• Where do we go from here? Antiwar Strategy Session

Sunday, June 4, 2006 12:00-6:00 pm

Antiwar forces will gather on the first Sunday in June for a half-day long strategy session to plan the course of the movement over the next year.

From the Call to Action: "It is an exciting, crucial time for activists; we have seen in the past few weeks, victories from varying groups mobilizing around key issues and general coverage in the mainstream media on these issues." For more information. www.stopthewars.org.

• Free Trade, Free Guns

Thursday, May 17, 6-9 pm

Join CISPES for a history of US intervention in Latin America. The Bush Administration is charging ahead with its agenda for economic domination of Latin America by private corporations. NAFTA, CAFTA, AFTA are all steps toward a hemisphere-wide Free Trade of the Americas that sacrifice the livelihoods of working people and access to basic necessities like water, healthcare, and education so enormous multinational corporations can make record profits. But with this increasing plunder, there is increasing resistance. For more information, contact bostoncispes@gtcinternet.com

• Semilleros de Xilitla

Saturday, May 20th, 8:00-late

Art reception, followed by live music, spoken word, and dance. Proceeds benefit t an artist exchange with Mexico. Performers include Foundation Movement, the Murder Elite, VCR, Random Thought, and Resistdance.

• Apocalypse Soon for Public Media?

Wednesday, May 17, 6-9 pm, e5

A Community Discussion featuring Live Podcasting and Blogging

The Community Media and Technology Program at the UMass Boston College of Public and Community Service, The Tactical Media Project, and Massachusetts Global Action are presenting a communications policy discussion and community meeting.

Public media and the Internet are in deep trouble. We are currently seeing the emergence of the communications and media systems we will live with for the next several decades. And, as we write, there are proposals in Congress that dramatically threaten the public interest, and the potential for innovation and media justice in those emerging systems, in the US and around the world.
Please join our group of experienced communications and media commentators, and a live and virtual audience, for a discussion of these issues, and what can be done about the current proposals in Congress.

For more information, contact Jason Pramas at jpramas@igc.org.

• Women in the Bolivarian Revolution

Saturday, May 13, 7-9 pm, e5

A Mothers' Day solidarity potluck and screening of Venezuela: Talking of Power. Produced by Global Women's Strike,  draws on first-hand testimonies from women involved in the Bolivarian Revolution, including interviews with Nora Castaneda, the president of BANMUJER, an all-women development bank dedicated to supporting women. This highly acclaimed film has screened in independent theatres all over the US.  (62 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles

For more information contact jredman@clarku.edu or kfehrer@gmail.com

• The OURstory Project

OURstory not HIStory: New Griots for a New World On Friday, April 28, 2006. Live music, video and oral history - Folk, rock, rap, experimental jazz, spoken word movement theatre and art. 8:00 p.m. and beyond, $7.00 donation.

Appearing: The Foundation, DL, Lyrical, Aldo Tambellini, DJ Yamin, Shakti, Walnut, Eddi Dyer, Rain House, Afro DZ ak, Jeff Robinson, Katt Hernandez, Jamie Bissonette, Verbal Rakia, JahSun, Gary Hicks, Thea Hopkins, and many more! Hosts: Amatul & NateBox

• May Day Celebration

Join the Chinese Progressive Association for their Workers Center lunch in celebration of May Day, Saturday April 29 at 1:00 pm. In honor of International Workers Day, come celebrate the past year's struggles, share stories, and plan for the future!  For more information call 617-357-4499

• Until Justice Flows Down like Water

Mass Global Action  is hosting Save Our Groundwater (New Hampshire) activist, Olivia Zink who attended the March 2006, World Water Forum in Mexico City. The Forum, where governments, corporations and other special interests, gather to divvy up the world's freshwater supply was met by a strong contingent of  grassroots community activists demanding an end to the privatization of  water.

• First Annual Boston Venezuela Film Festival

The Martin Luther King Bolivarian Circle (Boston) is organizing the first annual Boston Venezuela Film Festival starting Tuesday, April 11, 2006, with a screening of Venezuela Rising (70 min). Succeeding videos will be screened at other locations over the course of the coming week.