Join us at our neighborhood meeting in Dorchester! This Saturday, May 17, 11:30 a.m.  Fields Corner Library 1520 Dorchester Ave. Dorchester The 15 Now campaign is coming to YOUR neighborhood. Check out our Dorchester neighborhood meeting and discuss the issues working people face in your neighborhood this Saturday and how you can get involved with the campaign dedicated building a strong movement of working people in the city! 15 Now New England ballot launch meeting in Boston a success! Read more here.         Big things are happening! Massachusetts Teachers Association endorses 15 Now!   As an acknowledgement of the growing momentum for 15 Now and the movement for $15/hr, the Massachusetts Teachers Association, a union of 110,000 teachers and education staff from around the state, voted to endorse the 15 Now campaign! This a huge victory and sends a message that working people are united in our demand for a $15/hr minimum wage!     Fast Food Workers to Strike in Boston!   This Thursday, there will be strikes by fast food workers in 150 US cities and in 33 countries on 6 continents demanding $15/hr and a union. This will be be the single biggest day of action by fast food workers since the movement began in 2012.    Come join 15 Now and others on the picket line this Thursday at either of the two actions in Boston! 5:30 AM - Dorchester 9 Dewar St (Corner of Dewar and Dorchester Ave)   11:30 AM - Downtown Crossing Outside Macy's on Summer Street    RSVP on Facebook!

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Join us at our neighborhood meeting in Dorchester! This Saturday, May 17, 11:30 a.m.  Fields Corner Library 1520 Dorchester Ave. Dorchester The 15 Now campaign is coming to YOUR neighborhood. Check out our Dorchester neighborhood meeting and discuss the issues working people face in your neighborhood this Saturday and how you can get involved with the campaign dedicated building a strong movement of working people in the city! 15 Now New England ballot launch meeting in Boston a success! Read more here.         Big things are happening! Massachusetts Teachers Association endorses 15 Now!   As an acknowledgement of the growing momentum for 15 Now and the movement for $15/hr, the Massachusetts Teachers Association, a union of 110,000 teachers and education staff from around the state, voted to endorse the 15 Now campaign! This a huge victory and sends a message that working people are united in our demand for a $15/hr minimum wage!     Fast Food Workers to Strike in Boston!   This Thursday, there will be strikes by fast food workers in 150 US cities and in 33 countries on 6 continents demanding $15/hr and a union. This will be be the single biggest day of action by fast food workers since the movement began in 2012.    Come join 15 Now and others on the picket line this Thursday at either of the two actions in Boston! 5:30 AM - Dorchester 9 Dewar St (Corner of Dewar and Dorchester Ave)   11:30 AM - Downtown Crossing Outside Macy's on Summer Street    RSVP on Facebook!

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Join us at our neighborhood meeting in Dorchester! This Saturday, May 17, 11:30 a.m.  Fields Corner Library 1520 Dorchester Ave. Dorchester The 15 Now campaign is coming to YOUR neighborhood. Check out our Dorchester neighborhood meeting and discuss the issues working people face in your neighborhood this Saturday and how you can get involved with the campaign dedicated building a strong movement of working people in the city! 15 Now New England ballot launch meeting in Boston a success! Read more here.         Big things are happening! Massachusetts Teachers Association endorses 15 Now!   As an acknowledgement of the growing momentum for 15 Now and the movement for $15/hr, the Massachusetts Teachers Association, a union of 110,000 teachers and education staff from around the state, voted to endorse the 15 Now campaign! This a huge victory and sends a message that working people are united in our demand for a $15/hr minimum wage!     Fast Food Workers to Strike in Boston!   This Thursday, there will be strikes by fast food workers in 150 US cities and in 33 countries on 6 continents demanding $15/hr and a union. This will be be the single biggest day of action by fast food workers since the movement began in 2012.    Come join 15 Now and others on the picket line this Thursday at either of the two actions in Boston! 5:30 AM - Dorchester 9 Dewar St (Corner of Dewar and Dorchester Ave)   11:30 AM - Downtown Crossing Outside Macy's on Summer Street    RSVP on Facebook!

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From The Struggle Against War

National Call for Emergency Antiwar Actions on Ukraine

 When: Friday, May 9, 2014, 10:00 am to Monday, May 26, 2014, 10:00 am

National Call for Emergency Antiwar Actions on Ukraine – May 9 to May 26 (endorser list follows the call)

US/NATO war moves in Eastern Europe, the Black Sea, and the Baltic Sea – the borders of Russia – are a danger to the whole world. Positioning destroyers and missiles, scheduling war games, and imposing sanctions (an act of war) risk wider war.
We are deeply disturbed by the expansion of the U.S.-commanded NATO military alliance and U.S. recognition and speedy grant of billions in loans to a right-wing coup government in Ukraine, which overthrew the elected government. This illegal government has used fascist violence against all forms of peoples’ resistance in Ukraine.
By more than 2 to 1, the population in the U.S. is against another war and opposed to US military moves or aid to the coup government in Ukraine (4-28-14 Pew/USA Today poll).
We must make our voices heard.
The time to act is now!
We need jobs, health care and social services, not another war.
We urge nationally coordinated antiwar actions across the U.S. and internationally - protests, vigils, teach-ins, antiwar resolutions and visits to offices of elected officials.
From May 9 to May 26 let us act together, in unity, as a powerful voice against the threat of another war.
Ukraine National Actions May. 9-26 endorsements (list in formation):
National and International groups:
United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)
International Action Center
Code Pink
ANSWER Coalition
U.S. Peace Council
Veterans For Peace
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Alliance for Global Justice,
BAYAN, USA
Black Agenda Report
International League for Peoples Struggles,
Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamel
May 1 Worker & Immigrant Rights Coalition,
Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
Colectivo Honduras USA Resistencia,
Pakistan USA Freedom Forum,
Fight Imperialism Stand Together - FIST,
People's Power Assembly
People's Organization for Progress
WarIsACrime.org
The Move Organization
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamel
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
Swedish Peace Council
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
Jeannette Rankin Peace Center
US Friends of the Soviet People
Coop Antiwar Café, Berlin, Germany
Contempoeranity & Objective thought, Karkov, Ukraine
Labor Art and Mural Project
Solidarity
AAW France (Americans Against the War)
Middle East Crisis Response
Emergency Labor Network
Granny Peace Brigade
Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO), Vancouver, Canada
Labor Fightback Network
Ukrainian National Committee for Freedom of the Cuban Five Heroes
German Freethinkers Association
American Iranian Friendship Committee
Ohio Labor Party
Folkebevægelsen mod Nazisme FMN (The Peoples Movement Aganst Nazism of Denmark)

Individual signers:
Ramsey Clark
Medea Benjamin
David  Swanson
Ray McGovern
Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report
Cindy Sheehan
Suren Moodliar, Massachusetts Global Action & Green shadow Cabinet
Bishop Filipe Teixeira – OFSJC – CCA
Steve Gillis – Vice Pres. USW local 8751 Boston school Bus Union
Leila Zand, Fellowship of Reconciliation
Joel Kovel
Bruce Gagnon
Kevin Zeese
Prof. Bertell Ollman
Phil Wilayto, Editor, The Virginia Defender
Sandy Fessler, Rochester Against War
Ohio State Labor Party


Local Groups:
Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace (Albany)
Chicago Anti-War Committee
MN Anti-War Committee,
Women Against Military Madness - WAMM,
Minnesota Peace Action Coalition,
Jersey City Peace Movement,
Philly Against War
Peace Action – Manhattan
Michigan Emergency Coalition Against War & Injustice (MECAWI)
Chelsea Coalition on Housing
Women’s fightback Network – Boston
Rochester Against War
US Friends of The Soviet People (Minnesota Chapter)
Mayday Bookstore
Veterans for Peace (Twin Cities chapter 27)
Massachusetts Global Action
Northhampton committee to Stop Wars
Worcester Unemployment Action Group
Los Angeles Peace Council
union of Maine visual artists
8th Day Center for Justice, Chicago
Veterans For Peace Chapter, Chapter 72
Ann Arbor Coalition against the War
Veterans for Peace, Chapter 147, Saratoga, NY
Veterans for Peace, Chapter 87
Good Friday Coalition
Code Pink, Taos
Peace Action, Staten Island, NY
Neighbors 4 Peace
Columbus Campaign for Arms Control
Nicaragua Center for Community Action
Salem Peace Committee
Dutchess for Peace
Dutchess Greens
Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace
Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality – Virginia
Northeast Philly for Peace and Justice
Peace Action of San Mateo County
Defenders' Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project
Peace Action, Staten Island
Western New York Peace Center
Left Forum of Grand Rapids
United for Justice with Peace Coalition, Mass.

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From The Class Struggle ....

If you've already contacted your Representative - thank you!  I am resending this alert because of a glitch that caused an error message to appear and in some cases prevented this letter from reaching Congress.  It's been fixed. So, if you are one of those who experienced this problem or have not yet sent this important communication to your Representative, I hope you will do so now, and then forward this email to your friends.  Humbly for peace, Kevin ************** Dear Al, Every year Congress has two chances to reduce Pentagon waste through the appropriations and authorization bills.  Next week the House will vote on its version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Email your Representative now to reduce Pentagon spending. As it stands, the bill would authorize $521.3 billion plus approximately  $80 billion for the Afghanistan War and other unrelated Pentagon expenditures that are funded in a separate Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account.  Next week, your Representative may offer or support amendments that will cut wasteful Pentagon pork. There will only be a short time next week when we will know exactly what amendments the Republican leadership will allow to be voted on so please write your Representative today. We expect amendments that will: *End the Afghanistan War as soon as possible — it’s time to bring all troops and contractors home and to not leave any behind after this year. *Cut the OCO slush fund — Last year it funded some $30 billion of unrelated items. *Cut the F-35 — the most expensive plane and Pentagon project in history. *Audit the Pentagon — The Pentagon is the only part of the Government that cannot pass an audit. *Cut the Littoral Combat Ship — experts say it will cost over three times the original estimate. *Reduce General's Pensions — currently they are allowed to make MORE in retirement than when working. *Cut the M1 Abrams Tank — the Pentagon doesn’t even want it. *Reduce the Nuclear Triad — Without the Cold War we cannot afford to upgrade all the nuclear weapon delivery systems while we significantly reduce our stockpile. *Cut overseas military bases and support a Base Realignment and Closure Commission — There are over 1,000 U.S. military bases abroad including those in countries who can afford their own security.  Within the U.S. there are bases that the Pentagon doesn’t want. Again please take time NOW towrite your Representative to cut the Pentagon budget so we can afford other priorities like job creation, education and infrastructure. Humbly for Peace, Paul Kawika Martin Political Director Peace Action PS: Please forward this email to your friends! Take Action Email Your Rep Now to Cut Pentagon Spending CONNECT TO US:  Find us on Facebook  Follow us on Twitter  Read our blog  Contact us

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Glenn Greenwald at Socialism! We are proud to announce that independent journalist Glenn Greenwald will be speaking in person at this year’s Socialism 2014 conference. Greenwald was the journalist who broke Edward Snowden's NSA spy program story last year, which revealed that the U.S. government had built a vast system of surveillance infrastructure designed to, in Greenwald’s words, “end all individual privacy” both within the United States and around the world. Glenn Greenwald is the author of the new book, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. Greenwald's talk will be held at 7pm on June 26th, the first day of the conference. The session will be one of nearly 150 talks, panels, discussions, and radical film screenings that you can attend at the conference. The conference will be held June 26-29, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel O'Hare, Chicago, IL. Please register today for Socialism 2014 by visiting SocialismConference.org!

Visit WeAreMany.org to view the video of Glenn Greenwald's talk at Socialism 2013 on Edward Snowden's revelations of the crimes of the NSA and the national security state. REGISTER today! The discounted "early bird" rate is available through May 23rd. The conference will have childcare services available for attendees who request it by May 31st.

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Crisis in the Ukraine: Cold War? Civil War? Roots of the Conflict

When: Wednesday, May 28, 2014, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Where: First Parish Unitarian Church • 3 Church St • Harvard T • Cambridge

Ukraine in 2013; Crimea is now part of the Russian Federation

speakers:

• Mark Solomon, professor of history (emeritus), Simmons College
• Gary Leupp, professor of history, Tufts University

President Obama in his April visit to Japan commented, "Mr. Putin has had an increasing tendency to see the world through a Cold War prism."  But there are many questions:

• is the US/NATO push into Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union  the real source of tension with Russia?  
• Did the US government spend five billion dollars for democracy or regime change?
• Who are the fascists in the new Kiev government?  
• Will sanctions isolate Russia?
• What is behind the conflict in Odessa and Eastern Ukraine and will it lead to civil war?

How should the peace movement respond to rising tensions between the two biggest nuclear powers and the US shift towards covert war?   The UJP forum will examine these issues and possible action items.

$5 donation requested

sponsored by United for Justice with Peace

617 383 4857 or info@justicewithpeace.org 

United for Justice with Peace is a coalition of peace and justice organizations and community peace groups in the Greater Boston region. The UJP Coalition, formed after September 11th, seeks global peace through social and economic justice. Help us continue to do this critical work! Make a donation to UJP today.
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