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10 / 8
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Start: 2010 Oct 1 - 11:00am
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Start: 2010 Oct 1 - 7:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 10 - 7:00pm
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Start: 2010 Oct 8 - 5:00pm
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HONK! Festival 2010 - FIFTH ANNUAL 

STREETS BURGEONING 
WITH
 STREET BAND ACTIVISM
The HONK Festival will feature 25 activist street bands from around the country:
Sunday, Oct 10, 12-2 pm
“Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet” featuring all the bands plus Bread & Puppet Theater and many local arts and community organizations, from Davis Square to Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest celebration. The parade leaves Davis Square at 12 noon, travels down Elm Street, then Beech Street onto Massachusetts Ave to Harvard Square. We need 123 volunteers for this parade–contact parade@honkfest.org if you are interested!
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10 / 9
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Start: 2010 Oct 1 - 7:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 10 - 7:00pm
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KEY FESTIVAL EVENTS
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Start: 2010 Oct 8 - 5:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 10 - 5:00pm
HONK! Festival 2010 - FIFTH ANNUAL 

STREETS BURGEONING 
WITH
 STREET BAND ACTIVISM
The HONK Festival will feature 25 activist street bands from around the country:
Sunday, Oct 10, 12-2 pm
“Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet” featuring all the bands plus Bread & Puppet Theater and many local arts and community organizations, from Davis Square to Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest celebration. The parade leaves Davis Square at 12 noon, travels down Elm Street, then Beech Street onto Massachusetts Ave to Harvard Square. We need 123 volunteers for this parade–contact parade@honkfest.org if you are interested!
Start: 9:00 am
End: 9:00 pm
Tribute to Elise Boulding
Luncheon will feature talk by Dr. Gene Sharp, internationally known researcher on nonviolence followed by talk by Tim Wallis, executive director of NP
Evening Sing-a-long
Luncheon reservations requested ($13); Dinner ($17)
Contact Judy King at 617-780-5760.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 6:00 pm
Agape Community’s Annual St. Francis Day
Ban Al-Mahfodh: survivor of two wars in Iraq, ten years of sanctions; Research Coordinator at The William Joiner Center in Boston
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Join a street theater performance on the 9th anniversary of the Afghanistan War!
No Experience Necessary!
The UJP Afghanistan/Pakistan Task Force and the Committee for Peace and Human Rights are organizing a group to perform antiwar street theater on the anniverary weekend of the Afghanistan War, October 9-10.
We will conduct a Mock Drone Attack on the Boston Common near Park Street Station. We are using this script and this handout. We will have the most impact if about 30 people take part.
Please come to Park Street at 12:30 p.m. Available roles include actors, leafleters, and a boom box operator. Contact ujpcoalition@gmail.com or call UJP (617-383-4857) or CPHR (617 776-6524) for info.
Start: 1:00 pm
PROPOSED SILENT WALK FOR AAPER (AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR PALESTINIAN EQUAL RIGHTS)
ROUTE: Begin at Park Street at Brewer Fountain near Park St. T Station
Walk from Fountain on Tremont St on left-hand side of street to 3 Center Plaza
Cross Tremont St. at 3 Center Plaza/Scollay Sq. to Gov Center/City Hall Plaza
In City Hall Plaza walk up steps then down long stairway with City Hall on our left side
Cross Congress St. at light opposite the steps
Walk to Faneuil Hall Building and walk around the perimeter of the building following the Freedom Trail marker
Return: Cross Congress and go ½ way up stairway back to beginning of Washington St. with City Hall on our right
On Washington St. cross State/Court St. and continue on Washington crossing School, Milk, and Bromfield
Turn right onto Winter to Tremont
Start: 7:00 pm
The Arabs Gone Wild Stand up Comedy Tour is coming to Boston for one big show on Saturday, October 9, 2010 at The Wilbur Theater!
After playing to sold out shows this Spring in Washington DC, San Francisco, Anaheim and LA, The “Arabs Gone Wild Tour” heads out for an 8 city fall tour including our first ever show in Boston.
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10 / 10
End: 7:00 pm
Start: 2010 Oct 1 - 7:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 10 - 7:00pm
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KEY FESTIVAL EVENTS
End: 5:00 pm
Start: 2010 Oct 8 - 5:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 10 - 5:00pm
HONK! Festival 2010 - FIFTH ANNUAL 

STREETS BURGEONING 
WITH
 STREET BAND ACTIVISM
The HONK Festival will feature 25 activist street bands from around the country:
Sunday, Oct 10, 12-2 pm
“Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet” featuring all the bands plus Bread & Puppet Theater and many local arts and community organizations, from Davis Square to Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest celebration. The parade leaves Davis Square at 12 noon, travels down Elm Street, then Beech Street onto Massachusetts Ave to Harvard Square. We need 123 volunteers for this parade–contact parade@honkfest.org if you are interested!
Start: 10:00 am
End: 3:00 pm
Part of the 10/10/10 Global Work Party for climate action
Neighbors will be joining together in JP to learn hands-on weatherization skills and spread the word about what Boston residents can do to insulate their homes and lower their energy bills.
Weatherize:
Volunteer weatherizers can join a crew to caulk, airseal, repair masonry, replace lightbulbs, and install weatherstripping. Arrive at 10am or 12pm to join a volunteer crew. No experience necessary.
Spread the Word:
Volunteer to knock on doors in the Hyde Square neighborhood. We will be passing out CFL lightbulbs and encouraging homeowners and renters to take advantage of utility subsidies to get their houses evaluated and insulated.
or
Just Hang Out:
Lunch will be served, kids are welcome.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 1:00 pm
Our next community brunch will be on Sunday, October 10, from 10-1. (Location to be announced due to fire damage at AFSC)
Please send your agenda items to Vicky at vicky.steinitz@gmail.com
Our meeting will be the week following the One Nation Working Together October 2 march in Washington, D.C., which will be one agenda item.
Start: 11:00 am
End: 2:30 pm
Indigenous Peoples' Day
JOANNE DUNN
"Who Are the Indians in Boston?"
How do we define an American Indian, and why don't we seem to see any more Indians around? What does an Indian look like, anyhow? Are we stereotyping?
Joanne Dunn is executive director of the North American Indian Center of Boston and a Commissioner on Indian Affairs for Mass, representing the north. She is also a field supervisor for Harvard Divinity School. Joanne is an enrolled Mi'kmaq in the Wagmatcook First Nation Indian Reserve and her career spans more than 30 years of service to Native People and social justice.
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A PEACE AND JUSTICE CONGREGATION SINCE 1920
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
encuentro 5 is a Boston movement-building space (http://www.encuentro5.org). It is home to several of Boston's antiwar, pro-immigrant, environmental and economic justice projects (see website). We will be increasing the energy efficiency of our lighting, computer lab and rationalizing our networks and wiring. We will also be removing excess and obsolete equipment. Finally, we will use our/your creativity and artistic skills to make for a aesthetically pleasing space. All of this is to practice what we preach and make sure that our organizing and activism does not re-create the problems we challenge. The action ends with a reception (from 5:00 - 7:00)
Event Website: http://www.encuentro5.org
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10 / 11
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10 / 12
Start: 6:00 pm
Viva Zapata! (1952) Directed by Elia Kazan, from a screenplay by John Steinbeck, and featuring Marlon Brando as Zapata. This award-winning biopic of revolutionary Emiliano Zapatawas filmed during the turbulent years of Kazan's testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee. reveals Kazan's attitude toward American politics during McCarthyism. Its filming and production were met by tension and censorship regulations in Mexico.
Start: 7:30 pm
A VERY SPECIAL EVENING WITH JAMES CARROLL on the topic "GOD & WAR: RELIGION AS RESISTANCE"
Proceeds benefit the interfaith social action, dialogue, and youth programs of Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries (CMM)
Start: 8:00 pm
Start: 2010 Oct 12 - 8:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 13 - 1:00am
Door: $12
This is going to be one amazing and beautiful night.
All the funds that go into this concert go to rehabilitation services for the recent floods that hit Pakistan.
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10 / 13
End: 1:00 am
Start: 2010 Oct 12 - 8:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 13 - 1:00am
Door: $12
This is going to be one amazing and beautiful night.
All the funds that go into this concert go to rehabilitation services for the recent floods that hit Pakistan.
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Speaker Series: Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation
Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies, University of Oxford
Sponsored by the Middle East Initiative. Co-Sponsored by the Islam in the West Program, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Outreach Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard Islamic Society, and Center for European Studies.
Start: 6:00 pm
Dear Coalition Partners
This past weekend should have been a victory, with thousands of inspired activist ready to make change. We united youth groups with peace groups, LGBT groups with labor, civil rights groups with immigrant rights groups. Coalition partners put countless hours and extensive amounts of their own resources into building this amazing process. You know what you did to get your members out and saw what others were doing. We truly came close to the vision of One Nation.
Start: 6:45 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Start: 7:00 pm
Film Screening: Creating an Archetype: The Influence of the Mexican Revolution in American Film, Frida
Frida (2002), directed by Julie Taymor and featuring Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo, Frida is a peek into the eccentric life of the woman behind the iconic paintings. The film will be shown in conjunction with the BU Cinematheque, a semester-long series of screenings and lectures, organized by the College of Communication and hosted by film critic Gerald Peary. The evening includes a video address by screen writing professor Diane Lake (Emerson College), the chief writer of the film, about the film’s controversial scripting process.
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10 / 14
Start: 6:00 pm
Mexico and Central America Program Film Series: Two Documentaries on Guatemala
Discovering Dominga and In the Shadow of the Raid
Also in conjunction with the publication of the new ReVista on Guatemala, two contributors to the issue will be presenting documentary films that they have produced at a special screening that will be held at DRCLAS on the evening of Thursday, October 14.
Start: 6:00 pm
Film Screening: Creating an Archetype: The Influence of the Mexican Revolution in American Film, The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch (1969), directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden and Ernest Borgnine, is considered one of the most accomplished and bizarre Westerns of the last century. Through the depiction of a bloody confrontation between American outlaws and Huertista during the Mexican Revolution, this film delivers an explosive criticism of American society and politics during the Vietnam years.
Opening Lecure: Haden Guest, Harvard Film Archives, Director
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
With NOAM CHOMSKY
Also featuring Boston-area activists talking about their work with young people in Gaza this past summer:
RIDGELY FULLER, Code Pink Boston
NITIN SAWHNEY, Voices Beyond Walls, who will screen a short film made by youth in the Gaza Strip, “Walking Towards the Truth”
This event is a fund-raiser for the Gaza Community Mental Health Program.
$10 suggested donation. Refreshments will be provided.
Co-sponsors:
American Jews for a Just Peace, Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights, Code Pink Boston, Dorchester People for Peace, Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestinian House of New England, Pax Christi Boston, Project Voice AFSC,
Start: 7:00 pm
Legendary trumpeter Hugh Masekela, one of the art world’s most significant anti-apartheid activists, will discuss “The Artist’s Role as Activist” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14 at Lesley University. The talk is free and open to the public.
Start: 7:30 pm
RETHINK AFGHANISTAN: A FILM BY ROBERT GREENWALD
The film takes a raw look at civilian casualties, women’s rights and other issues that put into question official claims that the war is making our shores safer. Mr. Greenwald has used interviews with academics, Afghans, and former CIA operatives to raise questions about civilian casualties, women’s rights, the cost of war and whether it has made the United States safer.
Sponsored by Arlington United for Justice with Peace and the Church's Peace Committee
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10 / 15
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
The Community Dispute Settlement Center will host its annual fundraising gala, the Spirit of Mediation, Friday, Oct. 15, from 6-10 p.m. at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge.
Community Peacemaker Awards will be given to Peace First for its dedication in creating a generation of morally engaged young people who will effect positive change in their school and neighborhoods and Steven and Linda Brion-Meisels, educators committed to peace and social justice issues in the United States, Columbia, Israel and Palestine. John G. Wofford, mediator, arbitrator, and consensus builder, will be honored with a Spirit of Mediation Award.
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10 / 16
Start: 10:00 am
On Oct 16th, as one of the events taking place in the Boston Book Festival, Susan Abulhawa, a Palestinian writer, will be debating with Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor who is a frank anti-Palestinian, Pro-Israeli figure. For those of you who do not know about Derkowitz but heard of Norman Fenklestein, Derkowitz was the moving force behind Denying Dr. Norman Finklestein tenured position because of his anti-Israeli views. The debate is expected to be tough, and I assume Susan Abulhawa would need all the support we can provide by attending the debate and perhaps sharing with questions or viewpoints if this is to be allowed.
Start: 11:30 am
End: 1:00 pm
 President Obama will be holding a rally this Saturday to campaign for candidates of the Democratic Party. This will be an important opportunity to campaign against the endless wars and occupations and in defense of human rights for all and an end to the Raids.
Gather out in front of the rally with signs and posters.
Supporters of the Stop the Wars Coalition will be marching over to the Hynes from a protest down the street at the the Old South Church in opposition to an appearance by Alan Dershowitz and his campaign in support of the subjugation of the Palestinian people.
See you there.
Start: 1:00 pm
Start: 2010 Oct 16 - 1:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 17 - 6:00pm
The 4th Annual New England Socialist Conference is entitled “We Won’t Pay for Their Crisis!”
*Featuring* Cindy Sheehan and Steve Early
Also: Socialists Debate the Tea Party
Saturday and Sunday, October 16th and 17th
UMass-Boston, Wheatley Building’s First Floor
Main sessions will be held in the Snowden Auditorium, and workshop venues will be clearly marked at the event.
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
‘The Audacity of Hope’
Help send the US Boat to Gaza to break the blockade
4:00 : Social with appetizers and live music
6:00 : Dinner
7:00 : Guest speakers: Noam Chomsky, Diane Buttu and Nancy Murray
Co-Sponsors: Code Pink Greater Boston, ItIsApartheid.org, United for Justice with Peace, Boston Coalition For Palestinian Rights, Dorchester People For Peace, Greater Boston Stop The Wars Coalition, Veterans for Peace (Chapter 9, Smedley Butler Brigade), ANSWER (Boston), American Jews For a Just Peace (Boston),
Start: 7:00 pm
A screening of the award winning documentary - "Burma VJ", with special guest Myra Dahgaypaw, Burmese Refugee & Program Director of the US Campaign for Burma
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10 / 17
End: 6:00 pm
Start: 2010 Oct 16 - 1:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 17 - 6:00pm
The 4th Annual New England Socialist Conference is entitled “We Won’t Pay for Their Crisis!”
*Featuring* Cindy Sheehan and Steve Early
Also: Socialists Debate the Tea Party
Saturday and Sunday, October 16th and 17th
UMass-Boston, Wheatley Building’s First Floor
Main sessions will be held in the Snowden Auditorium, and workshop venues will be clearly marked at the event.
Start: 11:00 am
End: 2:30 pm
NANCY B. KOHN
"The Cuban Five: in U.S. Prisons for Opposing Terrorism"
Nancy Kohn is an active member of the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five, as well as the local July 26th Coalition. She has visited Cuba four times since 1996, most recently as a participant with the 21st Pastors for Peace Friendshipment caravan in July and August.
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
The Bankers Are Coming, the Bankers Are Coming…….
to Boston, Oct 17 – 20th!
The American Bankers Association will hold their annual meeting in Boston using a colonial theme and message that “History Happens Here, Be A Part of It”
Be A Part of Making History:
Demand Big Bankers
Fix the Foreclosure Crisis and Keep Their Hands Off Our Homes!
These are the same bankers who crashed the economy – costing over 8 million jobs and are foreclosing on our homes. Over 5 million homes have already been lost! Now, these Bankers are under investigation for snatching homes they cannot prove they own!
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Baker, Cahill, Patrick, Stein Respond to Demands of 1,200 Faith Leaders of Greater Boston Interfaith Organization
Mr. Charles Baker, Treas. Timothy Cahill, Gov. Deval Patrick, and Ms. Jill Stein will meet with 1,200 leaders of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO) at 6:00pm on Sunday, October 17th at Temple Israel of Boston. Clergy, youth, and lay leaders will hold the candidates’ feet to the fire as GBIO stands up against the growing politics of fear and opportunism in our state and nationally.
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10 / 18
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:15 pm
Renowned Indian social activist and danseuse Mallika Sarabhai will present a performance followed by a conversation on the role of the arts in bringing about social change.
Co-hosted by the Pardee Center in collaboration with the BU Center for the Study of Asia, the CAS Core Curriculum, the BU School of Music, the BU School of Theatre, and the BU School of Public Health. Her visit to BU is part of a larger tour of the USA sponsored by the Asian Cultural Council and DS Foundation.
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10 / 19
Start: 8:30 am
Start: 2010 Oct 19 - 8:30am
End: 2010 Oct 22 - 1:00pm
Chuck Turner's Trial Underway
PACK THE COURT! Daily 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
(TRIAL EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER NUMEROUS DAYS)
SUPPORTERS NEEDED IN COURTHOUSE BY 8:30 - PROCEEDINGS BEGIN AT 9
1 Courthouse Way / Boston
Start: 4:00 pm
The American Bankers Association is meeting in Boston starting this Sunday. These are the same bankers who crashed the economy and are foreclosing on our homes. They are even under investigation for snatching homes they cannot prove they own.
They just announced that they will pay their top executives an all-time record of nearly $150 billion this year!
We demand the bankers help get our economy moving by committing to:
- Freeze foreclosures in all 50 states
- Keep Families in their homes through real mortgage modification including principle reduction and cutting interest rates to current market levels
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10 / 20
(all day)
Start: 2010 Oct 19 - 8:30am
End: 2010 Oct 22 - 1:00pm
Chuck Turner's Trial Underway
PACK THE COURT! Daily 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
(TRIAL EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER NUMEROUS DAYS)
SUPPORTERS NEEDED IN COURTHOUSE BY 8:30 - PROCEEDINGS BEGIN AT 9
1 Courthouse Way / Boston
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:30 pm
Join UJP at a Brown Bag Vigil to stop the Afghanistan war. The vigil will be held downstairs from Sen. John Kerry's office. We will move at 1:00 to the JFK Federal Building where Sen. Scott Brown's office is located.
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: 3:00 pm
End: 5:15 pm
Project Search is a group of local area, gifted and talented high school students who are selected to be part of the program and are brought to UNH on certain dates to learn about and discuss political and philosophical theories. They are doing a day in which they are focusing on the Afghanistan War. This panel will be part of it.
The panel will run from 3:00 - 4:30 with discussion groups after the panel discussion meeting from 4:30 - 5:15.
The panel is organized by Alex Freid of the UNH Peace and Justice League. Rachel Williams of the UJP Afghanistan/Pakistan Task Force will be one of the speakers
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10 / 21
(all day)
Start: 2010 Oct 19 - 8:30am
End: 2010 Oct 22 - 1:00pm
Chuck Turner's Trial Underway
PACK THE COURT! Daily 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
(TRIAL EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER NUMEROUS DAYS)
SUPPORTERS NEEDED IN COURTHOUSE BY 8:30 - PROCEEDINGS BEGIN AT 9
1 Courthouse Way / Boston
Start: 9:00 am
End: 11:00 am
Speaker: Rev. Peter Morales, president, Unitarian Universalist Association
Reflections on Arizona
Remarks from leaders of local immigrant organizations
Boston NSM in 2009-10: A look back, and a look ahead
The New Sanctuary Movement is growing in Massachusetts.
We are teaching our congregations and our communities to welcome the stranger.
We are ministering to immigrants in our midst and abroad.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Start: 6:00 pm
Start: 2010 Oct 21 - 6:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 24 - 3:00pm
CONNECTING FOR CHANGE: A Bioneers by the Bay Conference Presented by the Marion Institute
Start: 6:00 pm
Hedy Epstein, Holocaust Survivor and Lifelong Human Rights Activist, Speaks Out Against the Occupation of Palestine
Hedy Epstein survived the Holocaust when her parents sent her from Nazi Germany to Britain on the Kindertransport. Since then, she has devoted her life to human rights causes from reproductive rights to immigration reform. She has made five visits to the West Bank, Palestine, and came close to boarding the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza. She is an outspoken critic of Israel's military occupation of Palestine, and has become a well-known, controversial figure in the Israel-Palestine peace movement.
At Brandeis, Hedy will share stories from a life fighting injustice, advocating for an end to the occupation of Palestine.
Hosted by:
Jewish Voice for Peace
Students for Justice in Palestine
The Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Studies Program
Start: 7:30 pm
Start: 2010 Oct 21 - 7:30pm
End: 2010 Oct 24 - 4:00pm
"Fallujah," by Evan Sanderson
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10 / 22
End: 1:00 pm
Start: 2010 Oct 19 - 8:30am
End: 2010 Oct 22 - 1:00pm
Chuck Turner's Trial Underway
PACK THE COURT! Daily 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
(TRIAL EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER NUMEROUS DAYS)
SUPPORTERS NEEDED IN COURTHOUSE BY 8:30 - PROCEEDINGS BEGIN AT 9
1 Courthouse Way / Boston
(all day)
Start: 2010 Oct 21 - 6:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 24 - 3:00pm
CONNECTING FOR CHANGE: A Bioneers by the Bay Conference Presented by the Marion Institute
(all day)
Start: 2010 Oct 21 - 7:30pm
End: 2010 Oct 24 - 4:00pm
"Fallujah," by Evan Sanderson
Start: 1:00 am
Start: 2010 Oct 22 - 1:00am
End: 2010 Oct 24 - 11:00pm
"Experiments with Truth"
with Tim Wise, Rev. Billy Kyles, & Jaribu Hill.
More speakers to be announced soon, so check back often.
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 11:00 pm
Join the Boston Workers Alliance in celebrating our 5th year of successful grassroots organizing. We will be highlighting major victories, including the passage of CORI reform and the launching of the new CORI friendly temp agency, the Boston Staffing Alliance. Please join us for this exciting night of community, food, music and celebration! www.BostonWorkersAlliance.org
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Society’s consumption of the earth’s resources are at an all time high. Globally renowned filmmaker and author of “The Story of Stuff,” Annie Leonard will join us for her insights on creating a more sustainable and just world.
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10 / 23
(all day)
Start: 2010 Oct 21 - 6:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 24 - 3:00pm
CONNECTING FOR CHANGE: A Bioneers by the Bay Conference Presented by the Marion Institute
(all day)
Start: 2010 Oct 21 - 7:30pm
End: 2010 Oct 24 - 4:00pm
"Fallujah," by Evan Sanderson
(all day)
Start: 2010 Oct 22 - 1:00am
End: 2010 Oct 24 - 11:00pm
"Experiments with Truth"
with Tim Wise, Rev. Billy Kyles, & Jaribu Hill.
More speakers to be announced soon, so check back often.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Explore some delicious Pan-Asian cuisine at Food Connection for Justice on October 23rd from 1-3PM. Join Socializing for Justice at the Super 88 Food Court in Allston/Brighton - come by yourself or bring your hungry friends!
We'll be taking over a section of the food court so we can sit together, but you can order from any of the food stalls. There will be a few connoisseurs with us to help navigate the plethora of cuisine options: Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese, and Indian. Get a head start salivating by checking out these Yelp reviews.
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Gather at 1:30 pm Weld Boat House at the Larz Anderson Bridge,
Memorial Dr. and JFK St., Cambridge
(Raindate is same time, same place on Sun, October 24)
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
A workshop on federal and military spending and how it affects our local communities and funding for our schools.
Start: 7:00 pm
Celebrate folk legend Phil Ochs’ political songs, that shaped the 60's protest generation. And, they still resonate today for those seeking social justice in the context of the unending wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The concert features Sonny Ochs–his sister--Magpie, Greg Greenway, John Flynn, Dave Roth, Kim and Reggie Harris, Pat Wictor, and Fred Small. Sonny Ochs is dedicated to keeping her brother’s music alive. Born in 1940, Phil Ochs dropped out of college, drawn by the heady folk music, protest singing scene in Greenwich Village. His 1965 break out album—I Ain’t Marching Any More—was a wild commercial success and led to a 1966 sold out legendary solo performance in Carnegie Hall.
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10 / 24
End: 3:00 pm
Start: 2010 Oct 21 - 6:00pm
End: 2010 Oct 24 - 3:00pm
CONNECTING FOR CHANGE: A Bioneers by the Bay Conference Presented by the Marion Institute
End: 4:00 pm
Start: 2010 Oct 21 - 7:30pm
End: 2010 Oct 24 - 4:00pm
"Fallujah," by Evan Sanderson
End: 11:00 pm
Start: 2010 Oct 22 - 1:00am
End: 2010 Oct 24 - 11:00pm
"Experiments with Truth"
with Tim Wise, Rev. Billy Kyles, & Jaribu Hill.
More speakers to be announced soon, so check back often.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
The theme of this year's conference is "ACT Locally, or SINK Globally," reflecting MCAN's focus on local action to combat climate change, both in terms of actual greenhouse gas reductions, but also a way for ordinary citizens to lead where political leaders have been unable to go.
Start: 11:00 am
End: 2:30 pm
KIADO CRUZ
"Reclaiming Our Agricultural Heritage: Roof by Roof, Yard by Yard"
Kiado Cruz is a community organizer for RASA, the Autonomous Network for Food Sovereignty. RASA is an ever-increasing network of people who are learning and then teaching inner-city gardening, while rediscovering their own cultural food roots.
Sr. Cruz will talk about sustainable agriculture, as well as the community organizing that has been instrumental in the current autonomous movements in Oaxaca and Chiapas. He will also address the damaging effects of U.S. trade policies on Mexico, increasing privatization and related migration issues. Cruz will be speaking throughout New England on Witness for Peace's annual fall tour.
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A PEACE AND JUSTICE CONGREGATION SINCE 1920
Start: 4:00 pm
Mr. Rosenbaum, who has been chair of the piano department at the New England Conservatory and president of the Longy School of Music, will present a Schubert Evening. He and friends will perform pieces for piano solo, piano four hands, and piano,  soprano and clarinet, as a benefit for Massachusetts Peace Action Education Fund, Sunday, October 24, at 4pm in a beautiful Cambridge home.
Please contact Massachusetts Peace Action (info@masspeaceaction.org; 617-354-2169) for further details or to reserve your tickets.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
FUND OUR COMMUNITIES
CUT MILITARY SPENDING!
THE 25% SOLUTION
A Workshop on Cutting the Military Budget
(Free and Everyone is Welcome)
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10 / 25
Start: 4:30 pm
Jobs with Justice and CISPES will be taking action against local investors of the Pacific Rim Mining Company. The target will be The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF), which is the 9th largest shareholder of Pacific Rim.
In the department of Cabañas, El Salvador, communities have been protesting against a proposed gold mining project by Pacific Rim. The mine would have devastating effects, which includes poisoning El Salvador’s largest river- and primary source of drinking water- with cyanide.
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Interpreting Development, Sovereignty & Global Environmental Governance
With just a month before the resumption of climate change talks in Cancun, join a dynamic panel involving leading representatives of the Global South, together with a Boston-based scholar. They will speak to the opportunities and challenges posed by the UN discussions on Climate Change. The questions include:
- What are the visions and differences between the North and the South in such discussions?
- Is economic development compatible with environmental justice?
- How can national sovereignty issues be addressed in the context of an international environmental governance system?
Join this panel of dynamic experts as they shed light in these crucial issues.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Join us as Pulitzer finalist Ted Rall, author of bestselling "The Year of Living Dangerously", discusses his new book - a manifesto to top all manifestos - a proclamation that we let the old America pass away and radically reinvent what America truly is, and should be. [Event Website] [An Interview with Rall in the Boston Metro] This event is free and open to all. Parking is available in the Crescent Street Municipal Parking lot behind the bookstore.
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10 / 26
Start: 9:30 am
End: 6:00 pm
Witnesses to Last Year’s Upheaval Come to Boston University
With the US and Iran hurtling toward confrontation, journalists who have spent years inside the Islamic Republic will gather at Boston University on October 26, 2010 to try separating Iranian fact from fiction.
The day will feature two gripping films shot in Iran during the explosion of protest that followed last year’s disputed election. Journalists who covered the protests, including Nazila Fathi of The New York Times, will discuss what they saw, how they covered it, and why Americans have such a distorted view of Iran.
In the afternoon, a panel of specialists will discuss ways of reshaping US perceptions of Iran in the hope of avoiding war.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:30 pm
In 1979 BU had approximately $6 million in common stock in companies active in South Africa. A group of Students and Faculty were committed to ending university support to the Apartheid Regime. This is their story.
This event is designed to be an educational tool for current activists and students at Boston University as it will showcase a very important history of struggle against apartheid which occurred right here at BU. Students can learn lessons about what is possible and what types of strategies worked in the past.
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10 / 27
Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:00 pm
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John Kerry denounces the Vietnam war in April 1971
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WILPF Boston in collaboration with other groups, plans to demonstrate in front of Sen. John Kerry's home, 19 Louisburg Square and Pinkney Street, Beacon Hill, on Wednesday, Oct 27th, 4:30 - 6:00. Join us!
Kerry is a key player in Afghanistan policy. As chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry has the power to call for hearings to end U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. Although Kerry has repeatedly hinted that he will break with the Administration's war in Afghanistan, he has never done so. Unlike all 10 Massachusetts House Representatives who joined the majority of House Democrats and voted in July for an exit timeline, and unlike 9 who voted against war funds, Kerry has not called for ending the war, an exit strategy or reduction in funding.
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:00 pm
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Start: 6:45 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Start: 7:30 pm
“David Rovics is the musical version of Democracy Now!” –Amy Goodman
He’s having a concert in JP. Please don’t miss it!
For more information, email Jeff at notlobreservations@gmail.com. To find more about David Rovics, visit www.davidrovics.com.
Start: 7:30 pm
Start: 2010 Oct 27 - 7:30pm
End: 2010 Oct 31 - 7:00pm
March 20, 2003. A date that the ordinary people of Iraq will never forget. A day that changed their lives forever. In June 2008, the award-winning creators of "The Exonerated" traveled to Jordan to find out firsthand what happened to the Iraqi civilians who fled in the wake of the Iraq War. Blank and Jensen interviewed some 35 people—a cross-section of lives interrupted—who fled the chaos and violence that befell Iraqi society for the relative safety of Jordan. Following the visit to Amman, these encounters were crafted into a jarring, illuminating and unforgettable play that gives voice to the upheaval of everyday life in a country struggling to find its way back home.
Produced by Arts Emerson. 617-824-8000 <artsemerson.org>
Read the Boston Globe review.
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10 / 28
(all day)
Start: 2010 Oct 27 - 7:30pm
End: 2010 Oct 31 - 7:00pm
March 20, 2003. A date that the ordinary people of Iraq will never forget. A day that changed their lives forever. In June 2008, the award-winning creators of "The Exonerated" traveled to Jordan to find out firsthand what happened to the Iraqi civilians who fled in the wake of the Iraq War. Blank and Jensen interviewed some 35 people—a cross-section of lives interrupted—who fled the chaos and violence that befell Iraqi society for the relative safety of Jordan. Following the visit to Amman, these encounters were crafted into a jarring, illuminating and unforgettable play that gives voice to the upheaval of everyday life in a country struggling to find its way back home.
Produced by Arts Emerson. 617-824-8000 <artsemerson.org>
Read the Boston Globe review.
Start: 10:00 am
Centro Presente holds 'A New Era of Women in Politics,' a panel discussion to explore ways to increase civic participation and equal political representation of women in politics.
As part of 'Our Voices, Our Vote,' a civic participation campaign, Centro Presente is holding 'A New Era of Women in Politics,' a panel discussion to explore ways to increase civic participation and equal political representation of women in politics.
Start: 4:15 pm
End: 5:45 pm
A TALK BY LAURA SJOBERG
Assistant professor of political science, university of Florida
PROTECTIVE SHIELDS OR OPEN DOORS?
WOMEN, GENDER, and CIVILIAN IMMUNITY IN WARS
Light Refreshments will be served
SPONSORED BY: PEACE & JUSTICE STUDIES, CLCE, THE DIRECTOR OF MULTICULTURAL PROGRAMS, WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES, ECONOMICS, POLITICAL SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, AND WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM, BOSTON BRANCH
Start: 5:30 pm
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Start: 7:00 pm
Event Cancelled!
Dr. Condoleezza Rice will be making a presentation describing her recent memoir, An Extraordinary Upbringing
Join us in reminding folks that this “policy maker” was centrally involved in the deaths of hundreds of thousands in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as actively engaged in the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza during the winter of 2008-2009.
Please bring appropriate signs and literature that reflect her role in the assault on working people worldwide during her tenure in the Bush administration.
Of course we must add that she will be accompanied by Fox25 News anchor Maria Stephanos who likewise has her role to play in propping up the war machine.
See you there.
Greater Boston Stop the Wars Coalition
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:30 pm
This is the second film in the Amesbury Friends Peace Center's Fall Film & Discussion Series. The shocking hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers catapult a small Long Island town into national headlines. Farmingville is a complex, emotional portrait of an American town in rapid transition from a relatively homogeneous community to a 21st-century village. “This is the latest battle over the American Dream,” explains co-producer Tambini, “one that puts every American town on the front line of deciding just who shares—and who controls—that dream.”
Start: 7:00 pm
Black People and the Labor Movement in Massachusetts:
Do we have a common future together?
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10 / 29
(all day)
Start: 2010 Oct 27 - 7:30pm
End: 2010 Oct 31 - 7:00pm
March 20, 2003. A date that the ordinary people of Iraq will never forget. A day that changed their lives forever. In June 2008, the award-winning creators of "The Exonerated" traveled to Jordan to find out firsthand what happened to the Iraqi civilians who fled in the wake of the Iraq War. Blank and Jensen interviewed some 35 people—a cross-section of lives interrupted—who fled the chaos and violence that befell Iraqi society for the relative safety of Jordan. Following the visit to Amman, these encounters were crafted into a jarring, illuminating and unforgettable play that gives voice to the upheaval of everyday life in a country struggling to find its way back home.
Produced by Arts Emerson. 617-824-8000 <artsemerson.org>
Read the Boston Globe review.
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10 / 30
(all day)
Start: 2010 Oct 27 - 7:30pm
End: 2010 Oct 31 - 7:00pm
March 20, 2003. A date that the ordinary people of Iraq will never forget. A day that changed their lives forever. In June 2008, the award-winning creators of "The Exonerated" traveled to Jordan to find out firsthand what happened to the Iraqi civilians who fled in the wake of the Iraq War. Blank and Jensen interviewed some 35 people—a cross-section of lives interrupted—who fled the chaos and violence that befell Iraqi society for the relative safety of Jordan. Following the visit to Amman, these encounters were crafted into a jarring, illuminating and unforgettable play that gives voice to the upheaval of everyday life in a country struggling to find its way back home.
Produced by Arts Emerson. 617-824-8000 <artsemerson.org>
Read the Boston Globe review.
Start: 3:00 pm
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| Chuck Turner with supporters after his arrest, November 2008 |
Chuck Turner Supporters will be rallying tomorrow Chuck's District 7 Office.
All supporters of Councilor Turner are asked to come down to express your outrage at this miscarriage of justice and stand in solidarity with Roxbury's generational hero. Councilor Turner remains upbeat and
encourages his supporters to recognize that he has been targeted because of the progress and power of our movement.
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10 / 31
End: 7:00 pm
Start: 2010 Oct 27 - 7:30pm
End: 2010 Oct 31 - 7:00pm
March 20, 2003. A date that the ordinary people of Iraq will never forget. A day that changed their lives forever. In June 2008, the award-winning creators of "The Exonerated" traveled to Jordan to find out firsthand what happened to the Iraqi civilians who fled in the wake of the Iraq War. Blank and Jensen interviewed some 35 people—a cross-section of lives interrupted—who fled the chaos and violence that befell Iraqi society for the relative safety of Jordan. Following the visit to Amman, these encounters were crafted into a jarring, illuminating and unforgettable play that gives voice to the upheaval of everyday life in a country struggling to find its way back home.
Produced by Arts Emerson. 617-824-8000 <artsemerson.org>
Read the Boston Globe review.
Start: 11:30 am
End: 11:30 pm
Presentation by Alice Rothchild
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11 / 1
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:00 pm
MARWAN MUASHER, Vice President for Studies for the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Jordan. Former Jordanian Ambassador to Israel and the United States.
The discussion will be moderated by Stephen Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs.
This event is free and open to the public.
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11 / 2
Start: 7:00 am
End: 8:00 pm
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11 / 3
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
The ACLU of Massachusetts and the National Lawyers Guild, Massachusetts Chapter invite you to a
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS TRAINING AND FBI UPDATE FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE GROUPS
With attorneys David Milton and Myong Joun;
NLG-Mass executive director Urszula Masny-Latos
and ACLU of Mass education director Nancy Murray.
• What should Greater Boston peace & justice groups know about the recent FBI raids in Minnesota and Illinois, and the questioning of activists in various parts of the country?
• What rights do you have if you get visited by the FBI or other law enforcement agents?
• How has surveillance changed since 9/11?
• What are the implications of these changes for protest activity?
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11 / 4
Start: 8:00 am
End: 9:00 am
presented by FORD HALL FORUM AT SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Massachusetts Peace Action and the UJP Afghanistan/Pakistan Task Force present Matthew Hoh speaking on the failure of the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
Hoh is the director of the Afghanistan Study Group, a Washington task force with more than 40 co-authors. It released a report in September 2010 calling for more US troops to be withdrawn by 2012.
Matthew Hoh earned a degree from Tufts University. He served in the Marine Corps, then as a Foreign Service officer in Afghanistan. He resigned from the State Department in 2009 with a devastating public critique of the Administration's Afghanistan policy.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
1.José Brito: A Coal Miner Speaks! (http://www.encuentro5.org/home/node/162)
Thursday, November 4, 2010, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. José Brito formerly worked at the Cerrejon mine in Colombia. He is a trade unionist representing thousands of workers at giant surface strip-mines.
The Drummond and Cerejon mines produce 90% of Colombian coal exports. These help fire Massachusetts' Salem and Somerset electrical generating plants in addition to other generating stations in the United States.
Start: 7:00 pm
Beyond War is the project of a non-partisan educational foundation ( www.beyondwar.org) whose mission is to explore, model and promote the means for humanity to live without war. We are just beginning our new "Daily Peacebuilders" program in the Boston area. Our first activity will be a book-study group that will read together "Living Beyond War: A Citizen's Guide." Please call Winslow Myers at 774-239-0954 if you are interested in attending the first meeting on November 4 in Jamaica Plain.
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11 / 5
Start: 5:00 pm
Start: 2010 Nov 5 - 5:00pm
End: 2010 Nov 7 - 5:00pm
25th Annual New England Regional Gathering of War Tax Resisters and Supporters
"Building an Organized War (Tax) Resistance Movement"
Friday-Sunday, November 5-7, 2010
Cambridge Friends Meeting (5th-6th), 9 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA
and Encuentro 5 (7th), 33 Harrison St., Boston
WHY WE COME TOGETHER AND THEME OF THE 25th ANNUAL GATHERING
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 11:30 pm
NH Peace Action Education Fund Annual Event and Fundraiser
Matthew Hoh was the first State Department official to resign in protest over U.S. policy in Afghanistan. He publicly resigned from his Department of State appointment serving in Afghanistan in a letter questioning why the war was being fought and "to what end." Hoh studied at Tufts University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His career as a U.S. Marine included service during the Iraq War and he worked for a time as a civilian contractor in Iraq as well.
Appetizers will be served, and there will be a cash bar.
Start: 7:00 pm
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
How do we prepare for a transition to the new economy in Jamaica Plain? Join us for a presentation about the Transition Town movement that is sweeping the U.K and the U.S. Learn what other communities are doing to create local-scale, ecologically-oriented development models to adapt to our changing environment and economy.
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11 / 6
(all day)
Start: 2010 Nov 5 - 5:00pm
End: 2010 Nov 7 - 5:00pm
25th Annual New England Regional Gathering of War Tax Resisters and Supporters
"Building an Organized War (Tax) Resistance Movement"
Friday-Sunday, November 5-7, 2010
Cambridge Friends Meeting (5th-6th), 9 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA
and Encuentro 5 (7th), 33 Harrison St., Boston
WHY WE COME TOGETHER AND THEME OF THE 25th ANNUAL GATHERING
Start: 10:30 am
End: 11:30 am
Bring all our troops home.
End the wars/occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
End the drone attacks (ongoing in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen).
(Drones are pilotless aircraft that drop missiles and bombs. The US is using them to hunt "insurgents" but follow up reports of these attacks continue to show that civilians are the victims.)
(heavy rains cancel)
Start: 11:00 am
The Green Sanctuary Committee of the First Parish of Watertown continues its environmental film series.
Thirst asks the fundamental question: Is water part of a shared commons, a human right for all people? Or is it a commodity to be bought and sold and traded in a global marketplace? What will happen if communities lose control of their most precious resource?
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
AFTER THE ELECTIONS: Join us for a discussion of a NEW kind of UNIFIED & INCLUSIVE antiwar movement that can challenge the wars abroad AND AT HOME
Regional ANTIWAR Conference
Saturday NOV. 6 12 NOON to 4 pm
St Mark’s Church on the Bowery k 10th St & 2nd Ave, New YorkCity
DISCUSS:
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11 / 7
End: 5:00 pm
Start: 2010 Nov 5 - 5:00pm
End: 2010 Nov 7 - 5:00pm
25th Annual New England Regional Gathering of War Tax Resisters and Supporters
"Building an Organized War (Tax) Resistance Movement"
Friday-Sunday, November 5-7, 2010
Cambridge Friends Meeting (5th-6th), 9 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA
and Encuentro 5 (7th), 33 Harrison St., Boston
WHY WE COME TOGETHER AND THEME OF THE 25th ANNUAL GATHERING
Start: 11:00 am
End: 2:30 pm
BRADLEY MANNING SUPPORT NETWORK
"Bradley Manning: National Traitor or Hero of the People?"
In late May 2010, Private First Class Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst with the US Army in Baghdad, was arrested. On June 6, 2010, he was charged with 2 counts of violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice, including eight criminal offenses and four noncriminal violations of Army regulations. His arrest was precipitated by an alleged online chat confession to well-known hacker and journalist Adrian Lamo. Since his arrest, Bradley Manning has issued no formal public statements. Daniel Ellsberg, the famed whistleblower behind the Pentagon Papers, has heralded Pfc. Bradley Manning as a hero. We will discuss the case in detail and consider our role in supporting a man considered a traitor by some and a hero by others.
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