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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, organizing [...]

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

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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 with [...]

Tagged as: community, history, immigration

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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

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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.
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Tagged as: Forest Hills, history, Jamaica Plain

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“Chicago 10″ Film and Discussion

Event info: Friday 19 September 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

CHICAGO 10 is dramatic documentary that explores the build-up and unraveling of the 1968 Chicago Conspiracy Trial with Abby Hoffman, Tom Hayden, Bobbie Seale and Dave Dellinger. A parable of hope, courage and challenge as it portrays the struggle of young Americans speaking out and taking a stand in the face of an oppressive and [...]

Tagged as: history, politics, race in America, social movements

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Hillary Jordan, Author of “MUDBOUND” (Reading)

Event info: Friday 2 May 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

 

“This is storytelling at the height of its powers: the ache of wrongs not yet made right, the fierce attendance of history made as real as rain, as true as this minute. Hillary Jordan writes with the force of a Delta storm.”
– Barbara Kingsolver
Please join us for an intimate reading with Hillary Jordan, 2006 recipient [...]

Tagged as: art, author's reading, history, race in America

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“An Unreasonable Man” Documentary Screening

Event info: Friday 30 November 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist, Parish Hall
Whoever said, “One person can make a difference” must have been talking about Ralph Nader. For over forty years Nader has taken on big business and corporate America all in the name of the people. But lately this consumer advocate’s halo has been a bit tarnished. Is [...]

Tagged as: green party, history, political campaigns

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“Miss Navajo” Documentary Screening

Event info: Friday 26 October 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

 
First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist, Parish Hall
How many beauty contestants can say “I competed in a pageant where I butchered a sheep?” Crystal Frazier can. Follow this introverted, self-proclaimed tomboy as she makes bread, weaves a rug, sweats her way through a language quiz—and that’s just the first day—on her quest to be [...]

Tagged as: art, community, gender, history, native americans

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21 Myths About Immigration

Event info: Thursday 4 October 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

This podcast was recorded by David Goodman of Ibis Radio: www.ibisradio.org

7:00pm reading and discussion with Aviva Chomsky
First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist Parish Hall
With walls being built on our borders and heated debate this summer around the Immigration Reform Bill, our nation acts as if immigrants destroy the social, economic and cultural fabric of [...]

Tagged as: community, history, immigration, social movements

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