23 - 9:00pm
Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002—and became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately more heroic, than the caricature created by the media. And when the government tried to turn his death into war propaganda, they took on the wrong family. From her home in the Santa Cruz mountains, Pat’s mother, Dannie Tillman, led the family’s crusade to reveal the truth beneath the mythology of their son’s life and death.
Featuring candid and revelatory interviews with Pat’s fellow soldiers as well as his family, Amir Bar-Lev’s emotional and insightful film not only shines a light on the shady aftermath of Pat’s death and calls to task the entire chain of command but also examines themes as timeless as the notion of heroism itself.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am
Join a meeting of organizational representatives who are working to build turnout in Greater Boston, and Massachusetts, for the One Nation Working Together march in Washington, DC, October 2. Contact Jose Perez for info.
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Middle East Seminar
"American Policy and Afghan Realities: Problems and Prospects"
Speaker(s)
Thomas Barfield
Professor of Anthropology, Boston University.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Volunteers needed! Join the Mass. 10-2-10 Peace Contingent as we phone Eastern Mass. peace groups and activists and ask them to get on the bus to Washington for the One Nation Working Together mobilization! It's fun and refreshments will be served. Write UJP or phone us at 617-383-4857 to RSVP.
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
 F#*% the Tea Party,
This is the Real Party!
Jobs with Justice “Get on the Bus” Fundraiser!
Start: 6:00 pm
SoJust is 4! That's right, it's been FOUR years since our first event! Join us to celebrate 1350 members, 75+ events and hundreds of connections made since then! Our birthday parties are always our biggest events - we'll need all you SoJusters there to celebrate - and to eat up all the cupcakes on hand!
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Join us for an emergency fundraiser
Help The Justice for Fallujah Project bring two Iraqi doctors to the U.S. to present their research on the health crisis in Fallujah
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09 / 17
(all day)
Start: 2010 Sep 14 - 9:00am
End: 2010 Sep 21 - 5:00pm
A global telesummit for building a culture of peace
Featuring over 50 inspiring peacebuilders
Get engaged in creating the shift to a world at peace
www.peaceweek.info
(all day)
Start: 2010 Sep 14 - 1:00pm
End: 2010 Sep 23 - 9:00pm
Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002—and became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately more heroic, than the caricature created by the media. And when the government tried to turn his death into war propaganda, they took on the wrong family. From her home in the Santa Cruz mountains, Pat’s mother, Dannie Tillman, led the family’s crusade to reveal the truth beneath the mythology of their son’s life and death.
Featuring candid and revelatory interviews with Pat’s fellow soldiers as well as his family, Amir Bar-Lev’s emotional and insightful film not only shines a light on the shady aftermath of Pat’s death and calls to task the entire chain of command but also examines themes as timeless as the notion of heroism itself.
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
Free outdoor showing of the film "The Debt of Dictators." We will explore the roots of the debt crisis in the global south where people struggle to survive without basic necessities because their governments are still forced to pay off the debts accumulated by corrupt dictators of the past. This is part of the international mobilzation to Stand Up, Take Action and call world leaders to honor their commitments to the Millenium Development Goals and end world poverty. Hosted by Jubilee MA. For more information, see www.jubileema.org
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09 / 18
(all day)
Start: 2010 Sep 14 - 9:00am
End: 2010 Sep 21 - 5:00pm
A global telesummit for building a culture of peace
Featuring over 50 inspiring peacebuilders
Get engaged in creating the shift to a world at peace
www.peaceweek.info
(all day)
Start: 2010 Sep 14 - 1:00pm
End: 2010 Sep 23 - 9:00pm
Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002—and became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately more heroic, than the caricature created by the media. And when the government tried to turn his death into war propaganda, they took on the wrong family. From her home in the Santa Cruz mountains, Pat’s mother, Dannie Tillman, led the family’s crusade to reveal the truth beneath the mythology of their son’s life and death.
Featuring candid and revelatory interviews with Pat’s fellow soldiers as well as his family, Amir Bar-Lev’s emotional and insightful film not only shines a light on the shady aftermath of Pat’s death and calls to task the entire chain of command but also examines themes as timeless as the notion of heroism itself.
Start: 11:00 am
End: 8:30 pm
Start: 5:00 pm
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, the internationally renowned exponent of the bansuri or bamboo flute, has become one of India’s most-respected classical musicians. He has been widely recognized with various awards in his lifetime such as Konark Samman (1992), Padma Bhushan(1992), the Padma Bhushan(1992), Rajiv Gandhi Ekta Award (1998), Padma Vibhushan (2000), “Orders des Arts et Lettres” (Knight Of The Order Of Arts & Letters - 2009), Nada Vidya Bharati(2010) and 3 honorary doctorates from various universities.
He has collaborated with several western musicians, including John McLaughlin and Jan Gabarek, and has also composed music for a number of Indian films. He has performed throughout the world winning acclaim from varied audiences such as the Nobel Peace Price ceremony in Oslo and his music, along with Ravi Shankarji's was played in outer space by Kalpana Chawla.
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09 / 19
(all day)
Start: 2010 Sep 14 - 9:00am
End: 2010 Sep 21 - 5:00pm
A global telesummit for building a culture of peace
Featuring over 50 inspiring peacebuilders
Get engaged in creating the shift to a world at peace
www.peaceweek.info
(all day)
Start: 2010 Sep 14 - 1:00pm
End: 2010 Sep 23 - 9:00pm
Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002—and became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately more heroic, than the caricature created by the media. And when the government tried to turn his death into war propaganda, they took on the wrong family. From her home in the Santa Cruz mountains, Pat’s mother, Dannie Tillman, led the family’s crusade to reveal the truth beneath the mythology of their son’s life and death.
Featuring candid and revelatory interviews with Pat’s fellow soldiers as well as his family, Amir Bar-Lev’s emotional and insightful film not only shines a light on the shady aftermath of Pat’s death and calls to task the entire chain of command but also examines themes as timeless as the notion of heroism itself.
Start: 11:00 am
End: 2:30 pm
THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON
SUNDAY SPEAKERS FORUM presents...
Sunday, September 19, 2010
11:00am
Rev. WILLIAM CHESTER McCALL III
"History of Race in Unitarian Universalism: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
Unitarian Universalism has struggled since its inception with issues of
race. White culture and white power structures have continuously maintained
control and dominance within the faith community. Yet a community of
resistance has always been around organizing and mobilizing for a different
kind of faith community, an authentically anti-racist multicultural faith.
We will discuss the roles of organizations of color within UUism as well as
tell some of the stories of white anti-racists along with the stories of
where we have fallen short as a faith.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
NEW ENGLAND UNITED
REGIONAL ANTIWAR NETWORK MEETING
SPEAKER: ATT’Y STEPHEN DOWNS, founder of Project SALAM
(Support and Legal Advocacy for Muslims, will speak on Muslim
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09 / 20
(all day)
Start: 2010 Sep 14 - 9:00am
End: 2010 Sep 21 - 5:00pm
A global telesummit for building a culture of peace
Featuring over 50 inspiring peacebuilders
Get engaged in creating the shift to a world at peace
www.peaceweek.info
(all day)
Start: 2010 Sep 14 - 1:00pm
End: 2010 Sep 23 - 9:00pm
Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002—and became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately more heroic, than the caricature created by the media. And when the government tried to turn his death into war propaganda, they took on the wrong family. From her home in the Santa Cruz mountains, Pat’s mother, Dannie Tillman, led the family’s crusade to reveal the truth beneath the mythology of their son’s life and death.
Featuring candid and revelatory interviews with Pat’s fellow soldiers as well as his family, Amir Bar-Lev’s emotional and insightful film not only shines a light on the shady aftermath of Pat’s death and calls to task the entire chain of command but also examines themes as timeless as the notion of heroism itself.
Start: 12:00 pm
This is urgent! The DREAM Act is coming up for a vote on Tuesday the 21st and we need you to support the 2.1 million students who could benefit from the DREAM Act in their quest to realize their dreams!
The DREAM Act would allow undocumented students of good moral character who entered this country at a young age and have lived here for five consecutive years to give a pathway to citizenship after complying with the requirements. We believe that the DREAM Act will help some of America’s best and brightest students to succeed and contribute to the future of this country.
SIM is an immigrant youth-led organization based in Massachusetts.
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09 / 21
End: 5:00 pm
Start: 2010 Sep 14 - 9:00am
End: 2010 Sep 21 - 5:00pm
A global telesummit for building a culture of peace
Featuring over 50 inspiring peacebuilders
Get engaged in creating the shift to a world at peace
www.peaceweek.info
(all day)
Start: 2010 Sep 14 - 1:00pm
End: 2010 Sep 23 - 9:00pm
Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002—and became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately more heroic, than the caricature created by the media. And when the government tried to turn his death into war propaganda, they took on the wrong family. From her home in the Santa Cruz mountains, Pat’s mother, Dannie Tillman, led the family’s crusade to reveal the truth beneath the mythology of their son’s life and death.
Featuring candid and revelatory interviews with Pat’s fellow soldiers as well as his family, Amir Bar-Lev’s emotional and insightful film not only shines a light on the shady aftermath of Pat’s death and calls to task the entire chain of command but also examines themes as timeless as the notion of heroism itself.
Start: 11:30 am
End: 12:30 pm
Please join us as we build community in honor of the UN International Day of Peace, Tuesday, September 21st at the Bandstand area downtown Boston on the Common from 11:30am to 12:30pm.
The pivotal moment for this peace witness is 12 noon when people all over the world are invited to dedicate a moment of peace.
Please join us if you can - and if you can't - please dedicate a moment of peace at 12 noon on the 21st - from wherever you are.
Penny Joy Snider-Light
Peace Representative, Greater Boston Area
World Peace Prayer Society, NGO-affiliate of UN
wppspeacerep@yahoo.com
www.worldpeace.org.
www.worldpeace.org/wppsreps.html
Task Force Leader, Greater Boston Area
Start: 3:00 pm
The American Islamic Congress and Project Nur, its student-led campus initiative host the second annual "Massachusetts' Salute to Ramadan" ceremony. Join Muslims and non-Muslims of diverse backgrounds from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to mark Ramadan, including a donation of 500 pounds of rice to the Pine Street Inn to help feed the homeless.
The brief civic ceremony features community leaders, student activists, artistic performances by Iraqi violinist Ali Abdalkadir and Berklee percussionist Ehssan Karimi. Special guests include members of the diplomatic corps, civic leaders from diverse non-profit organizations, and a delegation of Iraqi officials visiting Boston on an international visitors' tour. RSVP to events@aicongress.org.
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 5:30 pm
The event is free and open to the public
Why is the Muslim community center in Manhattan a controversy?
What are its ramifications for religious pluralism and Muslim life in the US?
What historical parallels can be used to understand the issue?
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Friends Meeting in Cambridge has arranged for a permit on Boston Common to commemorate the International Day of Peace, a UN-initiated annual event. We will vigil on Tuesday, Sept. 21 between 4 and 6 on Boston Common between the information booth and Park Street Station. This will be a non-political event to which we hope churches and secular peace groups in the Greater Boston area will attend. Info: gigid38@gmail.com
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Join this peace march and candlelight vigil sponsored by the Center of Light. All are invited to gather to march and celebrate together. Local musicians will perform peaceful music as we gather to catalog our peaceful intentions and prayers for the earth. Refreshments and a video presentation will also be offered at this event. The peace march will feature a giant youth-created peace dove following the recommendations of Jane Goodall's "Roots and Shoots" youth development program (http://www.rootsandshoots.org/campaigns/dove). The celebration will culminate with a candlelight vigil for world peace. Spread the news. Bring friends and family. Children are welcome. Share in an evening of peacebuilding. For more information, contact RevMaryFrancis@CentersOfLight.org 617-990-7411.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Volunteers needed! Join the Mass. 10-2-10 Peace Contingent as we phone Eastern Mass. peace groups and activists and ask them to get on the bus to Washington for the One Nation Working Together mobilization! It's fun and refreshments will be served. Write UJP or phone us at 617-383-4857 to RSVP.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Middle East Initiative Speaker Series
You are cordially invited to attend a talk by
Diana Buttu, Attorney, Former legal advisor to Palestinian negotiators, Palestinian citizen of Israel
Start: 7:00 pm
GreenPort Forum
Presented by Author and Economist Juliet B. Schor
Start: 8:00 pm
Presented by Johnny Blazes and Madge of Honor
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09 / 22
(all day)
Start: 2010 Sep 14 - 1:00pm
End: 2010 Sep 23 - 9:00pm
Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002—and became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately more heroic, than the caricature created by the media. And when the government tried to turn his death into war propaganda, they took on the wrong family. From her home in the Santa Cruz mountains, Pat’s mother, Dannie Tillman, led the family’s crusade to reveal the truth beneath the mythology of their son’s life and death.
Featuring candid and revelatory interviews with Pat’s fellow soldiers as well as his family, Amir Bar-Lev’s emotional and insightful film not only shines a light on the shady aftermath of Pat’s death and calls to task the entire chain of command but also examines themes as timeless as the notion of heroism itself.
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
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Because our homes are old and drafty
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Because we need healthy, safe jobs
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Because we want to fight global warming
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Because Winter's coming
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Because we are paying for others' prosperity with our dollars, health, and lives
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Because we are ready to weatherize our communities
Background
Utility companies administer MassSAVE, the state's energy efficiency program. According to Green Justice Coalition research, MassSAVE is underserving low-income neighborhoods and communities of color, and low- to moderate-income ratepayers are paying more into the system than they are getting out.
Start: 6:45 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Start: 7:00 pm
A myth-busting evening with Bob Green, of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare [ NCPSSM ]
FACT OR FICTION: 'Social Security will soon go bankrupt.' You are /entitled /to know the _truth_ about social security & medicare. Get the_ facts_, find out what drives the privatization 'debate', learn about potential cuts to these programs, and lots more. The evening includes:
A short video introduction (15 min)
A presentation by Bob Green, NCPSSM speakers bureau
Q&A w/ Bob Green
Light refreshments, handouts
For more information, email info@UpandOut.org or visithttp://upandout.org.
Start: 9:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
A Conference Call
Sponsored by the UFPJ Legislative and Afghanistan Working Groups
Call-in Number 1-218-339-4300, code 92210.
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09 / 23
End: 9:00 pm
Start: 2010 Sep 14 - 1:00pm
End: 2010 Sep 23 - 9:00pm
Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002—and became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately more heroic, than the caricature created by the media. And when the government tried to turn his death into war propaganda, they took on the wrong family. From her home in the Santa Cruz mountains, Pat’s mother, Dannie Tillman, led the family’s crusade to reveal the truth beneath the mythology of their son’s life and death.
Featuring candid and revelatory interviews with Pat’s fellow soldiers as well as his family, Amir Bar-Lev’s emotional and insightful film not only shines a light on the shady aftermath of Pat’s death and calls to task the entire chain of command but also examines themes as timeless as the notion of heroism itself.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 11:00 am
Join a meeting of organizational representatives who are working to build turnout in Greater Boston, and Massachusetts, for the One Nation Working Together march in Washington, DC, October 2. Contact Jose Perez for info.
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Volunteers needed! Join the Mass. 10-2-10 Peace Contingent as we phone Eastern Mass. peace groups and activists and ask them to get on the bus to Washington for the One Nation Working Together mobilization! It's fun and refreshments will be served. Write UJP or phone us at 617-383-4857 to RSVP. The dates are Sept. 16, 21, and 23.
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Talk by Prof. John Dower
The MIT-Japan Program & The Japan Society of Boston are pleased to present
Pulitzer Prizewinner JOHN W. DOWER speaking on CULTURES OF WAR: pearl harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq “An unrelenting, incisive, masterly comparative study.”
John W. Dower, author of Cultures of War, has also written Embracing Defeat (winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize), War without Mercy (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), as well as many other books on Japan. He is professor emeritus of history at MIT and founder/co-director of the online “Visualizing Cultures” project, established at MIT in 2002 and dedicated to the presentation of image-driven scholarship on East Asia in the modern world.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:30 pm
Relentless and clear-eyed, this intensively-researched film drills deep into the uncomfortable realities of a world that is both addicted to fossil fuels and blissfully unaware of the looming “peak oil” crisis. Featuring a haunting score by Phillip Glass and a fascinating array of rare archival footage, the film explores oil’s rocky relationship with human progress in locales ranging from ancient Baku, Azerbaijan to dusty oil-patch town of McCamey, Texas.
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09 / 24
Start: 3:30 pm
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Join Massachusetts Peace Action and the UJP Legislative Task Force as we review Congressional developments relating to peace issues.
Paul Kawika Martin, Political Director of Peace Action, will present updates from Washington on nuclear disarmament (e.g. the START treaty), Afghanistan related legislation, and the military budget. He will also briefly report on his recent trip to Japan for the 65th anniversary events in Hiroshima, and to Okinawa where the presence of a US military base is strongly contested.
We will discuss the state of peace organizing in each of Massachusetts' 10 congressional districts and make plans to exert pressure during the upcoming lame duck session and for 2011.
Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to cole@masspeaceaction.org.
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09 / 25
Start: 9:30 am
Martin Peretz has been spouting hatred for 25 years, most recently that 'Muslim life is cheap.'On Saturday, 25 September, Harvard University's Social Studies Committee will honor him with a $650,000 fund in his name. It's time to talk back to Marty and take back Harvard by standing up against racism and bigotry. Join us!
Materials provided.
Marty In his own words:
ON ARABS
“Arab society is, well—how do I say this? —hidebound and backward.”
ON MUSLIMS
“‘Frankly, Muslim life is cheap, especially for Muslims.’ This is a statement of fact, not value.”
ON LATINOS
Start: 12:00 pm
Start: 2010 Sep 25 - 12:00pm
End: 2010 Sep 26 - 5:00pm
Red Sun Press is hosting a political art show as part of Jamaica Plain Open Studios. This show highlights emerging artists illustrating contemporary struggles for social justice, the environment, and economic and political change. Please join us!
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
BOSTON MAY DAY COMMITTEE (BMDC) CONFERENCE ON IMMIGRATION POLITICS
Please note that we will start promptly at 1 PM. With a packed schedule we cannot afford to waste any time. All presentations will be limited to 10 minutes to allow ample time for discussion.
BLOCK 1:
0. WELCOME
1. WE STRUGGLE FOR MIGRANT WORKERS RIGHTS AND RIGHTS FOR THEIR FAMILIES
Presented by: GEOFF CARENS, Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers
Start: 7:00 pm
Al Filipov Peace & Justice Forum
Presents a lecture by
Rye Barcott
Co-founder of Carolina for Kibera
"Double Time: Service on Two Fronts"
Free and open to all. For more information please call (978) 369-4837 or visit www.alfilipov.org
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Start: 2010 Sep 25 - 12:00pm
End: 2010 Sep 26 - 5:00pm
Red Sun Press is hosting a political art show as part of Jamaica Plain Open Studios. This show highlights emerging artists illustrating contemporary struggles for social justice, the environment, and economic and political change. Please join us!
Start: 10:30 am
VALUE THE MEAL
Program Speaker: Ruby Bolaria, Regional Campaign Organizer, Value the Meal Campaign
Stop Corporate Abuse.
Program is Free, Public Welcome, Coffee & Discussion to Follow.
For further information, please call 617-739-9050 or visit BostonEthical.Org.
Start: 11:00 am
End: 2:30 pm
THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON
SUNDAY SPEAKERS FORUM presents...
Sunday, September 26, 2010
11:00am
DAN McKANAN
“Uncovering Our History: Community Churches in Context”
Understanding where we come from is essential as we consider where we want to go in the future. The Community Church of Boston and the Community Church of New York come out of a century-long tradition inherited from freewheeling radical congregations, including the "Freethinker" congregations of the 1820s and 1830s and the "People's Churches" of the 1880s and 1890. Prior to the Great Depression, American religion could be far more radical at the level of individual congregations than at the level of denominations, we will explore some of the ways the community churches were part of that radicalism and what that means for our next hundred years.
Start: 2:30 pm
End: 3:30 pm
Steve Grossman is running for State Treasure of MA on the Democratic ticket. He has been on the Board of AIPAC Lobby for over a dozen years and President of AIPAC during the 90s -- yet none of this information is listed on his website. We are looking for transparency. When we have had the opportunity to push him in public he says his AIPAC connection is '"irrelevant " to being Sec of State. We think that is up to Massachusetts voters. More relevant apparently is his participation in a local food bank, Big Brother and being on the Board of the MFA. Meantime, over the past two years he has been persistent and instrumental in pressing for Massachusetts divestment of pension funds in Iran bond (this year successful) -- despite the fund managers opposition, saying it will cost at least $5 million just to carry out the divestment process.
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09 / 27
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
WHAT: Bring your signs, chants and outrage at this latest attack on freedom of expresion and political dissent
The government of Barack Obama is responsible for the acts of the FBI and we should demand an explanation and an immediate stop to the persecution of progressive activists. People in the U.S. should remember the Palmer Raids of yesteryears and say that we will not tolerate a repeat of history. We also have to work towards repealing the law that allows the state to persecute progressives: the Patriot Act.
Our solidarity goes to all the activists that have been targeted on this act of repression and intimidation.
Below is a brief news summary of the events we protest:
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09 / 28
Start: 7:30 pm
A talk by Susan Nicholson
Sponsored by the Merrimack Valley People for Peace
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09 / 29
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Fatima Bhutto, Journalist and Author of Songs of Blood & Sword.
Co-sponsored by the Outreach Center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Start: 5:30 pm
Start: 2010 Sep 29 - 5:30pm
End: 2010 Oct 1 - 3:00pm
MIRA is proudly hosting the second annual National Immigrant Integration Conference from September 29 to October 1. For MIRA members and allies, NIIC offers an extraordinary opportunity to meet and share ideas with many of the most important national figures in immigration policy and immigrant studies. Check out more info here: http://sites.google.com/a/miracoalition.org/niic/
Start: 7:00 pm
Film Showing and Discussion
This compelling and haunting documentary of war’s “silent casualty” -- the environment -- explores the under-reported, even ignored, ecological ramifications of war.
Weaving together scientific and eyewitness accounts from Vietnam and Afghanistan to Australia and the Pacific Islands, supported by onsite and archival footage, Scarred Lands & Wounded Lives vividly portrays the long-term damage to our planet resulting from the testing and production of weapons through the array of destruction from bombs, chemicals, guns and unexploded ordnance. The film confronts the immensely broad environmental devastation of war: pollution of our land, air and water and destruction of our biodiversity and entire ecosystems.
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm
 A workshop
All are welcome
25percentsolution.com
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Start: 2010 Sep 29 - 5:30pm
End: 2010 Oct 1 - 3:00pm
MIRA is proudly hosting the second annual National Immigrant Integration Conference from September 29 to October 1. For MIRA members and allies, NIIC offers an extraordinary opportunity to meet and share ideas with many of the most important national figures in immigration policy and immigrant studies. Check out more info here: http://sites.google.com/a/miracoalition.org/niic/
Start: 12:00 pm
So, the economy's awful. What would a progressive economist do to fix it?
Find out September 30 with the world-renowned
Start: 4:15 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Join Professors Marshall Ganz and Timothy McCarthy for a "teach-in" on "The Politics of Protest Today”
On October 2 hundreds of thousands will descend on Washington DC to protest imperial war and corporate take-over of the US economy and political system.
Ahead of this potentially important event, we will discuss: What political work can and does such a protest do today? Do learning and teaching opportunities exist in protest? Who is receiving the messages (the state, the silent majority)? How can the energies of the protest be carried beyond the singular event to a more enduring political struggle?
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10 / 1
End: 3:00 pm
Start: 2010 Sep 29 - 5:30pm
End: 2010 Oct 1 - 3:00pm
MIRA is proudly hosting the second annual National Immigrant Integration Conference from September 29 to October 1. For MIRA members and allies, NIIC offers an extraordinary opportunity to meet and share ideas with many of the most important national figures in immigration policy and immigrant studies. Check out more info here: http://sites.google.com/a/miracoalition.org/niic/
Start: 11:00 am
Start: 2010 Oct 1 - 11:00am
End: 2010 Oct 8 - 11:00pm
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
CARL SPECTOR, VIKI BOK AND REBECCA PARK
Start: 7:00 pm
Start: 2010 Oct 1 - 7:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 10 - 7:00pm
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Start: 7:00 pm
What does it mean to be transformed as President of the United States, at the edge of total nuclear war, into a peacemaker?
John F.
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Start: 2010 Oct 1 - 11:00am
End: 2010 Oct 8 - 11:00pm
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Start: 2010 Oct 1 - 7:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 10 - 7:00pm
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Start: 10:30 am
End: 11:30 am
Jobs, Justice, Peace, Freedom - stand in solidarity with the unions and NAACP as they rally and march in Washington, D.C. for jobs.
Start: 12:00 pm
The Catholic Worker is calling for a rally on Oct. 2 2010 12 Noon at Lincoln Sq, in solidarity with
the anti war and pro jobs rally being held in Washington DC on the same day.
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 6:30 pm
On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 141st birth anniversary this Sat, Oct 2, Association for India's Development [AID], Boston is organizing a candle-light vigil at Harvard Square [details below].
We request you to come and participate in this vigil and reflect on the many injustices in the world. If you can bring along a song/poem or a passage to share on the occasion [with enough copies to go around], that would be welcome.
Details:
*What*: A candle-light vigil to mark the birth anniversary of Gandhi.
Maybe we can call it "Faith in Humanity" or "Justice for All."
Hope you can all make it and lend support to the cause of peace and justice.
Umang Kumar
For more about AID, please visit:
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Start: 2010 Oct 1 - 11:00am
End: 2010 Oct 8 - 11:00pm
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Start: 2010 Oct 1 - 7:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 10 - 7:00pm
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Start: 11:00 am
End: 2:30 pm
JOLIE OLIVETTI, MATT OSBORN, MORRIGAN PHILLIPS & JASON LYDON
"Another World is Possible: Reflections on the 2010 US Social Forum"
Boston organized over 250 people to get on buses, pile into cars, and board planes heading out to Detroit, Michigan for the second US Social Forum. The four individuals speaking will share about their different experiences at the USSF and reflect on particular learnings and tools they have brought back to help build our movements for justice here at home.
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
The late historian Howard Zinn was well known for his support of liberal causes and for his popular and inclusive research and writing. Another, less well known facet of his life-work was his encouragement of young writers and small presses. PEN-New England celebrates Howard Zinn and his support for the freedom to write with a panel discussion led by Helene Atwan of Beacon Press.
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Start: 2010 Oct 1 - 11:00am
End: 2010 Oct 8 - 11:00pm
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Start: 2010 Oct 1 - 7:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 10 - 7:00pm
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Start: 5:30 pm
Janet Collazo of La Alianza Hispana writes: As you know, lately we have experienced an increase in youth violence, taking the life of significant you and for me this is not OK! I think it’s time for us to take action and to STOP the Violence in our Neighborhood. Our kids deserve and have the right to live and it’s on us to protect their lives.
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Join Socializing for Justice and the Nonprofit Career Coach for a skillshare: “Strategic Volunteering to Accelerate Your Career” on 10/4 at Lir* on Boylston, starting at 6:00 PM. We’ll be downstairs!
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
A Model for Framing the Israel/Palestine Conflict and Moving to Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)
This meeting is designed to give us the tools to begin conversations with friends and colleagues who need more information as they take a position against the occupation.
Alice Rothchild, a physician, author and activist, will present an historical basis for the call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions. In breakout groups, we will discuss how we can apply what we heard in our own outreach around the JVP TIAA-CREF campaign.
Alice has coâ€chaired an annual health and human rights delegation to Israel/Palestine since 2003 and is the author of Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience (2nd edition 2010).
For more information, email jvpboston@gmail.com.
Sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace
Start: 7:30 pm
Speaker: Bruce Gagnon, founder and director, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
Bruce Gagnon discusses how space is being used for modern warfare and remote killing, and how an international movement can be built to stop the weaponization of space.
Bruce Gagnon has worked on space issues for 28 years. In 1987 he organized the largest peace protest in Florida history when over 5,000 people marched on Cape Canaveral in opposition to the first flight test of the Trident II nuclear missile. He was also the organizer of the Cancel Cassini Campaign (launched 72 pounds of plutonium into space in 1997) that drew enormous support and media coverage around the world and was featured on the TV program 60 Minutes.
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Start: 2010 Oct 1 - 11:00am
End: 2010 Oct 8 - 11:00pm
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Start: 2010 Oct 1 - 7:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 10 - 7:00pm
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Start: 6:00 pm
Come to Centro Presente and participate in an informative session about the Secure Communities Program.
Do you know about the Secure Communities Program that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is implementing? Do you want to know how this Program is affecting immigrant communities? Do you want to take action and support a campaign that seeks to educate people about the effects of this Program on the immigrant community?
This federal program, under the direction of ICE, requires local law enforcement to cross-check digital fingerprints of anyone they arrest against a federal database to evaluate the arrested person's immigration status. If ICE determines the arrested person to be undocumented, that person will be detained by ICE and processed for deportation.
Start: 6:30 pm
The Blue Ribbon Panel and the National Institutes of Health will be in Boston to inform the community about the progress of their latest Risk Analysis for the BU bioweapons lab. We must continue to make it clear that we will not accept this dangerous lab. There will be time for public comment. Please attend.
The photo shows Klare Allen of the Stop the Bio-Terror Lab Coalition at the previous public meeting, April 28, 2010.
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Start: 2010 Oct 1 - 11:00am
End: 2010 Oct 8 - 11:00pm
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Start: 2010 Oct 1 - 7:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 10 - 7:00pm
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Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
The UJP Afghanistan/Pakistan Task Force is organizing a group to perform antiwar street theater on the anniverary weekend of the Afghanistan War, October 9-10.
The tentative plan is to conduct a Mock Drone Attack at the HONK Festival in Somerville. We are using this script and this handout.
Come help us plan this event. Available roles include actors, leafleters, a videographer and a boom box operator. Contact ujpcoalition@gmail.com or call 617-383-4857 with ideas.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The Beehive Collective Presenting: The True Cost of Coal--Jamaica Plain Forum
Long-exploited as a resource-extraction colony within the U.S., the Appalachian Mountains are home to a fight for survival whose outcome will determine in part the industrial might of this country. Our insatiable demand for cheap power has lead to the most extreme, devastating form of coal mining yet, Mountaintop Removal (MTR). The TRUE COST OF COAL graphic is an elaborate narrative illustration that visually explores the interc...onnections between ENERGY, RESOURCE EXTRACTION, CLIMATE CHANGE and GRASSROOTS RESILIENCY.
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