Friday, June 29, 2018

7/04 11th Annual Anti-Imperialist Picnic

Charlie Welch<cwelch@tecschange.org>
To  act-ma@act-ma.org  
Are you sick of all those boring, jingoistic July Fourths you've
suffered through? Do the red, white, and blues bring you down? Left cold
by summertime glorifications of militarism and empire? But you still do
love grilling and relaxing with friends, don't you? Well then, the
Anti-Imperialist Picnic is for you! On July 4th at 12 Noon come on out
to the Allston/Brighton Charles riverside. It will be right next to the
canoe and kayak rental place.

People will meet up to have a picnic and NOT partake in the July 4th
spectacle. We meet on this day to say NO to the U.S. government's
imperial intentions, its war on working people worldwide, and its
exploitative economic system. We come together to show solidarity with
people who are fighting against capitalism, colonialism, imperialism,
racism, patriarchy, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and all other forms
of oppression!

Wed. July 4th   Noon to 4 PM

Meet Boston's Anti-Imperialist Activists
Celebrate Independence for All Peoples
Celebrate the Movement for World Peace

Near Charles River Park, Boston (Allston)
1175A Soldiers Field Rd, Boston, MA 02116

We always have two grills going. One for vegans and another for
conventional food.
Potluck, bring stuff to grill.
Please bring chairs and blankets.
Sunbathe, bring Frisbees, balls, etc.

We will be there early to stake out a picnic table and set up.
Look for our banners.

Please consider asking your organization to
endorse and bring food or beverages to share!

Directions: Head west on Soldiers Field Road. After the Eliot Bridge,
the Charles river will be on your right. Look for the first parking area
to pull off the road. We will be near the Kayak rental area.
If you are coming by public transportation, take bus 70 to Western Ave.
and Everett St. It's about a 10 minute walk. Go down Everett St and turn
right at Soldiers Field Road. It's about 1.3 miles from the Harvard
Square T stop.


https://www.facebook.com/events/1653106588121593/

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This Saturday Lin-Manuel Miranda Speakout on Family Separation

Lin-Manuel Miranda<moveon-help@list.moveon.org>
To     
Dear Alfred,
 
We have two sons. Sebastian is 3, Francisco just 5 months old. I cannot imagine the emotional trauma my boys would experience if they were to be separated from Vanessa and me. But that’s what's happening at our border—forced family separations, denial of due process, imprisonment of kids and parents. To be silent while this takes place in our country is to be an accomplice.
 
I'm headed to Washington, D.C., this Saturday, June 30, to join tens of thousands of people for the Families Belong Together march. It's one of more than 700 events around the country taking place where, together, we will raise our voices loud and clear and call for an end to family separations and the suspension of due process at the border.
 
Click here to find the event closest to you—and please, please, please invite five friends to join in as well, by forwarding this email to them and posting about this day of action on Facebook or Twitter. Grab your neighbors, your extended family, and everyone you see and bring them along on Saturday.
 
I am devastated by the news that keeps coming out. I'm heartbroken that this is being done by our government intentionally and in our name. This is a horrific strategy to terrorize families and criminalize immigrants, instigated by the same people who have ended protected status for people from countries wrecked by natural and political disasters. They have moved to ban Muslims from entering our country. They have said that domestic abuse isn't a reason to grant asylum. 
 
But even as we experience this heartache, I am also blown away by how we have come together at this moment. We are showing up to support these families by the thousands.  
 
Please RSVP to join me on Saturday in Washington, D.C., or to join the event closest to you—and then tell everyone you know to take part. We all need to be there so spread the word, post about this day of action on Facebook and tweet about it—and share this link: familiesbelongtogether.org, where 700+ events are listed. There's one virtually everywhere: in all 50 states, D.C., my beloved Puerto Rico, and more than 350 congressional districts! 
 
People of good conscience from across the country and across the political spectrum agree on this: Families belong together. We've got to make this clear to our government: Reunite families. Close family prison camps. And hold the abusers accountable.
 
 
Siempre,
 
—Lin-Manuel Miranda
 
P.S. Here's a graphic that you can share on Facebook or on Twitter to raise awareness of the Families Belong Together events happening this Saturday. Please do share it!
 
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Families Belong Together

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Report on GN confab in Oxford, England - next 2019 meeting in Russia Global Network

Global Network<globalnet@mindspring.com>
To  Global Network  
Report on GN confab in Oxford, England

Our 26th annual Global Network conference was held from June 22-24 at the Friends Meeting House (Quakers) in Oxford, England.

See a photo display of the week-ends events here

Will Griffin, Mary Beth Sullivan and I went a week early to Leeds (Yorkshire) and GN board convener Dave Webb organized a talk for us over four nights in different places including Edinburgh, Scotland.  At each event we were asked for our reactions to Donald Trump.  Trump will be visiting England in mid-July and protests are planned all over the United Kingdom.

I told people that the one good thing about Trump is that his volatility and his lack of core beliefs will ensure that public opinion around the world will turn against him and the US ensuring the quicker collapse of the US military and economic empire.

Our task here in the US is to help lessen the impact on people and the environment as the inevitable fall takes place.

During our meeting in Oxford (attended by the most diverse group we’ve ever had) it was decided that the theme for our next annual Keep Space for Peace Week (October 6-13) would be the ‘space force’.  We’d like to invite artists to send us design ideas for our space week poster.

Trump’s space force proposal must still be approved by Congress and the Air Force is not happy about the idea since they currently are predominately in charge of Pentagon military space operations.  There is also the issue of regional competition as the space force bill in Congress was introduced by a congressman from Alabama where the Army Space Command is headquartered – at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville.  (This is the place where 100 former Nazi scientists were brought after WW II under Operation Paperclip to create the US space program.)  Huntsville is called the ‘Pentagon of the South’ and was the place we held our Global Network annual meeting last year.

The Air Force Space Command is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado and they have a lot to lose if a new separate space force is created.  So there is much yet to be determined about how this will all work out.

During our Oxford meeting we decided to hold our 2019 GN conference in Moscow with a side-trip study tour to Crimea afterward.  We don’t have a fixed date yet but will likely go there in the spring (April or May) and would anticipate making the trip about eight days long.  One could choose to come to just the Moscow part or the Crimea leg of the journey – or both.

We are deeply concerned about steroidal NATO expansion and US ‘missile defense’ deployments ringing the Russian borders.  We feel that citizen diplomacy is needed now more than ever between Russia and the west as a new Cold War is underway and updated weapons technologies make nuclear war more likely than ever.  In recent years we have developed some good contacts which make a meeting in Russia possible.

Let us know if you might be interested in making the trip with us to Russia.  We’ll likely take 25 people.  I will do my best to raise funds to help defray some of the costs for lodging, local transport and interpreters.

Some of the things we anticipate doing while in Moscow and Crimea include: Meeting with military experts; meetings with students, veterans, journalists and activists; cultural experiences and museums; meeting with Crimean Tartar leaders; and much more.

Thanks go to our wonderful hosts in Oxford who made our meeting there a special one.  We gave our ‘Peace in space’ award to the Oxfordshire Peace Campaign in recognition of their steady and important work around the expanding US base at Croughton – a key intelligence, surveillance and war fighting operations installation.
 
 
Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
http://www.space4peace.org 
http://space4peace.blogspot.com  (blog)

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.  ~ Henry David Thoreau
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