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“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 Western [...]

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

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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

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Exporting the Drug War Overseas

Event info: Friday 27 July 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Friday, July 27th, 7:00pm

First Church of Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, Parish Hall
Presenting Sanho Tree, Fellow at Institute for Policy Studies and Director of the Drug Policy Project.

Our jails are filled with nonviolent drug offenders and our militarized approach to combating drugs overseas is destroying indigenous economies and sewing seeds of antagonism toward the US. [...]

Tagged as: colonialism, drug policy, health care, Latin America

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