NYC Grassroots Media Conference

Please join us at the 2005 NYC Grassroots Media Conference sponsored by New School University Department of Media Studies

April 9-10

The NYC Grassroots Media Conference is an annual gathering of community-oriented media in New York City and their allies during the weekend of April 9-10, 2005 at New School University to:

* promote awareness of the grassroots media in New York City,
* strengthen and unify our citys independent media, and
* create strong bonds between community groups and local grassroots media groups

To read about the RNC Independent Media Center please visit our Past Projects Page

Location:
New School University, New York

URL: http://www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org/

Music for Peace

The Music for Peace Project 2005

Join a global network of concerts for peace!

April 8 - 10 Stony Brook University and Worldwide

The Music for Peace Project is an unprecedented global effort to fill the world with music as a call for peace. Through the simultaneous performance of a vast number of concerts worldwide during the weekend of April 8-10, 2005, The Music for Peace Project will bring popular and media attention to international peace efforts while building a global community of active, socially conscious artists. Dedicated to cultivating peace as both a means and an end, The Music for Peace Project is a global celebration of peace, uniting a vibrant community that believes in peaceful solutions for the future.
Last February, The Music for Peace Project 2004 sponsored 70 concerts in 13 countries in 50 hours during the first annual Music for Peace Project. This international, non-partisan call for peace included music from around the world and was shared with audiences as diverse as the music itself.

Music has the power to inspire compassion and foster understanding between cultures while deepening the bonds that form our communities. Please consider joining this effort and help create a global community of musicians united in the active quest for peace.

Location:
Stony Brook University and Worldwide

Organizer:

URL: http://www.m4p.org

Non-Profit Leadership Training

Two Low-Cost Non-Profit Leadership Training Weekends in New England

The Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program at Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, NH is sponsoring two weekend seminars this Spring that are available for a low sliding scale fee of $25 to $250 per weekend to nonprofit staff members from groups working on environmental protection, corporate accountability, and/or social justice issues.

1) BASIC LEADERSHIP SKILLS -- April 9-10, 9am-4:30pm

* Leadership styles (how to get a variety of folks to work together
effectively )
* Leadership responsibilities (and how to juggle them all)
* Growing your organization
* Building a board/leadership team
* Volunteer recruitment and management
* Staff supervision
* Time management, planning, and avoiding burnout
* Creating an entrepreneurial organization

2) FUNDRAISING, MARKETING, AND FINANCIAL SKILLS
April 30-May 1, 9am-4:30pm

* Program planning for fundraising
* Grantseeking
* Donor fundraising, including soliciting major gifts
* Board and volunteer roles in fundraising
* Financial management: the basics
* Message development and marketing for grassroots groups

THE TRAINER

Andy Robinson, author of Grassroots Grants, Selling Social Change (Without Selling Out), and the forthcoming Big Gifts for Small Groups, is the instructor. Andy has led workshops in 40 states and Canada for a wide range of social justice, human rights, and environmental conservation groups.

SOME ADDITIONAL DETAILS

These workshops are part of an ongoing Nonprofit Leadership and Management class for Antioch students, but we are opening additional slots in the two weekend training sessions to the nonprofit community in New England. Community participants do not need to attend both workshops, but we are looking for people who can commit to at least one full weekend. The training weekends will be held at the Antioch campus in Keene, NH.

Location:
Antioch, Keene, NH

URL: http://www.antiochne.edu/es/EAO_home.cfm

Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet

Time is TBA

Hopeful Changes -- Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet and Hope’s Edge

A year-long study and action program growing out of the 2003 nation-wide Pendle Hill Quaker gathering on Economics, Ecology, and Public Policy.

Based on the premise that intensifying ecomomic / social inequities in the world cause structural and physical violence, drive many species to extinction, and lead our species to ecological self-destruction.

Believing that the roots of justice are common to and cut across many FMC concerns, this series hopes to raise awareness about common roots of justice among all parts of our faith community, to witness based on our consciousness of these roots and of our Quaker faith traditions, and to use our position of relative privilege for healing.

Location:
Cambridge Friends Meeting

URL: http://www.bhfh.org/sqm/Food%20FMAC.html

Turning the Tide Against Poverty

International Development Conference 2005

Friday, April 8 to Sunday, April 10, 2005

"Turning the Tide Against Poverty"
Speakers Include:
Mr. Farooq Kathwari, Chairman, Refugees International; CEO and President, Ethan Allen
Dr. Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor, Harvard University
Mr. C.K. Prahalad, Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business Administration & Professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business, University of Michigan Business School
Ambassador Jehangir Karamat, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States

Location:
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

URL: http://www.cid.harvard.edu/events/

Truth & Justice Radio

WZBC Boston College Radio 90.3fm

Stan Robinson, Richard Krasner and Sally Giacosanzio carry on the vibrant tradition that Martin Voelker began, airing the week's public affairs, with substantive analysis from Boston events on: foreign policy toward Colombia, East Timor, Iraq, Chile; our role in global warming; alternatives to "the market"; water scarcity; sweatshop labor; biotechnology; the demonization of children for problems of the adult world.

Location:
on the radio 90.3fm

URL: http://www.wzbc.org

Radio with a View

Sundays 10-11:30 am
WMBR 88.1fm

Produced by dave goodman & marc stern for the Independent Broadcast Information Service www.ibisradio.org

*** PLEASE NOTE: Show time has changed to 10:00-11:30 ***

Location:
on the radio 88.1fm

URL: http://www.wmbr.org

Ethics in Massachusetts Government

Ethics in Massachusetts Government: Oxymoron or Reality?

Warren Tolman is a former State Senator, and candidate for Governor. He was among the first to support monetary limits on campaign expenditures and the Clean Elections Law.

The Ethical Society of Boston is a secular religious and educational fellowship without formal creed or dogma. We are a community, joined together to help develop our ethical ideals, to celebrate life's joys and support one another through life's crises, and to work together for the improvement of our world and the future of our children. Membership is open to those who agree with our principles regardless of racial, religious or national origin. The Ethical Society is part of the larger Ethical Culture movement whose member societies are joined together through the American Ethical Union, headquartered in New York, NY.

Location:
Longy School of Music, 33 Garden Street, Cambridge

Organizer:

URL: http://www.bostonethical.org/thismonth.html

The Intended Effect of the USA Patriot Act on Immigrants and Refugees

"Lifting the Lamp" a series on immigration...
Prof. SUSAN M. AKRAM
"The Intended Effect of the USA Patriot Act on Immigrants and Refugees"

We are pleased that Susan Akram, associate professor at Boston University's School of Law, is returning to Community Church. She teaches in the Civil Litigation Clinic, where she supervises law students in their representation of indigent clients in immigration and refugee cases. She also teaches Immigration Law & Policy and Comparative Refugee Law. Her distinguished research has been recognized with a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award.

Dr. Akram has served as executive director of Boston's Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project and is currently a staff attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services' Immigration Unit. She has written extensively on alienage and the constitutional rights of Arabs and Muslims since 9/11. Born and raised in Lahore, Pakistan--in a multicultural, multiethnic, multilingual household--her early exposure to the plight of refugees steered her into a career in immigration and refugee law.

NEXT WEEK (April 17th):

NEW ENGLAND WAR TAX RESISTANCE
"Why You Should NOT Have Paid Your Taxes This Week"

COMMUNITY LUNCHEON
Following the Sunday Speakers Forum we share a community luncheon prepared by chef Luis Alonso Guzman. A voluntary contribution of $5 is requested to cover luncheon costs.

Location:
Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116

Directions: The Community Church is located at 565 Boylston Street in Copley Square,
between Dartmouth and Clarendon Streets. By public transportation, the
closest stops are Copley on the Green Line and Back Bay on the Orange Line.

Public parking is available on Sunday mornings at the Back Bay Garage.
Entrances are on Clarendon Street and St. James Ave. A red coupon is
available at the church for discounted parking ($3 until 1:30 p.m.)

URL: http://www.commchurch.org

Industrial Workers of the World Meeting

The Boston area IWW meets regularly at the Lucy Parsons Center on the second Sunday of every month at 2pm. Meetings are open to all interested in militant industrial unionism.

Since its founding in 1905, the IWW has fought for better working and living conditions for all workers in all industries. The IWW endorses no candidates, nor does it participate in electoral politics. We also oppose the bureaucratic craft unionism of the AFL-CIO, which serves only to divide workers based on trade, engage worker against worker in wage wars, and mislead the workers into believing that the working class has interests in common with the employing class.

Instead we seek to unite all workers on a common economic front, under the banner of industrial unionism. Only then, will our combined strength succeed in usurping control of our labor away from the parasitic hands of the capitalist class. Once we stop doing what we are told to do and start doing mwhat we collectively decide to do instead, there isn't anything much that can stop us!

For a World Without Bosses!!

Boston Area General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World

Location:
Lucy Parsons Center, 549 Columbus Avenue, Boston

Cost: Free

URL: http://www.iww.org

Desperate Feminists

DESPERATE FEMINISTS: LET'S TALK
Are We Watching the Emergence of a National Security State?

Moderators: Cynthia Enloe & Jean Hardisty

Location:
Cambridge College, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Cost: free

Organizer:

URL: http://www.centerfornewwords.org/nwlive.html

Rana's Wedding

Rana's Wedding
Directed by Hany Abu-Assad

Produced in Palestine, 2002
90 minutes
Distributor Arab Film Distribution
Distributor Website: www.arabfilm.com

Rana wakes up one morning to an ultimatum delivered by her father: She must either choose a husband from a pre-selected list of eligible men, or she must accompany her father abroad.

RANA'S WEDDING is a romantic drama about a Palestinian girl who wants to get married to the man of her own choice. With only ten hours to find her boyfriend in occupied Jerusalem, Rana sneaks out of her father's house at daybreak to find her forbidden love, Khalil.

Facing barriers and occupation which have become an everyday reality, Rana overcomes her fears and doubts, deciding not to let anyone control her life. By the director of NAZARETH 2000 (HRWIFF 2001), RANA'S WEDDING was shot entirely on location in East-Jerusalem and Ramallah.

Winner of the 2003 HRWIFF Nestor Almendros Prize for courage in filmmaking

Location:
Pound Hall, Room 106, Harvard Law School, Cambridge

URL: http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jfp/main.htm

Facing White Privilege/Racism

with Melody Brazo

Sunday evenings April 10, 17, 24, 2005

This workshop will provide a time for us as Friends to examine how we can grow in our awareness of the pernicious effects of racism. While we may believe that the Divine speaks through everyone, and that we need to listen deeply for the truth in each person's voice, there are many barriers which sepatate us from people who are different from us. These barriers keep us from being able to hear the fullness and depth of the Holy Spirit's voice.

Over the course of this workshop we will begin to look at those differences, and the barriers which keep us apart, in a worshipful setting. Through the use of queries, brief readings and worship sharing, we will practice listening deeply to people of color, and to each other. Using the material of our own lives as a place to start, we will examine situations in which we could have acted or spoken differently. We will practice strategies for effectively dismantling racism in ourselves and in our communities.

While this workshop will be a good follow-up for those who participate in the workshops addressing racism at Yearly Meeting Sessions, previous preparation is not required.

Our goal will be to hear not only about the pain which racism inflicts on all people, but also about the gifts available to those who work to undo the effects of racism.

Melody Brazo is a Diversity Educator who works with public and independent schools, community groups and religious organizations to support them in examining issues of race, class, gender and sexual orientation. She is a white, lesbian, college-educated mother in a multiracial family. She is also a member of Fresh Pond MM. in Cambridge, MA.

Location:
Friends Meeting at Cambridge

Cost: $40

URL: http://www.bhfh.org/qsp/QSP-04-05.html