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Tar Sands Action: A Report Back

Event info: Friday 9 September 2011 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Panelists: Journalist Ellen Cantarow, Unitarian Universalist pastor Rev. Terry Burke, Cool JP Green Block leader Carolyn Nikkal, and Boston Climate Action Network’s Coordinator Loie Hayes. To RSVP and invite your friends on Facebook, Click Here Have you heard about the Tar Sands protests at the White House? Over the past few weeks thousands of people [...]

Tagged as: environment, report-back, social movements

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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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A Report from New Orleans: 3 Years Later

Event info: Friday 27 June 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

“14 Hands, 7 Toolbelts, and 1 New Orleans Family: A Report Back from Post-Katrina Louisiana”   Did you know that, since Hurricane Katrina, Boston-area building trades people have made several trips to rewire and replumb flood-damaged homes on the Gulf coast? In fact, a crew of seven local electricians, plumbers, and carpenters just returned from [...]

Tagged as: community, New Orleans, race in America, report-back, service

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“Bearing Witness in Darfur: Who Will Be My Sister’s Keeper?”

Event info: Thursday 29 November 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist, Sanctuary 6 Eliot St. (Across from the Monument) Since her first visit to southern Sudan in 2001, Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, co-pastor of Jamaica Plain’s Bethel AME Church, knew that she wanted to stand in solidarity with the women of that country. She had served as a medical missionary [...]

Tagged as: Africa, economics, genocide, politics, report-back

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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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“Turning the Climate Corner” with Ross Gelbspan

Event info: Friday 4 January 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Friday, January 4th at 7:00pm First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist 6 Eloit St, Jamaica Plain, MA The Global Warming debate has come into the national spotlight in recent years with many politicians and celebraties taking it on as their core issue. We constantly hear about new scientific evidence leading to the same conclusion [...]

Tagged as: climate, environment, preparation, report-back

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