2009 Jun 13 - 1:00pm
2009 Jun 13 - 5:00pm
Let's all get together with each other again.....
On Saturday June 13 from 1-5 in the afternoon, all of us in UJP will gather for our next strategy conference. Once again, we will be meeting at the Cambridge Friends Center in the Harvard Square area.
To start the conference off, two speakers will assess the crises in Afghanistan and Pakistan:
Dr. Joseph Gerson is Director of Programs and Director of the Peace and Economic Security Program, American Friends Service Committee, New England. Dr. Gerson’s program work focuses on challenging and overcoming U.S. global hegemony: its preparations for and threats to initiate nuclear war, and its military domination of the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
Prof. Adil Najam is Professor of International Relations and Geography and the Environment at Boston University. He was a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which received the Nobel Prize in 2007. He edits the Pakistani affairs blog pakistaniat.com and testified at the Congressional Progressive Caucus’ April forum on Afghanistan.We will then have discussions about how we can mobilize around 4 campaigns:
- Opposing the Afghanistan/Pakistan wars
- Cutting the Military Budget (“The 25% solution”)
- Abolishing nuclear weapons
- Boycott Motorola to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine
We will be guided through this section of the Agenda by the four UJP working groups who have organized these campaigns.
We will also have a period of open discussion about the state of the peace movement and about UJP in this confusing period.
Finally, we will have a report by the UJP structure committee on its recommendations for a new, and hopefully more effective, structure for UJP. A draft of the structure plan will be sent out as an attachment in a week or so. Please come prepared to discuss it as what we decide will have a significant impact on UJP and all of its member groups. Hopefully we will emerge from the meeting with at least an interim structure that we can later re-evaluate.
Saturday, June 13
1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Friends Meeting House
5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY
Directions to the Friends Meeting House:
The Friends Center is about a 10 minute walk from Harvard Sq. Parking in the area is limited, but there is some.
5 Longfellow Park (off Brattle St.)
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138-4816
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138-4816
Click to obtain a map of location of the Meeting House.
*** FROM HARVARD SQUARE
If you are coming from Harvard Square, come South on Brattle Street. If you are coming on the T, take the T to Harvard Square stop on the Red Line. It is easiest to find Brattle Street by leaving the T station from the Brattle Street Entrance rather than one of the other multiple entrances, because that entrance puts you at the beginning of Brattle Street.
If you are coming from Harvard Square, come South on Brattle Street. If you are coming on the T, take the T to Harvard Square stop on the Red Line. It is easiest to find Brattle Street by leaving the T station from the Brattle Street Entrance rather than one of the other multiple entrances, because that entrance puts you at the beginning of Brattle Street.
You will pass Hawthorne Street on your left (it is a small street). Longfellow Park is between Hawthorne and Willard Street. Almost immediately after Hawthorne is our street, Longfellow Park, which is directly across from the historic Longfellow house.
There is no street sign but there are cobble stones at the beginning of the street, and Longfellow Park is a "horseshoe/circular drive" shaped street with a big grassy area in the middle of it. If you get to Willard Street you have gone too far. On the left side of Longfellow Park (side closest to Hawthorne Street) is the Church of Latter Day Saints, with a big white steeple. That is not us. On the right side of the street are two smaller brick buildings with a driveway between them. The right hand brick building is the Quaker Meeting House.
*** FROM MEMORIAL DRIVE/MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE
If you are driving and wish to avoid Harvard Square, you can go the Memorial Drive Route. To do that, take Massachusetts Avenue to Memorial Drive. Turn South on Memorial Drive (left if coming from Boston, right if coming from Cambridge). Just past JFK Street (and a bridge over the Charles River) is a small street that angles off to the right, and lasts for only one block. Take it. At the end of it you will be at Mt. Auburn Street. Hawthorne Street is in front of you but is one way the wrong way, so turn left onto Mt. Auburn. Make an immediate right onto Willard Street, which is the first possible right turn. Go to the end (a block or so). You will be at the intersection of Brattle and Willard. Turn right, and almost immediately turn right again at first available opportunity. If you get to Hawthorne Street, you have gone too far!
If you are driving and wish to avoid Harvard Square, you can go the Memorial Drive Route. To do that, take Massachusetts Avenue to Memorial Drive. Turn South on Memorial Drive (left if coming from Boston, right if coming from Cambridge). Just past JFK Street (and a bridge over the Charles River) is a small street that angles off to the right, and lasts for only one block. Take it. At the end of it you will be at Mt. Auburn Street. Hawthorne Street is in front of you but is one way the wrong way, so turn left onto Mt. Auburn. Make an immediate right onto Willard Street, which is the first possible right turn. Go to the end (a block or so). You will be at the intersection of Brattle and Willard. Turn right, and almost immediately turn right again at first available opportunity. If you get to Hawthorne Street, you have gone too far!
There is no street sign but there are cobble stones at the beginning of the street, and Longfellow Park is a "horseshoe shaped/circular drive" street with a big grassy area in the middle of it. On the left side of the Longfellow Park Street (side closest to Hawthorne Street) is the Church of Latter Day Saints, with a big white steeple. That is not us. On the right side of the street are two smaller brick buildings with a driveway between them. The right hand brick building is the Quaker Meeting House.
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