Submitted by ujpadmin1 on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 10:52am.
Raed Jarrar is an Iraqi-Palestinian architect, blogger and political analyst who was in Iraq during the U.S. invasion in 2003 and has recently returned from another trip. He is a former AFSC and Peace Action staff person who provided constant briefings to peace activists throughout the war as well as working with Congressman Delahunt's office to develop opposition to the war in Congress. He collected his and his family's blog posts into The Iraq War Blog, An Iraqi Family's Inside View of the First Year of the Occupation, published as a book in 2008.
Jarrar spoke at Encuentro 5 on Sunday, January 14, 2012. The event was organized by Occupy Boston - Free School University.
Fall 2011 marks ten years since 9/11, the War on Terror, the Afghanistan War, and the founding of UJP. The US/NATO bombing of Libya is the latest in the series of wars. Domestically, greed is rampant and serious problems are getting worse. Few peace and justice activists can remember a more troubling time.
How did we get here and how can we change things?
What can we learn from the historic events in Egypt, where the people triumphed against huge odds, and the workers of Wisconsin?
How can the peace movement continue its work to end the wars and cut the military budget while also building cooperation with the economic and racial justice movements?
We want a peaceful foreign policy based on democracy to focus on the pressing economic and human problems that must be solved.
Submitted by ujpadmin1 on Tue, 03/22/2011 - 7:52am.
When: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 6:00 pm
to 8:00 pm
Where: Hibernian Hall • 182-184 Dudley St • Roxbury Crossing T • Roxbury
2011 Mar 22 - 6:00pm
2011 Mar 22 - 8:00pm
Feds Cut Low-Income Heat Aid
Boston Cuts School Budget $63 million
State Will Cut Local Aid 10%
Join your neighbors and tell our elected officials:
Fund Our Future!
Meanwhile, call your State Rep and Senator today at 617-727-2121. Ask them to support “An Act to Invest in Our Communities.”
This bill will help plug the state budget gap and make taxes fairer.
It is being introduced by Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz (Senate Docket 1012) and Rep. Jim O’Day (House Docket 2261).
Sponsored by New England United for Justice, One Massachusetts, Dorchester People for Peace, the Boston Coalition to Fund Our Communities-Cut Military Spending 25%, and Madison Park Development Corporation
