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Project JamaicaWay: Sustainable Style Competition & Fashion Show

Event info: Wednesday 30 May 2012 Thursday 7 June 2012 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Calling all aspiring fashion designers: Apply by May 30 to show off your skills, save the planet, & win fabulous prizes! Sustainable Style Competition & Fashion Show Thursday, June 7, 7-9 PM First Church in JP, UU – 6 Eliot Street, JP Buying new clothes is bad for our wallets and the environment, but how [...]

Fighting for Our Health: Richard Kirsch on the Epic Battle to Make Health Care a Right

Event info: Thursday 17 May 2012 – 12:00am to 9:00pm

Thursday, May 17, 7-9 PM First Church in Jamaica Plain, UU 6 Eliot St., Jamaica Plain RSVP & Invite your friends on Facebook President Obama may have been the one to sign health care reform into law in 2010, but the passage of the new law was the product of decades of struggle by activists [...]

Can the Earth Survive Capitalism?: Reading and Discussion with Peter Barnes

Event info: Thursday 24 May 2012 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Can the Earth Survive Capitalism?: Reading and Discussion with Peter Barnes May 24, 7-9 PM First Church in Jamaica Plain, UU 6 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain RSVP & Invite your friends on Facebook Is it possible to transform capitalism so the economy can exist within ecological limits? In his new book, journalist & entrepreneur Peter [...]

Gods, Gays, and Guns: Rev. Osagyefo Sekou on the Failure of God and Democracy

Event info: Thursday 14 June 2012 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Thursday, June 14, 7-9 PM First Church in Jamaica Plain, UU 6 Eliot St., Jamaica Plain RSVP & Invite your friends on Facebook As a pastor, documentary filmmaker, theologian, and organizer, Rev. Osagyefo Sekou has argues that the religion must be used for the expansion of democracy. His new book, Gods, Gays, and Guns takes [...]

The Ice Cream Social Experiment: A Workshop on Bridging the Two JPs

Event info: Thursday 22 March 2012 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Hosted by the Racial Healing and Reconciliation Team of Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center & The Equity Collaborative! March 22, 7-9 PM ***Nate Smith House, 155 Lamartine St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130*** RSVP & Invite Your Friends on Facebook Led by youth and adults working together for racial healing and reconciliation in JP, The Ice [...]

Film Screening: The Economics of Happiness

Event info: Thursday 29 March 2012 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Note Different Location: Nate Smith House, 155 Lamartine St, JP Along with the JP New Economy Transition, the JP Forum is sponsoring a “New Economy” film series on the last Thursday of every month. We watch films about building a new economy that works for everyone in harmony with the planet. Help us choose the [...]

The Fruit of Our Labor: Afghan Perspectives on Film

Event info: Friday 2 March 2012 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Film Screening & Discussion Friday, 3/2, 7-9 PM First Church in Jamaica Plain, UU 6 Eliot St., Boston, MA, 02130 RSVP & Invite your friends on Facebook “[CSFilm] put cameras in the hands of Afghans and gave them training to make films about their lives. The result is an unprecedented intimate look at Afghan life [...]

ISRAEL AND PALESTINE: IS PEACE AND JUSTICE POSSIBLE? A Report From the Ground

Event info: Thursday 28 April 2011 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

RSVP on Facebook and invite your friends, Click Here Alice Rothchild and Alan Meyers are Boston-area doctors who have led multiple delegations to Israel and Palestine. As members of The Health and Human Rights Project of American Jews for a Just Peace (AJJP), they have worked with NGOs in clinics, hospitals and refugee camps. They [...]

Tagged as: community, democracy, peace, report-back

Time Trade Circle: Creating a Local Economy

Event info: Sunday 20 March 2011 – 4:00pm to 6:00pm

RSVP and Invite your friends to join you on Facebook, Click Here After the economic crisis, more people are bartering with friends and neighbors and forming time banks to share goods and services locally. Come meet local members of the Time Trade Circle, a Boston-area organization with more than 700 members, to learn how you [...]

Tagged as: community, economics, Potluck, urban sustainability

HarvestFest: A Food Preserving Workshop with Annie Cardinaux and CityGrowers

Event info: Friday 10 September 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Looking for some inspiration to preserve some tomato sauce or other sweet tastes of summer? Join us for this food preservation workshop where we will learn various methods of preserving tomatoes and other produce. You can also order a case of hyper-local organic tomatoes to pick up at the workshop through City Growers. Visit http://citygrowers.wordpress.com/bulk-tomatoes/ [...]

Tagged as: community, food, preparation, urban sustainability

Boston Climate Report Back, with Carl Spector, Viki Bok and Rebecca Park

Event info: Friday 1 October 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

In March 2009, Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced the formation of the Boston Climate Action Leadership Committee and Community Advisory Committee. The charge to the committees was to give recommendations to the Mayor on the next set of goals, policies, and programs that Boston should establish for itself as it confronts the risks and opportunities [...]

Tagged as: climate change, community, environment, urban sustainability

The Beehive Collective: The True Cost of Coal: Mountaintop Removal and the Fight for Our Future

Event info: Wednesday 6 October 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Come view the Beehive Collective’s amazing new portable mural called the “True Cost of Coal” and a discussion. Long-exploited as a resource-extraction colony within the U.S., the Appalachian Mountains are home to a fight for survival whose outcome will determine in part the industrial might of this country. Our insatiable demand for cheap power has [...]

Tagged as: capitalism, climate change, environment

350.org Day of Action at the J.P. Greenhouse

Event info: Sunday 10 October 2010 – 2:00pm to 8:00pm

Join us for an Open House at the JP Green House, a zero-carbon demonstration home and garden in Jamaica Plain, which also serves as the hub for 350.org in Boston. They will be opening our doors from 2:00 PM to 8:00 PM , with a variety of activities and demonstrations, a meal, and an evening [...]

Tagged as: climate change, community, environment, urban sustainability

Special Guest: Annie Leonard, The Story of Stuff and our Garbage Dilemma

Event info: Friday 22 October 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Society’s consumption of the earth’s resources are at an all time high. Globally renowned filmmaker and author of “The Story of Stuff,” Annie Leonard will join us for her insights on creating a more sustainable and just world. Annie’s Story Annie Leonard is the author and host of our very own The Story of Stuff. [...]

Tagged as: capitalism, community, environment, urban sustainability

Buttoning up for Winter: A Weatherization Workshop

Event info: Friday 12 November 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Save on your energy bills, save the climate, and be more comfortable in your home: How’s that for a win-win-win for the winter? This Weatherization Forum will start with the basics of how heat gets lost in your home. Then we’ll look at ways to reduce the energy that gets used intentionally and unintentionally, starting [...]

Tagged as: climate change, community, economics, greening, local, urban sustainability

Special Guest: Juliet Schor, Fixing the Economy and Addressing Climate Change: The Path to Plentitude

Event info: Thursday 9 December 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Economist and bestselling author Juliet B. Schor of Boston College discusses her book “Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth.” Schor proposes a path to address the Great Recession while addressing climate change and peak oil, suggesting a radical change in how we think about wealth, consumer goods, and how we live. As we travel [...]

Tagged as: community, economics, urban sustainability

Kristen E. Gwinn, “Celebrating Emily Greene Balch: Jamaica Plain’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner”

Event info: Saturday 8 January 2011 – 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Sixty-five years ago, in 1946, Jamaica Plain’s Emily Greene Balch won the Nobel Peace Prize for her visionary work with Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. January 8th marks her 144th birthday and the first public event celebrating the publication of Kristen E. Gwinn’s new book about Balch’s life. Balch was a renowned writer, [...]

Tagged as: author's reading, community

The Coming Population Crash: Our Planet’s Surprising Future

Event info: Friday 16 April 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Fred Pearce, Author of When the Rivers Run Dry For more than two centuries there has been mounting concern that rapidly growing populations are putting an unsustainable strain on the Earth’s resources. However, much has been misunderstood about the current rate of population growth and its effect on the environment. Though the global population is [...]

Tagged as: author's reading, community, economics, urban sustainability

The Time Trade Circle: A local, recession-proof economy

Event info: Sunday 21 February 2010 – 4:00pm to 6:00pm

What’s a time bank? A time bank is an organization where members have a bank account of time, and exchange time-based services with other members. It’s a pool of members, and operates like a circle, not a one-to-one swap or barter. In a time bank, for example, Lara makes a cake for Aldo, Keren gives [...]

Tagged as: climate change, community, Potluck

DIRT! The Movie

Event info: Friday 12 March 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

It’s under our feet and under our fingernails, but what is it? And how did it get there? Inspired by William Bryant Logan’s acclaimed book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, find out how industrial farming, mining and urban development have led us toward cataclysmic droughts, starvation, floods and climate change. Dirt is a [...]

Tagged as: agriculture, climate change, ecological systems, food, greening

Backyard Chicken Basics

Event info: Sunday 14 March 2010 – 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Raising polutry for eggs, meat and pets used to be a standard practice in America. As we have moved farther away from a local food system, many people are now reclaiming the right to raise chickens in their own backyards. But how can those of us urban dwellers do the same? In this birdkeeping 101 [...]

Tagged as: comments, community, greening, urban sustainability

Meet Your Chocolate Farmer: The Story Behind Your Treats

Event info: Friday 19 March 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Come meet a cacao farmer and a staff member of CONACADO cacao co-op in the Dominican Republic who will share their history. In 1988, the cacao industry in the Dominican Republic was dominated by four major exporters. Most Dominican cacao production was low quality, unfermented beans shipped to the United States at low prices. Seven [...]

Tagged as: agriculture, community, food, Latin America

Hidden JP History: “Worker Housing and the Legacy of Robert Treat Paine”

Event info: Sunday 21 March 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Speaker: Prof. Ruediger Volk Come learn the inspiring local history of Robert Treat Paine and his work to build affordable housing in the Hyde Square neighborhood. Paine was a prominent business leader and great grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Independence with the same name. Paine pushed to expand homeownership for working families, [...]

Tagged as: affordable, democracy, history, housing, local

The Carnivore’s Dilemma: How to Eat Meat Responsibly

Event info: Wednesday 31 March 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Speakers: Kim Denney, owner/operator of Chestnut Farm Meat CSA, cattle farmer Ridge Shinn, author and local food activist Jamey Lionette All-natural. Organic. Free-range. Grass-fed. Are you a conscientious meat-eater trying to navigate this new terrain of labels and concerns? Are you wondering whether it’s safe and sustainable to eat meat at all? Bring your questions [...]

Tagged as: food, greening, urban sustainability

Why We Can’t Get Ahead: Job Challenges for the American Worker – Steven Greenhouse of the New York Times

Event info: Thursday 8 April 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Speaker: Steven Greenhouse, New York Times business and economics correspondent Since the recession’s peak, the U.S. unemployment rate has been hovering around 10 percent. But the challenges to the American worker go beyond the current economic crisis. Steven Greenhouse will talk about how American companies have squeezed millions of workers by clamping down on wages, [...]

Tagged as: big labor, bubble economy, economy, government, wages

REDUCE: Abundance in a time of dwindling resources

Event info: Friday 23 April 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Click here to upload the powerpoint from this workshop: REDUCE! for JP Forum Website We all know many of the conventional tips for reducing our use of resources, but what happens when people brainstorm their ideas about for taking it further? How can we use less gasoline every time we drive? Use the same water [...]

Tagged as: community, environment, local, urban sustainability

Creating your own Compost, Wormbin & Rain Barrel

Event info: Friday 7 May 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Do you ever wish that you could stop throwing away your kitchen scraps, and instead use them for something useful? Or, that you could water your garden with all of the valuable rainwater that runs off your roof? Join us at this Sustainability Series workshop where we will surprise you with how easy it is [...]

Tagged as: community, greening, urban sustainability

Addressing Torture at Home and Abroad: Fighting to Preserve Human Dignity

Event info: Friday 14 May 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Speakers: Ben Achtenberg and Brinton Lykes Many immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers in the United States were victims of torture in their countries. Upon arrival to the United States, some never receive the care necessary to deal with the trauma suffered in their homeland. Come listen as two local Jamaica Plain residents share their experiences [...]

Tagged as: community, history, immigration

Spring Songfest and Potluck!

Event info: Sunday 16 May 2010 – 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Featuring: Ken Ward A family-favorite, singing together helps to bring us into community, learn history, and share a folk-language that can pass through the ages. They give us a way to build and express community, calm the heart, and share emotions that defy ordinary conversation. More information to come!

Tagged as: community, food, Singing

Author Talk with Lynne Anderson – “Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens”

Event info: Wednesday 2 June 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Through stories of hand-rolled pasta and homemade chutney, local markets and backyard gardens, and wild mushrooms and foraged grape leaves— Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens recounts in loving detail the memories, recipes, and culinary traditions of people who have come to the United States from around the world. Chef, teacher and author [...]

Tagged as: author's reading, community, food, history, immigration, local

Special Guest: Ralph Nader

Event info: Friday 30 October 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

America’s stalwart fighter against corporate abuse, best selling author and presidential candidate will talk about new strategies to build economic equality and his new book, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us. In his first work of fiction, Nader tells the story of what would happen if the country’s richest and most powerful decided to act [...]

Tagged as: book for sale, economics, politics, social movements

Yes, We Can! Preserving the Bounty of the Harvest

Event info: Friday 11 September 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

With anticipation of New England’s short growing season drawing to a close, those who have been bitten by the localvore-bug are in a panic: what will they eat over the winter?! Well, have no fear – the Fresh Girl is coming to town to teach us how to pack the summer’s bounty into those neat [...]

Tagged as: canning, DIY, environment, food preservation

Health Care Reform: Myths and Facts

Event info: Thursday 17 September 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Are you struck by the sneaking suspicion something fishy is going on with health care reform? Can’t tell your Medicares from your Medicaids? Come learn about the facts and fictions surrounding national health reform. Benjamin Day from Mass-Care will help arm you with the facts to sort myth from reality and provide an inside account [...]

Tagged as: health care, public option, social movements

Our Military Budget: Does More Make Us Safe?

Event info: Friday 25 September 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Twenty years ago, a miracle happened when the Cold War ended peacefully. We were handed the chance to walk away from the nuclear nightmare and redirect billions of Cold War dollars to neglected needs at home. Now we are spending more money on the military than we ever did during that War. But we also have the [...]

Tagged as: economics, militarism, military spending, peace, social movements

Saving the Appalachian Mountains

Event info: Sunday 4 October 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

If your house is on the electric grid, chances are at least some of your power comes from coal companies that use mountaintop removal in their mining practices. Mountaintop removal is destroying the landscape and threatening communities in Appalachia. Activist and author Mike Roselle, co-founder of Earth First, Rainforest Action Network and Ruckus Society has [...]

Tagged as: climate, coal, direct action, environment, mountain top removal, peace, social movements

Franklin Park in History

Event info: Thursday 8 October 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Come learn the fascinating history of the 527-acre jewel of the Emerald Necklace from Julie Arrison, author of “Images of America: Franklin Park.” Co-sponsored with the Jamaica Plain Historical Society. Stay tuned for more information!

Tagged as: Forest Hills, history, Jamaica Plain

Film: Copyright Criminals: How do law and art sound together?

Event info: Friday 23 October 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Copyright Criminals: This Is a Sampling Sport examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and (of course) money. This documentary traces the rise of hip-hop from the urban streets of New York to its current status as a multibillion-dollar industry. For more than thirty [...]

Tagged as: art, copyright, Hip Hop, law, sampling

Winterizing Workshop: Making a more efficient home

Event info: Friday 6 November 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

With November fast approaching, homeowners and renters alike begin to anticipate the frozen pipes and leaky windows of winter, as well as the financial strain of keeping the winter’s cold at bay. As part of our continuing Urban Sustainability Series, the JP Forum joins with the Massachusetts Municipal Association to present a 1-hour workshop on [...]

Tagged as: climate, DIY, energy efficient, environment, greening, preparation

Songfest! Songs of Thanks

Event info: Sunday 15 November 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

This year we’re kicking off the holiday season with a songfest! Join us for a potluck, followed by songs of gratitude and thanks. More information to come!

Tagged as: community, Potluck, Singing

Film: Young @ Heart

Event info: Sunday 20 December 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Get ready to rock with the most entertaining golden oldies you will ever meet in the senior citizen’s choir Young@Heart. With a show only weeks away, they must learn a slate of new songs ranging from James Brown to Coldplay. The chorus’ director leads them through tough rehearsals, proving that rock and roll can be [...]

Tagged as: community, elderly, Singing

“Dismantling Monoculture” with the Beehive Collective

Event info: Friday 26 June 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

The Beehive Collective come to Jamaica Plain with their giant, portable murals that are used as a tool for popular analysis, education and organizing! The bees create collaborative, hand-illustrated posters of dizzying intricacy which are patchwork “quilts” of personal stories, historical and policy narrative, and bottom-up resistance. In anticipation of the much-awaited “Globalization in the [...]

Tagged as: agriculture, art, colonialism, environment, social movements

Common Security Clubs: Neighbors Coming Together to Prepare for Economic Change

Event info: Wednesday 10 June 2009 – 7:30pm to 9:00pm

Come learn about a mini-movement of “common security clubs,” people coming together to increase their economic security. This J.P. Forum will be an overview of how the clubs work and an opportunity to join one or help start one in your neighborhood and community. These are uncertain times. The economic crisis has reminded us of [...]

Tagged as: community, economics, mutual aid, recession, social movements

Dean Baker: Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy

Event info: Thursday 30 April 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Dean Baker was one of the economists who saw it coming as early as 2005. He warned about the housing bubble, lack of regulation and corruption at the root of the economic meltdown. Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC and the author of several books, including [...]

Tagged as: bubble economy, economics, recession, social movements

Early Spring: Talking to Your Kids About Climate Change

Event info: Friday 15 May 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Ecologist and mother Amy Seidl examines climate change at a personal level through her own family’s walks in the woods, work in their garden, and observations of local wildlife in the quintessential America of small-town New England, deep in the Green Mountains of Vermont. She explores this changing landscape, and her family’s relationship to it, [...]

Tagged as: author's reading, cliamte, environment, kids, social movements

Mandate for Change: An Assessment of the Obama Administration’s First 100 Days

Event info: Thursday 23 April 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Presented by the Jamaica Plain Forum & Institute for Policy Studies Click here for location and directions! In its first 100 days in office, President Obama has begun to move the country forward. Bold plans for economic recovery, drawing down troops in Iraq, and reforming health care have been put on the table. But is [...]

Tagged as: book for sale, economics, Obama, social movements

Beyond Bailouts: Transforming the Economy

Event info: Sunday 5 April 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Today’s economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression. However, as David Korten shows, the steps being taken to address it – including pouring trillions of dollars into bailouts for the Wall Street institutions that created the mess – do nothing to deal with the reality of a failed economic system. Korten identifies the [...]

Tagged as: bubble economy, economics, environment, social movements

Planning Local Vacations

Event info: Friday 3 April 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Two JP-based travel experts visit to share tips on regional gems, great local getaways for children, and the rediscovering New England. With an eye towards slimming our ecological footprints, this is a perfect way plan your summer vacation. Come and share your favorite local vacations, trips, jaunts, and getaways. Residents of Boston, Michael Blanding and [...]

Tagged as: food, kids, local, New England

“Taking Root” Documentary Screening

Event info: Friday 17 April 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

TAKING ROOT tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy-a movement for which this charismatic woman became an iconic inspiration.

Tagged as: Africa, community, environment, greening, Singing, social movements

Earth Day Community Songfest

Event info: Sunday 19 April 2009 – 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Singing together helps to bring us into community, learn history, and share a folk-language that can pass through the ages. They give us a way to build and express community, calm the heart, and share emotions that defy ordinary conversation. This special Earth Day program will focus on songs about our big blue planet! Lead [...]

Tagged as: community, environment, kids, Singing

Singer-Songwriters of the Seventies: Community Songfest

Event info: Sunday 22 March 2009 – 5:00pm to 8:00pm

Singing together helps to bring us into community, learn history, and share a folk-language that can pass through the ages. They give us a way to build and express community, calm the heart, and share emotions that defy ordinary conversation. Local musicians Ken Ward and Peter Thornton will bring down the house with their rousing [...]

Tagged as: community, kids, Singing

The Buzz About Bees: Urban Apiary for Beginners

Event info: Friday 20 March 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

With warming weather and sunnier skies, springtime will soon be heralded in by our familiar friend, the honey bee. But with staggering statistics about the rapid loss of bees, it may be time to consider small-scale and urban beekeeping as a remedy. Begin your beekeeping experience by learning the basics from a master bee tender, [...]

Tagged as: agriculture, food, greening, local, urban sustainability

Mike Lux: Lessons from History for the Obama Years

Event info: Friday 13 March 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Barack Obama, a liberal-leaning centrist Democrat was elected with the energetic support of progressive activists. Post-election enthusiasm remains high amongst progressives who believe that President Obama may be in a position to redefine the political center in just the way that Franklin Roosevelt did. Mike Lux, author of the new book “The Progressive Revolution” offers [...]

Tagged as: book for sale, economics, Obama, political campaigns

“Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North” Documentary Screening and Filmmaker Discussion

Event info: Sunday 8 March 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Join us for a special screening of the acclaimed documentary “Traces of the Trade,” with filmmaker and JP-resident Katrina Browne. Featured on PBS and at the Sundance Film Festival, this film recounts Browne’s inquiry into the DeWolf family, her forefathers and the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. “Traces of the Trade” follows ten DeWolf [...]

Tagged as: Africa, local, reparations, slavery, wealth

Urban Sustainability Series: Growing Container and Urban Plots

Event info: Tuesday 3 March 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

The first is our Urban Sustainability Series, this hands-on workshop will explore many options for growing your own food in the city. From container gardening to raised-beds, Gabriel Erde-Cohen of Green City Growers will share basic skills and tips to help you grow the most local food possible – directly from your front yard, porch, [...]

Tagged as: environment, food, greening, local, social movements

“Arusi-Persian Wedding” Documentary Screening

Event info: Friday 27 February 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Iranian American filmmaker Marjan Tehrani chronicles her brother’s return to Iran during the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, as he travels with his American wife to have a traditional Persian wedding and explore his lost heritage. But, when Alex’s Iranian-born parents and Heather’s conservative American father meet for the first time, cultures clash [...]

Tagged as: Iran, marriage, Middle East

Report from Bolivia: Pushing Back Against Corporate Globalization

Event info: Friday 20 February 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

We are joined by Bolivian activists as part of their Dignity and Defiance Tour across the U.S. We’ll learn about the changes under Bolivian President Evo Morales and hear powerful eyewitness accounts of Bolivia’s decade-long rebellion against globalization imposed from abroad. In the United States, many of us experience the benefits of globalization and carry [...]

Tagged as: colonialism, Latin America, Mexico, political campaigns, social movements

Kim Fellner – Wrestling with Starbucks: The Politics of Coffee

Event info: Tuesday 17 February 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

As a longtime labor and community organizer, Kim Fellner has spent her life fighting corporate abuse. But when fellow demonstrators at the 1999 “Battle of Seattle” smashed in the window of a Starbucks store, she couldn’t escape the feeling that something was wrong with the picture. How had a coffee company with a liberal reputation [...]

Tagged as: book for sale, coffee, food, Latin America, social movements

Kim Bobo: Wage Theft in America

Event info: Thursday 29 January 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid-And What We Can Do About It Kim Bobo, the co-founder of Interfaith Worker Justice discusses her new book (“Wage Theft in America”) about how billions of dollars worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers. Each year, billions of dollars’ worth of wages are stolen [...]

Tagged as: capitalism, community, economics, workers' rights

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