Tuesday, September 18, 2018

In Cambridge-*Sunday, September 16 | 6:00 PM* The Take May Day Coalition

Center for Marxist Education<centermarxisteducation@gmail.com>
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*Sunday, September 16 | 6:00 PM*
The Take
May Day Coalition

In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into
their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they
want is to re-start the silent machines. But this simple act - The Take -
has the power to turn the globalization debate on its head. In the wake of
Argentina's dramatic economic collapse in 2001, Latin America's most
prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abandoned factories
and mass unemployment. The Forja auto plant lies dormant until its former
employees take action. They're part of a daring new movement of workers who
are occupying bankrupt businesses and creating jobs in the ruins of the
failed system. But Freddy, the president of the new worker's co-operative,
and Lalo, the political powerhouse from the Movement of Recovered
Companies, know that their success is far from secure. Like every workplace
occupation, they have to run the gauntlet of courts, cops and politicians
who can either give their project legal protection or violently evict them
from the factory……. Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in
shop-floor democracy, the workers face off against the bosses, bankers and
a whole system…………. *Watch the trailer.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxKP6fqo0Ec>*

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From Veterans For Peace-Leave No One Behind: Keeping Our Promise to Deported Veterans

Leave No One Behind: Keeping Our Promise to Deported Veterans

Veterans For Peace member Alfredo Figueroa is heading up a project titled "Leave No Man Behind: Keeping our Promise to Deported Veterans".  Alfredo is a OIF and OEF combat veteran that recently graduated from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He recently was granted the Judith Lee Stronach price, which allows him to work with veterans that have been deported.  He is also on the board of Veterans For Peace's Deported Veteran Advocacy Project.
He is currently doing workshops around the Bay area but is available to come to local communities to talk about his project.
Alfredo is based in California and can be contacted via email to set up a potential workshop.  His email is: alfredo.figueroa01@berkeley.edu

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Oct 6 Vigil at Bath Iron Works (Maine)-11:30 am

Global Network<globalnet@mindspring.com>
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On Saturday, October 6 we will hold a vigil from 11:30 am til 12:30 at Bath Iron Works in solidarity with the International week of protest to Stop the Militarization of Space.
 
We will meet across from the Administration building on Washington Street and walk up to the Navy Research Center at Noon.
 
General Dynamics continues to build Aegis guided missile destroyers as well as the new Zumwalt which is on track to becoming the most expensive warship ever built.  It is imperative that we speak clearly and say No! to the building of warships here in Maine!
 
No! to the militarization of outer space.  (The interceptor missiles onboard the Navy Aegis destroyers are key elements in Pentagon first-strike attack planning and have proven to function as Anti-Satellite weapons.)
 
It is time for us to set aside technologies that only enslave us to wars that never end.  The insanity of building these warships must come to an end so we can instead us the Earth’s resources to heal the many ills of our society and those we continue to inflict upon our mother earth.
 
Let’s stand together with love and with all of creation calling for DISARMAMENT NOW.
 
Please bring signs and banners.
 
FMI @: Smilin’ Trees Disarmament Far,
763-4062

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Medea Benjamin Inside Iran-Thursday,September 27th @12:30 pm UMass Boston

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Thursday,September 27th @12:30 pm

UMass Boston

Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Ballroom C


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Medea Benjamin                     Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran




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When the Iran nuclear agreement was signed by President Obama in 2015, the world breathed a sigh of relief. Iran would not get nuclear weapons, relations between the Republic of Iran and the West would improve, and the moderates in Iran were empowered over the hard-liners. Then came
President Trump, throwing US-Iranian relations into turmoil.
This easy-to-read book is designed to help Americans understand Iran so that we will be better equipped to prevent war! It recounts Iran’s long, proud history and the disastrous effects of outside intervention. It sets the stage for the 1979 Islamic revolution, and the religious regime’s crackdown on human rights, religious minorities, and women.
The book traces how decades of Western sanctions have affected daily life, and delves into Iran’s tumultuous relationship with the United States and with its neighbors in the region. Most importantly, it highlights the heroic efforts of Iranians to live in a more open, more democratic society free of outside interference.
Questions: Email brienne@codepink.org or paul.atwood@umb.edu
Sponsored by the Honors College, William Joiner Institute, American Studies, and Women Studies Departments
Anyone requiring disability-related accommodations, including dietary accommodations, should visit www.ada.umb.edu
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    THE POLITICS AND TECHNOLOGY OF ECOSOCIALISM THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 7:00 - 9:30 P.M. 9a Hamilton Place, Boston, MA 02108

    Suren Moodliar<suren@fairjobs.org>
    To  Activist Massachusetts  
    THE POLITICS AND TECHNOLOGY OF ECOSOCIALISM
    THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 7:00 - 9:30 P.M.
    9a Hamilton Place, Boston, MA 02108

    This event celebrates Victor Wallis’ new book, Red-Green Revolution.
    Building on decades of serious theorizing, teaching, and organizing against
    the challenges facing humanity living under the weight of an ecocidal and
    militarized capitalism, Victor writes in the tradition and style of the
    independent socialists of Monthly Review. Channeling George Monbiot’s and
    Naomi Klein’s wide lens and sense of urgency, Victor also brings
    intellectual rigor and startling clarity to a wide range of immediate
    concerns: diversity and coalition building; local and global organizing;
    post-capitalist social organization; technological change and social
    relations. Chaired by Edward Carson, the event also features a conversation
    between Victor and five movement organizers, Kim Barzola, Elan Axelbank,
    Mea Johnson, Keely Mullen, and Nino Brown. Download the poster here:
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/5sx4hilmaom7txd/flyer-2018-09-20-letter2.pdf?dl=0.

    Light refreshments and post-event reception.

    Please scroll down to learn more about the speakers

    Comments on the book:

    Finally, we have the definitive work on ecosocialism... Victor brings his
    brilliant editorial skills to writing a highly readable, compelling, and
    essential book, a must read for everyone who cares about the fate of the
    earth in this era of capitalist implosion with socialism no longer a
    possible alternative, but rather a requirement for survival.
    —Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, author of *An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the
    United States*

    Red-Green Revolution is clearly written and focused, but far from dry: it
    is a passionate call to organize and act. Victor Wallis puts the need to
    build [a] mass movement to end capitalist ecocide at the top of [the]
    ecosocialist agenda, where it surely belongs. His book is essential reading
    for everyone who agrees with that goal.
    —Ian Angus, editor of Climate & Capitalism

    About our featured speaker:

       - Victor Wallis is the author of Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and
       Technology of Ecosocialism (2018). He was for twenty years the managing
       editor of Socialism and Democracy. He teaches in the Liberal Arts
    department at the Berklee College of Music (in Boston), having previously
       taught political science for many years at Indiana University-Purdue
       University at Indianapolis. His articles – encompassing an array of
       subjects including ecology, political strategies, the US Left, US labor
       songs, and Latin American revolutionary film – have appeared in Monthly
       Review, Capitalism Nature Socialism, New Political Science, Socialism and
       Democracy, Jump Cut, Organization & Environment, International Critical
       Thought, and the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism, plus
       book-chapters and online publications in several countries, and have been
       translated into thirteen language. His activism, addressing a wide range of
       issues, dates from the 1960s.

    About our commentators:

       - Elan Axelbank is a member of Socialist Alternative and is currently
       their Boston and New England Organizer. He experiences include in the
       student movement, socialist electoral work, and labor and minimum-wage
       struggles.
       - Kimberly Barzola is a Quechua visual artist and organizer with the
       Party for Socialism and Liberation. She is passionate about multilingual
       justice has a background in student organizing, native language
       revitalization projects and currently works as a freelance Spanish
       interpreter and librarian assistant in the Greater Boston Area.
       - Nino Brown is a Dorchester resident, Boston Public School educator,
       and building representative with the Boston Teacher's Union. He is an
       anti-war & anti-racist organizer with the ANSWER Coalition, is a
       founding member of Mass Action Against Police Brutality, the Jericho
       Movement Boston Chapter, and a organizer with the Party for Socialism
       and Liberation. Nino focuses on building community power to support
       organized Labor, anti-imperialism and the struggle against white supremacy,
       and ending the US prison and warfare state. Nino is also journalist and
       contributor to Liberation News where he writes about a number of subjects
       pertaining to the global class struggle for socialism and liberation.
       - Mea Johnson is the Lead Organizer with the Restaurant Opportunities
       Center of Boston (ROC Boston), a Restaurant Worker Center that organizes
       for better industry standards. Mea is also an Indigenous Cuisine baker and
       a worker-owner in Olio Catering Co-op.  Mea has been doing grassroots
       organizing in the Boston area for 15 years, as well as organizing with the
       Native community, both locally and nationally.  Mea is a mom, writer and
       artist.
       - Keely Mullen is a member of Socialist Alternative and on the Editorial
       Board for their website and newspaper, also called Socialist Alternative.
       She has done much organizing in the student movement, environmental
       movement, women's movement, and more.

    About our Facilitator:

       - Eddie Carson has been organizing workers, and educating them on the
       need for solidarity while addressing the complexity of intersectional
       struggles during his five-year tenure in Greater Boston. As a trained
       historian, he is a prolific writer on matters regarding American Black
       thought, race, and religion. Currently, he chairs the Communist Party
       USA-Boston and sits on committees for the Boston Socialist Unity Project
       and for the Center for Marxist Education in Cambridge, MA.

    Please note: most of these activities take place at our event space,
    encuentro5 - 9A Hamilton Place, Boston, MA 02108-4701. Other venues may be
    indicated in the text. Note: encuentro5 is *not wheelchair accessible.*
    Until we are able to install a slide lift, folks unable to attend our
    events are welcome to join via conference call and video. Please contact us
    directly and we will work with you to join our conversation -
    info@encuentro5.org.
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