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Organizing Lessons from Civil Rights Leader Ella Baker |
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by repost: Chris Crass, |
 Ella Baker, who was born in North Carolina in 1905, was politicized and radicalized by the poverty of the Great Depression. She participated in self-help programs throughout the 30s and developed an understanding and respect for the process by which people take control over their own lives while also protesting injustices.
[This is an excerpt from an essay written by Chris Crass on organizing lessons to be learned from the life long revolutionary organizing work of Ella Baker.] |
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El Salvador: All Charges Dropped in Case Against “Suchitoto 13” |
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by CISPES, boscispes (nospam) speakeasy.net |
 On Tuesday, February 19, 13 political activists arrested last July in the town of Suchitoto were set free, and all charges against them were dismissed. This victory for the “Suchitoto 13” comes on the heels of the initial charges of “acts of terrorism” being dropped on February 8, following a drawn out, 7-month investigation. The terrorism charges, enabled by El Salvador ’s 2006 Special Law Against Acts of Terrorism, were universally denounced by human rights organizations in El Salvador and around the world, and carried a potential sentence of up to 60 years in prison. |
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21 Feb 2008
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : International : Organizing : War and Militarism |
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Protesters Greet Calderon: Demand Human Rights for Indigenous Peoples |
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by Sofia Jarrin, sofiajt (nospam) yahoo.com |
 Cambridge, Mass—A group of protesters unveiled their banners and signs in freezing temperatures last night to greet President of Mexico Felipe Calderon who spoke at Harvard’s JFK Forum. “Boston doesn't appreciate visits from those who violently suppress Indigenous movements and work to create desperate economic conditions that force millions of their citizens to migrate in search of better lives,” read a press release that the Zapatista Bloc circulated previous to the protest. The bloc is formed by a group of local anarchists who value indigenous rights of self-governance, but many other Boston activists were present at the rally as well. |
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12 Feb 2008
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Filed under: News / Environment : Globalization : Human Rights : International : Labor : War and Militarism |
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WSF Global Day of Action: People Mobilize Locally and Globally for a Better World |
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by BIMC Editors, |
 Boston, Mass.—Hundreds of thousands around the world will join forces tomorrow, January 26, 2008, for a historical celebration of social movements and social justice as they take action locally on the Global Day of Action called forth during the World Social Forum (http://wsf2008.net/). People all over the world will hold talks, demonstrations, concerts, vigils, and many other creative ways of resistance to clamor “another world is possible.”
In the Greater Boston area, the Global Day of Action launched last weekend with a Winter Soldier event organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War and their supporters, followed today by an immigration rally organized by the Boston May Day Coalition, and a People’s Music Winter Gathering tonight that seeks “to promote progressive ideas and transform ourselves and our communities through music to bring about a better world.” Other activities include an event to challenge the Free Trade Agreement in Colombia, two demonstrations in support of Palestinians, and a talk about human rights in Haiti. |
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25 Jan 2008
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Filed under: News / DNC : Education : Environment : Gender : GLBT/Queer : Globalization : Human Rights : International : Labor : Media : Organizing : Politics : Race : Social Welfare : Technology : War and Militarism |
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Revive King’s Tradition of Solidarity and Struggle: March Against Racism on Dr. King's Birthday Holiday |
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by IAC, iacboston (nospam) iacboston.org |
 If the true legacy, the leadership and the courage of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is to have any real meaning for today as we approach the 40th anniversary of his martyrdom next April 4, then the King birthday holiday on January 21, 2008 must be more than an exercise in platitudes and official declarations from the White House, the State House or City Hall.
There is a time for celebrations and there’s a time for fighting. Now is a time that we need to fight. And fight like hell. On this King Holiday we must organize and march against the forces of racism, reaction and war, not just the war abroad but the war raging here at home. To know what’s happening, is to know that nothing is more important than jump starting a multi-racial movement against racism.
LISTEN to King's speech against militarism:
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/21/dr_martin_luther_king_jr_1929 |
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21 Jan 2008
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Filed under: News / Education : Human Rights : Politics : Race : War and Militarism |
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From Chile to Guantanamo: A Survivor of Torture Speaks Up |
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by Sofia Jarrin, sofiajt (nospam) yahoo.com |
 Today marks the sixth anniversary of the first arrival of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, yet Guantanamo is not the first island known for the unlawful abuse and torture of detainees. Island Dawson on the southern tip of Chile is known for its inhospitable, freezing weather, and for many Chileans is also the location of a concentration camp where Pinochet ordered the detention and torture of hundreds of political prisoners.
Sergio Reyes, a Boston resident and activist, was 19 years old when he was abducted from his home in Punta Arenas, faced a mock execution in front of his mother, was regularly beaten, electrocuted, and suffered from simulated drowning. Between 1973 and 1976, he was also a political prisoner in a forced labor camp at the now infamous Island Dawson. |
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11 Jan 2008
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : International : War and Militarism |
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A VISIT TO THE HOLEY LAND |
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by Eva Moseley, esmoseley (nospam) mindspring.com |
 Fifteen residents of Cambridge, Massachusetts, formed a people-to-people delegation to Bethlehem, that "little town" of legend and current West Bank reality for five days in late November 2007, with a day in Jerusalem before and after. What follows is my impressions of this trip. Those who care about Palestinian rights may find some useful observations. I hope that those who care mainly about Israel will read on and perhaps come to agree that present policies are no better, in the long run, for Israel than they are for Palestine, and that a resolution that is good for Palestine will also benefit Israel. |
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07 Jan 2008
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : International : War and Militarism |
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Boston-Area Students and Raging Grannies Unite to Carol for Peace |
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by Paul Nauert, paulnauert (nospam) gmail.com |
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Boston, MA, December 20, 2007—Groups from across the region and generations are joining together this Friday in a timely, creative call to end the American occupation of Iraq. Boston students from schools around the area are uniting their voices with the Boston Raging Grannies to sing a rousing chorus of anti-war, pro-peace holiday carols at 3:30pm on Friday in Downtown Crossing (the corner of Washington St. and Bromfield St.) We encourage all students still in the area and Bostonians to join us to engage in an anti-war action before this New Year! |
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21 Dec 2007
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Filed under: Announcement / War and Militarism |
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