Labels: Events , Jericho

Friday, April 29th

3pm – 4:30pm
Larsen 203

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Dr. William Perez, Professor of Immigration & Education at Claremont Graduate University in California will be guest lecturing at the Harvard Graduate school of education to discuss the current immigration climate in addition to exploring the implications of being undocumented relative to mental health issues and how we can prepare to serve the unique needs of undocumented students.

Dr. Perez is the author of “We ARE Americans: Undocumented Students Pursuing the American Dream” Winner of the 2009 Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Mildred Garcia Prize for Exemplary Research.


Please RSVP:
Dialogue with Dr. Perez (SIGN UP)
Labels: Discussion , Education , Events , Immigration

El Movimiento / The Movement Presents:

Friday May 6th
5:30 PM

33 Harrison St.
Boston MA

$3 at the Door - Food Included

ethnicstudiesnow.org
Labels: Ethnic Studies , Event , Events , Movimiento , Youth

Labels: Event , Events , Immigration

SAVE THE DATE!

Centro Presente to host
Rep. Luis Gutierrez visit to MA

WHEN: Sunday, April 3rd at 11:00 A.M.

WHERE: La Casa de la Cultura, 202 Maverick Street, East Boston, MA


Rep. Gutierrez has been at the forefront of the effort to pass historic, bipartisan immigration reform legislation and helped guide the Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act to passage in the House of Representatives in 2010. He is doing a multi-city tour to raise the visibility of the toll of deportations on immigrant families and communities.

We are going to have:
Testimonies of immigrant families affected by the current immigration policy
Testimonies of Local Elected Officials that are advocating against S-COMM

For more information please contact:
Patricia Montes, 617 959 3108
José Palma, 617 629 47 31 ext 233

Centro Presente is a state-wide, membership-based Latino immigrant organization that advocates for immigrant rights and for economic and social justice through the integration of community organizing, leadership development and basic services.
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BRING DOWN THE WALLS!
A night of music & art to honor our political prisoners/pows!

Saturday, March 26th @ 6pm
Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston Street

$5-15 sliding scale

Performances by:
Taina Asili y La Banda Rebelde
Evan Greer & Friends
Born In A Cent
spiritchild
Danniela
Jalen

Join us for a night of Revolutionary Music, Reflection Wall, Food, Socializing and REMEMBERANCE!
Hear updates/statements from Political Prisoners including Mumia Abu Jamal, Imam Jamil Al-Amin and more!

A flyer for this event is available here:
https://lists.riseup.net/www/d_read/jericho_boston_announce/march%2026b2b%26w.jpg
Labels: Community , Events , Jericho , Music

Silence Broken
Legacies of Repression & Resistance

Sunday April 3rd 2011
11:30am-9:30pm
Northeastern University
Curry Student Center - 346 Huntington Ave.

Workshops * Socializing * Panel * Food * Music

Speakers include:

Ashanti Alston - Former Black Liberation Army Political Prisoner and steering committee member of the National Jericho Movement
Marta Rodriguez - Puerto Rican independence activist and member of the New England Committee to Defend Palestine
Jihad Abdul Mummit - Former Black Liberation Army Political Prisoner and chair of the National Jericho Movement
Viviane Saleh-Hanna - Activist Scholar and Assistant Professor of Crime and Justice Studies at the UMass Dartmouth
Jason Lydon - Minister of the Community Church of Boston as well as anti-racist, abolitionist, queer liberation organizer
Mauri Saalakhan - Director of Operations for The Peace And Justice Foundation; a Muslim-led, grassroots human rights organization.

Performances by:

Taina Asili y La Banda Rebelde
X-Vandals
spiritchild
Tem Blessed
& more

This will be a one day community-building educational event featuring interactive workshops, a panel discussion, time for socializing and networking, and performances by some of the region's best movement artists. The conference will bring together student activists with community members to present a diverse array of voices and an alternative discourse about FBI repression, political prisoners, and the struggle for liberation.
Labels: Event , Events , Jericho , Music , Panel , Workshops

Thursday, March 24

Framing the Innocent: Crimes Under Color of Law at the Massachusetts
US Attorney's Office

7 pm
Northeastern University School of Law
240 Dockser Hall
65 Forsyth St.
Boston, MA

Come hear from Councilor Chuck Turner, the author of Boston's
Transgender Anti-Discrimination Ordinance, on the evening before he
goes to jail due to FBI repression of political activists.

Speakers:
Chuck Turner--Five-term Boston City Councilor representing Roxbury and
Dorchester, and a lifetime activist for social justice, recently
targeted by the FBI and the Massachusetts US Attorney

Bob Boyle--Attorney representing many activists and political
prisoners targeted by the FBI's infamous Counter-Intelligence Program
(COINTELPRO)

Laila Murad--Organizer from the Tarek Mehanna Support Committee

Michael Avery--Professor of Law, Suffolk Law School, won a landmark
civil suit against the Boston FBI on behalf of four men wrongfully
convicted of murder
Labels: Event , Events

Labels: Event , Events , Hip-Hop / Poetry

Saturday, March 19 at 12 noon
From Boston to Baghdad: End the Occupation!
Fight for Jobs & Education! Say 'No' to Racism!

Rally and March
Southwest Corridor Park at Ruggles Station
MBTA: Orange Line
(click here for map)

The momentum is building for the March 19 anti-war actions. In less than two weeks, demonstrations will take place across the country to mark the 8th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. In Boston, we will gather for a rally at Southwest Corridor Park at Ruggles station followed by a march.

Eight years after the U.S. invasion, Iraq remains occupied by tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers and foreign mercenaries. The war in Afghanistan rages on. Now, the U.S. government and its allies are setting their eyes on oil-rich Libya as a potential next target.

The wars abroad are directly connected to the war on poor and working people at home. Thirty million people in the U.S. remain unemployed or severely underemployed. Unions in Wisconsin, Ohio and elsewhere are fighting to survive. Yet the government will spend $1 trillion for war, occupation and weapons in 2011 alone.

Our communities in Boston, too, are under attack. Mayor Menino's hand-picked School Committee has moved to close seventeen schools and are pushing additional cutbacks. Police brutality and racial profiling continue to plague Black and Latino neighborhoods, yet 7 out of the 10 highest paid city employees are Boston police officers. More than $30 million were spent to build a state-of-the-art police station in Roxbury.

Gov. Patrick is trying to bring the anti-immigrant law enforcement program “Secure Communities” program to Massachusetts, and gentrification continues to push working families out of communities like Jamaica Plain.

It doesn’t have to be this way! From Egypt and Tunisia to Wisconsin and Ohio, people are fighting back. Now more than ever it is clear that our movement must stay in the streets. Join us on March 19th for a rally and march to say "From Boston to Baghdad: End the Occupation! Fight for Jobs and Education! Say 'No' to Racism!"
Labels: Events

Framing the Innocent:
Crimes Under Color of Law at the Massachusetts US Attorney's Office

When: Thursday, March 24, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Northeastern University School of Law
240 Dockser Hall (65 Forsyth St., Boston)

Speakers:

Chuck Turner--Five-term Boston City Councilor representing Roxbury
and Dorchester, and a lifetime activist for social justice,
recently targeted by the FBI and the Massachusetts US Attorney

Bob Boyle--Attorney representing many activists and political
prisoners targeted by the FBI's infamous Counter-Intelligence
Program (COINTELPRO)

Laila Murad--Organizer from the Tarek Mehanna Support Committee

Michael Avery--Professor of Law, Suffolk Law School, won a landmark
civil suit against the Boston FBI on behalf of four men wrongfully
convicted of murder

***


Over the past few years, an atrocious history of government
misconduct at the Massachusetts US Attorney's office has emerged in
the court record, but few people have heard about it.

In the case Ferrara v. US, the court found that US Assistant
Attorney Jeffrey Auerhahn worked with an FBI agent to coerce a
witness into maintaining false testimony, withheld evidence of the
witness's recantation from defense counsel, and perjured himself in
court. Other members of the office have

--Withheld information about misconduct by FBI agents

--Consistently and deliberately withheld evidence of the innocence
of defendants from defense counsel and from the court

The head of the Massachusetts US Attorney's office has shielded
assistants and acted to cover-up government misconduct. Auerhahn
was given responsibility to prosecute "terrorism" cases, where he
continues to handle government informants and "cooperating
witnesses."

The Massachusetts US Attorney has also demonstrated a clear set of
political priorities: contempt for basic civil liberties and due
process rights; an anti-immigrant agenda; selective prosecution of
black political leaders; and the prosecution of an overwhelming
number of indigent defendants and people of color.

Although the US Attorney's office has extraordinary power, people
who are concerned about government abuses have paid comparatively
little attention to its role within the criminal justice system.

Come participate in a public discussion about the Massachusetts US
Attorney's Office and what we can do to hold it accountable to our
concerns.


For more information, contact usattywatch@hushmail.com

Sponsored by

The Northeastern School of Law Chapters of the NLG (National
Lawyers Guild), EPIC (Ending the Prison Industrial Complex),
and BLSA (Black Law Student Association)

and by
Community Church of Boston, Boston ABC, Black and Pink


This message was distributed through usattorneywatch@lists.riseup.net, a list dedicated to the campaign to further expose the history of severe misconduct at the Massachusetts US Attorney's office. For more information and to subscribe visit the list homepage: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/usattorneywatch
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Youth Jobs March & Rally
Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Old South Church (645 Boylston St) in Copley Square
Hundreds of youth and allies will call to prevent cuts to youth jobs. Join us!

Bimonthly Membership Meeting
Monday, February 21, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Followed by Signmaking Party/Open Mic at 3:00 pm
Spontaneous Celebrations (45 Danforth St) in Jamaica Plain
Join us for a final day of preparation for the action!
Labels: Employment , Event , Events , Rally , Youth , Youth Jobs

Tuesday, February 22nd 2011

VerBaLizAtiOn presents
AFRO-CINEMA
An evening of important films being shown followed by a discussion about the film then an open mic thereafter, in celebration of Black History Month

@ Roxbury Center for the Arts at Hibernian Hall
184 Dudley St., Roxbury/Dudley Sq.
(next to fire department & barber shop)

7:00pm start / Free admission / all age event

Featured film:
THE VERNON JOHNS STORY: THE ROAD TO FREEDOM
Oscar nominee James Earl Jones stars as controversial paster Vernon Johns, one of the earliest voices of civil rights. In 1948, Johns served as the outspoken spiritual leader of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Incised at the racial injustice that prevaled the south, he was determined to fight foe equality for all African Americans. His refusal to accept segregation incited anger amongst local law enforcement and caused his family to fear for their lives. Johns held strong to his beliefs and encouraged his congregation to join him. But, the church council deemed him a troublemaker and he was voted out as pastor...only to be replaced by future civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr.

For more info contact VCR at 617-480-7663
or bloodskinland@yahoo.com
Labels: Black History , Event , Events , Film

Labels: Black History , Brown History , Community , Education , Event , Events

Ernest Morrell will be the lecturer for the Simmons College series on Race, Education & Democracy on March 15, 16, 17, 2011. 

See the web site http://www.raceandeducation.com/
Labels: Education , Event , Events , Race , Social Justice , Youth

Labels: Chuck D , Event , Events , Hip-Hop / Poetry , Public Enemy

Save the Date

HIP-HOP 9.1.1.
Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Roxbury Community College Media Arts Center
1234 Columbus Ave., Roxbury, MA
Labels: Event , Events , Peace Peace Boston , Stop the Violence , Street Violence , Youth

Fundraiser to support Ethnic Studies Campaign
$5 - Dinner & Film & Open Mic


When:
February 11, 2011
5pm-8pm

Location:
Encuentro 5
33 Harrison Ave Fl.5
Boston, MA 02111

Contact:
Sasha De la Cruz
857-417-1744
delacruz.sasha@gmail.com
www.ethnicstudiesnow.org
Labels: Education , Ethnic Studies , Event , Events , Film , Youth

Labels: Community , Event , Events , Media , Screen Printing , T-Shirt , Tee , Workshops , Youth

Centro Presente
URGENT ACTION!

To Denounce Massachusetts' Intention to Sign on to Secure Communities


Since it was revealed in the summer that the City of Boston had been secretly participating in Secure Communities, Centro Presente, with the support of ACLU-Mass and AFSC-Project Voice, has been running a campaign to educate our community and allies about the effects of this program.

Come and support our campaign!

When: Wednesday, December, 22 at 11:00 a.m.
Where: In front of the Massachusetts State House

Supporters: AFSC Project VOICE, Brazilian Immigrant Center, Boston May Day Committee, Boston New Sanctuary Movement, Cambridge United for Justice with Peace, Centro Presente, Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), Greater Boston United for Justice with Peace, Immigrant Worker Center Collaborative (IWCC), Immigration Task Force of First Parish in Cambridge, Jobs With Justice - MA, Massachusetts Global Action, Matahari - Eye of the Day, Neighbors United for a Better East Boston (NUBE), Student Immigrant Movement and United for a Fair Economy.
Labels: Boston , Call to Action , Events , Immigration