Information, activism & resistance to U.S. militarism, war & corporate greed, linking with struggles against racism & oppression within the United States
Right now, people of conscience from Asia, Africa and Europe are headed to Jerusalem to stand in solidarity with Palestinians suffering under Israeli apartheid and colonialism.
The historic day 30th March marks Palestine Land Day in Palestinian national memory. The march’s aim is to mark it as an international event to demonstrate solidarity with Palestinians and to protect Jerusalem. The march will demand freedom for Jerusalem and its people and to put an end to the Apartheid, ethnic cleansing and policies affecting the people, land and sanctity of Jerusalem.
Since 1948, Israel has steadily eaten away at Palestinian communities and replaced them with Israeli colonial entities.To this very day, Israel expels Palestinians from their homes, demolishes homes, and colonizes whole neighborhoods. East Jerusalem is under attack from right wing settlers supported and protected by the government. It is slow but steady ethnic cleansing.
Join us in Boston to stand in solidarity with this global effortto bring justice to Palestine and to end US and Israeli aggression against Iran.
Sponsored by Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights (BCPR), Boston United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), the International Action Center (IAC), the Palestine Task Force of United for Justice with Peace, Boston University Students for Justice for Palestine, Veterans for Peace, Chapter 9, Smedley Butler Brigade
Bail out Women and Our Communities, Not the Banks!
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Women in our communities are in the forefront of the Struggle - Locally & Globally
Join in the open mic discussion on how to push the struggle forward;
We Demand Justice for Trayvon Martin, his family and community!
Stop the Racist 3 Strikes and Anti-immigrant Legislation
JOBS with Union Wages or a Livable Income for All!
Defend Reproductive Rights, We Won’t Go Back!
Hands Off our Post Offices! No Closings or Layoffs!
Equal, Quality Education is a Right! Stop the Privatization of Public Education!
Stop Foreclosures and Evictions! Affordable Housing for All!
End Racism, Sexism, LGBT Oppression, Poverty, Budget Cuts and War!
SOLIDARITY IS OUR MOST POTENT WEAPON!!!
A militant movement led by women changes history!
“Now You Have Touched The Women
You Have Struck A Rock
You Have Dislodged A Boulder
You Will Be Crushed”
(Women of the African National Congress)
“I have come to believe over and over again
that what is most important to me must be spoken,
made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.”-
-Audre Lorde
"Another world is not only possible, but she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing." -Arundhati Roy
Globalize Women’s Solidarity! Every Issue is a Women’s Issue!
International Working Women’s Day—March 8—has been celebrated around the world for over a century. The day commemorates protests by women garment workers in New York City against starvation pay and brutal conditions.
This year also marks the 100th anniversary of the famous eight week “Bread and Roses” strike inLawrence, Massachusetts. There textile workers, a majority of them immigrant women and children, struck when their hours and pay were reduced. They won a pay increase while keeping the reduction in hours. 75 years ago women were indispensable to the great sit-down movement—not only as the spouses and family members of male autoworkers but women who worked in Detroit’s factories and department stores.
Working class women today are still making history. Some are leaders in the Occupy movement and others are fighting for and winning the right to stay in their homes. Women are leaders in the immigrant rights movement. They are fighting to organize unions, defend their JOBS, protect affirmative action, fight for healthcare and stop racist legislation like the 3 Strikes Bill in MA All around the world women are resisting, from the Israeli occupation of Palestine, to the death squad dictatorships in Colombia and Honduras, to the general strikes rocking Greece.
We won’t wait another century! We demand bread and roses—and jobs, peace, housing, education, equality, union wages and a whole lot more—right now!
Join us in celebrating the women of the working class, who made and are still making history.
Calling All Occupy4Jobs, Labor, LGBTQ, anti-War and Progressive Activists!
Join the Veterans for Peace "St. Patrick's Peace Parade"
This Sunday, March 18th
Gather 1:00 PM
on D Street and West Broadway
(4 blocks from the Broadway MBTA red line stop) http://mapq.st/zg3E5m
Look for the "Labor Contingent" sound truck.
In 1993, the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council, sponsors of the official South Boston St. Patrick's Day parade, won a reactionary Supreme Court ruling allowing it to discriminate against and bar LGBTQ individuals and organizations, and anyone else it's private, for profit, bank-sponsored parade wishes, including veterans and unionists who are opposed to war.
Through determined action and a local court offensive of its own, the Smedley D. Butler Brigade of the Veterans for Peace has won, for the second year, a permit to march the same route in South Boston on the same day. They have invited all their allies - LGBTQ organizations, Labor, the Occupy Boston movement, and progressive, peace loving people from all quarters - to join them as an alternative and challenge to the official, militaristic, bigoted Allied War Veterans Council display.
See a history of the struggle, fliers, and more information on the VFP website:
Boston "Occupy 4 Jobs!" will join with the Labor Contingent and unionists from USW Local 8751, the Boston school bus drivers, UNITE HERE, SEIU, the BTU and many others. Look for the school bus drivers' sound truck.
The Vets for Peace parade will form up this year on D Street near West Broadway, between 1st Street and Third Street, at 1:00 PM. Please note that this Start Location is a new change. The staging site is 3 blocks east from the Broadway MBTA red line stateion, and VFP guides will be there to direct you to the staging area. For complete logistics and driving directions, please download the following .pdf from Vets for Peace:
The Vets for Peace have stood with Labor and our communities in the front lines of our battles against corporate greed, discrimination and bigotry.
It's time again to stand with the Vets for Peace!
Bring your signs & banners, union colors and spirit, and let it be known far and wide,
"Which Side Are You On!".
EMERGENCY MCKINNEY LIBYA REPORTBACK LOCATION AND TIME CHANGE:
5 PM SATURDAY AUGUST 6
ST. KATHERINE DREXEL CHURCH
517 BLUE HILL AVENUE
ROXBURY, MA 02120
(In Grove Hall - at Schuyler St between Warren St and Seaver St on Blue Hill Avenue)
(from Ruggles or Dudley take bus #22, #23 or #28 -- from Jackson Square, take bus #22)
Ample parking
Hear former U.S. Congressperson Cynthia McKinney, recently returned from leading a delegation to Libya during the U.S. bombing
Report on Millions Marching in Harlem • Sat • AUG •13
ASSEMBLING ON MALCOLM X BLVD AT 110TH STREET, HARLEM, NEW YORK
More than 120 days of U.S./NATO bombing of Libya
1 cruise missile could pay 10 teachers for a year.
We need jobs, health care & education, not budget cuts, prisons and war.
The national 15-city educational & fundraising Report from LIBYA tour with Cynthia McKinney is organized by International Action Center, www.IACenter.org in coordination with many antiwar and community organizations from July 7 to August 24, 2011.
Boston program is in cosponsored by the International Action Center; Fanmi Lavalas Boston; Boston United National Antiwar Commitee; Minister Don Mohammad, Temple 11, Nation of Islam*;Veterans for Peace, Chapter 9, Smedley Butler Brigade; Chelsea Uniting Against the War; Women's Fightback Network, SistaCipher; Politicin' with the Sistas; United American Indians of New England, Bishop Filipe Teixeira, OFSJC, Diocese of St Francis of Assisi, CCA; Steve Gillis, VP,USW 8751 Boston School Bus Union; Ed Childs, Chief Shop Steward, UNITE-HERE local 26*, N'COBRA (Reparations), Manchester NH (*= for id only) (list in formation - to cosponsor call 617-522-6626).
STOP U.S./NATO
WAR ON LIBYA
For information in Boston call: 617-522-6626 or go to www.iacboston.org
For more information and a complete list of cities or to help donate for the tour expenses see: www.IACenter.orgor call: 212-633-6646Labor donated 7/11
KEEP CHUCK TURNER OUT OF JAIL! Chuck addresses supporters at Roxbury District Office, Oct 30, 2010
Sign the ONLINE PETITION!
go to iacboston.org/chucktjudgepetition.html
to
Tell U.S. District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock to KEEP CHUCK
OUT OF JAIL!
Community Rallies to Support Chuck Turner To learn more or to donate to help retire the $180,000 debt owed Chuck and his wife Terri for the maintenance of the District 7 office in Roxbury, go to SupportChuckTurner.com
JOIN with the
IAC/BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE MOVEMENT Contingent
to SAY NO TO ARIZONA'S RACIST SB1070 ANTI-IMMIGRANT LAW
Sat., July 10 - 12 a.m.
Copley Square, Boston
March to Governors' Conference at
Sheraton Boston to Protest presence of
Arizona Gov Jan Brewer
NO WORKER IS ILLEGAL - LEGALIZATION NOW!
initiated and endorsed by dozens of immigrant rights and social justice organizations including the Answer Coalition, the Student Immigrant Movement, the Boston Mayday Committee, the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA), Deported Diaspora, Rev. Filipe Teixeira, OFSJC, Coalition for Equal Quality Education, Bail Out the People Movement, the International Action Center, and many more.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN Online petition to send messages saying NO RACIST ANTI-IMMIGRANT ARIZONA-STYLE LAWS to the Obama Administration and the Governors, Congressional Delegations and Legislatures of all states where such laws are pending!
May 31 — A firestorm of condemnation and protest has followed
Israel’s latest brutality — the massacre of at least 9 unarmed
activists by the Israeli navy in international waters north of Gaza. The
activists were part of a 750-member delegation on a six-boat flotilla
attempting to bring humanitarian aid to the besieged people of Gaza.The Freedom Flotilla was the largest attempt to date in the growing movement
to break a three-year blockade of Gaza by Israel. Led by the Free Gaza Movement
and Insani Yardim Vakfi, a Turkish organization, the flotilla carried some
10,000 tons of humanitarian aid, including medical and construction supplies.
Representing 40 different countries, participants in the international
delegation included 85-year-old Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, and government
diplomats from various countries. ...
Why is the largest military machine on the planet unable to
defeat the resistance in Afghanistan, in a war that has lasted longer
than World War II or Vietnam?
Afghanistan ranks among the poorest and most
underdeveloped countries in the world today. It has one of the shortest life
expectancy rates, highest infant mortality rates and lowest rates of literacy.The
total U.S. military budget has more than doubled from the beginning of this war in
2001 to the $680 billion budget signed by President Barack Obama Oct. 28. The U.S.
military budget today is larger than the military budgets of the rest of the world
combined. The U.S. arsenal has the most advanced high-tech weapons. ...
Black Educators’ Alliance of Massachusetts (BEAM); Work-4-Quality Schools; Boston
Parents Organizing Network (BPON); USW L. 8751 Boston School Bus Drivers; Councilors Chuck
Turner, Charles Yancey, and Sam Yoon; Minister Don Muhammad; Bail Out the People Movement;
Women’s Fightback Network; New England Human Rights Organization for Haiti; Bishop
Felipe Teixeira, OFSJC; Community Change; Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST); Union of Minority Neighborhoods
May 14, 2009 - Community Summit
Equity & Access to a Quality Education is a Right!
On May 14, 2009 approximately 200 hundred parents, students, teachers, community activists, and trade
unionists held a Community Summit at Roxbury Community College to discuss and organize a fightback against
the attempts by Menino and the Boston School Committee to re-segregate public schools in Boston. Called by
the Coalition for Equal Quality Education this Summit announced plans for a demonstration at the Boston
School Committee (26 Court St.) on June 3 at 5:30 pm to demand Equity & Access to a Quality Education is
a Right! Stop the Re-Segregation of the Boston Public School System! Excellence & Equity for all students
in all schools! Funding for Programs and Staff (no layoffs)!
The Coalition for Equal Quality Education includes: Black Educators’ Alliance of Massachusetts (BEAM);
Work-4-Quality Schools; Boston Parents Organizing Network (BPON); USW L. 8751 Boston School Bus Drivers;
Councilors Chuck Turner, Charles Yancey, and Sam Yoon; Minister Don Muhammad; Bail Out the People Movement;
Women’s Fightback Network; New England Human Rights Organization for Haiti; Bishop Felipe Teixeira, OFSJC;
Community Change; Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST); Union of Minority Neighborhoods
The International Action Center (IAC) was launched in 1992
by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and many
others who had worked together against the Gulf War.
Information, Activism, and Resistance to U.S.
Militarism, War, and Corporate Greed,
Linking with Struggles Against Racism and Oppression
within the United States
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