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SUMMARY:Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley & Rev. Mariama White-Hammond: Green New Deal Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a historic discussion between Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and activist and organizer\, Rev. Mariama White-Hammond about the Green New Deal.\n \n\n  \n\nThe ecological and economic justice challenges of our time require all of us to work for an equitable\, healthy and livable planet for all. Responding to our environmental crisis must be done in a way that bridges Boston’s racial divide. A just and sustainable transition must follow the leadership of women of color who have helped move forward many critical issues in our current political environment. Women of color leading the way!\n\nWe will discuss the challenges of working for a just transition that includes how we build an equitable economy that lifts people out of poverty and also lives within the ecological boundaries of the earth.\n\n  \n  \nFree with Eventbrite ticket.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/congresswoman-ayanna-pressley-rev-mariama-white-hammond-green-new-deal-town-hall/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190404T190000
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SUMMARY:It's Time to Change the State's Racist Flag & Seal!
DESCRIPTION:Invite your friends and RSVP on Facebook \n \nJoin us at the Jamaica Plain Forum to discuss how to Help Change the State of Massachusetts official Flag and Seal – a Symbol of White Supremacy for the last 390 years.\n\nFor the past 35 years\, legislation has been pending in the Massachusetts State Legislature to establish a special commission to review the State Flag and Seal\, and to invite Native leaders of the Commonwealth to sit at the decision-making table with legislators to design a new flag and seal for Massachusetts.\nThe current flag and seal\, which features a Colonial broadsword held in a white hand over the head of a composite “Ideal Native American\,” is one of two state flags in the United States that remains controversial due to its representation of white supremacy. Mississippi continues to use the Confederate Stars and Bars – a representation of white domination over African Americans – in its official state symbols. Does Massachusetts want to continue in a race to the bottom with Mississippi to see which state will retain their invidious imagery of white supremacy the longest? As the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim landing approaching in 2020\, and with other bills pending in the Massachusetts legislature to ban the use of Native sports mascots in public schools\, to change the name of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day\, and to institute a positive program of Native studies in public schools in the Commonwealth\, to counteract centuries of negative stereotyping of Native People – the time is right to change the State Flag and Seal of Massachusetts. With your help\, we can do it!\n \n\n\n \n\nCome hear: \nElizabeth Solomon\, Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag speaks regularly on indigenous issues\, particularly those related to   local tribes that are not federally recognized. She works in a number of volunteer and consulting capacities on issues important to local indigenous communities and serves on a number of advisory councils and management boards including those at the Boston Harbor Islands National Park\, Digital Archive of Native American Petitions in Massachusetts and the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag.   She currently works as an Assistant Director of Academic Affairs and Fellowship Programs at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and has nearly three decades of public health experience including positions in university-based research project management and academic affairs as well positions in management and program development in community-based organizations.  \n\n Representative Nika Elugardo\, D – 15th Suffolk/Norfolk District Communities of Mission Hill\, JP\, Roslindale & Brookline. She has over 20 years of experience in community and economic development with public\, private\, and nonprofit leaders in communities of color\, including serving as Jamaica Plain Liaison and Senior Policy Advisor to Massachusetts Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz. Her broad experience positions her to be a strong advocate for our District. She most recently sponsored bill H.2776/HD.2968 a petition (accompanied by resolve\, House\, No. 2776) of Lindsay N. Sabadosa and others for an investigation by a special commission (including members of the General Court) relative to the seal and motto of the Commonwealth. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight. \n  \nEva Blake\, Assonet Wampanoag\, Senior Director of Foundation Relations at YouthBuild. Prior Senior Director of the YouthBuild USA Green Initiative which she and a colleague launched in 2005 to create opportunities for YouthBuild students and graduates to build green and healthy homes\, pursue green industry careers and develop environmental leadership and\nliteracy. With the tenth anniversary of the Green Initiative this year\, she was named one of several Climate Change Champions by Green for All. Eva is a LEED Green Associate\, served in the past as Secretary and Chair of the Wopanâak Language Reclamation Project\, and is an active member of the Advisory Committee of the Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness.  \n  \nDavid Detmold is the volunteer coordinator of the website Campaign to Change the Mass Flag and Seal. David is the founding editor of the Montague Reporter\, a weekly paper covering five towns in eastern Franklin County\, Detmold has covered issues relating to preservation of culturally sensitive sites of Native origin\, the retirement of the “Indian” sports mascot at the Gill-Montague Regional School District\, and issues related to Native sovereignty and civil rights. As a former board member of the Nolumbeka Project\, Detmold has helped to bring speakers from many of the Native Nations of the Northeast to speak about their modern lifeways and cultural heritage to large audiences at the Great Falls on the Kwinitekw River (Connecticut River). He rode his bicycle from Plimoth Rock to Standing Rock in the summer of 2017\, and is preparing a book for publication about the Native history he researched and the Native people he interviewed along the way. On April 4th\, he will speak about ways we all can help advance legislative efforts to improve relations between the settler society and the original inhabitants of our shared Commonwealth.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/help-massachusetts-pass-an-indigenous-bill-of-rights/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190324T180000
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SUMMARY:Community Book Discussion: Surviving the Future
DESCRIPTION:David Fleming\, Surviving the Future: Culture\, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy \nhttps://www.chelseagreen.com/product/surviving-the-future/ \nJoin this community book discussion\, facilitated by Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies. The late British ecologist David Flemming suggests that we must build a new culture of gift exchange\, celebration\, and mutuality to survive the future\, drawing on the lessons throughout human existence.  Learn more check out this video about a symposium on David Flemming: https://vimeo.com/252762071. \n  \nPlease sign up with Anny@ips-dc.org. \nA limited number of free copies of the book are available to the first people to sign up.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/community-book-discussion-surviving-the-future/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190320T190000
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SUMMARY:Jabari Asim: We Can’t Breathe\, On Black Lives\, White Lies\, and the Art of Survival
DESCRIPTION:Jabari Asim is an author\, poet\, playwright\, associate professor of writing\, literature and publishing at Emerson College in Boston\, Massachusetts.The author of six books for adults and nine books for children. His most recent works are Only The Strong (Agate\, 2015)\, A Child’s Introduction To African-American History(Hachette\, 2018) and We Can’t Breathe (Picador\, 2018). \nHis poetry\, drama\, and prose have been widely published in various periodicals and anthologies. He was an editor for 11 years at the Washington Post\, where he also wrote a syndicated column on politics\, popular culture\, and social issues. Formerly the editor-in-chief of Crisis magazine\, the NAACP’s flagship journal of politics\, culture\, and ideas\, he received a 2009 Guggenheim fellowship in Creative Arts. Most recently\, he has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, where he was a scholar-in- residence. \nAsim’s new book\, We Can’t Breathe\, On Black Lives\, White Lies\, and the Art of Survival are Insightful and searing essays that celebrate the vibrancy and strength of the black experience in America. It is a sharp vision that challenges readers to shift perspective and examine conventional narratives. \nIn We Can’t Breathe\, Jabari Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison has exposed as the “Master Narrative” and replaces it with a story of black survival and persistence through art and community in the face of centuries of racism. In eight wide-ranging and penetrating essays\, he explores such topics as the twisted legacy of jokes and falsehoods in black life; the importance of black fathers and community; the significance of black writers and stories; and the beauty and pain of the black body. What emerges is a rich portrait of a community and culture that has resisted\, survived\, and flourished despite centuries of racism\, violence\, and trauma. These thought-provoking essays present a different side of American history\, one that doesn’t depend on a narrative steeped in oppression but rather reveals black voices telling their own stories. \nPapercuts will be present at the program to purchase Asim’s new book and he will be availabe at the end of the evening for the book signing. \nFree & open to all. \n“We Can’t Breathe is\, itself\, a useful antidote—for the complacency and ignorance of white Americans. It stands next to Howard Zinn’s work as a supplement to an educational system that teaches the textbooks of the victors. I can imagine thrusting it at any number of well-meaning but inadequately informed acquaintances when they use the phrases “not that bad\,” or “post-racial era\,” or “who’s Ida B. Wells?” It’s all right here\, Asim assures us. Everything we turn away from\, he turns back to us\, patiently\, intelligently. Relentlessly.” -Katharine Coldiron
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/jabari-asim-we-cant-breath/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Film: Mountains That Take Wing
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by First Church in JP UU\, Social Justice Action Committee and Theodore Parker Church\, Racial Justice Task Force\nMountains That Take Wing\, FRI. 3/8 @ 7PM\nAs part of our second year of the Dismantling White Supremacy Film series is this historically rich and unique documentary about two formidable women\, Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama who share a profound passion for justice. This incredible discussion between these two prolific activist tell the untold story of the deep connection and support between both the black and asian movements to eradicate oppression.\n“Thirteen years\, two inspiring women\, both radical activists-one conversation. MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING is a historically rich and unique documentary about two formidable women who share a profound passion for justice. Through conversations that are intimate and profound\, we learn about Davis\, an internationally renowned scholar\, writer and activist\, and 88-year-old Kochiyama\, a revered grassroots community activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Their shared experience as political prisoners and their dedication to Civil Rights embody personal and political experiences as well as the diverse lives of women doing liberatory cultural work. Illustrated with rarely-seen photographs and footage of extraordinary speeches and events from the early 1900s to the ’60s and through the present\, the topics of this rich conversation range from critical\, but often forgotten role of women in 20th century social movements to the importance of cross-cultural/cross-racial alliances; from America’s WWII internment camps to Japan’s “Comfort Women”; from Malcolm X to the prison industrial complex; and from war to cultural arts. Davis and Kochiyama’s comments offer critical lessons for understanding our nation’s most important social movements while providing tremendous hope for its youth and the future.” \nFor more information: Jom45@aol.com\nFree & Open to All.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/film/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190222T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190222T213000
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SUMMARY:Film: This Ain't Normal
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by First Church in JP UU\, Social Justice Action Committee and Theodore Parker Church\, Racial Justice Task Force\n\nThis Ain’t Normal\, Fri. 2/22 @ 7PM\nAs part of our second year of the Dismantling White Supremacy Film series this documentary depicts the stories of gang-involved youth\, entangled in the intractable violence haunting Boston’s neighborhoods\, and the StreetSafe Boston social and street workers tasked with helping to transform their lives. This Ain’t Normal examines the individual circumstances behind the violence\, thereby gaining a deeper insight and understanding into the issue of youth violence\, as it has grown to epidemic proportions in the City on the Hill and the nation.\nPanelist:\nRudy Hypolite\, Producer/Director\nDonald Osgood\, Sr.\, Louis D. Brown Peace initiative Advocate and Former StreetSafe Boston Streetworker on the Trauma Response Team\nMarta E. Rivera\, Chief of Staff with Mayor’s Office of Health & Human Services and Former Program Manager at StreetSafe Boston\nCoach Dennis Wilson\, Co-Producer\, Coach and Community Activist\nMalik Williams\, Music Composer\n\nInvite your friends and RSVP on Facebook.\nFree & Open to All.\n  \nFor more information: Jom45@aol.com
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/film-this-aint-normal/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190211T190000
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SUMMARY:A Night with Award-Winning Poet: Morgan Parker!
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with Papercuts we bring to Jamaica Plain the Morgan Parker\, to celebrate the release of her forthcoming poetry book\, MAGICAL NEGRO (2/5/19\, Tin House)  \nA Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at Vogue\, O: the Oprah Magazine\, NYLON\, BuzzFeed\, Publishers Weekly and Papercuts! \n“Parker’s voice is surprising\, ranging from elegiac to conspiratorial to ecstatic; she interrogates both blackness and femininity like ports in a long personal journey\, as places to land but also as points of departure.” – Vogue \nParker is the author of “There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé” and more. She studied Anthropology and Creative Writing at Columbia University and earned her MFA in Poetry from NYU. \nHer work have been published in numerous\, The Paris Review\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop\, Best American Poetry 2016\, The New York Times\, and The Nation. \nParker is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship\, winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize\, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. \nShare & Invite your friends on FACEBOOK! \n**** GET YOUR BOOK! Visit Papercuts (5 Green Street 02130) or reserve online: www.papercutsjp.com/store/magicalnegro **** \n 
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/black-womanhood-award-winning-poet-author-morgan-parker/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:INEQUALITY AND OUR WELL-BEING: Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett
DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE! \nGlobally recognized UK health leaders Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett will be speaking at the JP Forum about their new book\, THE INNER LEVEL: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress\, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone’s Well-Being. \nIn 2009\, Wilkinson and Picket revolutionized our understanding of economic inequality with their globally-recognized book\, THE SPIRIT LEVEL: Why Equality is Better for Everyone.  They are coming to Jamaica Plain on their U.S. book tour for The Inner Level. \nBrookline Booksmith will be present with copies of the new book to purchase during the book signing. \nFREE BUT REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE! \nGet your ticket now: http://bit.ly/PickettANDWilkinson \n  \n \n 
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/inequality-and-our-well-being-richard-wilkinson-kate-pickett/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190111T190000
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SUMMARY:Film: RUMBLE
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by First Church in JP UU\, Social Justice Action Committee and Theodore Parker Church\, Racial Justice Task Force\n\n \nTHE INDIANS THAT ROCKED THE WORLD\nRumble\, Fri. 1/11@ 7PM\nAs part of Dismantling White Supremacy Film Series this revelatory documentary brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North America. The early pioneers of the blues had Native as well as African American roots\, and one of the first and most influential jazz singers’ voices was trained on Native American songs. As the folk rock era took hold in the 60s and 70s\, Native Americans helped to define its evolution.\nLink Wray\, Charlie Patton\, Jimi Hendrix\, Mildred Bailey\, Buffy Sainte-Marie\, Robbie Robertson\, Jessie Ed Davis\, Randy Castillo just to name a few.. The is an eye opening film about the First Nation brothers and sisters whom are long over due for the commemoration of their enormous contribution to every single genre of music today!\nFor more information: Jom45@aol.com\nFree & Open to All.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/film-rumble/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181212T210000
DTSTAMP:20181211T212801Z
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SUMMARY:Understanding the Climate Picture: Lessons from the IPPC & National Climate Assessment
DESCRIPTION:Invite your friends on Facebook HERE \nJoin us to hear from scientists and activists to dissect the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the National Climate Assessment compiled by hundreds of scientists from around the world. These reports warn that these dangers are no longer remote or hypothetical. \nBoth reports call for urgent action. How do we respond to a crisis larger than any we as a species have ever faced? \nWe will hear from a panel of experts who have been involved with the climate issue and how to address it. This critical discussion will leave ample time for speakers to answer questions from our audience. \nPanelists: \n  \nDr. Nathan Phillips is Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University. His research focuses on physiological mechanisms that regulate water\, carbon\, and energy exchanges between plants/ecosystems and the environment\, especially in the context of environmental change.  More recently\, this research has been translated to studies of the ecology “in cities”\, and the ecology “of cities”\, in an interdisciplinary research program called “Urban Metabolism” supported by the National Science Foundation and Boston University’s Sustainable Neighborhood Laboratory. \nSaya Ameli is a Representative of Sunrise junior in Brookline high school\, a member of Sunrise Boston\, and the Environmental Action Club\, organized and run by students. I began getting involved with local politics in freshman year\, when my friends and I decided to write and pass a resolution for the town of Brookline. The excitement of the process and the urgency of the issue has made me stay ever since. \nAlan Palm is the Director of Organizing for 350 Mass for a Better Future. He supports the 350 Mass network with local and statewide campaigns\, direct actions\, trainings and strategy. Alan also represents 350 Mass as a co-coordinator of the Mass Power Forward coalition. For more than a decade Alan has been working to educate and activate the public to fight for climate justice. In 2007\, Alan co-founded a sustainability education organization that traveled to 46 states aboard vegetable oil and solar powered school buses\, presenting at schools and supporting the youth climate movement. In 2009\, Alan joined ACE: Alliance for Climate Education where he led a team that presented to nearly half a million high school students throughout New England\, and trained dozens of youth to lead campaigns for issues like Fossil Fuel Divestment and 100% Renewable Energy. As a community fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School\, Alan studied social movement organizing under Marshall Ganz. \n \nCarolina Santamaria is the Development Organizer at Corporate Accountability. In her daily work\, Carolina works with members across the country and globe to channel people power into action to challenge transnational corporations\, especially the fossil fuel industry which is at the root of the climate crisis we see today. One of her favorite campaign memories is from the People’s Climate Movement in Washington\, D.C. – where she marched alongside members\, allies\, and other deeply concerned citizens. Carolina also served as a board member of the Colombian American Cultural Society of Rhode Island\, which focuses on valuing and empowering the Colombian community through civic engagement and community outreach programs. Before joining the Corporate Accountability team Carolina received her B.A. in International Relations and Affairs  at Emmanuel College with a concentration in sustainability and global justice. \n \nRichard Rosen received his physics doctorate from Columbia University (1974)\, and was a Senior Fellow and founder of the Tellus Institute (Boston6) until 2016.  He has researched energy system\, climate change\, and electric utility policy issues since 1976.  He has testified as an expert witness in numerous public utility commission hearings and Clean Air Act court cases throughout the United States on behalf of the US Department of Justice and state attorneys general. He specializes in reviewing energy system planning and forecasting methodologies\, and has written reports on these issues for the US Department of Energy and the US Environmental Protection Agency. \nAnny Martinez\, (Moderator) Jamaica Plain Forum and Institute for Policy Studies. Prior to joining IPS\, she has worked as an environmental justice organizer with several organizations\, including facilitating Interfaith & Environmental Dialogues with the Coalition against the Pilgrim Pipeline and Food & Water Watch. \n  \n  \n  \nCo-sponsors: \n \n \n \n  \nFree & Open to All.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/climate-change-why-half-a-degree-is-a-big-deal/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181114T210000
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SUMMARY:Film: SELMA
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by First Church in JP UU\, Social Justice Action Committee and Theodore Parker Church\, Racial Justice Task Force\n\nSelma\, Wed. 11/14 @ 7PM\nTo kick off our second year of the Dismantling White Supremacy Film series is SELMA. A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery\, Alabama\, in 1965.\n\nFor more information: Jom45@aol.com\nFree & Open to All.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/2nd-dismantling-white-supremacy-film-series/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181003T210000
DTSTAMP:20180927T194606Z
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SUMMARY:William Powers: Dispatches from the Sweet Life
DESCRIPTION:  \nDelighted to share with you that award-winning author William (Bill) Powers is launching his new book this fall and we’d like to have you part of this exciting moment\, and the critical conversation this new book explores. \n  \nThe underlying question so pertinent to our time “ whether academic\, intellectual\, spiritual or practical in nature – is this: How can one live fully\, joyfully\, sustainably\, and in community while simultaneously healing the planet? \n  \nBill’s new book\, Dispatches from the Sweet Life: One Family\, Five Acres and a Town Quest to Reinvent the World (2018) is a page-turning memoir that will stir readers to ask refreshing questions about global responsibility and the critical linkages between sustainability and personal happiness. \n  \nBill’s current work in Bolivia offers a fascinating new dimension to his writing and decades of international development work. He is collaborating on the creation of an ˜ecological municipality and leading ground-breaking research that brings Bhutan Gross National Happiness (GNH) together with Bolivia vivir bien (˜living well) concept. \n  \nHis writing and speaking struck a powerful chord at over a hundred venues in the U.S. and Europe\, including keynote speeches at large literary festivals\, dozens of major U.S. and European universities\, and specialized private events such as the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and at Google Inc. \n  \nA penetrating account of what its like to move to the margins in our particular time and place. It will make you think\, hard.  —Bill McKibben\, author of Deep Economy and founder of 350.org \n  \nAbout the Author: \nWilliam Powers has worked for two decades in development aid and conservation in Latin America\, Africa\, and North America. From 2002 to 2004 he managed the community components of a project in the Bolivian Amazon that won a 2003 prize for environmental innovation from Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government. His essays and commentaries on global issues have appeared in the New York Timesand the International Herald Tribuneand on National Public Radio Fresh Air. Powers has worked at the World Bank and holds international relations degrees from Brown and Georgetown. A third-generation New Yorker\, Powers has also spent two decades exploring the American culture of speed and its alternatives in some fifty countries around the world. He has covered the subject in his four books and written about it in the Washington Post and the Atlantic. Powers is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and an adjunct faculty member at New York University. You can see more HERE. \n 
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/william-powers-dispatches-from-the-sweet-life/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181001T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181001T210000
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SUMMARY:Gubernatorial Candidates Environmental Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:A people’s assembly of several environmental organizations and concerned community members are gathering to speak directly to our Gubernatorial Candidates about our state’s crucial environmental issues and the importance of sustainable legislation. Candidates will make opening remarks\, answer questions from the audience\, and then offer closing remarks. \nGovernor Charlie Baker is unable to attend. Democratic candidate\, Jay Gonzalez will be present to answer our communities concerns and questions. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/gubernatorial-candidates-environmental-town-hall/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Our Wealthiest Nonprofits' role in the Future of Boston
DESCRIPTION:Join the JP Forum\, Boston Ed Justice Alliance and the PILOT Action Group for this informative and important discussion on how crucial it is to hold wealthy nonprofit institutions accountable to their communities for the betterment of the future of our city. \nPlease join us for a presentation by Enid Eckstein and Jonathan Rodrigues from the PILOT Action Group and BTU on the state of the city’s Payment in Lieu of Taxes Program and recommendations for a more inclusive and successful partnership between the City of Boston and nonprofit institutions. Large non-profits must pay their fair share. Following the presentation\, participants will have a chance to share their stories and input on their priorities for the PILOT program. \n\nBackground:\nNon-profits like large universities and hospitals do not have to pay property taxes. Starting in 2012\, the City created the Payment In Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) program to set guidelines and request community benefits and cash payments to help cover essential city services. The PILOT agreement stipulated institutions should pay 25% of their if-taxable property taxes\, but half (12.5%) could be deducted in community benefits. \n7 years after the program started\, the wealthiest nonprofits have neglected to pay over $77 million in cash PILOT contributions. Assessed property values for nonprofits are stuck at 2010 rates. And community benefit reporting is not timely\, not fully transparent and many times not what our community truly needs. Lastly\, the program lacks sufficient community and City Council input and oversight. \nFor more information and to read the full “Boston’s Payment in Lieu of Taxes: a Fair Deal for Boston Residents” go to bit.ly/PILOTactiongroup \nPanelist: \nEnid Eckstein is a former Vice President of 1199SEIU with many years of organizing and representing health care workers in Massachusetts hospitals and nursing homes. She has a Masters Degree from Brown University in Health Care Leadership and co-authored Hospitals Investing in Health; Community Benefit in Massachusetts published by Community Catalyst as well as the recent PILOT report\,  She recently served on the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Community Benefit Advisory Group which drafted the 2018 guidelines. She works as a consultant\, is a community activist and serves on a number of local boards including Jamaica Plain Progressives.   \n  \n  \nJonathan Rodrigues is a community organizer at the Boston Teachers Union since 2015. His work blends research and on the ground mobilization around education justice issues in Boston. Jonathan represents the BTU in its education\, labor and community coalition work locally and statewide as well as facilitating issues-based organizing committees.  He holds B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nFree and open to all. \n 
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/our-wealthiest-nonprofits-role-in-the-future-of-boston/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dave Jacke: Gardening Like The Forest
DESCRIPTION:Co-hosted by Boston Food Forest \nJoin us for this in-depth lecture with Dave Jacke\, a longtime permaculture teacher and designer.  He will share history of forest gardening\, its many benefits\, and how gardening like a forest can enrich your life. \n \nLessons from Nature for Edible Ecosystems and Human Societies \nHealthy forests maintain\, fertilize\, and renew themselves\, naturally.  Imagine having an ecosystem like that in your own yard\, but it grows your food!  Imagine meeting our own needs while regenerating healthy ecosystems at the same time….  Edible forest gardens mimic the structures and functions of natural forests while growing food\, fuel\, fiber\, fodder\, fertilizers\, farmaceuticals\, and fun.  This talk introduces the vision of forest gardening with some scientific background\, a few living examples\, and a sampling of some useful perennial edibles you can use in your own garden.  We’ll focus on understanding the social structures of ecosystems\, and see what lessons these have for our gardens\, and for the ways we organize and understand ourselves as human beings. \nBook Signing. \nFree and open to all. \nRSVP on Eventbrite \n  \n***** \nOn Saturday\, September 22\, Dave Jacke and Boston Food Forest come together to provide a one-day workshop at the Boston Nature Center Food Forest. Learn more on Facebook or  Meet Up \n\n*Pre-registration required for the workshop.\n\n\nCost is $100 (with some scholarships available\, please contact Orion@bostonfoodforest.org)\n\n\n*****\nDave Jacke\, primary author of the award winning two-volume book Edible Forest Gardens\, has studied ecology and design since the 1970s. An engaging\, passionate\, and meticulous designer and educator. He has consulted on\, designed\, built\, and planted landscapes\, homes\, farms\, and communities in the many parts of the U.S.\, as well as overseas. He holds a M.A. in Landscape Design from the Conway School of Landscape Design (1984). He now homesteads an eagle’s flight from the Connecticut River in Montague\, MA.  \nA detailed resumé is available as a pdf download in the bio at the bottom of the page at www.edibleforestgardens.com/about_book.html. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/dave-jacke-gardening-like-a-forest/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180913T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180913T210000
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SUMMARY:We Will Not Forget Puerto Rico!
DESCRIPTION:Co-Sponsered by Alliance for Puerto Rico-MA\, Vamos4PR\, Jobs for Justice\, Grassroots International\, 32BJ SEIU \n \nHurricane Maria has left many of our fellow American’s in Puerto Rico 3.4 million residents without shelter\, power\,  cell service\, drinking water\, and adequate food.  The hurricane wiped out the island’s power grid completely\, and officials report that 11\,000 Puerto Rican people are still without power\, a year later. September 21st\, marks the 1 year anniversary of Hurricane Maria. The latest death toll estimate is close to 5\,000\, many of them from delayed medical care. Hear from voices on the ground shed light on the economical\, educational\, environmental and health devastation facing our fellow citizens. Find out ways to help! \n  \nSpecial performance by the majestic Marsha Parrilla\, Award-winning choreograph is the founding Artistic Director of Danza Orgánica. She was born and raised in San Juan- Puerto Rico (Boriken)\, and is of Taíno and Afro Caribbean origins. Marsha relocated to NYC where she pursued a Master’s degree in Dance Education from New York University. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDynamic Panel: \nIvys Fernández-Pastrana Is originally from Puerto Rico and a lawyer by training. She is currently the Program Manager for the Pediatric Navigation Program at Boston Medical Center where she works along a team of Family Navigators and Community Health Advocates in the Department of Pediatrics. \nIvys is co-founder of Alianza for Puerto Rico/Alliance for Puerto Rico and activist pro Puerto Rico’s self-determination and the education of our history in the diaspora. After Hurricane Maria hit the Island\, co-founded La Corilla and the Massachusetts United for Puerto Rico/Massachusetts Unido por Puerto Rico to bring relief efforts to our families and friends in Puerto Rico. Currently is collaborating with other Puerto Ricans in bringing Boricua Cinema to Boston and the First Anniversary of Hurricane Maria on September 20th. \n  \nDebbie Perez has a Masters in Public Health from Boston University\, and she now works for a Healthcare Tech Company in Watertown\, MA. After being disconnected from her family in Puerto Rico\, and losing her stepdad shortly after that – she decided to begin a journey as a Public Health Activist for Puerto Rico by starting a Podcast called Boriken. The Podcast explores the issues happening in Puerto Rico from a public health lens\, by interviewing people from the island. She decided to name the podcast Boriken\, because Puerto Rico is a colony\, but by using the Native American Taino name of Boriken\, she hopes everyone will join her in envisioning a future where anything is possible – a future created by and for the Puerto Rican People. \n  \nJovanna Garcia\, Solidarity Program Officer for Latin America at Grassroots International.  Grassroots International works with social movements in the Global South to create a just and sustainable world by advancing the human rights to land\, water\, and food through global grantmaking\, building solidarity across organizations and movements\, and advocacy in the US. Jovanna works to build and maintain long-term relationships with partner organizations and social movements led by peasants\, indigenous peoples\, women\, and youth in Latin America. As part of this work\, Grassroots star building relationships in Puerto Rico to support social movements and grassroots organization in the decolonization struggle advancing multiples sovereignty and grassroots feminism. Prior to joining Grassroots’ she was working to advance environmental justice in communities of color. Jovanna is trilingual in Spanish (her mother tongue)\, Portuguese\, and English. She is originally from Puerto Rico and was involved there with the student movement for ending the US military occupation of Vieques\, and part of the environmental justice and decolonization movement in Puerto Rico. She has also spent some time working in Brazil with the riverine communities in the Amazonian region. \n  \nLisa Fortuna\, is the medical director for child and adolescent psychiatry services for the Boston Medical Center\, and co-director of the Transforming and Expanding Access to Mental Health in Urban Pediatrics –TEAM UP for Children\, a 4 year behavioral health integration project in pediatrics at three community health centers. TEAM UP is supported by the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation. My book “Mindfulness-Based CBT for Adolescent PTSD and Addictions” was published by New Harbinger Press in October 2015 and is a product of a five-year National Institute of Drug Abuse research grant during which I developed and tested an effective intervention for adolescents with co-occurring traumatic stress and addiction\n \n  \nOtoniel Figueroa-Duran\, went on to the University of Puerto Rico where he graduated magna cum laude in labor relations studies. In 1998 he moved to Madrid\, Spain where he went to graduate school to study Sociology of Work and worked as a researcher for Comisiones Obreras\, the biggest labor union in Spain. In 2001 he moved to New York City where he worked for different labor unions organizing and representing women and men with hundreds of different national origins and languages. Since 2007 he works for one of the most active union in politics and in communities of color up and down the east coast: 32BJ-SEIU. Co-founder of the Alliance for Puerto Rico/Vamos4PR\, a grassroots organization that has been at the forefront of the social activism by brainstorming solutions to both the financial crisis in Puerto Rico and the post Hurricane Maria recovery. He is also a founding member of the Massachusetts United for Puerto Rico Fund. \nArmando Santiago Pintado is the National Coordinator of VAMOS4PR\, a network of stateside labor\, community\, cultural\, and human rights groups committed to fighting for justice for Puerto Rico and empowering the Puerto Rican diaspora. Before joining VAMOS4PR\, Armando was the Legislative Director for Rep. Manuel Natal in the Puerto Rico House of Representatives\, where he was responsible for drafting the enabling legislation of the Puerto Rico Commission for the Comprehensive Audit of the Public Debt\, and advising the Commission in its investigative work. Armando has over six years of experience in legislative affairs in Puerto Rico\, four of which were in public service. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Philosophy\, Policy\, and Law from the University of Virginia\, and a law degree from the University of Puerto Rico \n  \nBurritos from Chilacates Mexican Street Food AND pastries from Fiore’s Bakery — Thanks to the solidarity! \nFree & open to all.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/we-will-not-forget-puerto-rico/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Climate legislation with Rep. Jeffrey Sánchez
DESCRIPTION:Stand up for community! Stand up for climate! \nJoin us on July 12th\, as State Rep. Jeffrey Sánchez attends a special town hall meeting focused on the climate legislation currently under consideration in Massachusetts. Rep. Sánchez’s active support is crucial for passing climate policy including expanding the Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS)\, establishing a price on carbon pollution\, getting rid of the pipeline tax\, and boosting solar equity in our state. Come to the town hall to speak up and support making MA a leader in sustainability and clean energy! \n  \n \n  \nThe town hall is sponsored by Sponsored by:\n350MA Boston NodeMass Sierra ClubBoston Climate Action NetworkClean Water Action MassachusettsOur ClimateBetter Future ProjectElders Climate Action – Massachusetts ChapterMothers Out Front – Jamaica PlainMA Interfaith Power and LightToxics Action CenterEnvironmental League of MassachusettsMassachusetts Campaign for a Clean Energy FutureClimate X-Change. \nThis event’s electricity needs will be matched with clean\, local New England Wind power from MassEnergy.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/town-hall-on-climate-with-rep-jeffrey-sanchez/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180626T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180626T210000
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SUMMARY:Lead the Way for Transgender Rights
DESCRIPTION:This November\, Massachusetts will become the first state in the country forced to defend transgender neighbors at the ballot box! \nJoin Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz\, Rep. Jeffrey Sánchez\, Rep. Liz Malia\, Councilor O’Malley\, Freedom For All Massachusetts\, Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition and Keshet for our Jamaica Plain Community Meeting! We’ll discuss the ballot issue\, and you’ll learn how you can play an integral role in upholding Massachusetts’ non-discrimination law.\n\nThis November vote YES to uphold the current law passed by the legislature (Chapter 134 of the Acts of 2016). Our community values dignity\, equality and respect for EVERYONE in Massachusetts regardless of gender identity and sexual orientation. Learn ways to support explicitly protecting transgender people from discrimination in public spaces like restaurants\, hotels and hospitals. Discrimination has no place here\, ensure transgender people are treated fairly and equally under the laws of our Commonwealth. \n  \n  \n  \nCo-Sponsors:
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/protect-transgender-people-in-public-places/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180613T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180613T213000
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SUMMARY:The Soil Sponge: Our Hope for Community and Climate Resilience
DESCRIPTION:The living “soil sponge” is the fundamental infrastructure that makes life on land possible. Understanding its function allows us to address many of our major challenges with elegant efficiency. Come find out how we can help regenerate the soil sponge to grow landscapes that\ncool the climate\, provide ample food and clean water for all\, while creating resilience to climate events such as flooding\, drought\, and wildfires. You will come away with practical\, affordable strategies to improve resiliency on a large scale by collaborating with natural systems (and each other!)\, and learn the enormous human health and economic benefits of doing this work.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDidi Pershouse is the author of The Ecology of Care: Medicine\, Agriculture\, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities\, and Understanding Soil Health and Watershed Function.  Her participatory workshops engage farmers and ranchers\, students\, policy makers\, investors\, and environmental groups in building multi-stakeholder working groups to improve soil health\, public health\, and climate resiliency. She was one of the five speakers at the United Nations-FAO World Soil Day in 2017.\n\n\n\nCo-sponsor
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/the-soil-sponge-our-hope-for-community-and-climate-resilience/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180523T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180523T213000
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SUMMARY:*Sandra Steingraber* Toward an Unfractured Future: Science\, Civil Disobedience\, and Feminism in the Fight Against Fossil Fuel Expansion
DESCRIPTION:Fracking is a shock and awe operation that turns drinking water into a poisonous club that is used to smash apart our nation’s bedrock in order to extract inherently leaky fossil fuels: oil and gas. \n  \nFracking’s infrastructure extends to the shale deposits of Pennsylvania\, Texas\, Oklahoma\, and North Dakota\, where the wells are drilled\, to the hills of Wisconsin and Minnesota\, where frack sand is mined\, to the spiderweb of pipeline\, compressor stations\, storage depots\, power plants\, and LNG terminals that have industrialized our farmlands\, harbors\, wild lands\, and urban neighborhoods far from the well pads—including those in densely populated New England. \n  \nAll along the way\, air is polluted\, water contaminated\, toxic waste generated\, and public health imperiled—with the health and safety of women and children at particular risk. And greenhouse gases are added to the atmosphere\, deepening the climate crisis. \n  \nThis talk examines the science behind the social movement to secure an unfractured future for our children and the role that civil disobedience and feminist activism are playing in opening a space in the culture for that science to speak. \nThe award-winning documentary film Unfractured tells the story of the successful fight for a ban on fracking in New York State. Steingraber’s public lecture\, which will immediately be followed by a screening of the film\, will explore the science behind the scenes\, women’s leadership within the movement\, and ongoing tactics and strategies—with special focus on current issues here in Massachusetts. \n  \nBiologist Sandra Steingraber is co-founder of Concerned Health Professionals of New York\, co-author of the Compendium of Scientific\, Medical\, and Media Findings on the Risks and Harms of Fracking\, and science advisor to Americans Against Fracking. \n\n  \n  \n  \nCo-sponsored \n \n \nIf you are interested in learning more\, contact: Anny Martinez\, anny@ips-dc.org
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/sandra-steingraber-unfactured/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180515T190000
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SUMMARY:In This Together–Advancing Clean Energy & Fight Fracking
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by Clean Water Action\, Mothers Out Front\, the Mass Power Forward coalition\, Resist the Pipeline\, Jamaica Plain Forum\, Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station\, Boston Clean Energy Coalition \n \n  \n\nYou are invited to an evening with community leaders from the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania\, at the other end of the fracked gas pipelines that connect to Massachusetts. Families\, landowners\, and whole communities there have been deeply impacted by intensive development of fracking wells and facilities\, and their struggle connects directly with our use of fossil fuels in the Northeast. Pennsylvania activists sharing their powerful stories will include Lois Bjornson\, Cathy Lodge\, Brian and Ryan Latkanich\, and Jane Worthington.\n\nThis event is free\, open to the public and is wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/were-in-this-together-advancing-clean-energy-fighting-fracking/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180404T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180404T210000
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SUMMARY:The Invisible Threat: Gas Leak Impacts
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn about the impacts of gas leaks on our public health and environment. \nNatural gas use has spiked in New England. It’s everywhere — in leaky old pipes under our streets\, basements and kitchens. \nBut can we trust those who tell us it’s a clean\, harmless fuel?\nNot necessarily. Let’s learn why. \nPanelists will discuss the harmful impacts that gas has\non the health of both citizens and the environment: \n• Dr. Nathan Phillips\, Professor of Earth and Environment\, Boston University\n• Dr. Brita Lundberg\, Mass. Medical Society\, Environmental & Occupational Health Committee\n• Karen Mauney-Brodek\, President\, Emerald Necklace Conservancy\n• Edith Buhs (Moderator)\, Jamaica Plain Mothers Out Front \nCo-sponsors:
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/the-invisible-threat-gas-leak-impacts/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180328T190000
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DTSTAMP:20180326T210437Z
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SUMMARY:Resist Spectra: West Roxbury Pipeline Defendants Share Testimonies
DESCRIPTION:Come hear from the defendants about their actions and join the conversation about their strategic use of the climate necessity defense and opportunities to apply lessons learned in the West Roxbury Lateral pipeline resistance. \nCo-sponored with Climate Disobedience  \nThe Climate Disobedience Center exists to support a growing community of climate dissidents who take the risk of acting commensurate with the scale and urgency of the crisis. \nIn these perilous times\, we continue to see acts of bravery and determination standing up to the chaos status quo. At the end of this month we invite you to stand with 12 amazing individuals who heeded the call to bold and determined climate action and blockaded construction on the West Roxbury Lateral high-pressure fracked gas pipeline. They will go to trial on \nTuesday\, March 27\, 2018\nWest Roxbury District Court – Jamaica Plain\, Boston \nThose thirteen\, including Climate Disobedience Center co-founder Tim DeChristopher and Director of the Center for Earth Ethics of at Union Theological Seminary Karenna Gore\, were among nearly 200 others who were arrested as part of a massive campaign that stopped construction for nearly two months and attracted the support of neighbors\, members of Congress\, state legislators\, and city counselors. \nThis will be the first climate necessity case in the United States in two years\, and climate champions and experts\, including Bill McKibben and Dr. James Hansen\, are planning to testify to make the case that we are in an emergency\, and emergency measures – even if they break existing law – are justified in order to prevent a greater harm. \nTrials can be unpredictable\, and these twelve deferents run the risk of their case being dismissed on the first day. This would rob them of the opportunity to advocate on a public platform against the dangers of climate change and this dangerous pipeline. These brave defendants deserve to have their stance recorded and share their thoroughly prepared testimonies. Along with many expert witnesses. \nThe West Roxbury 12 are Tim DeChristopher\, Callista Womick\, Dave Publow\, Karenna Gore\, Nora Collins\, Diane Martin\, Nathan Phillips\, Brown Pulliam\, Mike Bucci\, Warren Senders\, Patricia Martin\, Sophia Wilansky and Cathy Hoffman. You can learn more about all the defendants on our website\, and share about the trial on Facebook. \n \nHere are a list of ways to show your support HERE\, as well as come to the JP Forum on March 28th to listen to their testimonies! \nFor more information please\, contact Marla Marcum at marla@climatdisobedience.org \nThis program is free & open to all!
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/testimony-from-12-defendants-of-the-w-roxbury-lateral-pipeline/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180315T190000
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SUMMARY:Annelise Orleck: We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with Corporate Accountability\, Massachusetts Voter Table\, Massachusetts Jobs with Justice \nThe result of over 140 interviews\, “We Are All Fast Food Workers Now\,” traces the evolution of a new global labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from Manila to Manhattan\, from Baja California to Bangladesh\, from Capetown to Cambodia. This is an up close and personal look at globalization and its costs\, as seen through the eyes and told whenever possible through the words of low-wage workers themselves: the berry pickers and small farmers\, fast food servers\, retail cashiers\, garment workers\, hotel housekeepers\, home health care aides\, airport workers and adjunct professors who are fighting for respect\, safety and a living wage. This is a powerful look at neo-liberalism and its damages\, a story of resistance and rebellion\, a reflection on hope and change as it rises from the bottom up. \nAnnelise Orleck\, author and professor of History at Dartmouth College and the author of five books on the history of US women\, politics\, immigration\, and activism\, including Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty. She lives in Thetford Center\, Vermont.  \nFeaturing original photographs by Liz Cooke\, was born and raised in Brooklyn NY. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to photograph Holocaust survivors and Soviet emigres in her childhood neighborhood of Brighton Beach\, Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in numerous publications. Most recently her photographs of Newburgh NY were featured in the Guardian (UK). She is working on a book now on the global living wage movement\, which took her to Cambodia\, the Philippines and around the US\, where she photographed garment workers\, farm workers. \n*Liz Cooke’s compelling photos will be displayed at the event. \nLet us know your coming on Facebook. \nThis program is free and open to all. \n“Resistance is contagious; rebellion feels good.” \n–Annelise Orleck \n  \n 
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/annelise-orleck-we-are-all-fast-food-workers-now/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Don’t You Hear This Hammer Ring? Poetry & Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:A Reading and Talk with Poet-Organizers Sarah Browning and Simone John  \nPoetry has always played a crucial role in movements for social justice\, animating our language\, finding words for our outrage\, and restoring our souls for the struggle. At a time when our risk of burnout is enormous\, when we are told every day that the truth is the untruth\, we need the transformative power of poetry in our movements for social justice. \nCome hear two poet-activists discuss this tradition and poetry’s living work\, and read from their recent collections. Sarah Browning is co-founder and Executive Director of Split This Rock\, the preeminent national organization of socially engaged poets\, now celebrating its 10th anniversary. Simone John is the author of Testify\, which employs documentary poetics to uplift stories of black people whose lives have been shattered by state-sanctioned violence. \n  \nSarah Browning is co-founder and Executive Director of Split This Rock: Poetry of Provocation & Witness and an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies. Author of two collections of poems\, Killing Summer and Whiskey in the Garden of Eden\, and co-editor of D.C. Poets Against the War: An Anthology\, she is the recipient of artist fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and the Adirondack Center for Writing. She has been guest editor or co-edited special issues of Beltway Poetry Quarterly\, The Delaware Poetry Review\, and POETRY magazine. She previously worked supporting socially engaged women artists with WomenArts and developing creative writing workshops with low-income women and youth with Amherst Writers & Artists. She has been a community organizer in Boston public housing and a grassroots political organizer on a host of social and political issues. \nSimone John is a poet\, educator\, and facilitator based in Boston\, MA. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College with an emphasis on documentary poetics. Her poetry has appeared or been reviewed in Wildness\, The Boston Globe\, Public Pool\, PBS Newshour\, Bustle\, and more. She is a contributing editor at Gramma Poetry and chief creative officer at Hive Soul Yoga. Simone has facilitated workshops and retreats at colleges and organizations across New England. Areas of expertise include: professional development for teaching artists and youth workers; mindfulness and life design for millennials and creatives of color; and incorporating racial equity into organizational change processes. Testify is her first full-length book of poems. Find her online at simonejohn.com and on twitter @simoneivory. \nLet us know your coming on Facebook. \nThis program is free and open to all.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/dont-you-hear-this-hammer-ring-poetry-social-justice/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Facing the Flint Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Join Corporate Accountability and Jamaica Plain Forum for a documentary screening and community discussion with two water justice organizers from Flint\, Michigan. \nNayyirah Shariff and Gina Luster are Flint-based organizers with Flint Rising\, a coalition born from the city’s water crisis that is leading the ongoing struggle for justice for Flint residents. \nNayyirah Shariff is a grassroots organizer based in Flint\, Michigan. Nayyirah was one of the co-founders of the Flint Democracy Defense League\, a grassroots group formed to confront Flint’s emergency manager in 2011. She has nearly ten years’ experience organizing around local\, state\, and national electoral and issue campaigns. She has been featured on Democracy Now!\, Move to Amend podcast\, Al-Jazeera and Netroots\nNation speaking out about the problems with Flint’s water and with Michigan’s Emergency Management of local governments. She is currently the Director of Flint Rising\, a coalition of Flint residents and community groups\, labor\, and progressive allies that formed in response to Flint’s emergency declaration. \n  \nGina Luster is a grassroots organizer based in Flint\, Michigan. She is also a mother of one daughter\, a\npublic speaker\, and an entrepreneur. She is one of the many mothers in Flint who organized to protect the health of children in their community and to secure justice for city residents. \nThe event will begin with a screening of a short documentary called Here’s to Flint\, which tells the story of how one of the biggest environmental scandals of our generation took place. Then\, Nayyirah and Gina will tell their own stories and the stories of other organizers who worked and continue to work tirelessly against great odds to secure justice for their community. You’ll hear how they’re exposing the racist emergency management law in Michigan and challenging the reckless government officials and corporate interests whose policies and practices blatantly disregarded the lives and health of poor and Black residents in the city. \n\n\n \n \n    \n \n \nClean Water Action\n350 Mass/Better Future Project\nAlternative for Community and Environment (ACE)\nUnited for a Fair Economoy\nBlack Lives Matter Boston\nSEIU 1199\n\nCommunity Change\, Inc.\nUnited for a Fair Economy\n#DeeperThanWater Coalition\n\n\n\nLet us know you’re coming on Facebook or Eventbrite! \nThis program is free\, handicap accessible and open to all. \n*The screening will be preceded by a supporters reception at a nearby home. For more information or to RSVP for the reception please contact Marilyn Willmoth at RSVP@corporateaccountability.org
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/facing-the-flint-crisis/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lessons from the Truth School with Rev. Andrea Ayvazian
DESCRIPTION:Co-hosted with RISE \nOrganizing a Pop-Up Activist School\, Rev. Andrea Ayvazian shares lessons from the Truth School in Western Mass. \nShortly after Trump was elected\, activists in Western Massachusetts organized a new activist school to teach skills needed to resist the Trump incursion. The Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership teaches movement building skills\, offering classes and training opportunities up and down the Pioneer Valley. \n  \nCome hear the Rev. Andrea Ayvazian\, co-founder of the Truth School\, share lessons for our community. Organizers connected to Roslindale is For Everyone (RISE) and others are exploring starting an activist school in several Boston neighborhoods. \n  \nThe Truth School courses meet in donated spaces and all funds raise go to pay trainers so classes can be free and open to anyone.  The first two terms of course offerings have included activist skills such as public speaking\, writing for mass media\, song-leading\, and nonviolent direct action. Courses also focus on mobilizing millennials\, organizing beyond political silos\, working across class divisions\, self-care\, and inspiration. \n  \nTeachers and trainers include government officials and community organizers. Former Massachusetts State Representative Ellen Story\, for example\, is teaching a class called “Preparing to Run for Office.” And Jo Comerford\, the national campaign director for MoveOn.org\, is teaching “Organizing 101: The Art of Structuring the Most Effective and Winning Campaign Goals\, Strategies\, and Tactics.” Other course offerings include: “And Still We Rise: Leadership Forum for Women of Color\,” “Leading Songs of Protest and Resistance\,” and “Spiritual Resilience and Resistance.” \n  \nSee this article in YES! Magazine: “How to Go the Resistance Distance: Pop-Up Schools for Novice Activists” \nhttp://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/how-to-go-the-resistance-distance2014pop-up-schools-for-new-activists20170612 \n 
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/lessons-from-the-truth-school-with-rev-andrea-ayvazian/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dismantling White Supremacy Film Series
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by:\nFirst Church in JP Unitarian Universalist\, Social Justice Action Committee\nRacial Justice Task Force of Theodore Parker Church\nJamaica Plain Forum \nAs persons of faith living in 21st century America\, we feel called to question how we might work\, take action\, do our part\, to dismantle white supremacy. We seek to deepen our understanding of the role white supremacy has played in the development of our modern day society\, take some inventory\, and identify opportunities for collective action. We are inspired by the words of Rev. Mary Margaret Earl\, Executive Director and Senior Minister of UU Urban Ministries in Roxbury:\n“We must continue the work that many of us have been engaged with\, to dig deeper into the ways that racism has infiltrated our subconscious\, our hearts\, and our educational\, prison and government systems since our country was founded. The hate on display in Charlottesville\, as grotesque as it was\, is not disconnected from the rest of us. It is the most egregious\, visible outgrowth of the racism we have all breathed in\, like polluted air\, our whole lives.”\nWe are all caught in that web. For those of us who identify as white\, we work to become unstuck through listening and learning. Listening nondefensively to people of color who are willing to share their experiences and viewpoint. Learning about the history of racism in our nation. \nFriday\, January 26th\n\nWhite Like Me\, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise\, explores race and racism in the U.S. through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy and claims that we’ve entered a post-racial society\, Wise offers a fascinating look back at the race-based white entitlement programs that built the American middle class\, and argues that our failure as a society to come to terms with this legacy of white privilege continues to perpetuate racial inequality and race-driven political resentments today. \nFeatures Tim Wise\, Michelle Alexander\, Charles Ogletree\, Imani Perry\, Martin Gilens\, John H. Bracey\, Jr.\, and Nilanjana Dasgupta. \nFriday\, February 23rd\n\nI Am Not Your Negro envisions the book James Baldwin never finished\, a radical narration about race in America\, using the writer’s original words\, as read by actor Samuel L. Jackson. Alongside a flood of rich archival material\, the film draws upon Baldwin’s notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers\, Malcolm X\, and Martin Luther King Jr. to explore and bring a fresh and radical perspective to the current racial narrative in America. \nWednesday\, March 21st (RESCHEDULED MAY 18th)\n\nThe Canary Effect is a documentary that examines the impact of US policies on the Indigenous peoples of North America. Delving deeply into the often misunderstood and frequently over looked historic realities of the American Indian\, The Canary Effect follows the terrifying and horrific abuses instilled upon the Indigenous people of North America\, and details the genocidal practices of the US government and its continuing effects on present day Indian country. Featuring interviews with the leading scholars and experts on Indian issues including controversial author Ward Churchill\, the film brings together the past and present in a way never before captured so eloquently and boldly on film. The movie was directed by Robin Davey and Yellow Thunder Woman\, who are both members of LA Based alternative pop group The Bastard Fairies. \nFriday\, April 27th\n\n13th is a 2016 American documentary by director Ava DuVernay. The film explores the “intersection of race\, justice and mass incarceration in the United States; it is titled after the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution\, which freed the slaves and prohibited slavery (unless as punishment for a crime). DuVernay contends that slavery has been perpetuated in practices since the end of the American Civil War through such actions as criminalizing behavior and enabling police to arrest poor freedmen and force them to work for the state under convict leasing; suppression of African Americans by disenfranchisement\, lynchings and Jim Crow; politicians declaring a war on drugs that weigh more heavily on minority communities and\, by the late 20th century\, mass incarceration of people of color in the United States \nFor more information: Jom45@aol.com or infor@jamaicaplain.org \nLet us know your coming on Facebook. \nThis program is free and open to all. \n 
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/dismantling-white-supremacy-film-series/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:The State of Our Union Is Wrong
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTION\n\n\n\nIn the weeks leading up to the State of the Union\, join Better Future Project and the Jamaica Plain Forum for a conversation with Bill McKibben\, author and co-founder of 350.org\, about the climate movement and what we can do in the face of backward climate and energy policy at the federal level. Boston College Professor of Sociology and author Juliet Schor will moderate. General admission tickets are $10 each\, and doors will open at 7pm. Proceeds benefit the work of Better Future Project and 350 Mass! \nWe will also be welcoming Bill for a smaller reception prior to the event at a private residence a few blocks from First Church. If you would like to join us for delicious food and the opportunity to talk and mingle with Bill\, please visit www.betterfutureproject.org/evening_with_mckibben for more information and to RSVP\, or contact Beth Newhall at beth@betterfutureproject.org. Space is limited. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPurchase tickets via Eventbrite.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/the-state-of-our-union-is-wrong/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180111T190000
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SUMMARY:Judith Schwartz: Solutions in Plain Sight - Climate & Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Judith D. Schwartz\, journalist and author of Cows Save The Planet has published a new book called Water In Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World. Judith’s writing brings such insights to environmental challenges and climate change that challenge us to look at problems as solutions. Tony Eprille\, a writer and photographer\, uses Creative Seeing\, to find environmental solutions that we might otherwise miss by assuming the future is craved in stone. Together they will share how to see the promise of restoring soil and enhancing our ecosystem’s health. \nFor her most recent project\, Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World\, Schwartz delves into the little-known role the water cycle plays in planetary health\, which she illustrates with vivid\, empowering stories from around the world. While we might not be able to change the rate of precipitation\, as land managers we can directly affect the speed that water flows off our land and the amount of water that the soil is able to absorb. Trees and other vegetation are more than passive bystanders at the mercy of temperature extremes — they can also be powerful influences in regulating the climate.   \nTony Eprile is a photographer\, amateur naturalist\, and writer who lives in Bennington\, Vermont. His novel The Persistence of Memory was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the Koret Jewish Book prize. He completed a memoir about his family’s move from South Africa to England and is working on a novel. He has taught at Northwestern University\, Williams College\, Bennington College\, Lesley University\, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. \n \n 
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/judith-schwartz-solutions-in-plain-sight-climate-beyond/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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