Why has Saudi Arabia, the richest Arab country, launched a devastating war against Yemen, the poorest Arab country?  Why has the US been silent?  What are the external and internal factors and forces that historically have kept Yemen poor and cominated?  Val Moghadam will address these questions and more in her presentation.  Jean Miller will talk of her visit to Yemen prior to the war.

You must RSVP if you want to attend: marieljm1961@yahoo.com  857 526 2579, donation $10

At the end of last week the United Nations humanitarian chief warned that unless the blockade of Yemen was lifted, the country woul face “the largest famine the world has seen for many decades, with millions of victims”. 

> Janice Kortamp became an independent and completely self funded journalist after noticing the western media bias regarding Syria, and how that bias was promoting war and destabilization in Syria and the levant region.

Courageous Women of Resistance with guest speakers:
Tribal Liason Lakota People’s Law Project, Madonna Thunder Hawk
and Advocacy Coordinator Grassroots Jerusalem, Fayrouz Sharqawi

The Community Church of Boston, The Free Palestine Movement, 
International Solidarity Movement-Northern California, Jewish Voice for Peace Boston, Black4Palestine, and al-Awda Palestine Right to Return Coalition
announces the 2017 North America Nakba Tour:

We are VERY honored to have the opportunity to host Miko Peled at our humble Community Church of Boston forum. This is one of our generation's most eloquent voices against the Apartheid Israeli Colonial Enterprise. Miko has become a much sought after speaker and lecturer on the subject of Palestine/Israel. His Youtube video lectures garner gazillions of views. His activist work on behalf of the Palestinian people is extraordinary.

On Thursday night, Donald Trump attacked Syria with over 50 Tomahawk missiles. We don’t know who caused the chemical attack in Idlib province, but U.S. bombs will not help the situation. The Syrian civil war must be solved by diplomacy, not more bombs.

A new U.S. war against Syria’s government is not the answer to the catastrophic Syrian civil war.

Saturday, March 11, the weekly Park Street vigil, 1-2pm, will be a speak-out to stop the wars on Syria & Yemen.  This is in response to Hands Off Syria Coalition's call for International Days of Action Against War and Islamophobia during the week of March 11-19.

The war in Syria is an imperialist foreign-backed attack cultivated and propelled by the United States and their regional allies, with the goal of regime change, maximum chaos and deprivation, and territorial partition.

WHAT'S AHEAD FOR THE WAR ON SYRIA

Latest Eyewitness Report from Aleppo

Organized by the Syrian American Forum [SAF]  http://www.syrianamericanforum.org/

Keynote speaker: Eva Bartlett, Independent Canadian journalist who has travelled to Syria 8 times and was in Aleppo in November. 

"It's not a civil war - This is a war ON Syria"

Support Syria against a war that is funded, armed and planned by western powers and their regional allies.

The US military has been intensively engaged in various quarters of the Islamic world for several decades with little to show in terms of achieving Washington's stated objectives.  This presentation will discuss the origins and conduct of this conflict and what Americans might learn from it.

"The Syrian Tragedy and Global Solidarity"
with Yasser Munif

Rally against US arms sales and military cooperation with Saudi Arabia

Thursday, Oct. 27, 5 pm, MIT at 77 Mass Ave (main building)

Demand that MIT end its collaboration with the King Abdulaziz City of Science and Technology (KACST).  According to the Oxford Business Group, KACST has developeded partnerships with the two largest US military contractos (Lockheed Martin and Boeing) and is a key institution in carry out R&D in support of Saudi Arabia's military modernization.  It is unclear at this stage whether MIT's collaboration specifically includes research with military applications.  But given US supported Saudi Arabian war crimes in Yemen and its abysmal human rights record, it is inappropriate for US universities to be supportive of key institutions in Saudi Arabia's military infrastructure.

Talks by Phyllis Bennis October 11-14

Is the war in Syria a civil war? Is it a proxy war between the US and Russia ? Is it also a proxy war between Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey? Can ISIS be reined in? Should Assad go? Or stay?  Should the US "do more"?  Or is it already doing too much by arming and training rebel groups? What will be the likely outcome of the current cease fire negotiations?