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democracy

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

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Special Guest: Malalai Joya: Liberating Afghan Women

Event info: Saturday 26 March 2011 – 3:00pm to 5:00pm

BREAKING NEWS: Malalai Joya is on her way! Her visa was granted and she will be in Boston for her JP Forum appearance. Please help spread the word! RSVP and Invite your friends to join you on Facebook, Click Here Speaker: Malalai Joya, author of A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman [...]

Tagged as: author's reading, book for sale, democracy, gender, militarism, peace, politics, report-back, social movements

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Dispatches From Mexico: John Ross and the Journey through Mexico

Event info: Friday 30 April 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Speaker: John Ross Author and activist John Ross has spent many years traveling and chronicling struggles for human rights in Mexico. He has written ten books of fiction and non-fiction. His latest volume “El Monstruo – Dread & Redemption in Mexico City”, a street-level peoples’ history of the most polluted, overcrowded, corrupt and crime-ridden megalopolis [...]

Tagged as: author's reading, community, democracy, history, Latin America

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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

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“Please Vote For Me” Documentary Screening

Event info: Friday 12 October 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist, Parish Hall Want to find out how democracy really works? Then head to China. Three eight-year-old students—a charismatic challenger, a ruthless incumbent, and a thoughtful outsider—all campaign for the coveted position of class monitor in a third grade classroom in Wuhan, China. Hot debates. Backstabbing. Alliances. Move over [...]

Tagged as: China, democracy, kids

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The People Decide: Oaxaca’s Popular Assembly

Event info: Tuesday 11 September 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist, Sanctuary For the last 15 months, a powerful popular movement in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has challenged the corrupt and repressive government of PRI Governor Ulises Ruiz. Journalist Nancy Davies, a resident of Oaxaca, has covered the rebellion and the rise of the popular assembly movement. [...]

Tagged as: democracy, Latin America, report-back, social movements

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