Key Anti-Taco Bell Campaign Action

In the fight to get Taco bell ousted from UT's Texas Union, this Friday will be the 1st of the 2 most important moments for local folks to act and help. The Texas Union's Board of Directors will introduce for consideration a resolution calling for Taco Bell's removal.

Taco Bell, as an industry leader in US tomato purchases, has been indicted in graves human rights abuses, as a sustainer of sub-poverty wages and even slavery. the farmworker community group that uncovered and helped to prosecute 6 separate slavery rings in Florida since 1997, the coalition of immokalee workers, has called for their boycott.

check out their website ( ciw-online.org ) to learn more.

Location:
UT Texas Union, on Guadalupe where 23rd would intersect.
Board of Directors Room, 4.118

Cost: priceless opportunity

Organizer:

URL: ciw-online.org

Critical Mass Ride

Austin Critical Mass Goals:

1. To create attention, a platform and a voice for alternative transportation, (mainly bicyclists and supporters of a better mass transit system) in Austin.

2. This attention will help in bicycle/car safety relationships.

3. To encourage people in Austin to consider using bicycles as alternative to cars.

4. To help necessitate the need for more bike lanes throughout the Austin metro area.

5. To beautify our community, by removing some cars from the streets for a few hour time period, and taking the time to enjoy the beauty of the city.

6. Please come for your own reason. Do not come, or not come for reasons due to other people's beliefs or disbeliefs. Come on your own terms for your own reason and have fun!

Location:
Meet at the west mall of the University of Texas @ 5pm every last friday of the month (guadalupe and 23rd).

Cost: FREE

URL: ww.criticalmass.org

Critical Mass

Cyclists meet at Charles and Redwood Streets 5:45 p.m. the last Friday of every month. Critical Mass is a slow bicycle protest through downtown Baltimore.

Critical Mass is a national phenomenon which has arisen in response to what many call the "car-culture" -- an overdependence on the private automobile. It is, more than anything else, a reclamation of space, a demonstration to show that the city belongs to people and not machines.

Location:
Charles and Redwood Streets

Organizer:

Human Rights Watch Int'l Film Festival

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival - Boston

January 27-31, 2005

Advanced ticket purchase is encouraged.
For more information, go to www.hrw.org/iff or contact the individual venues.

From Bombay on Opening Night (BORN INTO BROTHELS) to Baghdad on Closing Night (SOLDIERS PAY and THREE KINGS) - the HRWIFF brings its challenging mix of features and documentaries back to Boston this January. The Festival showcases thirteen titles, many focusing on the justice system here and abroad and conflicts which turn family and friends into strangers and enemies. Iraq and Iran, Pakistan and India, North and South Korea, and Hungary, Lebanon, Peru and the United States are in this year's spotlight.

BORN INTO BROTHELS - OPENING NIGHT
Thursday, January 27 at 7:45 PM at the Museum of Fine Arts
Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, USA 2003; 85m. Video. Documentary.
In Bengali and English with English subtitles Children born to Bombayís brothel workers are given and taught to use cameras. While recording their surroundings, their own lives are transformed.
Winner of the 2004 HRWIFF Nestor Almendros Prize and the Documentary Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival 2004.

DEADLINE
Sunday, January 30 at 12:30 and 6:00 PM in the Coolidge Corner Video Room
Katy Chevigny and Kirsten Johnson, USA 2003; 90m. Video. Documentary. In
English
Should the death penalty be the ultimate punishment and is it always justly applied? After Northwestern University journalism students uncover evidence that many people on Death Row are innocent, outgoing Illinois governor and death penalty supporter George Ryan orders special clemency hearings for all 167 prisoners on Death Row. Co- Presented by Amnesty International, Mass Coalition Against the Death Penalty and Northeastern University School of Journalism

GOODBYE HUNGARIA
Saturday, January 29th at 1 and 3 PM in the Coolidge Corner Theatre Video
Room
Filmmaker Jon Nealon in attendance
USA/Hungary 2003; 56m. Video. Documentary.
In English & Arabic with English subtitles
Both political tale and love story, the film chronicles the lives of Abed Al-Sahli a Palestinian refugee in Hungary who acts as advocate and de facto translator for a refugee camp's Arab population, and Charu Newhouse, an American volunteer. Co-presented by the International Institute of Boston and the Massachusetts Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA)

THE KITE
Friday, January 28 at 8:00 PM at the Museum of Fine Arts
Randa Chahal-Sabbag, France/Lebanon 2003; 80m. 35mm. drama
In Arabic with English subtitles
A 16-year-old girl has been given in marriage to her cousin, who lives on the other side of the barbed wire border separating her Druze Lebanese village from his, which has been annexed by Israel. However, she gradually falls in love with a soldier who has been watching her since the day she crossed the border for the first time.
Co-presented by Women in Film & Video/New England

JUVIES
Saturday, January 29 at 5 and 7 PM at the Coolidge Corner Screening Room
Sunday, January 30 at 8:00 PM at the Coolidge Corner Movie Theatre Leslie
Neale, USA 2004; 66m. Video. Documentary.
In English
A riveting look at a world most of us will never see: the world of juvenile offenders, increasingly tried as adults and serving incomprehensibly long prison sentences for crimes they either did not commit or were only marginally involved in.
Co-presented by the Youth Advocacy Project

PERSONS OF INTEREST
Friday, January 28 at 6:00 PM in the Coolidge Corner Video Room
Saturday, January 29 at 9:00 PM in the Coolidge Corner Video Room
Alison Maclean and Tobias Perse, USA 2003; 63m. Video. Documentary. In
English
After the September 11th terrorist attacks, more than 5000 people, mainly non-U.S. nationals of South Asian or Middle Eastern origin, were taken into custody by the U.S. Justice Department and held indefinitely on grounds of national security. Filmed inside a symbolic interrogation room, former detainees poignantly tell their stories through interviews, family photographs, and letters from prison.
Co-presented by the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts

REPATRIATION
Sunday, January 30 at 2:30 PM in the Coolidge Corner Video Screening Room
Dong-won Kim, South Korea 2003; 149m. 35mm. Documentary.
In Korean with English subtitles
For ten years, South Korean director Dong-won Kim followed released North Koreans who were arrested for spying in the South. He documented how they survived ó both physically and psychologically ó the dehumanizing time spent in prison, and their quest, once released, to finally go home. Winner of the Freedom of Expression Award, Sundance Film Festival 2004
Co-presented by the Fletcher Club of Boston

SAINTS AND SINNERS
Friday, January 28 at 7:30 and 10:00 PM in the Coolidge Corner Video Room
Abigail Honor and Yan Vizinberg, USA 2004; 71m. Video. Documentary. In
English
Devoutly Catholic gay couple Edward and Vincent are determined to marry in a Catholic church, despite the expected rejection from the local church hierarchy.
Co-presented by Dignity Boston and the Freedom to Marry Coalition

SILENT WATERS
Friday, January 28 at 6 PM at the Museum of Fine Arts
Sabiha Sumar, Pakistan 2003 95 minutes, 35mm, Drama
In Punjabi with English Subtitles
Set in 1979 Pakistan, a widowed Muslim woman invests her hopes in her beloved son. But when he takes up with a group of Islamic fundamentalists just as a group of Sikh pilgrims come to town, her haunted past turns her present life upside down.
Co-presented by Women in Film & Video/New England

STORY UNDONE
Saturday, January 29 at 1:15 PM at the Museum of Fine Arts
Hassan Yektapanah Iran/Irland 2004 35 mm/ 83 minutes
In Farsi with English subtitles
When two Iranian filmmakers set out to make a film on the illegal smuggling of their fellow citizens across the border, they find themselves part of the larger story.
Co-presented by the International Institute of Boston

THREE KINGS - CLOSING NIGHT with SOLDIERS PAY
Monday, January 31 at 7 PM at the Coolidge Corner Movie Theatre
THREE KINGS: David O. Russell, US 1999 114m, 35mm. drama.
In English & Arabic with English subtitles
At the end of the first Gulf War, US soldiers set out into the desert to seeking Saddamís stolen gold as their prize of war. What they find is their own humanity.
SOLDIERS PAY: David O. Russell, Tricia Regan and Juan Carlos Zaldivar, US 2004
Russell's short documentary about the impact of the Iraq war on Americans and Iraqis, which Warner Brothers wouldn't allow on the DVD reissue of THREE KINGS.

WHAT THE EYE DOESN'T SEE
Saturday, January 29 at 3:00 PM at the Museum of Fine Arts
Francisco J. Lombardi, Peru 2003; 149m. 35mm. drama
In Spanish with English subtitles
Secret tapes. Blackmail. Political corruption. Unrequited love. Kidnapping. Wrongful imprisonment. Murder. A granddaughterís devotion. Six interwoven stories set against the collapse of Peruvian president Alberto Fujimoriís government. The filmmaker received HRWIFF's 2004 Irene Diamond Lifetime Achievement Award.
Co-presented by the Boston Latino International Film Festival

Location:
Coolidge Corner Theatre & Museum of Fine Arts

Cost: $12 open/closing nights & $9 all other shows

URL: http:://www.hrw.org/iff www.coolidge.org www.mfa.org/film

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM 2005 BRAZIL

January 26-31, 2005

What is the World Social Forum?
The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, for formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action.

Since the first world encounter in 2001, it has taken the form of a permanent world process seeking and building alternatives to neo-liberal policies. This definition is in its Charter of Principles, the WSF’s guiding document.

The World Social Forum is also characterized by plurality and diversity, is non-confessional, non-governmental and non-party. It proposes to facilitate decentralized coordination and networking among organizations engaged in concrete action towards building another world, at any level from the local to the international, but it does not intend to be a body representing world civil society. The World Social Forum is not a group nor an organization.

Who organizes the WSF?
Eight organizations are part of the Secretariat, which has an office in São Paulo (Brazil), and is in charge of the Forum process coordination. The eight entities that have started the organization of the first WSF – Abong, Attac, CBJP, Cives, CUT, Ibase, MST and Social Network for Justice and Human Rights – form this secretariat.

When WSF moved to Mumbai, an Indian Organizing Committee (in charge of organizing WSF 2004 in Mumbai, India) has been set up. The IOC has been integrated to WSF Secretariat afterwards.

General political issues as well as discussions on WSF future and the annual events methodologies are discussed and followed by the International Council, which is currently formed by 129 organizations.

For the fifth WSF edition, a Brazilian Organizing Committee (BOC) has been set up by 23 organizations, divided in eight Work Groups: Space, Solidarity Economy, Environmental and Sustainability, Culture, Translation, Communication, Call for Action, Free Software (linked to Communication WG).

What are the activities of the WSF?
Every year the WSF organizes a major world meeting which will take place alternately in Brazil and in other countries where the necessary structural and political conditions obtain, on the same dates as the World Economic Forum (Davos Forum) is taking place. It also promotes international Regional and Thematic Social Forums to pursue debates in specific regions and/or to discuss specific issues considered priorities by the International Council.

Who takes part in WSF events?
All organizations, social movements and civil society entities that are in accordance with the Charter of Principles may take part and propose events at FSM. Citizens that are not linked to any organization may take part in the debates.

Governmental entities and political parties may take part as observers. Governments that host WSF may be partners in its organization. Besides, governors and parliamentarians that commit to the Charter of Principles can be invited to participate on a personal basis.

WSF has the proposal of building another world without using violence; therefore it does not allow the participation of military organizations.

Is there a final saying?
WSF does not have a deliberative character. Therefore, it does not officially promote campaigns, nor has final sayings. This was the way that has been chosen to maintain participants’ diversity. Nevertheless, WSF has been the most significant space of international interlinkage for a new world. This happens because it helps participants to interlink and propose concrete action, since they do not state anything on behalf of the Forum.

Location:
Porto Alegre, BRAZIL

URL: http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/index.php?cd_language=2&id_menu=

Impact on Minorities in General and on Muslims

The Implications of Four More Years Discussion Series
  
"The Impact on Minorities in General and on Muslims in particular."

This discussion will be led by Prof. Syed Khan, senior reference librarian/bibliographer at O'Neil library.

He also serves as the president of the Muslim Community Support Services, a local non-profit group that helps individuals in the greater Boston/New England area who are in need of financial or social help.

He is also currently serving as a board member of the Islamic Center of New England, which is the oldest Mosque in the greater Boston area, where he has been on the board in various positions for almost 15 years.

Location:
Murray Graduate Center House, Living Room, Boston College

Cost: free

Directions: www.bc.edu/about/maps

URL: https://events.bc.edu/cgi-bin/publish/webevent.cgi

Critical Mass

Be part of the Solution. Join the Velorution.

Critical Mass is a vision of a happy, bike-friendly world replacing our polluted, congested roads, a protest for better cycling facilities and against car culture, a mobile paean to bicycling�s joys, a merry ride downtown and through the neighborhoods with friends, and more � all rolled into one convenient monthly ride right after work!

Critical Mass is a party on two wheels to celebrate bicycling � a fast, friendly, clean, efficient, healthy, cheap, sensible, and fun way to get around the city.

Critical Mass is not an organization. It is a coincidence. It is a xerocracy. Make your own flyers! Make a route map--maybe it will be followed! Bring a sign, noisemaker, or cupcakes to the ride!

Today Critical Mass occurs in over 100 cities around the world. In the real world, you need only ride a bicycle and you have reduced: air pollution, noise pollution, overconsumptive land usage, marine oilslicks, millions of animal deaths, the incidence of heart disease, the road toll, your monthly transport budget. Your personal gain is nothing compared to the benefits you offer to the greater community.

Location:
ride starts at Copley Square (Boylston between Clarendon & Dartmouth)

URL: http://www.bostoncriticalmass.org

ACLU screening of "Persons of Interest"

Film "Persons of Interest"

The ACLU of Massachusetts is sponsoring this powerful new film, which is about the post 9/11 round-up of detainees. The screening is part of the fifth Boston International Human Rights Watch Film Festival. 

Jan 28 @6pm & Jan 29 @9pm

Space is limited so get your tickets soon at the Coolidge Corner box office or through www.hrw.org

Location:
Coolidge Corner Theatre's Video Screening Room, Brookline

URL: www.hrw.org/iff also www. coolidge.org also www.aclu-mass.org

Information & Decision Systems Conference

Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Student Conference 2005
January 27-28, 2005

Invited guest speakers, luminaries in the fields of systems, communication, signal processing, and control, will give lectures during the conference.

The LIDS Student Conference features graduate students in various labs in EECS giving 15 minute talks on their research in all areas of communications and controls. It also features invited speakers. Thursday features Professor Jean Walrand of UC Berkeley discussing

"Game Theory and the Pricing of Internet Services,"

and Dr. Jorge Tierno & Asif Khalak discussing "A Robust Controls Approach to Dynamic Planning." Friday features Dr. Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, telling the inside story of how Ethernet became what it is today, and Prof. Roy Yates of Rutgers discussing his research interests. See the website for complete detailed schedule. NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED!

The conference promises to be a stimulating two days of student presentations, entertaining lectures by our eminent guests, an intriguing panel discussion, and random, serendipitous encounters that always seem to happen at conferences.

As always, the conference is organized by the students of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. The conference provides a great opportunity for students to present their work to the Laboratory, as well as the greater MIT community, serving to promote collaboration among the various research groups.

If you would like to formally register for the conference, please email your name and institutional affiliation to the conference committee, but no registration is required.

Invited Speakers:

Jean Walrand is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include stochastic processes, queuing theory, communication networks, and control systems. He is the author of An Introduction to Queueing Networks (Prentice-Hall, 1988), Communication Networks: A First Course (McGraw-Hill, 1998, 2nd ed.), and coauthor of High-Performance Communication Networks (Morgan Kaufmann, 2000). He is cofounder of TeraBlaze, San Jose, CA, a switch fabric semiconductor company. Prof. Walrand is a Fellow of the Belgian American Education Foundation and of the IEEE and a recipient of the Lanchester Prize and of the Stephen O. Rice Prize.

A Robust Controls Approach to Dynamic Planning
Jorge E. Tierno and Asif Khalak

Abstract - This talk will explore a controls approach to dynamic routing of vehicle fleets, which connects two well developed research areas: robust control and Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). The discount factors traditionally used in dynamic planning are thus given a novel frequency interpretation, originating from robust control concepts of performance and robustness. The controls framework makes it possible to move beyond merely justifying the discount factor towards synthesis approaches for designing the right discount factor for a given problem. We illustrate this approach in the context of numerical experiments of unmanned vehicle fleet routing in an air traffic simulation.

Jorge E. Tierno is a Principal Engineer at BAE Systems Advanced Information Technologies (formerly Alphatech, Inc.) in Burlington, Massachusetts. He received a Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering in 1996. His current research interests are in the application of Robust Control Technologies to artificial intelligence planning problem and in the use of information theory for data mining applications.

Asif Khalak is a Lead Research Engineer at BAE Systems Advanced Information Technologies (formerly Alphatech, Inc.). He received a B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1994, an M.S. from Cornell University in 1996, and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000. His current research interests are focused on dynamics and control of complex systems, including control of vehicle fleets and failure tracking in complex mechanical systems such as jet aircraft engines. At BAE Systems he has focused on problems of multi-source data fusion, combinatorial optimization, and estimation and control of complex systems.

Roy D. Yates

Roy D. Yates received the B.S.E. degree from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1983, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 1986 and 1990, respectively, all in electrical engineering. Since 1990, he has been with the Wireless Information Networks Laboratory (WINLAB) and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Presently, he is an Associate Director of WINLAB and a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He is a coauthor of Probability and Stochastic Processes: A Friendly Introduction for Electrical and Computer Engineers (Wiley, 1999) with D. Goodman. His research interests include power control, interference suppression, and spectrum regulation. Dr. Yates is a corecipient of the 2003 IEEE Marconi Paper Prize Award in Wireless Communications.

The Ideas Behind Ethernet
Robert M. Metcalfe

Abstract - Ethernet was invented in a memo I wrote at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center on May 22, 1973. Last year, 31 years later, over 200 million new Ethernet ports were sold. How did Ethernet become the Internet's plumbing? I will tell the Ethernet story anew with emphasis on the ideas behind it, ideas coming from probability theory, queueing theory, control theory, decision analysis, pulses, packets, and protocols. These are ideas about which, if I ever could, I can no longer prove any theorems and so tell stories instead.

Robert M. Metcalfe is a venture capitalist at Polaris Venture Partners in Waltham, Massachusetts, and serves on the boards of Polaris-backed high-tech start-ups including Ember, Narad, Paratek, and SiCortex. He is chairman of Ember, Paratek, and SiCortex. He is a director of Avistar, IDC, IDG, Metro Ethernet Forum, MIT, PopTech, St. Mark's School, and MIT's Technology Review Magazine. Metcalfe helped build the early Internet, in 1973 inventing Ethernet at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. . In 1979, Metcalfe founded 3Com Corporation, the billion-dollar networking company where at various times he held numerous executive positions. In the 1990s, Metcalfe was CEO of IDG's InfoWorld Publishing Company and wrote a weekly Internet column in InfoWorld. His books include Packet Communication, Beyond Calculation, and Internet Collapses. In 1969, he received two bachelors degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in electrical engineering and in industrial management. He received a masters degree and a doctorate in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1970 and 1973. Metcalfe was consulting associate professor of electrical engineering at Stanford 1976-1983. He was a 1991-92 visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, England. In 2003, Metcalfe was elected a Life Member of the MIT Corporation. Metcalfe is a recipient of the Grace Murray Hopper Award, the Alexander Graham Bell Medal, and IEEE's Medal of Honor. Has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the International Engineering Consortium. Metcalfe has won the Marconi International Fellowship and holds three honorary doctorates.


Schedule:

Thursday, January 27, 2005

9:00 Breakfast

9:30 Opening Remarks
Professor Vincent Chan, Director of LIDS

Wireless Communications

9:35 Murtaza Zafer

9:50 Charles Swannack

10:05 Using UWB Nodes and an IMU to Navigate in GPS-denied Environments
Damien Jourdan

10:20 Rapid Acquisition Techniques for Ultra-Wide Bandwidth Systems
Watcharapan Suwansantisuk

10:35 Wireless Channel Allocation Using An Auction Algorithm
Jun Sun

10:50 Coffee Break

11:00 Professor Jean Walrand, University of California, Berkeley

12:00 Lunch

Information Theory

1:00 Pamela Youssef-Massaad

1:15 Siddharth Ray

1:30 Writing on Fading Paper
Shashi Borade

1:45 Does Frequency Planning Help in CDMA? An Information Theoretic Analysis
Ashish Khisti

2:00 Towards Practical Universal Decoding for Discrete Memoryless Systems
Todd Coleman

2:15 Coffee Break

Networks I

2:30 Distributed Data Association for Multi--Target Tracking in Sensor Networks
Lei Chen

2:45 Global Stability and Policy Expressiveness in Internet Routing
Nick Feamster

3:00 Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) Attempt to Detect Portscanners
Jaeyeon Jung

3:15 Graph Similarity
Laura Zager

3:30 Xin Huang

4:00 A Robust Controls Approach to Dynamic Planning
Dr. Jorge Tierno and Dr. Asif Khalak, BAE Systems

Friday, January 28, 2005

8:30 Breakfast

Learning and Control

9:00 New Results on the Stabilizability of Two-dimensional Linear Systems via Switched Output Feedback
Keith Santarelli

9:15 Constrained Stochastic LQC: A Tractable Approach
David Brown

9:30 Gradient Estimation in POMDP with Structured Policies
Huizhen (Janey) Yu

9:45 How Fat is the Margin?
Constantine Caramanis

10:00 Theories and the Lexicon
Sourabh Niyogi

10:15 Coffee Break

10:30 Professor Roy Yates, WINLAB, Rutgers University

Networks II

11:35 Extending the Birkhoff-von Neumann Switching Strategy to Multicast Switches
Jay-Kumar Sundararajan

11:50 Stochastic Shortest Paths with Deadlines
Evdokia Nikolova

12:05 Andrew Brzezinski

12:20 Data Dissemination with Random Linear Coding
Clifford Choute

12:35 Synchronization in Complex Networks of Nonlinear Oscillators
Victor M. Preciado

12:50 Lunch

1:30 The Ideas Behind Ethernet
Dr. Bob Metcalfe, Polaris Ventures

2:30 Coffee Break

Estimation and Signal Processing

2:40 Visual Hand Tracking Using Nonparametric Belief Propagation
Erik Sudderth

2:55 Adaptive Sampling in Ocean Environment
Ding Wand

3:10 Ram Srinivasan

3:25 Pre-Compensation for Anticipated Sample Erasures in Reconstruction Systems
Saurav Dey

3:45 Panel Discussion

Location:
All conference sessions: Room 32-155, on Student Street in the Ray & Maria Stata Center for Computer Information & Intelligence Sciences.

Cost: free & open to the public

URL: http://lids.mit.edu/LIDSCONF/welcome.html

Masscann/NORML Freedom Rally 15 1/2!

Savagelane.com Presents

Masscann/Norml Freedom Rally 15 ½-
Hurricane Rain Fund Shows

All Door Proceeds to Masscann/Norml

www.masscann.org

Decriminalize Marijuana in MASS!

At Goodtimes, Assembly Sq. Drive, Somerville, MA

$7 cover, 21+-,

(617)628-5559

Friday Jan. 28th
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Three Day Threshold- Boston Music Award Winners.
Robby Roadsteamer- (Sweatpant Boners) Boom!
IIJ (Is It Jazz)- 2002 Beantown Meltdown Champs.
VISIONAL-New, Hard Rock Act.
The Gobsh*tes- Acoustic, Celtic Core.

With special appearances by Steven Epstein, Masscann/Norml Founder, Gramma Ganja, and more.

+++++++++++++++++
Friday, Feb. 11th
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Haloburn- New, buzz band featuring x-7th Rail Crew.
Stock 7- East Boston's hard rock act.
Down 2 Zero- Took 2nd place at WBCN High School Battle.
Dead Sober- X-Bonescrew, playing two shows at Tsongas Arena.
Roots of Creation- NH based reggae act.

With Words lead Guitarist from Ants of Stock 7 about his experiences with medical marijuana and the disease that he has, Marfan Syndrome. www.marfan.org

Also other special appearances by Mike C-Savagelane.com, Gramma Ganja, Steven Epstein and others TBA.

Location:
Goodtimes, 30 Assembly Square Mall, Somerville, MA

Cost: $7

Organizer:

URL: http://masscann.org

Jornades sobre la Intervenció d’Ajuda a l’Escola-Girona

Introducció:
Aquest seminari, s’organitza conjuntament entre la Fundació SER.GI i el Centre d’Estudis Sistèmics (CES)
Continguts: L’objectiu d’aquestes jornades és donar estratègies i recursos als i les professionals de l’educació formal i de l’educació social per a treballar conjuntament a l’hora de detectar dificultats en la relació entre l’Escola i la Família. S’explicarà un model i es treballarà amb eines que permetin comprendre, diagnosticar i intervenir adequadament en les situacions de conflicte o crisi.
Ponents:
Joana Alegret, psiquiatre. Elisenda Castanys, psicòloga en teràpia sistèmica i docent del CES. Imma Massip, psiquiatre en teràpia sistèmica i coordinadora del CES.
Adreçat a: professionals del treball socioeducatiu, especialment educadors/es socials, treballadors/es socials, mestres i a estudiants d'aquests àmbits.
Durada: 12 hores
Dates:28 i 29 de gener 2005
Horari: Divendres de 9:00 a 14:00 i de 15:00 a 18:00 h i dissabte de 10:00 a 14:00 h

Location:
Fundació SER.GI
PL. LLUIS COMPANYS, 12
GIRONA 17003
TEL 972213050

Cost: 50€

Organizer:

URL: www.fundaciosergi.org

Commemoració de l'Inici dels espolis a BCN

LA COMISSIÓ DE LA DIGNITAT, EN EL SEU TERCER ANIVERSARI,
CONVOCA UN ACTE PER RECORDAR QUE FA 66 ANYS QUE EL DIA
28 DE GENER VAN INICIAR-SE ELS ESPOLIS A BARCELONA.

SERÀ UN HOMENATGE ALS REPRESALIATS I ALS AFECTATS PELS ESPOLIS.


DIA: Divendres, 28 de gener 2005
HORA: 13.00 hores (1 del migdia)
LLOC: Monument als afusellats del Camp de la Bota (Espai Fòrum)*


CONTINGUT DE L'ACTE

- Es donarà a conèixer la posició actual de la CdelaD
sobre el retorn dels documents espoliats.

- Parlament de Xavier Rubert de Ventós.

- Es retrà homenatge als represaliats i afectats pels espolis.

- Es farà pública una carta de destacats catedràtics internacionals
dirigida al president del Govern espanyol, JL Rodríguez Zapatero.

- Parlament de Javier Diez, regidor de Mas de la Matas, primer
municipi aragonès que demana el retorn de documents.

- Música clàssica: a càrrec d'un quartet de música


Hi assistiran representants dels afecatats, entre els quals (tornarem
a enviar aquest missatge amb una relació més completa a mesura ens
confirmen l'assistència): dirigents d'ERC, ICV, UDC, UGT, CADCI,
CNT, Sra. Teresa Rovira, Sra. Odina Capo...

També hi assistiran representants de CDC, PSC-CpC...


El últims afusellaments del Camp de la Bota es van produir el 14 de març de 1952.

* Al final de la Rambla Prim, sota la Plaça Llevant. El monument és un monolit d'acer situat a
l'esplanada entre els edificis Fòrum i el Palau de Convencions.

Transports públics: Metro Línia 4 parada Maresme-Fòrum. Trambaix parada Fòrum.
Autobusos de les línies 7, 36,41, 43, 141 i B23.

Si el temps no hi acompanyés, es faria l'acte als porxos del Palau de Convencions.

Location:
Camp de la bota

Directions: Transports públics: Metro Línia 4 parada Maresme-Fòrum. Trambaix parada Fòrum.
Autobusos de les línies 7, 36,41, 43, 141 i B23.

Organizer:

Xerrada Antirrepresiva al cso Banka Rota (kny)

Viernes 28 a partir de las 19h, charla antirrepresiva.Al cso Banka Rota.
Participaran Detenidos 12-Oct 99, el Caso de Hospitalet 4-10-04 y Anarquistas Sept-02.

Location:
c/Rubio i Ors nº 103, cso.Banka Rota. Metro-FFCC cornellà.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.moviments.net/okupaskny/

cafeta a l'Ateneu Popular de l'Eixample

Cafeta a l'Ateneu Popular de l'Eixample

Tots el divendres i dissabtes de 19 a 1h.

Cola't L2 L5 Sagrada Família

Location:
Passatge Conradí,3 (c/ Sicília, entre Rosselló i Còrsega)

Organizer:

cafeta a l'Ateneu Popular de l'Eixample

Cafeta a l'Ateneu Popular de l'Eixample

Tots el divendres i dissabtes de 19 a 1h.

Cola't L2 L5 Sagrada Família

Location:
Passatge Conradí,3 (c/ Sicília, entre Rosselló i Còrsega)

Organizer:

Xerrada de Martxelo Otamendi sobre l'educació a Euskal Heria

Location:
CSO Can Vies. M mercat nou (L1) c/jocs florals

Organizer:

Compartint experiencies: la immigracio als anys 60 i 90

Acte de presentació del Punt d'Informació sobre Estrangeria a Sants.
Acte de presentacio del Punt d'Informació sobre Estrangeria a Sants.
Xerrada -Debat "COMPARTIR EXPERIÈNCIES" LA IMMIGRACIÓ ALS ANYS 60 I 90.
Relats biografics i comparatius entre dos processos migratoris. La vida quotidiana, les formes d-autoorganitzacio, els problemes...
ponents:
Gil del Barri del Besós - migrant dels 50-60
Almas del Pakistan - migrant dels 90-00
Passi del curtmetratge:
EL LUNACUTORIO de Núria Rafols.
Pica pica.

Location:
Centre Social de Sants.

Directions: Carrer Olzinelles nº 30. Metro Plaça de Sants. No paguis, viatge amb linia 0

Organizer:

Pase del documental The Weather Underground

:: Divendres 28 gener ::
22:00 hrs. Projecció del documental sobre lluita armada als USA The Weather Underground

Director: Sam Green, Bill Siegel
País: Estados Unidos
Título original: The Weather Underground
Idioma original: Inglés
Categoría: Documental
Tipo: Color
Duración: 93 m.
Año de Producción: 2003
Estimulados por el racismo y la Guerra de Vietnam, la organización “Weather Underground” llevó a cabo una guerra de baja intensidad contra el gobierno de los Estados Unidos durante buena parte de los años setenta. Esta sociedad clandestina logró evadir la cacería del FBI en lo que algunos consideran como la persecución más larga de la historia. Los miembros de la organización resurgirían sin embargo en un país completamente distinto al que alguna vez intentaron cambiar.

Location:
>>> C.S.O. La Fabriketa
c/Santa Rosa nº23, Gramenet del Besòs
L1-Santa Coloma

Organizer:

URL: www.bshoguera.tk

First UK Tour by Tibetan Refugee Children from India

First UK Tour by Tibetan Refugee Children from India

Tibet Foundation

Fri 28 Jan - Glasgow
Lilybank Special School
Birkmyre Avenue
Port Glasgow
Inverclyde
Scotland, PA14 5AN
Contact: 01475 715 703 (Eileen Stewart)
Tibet Foundation 020 7930 6001


Tibet Foundation is hosting a 21-day UK Cultural Tour by a group of eleven Tibetan refugee children, with two teachers from the Tibetan Homes Foundation (THF) in India from 24 January - 13 February 2005.

This is an historic first. The young Tibetans, aged 13 – 15, will visit schools, art centres, theatres and the Royal Opera House. They will showcase traditional Tibetan songs, music and dance in cultural exchanges with other young people.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama calls them “the future seeds of Tibet.”

The tour is a part of Tibet Foundation's 20th Anniversary Celebrations, aimed at increasing awareness of Tibetan culture in the West. It will highlight the importance of education for exiled Tibetan refugee children. This provides a unique opportunity for the refugee children to gain insight into British education, culture and social values. The children will visit Newcastle, Glasgow, Llangollen, Liverpool, Manchester, Bridgewater, Devon, London and East Sussex.

UK TOUR BY TIBETAN REFUGEE CHILDREN FROM INDIA


Mon 24 & Tue 25 Jan - Newcastle
The Sage Gateshead
Contact: 0191 443 4583 (Sarah Kekus)
Tibet Foundation 020 7930 6001

Wed 26 & Thu 27 Jan - Northumberland
Queen's Hall, Hexham
Contact: 01434 652 482 (Amanda Gould)
Tibet Foundation 020 7930 6001

Friday 28 Jan - Glasgow
Lilybank Special School
Birkmyre Avenue
Port Glasgow
Inverclyde
Scotland, PA14 5AN
Contact: 01475 715 703 (Eileen Stewart)
Tibet Foundation 020 7930 6001


Further information, photos & electronic press kit:
Mr. Tsering Passang on 020 7930 6001
Tibet Foundation, 1 St. James's Market, London SW1Y 4SB UK
Email: events-AT-tibet-foundation.org Website: www.tibet-foundation.org



For more details on the tour, please check out the website:
www.tibet-foundation.org/news/newsitem.php

Location:
Lilybank Special School
Birkmyre Avenue
Port Glasgow
Inverclyde

Organizer:

URL: http://www.tibet-foundation.org/news/newsitem.php?NewsStory=75

Critical Mass

psst ...

There are strong rumours to the effect that there will be a happy coincidence of cyclists getting together to ride through Glasgow, the last Friday of every month, 5:30pm, George Square starting on 28th January.

... pass it on

Location:
George Square, Glasgow.

Outside the Ark Slideshow/Storytelling Presentation

Painter and activist Ellen O'Grady lived in the West Bank and Gaza from 1989-1995 and returned in 2001 to work with grassroots organizations in the West Bank. She began the paintings and story of "Outside the Ark: An Artist's Journey in Occupied Palestine" upon her return to the U.S. in 2001. Since the book's release in November 2004, she has been touring more than 30 cities across the U.S. to give a slideshow/storytelling presentation from the book and talk with audiences about life under occupation.

Location:
Subterranean Books, 9 East Gregory Street (just east of Palafox), Downtown Pensacola

Cost: Free

Organizer:

URL: http://www.flpalsolidarity.com

SAN CLEMENTE FOOD NOT BOMBS ANTI-BUSH BENEFIT SHOW

SAN CLEMENTE FOOD NOT BOMBS
ANTI-BUSH BENEFIT SHOW

Friday January 28 5:30 PM
$5 at the door

bands:

RESISTANT CULTURE

SEVEN GENERATIONS

RISING DISSENT

ALEC C. MARKEN & DEEP STIRRINGS W/ 8TH DAY FALL

VICTIMS AMID RUINS

TEARDOWN

speakers:

SHERMAN AUSTIN
Ex-Political Prisoner

JACQUE LAUDER
Orange County Code Pink

TIMOTHY WRIGHT & HECTOR TIERRA
San Clemente Food Not Bombs
Mother Earth Collective

FREE VEGETARIAN FOOD PROVIDED
BY VARIOUS SO CAL FOOD NOT BOMBS CHAPTERS

SADDLEBACK COLLEGE
STUDENT LOUNGE
28000 Marguerite Pkwy.
Mission Viejo, CA

Questions?
scfnb-AT-riseup.net
(949) 481-5478

Location:

SAN CLEMENTE FOOD NOT BOMBS ANTI-BUSH BENEFIT SHOW

SAN CLEMENTE FOOD NOT BOMBS
ANTI-BUSH BENEFIT SHOW

Friday January 28 5:30 PM
$5 at the door

bands:

RESISTANT CULTURE

SEVEN GENERATIONS

RISING DISSENT

ALEC C. MARKEN & DEEP STIRRINGS W/ 8TH DAY FALL

VICTIMS AMID RUINS

TEARDOWN

speakers:

SHERMAN AUSTIN
Ex-Political Prisoner

JACQUE LAUDER
Orange County Code Pink

TIMOTHY WRIGHT & HECTOR TIERRA
San Clemente Food Not Bombs
Mother Earth Collective

FREE VEGETARIAN FOOD PROVIDED
BY VARIOUS SO CAL FOOD NOT BOMBS CHAPTERS

SADDLEBACK COLLEGE
STUDENT LOUNGE
28000 Marguerite Pkwy.
Mission Viejo, CA

Questions?
scfnb-AT-riseup.net
(949) 481-5478

Location:
28000 Marguerite Pkwy., Mission Viejo, CA

SB SpokesCouncil Meeting

Do you know what time it is?
It's time to ORGANIZE!

Are you already doing this? Great!--Come to the SpokesCouncil and share your ideas, recruit volunteers, and seek advice on your project.
Do you want to find out how to organize? Great!--Come to the SpokesCouncil and learn about what local progressives are doing in your community.

Local activists are already starting to plan for the 2 year anniversary of the start of the War on Iraq. Protests, events, and a possible march is being planned for March 19. Come share your ideas and get involved!

For more info please email Jennifer at jenrogers-AT-umail.ucsb.edu or Marcelino at
poetcrab-AT-yahoo.com. You may also call jennifer at 252-7383.

Location:
La Casa de la Raza, in the library room
601 E. Montecito, downtown Santa Barbara.

Cost: free

Directions: Exit Milpas, head north.
Turn left on Montecito (past Trader Joe's). La Casa is on the right

Organizer:

Critical Mass!!!

Come on the Critical Mass monthly bike ride! reclaim your street and your city from the automorphs, its time for a party ride!

Location:
Clock Tower, Mission/Pacific, 5:30 PM

Cost: FRREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Organizer:

Literary Pushcart Prize Nominee, William Taylor Jr., Returns to Santa Cruz

Anyone dabbling in the small press will hear chimes ring to the name of William Taylor, Jr. who will be reading at the Wired Wash Café Open Mic in Santa Cruz from his latest chapbook, The Bones of Things and other selections beginning at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, January 28th. All are welcome and admission is free.

William made his bones with small press poetry magazines while writing in Santa Cruz for twelve years before relocating to San Francisco this past September. His poetry is defined by Malevolence Publications as, "one man's blunt observations of the people, places and events that surround us all."

Not only does William have the impressive reputation to add to his resume, but also a nomination for a Pushcart Prize. The Pushcart Prize is a literary annual award for small press authors who have been nominated by a magazine for a poem published during the year.

Taylor recalls, "it was a poem I submitted to a magazine called George and Mertie's Place about when I was a kid in gym class playing baseball." To be a poet lost in a culture smothered with reality television shows; Taylor takes his own reality to a more constructive stage, "I was always the last one picked… they would put me way out in the outfield and I used that analogy toward life in general."

The reading promises to offer aspiring poets an up close and personal view of a poet making his way through a world of questions.

Location:
Wired Wash Café - 135 Laurel Street (@ Pacific Ave) - Santa Cruz

Cost: Free

Directions: Between the Saturn Cafe and Kinkos - downtown Santa Cruz

Organizer:

URL: http://www.geocities.com/poesyinc

RESISTANCE, SABOTAGE, AND MUSIC at Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In

As promised we've returned to our every other week schedule, alternating with a radican GDI feature at the High Street Barn. The location of this film and directions to get there are listed in this email. Ignore anything different you hear or read, no matter how well-informed, well-meaning, or even from our own web site. 1463 High Street. Last house going up High Street before the West Entrance to UCSC. Don't park in the driveway. Walk to the barn in back. In two weeks we will be showing 1984 at the Next Door. But for this Friday...

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In Radical Film Series Presents



Resistance, Sabotage, and Music

RESISTANCE, SABOTAGE, AND MUSIC, is a two hour history of the use of direct action against industrial excess. It focuses on three groups, the Luddites, the IWW, and Earth First!, and examines the evolution of their beliefs, tactics, and their culture as expressed by their music and art. It features rare footage and photos, and interviews with Howard Zinn, Judi Bari, Darryl Cherney, Stan Anderson, and many others.

For more information on the film visit www.postworldindustries.com/video/video_index.html

Friday January 28th, 1463 High St.
Potluck at 7pm - Movie at 8pm

BRING food and drink to share at the potluck, $5 or more donation to send communications and medical equipment to Bougainville. No one turned away for lack of funds.

SANTA CRUZ GUERILLA DRIVE-IN is exactly what it sounds like -- an outdoor movie theatre under the stars that springs up unexpectedly in the fields and industrial wastelands. Guerilla Drive-In is helping reclaim public space and transform our urban environment into the joyful playground it should be.

GDI RADICAL FILM SERIES LOCATION: S on Hwy 17 to Hwy 1, Hwy 1 north to Mission St, R on Bay St., L on High St., last driveway on the left, The Barn is behind the house at 1463 High St. Please park on street -- not in driveway.

MORE INFO schedule & do-it-yourself: www.thespoon.com/drivein

BREAKING NEWS: Join our low-volume Guerilla Drive-In announcement list:
guerilla-drive-in-subscribe-AT-lists.riseup.net

Location:
High Street Barn, 1463 High St., Santa Cruz

Cost: FREE!

Directions: GDI RADICAL FILM SERIES LOCATION: S on Hwy 17 to Hwy 1, Hwy 1 north to Mission St, R on Bay St., L on High St., last driveway on the left, The Barn is behind the house at 1463 High St. Please park on street -- not in driveway.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.thespoon.com/drivein

Lalo Alcaraz, Chicano Cartoonist / Satirist / Writer

Hello everyone,

We are pleased to announce that Lalo Alcaraz, Chicano Cartoonist / Satirist / Writer, will be appearing at Sin Fronteras on Friday, January 28, 2005 at 8 pm. UCSC Student Mariachi group Los Babosos will be opening for him at 7 pm.

We look forward to seeing some of you there!!

Location:
Sin Fronteras
911 Cedar St.
downtown Santa Cruz

Crtical Mass!!!!!

Sick of Cars and bicycle unfriendly Tallahassee??? Join Critical Mass!!! Critical Mass started on September 25th, 1992 in Sqan Francisco. 10 years later it is still going strong has spread to voer 300 cities. Critical Mass is a worldwide movement not an organization, that takes to the streets on bikes in large numbers during busy transit hours to raise awareness about the existence and needs of cyclists and pedestrians vs. automobiles.

Location:
Critical Mass forms in front of the Old Capitol the last Friday of every month at 5 PM.
For more info please check: www.critical-mass.org

Cost: free

Directions: Appalachee Parkway and Monroe St.

Organizer:

Activist Songwriters, emma's revolution, in Concert

An uprising of truth and hope from the new duo of Washington, DC-based award-winning, activist musicians, Pat Humphries & Sandy O. Their music has been featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" and Pacifica's "Democracy Now!" and their songs "Peace, Salaam, Shalom" and "Keep on Moving Forward" are sung at peace & justice events around the world.

Location:
Fogartyville Cafe
800 17th Avenue West
Bradenton

Cost: $7 in advance/$9 at door

Directions: See www.fogartyville.com/

URL: http://www.emmasrevolution.com

Muhammed Yunus, founder of the Gramim Bank in Nashville

Muhammed Yunus, founder of the Gramim Bank in Bangladesh, will speak on Friday, January 28th, at 3 pm. in Wilson Hall, Room 103 on the Vanderbilt campus. Dr. Yunus earned his graduate degrees of MA and PhD at Vanderbilt. He was recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus in 1996 for his revolutionary work in micro credit, making small loans to people with no credit and no collateral, with an exceptionally high rate of repayment. Over three million loans have been made and 90% have been to women. Dr. Yunus was the first recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus award, given to alumni who have furthered Vanderbilt's mission globally through outstanding achievement and service. This event is open to the public and a reception will follow.

Location: