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Jose Perez

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.

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.