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Climate change, the economy and unending war: A new strategy in a time of crisis

Speakers: Suren Moodliar, Paul Shannon and Weimin Tchen
Health care, war, global warming and the economy: These are the greatest problems we’re facing today. The media and our elected officials like to portray them as isolated issues, focusing on blame rather than solutions that are in line with a vast majority of Americans.
The Majority Agenda Project, [...]

Tagged as: climate change, community, economy, social movements, solutions

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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 for [...]

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

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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

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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 best [...]

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

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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 spent [...]

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

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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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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 our
vulnerability: debt, [...]

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

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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

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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

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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 this the [...]

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

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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

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“Ask Not” Documentary Screening

Event info: Sunday 3 May 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

ASK NOT is a rare and compelling exploration of the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. The film exposes the tangled political battles that led to the discriminatory law, and profiles charismatic activists determined to abolish it. As the war rages on, ASK NOT reveals personal stories of gay Americans who serve in combat [...]

Tagged as: LGBT, militarism, peace, social movements

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“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

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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, [...]

Tagged as: environment, food, greening, local, 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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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

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Closing the Racial Wealth Divide

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

with Meizhu Lui, Dedrick Muhammad and Amaad Rivera
Three national experts join us to both celebrate the election of Barack Obama and discuss the persistent disparities of wealth that still exist along racial lines. The forum corresponds with the release of “State of the Dream 2009,” a timely study examining racial wealth disparities.
Over the past few [...]

Tagged as: community, economics, race in America, social movements, wealth

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“Pete Seeger and The Power of Song” Film and Singing

Event info: Sunday 19 October 2008 – 5:00pm to 7:30pm

Communities are created and strengthened through singing together: no one knew this better than one of America’s most beloved folk singers, Pete Seeger. Come watch parts of the inspirational film, “The Power of Song” and observe Seeger’s ability to bring great social issues into popular discussion through song. and sing a few tunes about [...]

Tagged as: art, community, elderly, kids, Singing, social movements

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“Sustainable City Living” Talk with Scott from the Rhizome Collective

Event info: Friday 3 October 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

With a warming globe and diminishing oil, it is critical that we begin to live with a dramatically different way. Bike-power, rain water collection, permaculture and relocalization of our communites are just the beginning. We will discuss the creative methods that “urban environmental stewards” have been testing out to live within the earth’s limits and [...]

Tagged as: climate, community, DIY, environment, greening, preparation, social movements

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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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“There Are No Illegal People” with photojournalist David Bacon

Event info: Tuesday 9 September 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants, with David Bacon
“David Bacon is the conscience of American journalism; an extraordinary social documentarist in the rugged humanist tradition of Dorothea Lange, Carey McWilliams, and Ernesto Galarza.”
—Mike Davis, author of No One Is Illegal

Jamaica Plain has a rich history as a “landing pad” for [...]

Tagged as: art, capitalism, community, economics, immigration, politics, race in America, social movements

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Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times: Amy Goodman, David Goodman and You

Event info: Friday 16 May 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! visits the Jamaica Plain Forum on Friday, May 16th at 7:00pmÂ

This event is a Fundraiser for the Jamaica Plain Forum. Tickets are $5.00
Doors open at 6pm, event begins at 7pm. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis
Tickets are on sale at Rhythm and Muse [...]

Tagged as: book for sale, community, economics, local hero, media, militarism, politics, social movements

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“New Year Baby” Documentary Screening and Discussion

Event info: Friday 30 May 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

 

Born in a Thai refugee camp on Cambodian New Year, filmmaker Socheata Poeuv grew up in the United States never knowing that her family had survived the Khmer Rouge genocide. In NEW YEAR BABY, she embarks on a journey to Cambodia in search of the truth and why her family’s history had been buried [...]

Tagged as: militarism, peace, reparations, social movements, South East Asia, war

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The Defining Moment for Climate Change with Bill McKibben

Event info: Sunday 8 June 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Bill McKibben, author, educator, environmentalist
Sunday, June 8th, 7:00pm

Read Bill’s most recent article on Alternet.org

As a part of our continuing series on climate-change, join the Jamaica Plain Forum for a conversation with Step-It-Up! global warming activist, Bill McKibben after the Bikes Not Bombs Bike-A-Thon and 1st annual Green Roots Festival.
Bill McKibben is an environmentalist and writer [...]

Tagged as: climate, community, DIY, environment, greening, social movements, urban sustainability

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The Global Warming Cafe: Concrete Steps to Decreasing your Carbon Footprint

Event info: Saturday 29 March 2008 – 1:00pm to 5:00pm

 
Please note that the day and time of this event is different than other Jamaica Plain Forum Events
Saturday, March 29th from 1:00-5:00pm
If you were not able to RSVP for this event, please come!  We still have plenty of space for you!

Scientists overwhelmingly agree that human activity is dangerously warming the earth. Heat is being [...]

Tagged as: climate, community, economics, greening, local, politics, social movements, urban sustainability

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“Who Owns the Water? The Global Grassroots Fight to Take Back the Tap” with Maude Barlow, Canadian Anti-Corporate Water-Rights Activist

Event info: Sunday 2 March 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

“The global water crisis is one of the most serious issues of our time. Maude Barlow is an outstanding leader who has pioneered people’s and nature’s right to water for the last decade. Blue Covenant will inspire civil society movements around the world.” –Vandana Shiva, physicist, ecologist, activist, editor, and author of Biopiracy and Stolen [...]

Tagged as: climate, commons, social movements, water

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“King Corn” Potluck (6:30) and Screening (7:30)

Event info: Friday 14 March 2008 – 6:30pm to 9:00pm

Thanks to the resounding response from parents, our childcare slots available for this screening are now full.  Join our email list to stay updated on future events with childcare!

Join us for this potluck (at 6:30), documentary screening (at 7:30), and discussion with “King Corn” subject Ian Cheney.
Have you been wondering why Americans are [...]

Tagged as: agriculture, environment, food, greening, social movements, urban sustainability

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“Iron Ladies of Liberia”

Event info: Friday 22 February 2008 – 6:00pm to 6:01pm

Due to inclement weather, this event is being postponed.
Please check this website for further updates, or join our email list for the most current information.

Catch it on WGBH stations:
Wednesday, March 19, 8 – 9pm, WGBH WORLD
Sunday, March 23, 9 – 10pm, WGBX, Chanel 44

She’s already overcome tremendous obstacles to [...]

Tagged as: Africa, gender, militarism, peace, politics, social movements

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Frances Moore Lappe: “When Hope Triumphs Over Fear: An Invisible Global Revolution”

Event info: Thursday 1 November 2007 – 7:00pm to 10:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist Sanctuary (6 Eliot Street)
In 2006 an energized electorate seemed poised to reassert ownership of the democratic process. Since the elections, however, polls show that citizens confidence in government has resumed its downward trend. Far from waning, disillusion and disengagement continue to spread.
Why is this happening, and how can [...]

Tagged as: agriculture, food, greening, social movements

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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.
Nancy will [...]

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

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Ellen Bravo Takes on the Big Boys

Event info: Wednesday 6 June 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, Parish Hall.
Ellen Bravo Takes on the Big Boys

Nancy Pelosi’s election to Speaker of the House, Hillary Clinton’s realistic shot at the presidency, and Drew Gilpin Faust’s appointment as president of Harvard are being celebrated as breakthroughs for all women.
But are the barriers to women’s workplace success really [...]

Tagged as: book for sale, gender, social movements

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Military Voices In Opposition the War

Event info: Friday 11 May 2007 – 7:30pm to 9:00pm

First Church of Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, Sanctuary.
 
Featuring Nancy Lessin and Charley Richardson, co-founders, Military Families Speak Out and Liam Madden, co-founder, Appeal for Redress
The evening will feature JP residents Nancy Lessin and Charlie Richardson, co-founders of the national organization, Military Families Speak Out, and Liam Madden, co-founder of the Appeal for Redress. Our speakers [...]

Tagged as: Middle East, militarism, social movements

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Film Screening: “The Ground Truth”

Event info: Monday 30 April 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Monday, April 30th at 7:00 and Monday, May 7th at 7:00 pm
First Church Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist Parish Hall
In preparation for the First Church Jamaica Plain Forum’s “Military Voices Against the War” event, come see “The Ground Truth” on

The First Church Jamaica Plain Forum presents “The Ground Truth,” a [...]

Tagged as: militarism, social movements

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“Banished” Documentary and Discussion

Event info: Friday 18 January 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist
6 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, MA
From the 1860s to the 1920s, dozens of towns and counties across America violently expelled entire African American communities, forcing thousands of black families to flee their homes. A century later, these towns remain all white. BANISHED tells the story of three [...]

Tagged as: community, race in America, reparations, social movements

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Food For Thought: A Case for Local Food

Event info: Wednesday 19 September 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
7:00pm Community Potluck (bring a dish to share!), 7:30pm discussion
First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist Parish Hall
There many be nothing better than picking a ripe tomato out of your garden in late summer, or bighting into an apple right off the tree in the fall. As we observe the seasons [...]

Tagged as: food, greening, local, social movements

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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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