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:: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 ::

 
    BootCAT meeting

Tuesday, July 5th
6:30-8:30pm

Christ Church Cambridge Vestry
Zero Garden Street

Harvard Square T Stop



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:: Thursday, June 16, 2005 ::

 
    Film Showing with Amnesty International: June 21st

Film: Another Road Home

When: Tuesday, June 21 at 7 p.m.
Where: Kendall Square Cinema

Please join Amnesty International USA for a discussion about the human dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict following a showing of the film
Another Road Home by Danae Elon.


The film will be shown at 7 p.m. Tickets need to be purchased from the Kendall Square Cinema. The discussion will begin immediately after the film, at around 8:30 p.m., and will last for 45 minutes.


PANEL MEMBERS:
Dr. Shukri Khuri, Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School and member of the American Diaspora Alliance for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Mr. Michael Yohay, Israeli filmmaker
Mr. Joshua Rubenstein (moderator), Northeast Regional Director, Amnesty International USA

Another Road Home explores the 20-year relationship between two families, one Israeli and the other Palestinian, as it follows the film maker's search for Musa Obeidallah, the Palestinian man who helped raise her from the time she was an infant until she joined the Israeli army. The director is Danae Elon, the daughter of the writer Amos Elon and his wife Beth. The film takes us from Italy, where Amos and Beth Elon currently live, to Paterson, New Jersey, where four of Mr. Obeidallah's sons now reside. She locates them and then establishes contact with Mr. Obeidallah himself, who travels from the West Bank to see her in New Jersey, where both families have a reunion after many years. The film closes with Danae accompanying Mr. Obeidallah back to the West Bank.

The film opens at the Kendall Square Cinema on June 17 for one week. To see the trailer, please visit www.anotherroadhomethemovie.com.

www.anotherroadhomethemovie.com

>> posted by blythe at 2:25 PM  ::  0 comments   

:: Sunday, June 12, 2005 ::

 
    Tuesday, June 14th Protest against Iraq War and Military Recruiters in Cambridge

In Cambridge and Fenway Park this coming Tuesday, June 14th. Please join protests against the Iraq war and, more immediately, the invasion of Cambridge and Boston by senior U.S. military officials and by an army of recruiters eager to make their quotas and turn our children into cannon (nor rpv) fodder.

U.S. Army and Massachusetts national Guard forces will be dramatically occupying Cambridge Common as they work desperately to lure the cities’ young people to fight in the Bush Administration wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Philippines and elsewhere. The show will include a detachment of Iraqi war veterans; Recruiting and Retention's Super HumVee; a UH-60 "Blackhawk" Helicopter and more. To bring tears our eyes, they will also be exploiting the 11 year old son of a U.S. soldier killed two months ago. The ostensible reason for landing Blackhawk helicopter on Cambridge Common is that George Washington presented several cannons to revolutionaries there 230 years ago. 2 plus 2 has always equaled 17!

Exploiting professional sports, as the military has done for years, the 6:00 pre-game activities at Fenway Park will feature an enlistment ceremony for U.S. Army recruits. Anyone have tickets?

Protest plans will be solidified over the weekend.
For more information phoned United for Justice and Peace at: 617-491-4857 (617-491-4UJP)



>> posted by blythe at 1:16 PM  ::  1 comments   

 
    Imagine Life Launch Party- June18

Imagine-Life Boston Launch Party.
Save the date and buy your tickets now.
Please spread the word.

Imagine-Life is proud to announce the launch of a television media campaign on major cable networks in the Boston Area (CNN, MSNBC, FOX,The History Channel, BET.)

Please Join Us

for an evening of Arabic Food, Music and Entertainment while supporting this
important Campaign

When: Saturday June 18, 2005
Dinner at 6:30PM with Arabic Music Speaker and Entertainment to follow

Where: First Church in Cambridge Congregational
11 Garden St, Cambridge, Ma

Tickets $50.00 per person


Keynote: Mr. Naseer Aruri
Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth College

Special Guest: Hedy Epstein
Holocaust Survivor & Palestinian Rights Advocate

Comedian: Dean Obeidallah
Palestinian American Comedian

To purchase tickets call (202) 547-LIFE (5433) or email Boston@imagine-life.org


Please purchase tickets by June 12, 2005


IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND BUT WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE
visit the Imagine-Life website at www.imagine-life.org
and click on "Donations" or

send a check to Imagine-Life Education Campaign t 650 Pennsylvania Avenue,
SE Suite 210 t Washington, DC 20003

Phone: 202-547-LIFE t Fax: 202-543-0719 t

Indicate Boston in the memo line
501(c)3 Tax Exempt Status, Donations are Tax Deductible

THANK YOU!



>> posted by blythe at 12:11 PM  ::  0 comments   

:: Saturday, June 11, 2005 ::

 
    June 14th Protest Against CAT in NYC

COME AND PROTEST CAT'S SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL'S SUSTAINED DESTRUCTION OF PALESTINIAN HOMES AND RIGHTS AND CAT'S CORPORATE SOCIAL IRRESPONSIBILITY

This week, the Israeli government is preparing to demolish 88 more
Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem using Caterpillar bulldozers.
Simultaneously, in Manhattan CAT executives, in an arrogant display of
corporate duplicity,will be leading a Tuesday June 14 workshop on
Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility at a conference
for business leaders from around the world at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
(_http://www.conferenceboard.org/pdf_free/agendas/985005.pdf_
(http://www.conferenceboard.org/pdf_free/agendas/985005.pdf) ,
pg. 11, General Session B)

PROTEST TIME: Tuesday June 14 from 8:15 - 9:15 AM

PROTEST LOCATION: We will gather on the steps of St. Bartholomew's
Church on Park Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets. Promptly at 8:15 AM
we will walk one block to the site of the protest, the front of the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets.

PROTEST ORGANIZERS: This peaceful protest
was oganized by an ad hoc New York City group in support of the national Stop CAT Campaign. To date the protest has been endorsed by the International Solidarity Movement - NYC,NYU Students for Justice in Palestine and Queer Resistance for Palestine.


FOR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE JUNE 14 PROTEST: _ism_nyc@hotmail.com_
(mailto:ism_nyc@hotmail.com)

http://www.icahd.org/

>> posted by blythe at 12:58 PM  ::  0 comments   

:: Monday, June 06, 2005 ::

 
    Next BootCAT Meeting

Tuesday, June 14th
6:30-8:30pm
Christ Church Cambridge (in the Vestry)
Zero Garden Street
near Harvard Square



>> posted by blythe at 9:43 PM   

 
    Next BootCAT Meeting

Tuesday, June 14th
6:30-8:30pm
Christ Church Cambridge Vestry
Zero Garden Street (Near Harvard Square)



>> posted by blythe at 9:27 PM  ::  0 comments   

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