Tuesday, April 23, 2019

5/1: Health & Racial Justice with Dr. Mary Bassett

Nilagia McCoy<nilagia@gmail.com>
To  act-ma@act-ma.org  
Hello,

Sending along an event that may be of interest to people in the health and
activism spaces.

*The 2019 Hubie Jones Lecture in Urban Health with Dr. Mary T. Bassett: An
Unbroken Thread: The Pursuit of Health, Equity, and Racial Justice*

Wednesday, May 1, 2019, 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Boston University Kilachand Center, 610 Commonwealth Ave.

Dr. Bassett, director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and
Human Rights at Harvard University and former commissioner of health for
New York City, will review the enduring impact of the color line on
national and urban health. This year—2019—marks 400 years since the first
African arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, to be sold into bondage. She will
discuss how the revived commitment to racial/ethnic equity in health,
particularly in cities, draws on a long history. Dr. Bassett will argue
that strategies to promote equity are necessary not only for democracy with
justice, but for the pursuit of technical excellence.

1.5 social work continuing education credit hours available. Presented by
the Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health <https://ciswh.org/> at
Boston University's School of Social Work.

Register + more info:
https://ciswh.org/2019-hubie-jones-lecture-with-dr-mary-t-bassett/

Nilagia McCoy

Communications Manager, Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health
Boston University School of Social Work

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Hear retired U.S. Army officer on the true role of our military in Mid-East Massachusetts Peace Action

Massachusetts Peace Action Brian Garvey<info@masspeaceaction.org>
To  Al Johnson  
Dear Al,
Massachusetts Peace Action continues its Distinguished Peacemaker events for 2019 with a veteran of Iraq and Afganistan who had the courage to speak out against the endless wars and militarism while still an active duty officer.  Just retired from the U.S. Army, 35 year old Major Danny Sjursen is an outspoken, dissident soldier now entering a new life as a full-time peace activist. From his most recent article "The Forever Wars Go On Without Me" (Apr. 3, 2019): "I think of this as my last piece authored as an active military dissenter — a clearing of the air — before moving on to a life of activism, as well as an unarmed life of words." Join us on Thursday April 25th from 7-9PM at 11 Garden Street ,Cambridge, to welcome this warrior for peace to our team.

Is The U.S. a Force for Good in the Mid-East?

Hear -

Major Danny Sjursen

 

Thursday April 25
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm


First Church 11 Garden St., Cambridge, 02138

 

Still Trapped in a Greater Middle Eastern Quagmire, the U.S. Military Prepares for Global Combat

Danny Sjursen
Major Danny Sjursen (U.S. Army -ret.) will survey U.S. regional interventions since 9/11 and intersperse his analysis of the counterproductiveness and criminality of these actions with his own personal journey from a promising military career to a life of dissent while on active duty.
Danny Sjursen is a retired U.S. Army Major and regular contributor to Antiwar .com, Truthdig, The Nation, Tom Dispatch, The Huffington Post, and The Hill.  His work has also appeared in Harper’s, The LA Times, and Buzz Feed. He served combat tours with reconnaissance units in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at his alma mater, West Point. He is the author of a memoir and critical analysis of the Iraq War, Ghost Riders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge (2015).  He co-hosts the progressive veterans’ podcast “Fortress on a Hill.”  Follow him on Twitter at @SkepticalVet.
Recent articles:  “The Israel Liability: Moral and Strategic Hazards of an Ill-Advised Alliance” (March 12, 2019); “Planet of War” (Nov. 20, 2018) ; “The World According to the ‘Adults in the Room’: A Year of Forever War in Review" (Dec. 23, 2018); “An Officer’s Path to Dissent” (Jan. 3, 2018); “I was an Army grunt at the pointy end of the American spear. But no longer” (Mar. 31, 2019).  Video: “US Hegemony in the Middle East” (July 5, 2018)
This event is part of the Distinguished Peacebuilder Series.   Tickets $10 for members, $20 for non-members, $5 for students, $75 for supporters. (No one turned away) Reserve tickets online.
 
Yours for Peace,
Brian Garvey
Organizer



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Trump Dares Congress to Impeach Him RootsAction Team

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Trump is daring us to compel Congress to impeach him -- and we're not referring in any way to the Mueller report. 

Tell your Representative to get on with it by clicking here.

Adding to his long list of impeachable offenses, Trump has openly advertised his lawlessness.

First he reportedly told Border Patrol agents to defy U.S. law and refuse to allow migrants into the United States.

Then, according to reports, he instructed those agents to lie to a judge if charged with violating the law. "If judges give you trouble, say, 'Sorry, judge, I can't do it. We don't have the room,'" said Trump. (As soon as he left, Border Patrol officials had to explain to their agents that, contrary to the President's instructions, they are required to obey the law.)

Next, Trump is reported to have promised Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan that he would grant him a pardon if he were sent to jail for having border agents block asylum seekers from entering the United States in defiance of US law.

What will Trump dare to try next? Imagine the worst. As long as he understands that he is immune from impeachment, there are no checks and balances. Demand the transformation of this status quo by clicking here.

Trump has also continued to promote his policy of separating infants and children from families and even proposed shipping imprisoned refugees to and releasing them in particular parts of the United States for reasons of electoral politics, not human welfare.

Impeachment is not a choice. It is a necessary restraint on an out-of-control Executive Branch of the U.S. government. The damage that branch of government can do dwarfs what it has thus far done. The time to rein it in is now. Click here.

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It begins Socialist Alternative

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Please see below for an update on the campaign to re-elect Socialist Alternative Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant.
Al,
What’s at stake in this year’s elections is who runs Seattle: Amazon and big business, or working people. And already, Amazon has begun to weigh in. The Seattle Times reported this week that Amazon dumped a whopping $200,000 into the Chamber of Commerce’s corporate PAC, CASE.

The Chamber of Commerce’s corporate PAC now has a war chest of almost $500,000. But this is just a start. “It’s a big deal contribution, let’s not sugarcoat it,” said one Seattle political insider quoted in the Seattle Times. “When a company like Amazon makes a statement like that, other businesses peg the amount they give to that, which bodes well for CASE.”

We can expect a relentless corporate onslaught this year against Kshama Sawant, who has been fighting fearlessly to Tax Amazon and has spearheaded a series of major victories for working people in Seattle which have angered big business.

Can you chip in $50 today beat back the corporate PAC?

As CASE’s Executive Director, Markham McIntyre, explained: “They’re the city’s largest employer...they’re really focused on supporting candidates who are accountable.” Of course what big business means by this is candidates and politicians who are “accountable” to them. Councilmember Kshama Sawant has proven over and over that you can’t serve two bosses: elected officials cannot be accountable to working people and to corporate giants like Amazon at the same time.

Last year, Jeff Bezos threatened 7,000 jobs to try to defeat the Amazon Tax, then applied intensive backroom pressure to force its repeal a month after it was unanimously passed by the City Council — and just a few weeks ago, he announced that he’s moving the jobs anyway! We need more, not fewer, working-class representatives like Kshama who will stand up to corporate bullying. But to stop Amazon and big business from buying this year’s elections, we need your help.

Corporate executives can flood hundreds of thousands of dollars into a corporate PAC overnight. Even $200,000 is just a drop in the bucket for Amazon: Jeff Bezos alone makes that back in less than 2 minutes! As always, Kshama Sawant is not for sale to big business, corporate lobbyists, and CEOs. This campaign is funded entirely on tremendous sacrifice from lots of working people, and we’re proud to say that over 1,000 people have already chipped in.

Every donation, from $5 to $500, adds up. Please dig deep today and donate to re-elect Kshama Sawant.
 
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*Songs To While Away The Class Struggle By- Donagh McDonagh's "James Larkin"

Click on the title to link to a "YouTube " film clip of Patty Reilly performing "Jim Larkin" ( different song about Larkin than the lyrics printed below).

In this series, presented under the headline “Songs To While Away The Class Struggle By”, I will post some songs that I think will help us get through the “dog days” of the struggle for our communist future. I do not vouch for the political thrust of the songs; for the most part they are done by pacifists, social democrats, hell, even just plain old ordinary democrats. And, occasionally, a communist, although hard communist musicians have historically been scarce on the ground. Thus, here we have a regular "popular front" on the music scene. While this would not be acceptable for our political prospects, it will suffice for our purposes here.

James Larkin
(Donagh McDonagh)

In Dublin City in nineteen thirteen
The boss was rich and the poor were slaves
The women working and children starving
Then on came Larkin like a mighty wave
The workers cringed when the boss man thundered
Seventy hours was his weekly chore
He asked for little and less was granted
Lest given little then he'd ask for more

In the month of August the boss man told us
No union man for him could work
We stood by Larkin and told the boss man
We'd fight or die, but we wouldn't shirk
Eight months we fought and eight months we starved
We stood by Larkin through thick and thin
But foodless homes and the crying of children
It broke our hearts, we just couldn't win

Then Larkin left us, we seemed defeated
The night was black for the working man
But on came Connolly with new hope and counsel
His motto was that we'd rise again
In nineteen sixteen in Dublin City
The English soldiers they burnt our town
The shelled our buildings and shot our leaders
The Harp was buried 'neath the bloody crown

They shot McDermott and Pearse and Plunkett
They shot McDonagh and Clarke the brave
From bleak Kilmainham they took Ceannt's body
To Arbour Hill and a quicklime grave
But last of all of the seven heroes
I sing the praise of James Connolly
The voice of justice, the voice of freedom
He gave his life, that man might be free
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Tell Congress: Sign On to Stand Against Nuclear War Mass Peace Action

Mass Peace Action Jerald Ross<info@masspeaceaction.org>
To  Al Johnson  

Urgent Action Needed to Prevent Nuclear War

Dear Al,
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President Trump is pushing the world ever closer to Armageddon with his reckless withdrawal from the INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty) and illegal efforts to destroy the Iran nuclear agreement.
Fortunately, Massachusetts Senators Markey and Warren, and Congressional Representatives McGovern and Clark, are stepping up to this challenge. But the rest of our Congressional delegation has not yet cosponsored the bills they have offered.  We need Mass. Peace Action members to urge the rest of our Representatives to join in these courageous efforts.
Three bills have been introduced to literally bring us “Back from the Brink” by establishing a policy of no first use of nuclear weapons by the United States, de-alerting our nuclear missiles, and canceling the insane $1.5 Trillion plan to build up our nuclear arsenal.   Please write your House representative today to support these important bills.
Senator Ed Markey, along with California Representative Ted Lieu in the House, have reintroduced their bills (HR 669/S 200)to prohibit the President from conducting a “first-use nuclear strike unless expressly authorized to do so by a Congressional declaration of war.”  Reps. McGovern and Clark have signed on so far this year. If your representative is missing contact him/her and tell them to support Senator Markey. There is no reason why this bill, which signifies real resistance to our impulsive president, is not co-sponsored by every member of the Massachusetts delegation. The only thing lacking is public pressure. 
Another critical piece of legislation is Senator Elizabeth Warren and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith’s No First Use Bill, (HR 921/S 272). This historic bill states simply and powerfully “It is the policy of the United States to not use nuclear weapons first.” Only Representative McGovern has stepped forward to cosponsor this legislation. Where are the rest of our delegation? Senator Warren and Representative McGovern need our support. If you’re in another district, contact your rep and explain that any use of nuclear weapons would be both genocidal and suicidal and you DEMAND they get behind this bill.
In a remarkable show of political courage, Representative McGovern (D–2nd District)  has introduced legislation, H Res. 302. This bill embraces the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and unequivocally states that nuclear weapons “pose an intolerable risk to human survival.” It calls on the President to “make nuclear disarmament the centerpiece of the national security policy of the United States,” curtails the president’s authority to unilaterally launch a nuclear strike, and establishes a no first use policy for our country. These are all fundamental steps towards nuclear disarmament. Contact Jim McGovern’s office to commend him on his courage and insight and then thank him personally by coming to the State Peace and Justice Organizing Conference in Worcester on May 11th where he will be the keynote speaker. In the meantime, if you live in another district, it is critical to contact your legislator to ask them to sign on as a cosponsor of this bill. Representative McGovern is out there all alone at this point.
Jerald RossYours for Peace,
Jerald Ross
Nuclear Disarmament Working Group


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