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Arkansas IMC

OHG Sierra Club Meeting

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

“BURNED BY THE BURN?”

We’ll discuss the recent smoky days in Fayetteville, how they affect the national forest, and what it all means to us as public land owners. We’ll also have guests from the Central Arkansas chapter join us to bring us up to speed on what’s going on in their part of the state.

Location:
Boar's Head Pub in the Powerhouse Restaurant

Organizer:

 
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Boston IMC

MAY DAY WAKE UP THE EARTY AFTER PARTY!

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Come Celebrate May Day with the Lucy Parsons Center Bookstore (LPC) and Spontaneous Celebrations!

The Wake Up the Earth Festival began in 1979 when a group of local neighbors and activist banded together to stop the I-95 expansion into Jamaica Plain. The festival began as, and still is, a celebration of what can be accomplished when people of all traditions, cultures, ages, and beliefs come together. A great many individuals, local artists, community groups, and schools join forces every year to make a unique community collaboration. Recent festivals have included an enchanted puppet forest, sideshows, live bands, dancers, acoustic performers and a giant pageant.

In addition to a great day of fun and activities, LPC has been asked to host the AFTER PARTY!

The AFTER PARTY IS FULL OF FUN!! There will be several DJs, bands, food and dancing, with Special Guests the Foundation, DJ Nomadik, and more!!!

All Ages -- Beer & Wine w/ID

$5+ donation (In addition to being a great time this is a benefit for Spontaneous Celebrations and the Lucy Parsons Center, two great local, non-profits)

Location:
Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth Street in Jamaica Plain (Stony Brook T)

Cost: $5+ donation

Organizer:

 
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Boston IMC

DEFEND PALESTINE! PROTEST "ISRAEL" "INDEPENDENCE DAY!"

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

***Please Circulate Widely***

DEFEND PALESTINE!

PROTEST ISRAELI INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION.

Wednesday, April 28th from 6 to 9 PM.
Gather at Temple Ohabei Shalom
1187 Beacon St., Brookline
(at the Kent St. stop of the "C" train, on the Green Line T)

"This isn't a celebration of culture or religion, it's a celebration of
racism and apartheid."
--member of the New England Committee to Defend Palestine on the celebration
of Israeli Independence Day, Boston, 2003

We protest the "Israeli Day of Independence" each year because as Israeli
supporters celebrate the establishment of the state of Israel, Palestinians
mourn
the "Nakba" or catastrophe in which Palestinians were massacred, over 400
Palestinian villages were destroyed, 780,000 Palestinians were made
refugees,
and 78% of the land of Palestine was stolen from the indigenous people.
Israel has maintained its murderous occupation of Palestine for more than
half
a century, devastating the Palestinian people.

For the past three years, activists in Boston have confronted Zionists on
their day of celebration. We demonstrated against Israel Day in 2001 in
Brookline.
Brookline Police illegally dispersed the protest that day and arrested one
of the Palestinian organizers, Amer Jubran, on false assault charges. The
ensuing
legal battle--which exonerated Amer of all charges--exposed collaboration
between police, the Israeli Consulate and other Israel Day sponsors in an
illegitimate
attempt to silence and intimidate Palestinians from speaking out about their
history. It also brought protesters back into Brookline month after month
as the case wore on, and made Brookline and the "Israel Day Celebration" a
subject of political controversy, educating many people both about the
history
of Israel and about suppression of free speech in the United States.

The following year, the Zionists attempted to move their event onto a remote
part of the Esplanade "for security reasons." When protesters made it clear
that we would follow them right onto the water in boats if necessary, the
event was moved to the Boston Common, where it took place behind a security
fence,
with checkpoints and metal detectors. The 2002 protest march circled the
Boston Common, and the major local press on the following day showed
Palestinians
and Orthodox Jews marching arm in arm to protest 54 years of genocide.

In 2003, these celebrants of racism and colonial settlement were driven
inside to the World Trade Center on the South Boston waterfront. The protest
brought
out major network television, and a general audience could hear--perhaps
many for the first time--a Palestinian perspective on the history of Israel.
They
also had the opportunity to see Zionist proponents holding signs and
screaming slogans that made their political position clear--they spoke of
cleansing
Israel of "the Arab infestation."

This year the Zionists have announced no major Israel Day Celebration in
Boston, but many small events in the community. We intend to confront them
here
as well.

On Wednesday April 28th from 6 PM to 9 PM, Young Judaea and the Israeli
Scouts will be holding their "Celebration for Israel Independence Day" at
Temple
Ohabei Shalom in Brookline. The event will feature the IDF Nachal Band.

We continue to be outraged that this public celebration should take place in
Boston. Israel continues to escalate violence in the region by assassinating
resistance fighters and activists, attacking civilian populations, and
unilaterally deciding that Palestinians are not entitled to the right of
return,
a fundamental human right that is guaranteed by international humanitarian
law. We continue to protest a fake "peace process" that facilitates
apartheid,
colonization, and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine of its indigenous
people. So far what the supposed "peace process" has offered is a "two
state" solution--one
militarized, racist state for ethnically Jewish people only with access to
all the natural resources of Palestine next to a demilitarized state for the
indigenous people of Palestine with little to no access to its own resources
and divided into, at best, bantustans separated by Israeli military bypass
roads, the Wall, and checkpoints, and at worst, open air prisons and
concentration camps.

This was not an acceptable solution for South Africa. There was no
international call for a white militarized South Africa next to a
demilitarized native
one. This was not an acceptable solution in Algeria. It is not an acceptable
solution in Palestine.

We protest the "Israeli Independence Day Celebration" each year because the
establishment, maintenance, and expansion of the state of Israel is
fundamentally
racist and colonialist. We protest state-sanctioned violence aimed at
preserving ultra-nationalism and protecting Apartheid.

Join us on April 28th and say no to racism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing.

End the occupation of Palestine, from the river to the sea!

End all U.S. aid to Israel - military, economic, and political!

Human rights for all Palestinians - including the right to resist and
the right to return!

Sponsored by the New England Committee to Defend Palestine
www.onepalestine.org
necdp-AT-onepalestine.org

Location:
Temple Ohabei Shalom, 1187 Beacon St. Brookline

Directions: If taking public transportation, take C. train of the Green Line to Kent St. Stop

Organizer:

URL: http://www.onepalestine.org

 
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CMI La Plana

Xerrada: Mines d'argila; L'exemple dels Serrans i el futur dels Ports

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

A càrrec de membres d'Ecologistes en Acció de La Serrania i de la
Plataforma Veïnal de Cinctorres.

Location:
Casal Popular c/Jordi Joan 37 baix (Castelló)

Organizer:

 
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Indymedia Barcelona

talleres para la MAYDAY

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Talleres para la Mayday
dilluns, 19 abril 2004
11:00 - 22:00
Organitzador*: mayday
La idea de los talleres es poder sacar materiales, pancartas,etc, para la Maydady. Asi como si quieres dinamizar un taller solo tienes que venir y hacerlo.

Por favot traer materiales!!!!!! (e ideas)

Asi que si teneis ideas y materiales ir llevandolas a Miles de Viviendas
(Sardenya 43) donde serán los talleres.

DIA y Hora

miércoles 28--11am Taller de Inflables en Bellas Artes

--17hs.Inflables y plantillas, pancartas.

Jueves 29 -- 11hs.Inflabes y demas

-- 17hs. Peparacion de materiales para la Mayday.

MATERIALES:

- bolsas de plástico (liso)
- "cubre todo" (plástico que sirve para cubrir todo, ein?, pues asi se
conoce en las tiendas)
- celo ANCHO (si tod@s traen mejor!)
- folios de plástico
- CD's que no sirvan (cuantos mas tengan mejor!)
- Telas o plasticos para pancartas
- Pintura
- Spray
- cutter
- tijeras
- radiografias
- curriculums
- pegamento

y lo que se les ocurra!
Lloc:
Miles de Viviendas
Preu: gratix
Adresses: Sardenya 43
Metro Bogatell y también Marina
URL: www.euromayday.org
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Location:
Miles de Viviendas

Cost: gartix

Directions: c/ Sardenya 43
metro Bogatell y tambien Marina

Organizer:

URL: http://www.euromayday.org

 
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Indymedia Barcelona

Emergencia antiterrorista y el Estado de derecho.

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

EMERGENCIA ANTITERRORISTA Y EL ESTADO DE DERECHO.

ARCADI OLIVERES La lucha popular para llevar ante los tribunales internacionales a los responsables de la guerra de agresión a Irak.
AGUSTÍ SOLER La eliminación de los Tribunales especiales en un Estado de Derecho.
JAUME ASENS Las leyes antiterroristas y la represión de los movimientos sociales.
FRANCESC ARNAU La querella por genocidio pendiente sobre el ex-presidente Fujimori y las responsabilidades del actual gobierno de Perú.
RAMON BOSCH La represión de las luchas populares en Perú y
la continuidad del régimen de Toledo con el terrorismo fujimorista.
ALESSANDRA CAPORALE La persecución política y la extradición de Adolfo Olaechea, secretario de Justice Internacional.
Información: 93 4423823 (Justice International)

Location:
CGT

Cost: entrada libre

Directions: Via Layetana 18, 9ªPlanta, metro Jaume I

Organizer:

 
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Indymedia Barcelona

¿A dónde va Izquierda Unida?

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

¡POR LA RECUPERACIÓN DEL PROYECTO ORIGINAL!
¡POR UNA IZQUIERDA 100% ANTICAPITALISTA!

Con la participación de:

Manolo Monereo (Presidencia Federal de IU)
Rosa Cañadell (miembro de EUiA y de Rojos/es)
Antoni Luchetti (miembro del Consell Nacional de EUiA y del CE del PSUC-Viu)
Susana López (Presidencia Federal de IU, miembro de la "Plataforma de Izquierdas")
Dolores Nieto (Presidencia Federal de IU y de "Convocatoria por Andalucía", concejala del ayuntamiento de Jaén)
Josep Bel (Comisión Nacional EUiA y de Rojos/es)
Jaime Pastor (Presidencia Federal de IU, y de"Espacio Alternativo")

Presentación/moderación: Jaume Botey & Diosdado Toledano

Location:
Sala d'actes Mª Aurelia Capmany
Centre Cívic "Pati LLimona"
c/. Regomir, nº 3, (estación de metro Jaime I, Línea IV)

 
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Indymedia Euskal Herria

Cine Insurgente Iruñean

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Natalia Politok Buenos Aireseko Grupo de Cine Insurgente taldea aurkeztuko du Iruñean. Baita ere talde honek egin dituen azkeneko lanetatik bi botako ditugu "Asamblea de Villa Crespo: ocupar es resistir" eta "Guernica: lo que no se ve".

Location:
Zabaldi (nabarreria 25). Iruñea

Organizer:

 
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Indymedia Scotland

Bold Speak - student democracy radio show

5:00 PM - 12:00 AM

Bold Speak will shortly be hitting the airwaves, Edinburgh's first politics and current affairs show on student radio. Show numero uno - democratic Britain, ailing, failing, or fighting fit? We take a look at the Scottish Parliament, visit the people of Dumbiedykes and Bilston Glen, and they'll be a live debate on Bush and Blairs favourite beverage, democracy export...and how its going down in Iraq. Turn on (Weds 5:00pm), tune in (87.7fm fresh air) and drop out (for half an hour - it's good for the soul.)

Location:
Broadcast from the Pleasance

Cost: FreeEEEEE! It's radio.

Organizer:

 
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Lawrence IMC

Free Spanish Class

8:00 PM - 12:00 AM

Free Spanish Classes are held every Monday and Wednesday at the Solidarity! Center. Classes are for anyone and everyone interested in learning Spanish at any level.

Location:
Solidarity! Radical Center
13 w. 14th Street
Lawrence

Cost: Free!

Organizer:

 
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New Hampshire IMC

Peace Vigil-Concord

12:00 PM - 12:00 AM

Wednesday Peace Vigil
12noon-1pm

in front of the NH State House, Concord

Location:
in front of the NH State House

Organizer:

 
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Rochester IMC

Stuff

6:00 AM - 7:00 PM

Location:

 
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Rochester IMC

More

9:30 AM - 7:00 PM

Location:

 
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Rochester IMC

More

1:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Location:

 
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San Diego IMC

Film Screening of "Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War"

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

We are currently looking for a location to have this event.

More details coming soon.

Location:

Organizer:

 
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San Diego IMC

Uncovered: The Whole Truth About The Iraq War

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED

Location:
DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED

Cost: DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED

Organizer:

 
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Santa Barbara IMC

Info on Palestinian home demolitions

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

In conjunction with the national Stop Caterpillar Campaign, SAFME Presents

An Information Session on Israeli Defense Forces Demolitions of Palestinian
Homes

See documentary footage and learn more about what you can do.

With Special Guest Mary Hughes-Thompson, International Solidarity Movement
(ISM)

Wednesday, April 28
2:00 - 4:00 PM
Multicultural Center (MCC) Theatre

Presented by SAFME
Student Action Forum on the Middle East

Location:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Multicultural Center (MCC) Theatre

Cost: free

Organizer:

 
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Santa Cruz Indymedia

Street Performer Weekly Gig with SAFE

6:00 PM - 12:00 AM

SAFE (Society for Artistic Freedom and Expression) will have regular weekly Sing Outs on the Sidewalk in front of New Leaf Market 6pm every Wednesday evening.

SAFE calls for the restoration of the Voluntary Street Performers Guidelines and the end to onerous restrictions on peformers downtown.

One local Downtown Ordinance dictates the 10' forbidden zones limiting performers to less than 20% of downtown sidewalks. Another literally excludes them from narrower sidewalks in other business districts. Another is the "Move Along Law" which mandates criminal penalties for not "moving along" every hour.

Bring your instrument or just your ears. Bring a friend.

Hot soup by Joe Schultz.

Take back our public spaces from some creeping privatization, favored by a segment of the merchants.

We also share information on recent police and "host" harassment of performers.

Location:
In front of downtown New Leaf Market at Pacific and Lincoln Aves. between the Cafe Campesino and Alfresco's kiosks.

Cost: Free, but bring quarters and scraps to throw to performers!

 
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Santa Cruz Indymedia

The GLBT Alliance of Santa Cruz

7:00 PM - 12:00 AM

GLBT Alliance steering committee meeting - all welcome

Location:
The Diversity Center, 177 Walnut Avenue, SC

URL: http://www.homosexualagenda.org

 
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Santa Cruz Indymedia

Historical Worldwide Labor Movement films

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

You are invited to take part in a night of film on the historical worldwide labor movement of the 19th century.

On Wednesday, April 28th, 2004, at 7pm in the Delmar Theater, Reelwork Mayday Labor Film Festival will be showing the French movie Germinal, directed by Claude Berry. Germinal is an adaptation of an Emile Zola novel about a 19th century coal miners’ strike against dangerous working conditions. Speaking at the movie will be Paul Ortiz, Assistant Professor of Community Studies at UCSC and labor historian.

The Reelwork Mayday Labor Film Festival shows films around every May Day about the ongoing struggles workers worldwide have gone through, and the victories they have won. Movies are shown this from Sunday, April 25th to Saturday, May 1st, at a variety of public venues.

For more information, including volunteer opportunities, please contact Paul Ortiz at 459-5583 and portiz-AT-ucsc.edu, or www.reelwork.org for a detailed schedule of the event

Location:
The Del Mar Theater
Pacific Ave.

Cost: donation

Organizer:

URL: http://www.reelwork.org/schedule.html

 
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Santa Cruz Indymedia

Watsonville Brown Berets

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Brown Beret Meeting

We are a militant grassroots Chicana/o organization who has been active in our community since 1994 in responce to gang violence and ignorance which claimed the lives of many young raza. Our goal is to educate one another about political and social issues and methods to ameliorate our community. Topics include student and political activism, social justice and equality, cultural and environmental awareness, unity and indigenous spirituality. We invite all people of color to join us in solidarity. HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMRE!!

Location:
La Manzana Center ( Next to Adelante)
18 West Lake Ave. and Main Street
Watsonville, CA

Cost: none

Directions: From Santa Cruz (Hwy 1) exit on Green Valley
Drive south on Main Street
La Manzana Center is next to Discount Mall
We meet upstairs near rear parking lot

Organizer:

 
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Santa Cruz Indymedia

Anatol Lieven: Repeating Old Mistakes: A Progress Report on the War Against Terrorism

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Anatol Lieven, a British journalist, writer and historian, is currently at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as Senior Associate for Foreign and Security policy in the Russia and Eurasia Center. He has written extensively on issues of military history, theory and practice, partly on the basis of his own experiences as a war correspondent. He was previously editor of Strategic Comments and an expert on the former Soviet Union, and on aspects of contemporary warfare, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. His most recent post before joining the IISS was as a correspondent for the Financial Times in eastern Europe, based in Budapest and as visiting senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington DC.

His latest book, Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power, was published by Yale University Press in May 1998. It is a study of the decline of the Russian state, seen through the prism of the Russian defeat in Chechnya, and also provides the first anthropological description of the Chechen nation and tradition in English. Anatol Lieven covered the Chechen War of 1994-96 as a correspondent for The Times (London).

Anatol Lieven's books to date have been largely based on his past work as a correspondent for The Times (London) in the former Soviet Union from 1990 to 1996 (based from 1990-92 in the Baltic States, thereafter in Moscow). During this period, Anatol Lieven was commended by the British Press Association for his coverage of the Baltic independence movements (in 1992) and of the Chechen War (in 1995). His book on the rebirth of the Baltic States, The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence, was joint winner (with Neal Ascherson) of the George Orwell Prize for political writing in 1994, and won the Yale University Press Governor's Award in 1995. It was also a New York Times notable book of the year in 1993. A third book, Ukraine and Russia: Fraternal Rivals, was published in June 1999 by the United States Institute of Peace, to critical praise in the New York Review of Books and elsewhere.

Prior to 1990, Anatol Lieven was correspondent for The Times in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he covered the closing stages of the Soviet occupation and the start of the Afghan civil wars, as well as the election and early rule of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan. In the autumn and winter of 1989, he covered the revolutions in Czechoslovakia and Romania for The Times. He has also reported from wars in Karabakh, Georgia and Tajikistan. He began to work as a freelance journalist in India in 1986, and in 1987 joined the BBC External Services Radio (Asian Service) as a producer/talkswriter.

Anatol Lieven was educated at the City of London School from 1972-78. He also studied at Troy State University, Alabama, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.

For more information regarding these events please contact: 831-459-2833.

Location:
UCSC Inn
611 Ocean Street
Santa Cruz, CA

Cost: Free

Organizer:

 
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Tallahassee-RedHills IMC

AIR AMERICA RADIO IS ON THE AIR

All day

THE O'FRANKEN FACTOR
ADrug-Free Radio
Liars beware: Al Franken, co-host Katherine Lanpher and Team O'Franken invite you to spend three hours a day in the Zero Spin Zone.
Weekdays noon-3pm
Repeat: 11pm-2am

THE MAJORITY REPORT
The Right has had its say for the last three years. Now, on "The Majority Report", co-hosts Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder have theirs. Our side just got a little bit louder.
Weekdays 8pm-11pm

THE RANDI RHODES SHOW
Randi brings her own brand of provocative and infectiously humorous talk to Air America Radio.
Weekdays 3pm-7pm
Repeat: 2am-6am

UNFILTERED
Unfiltered is co-hosted by Lizz Winstead, Chuck D, and Rachel Maddow. This uncompromising program puts politics and culture through the wringer, uncensored and unfiltered.
Weekdays 9am-Noon

Location:
Go to www.AirAmericaRadio.com

Directions: For details related to available radio stations
and for RealAudio Live Feed, go to the web site

URL: http://www.AirAmericaRadio.com

 
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Tallahassee-RedHills IMC

From Violence to Healing: Why the Juvenile Death Penalty Must End!

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Featuring Bill Pelke, whose 78-year-old grandmother was killed by a 15-year-old girl. He eventually came to forgive her and worked to overturn her death sentence. Juan Melendez spent 18 years on FL death row and was finally released because of wrongful conviction. Abe Bonowitz has been working for over 18 years to educate the public about the injustice of the death penalty. He is executive director of Floridans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.

Location:
Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee
2810 N. Meridian Rd.

Cost: Free and open to the public

Directions: Going north on Monroe St., take a right at Thomasville Rd. Then take a left on N. Meridian Rd.

Map can be found at www.nettally.com/uuct/where.htm

Organizer:

URL: http://www.aiusa.org or www.fadp.org

 
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Thunder Bay IMC

imc bi-weekly general meeting

7:00 PM - 12:00 AM

once again working on the nuts and bolts of this outfit (thunder bay indymedia). come out and be a part of revolutionary media in the making.

Location:
Suite 19c, 12 Court St. S. (second floor of the Ruttan Block), Thunder Bay, Ontario, CANADA, P7B 2W3

Directions: corner of court street and red river road

Organizer:

 
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Twincities IMC

Alliant Vigil

7:00 AM - 12:00 AM

Eighth year of a weekly vigil outside international war merchant Alliant Techsystem's corporate headquarters. Although we are opposed to specific weapon systems produced by ATK, our main concern is the violent solutions this Minnesota based company represents to complex world problems. We ask who profits and who dies?

Location:
5050 Lincoln Drive, Edina

Organizer:

URL: http://circlevision.org/alliantaction.html

 
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Twincities IMC

PEACE VIGIL

4:30 PM - 12:00 AM

This weekly vigil is held on the Lake Street Bridge (Lake Street and River Road)--the Peace Bridge. All people who are antiwar and wish to vigil for peace and justice are invited to stand with us.

This vigil has been ongoing since 1999 and will continue weekly regardless of weather: 4:30 to 5:30 every Wednesday.

Pick up a sign there or bring your own.

Location:
Lake Street Bridge, River Road and Lake Street/Marshall. Vigil begins on the St. Paul side. (The bridge connects Minneapolis and St. Paul.)

Organizer:

 
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Western Massachusetts IMC

DEFEND PALESTINE! PROTEST "ISRAEL" "INDEPENDENCE DAY" CELEBRATION!

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

***Please Circulate Widely***

DEFEND PALESTINE!

PROTEST ISRAELI INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION.

Wednesday, April 28th from 6 to 9 PM.
Gather at Temple Ohabei Shalom
1187 Beacon St., Brookline
(at the Kent St. stop of the "C" train, on the Green Line T)

"This isn't a celebration of culture or religion, it's a celebration of
racism and apartheid."
--member of the New England Committee to Defend Palestine on the celebration
of Israeli Independence Day, Boston, 2003

We protest the "Israeli Day of Independence" each year because as Israeli
supporters celebrate the establishment of the state of Israel, Palestinians
mourn
the "Nakba" or catastrophe in which Palestinians were massacred, over 400
Palestinian villages were destroyed, 780,000 Palestinians were made
refugees,
and 78% of the land of Palestine was stolen from the indigenous people.
Israel has maintained its murderous occupation of Palestine for more than
half
a century, devastating the Palestinian people.

For the past three years, activists in Boston have confronted Zionists on
their day of celebration. We demonstrated against Israel Day in 2001 in
Brookline.
Brookline Police illegally dispersed the protest that day and arrested one
of the Palestinian organizers, Amer Jubran, on false assault charges. The
ensuing
legal battle--which exonerated Amer of all charges--exposed collaboration
between police, the Israeli Consulate and other Israel Day sponsors in an
illegitimate
attempt to silence and intimidate Palestinians from speaking out about their
history. It also brought protesters back into Brookline month after month
as the case wore on, and made Brookline and the "Israel Day Celebration" a
subject of political controversy, educating many people both about the
history
of Israel and about suppression of free speech in the United States.

The following year, the Zionists attempted to move their event onto a remote
part of the Esplanade "for security reasons." When protesters made it clear
that we would follow them right onto the water in boats if necessary, the
event was moved to the Boston Common, where it took place behind a security
fence,
with checkpoints and metal detectors. The 2002 protest march circled the
Boston Common, and the major local press on the following day showed
Palestinians
and Orthodox Jews marching arm in arm to protest 54 years of genocide.

In 2003, these celebrants of racism and colonial settlement were driven
inside to the World Trade Center on the South Boston waterfront. The protest
brought
out major network television, and a general audience could hear--perhaps
many for the first time--a Palestinian perspective on the history of Israel.
They
also had the opportunity to see Zionist proponents holding signs and
screaming slogans that made their political position clear--they spoke of
cleansing
Israel of "the Arab infestation."

This year the Zionists have announced no major Israel Day Celebration in
Boston, but many small events in the community. We intend to confront them
here
as well.

On Wednesday April 28th from 6 PM to 9 PM, Young Judaea and the Israeli
Scouts will be holding their "Celebration for Israel Independence Day" at
Temple
Ohabei Shalom in Brookline. The event will feature the IDF Nachal Band.

We continue to be outraged that this public celebration should take place in
Boston. Israel continues to escalate violence in the region by assassinating
resistance fighters and activists, attacking civilian populations, and
unilaterally deciding that Palestinians are not entitled to the right of
return,
a fundamental human right that is guaranteed by international humanitarian
law. We continue to protest a fake "peace process" that facilitates
apartheid,
colonization, and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine of its indigenous
people. So far what the supposed "peace process" has offered is a "two
state" solution--one
militarized, racist state for ethnically Jewish people only with access to
all the natural resources of Palestine next to a demilitarized state for the
indigenous people of Palestine with little to no access to its own resources
and divided into, at best, bantustans separated by Israeli military bypass
roads, the Wall, and checkpoints, and at worst, open air prisons and
concentration camps.

This was not an acceptable solution for South Africa. There was no
international call for a white militarized South Africa next to a
demilitarized native
one. This was not an acceptable solution in Algeria. It is not an acceptable
solution in Palestine.

We protest the "Israeli Independence Day Celebration" each year because the
establishment, maintenance, and expansion of the state of Israel is
fundamentally
racist and colonialist. We protest state-sanctioned violence aimed at
preserving ultra-nationalism and protecting Apartheid.

Join us on April 28th and say no to racism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing.

End the occupation of Palestine, from the river to the sea!

End all U.S. aid to Israel - military, economic, and political!

Human rights for all Palestinians - including the right to resist and
the right to return!

Sponsored by the New England Committee to Defend Palestine
www.onepalestine.org
necdp-AT-onepalestine.org

Location:
Temple Ohabei, 1187 Beacon St, Brookline Massachusetts

Directions: If taking public transportation, take C. Train on Boston's Green Line to Kent Stop.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.onepalestine.org

 
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Western Massachusetts IMC

UMass Killer Coke Teach-In

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

The UMass Killer Coke Teach-In will give you all the information you need to help rid the campus of Killer Cola

Location:
Campus Center Room 168C, UMass

Organizer:

 
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