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MS. STOVALL'S CANTICLES |
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by jeffery mcnary, jeffmvy (nospam) netscape.net |
 New England is hardly known for an absence of culture or a failure to appreciate the arts. In fact, Cambridge, Massachusetts can legitimately be tagged as the epicenter, the cradle of the tension and brawls between the cultural melieus of tradition and modernity. Sparks fly from these collisions and engagements on a daily, if not hourly schedule.
The work of Suesan Stovall, now on exhibit in the Neil and Angelica Rudenstine Gallery of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University is an example of such an encounter. For in this canticle, Ms. Stovall has fronted and framed her song and stories, and in the house that Henry Louis “Skip” Gates built, her images, both stinging and sacred, float in the ether as if she’s held a backstage pass to the African American experience. They are neither burdened nor ponderous, yet insisting of place somewhere, talisman like, and in all American households. |
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01 Jun 2008
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Filed under: Review / Human Rights : Race |
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10,000 Strong Boston - A Call to Action |
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by 10,000 Strong Boston, blackstonian (nospam) verizon.net |
 It is time to stand up, take responsibility and be accountable. Who Cares? We do. We doin' good in the hood. Are you tired of the drugs, guns, violence, crime, broken families, lack of guidance and direction. Are you in need of service? Will you serve? Do you need support? Will you support? Together we are 10,000 strong. If one can make a difference, what will 10,000 strong do? Think of it as a mini Million Man March for Boston.
A Rally...A Gathering... A Call to Action: Sunday June 22, 2008, Franklin Park. |
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22 May 2008
Modified: 09:16:08 AM |
Filed under: Announcement / DNC : Education : Environment : Gender : GLBT/Queer : Globalization : Human Rights : International : Labor : Media |
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Radio Free Palestine Broadcasts 18 Hours of Al-Nabka |
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by BIMC editors, |
 On Thursday, May 15th from 12am until 6pm (EDT), "Radio Free Palestine" broadcasted on the 60 years of the Palestinian Nakba, when eighty-five percent of Palestinians living in what is today the state of Israel became refugees. To listen to an archive of this program: http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=2196
RELATED: Philly Indymedia: Mid East Peace Activists cast a Shadow of Mourning over “Israel at 60” Celebration: http://phillyimc.org/en/node/68274 |
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22 May 2008
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : International |
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Free for All: Arabic Music from Gaza Fundraiser |
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by Freeman Z, |
 On Wednesday, April 30, a large coalition of local groups organized a fundraiser for children of Gaza to benefit the Middle East Children's Alliance and the Gaza Mental Health Foundation Inc. 492 Cafe managed sound for the event at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and is now releasing the Gaza Concert recordings. Freeman Z's report is detailed below. |
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13 May 2008
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : International : Media : Organizing : Politics : Race |
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A Tale of Two Marches |
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by michael horan, michaelhoran (nospam) comcast.net |
 Boston, Mass.--One of the obvious reasons for the historical success of the Walk for Hunger (and biggest differences between it and the May Day event) is its wholly non-ideological nature. But hunger doesn’t occur in a vacuum, ideological or otherwise. It isn’t natural, and it isn’t desirable, but there it is, and it’s growing. Hunger is rooted at a nexus of political, economic, scientific, technological, and spiritual ideologies, making that one hell of a busy rotary indeed.
[Essay on the May Day march in Boston and & Walk for Hunger on the following Saturday. Full text with images, live links and edited video montage of May Day event appears on nosuppertonight.com.] |
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El Salvador Solidarity Activists and Community Organizations Dispute Department of Justice Order |
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by Lisa Fuller, boscispes (nospam) speakeasy.net |
BOSTON, MA: Last January the U.S.-based El Salvador solidarity group—the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)—received a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice, citing the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) of 1938 and questioning the organization’s relationship with the leftist Salvadoran political party known as the Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation, or FMLN.
[RELATED: Demonstration: Saturday May 17**, at 1PM; in front of the JFK Federal Building (intersection of New Sudbury & Cambridge St, Boston; near Gov’t Center T)] |
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08 May 2008
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : International : Politics : War and Militarism |
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May Day: Boston for Workers Rights Unite! |
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by Chuck U. Rosina, chuckbla3 (nospam) yahoo.com |
 Boston, Mass.--About 100 Anarchists, Socialists, Union Orgainzers, Immigrant Rights Workers and Anti-War activists gathered in Boston to celebrate and / or protest the issues of the day. It was hard to tell which was more prominent. During the march through the streets, the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band, certainly gave the event a celebratory feel, but at the rally at Boston Common, there were somber calls for human rights for immigrants, and better working conditions for all – citizens and immigrants alike.
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05 May 2008
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : International |
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Denying Palestinians Free Movement in the West Bank |
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by Stephen Lendman, lendmanstephen (nospam) sbcglobal.net |
This article summarizes an August 2007 B'Tselem report now available in print. It's one of a series of studies it conducts on life in Occupied Palestine to reveal what major media accounts suppress. This one is titled: "Ground to a Halt - Denial of Palestinians' Freedom of Movement in the West Bank."
B'Tselem has a well-deserved reputation for accuracy and integrity. It's the Jerusalem-based independent Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). It was founded in 1989 by prominent academics, attorneys, journalists and Knesset members to "document and educate the Israeli public and policymakers about human rights violations in (Occupied Palestine), combat (the Israeli public's) denial, and create a human rights culture in Israel" to convince government officials to respect human rights and obey international law. |
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