Workers' Rights are Human Rights

Workers' Rights are Human Rights
Community-Wide Public Event in Observance of International Human Rights Day

Oxfam America is pleased to invite you to "Workers' Rights are Human Rights," a commemoration of International Human Rights Day that we have co-organized with several of Boston's leading rights organizations. Free and open to the public, the event will be held Saturday (December 11) from 10am to 4:30pm at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square (700 Boylston Street).

For Oxfam America, the protection of fundamental human rights is essential to achieving economic development and improved quality of life for the world's most poverty-stricken people. Labor rights are an important part of the picture. Our Make Trade Fair campaign, for example, has recently reported how women workers in the global food and textile industries � from Asian factories to the tomato fields of Florida � are failing to emerge from poverty, while suffering various rights abuses in the workplace.

We hope you will take this opportunity to hear directly from Oxfam America staff Simon Billenness and Tim Wise during the morning panel, as well as from other respected speakers on global and local aspects of the problem. You can also meet Oxfam staffer Shayna Harris during the afternoon workshop called "We have the power!" and explore with us emerging solutions and new ways in which we can build support for human rights through exercising our political voice and consumer power.

9:15am registration starts
10am-4:30pm opening panel with the Honorable David Bonior, U.S. House of Representatives (1976-2002), Robert Ross, Professor at Clark University, and Maria-Elena Letona, Executive Director Centro Presente

Workshops will be followed in the afternoon.

Location:
Boston Public Library in Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street

Cost: Free

Directions: www.bpl.org

Organizer:

URL: http://www.massjwj.net/dec11/

The Little Angel of Colombia

38 Cameron presents:
"ALTERNATIVE HOLIDAY GIFT FAIR
and a film presentation of "The Little Angel of Colombia"

THE FAIR:
In the spirit of giving expressed in this film, 38 Cameron will host an alternative holiday gift fair, benefiting various people and projects both locally and around the world. Some of the vendors will include:

- Heifer International
- Rosie's Place
- Kalaraksha
- Jitegemee
- Albeiro Vargas Foundation
- What is Enlightenment? magazine
- Brookline Community Center for the Arts
- Empower Dalit Women of Nepal
- Free Wheelchair Mission
- Native Energy
- The Amigos School in Cambridge
- Alternative Gifts International

THE FILM:
Little Angel of Colombia, a moving documentary film about an eight year old Colombian boy, Alveiro Vargas, who organizes squads of children to spend their free time helping shut-ins who had been abandoned by their
families. He dreams of one day building a modern facility for old people. Today he realizes that dream, directing a modern care facility for 140 poor and elderly people who would otherwise be homeless. The facility is a monument to the potential we all possess when we follow our heart.

Following the film, there will be a LIVE CONFERENCE CALL with Alberio Vargas!

Please note that the film will begin at 5pm.

For more information please call 38 Cameron,

38 Cameron is a unique new event center with a broad offering of public events including film presentations, speaker events and discussions. By
creating and hosting public forums to explore different areas of interest, it is fast becoming a thriving community cultural center in North Cambridge. It is also now open as an ART GALLERY.

Location:
38 Cameron Avenue, Suite 100
(just outside of Davis Square) Cambridge, MA 02140

Cost: fair=free/film=$5

URL: http://www.38cameron.com

Bazaar Bizarre

"I was but a wee flaming homosexual when my mother wisely took me under her wing and taught me the ladylike skills of knitting and cross-stitch... and so began my love affair with crafts. Working with my hands made me feel good in a Marxist sort of way, and I learned at an early age that being able to make something from nothing was extremely rewarding. As I got older, my interest in crafts waned because the spectrum of traditional craft imagery didn�t represent me.

Dissatisfied with stencils of country ducks and painted wooden slices of watermelon, I decided to use what I�d learned as a child to express my own interests. To my surprise and delight, a lot of my friends were experiencing the same kind of personal renaissance.�How exactly to share these objets de craft was a project upon which we embarked. The result? Bazaar Bizarre.

Crafts have long been denigrated as a feminized form of expression, but Bazaar Bizarre represents an impulse to re-value the abilities our mothers and grandmothers taught us, while making them our own. It�s as much about tradition as it is about change.

The Bazaar Bizarre began in 2001 in the Boston-area as a hodge-podge of friends and acquaintances cobbling together their handcrafted DIY wares to sell and staging an offbeat entertainment extravaganza."

- Greg Der Ananian, Bazaar Bizarre

Location:
YWCA 7 Temple Street Cambridge http://www.ywcacam.org/Contact.html

Directions: The YWCA is easily accessible by the MBTA red line and by car.� We are one block from the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Prospect Street.

by mbta
Take the red line to Central Square.� Cross Prospect Street (heading towards Harvard Square) and turn right onto Temple Street (it's a one way off Massachusetts Avenue).� Our entrance is half way down the block, on the left.

by car
Map Quest offers directions from your particular location to the YWCA at 7 Temple Street.� There is metered parking on Massachusetts Avenue, Temple Street and Bishop Allen Drive.

URL: http://www.bazaarbizarre.org/boston/index.htm

Demonstration Against Force Feeding Ducks and Geese

Foie gras is made from the grotesquely enlarged livers of very young ducks and geese. To make foie gras, workers shove long inflexible pipes down 8-10 week old ducks' and geese' throats and pump up to 7 pounds of food per day into their stomachs to enlarge their livers (called gavage feeding). This is the equivalent of eating 16 pounds of spaghetti for a human. On average, they are force-fed 20 to 30 percent of their body weight each day. This painful force-feeding is the general method used for all foie gras production. The force-fed birds become too sick to even walk because of the serious liver disease hepatic lipidosis. Vets say they must experience unspeakable pain.

Animals also suffer ruptured stomachs, throats, liver disease, foot infections, kidney necrosis, spleen and liver damage, bruised and broken bills, and tumor-like lumps in their necks. They are usually crammed into tiny, vomit-covered cages for this horror. At one Hudson Valley farm, so many ducks died when their stomachs burst, workers were given a bonus if they killed fewer than 50 birds a month. One duck had a maggot-infested neck wound so severe that water spilled out of it when he tried to drink. Birds have literally exploded from the force-feeding.

Only males are used for foie gras because they produce larger livers. Female hatchlings are drowned, beaten, or crushed to death.

Foie gras farms have been banned in the UK, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway, Israel (previously the 4th largest producer), Sweden, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Poland. Many restaurants have banned it, including the San Francisco Hilton, Chicago's Pump Room and San Antonio's La Louisiane. United Airlines, Delta, Holland KLM, and Scandinavia's SAS have removed foie gras from their menus. The Boston Symphony dropped foie gras from their annual Wine & Food Event. Trader Joe's east and west coast stores have stopped selling it. State bills banning it have been introduced in both California and New York--the only US states that produce foie gras.

MARC sent a polite letter and pledge card for Clio's owners to sign agreeing to stop serving foie gras and a member also met with them in person but they never responded.

Please stand up for these incredibly abused animals.

Location:
Clio's in Back Bay, Boston. Clio's (part of the Eliot Hotel building) is located at 370 Commonwealth Avenue (Commonwealth and Mass Ave). The restaurant entrance is actually on Mass Ave.

Organizer:

URL: http:www.massachusettsanimalrights.com

Northeast Antifascist Movie Night

Screening of "Skinheads" the ultimate antifascist B movie.

What: Northeast Antifascist monthly film night
Why: Cause Antifas like movies as much as the next person
Who: Anyone as long as your not a fascist

Northeast Antifascist invites you to the next installment in our monthly film series. This month we will be showing "Skinheads." After commiting a murder, a violent gang of nazis chases two witnesses into the woods where they encounter a WWII veteran with no fondness of nazis, traditional or neo. Come for the film and meet some cool people dedicated to ridding this city of fascism.

Shameless plug: we also now have beautiful Northeast Antifascist T-shirts. The shirts themselves come from a completely worker owned sewing cooperative in Nicaragua. < www.organicclothes.com/pages-story/nicaragua.html > so buy one and support us and support them. While your at it buy them at the Lucy Parsons Center and support them too.

Location:
Lucy Parsons Center, Columbus Ave near the Mass Ave. stop on the orange line.

URL: http://northeast.antifa.net

Assemblea Salvem el Desert

assemblea per informar i organitzar les seg�ents actuacions

Location:
Carreterea orpesa-cabanes, quil�metre 2 en direcci� cabanes.

Organizer:

URL: http://laplana.indymedia.org

CINEFORUM: EL AMOR Y LA SOLEDAD

PROYECCION DE ESTA PELICULA, CON UN RECITAL DE POESIA ANTES DE LA MISMA

Location:
C/ DR. MARA�ON N�3 BAJO LA LAGUNA

Organizer:

-----Dissabte 11-12 a les 22h, Concert per l'Autogesti� del C.S.O La Banka Rota: ARMA SOCIAL I INSERSHOW ---

-----Dissabte 11-12 a les 22h, Concert per l'Autogesti� del C.S.O La Banka Rota: ARMA SOCIAL I INSERSHOW ---

Location:

Cost: 2.5neuros

Organizer:

URL: http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/141524/index.php

Marxa de torxes per l'Amnistia

Marxa de Torxes per la llibertat de les preses i presos polítics catalans. A les 20h a les places de la vila de diverses ciutats i pobles.

Location:

Organizer:

CONCIERTO PUNK

PRIMATES (punk miticos)
NOBLE CAUSA (Hospitalet punk-oi!)
DEMOCRACIA (punk makarra y callejero)

Location:
Ateneu Anarquista del Besòs
Rambla Prim, 76 Metro Besòs MAR (L-4)
Bus 141, 43, 56, 36, B25 y N11

Cost: 1,5 euros

Riot Breakz

Pure breakbeat fiesta with french live sets and french and spanish Djs plus amazing fire show and hip hop live...
Live sets:
-Crackhead Worm(TOrSion Recz)hardstep
-Keshno(tOrSion OQP)Nu Break
-Arobass(OQP)Hard Tek
-Midilink Vs Tahiti Bob(IOT)Break
-Andy Everywhere hard tek ragga
DJ s:Probe 1 (torsion) Mecka(Tomahawk) XLUIS(Barça) RIK(Barça)HOvesep(Barça) And more guests;;;Break DA BEAT!!!!

Location:
at the TDN 125 carrer del trebal ..SELVA DEL Mar

Cost: 2 euros

Organizer:

URL: http://www.torsionrecords.com

DESCÀRREGA A RIBES

AMPARANOIA
Rasco i Familia
Calima

Location:
Dj. Milongo Selektah

Cost: 8/10

Organizer:

11-12-04 Fiesta 2º Aniversario de los programas Arte&Ruido y Suburbio Azul en el C.S.O La Fera, por la autogestión de Ràdio

A partir de las 22 hrs de este sábado 11 de diciembre, en el C.S.O. La Fera de Gràcia. c/Santa Agatha 28 se celebrará la fiesta de 2º Aniversario de los programas Arte&Ruido y Suburbio Azul, con un montón de actuaciones y happenings diversos. Os esperamos a tod@s.
Los fondos irán destinados a autogestión de Ràdio Contrabanda, radio libre y no comercial, en el 91.4 del dial de Barcelona. c

Location:
C.S.O. LA FERA DE GRÀCIA
C/STA AGATHA 28
FONTANA L3

Organizer:

URL: www.contrabanda.org

Strengthening networks of resistance to war: an anti-war forum

11th & 12th December, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow

Two days of workshops and discussion aimed at strengthening networks of resistance to war in Scotland.

This two day event is to help develop the networks of resistance to war in Scotland by sharing information and ideas and to come up with joint ideas for future actions.

How can we increase grass-roots action against war? How can we improve communication and solidarity between the different strands of the anti-war movement? What can we learn from each other�s experiences?

Over this weekend, we hope this anti-war forum will help to start to answer these questions and more.

Contributors:

� Milan Rai is author of �WarPlan Iraq� and �Regime Unchanged� and active in the �Justice Not Vengeance� campaign

� Rose Gentle�s son, Gordon, was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq where he had been posted with the Royal Highland Fusiliers after only six months basic training. Rose has started a campaign, �Justice for Gordon Gentle�, for British troops to be brought home from Iraq

� Ewa Jasiewicz is a freelance journalist and activist who spent several months in Iraq earlier this year and was also detained for over a week in Israel in the summer of 2004 after being barred from entering the country

� Jenny Gaiawyn is a Trident Ploughshares activist who was in Iraq in April 2004 when she tried to get ambulances into Fallujah, she was taken hostage with Jo Wilding but released, unharmed, after 24 hours

� Josh Gorman has been charged with criminal damage, aggravated trespass and going equipped to cause criminal damage after trying to stop USAF Stealth Bombers flying from Fairford airbase in England

� Colin Buchanan is co-ordinator Glasgow Troops Out Network which have been holding daily vigils in Glasgow and lunchtime pickets of the Scottish Labour Party headquarters since the start of the attack on Fallujah as well as regular weekly vigils in Glasgow since the summer.

� Byrony Macleod was one of the Edinburgh High School students who organised school student strikes at the start of the war on Iraq

Location:
Kinning Park Complex

Cost: Suggested donation �2 / day

Directions: Kinning Park Community Centre, Cornwall Street, Kinning Park
By Public Transport: Take underground to Kinning Park. The Community complex is the large redbrick school on the other side of the road. (Please note: The Underground runs from 11am to 6pm on Sundays.)
By Road: Leave M8 at junction 20 (exit is straight after you cross the River Clyde). At the bottom of the flyover ramp follow the road round to the left. Go straight ahead then take a left turn back under the Motorway. Take the eighth left turn, Cornwall Street is the turn after Sussex St. Kinning Park Community Centre is the large redbrick building on the left at the bottom of the road.

Strengthening networks of resistance to war: an anti-war forum

11th & 12th December, Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow

Two days of workshops and discussion aimed at strengthening networks of resistance to war in Scotland.

This two day event is to help develop the networks of resistance to war in Scotland by sharing information and ideas and to come up with joint ideas for future actions.

How can we increase grass-roots action against war? How can we improve communication and solidarity between the different strands of the anti-war movement? What can we learn from each other�s experiences?

Over this weekend, we hope this anti-war forum will help to start to answer these questions and more.

Contributors:

� Milan Rai is author of �WarPlan Iraq� and �Regime Unchanged� and active in the �Justice Not Vengeance� campaign

� Rose Gentle�s son, Gordon, was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq where he had been posted with the Royal Highland Fusiliers after only six months basic training. Rose has started a campaign, �Justice for Gordon Gentle�, for British troops to be brought home from Iraq

� Ewa Jasiewicz is a freelance journalist and activist who spent several months in Iraq earlier this year and was also detained for over a week in Israel in the summer of 2004 after being barred from entering the country

� Jenny Gaiawyn is a Trident Ploughshares activist who was in Iraq in April 2004 when she tried to get ambulances into Fallujah, she was taken hostage with Jo Wilding but released, unharmed, after 24 hours

� Josh Gorman has been charged with criminal damage, aggravated trespass and going equipped to cause criminal damage after trying to stop USAF Stealth Bombers flying from Fairford airbase in England

� Colin Buchanan is co-ordinator Glasgow Troops Out Network which have been holding daily vigils in Glasgow and lunchtime pickets of the Scottish Labour Party headquarters since the start of the attack on Fallujah as well as regular weekly vigils in Glasgow since the summer.

� Byrony Macleod was one of the Edinburgh High School students who organised school student strikes at the start of the war on Iraq

Location:
Kinning Park Complex

Cost: Suggested donation �2 / day

Directions: Kinning Park Community Centre, Cornwall Street, Kinning Park
By Public Transport: Take underground to Kinning Park. The Community complex is the large redbrick school on the other side of the road. (Please note: The Underground runs from 11am to 6pm on Sundays.)
By Road: Leave M8 at junction 20 (exit is straight after you cross the River Clyde). At the bottom of the flyover ramp follow the road round to the left. Go straight ahead then take a left turn back under the Motorway. Take the eighth left turn, Cornwall Street is the turn after Sussex St. Kinning Park Community Centre is the large redbrick building on the left at the bottom of the road.

Womens and Trans Bike Workshop

An easy introduction designed to get you comfortable fixing and maintaining your bicycle. All skill levels welcome. Our priority is to be accesible to absolute beginners. This event is FREE - just bring your curiosity and a bicycle if you have one (and a lunch).
Women and Trans led.
Se habla espanol.
Please RSVP to help us plan - or if you have questions email jmelena-AT-onebox.com

The Bike Church does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, gender or anything else.

Location:
224 Walnut Avenue (in the parking lot directly behind the fire station)

Cost: FREE - donations welcome

Organizer:

Free Self Defense Workshop

Be more comfortable with your body and your ability to defend it! Your body is powerful--learn to use it! Martial arts based self defense can increase your awareness and help you stay safe(r). Basic escapes, strikes, drills, kicks, etc. will be taught.

No partner necessary
Safe space for all
Communities in active resistance encouraged to attend

Location:
San Lorenzo Park, close to the pedestrian bridge across the river from downtown Santa Cruz.

Cost: FREE

Directions: Please wear warm, comfortable clothes and leave competative macho ego stuff where it belongs.

U.S. Out of Iraq and Stay Out of Iran!

Protest at Baywalk every Saturday 7-9pm.

We're tired of U.S. imperialism! It's time for a change.

Join us as we distribute fliers, hold banners and signs, and sometimes march through downtown St. Petersburg. We have plenty of signs, or you can bring your own. Our protests are coordinated with the St. Petersburg police and are typically peaceful.

Join the resistance by speaking out for peace and social justice!

Location:
Baywalk is located at 2nd Ave and 2nd Street N in downtown St. Petersburg. There is some street parking in the area, and a parking garage next to Baywalk.

Organizer:

URL: http://stpeteforpeace.org/

Earth Matters Tennessee

Earth Matters Tennessee (Community Composting at the Peace Sign)

Get your Community Compost from the kids, staff and management of EarthMatters Tennessee. For over 10 years now, EarthMatters Tennessee has managed the community garden and compost produced the anuuual Leaf Lift
contest designed to environmentally educate and divert compostable tonnage (some call "waste") headed for landfill and incineration.

Aside from the buschels of vegetables and herbs we grow each season, our real "crop" is the thousands of pounds of rich, organic compost, perfect for gardens, "yardens" lawns and planters. Support your local community garden.

Location:
Corner of Gale Lane and Leland (off Belmont near 440)
for more info visit www.earthmatterstn.org

Organizer:

Left of Center

Left of Center plays on Nashville Community Access Television every Saturday at 11:30am in Davidson County on Channel 19 Comcast.

Left of Center is a program dedicated to bringing you the news in Nashville from a progressive and radical perspective. We cover everything the corporate news won't touch. This summer's lineup includes a documentary on the movement to allow residents to opt out of the spraying of pesticides in their neighborhood, a documentary on the march for women's lives, coverage of the protests against the g8 in georgia, the protests against the the $25,000 a plate george bush fundraiser in may, tennesseeans to end the death penalty, Barry Lynn - advocate of Church State Separation, gaza strip about the detention and isolation of palestinians and many more interesting goings on from Nashville and beyond.

For more information or to get your program aired please email chris lugo at christopher_lugo-AT-yahoo.com

Location:

Organizer:

Workshop for Homemade Peace

Phil Steiger of Friends for a Non-Violent World, Mel Duncan from the Nonviolent Peaceforce and Lisa Ledwidge will be giving presentations on "how they are working to create a world that works for all of us."

Location:
Joan of Arc Catholic Church
4537 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis

Organizer:

URL: http://www.DOPcampaign.org

Homemade Peace Workshop

Featuring
Dot Maver
Executive Director U.S. DOP Campaign

�Creating a Culture of Peace:
The Practical Application of the Principals of Nonviolence and Cooperation�

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Keynote Address
Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer

�Reclaiming Jesus� Peacemaking in a Nation Addicted to War�

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Presentations and Panel Discussion from Minnesota Activists
Phil Steger Executive Director, Friends for a Non-Violent World
Mel Duncan Executive Director, Nonviolent Peaceforce
Lisa Ledwidge U.S. Outreach Director, Institute for Energy & Environment

�How Do We Create a World that Works for all of Us?�

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Matthew Albracht
Managing Director of the Peace Alliance and
National Department of Peace Campaign

�Making the Department of Peace a Reality�

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For more information contact
Mary Jane LaVigne
(651) 426-8616
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Campaign for a U.S. DEPARTMENT OF P E A C E
www.dopcampaign.org

Location:
St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church
4537 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Cost: No fee to attend, donations gratefully accepted. RSVP not required.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.dopcampaign.org/events/minnesota.htm

Breakfast with Santa Claus

Plan on joining Santa Claus and the families of the Cummington Family Center at the Cummington Community house on 12/11 from 9-11 a.m. for a continental breakfast, sponsored by the Cummington Recreation Department. Don't forget your cameras!

Location:
Community House on Main Street in Cummington, MA.

Cost: Free.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.hilltownfamilycenter.org