Monday, March 04, 2019

3/08 Venezuela: Law, Democracy and Open Government with Eva Golinger

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3/08 Venezuela: Law, Democracy and Open Government March 8 @ 12:00 pm -
1:00 pm Eva Golinger

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Featuring attorney Eva Golinger, this event will discuss the state of democracy and open government in Venezuela between the current government and the opposition, the legitimacy of U.S. interventions there, and the relationship between democratic institutions in the U.S. and abroad. Copies of Ms. Golinger’s most recent book, Confidante of Tyrants, will be for sale at the event. Lunch will be served.


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Day 2 of the 4 for Fair Food Tour builds momentum with powerful support from North Carolina’s communities of faith! Coalition of Immokalee Workers

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Today, we are in solidarity with farmworkers, who through the work of their hands have blessed our plates with tomatoes. They are here because they are also victims of a generation that has been corrupted, and through its selfishness, seems unable to share its resources in order to dignify their work. We are here to support and walk with you. We will leave this room ready to take responsibility for our generation. We will do everything possible so that our communities will no longer suffer from racism, discrimination and abuse. The Apostle Paul summed it up for us: We are gardeners and field workers, laboring together with God.
Following lunch at the United Church of Chapel Hill, CIW’s Julia de la Cruz and several tour participants headed to the next stop: St. Thomas More Catholic Church (which also hosted the full tour for a delicious dinner that same evening!). Following a warm welcome for Julia and other tour participants, church leaders invited the room of over 350 parishioners to the upcoming action...
Head over to the CIW website to watch the video from last night's vigil and enjoy the full photo report!
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3/12 Why The Revolution Still Matters with Professor Aviva Chomsky

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Cambridge Public Library International Briefing
Cuba: Why The Revolution Still Matters with Professor Aviva Chomsky
Tuesday, March 12, 6:30 PM
Main Library, 449 Broadway, Lecture Hall , Cambridge


While the U.S. media may portray Cuba as a crumbling relic of
twentieth-century socialism, it is in fact a dynamic and vibrant country
that has both changed drastically in the past three decades, and
continues to engage with local, regional, and global events in
significant ways. We will look at the changes that have been happening
in Cuba and explore how studying the Cuban Revolution can help us
understand Latin American politics, migration, violence, global trade
and economic issues, race, U.S. foreign policy, economic development,
and more

Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American,
Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Salem State University in
Massachusetts. Her books include /Undocumented: How Immigration Became
Illegal/ (Beacon Press, 2014; Mexican edition, 2014), /A History of the
Cuban Revolution/ (2011, 2^nd ed. 2015), /Linked Labor Histories: New
England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class/ (2008),
/They Take Our Jobs! And Twenty Other Myths about Immigration/ (2007;
U.S. Spanish edition 2011, Cuban edition 2013), and /West Indian Workers
and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940/ (1996). She has
also co-edited several anthologies including /The People behind
Colombian Coal: Mining, Multinationals and Human Rights/Bajo el manto
del carbón: Pueblos y multinacionales en las minas del Cerrejón,
Colombia/(2007), /The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics/ (2003,
2^nd edition 2019) and /Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the
Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic
Caribbean/ (1998). She has been active in Latin America solidarity and
immigrants’ rights movements for several decades.

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Venezuela: Sanctions, Elections and Attempted Coup Will the crisis lead to war? March 5 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Community Church of Boston 565 Boylston Street, Boston (Copley station on the Green line

Come Tuesday night to get the historical background we need to fight against this classic U.S. coup in Venezuela.
“Make the economy scream” ordered the Nixon Administration in organizing the coup against Allende in Chile on September 11, 1973
Venezuela: Sanctions, Elections and Attempted Coup
Will the crisis lead to war?
March 5 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston Street, Boston (Copley station on the Green line
The US is trying to overthrow the Maduro government with military threats, economic warfare and diplomatic isolation.  But the solutions for the problems in Venezuela are for the Venezuelans to decide.  The peace movement must oppose US intervention and support a resolution through peaceful dialogue!
Rev. Mike Clark will speak on “Venezuela vs. the Empire: A Coup 21 Years in the Making“.  He is the Recovery Outreach Worker at the Belmont-Watertown United Methodist Church. For the last 17 years, he has sought to be an ally to those struggling with addiction and seeking to live new lives.  He has worked with hundreds and hundreds of addicts in a setting where nearly 1,000 men and women in 24 different 12-Step meetings work to stay clean and sober one day at a time.
Ordained in 1975, for much of his career he has focused on peace and justice concerns. From 1965 to 1975 he was active in the antiwar movement in high school, college, and seminary. From 1978-1983 he was the Co-Director of the Riverside Church Disarmament Program, working with Rev. William Sloane Coffin on nuclear disarmament and East-West issues. From 1987-1993 he worked with Witness for Peace, including three years as the Executive Director. During those years, 4,000 US citizens were taken to active war zones in Nicaragua, and the organization expanded its operations to Guatemala and Chiapas. He hs been arrested 14 times over the years in nonviolent direct actions aimed at US nuclear and foreign policy.
 From 2004 to 2014 he made seven visits to Venezuela, including two appearances as a guest on the late Hugo Chavez television program, “Alo Presidente.” During these trips, he was able to see firsthand the positive developments of the Chavez years and the manifold forms of US
intervention designed to thwart these developments.
Daniel Kovalik currently teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.  He also served for over 25 years as Associate General Counsel of the United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO (USW). He began working for the USW after graduating from Columbia Law School in 1993. While with the USW, he served as lead counsel on cutting-edge labor law litigation, including the landmark NLRB cases of Lamons Gasket and Specialty Health Care. He has also worked on Alien Tort Claims Act cases against The Coca-Cola Company, Drummond and Occidental Petroleum – cases arising out of egregious human rights abuses in Colombia. The Christian Science Monitor, referring to his work defending Colombian unionists under threat of assassination, recently described Mr. Kovalik as “one of the most prominent defenders of Colombian workers in the United States.” Mr. Kovalik received the David W. Mills Mentoring Fellowship from Stanford University School of Law and was the recipient of the Project Censored Award for his article exposing the unprecedented killing of trade unionists in Colombia. He has written extensively on the issue of international human rights and U.S. foreign policy for the Huffington Post and Counterpunch and has lectured throughout the world on these subjects.  
The books he has written are: The Plot to Attack Iran: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Iran; The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Putin,  and The Plot to Control the World: How the US Spent Billions to Change the Outcome of Elections Around the World
More information: 617 354 2169
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Bernie understands the real issues that Americans talk about around the dinner table Michael Bennett

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Friends,
I supported Senator Bernie Sanders for president in 2016 because we needed an unflinching vision for transforming our world that includes people of all identities and backgrounds.
In 2020 I believe the same.
It has been 400 years since my ancestors were shackled in boats and brought here across the Atlantic Ocean; 51 years since Martin Luther King was assassinated; 11 years since Barack Obama was elected; and for the past 3 years we have experienced the disastrous Trump effect. The time is now, not just for change, but for transformation. No more waiting. It’s time to act for the future of our children.
Bernie understands the real issues that Americans face and talk about around the dinner table: from bail reform to the mass incarceration of Brown and Black people; from stopping the attacks on immigrants to the need for a living wage; from the lack of funding in marginalized schools, to the increased gun violence in our communities; from ensuring health care for everyone, to wiping out student debt and making college affordable for all. Bernie has bold ideas about how to create a future where young people have the opportunity to thrive.
But Bernie Sanders alone can’t bring resources into every underserved community. We need to connect with each other in solidarity, stand together, and continue to fight for what’s right. Black, brown, and white, regardless of our gender we ALL have a voice — LET IT ROAR!
Let it be known that we will stand together and continue to fight for what’s right.
You can’t build a movement by yourself — it takes legions of people like you who want to build it. We all need sisters and brothers willing to carry the bricks and the mortar. And we need everyone to offer up their special skills.

Our Revolution is helping to do the down and dirty movement work to connect people and energize them around the issues that matter most.
It’s through the suffering of our ancestors that we learn our biggest lesson of why we must be committed—Justice.
Like 1968 Olympian John Carlos always says, “There is no partial commitment to justice. You are either in or you’re out.”
In solidarity,
Michael Bennett
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