Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore Meeting

Join the Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore as it meets on Monday nights at the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) building on York Road. The Pledge, formerly the Iraq Pledge of Resistance, regularly engages in civil disobedience on behalf of our collective civil liberties. Every action is non-violent and is conducted peacefully.

The Pledge has a series of actions planned in the upcoming months that are designed to visibly oppose the Bush administration's "preemptive" warmongering and attacks on the Bill of Rights. If you're concerned about the direction the US is heading to please consider coming out and joining us. (Note: it is always advisable to call in advance to confirm the meeting is being held as scheduled.)

Location:
806 York Road, Baltimore, MD

Organizer:

BREAD AND PUPPET

Bread & Puppet is Here!!!
The most wonderful participatory artistic experience in the entire universe beckons you.

BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER'S
FIRST WORLD INSURRECTION IN CAMBRIDGE

A POST-ELECTION RUCKUS PLAYED OUT FROM NOVEMBER 4-21

(Cambridge, MA) The Bread and Puppet Theater presents the First World Insurrection, a post-election ruckus played out in Cambridge, November 4-21. Performances and Symposium held at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre / Durrell Hall, 820 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, and Art Exhibit installed at the Marran Gallery, Lesley University, Main Quad on Mellen St. (off Mass. Ave.), between Harvard and Porter Squares. Both venues are wheelchair accessible. For advance tickets, on sale from October 18th on, and information on all events call the Cambridge Family
YMCA (www.cambymca.org) at 617-661-9622, extension 706.

Artistic Director Peter Schumann and his band of eight Vermont puppeteers will join forces with 20 local puppeteers and the Cambridge-based Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band. Their residency in Cambridge includes three puppet shows (a double-bill geared towards adults and one "family-friendly" show), a "Now What" political art symposium, and an exhibit showcasing Schumann's visual artwork. Each of these opportunities will include the traditional serving of Schumann's famous sourdough rye bread (baked in a temporary outdoor oven in the YMCA parking lot), drizzled with garlic-laden aioli, and the sale of the theater's "cheap art." In November, the city of Cambridge will indeed be the stage upon which much artistic discontent is set - with a few laughs thrown in!

Double Bill of Evening Shows:
WORLD ON FIRE and HOW TO TURN DISTRESS INTO SUCCESS: a Parable of War and Its Making November 4-14, Thurs.-Sun., 8pm (first week); Wed.-Sun., 8pm (second week) $10 general admission for both shows [groups of 10 or more $8]; held at the Cambridge Family YMCA

Family-Friendly Matinees:
UPSIDE DOWN WORLD CIRCUS
November 6-14, Sat.-Sun., 3pm
$10 / $5 students and seniors / children 2 and under free; held at the Cambridge Family YMCA

Political Art Symposium:
NOW WHAT?
2D ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON SUBVERSIVE PAPIER-MACHE & OTHER TOOLS FOR CREATIVE DISSENT
Monday, November 8, 7pm
including panelists Peter Schumann (Director, Bread and Puppet Theater), Gip Hoppe (Co-Artistic Director, WHAT), Reverend Billy (performance artist) and Reno (performance artist) moderated by Dr. John Bell (Puppet Historian, Emerson College professor and author of Puppets, Masks and Performing Objects) suggested donation $5; held at the Cambridge Family YMCA

Peter Schumann's Visual Art Installation:
THE U.S. SENATE READS AN EMAIL BY THE LATE RACHEL CORRIE TO HER PARENTS
November 9-21, gallery hours, 9am-8 pm daily; opening reception and artist's talk, Tuesday, November 9, 4-7pm free and open to all; held at the Marran Gallery, Lesley University

Featuring the Bread and Puppet Theater's signature masked characters and giant papier-mache puppets, the individual shows and art exhibit are described below.

WORLD ON FIRE
A group of National Emergency Clowns demonstrates official reactions to the ultimate emergency. The music is by the Asymmetric Prisoner-of-War Orchestra, consisting of local volunteer performers, and their conductor, the Fire Chief.
HOW TO TURN DISTRESS INTO SUCCESS: A Parable of War and Its Making
With the help of the National More-More-More Society, the Student of Success is taught a lesson: how the transformation of distress into success transforms success. The Population is a child in the arms of Truth. But Truth gets employed by the Executive to ready the Population for war. War is learned in a butcher's shop. The dance of the Collateral Damage Dancers concludes the lesson. The puppets are from cardboard; the music is live and includes an ancient Georgian chant.
UPSIDE DOWN WORLD CIRCUS
The circus features upside-down figures, a group of First World representatives trained by a lion, Thomas Jefferson and his patriotic cheerleaders, Gerrard Winstanley and his band of Diggers, the Rotten Idea Theater Company's distillation of political issues and much more, all accompanied by the B&P Circus Band. Political fun for the whole family!
THE U.S. SENATE READS AN EMAIL BY THE LATE RACHEL CORRIE TO HER PARENTS
Peter Schumann dedicates this installation to Rachel Corrie who died at the age of 23 in Palestine in 2003 as she tried to stop a bulldozer from destroying a Palestinian home. Her email is dated February 27, 2003.

(Background of the theater) The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 on New York City's Lower Eastside by 70-year old Silesian-born sculptor and choreographer, Peter Schumann. In 1969 a nine-month tour of Europe won recognition and critical acclaim for Bread and Puppet. In 1970, the Theater moved to Vermont as theater-in-residence at Goddard College, letting itself be influenced by living in the countryside. Four years later the Theater moved to a farm in Glover in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, where a 100-year-old hay barn was transformed into a museum for veteran puppets. Bread and Puppet Theater does massive spectacles in the U.S., Europe and Latin America. Their pageants have a broad theme-oriented appeal to large non-elite audiences. They address social, political and environmental issues or simply the common urgencies of our lives. Some of the awards received by Peter Schumann and Bread and Puppet are the Obie Award, the Erasmus Award from Amsterdam, the Vermont Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, UNIMA-USA's Citation of Excellence and the Puppeteers of America President's Award. Bread and Puppet is one of the oldest non-profit, self-supporting theater companies in the United States. For more information on the Bread and Puppet Theater: www.breadandpuppet.org/, www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/bread_puppet/bibliography.html and www.chelseagreen.com/2004/items/rehearsingwithgods/Preface.
For more information on John Bell's Puppets, Masks and Performing Objects: www-mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp-
824C-8947CCC171B&ttype=2&tid=4192
For an example on Peter Schumann's outdoor bread-baking technique (press on arrow to view photos):
www.wildhack.com/bedrosian/temp/bp/bread.html

Who: The Bread and Puppet Theater
What: First World Insurrection
When: A post-election ruckus played out in Cambridge, November 4-21. Events include:
World On Fire and How To Turn Distress Into Success: a Parable of War and Its Making (a double bill), November 4-14, Thurs.-Sun., 8 pm (first week); Wed.-Sun., 8 pm (second week) Upside Down World Circus (family-friendly), November 6-14, Sat.-Sun., 3pm Now What?: the 2d Annual Symposium On Subversive Papier-Mache And Other Tools For Creative Dissent, Monday, November 8, 7pm
The U.S. Senate Reads An Email By The Late Rachel Corrie To Her Parents, November 9-21, gallery hours, 9 am-8pm daily; opening reception and artist's talk, Tuesday, November 9, 4-7pm
Where: Performances and Symposium held at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre / Durrell Hall, 820 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square. Art Exhibit installed at the Marran Gallery, Lesley University, Main Quad on Mellen St. (off Mass. Ave.), between Harvard and Porter Squares. Both venues are wheelchair accessible.
Tickets:
World On Fire and How To Turn Distress Into Success (double bill), $10 general admission for both shows [groups of 10 or more $8]
Circus, $10 / $5 students and seniors / children 2 and under free
Symposium, suggested donation $5
The Late Rachel Corrie art exhibit, free
For advance tickets, on sale from October 18th on, and information on all events:
Call the Cambridge Family YMCA (www.cambymca.org) at 617-661-9622, extension 706

"dedicated to staging insightful entertainment, particularly in non-traditional venues"

Location:
Cambridge Family YMCA (www.cambymca.org)

Cost: varies

Organizer:

URL: http://www.marycurtinproductions.com

Stop the BU Bioterrorism Lab

Next meeting of the full coalition against the bioterrorism lab:


> Why: Status of campaign, next steps, strategies.
> We need to crank it up!
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The next step in the federal process is to submit written comments about the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) to the National Institutes of Health by January 3, 2005. We will send out suggested comments by mid-December. We expect the Secretary of Environmental Affairs to issue her decision on Monday about whether BU's Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) is adequate or whether BU must file a supplemental FEIR. You can download a copy of our comments on the report here:

www.ace-ej.org/BiolabWeb/Biolabdocs/FEIRcommentsweb.pdf

Here is a letter in Mass. High Tech, saying that the lab does not belong in Boston:
www.masshightech.com/displayarticledetail.asp

Here is a column in Mass. High Tech, saying the unknowns of the lab call for cautious development:www.masshightech.com/displayarticledetail.asp

Plan to engineer smallpox virus causes alarm: www.gene-watch.org/programs/biowarfare/smallpox.html

Location:
Grant Manor Community Room, 1860 Washington St., Roxbury (go around the right side of the building and enter the room at the back of the building).

Organizer:

URL: http://www.ace-ej.org/

FREE WORLD: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West

Timothy Garton Ash will be introduced by his long-time friend, Michael Ignatieff, and will explain why Washington can never rule today's world alone, why Europe can realize its aspirations only in a transatlantic community, and how the torments of the world's poor can be addressed only by free people working together.

Location:
Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

Organizer:

URL: http://hbsnews.c.topica.com/maacQrbabbzolbePUhjbafpLQA/

Celebrate National Adoption Month

Learn about adoption, adopted families in our community and get some great holiday suggestions for your favorite adopted child or person, adoptive parent, or birthparent. Authors Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao and Gerald P. Mallon will discuss their books as part of the event, and refreshments will be served.

Location:
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave. Cambridge

Organizer:

URL: http://hbsnews.c.topica.com/maacQrbabbzodbePUhjbafpLQA/

WASTE: MADE IN THE FIRST WORLD

WASTE: MADE IN THE FIRST WORLD
A evening showing films bridging the Asian diaspora.

7pm at Tufts University's Medford Campus in Braker 001

TRACKING THE E-WASTE TRAIL (dir. Lau So-Mui, 2003, 20 min)
The Guiyu, a small village in the Guangdong Province of China, is a newly industrialized area specializing in the management and recycling of computer wastes. The workers there burn the original components of computers to extract valuable metals from them. The useless parts are then casually discarded, releasing toxic materials, and polluting the surrounding environment. Media Watch investigative teams went to the U.S. and Canada in search of the source of this e-waste, and discovered that, using the euphemism environmental recycling, these countries are actually dumping their waste onto other countries.

TOXIC SUNSET: ON THE TRAIL OF HAZARDOUS WASTE FROM SUBIC & CLARK (dir.
Louelle Lasola & Ben Pimental, 1991, 30 min)
Nearly one hundred years after the Spanish American war, US military bases were finally voted out of the Philippines. This documentary dredges up facts about life-threatening waste left behind by departing US military personnel.

Followed by a talk by Noah Sachs, Harvard University

Location:
Tufts University's Medford Campus in Braker 001

Cost: $5, $25 for Festival Pass ($15 for Students), Tufts students w/ID free

Directions: uccps.tufts.edu/storiesfromtheland/directions.htm

Braker Auditorium 001
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155

By local transportaion:

Take the Red Line to Davis Squre T stop. Walk 15 min from the T station to the the Campus along College Ave. Free shuttle service between Davis sq and Campus is also avaiable. The shuttle will depart from Davis Sq (in front of Somerville movie theater) every 20 to 30 min depending on the time. Please get off your shuttle at the Olin Center (the second stop). See shuttle schedule here. Barnum Auditrium is right across the street in front of the the Olin Center.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.aarw.org for Asian American Program Schedule or www.storiesfromtheland.org for full schedule & info!

Jornadas Africa-Canarias

Africa- Canarias, dos mundos llamados a entenderse.

El Aula de estudios para la Globalización de esta ULPGC en colaboración con la
Universidad de La Laguna organiza las:
III Jornadas Internacionales de Reflexión Crítica sobre la Globalización.
Propuestas desde una Globalización alternativa, sobre las relaciones
Canarias-Africa.

Fecha: 15 al 20 de Noviembre 2004
Lugar:Universidad de La Laguna. Aula Magna de la Facultad de Económicas. Campus
de Guajara. La Laguna. Tenerife.

Location:
Lugar:Universidad de La Laguna. Aula Magna de la Facultad de Económicas. Campus
de Guajara. La Laguna. Tenerife

EXPOSICIÓ BOTÀNICA PSICOACTIVA

INAUGURACIÓ A LES 17 H. DE L'EXPOSICIÓ BOTÀNICA PSICOACTIVA, AL KOMPLEX OKUPAT LÚDIC POLÍTIC "LA FERA". C/ SANTA AGATA NUM. 28-BAIXOS. L-3, FONTANA.

Exposició Botànica Psicoactiva (AVANTPROJECTE)


El projecte d´exposició LES PLANTES MAGIQUES es presenta com una iniciativa de cultura científica en el sentit més modern
de la paraula. Es tracta de reunir en espai ben determinat i únic, AL k.O.L.P. “LA FERA” de Barcelona, una mostra
botànica d´aquelles plantes i espècies vegetals diverses com els fongs que des de Dioscòrides s´han classificat com a plantes
psicoactives. Son les plantes remeieres de tota la vida i de totes les cultures que hi ha i han hagut al mon.
Plantes medicinals o d' us chamànic, religiós o festiu des d´una perspectiva etnobotànica que, evidentment, no coincideix amb
moltes de les idees confuses que hi ha sobre aquests temes fruit de la ignorància i de la manipulació dels agents de l´anomanada
"guerra contra les drogues".
Aquesta desinformació obliga a que dins l´Exposicio LES PLANTES MAGIQUES hi entri també un espai dedicat a informar al
visitant sobre l´existència d´un moviment internacional anti-prohibicionista del que l´Associació Lliure Antiprohibicionista (A.L.A.)
n' es l´expressió ibèrica en el marc d' Europa.

Location:
KOMPLEX OKUPAT LÙDIC POLÍTIC "LA FERA". C/ SANTA AGATA NUM. 28-BAIXOS L-3, FONTANA

Cost: GRATUITA

Directions: ---

Organizer:

URL: http://www..nodo50.org/alabcn

La Presidència Imperial. Impactes hemisfèrics i globals

Amb la intervenció de John Saxe-Fernández (professor de Ciències Polítiques de la UNAM i articulista de la Jornada de Mèxic.
Gian Carlo Delgado (Economista mexicà de la UNAM)

Location:
Xasa de la Solidaritat C/ Vistalegre, 15

Organizer:

URL: http://chiapas.pangea.org

Vigil in solidarity with people of Fallujah

candle lit vigil, bring banners, props etc., leafletting, petition. Rallying point for all who wish to sustain daily opposition to the Fallujah outrage.

Location:
Donald Dewar statue, top of Buchanan street, Glasgow

Organizer:

Monthly Meeting for Citizens for Justice in the Middle East (CJME)

We encourage you to join with us in working towards peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Attend our next monthly business meeting on Village Presbyterian Church in Mission, Kansas to learn more about our work and find out how you can work with us.

Location:
Village Presbyterian Church
Room Y125
67th & Mission
Mission, KS

Cost: free and open to the public

Organizer:

URL: http://www.cjme.org

KCSB-FM ANNUAL FUN-DRIVE

The Annual On-Air Fund Drive of College and Community Radio Station, KCSB 91.9 FM is now in progress through Weds. night, Nov. 17th, 2004.

The only community radio station based in Santa Barbara County, KCSB 91.9 FM, began its annual on-air Fund Drive on Monday, November 8th, 2004. Culminating a very active year for one of our area's most unique community-media resource, KCSB's ten day-long Fund Drive is featuring exclusive guests like Santa Barbara indie-rock band Kissing Tigers (playing live in the KCSB broadcast studio on Thursday, Nov. 11th, starting at 10pm), timely and topical interviews with newsmakers (from such locations as Fallujah, Iraq) and celebrities (including performers with the "Putumayo Present Latinas" tour), numerous thank-you gifts (CDs, books, DVDs, gift certificates for restaurants and retail, etcetera), and much more.

Visit or tune into 91.9 FM, and call (805) 893-2424 starting Monday, Nov. 8th to pledge financial support for listener-sponsored KCSB.

Location:
91.9 - ON THE AIRWAVES!!

Cost: AIRWAVES ARE FREE, BUT INDEPENDENT MEDIA IS PRICELESS

Directions: TUNE YOUR DIAL TO 91.9-FM. CALL IN AT 805-893-2424,2426. PLEDGE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN AFFORD.

Organizer:

Marleine Bastien: Haitian Refugee Rights Activist

Marleine Bastien, a devoted refugee rights activist, will be speaking about human rights and Haiti on Mon. Nov. 15. She is considered a true leader in the Haitian community of South Florida. A passionate and articulate spokesperson for Haitians, she formed the "Justice Coalition for the Haitian Children of Guantanamo" to advocate for Haitian children incarcerated there in the early 1990s and also helped to pass the Haitian Refugee Act. We are seeking co-sponsors to help out with this event so please contact asap.

Location:
Student Services Building room 208/218

Cost: Free

Organizer:

URL: http://fanm.org/about_us/marleine_bastien.html

Lakota Woman

Fourth Film in the First Nations Film Festival.

Location:
101C of the Student Life Building at Florida State University.

Cost: free

Organizer:

Bring Urban Recycling to Nashville Today

BURNT (Bring Urban Recycling to Nashville Today) has their regular monthly board meeting at 5:30 pm on the Third Monday of every month at the Nashville Peace and Justice Center 1016 18th Ave So
321-9066

Location:

SHOULD HOLYOKE PRIVATIZE ITS WATER SEWAGE TREATMENT?

WHO PROFITS? WHO LOSES? SHOULD HOLYOKE PRIVATIZE ITS WATER SEWAGE
TREATMENT?
Water sewage treatment is not a glamorous topic. But it affects all of us as residents
and taxpayers. Holyoke is under EPA pressure to upgrade its sewage treatment
facilities so that during heavy rains sewage does not overflow into the
Connecticut River. Everyone agrees that this is a major problem that needs
to be solved, but there is no agreement on the best solution. Nor has the
public been fully informed. The mayor is proposing to privatize sewage
treatment. However, neither the public nor City Councilors have been allowed
to see the actual contract. Aquarian, the only company that offered a bid
for the multi-million dollar project, has little experience with waste water
treatment and has a poor track record elsewhere. Many city councilors have
repeatedly questioned the company’s rosy projections and its expertise. We
demand more information and public disclosure before the city signs a
20-year, $100 million contract. This public forum offers an opportunity to
hear all sides of the issue so that citizens’ voices can truly be heard.
Lee Town representative Dierdre Consolati will be the featured
speaker. Her Concerned Citizens of Lee group recently defeated their town’s
proposed private contract for water and sewer after discovering many
hitherto-undisclosed problems with the private corporation. Five City
Councilors (including Kevin Jourdain, Helen Norris, Lilian Santiago. Mark A.
Lubold, and Elaine Pluta) and a group of citizens (Holyoke Citizens for Open
Government) are seeking to spark a genuine public debate on the issue.

Location:
Joseph Metcalf Preschool, 2019 Northampton St