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Peace & Justice Events Calendar

Monday & Wednesday, May 21-June 25, 2008

Medford

Course with Louise Dunlop at Tufts on Writing and Public Communication

Course at Tufts University #UEP 0161A
Writing and Public Communication (open to all, but pricy!)

For more information, visit
http://ase.tufts.edu/summer/courses/index.asp?Dept=&Course=o&ot=18&o=2669#form.

You can purchase her book “Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing, New Village Press, 2007 ” at events or at Porter Square Books or Harvard Bookstore, ask your local bookstore to order it, patronize the "big box" giant Amazon, or order from publisher via her website, www.undoingsilence.org.

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.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Cambridge

Benefit Concert for Iraqi Families

"Woodwork" is the featured ensemble that will performing for this event. They are a really wonderful group of musicians who do traditional folk, Celtic, and original material with a focus on songs of peace and inspiration.
Here's some info about them:

Five-member acoustic folk band Woodwork is known for compelling renditions of songs of peace, hope, protest.
Their repertoire includes original compositions, Celtic tunes and songs, Byrdsy folk-rock, harmonica blues, and covers of favorite folk singer-songwriters. Their sound ranges from ethereal traditional harmonies to original hard-hitting political anthems, garnished with a score of arcane and modern instruments. They are the "house band" at The Peace Abbey in Sherborn, MA, play regularly at Club Passim, and he New England Folk Festival (NEFFA), and love to do benefits for groups in greater Boston working to promote peace and social justice.

$10 Donations--All the proceeds will go directly to my families in Baghdad

7PM
Friends Meeting House at 5 Longfellow Park

Donations can be made out to Family Relief Fund and mailed
to:
George Capaccio
11 Lennon Road
Arlington, MA 02474

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Interview with Gabe on "This Week In Palestine"

I will have the pleasure of interviewing long term Boston area activist Gabriel Camacho who has just returned from a trip to Palestine. Mr. Camacho has had a long standing involvement in political solidarity work with the Palestinian struggle for self determination, dating back to his days at the State University of New York where he majored in Anthropology in the 1970s, and conducted field work in El Ki ’che in Guatemala where he witnessed the presence of Israeli military advisors and the Guatemalan army ’s occupation of the Mayan highlands.

Born and raised in the South Bronx of immigrant parents from Latin America, Gabriel has also been a powerful advocate for immigrant and worker rights. He currently works as Regional Organizer of Project Voice, an immigrant rights program, for the New England office of the American Friends Service Committee, where he is also an active member of a Local 66L of UNITE HERE, a labor union representing more than 450,000 active members and more than 400,000 retiree workers from the industrial, textile, and hotel and restaurant industries. Complementing that work, he serves as the President of the Junta Directiva of Centro Presente, a Central American immigrant community organization.

In 1999, Gabriel founded the Massachusetts Chapter of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (an AFL-CIO constituency group) and currently serves as the Chair of Massachusetts Jobs With Justice and on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Labor Education on the Americas Project.??In 2004 the Third World Coalition of the AFSC held its annual meeting in San Diego partly to protest the 10th anniversary of Operation Gatekeeper with border communities in resistance to the wall and militarization of the U.S./Mexico border. This experience inspired Gabriel to develop an analysis and presentation entitled “Two Walls, One Struggle,” which draws parallels between the walls on the Mexican border and that within the West Bank . This particular project seeks to bridge the struggles of Latino Immigrants and the Arab / Muslim communities in the U.S.

9AM
WZBC 90.3 FM

(This event has been rescheduled.)
Sunday, June 22, 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.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Cambridge

Save The Date: Tue., June 24 to welcome new Peace Commission Director Brian Corr

The Cambridge Peace Commission is pleased to welcome its new Executive Director, Brian Corr. We are hosting a reception for him. Please come meet and welcome Brian, introduce yourselves, and share your ideas about the Peace Commission.

4:30-6:30PM
Ackerman Room at City Hall

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Newton

GUANTANAMO: Into the 7th Year

Presenters: Doris Tennant and Ellen Lubell, Newton lawyers working pro-bono in defense of a young man imprisoned at Guantanamo.

Co-sponsored by:
Newton Dialogues on Peace and War
Social Workers for Peace and Justice
Human Rights Commission of Newton
Historical Society of Newton

Admission free, but donations to support this ongoing work may be made at the presentation.

7:30PM
Newton Main Library, 330 Homer Street, Newton Center

For more information, call 617-491-7986.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Boston

“Welcoming Massachusetts”: Official Kick-Off Event of the Campaign

Come join us in the spirit of brotherhood and take a stand on immigration policy!!! Wear red or a white shirt and come hear about what we can do to help make a difference in our own communities as we make Massachusetts a welcoming state.

We will have a small potluck at the end of the event as we all, immigrants and non-immigrants, come and break bread together!!!!

11AM-Noon
Place: Outside the State House on Beacon St., on the steps in front of the dome

For more information, call 617-524-8085 or email
edwin@massjwj.net.

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Lowell

Grassroots Use of Technology Conference

If you're like me, you are wondering about what comes next for our movement WHILE ALSO working on many projects that you hope will make a difference. Whatever happens with the elections and Washington's continued promotion of military solutions, one thing is clear: we need a robust, active and mobilized peace movement.

Technological solutions and internet mobilization are often presented as magic bullets for our movement. Anyone with experience using these tools knows that this is not true. But the converse is equally untrue: technological change does offer many opportunities to strengthen our organizing and outreach. It also impacts our ability to shape the national debate.

This year's conference is designed to help you with the challenge of moving your organization and groups further into the digital age. There are five workshops on social networking, three on using your web site effectively, two on online collaboration, and five on tech infrastructure.

As in past years, half of the workshops will be at A BEGINNER LEVEL and half will be oriented towards more advanced users. This is an opportunity for you to share strategies and learn from your peers at many other nonprofits in the area.

Please be sure to let your webmaster/IT volunteers know about the conference as they might also find it useful!

Wannalancit Conference Center at U of Mass Lowell

For more information, visit
http://organizerscollaborative.org/conference or call 617-720-6190.

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

- Lexington Peace Vigil, 1st and 3rd Sundays 1pm to 2pm Depot Square Lexington

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.

- Arlington UJP weekly vigil: from 5:30-6:30 PM, in Arlington Center at the corners of Pleasant Street/Rte 60 and Mass Ave.

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.

This peace and justice events listing is prepared by the Peace and Economic Justice Program of the American Friends Service Committee. To join this e-mail list write: JGerson@afsc.org. To have your e-mail address removed from our list, please do the same.
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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