Friday, February 23, 2018

International Women's Day 2018. Making America Sane Again. Come in join us to our Rally and March for Women. This Thursday March 8, 2018 at Copley Square Boston, MA 0216 at 5:00 PM.

International Women's Day 2018.
Making America Sane Again.
Come in join us to our Rally and March for Women. This Thursday March 8, 2018 at Copley Square Boston, MA 0216 at 5:00 PM.

International Women's Day 2018.
Making America Sane Again.
Come in join us to our Rally and March for Women. This Thursday March 8, 2018 at Copley Square Boston, MA 0216 at 5:00 PM.
Marching for Undocumented Women and their Families,
Protecting Women's Rights,
Fighting for Gender Equality,
Equal Pay, $15 Minimum Wage
Standing Up against Misogyny,
Racial Prejudice,
Fighting Against Abuse and Sexual Assault,
Standing Up against LGBTQ Discrimination, For Access to Women Healthcare, Standing up and fighting for access for women to political power.
Standing Up for Women Power!

When Women are under attack, what do we do?
WE STAND UP AND FIGHT BACK!
When Black Women are Under Attack
WE STAND UP AND FIGHT BACK!
When Undocumented Women are Under Attack
WE STAND UP AND FIGHT BACK!

Women of every color, Women of all nationalities, Women from every background join together as one, and fight gender discrimination across the Nation!
Everyone Who is Fighting and Standing up for Women's Rights is WELCOME!✊,
OUR DEMANDS ARE:
1- Stop the brutal raids against undocumented women and their families nationwide, also we call not keep the policy of discrimination against women in general as business as usual.
2- Stop the arrest of undocumented parents when they are bringing their children to schools across the nation.
3- We call the federal government to respect sanctuary cities and institutions that had declare themselves as sanctuaries, which only goals are to help innocent undocumented people who have not committed any crime in this nation.
4- We are calling to the local police not to do the job that is assigned only to federal authorities when detaining undocumented people with not reason or justification.
5- Stop terrorizing our communities and diving our families across the nation.
6- We demand the full prosecution of those individuals that have killed or shot at lawful permanent resident or citizens of this country, which only crime has been to have a different color of skin than white people.
7- We demand to local authorities and the congress of the United States to start a Immigration Reform that this countries needs so badly as soon as possible and stop playing with the need of Millions of people in this country that provide support and create jobs to our nation.
8- The Time is Up, we demand to the courts and police departments to stop victimizing women when a sexual crime has been committed against them. We demand to believe in women and to support them when the are denouncing a sexual crime against them , when they are harassed or are the target of misogyny at work, at home or on the streets. #MeToo We stand up for $15 for the minimum wage and for equal payment for women now.

When Women are under attack, what do we do?
WE STAND UP AND FIGHT BACK!
When Black Women are Under Attack
WE STAND UP AND FIGHT BACK!
When Undocumented Women are Under Attack
WE STAND UP AND FIGHT BACK!

Women of every color, Women of all nationalities, Women from every background join together as one, and fight gender discrimination across the Nation!
Everyone Who is Fighting and Standing up for Women's Rights is WELCOME!✊

****OPEN MIC**** ANYONE who wants to speak their truth is more than welcome! Use your voice, it's your power!

Please share this event link on your Facebook pages as well, we need your love and solidarity, even if you can't make it!

Volunteers are needed so do not be hesitant to message us or contact us with questions!

KEEP RESISTING AND KEEP PERSISTING.
RESIST, REGISTER AND VOTE 2018
March 08, 2018 at 5:00 PM
Copley Square, 560 Boylston Street Boston MA 02116
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17 People Have Joined a Hunger Strike Opposing LD 1781 Tax Giveaway Bill for General Dynamics/Bath Iron Works


17 People Have Joined a Hunger Strike Opposing LD 1781
Tax Giveaway Bill for General Dynamics/BIW


Augusta, February 22 -- As a controversial bill to extend a $60 million tax giveaway to General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works shipyard is set for its second work session, 17 people have joined an extended hunger strike opposing LD 1781.

The work session for the bill co-sponsored by Rep. Jennifer DeChant and Sen. Eloise Vitelli will consider amendments written by General Dynamics’ legal consultants at Preti Flaherty. The amendments are intended to make the bill more palatable to Maine taxpayers, perhaps by breaking the $60 million over 20 years into two $30 million tax giveaways of ten years’ duration each. Currently the bill is tabled in the Joint Standing Committee on Taxation.

Hunger striker Bruce Gagnon of Bath is expected to attend the work session February 22 at 1:00 pm in State House Room 127, but no members of the public will be allowed to speak. Gagnon will begin his 11th day of fasting as he bears witness to BIW executives and Maine legislators contemplating a tax break for a highly profitable corporation, one that paid its CEO $21 million last year.

Gagnon stated, “I’m 11 days into this hunger strike and spending a lot of time at BIW talking with workers.  There are many workers who understand GD’s fiscal posture and oppose this fat welfare subsidy.”

Opponents of the bill have published more than 68 letters and op-eds in 20 Maine media outlets objecting to Maine taxpayer subsidies to the General Dynamics Corporation, the 5th largest weapons contractor in the world and owner of BIW.

Although jobs are often cited as the rationale for tax giveaways, letters have pointed out that General Dynamics has used past Maine subsidies -- $200 million since 1997 – to ‘mechanize and modernize’  the operation which has led to job loss.  And also that General Dynamics has used the money to buy back their own stocks driving market value higher.

People across Maine and from away -- including California and Vermont -- have signed up to fast in solidarity with Gagnon. Many will fast for a day or once a week, but Gagnon has indicated he plans to fast continuously until after the vote is taken by the legislature.

Among those who have had letters to the editor published is Mark Roman of Solon, who also testified at the public hearing for LD 1781 in opposition to the bill. “I cannot stand by and watch Maine lawmakers waste money that could be spent on education, health care and housing for the 43,000 children in Maine living in poverty today,” Roman said.
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In Cambridge- Film Screening & Discussion of 13th | 2/25 @ 6PM

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* Join us at the Center for Marxist Education ( 550 Massachusetts Avenue,
2nd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02139) this Sunday... *
*Sunday, February 25 | 6:00 – 8:00 PM*
*13th *
Richard Pendleton, CME Steering Committee
Director Ava DuVernay’s takes an unflinching, well-informed and thoroughly
researched look at the American system of incarceration, specifically how
the prison industrial complex affects people of color. Her analysis could
not be more timely nor more infuriating. The film builds its case piece by
shattering piece, inspiring levels of shock and outrage that stun the
viewer, leaving one shaken and disturbed before closing out on a visual
note of hope designed to keep us on the hook as advocates for change. Watch
the trailer <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V66F3WU2CKk>.
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Aspen Institute: How a Farmworker Movement Changed the Way Your Food Gets Made…

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Aspen Institute: How a Farmworker Movement Changed the Way Your Food Gets Made…
From left to right: Steven Greenhouse (author, former labor reporter, New York Times), Susan Marquis (Dean of RAND Graduate School, author, “I Am Not a Tractor”), Jon Esformes (Chief Operating Partner, Pacific Tomato Growers), Gerardo Reyes (CIW) and Greg Asbed (CIW). The speakers were gathered at the Aspen Institute offices in Washington, DC, earlier this month for a panel discussion on the Fair Food Program as a new model for social responsibility in agriculture and the new book on the CIW’s history to date, “I Am Not a Tractor”.
Jon Esformes, Pacific Tomato Growers: “We all bear the responsibility to ensure that our fellow men are treated fairly.”

On February 9th, the Aspen Institute hosted an animated discussion on the CIW’s Fair Food Program, its roots in the CIW’s twenty-year struggle to advance farmworkers’ fundamental human rights, and its remarkable potential for helping workers around the globe who toil at the bottom of corporate supply chains in dangerous, low-paying jobs. The idea for the panel was sparked by the publication late last year of a new book on the Fair Food Program, entitled “I Am Not a Tractor: How Florida Farmworkers Took on the Fast Food Giants and Won,” by the Dean of the RAND Graduate School, Susan Marquis.

We were planning on excerpting portions of the 90-min long panel discussion and providing a report from the day’s events in DC, but the Aspen Institute beat us to it! And they did such a great job that we decided, why reinvent the wheel? So, click below for the Aspen Institute’s report, in its entirety, from the discussion earlier this month.

Check out video highlights from the Aspen Institute panel at the CIW website!
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In Cambridge- Changes in the US Political Economy Since 2007, John Womack | 2/24 @ 3PM

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Join us at the Center for Marxist Education ( 550 Massachusetts Avenue,
2nd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02139) this Saturday...
*Saturday February 24 | 3:00 – 5:00 PM*
*Changes in the US Political Economy Since 2007*
John Womack, Professor of Latin American History and Economics at Harvard
Historian John Womack reviews economic and political changes in the US
since the 2007-8 crisis. The changes have wide-ranging implications for
labor movement strategies. Based on a late-November presentation and
discussion with a delegation from the Communist Party of China.
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March 17 at MIT: Boston Socialist Unity Project Third Annual Conference 2018

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*Boston Socialist Unity Project Annual Conference 2018 *

*Saturday, March 17, 9-5 pm, @ MIT Building 34-101
<https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=34>, 50 Vassar Street
<https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=34>*

* Website: BostonSocialistUnity.org <http://bostonsocialistunity.org/> *

*Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1600917569991653/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1600917569991653/> *

*We invite you to join our third annual conference on the theme "Building a
Socialist Political Force: social movements and the Left in an Election
Year." The conference will feature speakers on important issues facing the
Left and socialists, as well as a full range of workshops.*

*ANNOUNCEMENT OF PROGRAM *

*Saturday, March 17, 9:00 AM*

*registration opens 9:00 a.m. / program begins 10:00 a.m.*

*Featured speakers*

*o Savina Martin, eastern Massachusetts chair of the new Poor Peoples
Campaign*

*o Monica Poole, associate professor at Bunker Hill Community College, on
a radical take on #MeToo and current women's issues*

*o Ari Wohlheimer, national deputy director of Jewish Voice for Peace, on
Palestinian rights*

*o Jill Stein, former Green Party presidential candidate, on the crisis
in Korea and US imperialism*

*o member of Massachusetts Teachers Association on labor issues and
education*

*Our lunchtime plenary presents different perspectives on the 2018
elections and electoral politics, seeking common ground and strengthening
the movement: presentations will include the Socialist Party of Boston, a
member of Our Revolution, the Communist Party USA of Greater Boston, and
the Party for Socialism and Liberation*

*Two sessions of participatory workshops will showcase movement-building
work and issues. T**opics include: Puerto Rico, immigrant rights and
deportation, Fair Trade Action, Jobs not Jails, lessons from Gramsci,
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel, socialist organizing strategy,
student organizing*

*Breakfast and lunch options available at the conference.*

*Everyone is welcome, $10 suggested donation
<http://www.bostonsocialistunity.org/>; nobody turned away for lack of
funds.*

*Write with your questions and more
information: bostonsocialistunity@gmail.com
<bostonsocialistunity@gmail.com>*
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"SAVE OUR VA", STOP THE KOCH BROTHERS AND PRIVATE HEALTHCARE EXECUTIVES FROM PRIVATIZING AND THUS DESTROYING OUR VA.

"SAVE OUR VA", STOP THE KOCH BROTHERS AND PRIVATE HEALTHCARE EXECUTIVES FROM PRIVATIZING AND THUS DESTROYING OUR VA.
This is our Smedley VFP event, Please forward this to friends and other organizations you know!!!


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Join us to help
SAVE VA HEALTHCARE
Featuring author Suzanne Gordon “Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare” with a Panel discussion on current policy making and patient care

VFW, POST 529, 371 Summer Street,
Somerville, MA., 02144
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7th, 6:30 - 8:30 PM




The Veterans Health Administration is under attack by groups who are trying to eliminate government programs and pushing the idea that only the private sector ‘works’.  Polls show that up to 80% of veterans reject this and want to keep our VA Healthcare System.
SPONSORED BY:     Veterans For Peace,   BOSTON. CHAPTER 9, “SMEDLEY D. BUTTLER BRIGADE”



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