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• Iraq for Sale  

Saturday, November 4, 2006, 8:00 pm

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers is the story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war. Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed and Uncovered) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so.

The film is 75 minutes long, and will be followed by refreshments and a discussion of the upcoming Boston March Against the War Profiteers, November 18, 2006.

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• Refusing Illegal War

Sunday, November 5, 2006 2:00 pm

On June 22, US Army First Lieutenant Ehren K. Watada became the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse deployment to the Iraq War. Lt. Watada has been formally charged with contempt, conduct unbecoming an officer, and missing movement. In August, the pre-trial hearing investigator recommended a general coutr martial on all charges. Lt. Watada's parents, Bob and Rosa Watada will speak on their son's court martial and imprisonment, the current status of his case, and how people can support him. Sponsored by the Asian American Movement Ezine, the Asian American Resource Workshop, the Boston Hawaiian Club, the Chinese Progressive Association, Massachusetts Global Action, and the New England Japanese American Citizens League. For more information, visit www.thankyoult.org

• ¡Si Se Puede!

Saturday, November 18, 2006 12:00-6:00 pm

Join the Boston May Day Coalition for a strategy session on the future of the immigrant rights movement.

• Policing the Police

Saturday, October 28, 2:00-4:00 pm

The NLG Mass. Chapter, American Friends Service Committee, and Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights will hold a community forum to discuss Boston City’s plans to establish a Civilian Review Board and how various communities respond to these plans. The Forum will be on Saturday, October 28, 2:00-4:00pm (place TBA soon). Among confirmed panelists, there will be Tina Chery, Louis D. Brown Peace Institute; City Councilor Felix Arroyo; Leonard Alkins, Boston NAACP; and members of Jack McDevitt’s team, Northeastern Race & Justice Institute.

• On the Global Movement of Migrant Workers

Friday, October 27, 6:30-8:00 pm

A report back and discussion on the Border Social Forum featuring Gabriel Camacho of Project Voice, AFSC and Kim Foltz of Massachusetts Global Action. The speakers will be joined by representatives of the Boston May Day Coalition, and the World Social Forum-Boston Organizing Committee. Download the flyer.

• The Revolution in the Southern Cove

Thursday, September 28, 2006 7:30 pm

An evening of discussion and debate with Claudia Torrelli. Claudia lives and works in Montevideo, Uruguay. She is on the staff of Redes (Friends of the Earth, Uruguay), which played a key role in the historic 2004 Uruguayan constitutional referendum campaign which banned water privatization and made water a fundamental human right . She is also an activist in the hemispheric social Alliance, a network of civil society and labor organizations in latin America, and part of the Netherlands-based Transnational Institute's Alternative Regionalism program. She holds a degree in International Relations from the university of Montevideo. Download flyer here.

• Another Haiti Is Possible?

Friday, September 15, 2006, 7 pm-9pm

 Compelling presentation by Briel Leiville
Haitian Community Organizer (RATRAP, health clinics), Activist and former Mayor of Fonds des Blanc
 

Sponsored by the World Social Forum Boston Organizing Committee.
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• What WOULD it take to end VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN OF COLOR? Saturday, Sept. 9, 4 pm

INCITE! Boston Women of Color Against Violence & South End Press Present:
A Book Reading & Discussion with Andrea Smith, native American activist and co-founder of INCITE! Featuring discussion of  Violence Against Women: War * Rape * Colonization * Domestic Violence * Police Brutality * Border Patrol For more information, contact inciteboston@yahoo.com or 781-962-1983

• Chinatown Voter Education Workshop

Tuesday, September 5, 10 am

The Chinese Progressive Association is hosting the first of nearly 20 workshops before the September 19th primary to organize for grassroots democratic participation of ordinary Chinese community members in the political decision-making process in order to build collective community power. For more information, contact  (617) 357-4499 or  justice@cpaboston.org.

• Dick Cheney Protest: City-wide Planning Meeting

Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 6:30-8:30

Dick Cheney is coming to town 9/8/06. Massachusetts Global Action, an affiliate of the Greater Boston Stop the Wars Coalition, is hosting a city-wide planning meeting to organize a protest targeting the war-making vice-president. All non-violent antiwar activists are welcome to attend and contribute to the planning. For more information, contact 617-482-3090.

• Which Way Forward for the Immigrant Rights Movement?

Friday, August 25 , 7:00 pm

Join Boston Labor and Community Organizers in welcoming Jesse Diaz, organizer of the Los Angeles March 25 Coalition at an immigrants'
rights roundtable and strategy session. Local organizers and activists will join Jesse in a roundtable discussion asking the question, "Which way forward for the pro-immigrant movement?" Participants include: Gabriel Camacho – AFSC, Project Voice; Dorotea Manuela – Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Coalition; Tim Costello – Global Labor Strategies; Ana Amaral – Eastern Mass Jobs with Justice; Carl Proper – UNITEHERE!; Sergio Reyes – Boston May Day Coalition; Maria Elena Letona – Centro Presente; Michael Liu – Asian American Resource Workshop;  Representative – MA Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA); Representative – United for Justice with Peace.

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• War is Peace: The Party

Saturday, Aug. 12, 9 pm

An evening of music, poetry, permormance art, tvideos and more, featuring:
ELEMENTAL ZAZEN /THE PEASANTS, THE DIAMOND MINES, MERCEN MITRA SHANTI AND OTHERS. Suggested donation $5-10, proceeds benefit the Greater Boston Stop the Wars Coalition.
 

• From Boston to Nairobi in 2007

Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:00-9:00 pm

A wine (or water) & cheese evening with invited guests: Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner – “Funding the dream” Prof. Christina Brinkley – “African American and African Women Struggles” Prof. Richard Peet – “Neoliberalism in South Africa, another world?” Ms. Laura Soul Brown – “Is Another Africa possible?” Moderated by WSF 2006 Boston Delegate Dorotea Manuela. Presented by the World Social Forum Boston Organizing Committee

• Boogie with Bolivar

Friday, July 21, 2006, 7 pm-late

Join with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Bolivarian Circle (Boston) and a host of other progressive organizations in celebrating the birthday of the Great Liberator, Simón Bolívar. This multimedia spectacle will feature live music, a salsa spinning dj, photos exhibits, videos and, of course, a large birthday cake. For more information, contact kim@fairjobs.org. Download a flyer for the event here.

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