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:

Fitzcarraldo

Werner Herzog Film Series
Mondays at 6pm

Dec. 13, Aguirre, The Wrath of God (100 min. color. 1972) In German with English subtitles
Dec. 20, Fitzcarraldo (157 min. color. 1982) In German with English subtitles
Dec. 27, Cobra Verde (111 min. color. 1987) In German with English subtitles

Location:
Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall x4319

URL: http://bpl.org/news/upcomingevents.htm

ABC letter writing / newsletter night

The Anarchist Black Cross will be doing our regularly scheduled prisoner
letter-writing. Come help us write to prisoners and fulfill
information/literature requests. We will also be reviewing submissions for the
ABC network newsletter that we are putting together. All anti-authoritarian
prison abolitionists welcome.

Location:
304 Washington Street, #1, Cambridge (T: Central Square)

Organizer:

URL: http://www.baamboston.org/abc/

Weapons of Mass Deception

"A comprehensive and devastating critique of the TV news networks' complacency and complicity in the war on Iraq... brilliantly argued and scrupulously documented...a must see" -- Chicago Reader.

Winner of the Best Documentary award at the Denver, Colorado and Austin, Texas film festivals. [Directed by Danny Schechter "The News Dissector"]

The screening is presented by Michael Hammerschlag, who has written commentaries + articles for Seattle Times, Providence Journal, Honolulu Advertiser, Columbia Journalism Review, Media Channel, and Capital Times. He will present a 15 minute introduction before the film and also take questions after.

This will immediately be followed by Jeff Knoch's Prog-O-Riff-ic film + video night.

8pm 70s Psych-Prog Film Night with your charming host Jeff Knoch

An evening of rare, archival footage (compiled from innumerable sources) of the finest English and German prog-rockers of bygone days: when cleverness, thinness, and musical direction governed by something other than adolescent testosterone were cool. Soft Machine, Kevin Ayers, and Caravan spar with teutonic titans: Can, Kraftwerk (in this case, more Neu than Kraftwerk), and Amon Duul II. Plus a handful of others. The sheer irrefutable mind-blowing potential of the material and consummately endearing personality of one Robert Wyatt more than makes up for the very rare, occasional, seldom discernable, yet arguably present, only slight compromised video quality (at moments).

Location:
AS220, Providence, Rhode Island

Cost: free

URL: http://www.wmdthefilm.com hammernews.com/ www.as220.org www.urdog.com

HIJACKING CATASTROPHE: A Documentary

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (by Sut Jhally) examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home. The documentary places the Bush administration's false justifications for war in Iraq within the larger context of a two-decade struggle by neoconservatives to dramatically increase military spending in the wake of the cold war, and to expand American power globally by means of military force. At the same time, the documentary argues that the Bush administration has sold this radical and controversial plan for aggressive American military intervention by deliberately manipulating intelligence, political imagery, and the fears of the American people after 9/11.

Narrated by Julian Bond, Hijacking Catastrophe features interviews with more than twenty prominent political observers, including Pentagon whistleblower Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, who witnessed first-hand how the Bush administration set up a sophisticated propaganda operation to link the anxieties generated by 9/11 to a pre-existing foreign policy agenda that included a preemptive war on Iraq.

At its core, the film places the deceptions of the Bush administration within the larger frame of questions seldom posed in the mainstream: What, exactly, is the agenda that drove the administration's pre-war deceptions? How is 9/11 being used to sell this agenda? And what are the stakes for America, Americans, and the world if this agenda succeeds in being fully implemented during a second Bush term?

Professor Sut Jhally is Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation, Northhampton, MA.

Discussions afterwards.

Location:
Pleasant Street Congregational Church, 75 Pleasant Street, Arlington

Cost: Suggested Donation $5

Directions: one block from Arlington Center - ample parking on street

Organizer:

URL: http://lists.topica.com/lists/act-ma@igc.topica.com/read/message.html?mid=810353395&sort=d&start=7067

Taller de Dansa al CSOA l'Estella

Com cada dilluns es fa un curs de dansa principalment oriental al CSOA l'Estella.

Location:
CSOA l'Estella

Directions: c/ Lepant, 83
al costat de l'estació de tren
de Mataró

Organizer:

URL: http://www.musaik.net/estella

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

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:

Solstice Decoration Making and Playgroup

A private family of the Cummington Family Center (CFC) will be hosting a Solstice Decoration Making Social and Playgroup for children through the age five at their home in West Chesterfield, MA. Families of the CFC are encouraged to bring oranges and pinecones and come make birdseed pinecones and pomanders for the Winter Solstice. Families interested in this event who are not members of the CFC should use the provided contact to request a member application. There are no fees to be a member. All playgroups are free.

Location:
Private

Cost: Free.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.hilltownfamilycenter.org