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  • Don’t You Hear This Hammer Ring? Poetry & Social Justice

    First Church JP 6 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, United States

    A Reading and Talk with Poet-Organizers Sarah Browning and Simone John  Poetry 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 … Continued

  • Annelise Orleck: We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now

    First Church JP 6 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, United States

    Co-sponsored with Corporate Accountability, Massachusetts Voter Table, Massachusetts Jobs with Justice The 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 … Continued

  • Resist Spectra: West Roxbury Pipeline Defendants Share Testimonies

    First Church JP 6 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, United States

    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. Co-sponored with Climate Disobedience  The Climate … Continued

  • The Invisible Threat: Gas Leak Impacts

    First Church JP 6 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, United States

    Join us to learn about the impacts of gas leaks on our public health and environment. Natural gas use has spiked in New England. It’s everywhere -- in leaky old pipes under our streets, basements and kitchens. But can we … Continued

  • In This Together–Advancing Clean Energy & Fight Fracking

    First Church JP 6 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, United States

    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   You are invited to an evening with community leaders from … Continued