OccupyTrumpcare National Week of Action! July 8 - 15 
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OccupyTrumpcare National Week of Action! July 8 - 15
From The Partisan Defense Committee-Free All Class-War Prisoners Now!
From The Partisan Defense Committee-Free All Class-War Prisoners Now!
The Centennial Of The Birth Of Film Actor, Noir Film Actor, Robert Mitchum (2017) -Hats Off!
The Centennial Of The
Birth Of Film Actor, Noir Film Actor, Robert Mitchum (2017) -Hats Off!
Film Critic Emeritus Sam Lowell comment:
No question I am despite my putting myself "out to pasture" more than happy to do a short guest appearance to pay tribute to the centennial of the birth of film actor Robert Mitchum. The headline speaks of a film noir actor although he did many more types of films from goof stuff like the Grass Is Greener to truly scary can’t go to sleep at night stuff like Cape Fear to the pasty/fall guy in The Friends Of Eddie Coyle. But to my mind his classic statement of his acting persona came in the great performance he did in Out Of The Past where between being in the gun sights of an angry gangster played by Kirk Douglas and the gun sights of a gun crazy femme played by Jane Greer damn did he have his hands full.
Yeah, that film kind of
said it all about a big brawny barrel-chested guy who had been around the block
awhile, had smoked a few thousand cigarettes while trying to figure out all the
angles and still in the end got waylaid right between the eyes by that damn
femme. All she had to do was call his name and he wilted like some silly
schoolboy. I like a guy who likes to play with fire, likes to live on the edge
a little but our boy got caught up badly by whatever that scent, maybe jasmine,
maybe spring lilac but poison that he could never get out of his nostrils once
she went into over-drive.
You know, seriously,
that he should have backed off right away when he was snooping for a bigtime Reno
gangster (that before Vegas and Bugsy came down the road) looking for a wayward
dame who took him for some dough, for forty thou, maybe not big money now but
then yes. Should have known that whoever took some dough from a mob guy was in
trouble big time good-looking and smelling or not. Like a later guy said though
take the ticket, take the ride. Yeah, that was a role fit for a guy like Robert
Mitchum. Live hard, fall hard.
More later but check
this little clip out as a sampler.
In Boston July 13th-Workshop - The May Day 2006 general strike and lessons for today
Workshop - The May Day 2006 general strike and lessons for today
The May Day 2006 General Strike
May Day, 2006 witnessed the largest nationwide general strike in many decades. El Gran Paro Americano 2006, involved working people in the millions and shut down workplaces around the country, including the port of Los Angeles, many factories, and small businesses. It was preceded by huge mobilizations in a number of major cities against the criminalization of migrant workers. A workshop is being hosted by Sergio Reyes and John Harris who were central organizers of the May Day General Strike in Greater Boston in 2006. They will describe the mass mobilizations of 2006 and how they were organized, culminating in the May Day General Strike. The workshop will take up developments since the strike and discuss strategic and tactical approaches that can advance the movement today.
Thursday, July 13, 7:00 PM
Encuentro 5
9A Hamilton Place, Boston 02108
(One block from the Part Street T stop on the Red and Green lines)
Event page:
In Boston July 18th- Hearing at the State House on Anti-BDS Legislation
Hearing at the State House on Anti-BDS Legislation
There will be hearing on July 18 at the State House on proposed anti-BDS legislation disguised as an "anti-discrimination" bill.
Here’s what we need everyone to do: Come to the State House - Gardner Auditorium early. There will be a long line.
- Sign the letter to the members of the committee that is reviewing this legislation, calling on them to protect our right to boycott, by opposing this dangerous bill.
- Attend the hearing on Tuesday, July 18th, 11:00am (doors open at 10am). The hearing will take place at the Massachusetts State House in the Gardner Auditorium, the largest room in the building! Plan for a long line to get in. Do not bring posters or signs of any kind. We will provide stickers that say “Freedom to Boycott.” We expect major organizations (JCRC, AJC, ADL, etc.) to mount huge pressure in support of this legislation so showing up to the hearing on Tues, July 18th is critical. We hope to pack the hearing room with opponents to the legislation. The hearing will likely go on all day and into the evening, so come whenever you can! Please RSVP to the facebook event, and share it with your networks!
- Submit oral and written testimony: We encourage you all to provide testimony. Testimony can be submitted orally, in writing, or both. Oral testimony does NOT go into the record unless accompanied by written testimony. For this reason, we ask that everyone who wishes to testify provide written testimony whether or not you plan to testify in person.
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If you plan to testify at the hearing, it is critical to arrive at the hearing room by 10:00am to sign up!
Depending on how many people sign up, you may not get called to testify until late in the day, so be prepared for a long day!
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- Lobby your legislators: We will provide packets of information for you to deliver (along with your own written testimony) to your own legislators at the State House that day. Lobbying your own legislators will make an even bigger impact than testifying to the committee because you have the most influence over the elected official who is counting on your vote. Click here to find out who your state legislators are, and how to contact them.
If you have questions about presenting testimony, please contact us at: jvpboston@gmail.com.
Jewish Voice for Peace, Boston
Upcoming Events:
| Anti-Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions legislation hearing at statehouse | Tuesday, July 18, 2017 - 10:00am | Massachusetts State House | Boston | |
| Film screening: "National Bird: Drone Wars" | Tuesday, July 18, 2017 - 7:00pm | Cambridge Library, Central Square | Cambridge |  |
| Information Security and Organizing Workshop | Thursday, July 20, 2017 - 7:00pm | encuentro 5 | Boston |
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In Boston- act-ma] 7/18 David Rovics in concert
act-ma] 7/18 David Rovics in concert
Dean Stephens writes
Join us in our full AC of summer comfort at Community Church of Boston
(Copley Square), for an evening of the most incisive Truth and Justice
songwriting from the People's Troubador, David Rovics. The song that
hits me right now like a ton of bricks, is called "Gaza" :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE3deQK3yLU
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565 Boyston St. (Copley Square) Boston
Here is where you can order advance tickets:
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Join us in our full AC of summer comfort at Community Church of Boston
(Copley Square), for an evening of the most incisive Truth and Justice
songwriting from the People's Troubador, David Rovics. The song that
hits me right now like a ton of bricks, is called "Gaza" :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE3deQK3yLU
<http://listbabyqa.hostbaby.com/ln/?c=1561155&l=1498845&k=bf5743e3796f135d7c00d236201d3541>.
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In Boston -Why is our government killing thousands of people around the globe they can’t even identify?
Why is our government killing thousands of people around the globe they can’t even identify?
See National Bird, a film about the secret US drone assassination program.
Central Square Library
45 Pearl St, CambridgeTuesday, July 18, 2017, 7 pm
45 Pearl St, CambridgeTuesday, July 18, 2017, 7 pm
Directed by Sonia Kennebeck, this powerful documentary follows the dramatic journey of three whistleblowers who are determined to break the silence around one of the most controversial issues of our time: the hidden U.S. drone war, which has escalated substantially under President Trump.
Plagued by PTSD and guilt over participating in the killing of thousands of faceless people, including children, they courageously decide to speak out publicly, despite the possible severe consequences.
The film also interviews people on the ground in Afghanistan whose families and lives have been shattered by the deaths and lost futures of those who have been injured and terrorized by drones.
After the film there will be a short discussion with suggestions of things we can do to stop this immoral and indefensible form of warfare.
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Veterans committees show how bipartisan Congress can work
Veterans committees show how bipartisan Congress can work
WASHINGTON — Something strange is happening in the staid hearing rooms of the House and Senate veterans affairs committees this summer, though few have taken notice.
As the rest of Congress fights over the health care overhaul and looming budget deadlines, the committees responsible for writing legislation affecting veterans are quietly moving forward with an ambitious, long-sought, and largely bipartisan agenda that has the potential to significantly reshape the way the nation cares for its 21 million veterans.
It could also provide President Trump with a set of policy victories he badly wants.
“It’s a case study in Washington working as designed,” said Phillip Carter, who studies veterans issues at the Center for a New American Security and advises Democrats. “And it’s shocking because we so rarely see it these days.”
The tally thus far is impressive, if not exactly the stuff of headline news: The secretary of Veterans Affairs was confirmed unanimously, the only Cabinet secretary with that level of congressional approval.
Congress quickly passed a temporary funding extension for the Veterans Choice Program, which pays for private-sector health care for veterans facing long wait times at government facilities. Then it passed a bill that makes it easier for the department to hire and fire. The next bit of legislation on the brink of becoming law expedites disability benefits appeals.
This is happening as Congress finds itself stalled by a growing list of priorities that lawmakers had hoped to send to Trump before the August recess. In the case of the health care overhaul, the Senate leadership has even decided to sidestep the committee process that typically sets the pace of legislation moving through the Capitol.
Lawmakers with coveted spots on the veterans committees are quick to acknowledge that caring for those who served the country in uniform has long been largely a bipartisan pursuit.
But ideological differences do exist between the parties on how to care for veterans’ health needs, particularly when it comes to the Choice program, which was hastily written after a 2014 scandal over the manipulation of patient wait times and has proved to be a flawed, if popular, fix.
Whether the latest bout of amity can persist will largely depend on whether lawmakers are able to agree on a way to permanently fix the program, and streamline a half dozen others that send veterans out for private care, before it loses its authorization in January.
But as lawmakers talk about how they will do it, it almost sounds like an idealized version of how Washington works.
“We don’t want to have a fight for fights’ sake. We want to find solutions,” said Johnny Isakson, Republican of Georgia, chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.
The 24-member House committee, which is more ideologically diverse, has its own incentives to compromise. Representative Phil Roe, Republican of Tennessee, its chairman, was by most accounts chastened by harsh blowback to a draft bill floated in April that would have made service members pay to be eligible for G.I. Bill benefits.
The panel’s top-ranking Democrat, Tim Walz of Minnesota, represents a right-leaning rural district. The two men have been working side by side on the committee for nearly a decade.
That both sides remain cautiously confident in the Department of Veterans Affairs secretary, David Shulkin, who also served in the Obama administration, has helped as well.
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