Upcoming Events! ...Chomsky, Pitt and more..........

[paineinthearse]

Received by email from MOBE.

Upcoming Events!

...and there are alot of them!

Here's a quick and I'm sure very incomplete list of events people have asked us to spread the word about, with more details below.

1.Friday, April 29 4:00 pm Holyoke Center MARCH FOR JUSTICE AT HARVARD, Demand Health Care, Living Wage & Union Rights

2.Sunday, May 1: 2:00 p.m. Copley Square. MAY DAY RALLY FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS

3.Sunday, May 1: END THE WAR! ABOLISH NUKES!
NYC March and Rally Against the Iraq War & for Nuclear Disarmament –
Student Scholarship available – contact the Mobe office

4.Monday May 2nd 7:00 pm, Somerville Library The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

5.Tuesday May 3rd 6:60 pm First Parish Church, Harvard Square: Boston Mobe Fundraiser featuring NOAM CHOMSKY, Chip Berlet and Eroc of the Foundation

6.Tuesday, May 3, 6:30 pm, Faneuil Hall Torture and Detention: Is This The American Way?

7.Tuesday, May 10, 7:30 p.m. Corporate Control of the Media featuring Ross Gelbspan and William Rivers PittAlcott School Auditorium, 93 Laurel St., in Concord

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1. S T U D E N T S & W O R K E R S U N I T E !
THIS FRIDAY: MARCH FOR JUSTICE AT HARVARD
Demand Health Care, Living Wage & Union Rights

Friday, April 29
4:00 Rally at the Holyoke Center
1350 Mass Ave. in Cambridge
Across from Harvard Sq T
4:30 March through Harvard Yard

*Because Harvard still won't pay a living wage
to all the workers who make this place run.
*Because they've outsourced 100's of jobs to
outside contractors to bust campus unions.
*Because now Management is denying janitors
one more hour they need on the job to qualify
for health care for them and their families.

Organized by:
Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM)
Service Employee Int Union Local 615 (SEIU)

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2. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
A better world is possible and the people of Venuzuela are doing it
every day! Showing the Astonishing 1 hr. documentary, with Jorge Marin reporting on his recent trip to Venezuela. 79 Highland Ave,Somerville
Date and Time: 05/02/2005, 7:00 PM
Location: Somerville Library
Contact: for more info call 617-776-4704

3. SUNDAY, MAY 1: END THE WAR! ABOLISH NUKES!
NYC March and Rally Against the Iraq War & for Nuclear Disarmament

Mobe has funding available for one student to go to NYC for this event!

Assemble 11AM, 1st Ave North of 50th Street, NYC
March by the United Nations
Rally 2PM at Heckscher Ballfields in Central Park (near Columbus
Circle)

Visit http://www.unitedforpeace.org for details

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4. MAY DAY RALLY FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
May 1, 2005 (this Sunday)
2 p.m.
Copley Square, Boston
(right in front of Trinity Church)

Join folks from over two dozen immigrant, labor, community, and
religious organizations at the May Day Rally for Immigrant Rights!

The event will bring together diverse immigrant and non-immigrant
communities to demand immigration policies that reflect U.S. commitments to human rights and dignity—including offering amnesty to all resident immigrants, ensuring that all residents can qualify for drivers licenses, and affirming the right of immigrants to attend college.

In addition, the rally will protest the increasing criminalization of immigrants since 9/11; explain the many benefits immigrant labor
provides to a flagging Massachusetts economy; and condemn U.S. corporate practices that destroy the economies of the immigrants’ home countries—forcing people to migrate to the U.S. every year in search of economic opportunity, not necessarily out of choice, but rather out of necessity.

Great entertainment too. Vibewise (rocksteady reggae), Rohan Quinn
(traditional Irish), Cuban drum and dance, live capoeira and more!

For more information, or to sign your organization on as a sponsor,
please call 617-338-9966 or [e-mail].

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5. TURN THE TIDE on the Conservative Onslaught!

Featuring:
NOAM CHOMSKY
With
CHIP BERLET of Political Research Associates
and
EROC of the FOUNDATION

Tuesday May 3rd, 6:30 pm
First Parish Church, Cambridge
(Harvard Square)

Join us for an evening with three generations of activists! This
promises to be an incredible event!

Please join us for words of wisdom from our beloved elder and sage,
Noam Chomsky, who never fails to have a revolutionary insight on the
events of the day.

For those of you who have never heard Chip Berlet of Public Research
Associates speak, you’re in for a treat! PRA (www.publiceye.org) provides
those of us who are working on the front lines of the social justice
struggle with the facts we need to fight. His analysis of the youth
organizing done by the conservatives is bone chilling. The truth will set you free – his words are not a paralyzing brick on the prison walls of discouragement, but a clarion call to action!

EROC is a youth organizer and one of the lead rappers for Boston’s best Hip Hop band – the FOUNDATION! The Boston based Foundation has
performed in South Africa, Palestine, Zimbabwe and Cuba and are preparing for another tour of Africa this summer! He's got the gift of words and a lot to say! (www.foundationhiphop.net)

Suggested donations:
$20 Solidarity price
$15 Regular price
$10 Student/low Income

For tickets: Call 617-782-2313
or Send check to:
Boston Mobilization
971 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA, 02215
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6. Torture and Detention: Is This The American Way?
Tuesday, May 3, 6:30 pm Faneuil Hall
(preceded by a 4:30 pm Protest Vigil, organized by Amnesty
International)

with Barbara Olshansky(senior attorney with the Center for
Constitutional Rights and author of Secret Trials and Executions: Military Tribunals and the Threat to Democracy)
Steve Oleskey (attorney for six Guantanamo detainees)
And Erik Saar (former Army translator at Guantanamo Bay and co-author of Inside the Wire, a book describing abuses at the U.S. base)
Discussion moderated by Joshua Rubenstein (Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA)
Sabiha Delic-Ait Idir and Emina Lahmar
(wives of prisoners detained in Bosnia and Guantanamo Bay)]
[e-mail]
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The North Bridge Alliance for Democracy presents:

Corporate Control of the Media
Tuesday, May 10, 7:30 p.m.

William Rivers Pitt and Ross Gelbspan

Join us for two informative talks featuring these nationally-known
author/activists. There will be ample time for questions. Both events take place at the Alcott School Auditorium, 93 Laurel St., in Concord. Everyone is invited and the talks are free.

William Rivers Pitt is managing editor/senior writer for the on-line
journal truthout.org and author of the international best-seller, The War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn¹t Want You to Know. His latest book is The Greatest Sedition is Silence. Greg Palast, an award-winning investigative reporter says ³With the incredible dangers that face America and the global community, the words Mr. Pitt brings today are vital.²

A Journalist’s View of the Climate Crisis” Ross Gelbspan
Tuesday, May 17, 7:30 p.m.

Ross Gelbspan¹s 1995 best-seller, The Heat is On was instrumental in
alerting the public about global warming. Since then he has fought for climate protection programs that defend the planet and promote
sustainable growth. His latest book is Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal,Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster. The Boston Globe called it an urgent, take-no-prisoners, in-your-face expose.

For more information, please call 781-259-1173 or 781-259-8104.

The talks are sponsored by the North Bridge chapter of the Alliance for Democracy, a national organization working to defend our government from corporate control. Co-sponsors include Amnesty International Group 15, The Center for Democracy and the Constitution, Grassroots Action for Peace, Massachusetts Global Action, United for Justice with Peace, Veterans for Peace Chapter 9 and WILPF-Boston.

[mdhunter]

1. Great list of events.