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Friday, May 9, 2008

Cambridge

Boston Mobilization's 30th Anniversary Kick-Off Party

Featuring the New Orleans Dissonance Jazz Trio, a silent auction, a host of long-time Mobe supporters and a keynote by Howard Zinn. For more information visit our website:www.bostonmobilization.org/30th or call 617-492-5599.
Come support Boston Mobilization for Survival and Beyond, we've been empowering grassroots movements for peace and justice since 1977.

7-9PM
The Democracy Center in Harvard Square

Free and open to the public, light refreshments served.

Friday, May 9, 2008

Sub/Urban Justice Summer (SJS) Program

Final deadline for Sub/Urban Justice Summer (SJS) applications is Friday May 9th. SJS is an interactive program which educates and empowers High School youth to be agents for positive change in their schools and communities. Be a part of a dynamic network of organizers and activists, youth and adults, working together to transform the Boston metro region toward justice.

For more information visit our website:
www.suburbanjustice.org or call 617-276-5873. Boston residents registered with the Hopeline also eligible.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Dorchester & Dorchester

Mother’s Day Walk for Peace

Please join me and members of the Cambridge Peace Commission on the morning as we participate in the annual Mother's Day Walk for Peace in Dorchester. Many of us will go as a group from Cambridge and will be LEAVING from the Cambridge Friends meetinghouse at 7:00 a.m. and traveling together on public transportation to Townsfield Park in Dorchester. If you need to travel to Dorchester on your own, you can get directions to Townsfield Park (located at the corner of Park St. and Dorchester Ave.) here:http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Corner+of+Park+St+and+Dorchester+Ave+02122
The walk is organized by the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, which assists and supports the families of homicide victims in Boston; has developed a fully integrated curriculum for all elementary, middle and high school students that prepares them to deal with trauma and grief, build nonviolence and conflict resolution skills; and is committed to restorative justice and building sustainable peace through helping young people commit themselves to peace work in their families and their communities. The walk is a fundraiser for the Peace Institute, and it would be great if you can raise and/or donate money to support them. Their goal is to raise $150.000, and all proceeds will benefit the programs and activities of The Louis D. Brown Peace Institute. However, it is also very important that people from Cambridge and other communities join in the walk and show their support by being present.

7AM
Cambridge Friends meetinghouse at 5 Longfellow Park, just off Brattle St.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=5+Longfellow+Park+02138

For more information, visit
http://www.louisdbrownpeaceinstitute.org/step1.html.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Cambridge

The Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society Presents:
"The Meaning of Sacco and Vanzetti," Lecture by Howard Zinn

Italian Immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti were killed by order of the Commonwealth of MA on August 23, 1927 mostly for their anarchist beliefs, accused of a crime they did not commit. Please bring some money to donate, as this is a fundraiser for the memorial monument to be erected in the North End.

7:30PM
Dante Alighieri Society, 41 Hampshire Street

More information, visit www.SaccoAndVanzetti.org or
call617 290 5614.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Chinatown, Boston

Boston CISPES presents: Latin America and the End of Neo-liberalism

- What are the prospects for Globalization Politics After the Elections?
- How has the failed Iraq Occupation affected prospects for continued US global dominance?
- What are the prospects for El Salvador if the FMLN wins the 2009 Presidential Election?
- A Talk by Mark Engler?Author: “How To Rule the World:
The Coming Battle Over The Global Economy ” (Nation Books, 2008) (Suggested donation:$10 ?copies of the book will be available for purchase) Endorsed by Boston Democratic Socialists of America.

7PM
Encuentro 5 at?33 Harrison Ave 5th Floor?Chinatown (Downtown Crossing or Chinatown T stops)

For more information, contact CISPES at 617-576-1709; boscispes@speakeasy.net.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Cambridge

VIGIL FOR THE RELEASE OF DR. BINAYAK SEN

Association for India 's Development (AID) - Boston Chapter The Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia, Massachusetts Global Action
Matahari: Eye of the Day

Dr Binayak Sen is a renowned pediatrician and human rights activist who has been working with the poorest people in Chhattisgarh state in central India for the last 25 years.
On 14 May 2007 , Dr Sen was arrested on trumped-up charges and has been imprisoned without trial. He was instrumental in setting up the cooperative Shaheed hospital for mine workers, and has campaigned tirelessly against violations of the human rights of the poor. On 21 April, 2008 , he was awarded the prestigious Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights.

The Chhattisgarh government claims that Binayak Sen has aided banned Maoist groups who are active in the region.
In fact, Binayak Sen’s real ‘crime’ was to stand by the dispossessed and to speak out about the violence they face in Chhattisgarh.
He was arrested after helping to expose involvement by the police in the unlawful killing of 12 adivasi people. He has been a vocal opponent of the Salwa Judum, a state-sponsored militia which has massacred local people and forced thousands to flee from their homes.

May 14, 2008 will mark one year since Dr Binayak Sen’s arrest. The Acts under which he was arrested make it possible for the government to keep him in prison for an unspecified period, without any evidence. The Indian government and the Chhattisgarh state government are determined to silence Dr Sen. We must not allow them to succeed.

7PM
Harvard Square

For more information, contact us at freebsen@gmail.com or visit www.aidboston.org/FreeBinayakSen.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Cambridge

Book Reading and Presentation with Sandy Tolan

Save the date-- Book Reading and Presentation with Sandy Tolan author of The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

Reading, remarks and question and answer Reception and book-signing to follow

Sponsored by : Cambridge Peace Commission
Co-sponsored by: Cambridge Public Library
With thanks to Harvard Book Store

Free and Open to the Public Tickets available in advance at:
Cambridge Library Main Branch: 359 Broadway
Harvard Book Store: 1256 Mass. Ave.

7-8:30PM
YMCA at 820 Mass. Ave. Central Square

For more information or reservations, call the Cambridge Peace Commission, 617-349-4694 or email, peace@cambridgema.gov.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Cambridge

The Planetwalker's Newest Call

What can a man who gave up motorized transportation for 22 years tell us about saving the earth? John Francis simultaneously took a 17 year vow of silence and began an environmental pilgrimage for peace after witnessing an oil spill in S.F. Bay in 1971. Known world-wide as the Planetwalker, he earned three academic degrees, including a PhD in Land Resources at the University of Wisconsin, Madison during his silent period. How does his unique combination of scientific expertise and spiritual understanding help contemporary Americans change their relationship with the earth? Having walked the length of South America and also been designated as a UN Goodwill Ambassador to the World's Grassroots Communities, what is the environmental crisis faced by indigenous people?

John Francis-the Planetwalker-is now the author of a new book from National Geographic. Arguing that the current environmental crisis is a reflection of world-wide social and economic inequity and that any attempt to resolve the crisis must not only address the scientific issues, such a climate-change and deforestation, but also the humanitarian issues. From peace and justice to everyday civility, Dr. Francis contends that our connection to the earth as well as each other is at the heart of the environmental crisis.

Cambridge Forum is open to the public. Open discussion, moderated by Professor David Morimoto of Lesley University, follows the presentation. Events are taped and edited for public radio broadcast throughout the nation. Edited CDs are available to the public by contacting 617-495-2727. Select forums can be viewed in their entirety on demand on the WGBH Forum Network.

7:30PM
First Parish at 3 Church Street (Harvard Square) Free and Open to the Public -- Voluntary Donation Requested

For more information, contact www.cambridgeforum.org

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Cambridge

Annual Citywide Holocaust Commemoration

The City of Cambridge will be holding the annual Citywide Holocaust Commemoration Program. Remembering all those who perished during the Holocaust, this year ’s program will again feature an evening of music, candle lighting, and remarks. This year's music program will include instrumental music by clarinetist Ray S. Jackendoff, a performance by the Cambridge Community Chorus, and a medley of Roma songs performed by Petra Gelbart. The evening offers an opportunity for members of the community to call out the names of those who perished.

Jack Trompetter, a Holocaust survivor and “hidden child ” will offer remarks. A Cambridge resident, Trompetter was only 3 months old when he was separated from his Jewish parents and sent to live on a farm with a Protestant family in the Netherlands in 1942.

The program welcomes all communities of Cambridge including children and adults and people of all faiths and traditions.

7-8:30PM
Temple Beth Shalom, 8 Tremont St. (Central Sq.) Parking will be available at St. Mary’s Church at Harvard and Norfolk Streets is available. Resident permits will not be required for nearby street parking.

For more information, call the Mayor’s office at 617.349.4321.

We will provide sign language interpreters and other accommodations to people with disabilities for this event upon request. Please make such requests at least two weeks in advance, whenever possible, by contacting the Cambridge Commission for Persons with Disabilities at 617.349.4692
(voice) or 617.492.0235 (TTY).

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Boston

Love My Life: 24th Annual Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

Love My Life is a wonderfully offbeat and colorful independent feature from Japan. Directed by Koji Kawano and starring Rei Yoshii and Asami Imajuku, the movie is a cute, indie-rock-infused coming-of-age tale about a university student and her first girlfriend. At once refreshingly honest and incredibly upbeat, it proves to be a successful adaptation of the manga on which it's based.
Co-presented with the Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival, Queer Asian Pacific-Islander Alliance, and MAP for Health.

Admission Free

6:30PM
Museum of Fine Arts , 465 Huntington Avenue , Boston

For more information, contact CNW at 617-876-5310 or cnw@centerfornewwords.org, or visit www.centerfornewwords.org

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Cambridge

Nora Pierce: The Insufficiency of Maps

In Pierce's forceful debut, Alice is five when she and her homeless, mentally ill mother, Amalie, arrive at an Arizona Indian reservation to live with Papi, who may or may not be Alice 's father. Afflicted with a skin ailment and subsisting largely on French fries, Alice briefly attends the local reservation school before her mother's visions and paranoia prompt them to hitchhike back to Amalie's father's home in California. Amalie's mental condition worsens, along with Grampa's untreated diabetes:
one, then the other is hospitalized, leaving Alice in foster care. At 13, Alice wants to fit in with her white American foster family and at the school she attends; but while foster sister Anne takes ballet classes, Alice is encouraged to learn bead-making and Indian dances. Yet the pull of her heritage is strong, and Alice and other Quechen (or Native) characters Pierce introduces grapple to overcome difficult legacies in this unsentimental coming-of-age story.

Admission Free

7PM
CNW at 7 Temple Street

The Center for New Words is dedicated to creating spaces and places where women's words matter. For more information, visit www.centerfornewwords.org

For more information, contact CNW at 617-876-5310 or cnw@centerfornewwords.org.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Concord

The Third Thursday Author Series with Alice Rothchild

The Third Thursday Author Series welcomes Alice Rothchild, author of Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience. Alice Rothchild, M.D., serves on the steering committee of Jewish Voice for Peace, Boston. She has worked with medical delegations to Israel and the Occupied Territories with the JVP Health and Human Rights Project. A Boston-based physician, she has sought to build alliances between Israelis and Palestinians in opposition to Israeli policies of occupation and to promote a more honest dialogue within the Jewish community in the United States.
Refreshments and book signing immediately following.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

7-9PM
Main Library, Concord Free Public Library, Concord Center

For more information, visit
http://alicerothchild.com/?p=241.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Brookline

Commemoration of tha Nakba, potluck dinner, time for reflection, and a presentation TBA

6PM for dinner
44 Cypress St

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Cambridge

My Trip to Gaza: A visual presentation & photo sale

Using photographs and stories Skip will present his experiences from his last journey to the land of troubles.
On a small pilgrimage part of his larger pilgrimage, Skip visited the apparent site of the 2003 killing of Rachel Corrie, a young woman working with Palestinians in rafah.
He toured the area near the Egyptian border wall which four days later Gazans breached in a nonviolent attempt to break the siege. While in Gaza Skip worked with the American friends service committee youth program, teaching and photographing. Sponsored by Peace and Social Concerns Committee.

12:15PM
Friends Meeting at 5 Longfellow Park, near Harvard Square

For more information, contact Skip at skipschiel@gmail.com or 617-441-7756.

June 6 - 8, 2008

Newton

Nonviolent Conflict Intervention Training Opportunities!

1. Training of trainers to learn to teach the one-day Training: includes taking a one-day training on Saturday and practice teaching the skills on Sunday. All are welcome to apply - especially those with previous teaching/training experience, young people, people of color and bilingual/bicultural applicants.

2. Workshop to learn skills to use in your own personal life:
Saturday, June 7 9 AM - 5:30 PM
One-day Beginners Nonviolent Conflict Intervention Training

To build a culture of peace, these skills need to be spread to every neighborhood and community until they are as common as reading and writing!

For more information or to reserve your place, please contact Sherry Zitter at sherry@sherryzitter.org or 978-897-5693.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Boston

Multi-Cultural Fair Brings Together Public Support For World's 370 Million Indigenous Peoples. Shop a variety of fairly traded products handmade by indigenous artisans in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Enjoy live "world" music, live presentations, & ethnic foods. Proceeds support Cultural Survival's non-profit work. Free Admission, Rain or Shine!

10AM-6PM
Boston Common at 170-175 Tremont St.

For more information, visit
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/events/bazaar/index.cfm or call Cultural Survival at 617-441-5410.

Weekly Events

Sundays

- Peace Vigil- Noon (approx) to 1:30 at Cambridge Common, Mass Ave & Garden Street.

- Newburyport Vigil, 12-1 pm, Market Square in Newburyport

Mondays

- Cambridge, 11:45AM-12:45PM Vigil for Palestine, on the steps of Memorial Church in Harvard Campus. For more information, email ausmani@fas.harvard.edu.

- First fall meeting at Follen Church to plan various activities, and possibly repair our signs.

Tuesdays

- United for Justice and Peace, Boston--Copley Square Vigil, 5:30- 6:30PM.

- South Shore Peace Forum vigil at Hingham, Front of post office, North and Fearing Streets. 11:30AM until Noon.

Wednesdays

- Harvard -Cambridge Walk for Peace Noon- at Harvard Yard at John Harvard statue.
Visit www.interuniversitycoalition.org.

- CUJP and the Area IV Neighborhood Coalition Weekly Vigil, Central Square T-Stop, 5:30-6:30PM

Thursdays

Vigil Against the War, Newton, MA. 5-6 pm. Newton Dialogues meets every Thursday afternoon for a vigil against the war. It is in Newton Center at the corner of Center and Beacon Streets.

Fridays

MORATORIUM ACTIONS;

Friday September 21, and the third Friday of Every Month

Join with millions to:
- Wear and distribute black ribbons and armbands
- Buy no gas on Moratorium days
- Pressure politicians and the media
- Hold vigils, pickets, rallies, and teach-ins
- Hold special religious services
- Coordinate events in music, art, and culture
- Host film showings, talks, and educational events
- Organize student actions: Teach-ins, school closings, etc.

The Iraq Moratorium will be an escalating, monthly series of actions demanding an end to the war. Commencing Friday, September 21st and continuing the Third Friday of every month thereafter, we will make a break with business as usual.

For more information, visit http://iraqmoratorium.org/.

BOSTON

-JOIN AN EVERY FRIDAY FAST AND/OR PROTEST FOR PRISONERS In
solidarity with illegally detained, often tortured prisoners at
Guantanamo and other post 9/11 gulags around the world, the fast
began a year ago when Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Archbishop
Desmond Tutu and Sldolpho Esquivel (Argentina) along with others
around the world chose this method to seek the release of
unjustly detained and tortured brothers and sisters. Some
vigilers wear traditional prison garb - orange jump suits. There
are four more suits people could wear; please join us - suits or
not.

JFK Building, Governor's Center

For additional information contact: susanmcl@stopexcision.net or: Phoebe: 617/424-1661. J

Saturdays

- Natick Peace Vigil Meets Every Saturday, Noon to 1PM at Natick Center at Rt. 27 & 135
- Peace Vigil, Needham, 4-4:45PM?Vigil for Peace at the Needham Common, sponsored by the Interfaith Laity Group. For more information, email patriciatholl@hotmail.com.

- Weekly Vigil in Quincy Center from 11:00 to 12:30 on Saturday rain or shine.

- Saturdays, Gloucester Vigil, 12-1 pm, at Grant Circle (Exit 11) in North Shore.

- Waltham Concerned Citizens and Troops Home/ Waltham Vigil 1 & 3 Saturdays 11AM-12Noon 2 different locations
1 Saturday: Corner of main & Moody Streets, by the Common
3 Saturday: Corner of Moody and Pine Streets, by Watch City Brewery
For more information, contact Jim Mniece at
jmniece@yahoo.com or info@walthamconcernedcitizens.org.
Or visit www.walthamconcernedcitizens.org.

- The Walpole Peace and Justice Group will be holding peace vigils the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month, 10:00-11:00 AM on the Walpole Common.
For more information on the Walpole Peace and Justice Group
please see our Blog: http://walpolepeace.blogspot.com.

Monthly Events

SHERBORNE

- Peace Vigil First Wednesday of the Month

Please join us on the first Wednesday of every month for a vigil of the Peace Abbey from 5:30-6:30PM. We remember the over 600.000 Iraqi civilians killed and over 3,000 American soldiers as well as the losses in order parts of the world due to violence and war.

CAMBRIDGE

- "PEACE & PIZZA" - Mass Peace Action's Monthly Meet-Up

Join us on the fourth Monday of each month as we gather grassroots activists, concerned citizens, free-thinkers, students, neighbors, and friends for an evening of eating pizza and building community to strengthen our local work for peace.
All are welcome to join us and bring new guests along, as well.

6:30PM

For more information, contact members@masspeaceaction.org or 617.354.2169.

 

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Please note: Most events listed here are not sponsored by The American Friends Service Committee. They are not necessarily endorsed by AFSC, but are advertised here for your information.

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Joseph Gerson JGerson@afsc.org

Paul Shannon PShannon@afsc.org

2161 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02140

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