"He Suffered So Much"May 10, 1987 to December 19, 2011
Brian Arredondo was 17 when his 20 year-old brother, Alex, a U.S. Marine, was killed in Iraq on 25 August, 2004. He was 24 this past Monday, 19 December, when he took his own life.
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Brian Arredondo, R.I.P.
Submitted by ujpadmin1 on Fri, 12/23/2011 - 4:41pm.
Carlos Arredondo, the father of Alex and Brian, his only children, was so distraught when the Marines came to tell him that his oldest son was killed, he caught their van and himself on fire, burning over 26% of his body. His recovery from his physical wounds was long and difficult, but his emotional wounds from having his son killed by the U.S. government in its illegal and immoral war in Iraq will never completely heal. However, I know since my son, Casey, was killed in Iraq only four months before Alex, that Carlos was beginning to be able to get through his days without overwhelming pain before his other son committed suicide. Health Care is a Human Right!
Submitted by ujpadmin on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 2:30pm.Get your corporate hands off my health care!
- Quentin Davis - Evolving status quo with national health reform
- Vic Bloomberg - Single payer fight - state & national campaigns
- Sandy Eaton - Socialized medicine around the world
A discussion on the healthcare crisis & what to do about it.
free & open to the public
refreshments provided
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Sponsors: Center for Marxist Education
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy & Socialism
Democratic Socialists of America
Information: 617-510-6496
Israel and Palestine: Are Peace and Justice Possible?
Submitted by ujpadmin1 on Thu, 04/21/2011 - 7:52am.
Alice Rothchild and Alan Meyers are Boston-area doctors who have led multiple delegations to Israel and Palestine. As members of The Health and Human Rights Project of American Jews for a Just Peace (AJJP), they have worked with NGOs in clinics, hospitals and refugee camps. They will share stories and analysis from their most recent visit in January 2011 that included interviews with both Jewish Israelis and Palestinian activists in Israel and the West Bank.
The Forum will focus on issues of civil rights, water, health care, and the impact of occupation on both the occupiers and the occupied. Alice and Alan will describe the current state of checkpoints, the separation wall, the expanding Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank as well as the rightward swing of Israeli politics.
They will also discuss the growing boycott, divestment and sanction movement as a nonviolent and creative option to move the possibilities for peace forward on a grass roots level in the face of years of stalled peace processes.
