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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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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180328T210000
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180207T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180131T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180131T210000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180126T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180518T213000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180117T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180117T210000
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180111T210000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171213T210000
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SUMMARY:Slow Money and Nurture Capital: A New Vision of Food\, Money and Soil
DESCRIPTION: Since 2009\, Slow Money founder Woody Tasch has been at the forefront of a new economic story—a story about bringing our money back down to earth. Published in 2017\, Woody’s new book SOIL: Notes Towards the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital is poetic\, photographic\, philosophical and radical. It is about billions and trillions of dollars in the global economy\, and billions and trillions of microbes in healthy\, fertile soil. Nurture capital is a vision of finance that starts where investing and philanthropy leave off\, giving us a new way to reconnect to one another and places where we live\, all the way down to local food systems. Come hear directly from Woody about his new book and Slow Money’s progress\, including the $60 million invested in more than 625 small organic farms and local food businesses\, via dozens of local groups in the United States\, Canada\, France and Australia. \n\n\n\n“Imagination that enables us to reckon our whereabouts in a world that is heating up and speeding up. Imagination that enables us to find our way past shallow punditry\, tribal vitriol\, global this and cyber that\, past the hyper and the ultra and the mega. Imagination that leads us back to one another\, to the places where we live\, and to the land—not just the land of “this land is your land\, this land is my land\,” but also the soil itself\, upon which all life depends.”\n\n\nRSVP on Facebook and share with your friends!\n\n\nFree & open to all.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/woody-tasch-soil-2017/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171208T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171208T230000
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SUMMARY:Winona LaDuke: Celebrating a Decade of Community Conversations
DESCRIPTION:The Jamaica Plain Forum is 10 years old!\nWe would like to invite you\, on behalf of the Jamaica Plain Forum\, to Celebrating a Decade of Community Conversations on Friday\, December 8th\, featuring\nWinona LaDuke of Honor Our Earth as keynote speaker.\n \n  \nWinona LaDuke is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development renewable energy and food systems. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota\, and is a two time vice presidential candidate for the Green Party. \nThis timely event celebrates the ten years of the Jamaica Plain forum providing a space for our community to speak up and have the conversations on the great issues shaping our neighborhood and our planet. It has showcased a long list of incredible individuals whom dare to pose the important questions of our time. It has also been a space to simply remind us of our connection to each other. Lastly\, it has brought our community closer in a profound and meaningful manner. \nAn essential driving force for this celebration is to show our immense appreciation to the First Church in Jamaica Plain UU for not only providing the space to gather all these years but also the support and solidarity we have been endowed. Our ambitious goal is to provide First Church with new furnishings. \nSpecial benefactor reception will be held at 6:30 pm and a public reception after the Forum. \nJoin us to celebrate our past and look to the future! \nInvite Your Friends on Facebook. \nAdvance Tickets Required. \n 
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/winona-laduke-celebrating-a-decade-of-community-conversations/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Todd Miller: “Climate Change\, Migration and Homeland Security”
DESCRIPTION:First Church JP | in the Parish Hall\n \nJoin us to hear a bold and unified way\, through the lens of climate change\, to look at our immigration issues in America and internationally. \nVeteran Arizona border journalist Todd Miller has covered hot spots in the US and around the planet.  He has worked on immigration and border issues from both sides of the U.S. Mexico divide for organizations such as BorderLinks\, Witness for Peace\, and NACLA. His new book\, Storming the Wall\, investigates how the ecological crisis is creating millions climate refugees who are challenging the developed world’s borders and resources. Miller explores how a sense of threat in the United States is giving rise to high-tech surveillance fortresses and fueling calls for an ever-expanding border wall. \n“Despite increasingly militarized borders\, wealthy nations can’t keep out the real enemy: climate change. While Europe and the U.S. build more walls\, design more sophisticated surveillance systems\, and add more armed guards to protect national security\, their focus on keeping out migrants misses the fact that what needs resolving is the high level of green-house gases that are making many parts of the world impossible to live in. Miller’s eye-opening humanitarian report takes us through the “dry corridor” of Central America\, the post-typhoon Philippines\, and the American Southwest\, documenting the plight of today’s growing numbers of climate refugees. Calling the environment “the new human rights battleground\,” Miller shows that we urgently need a legal framework for people displaced by droughts and floods\, not more rigorous policing. Best of all would be diverting resources from borders to develop alternatives to the unsustainable consumer society that fueled climate change in the first place.” —Laurie G. \n“Nothing will test human institutions like climate change in this century–as this book makes crystal clear\, people on the move from rising waters\, spreading deserts\, and endless storms could profoundly destabilize our civilizations unless we seize the chance to re-imagine our relationships to each other. This is no drill\, but it is a test\, and it will be graded pass-fail”–Bill McKibben\, author Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet \n  \n\nThis program is free and will serve light refreshments to all.\n\n\nInvite your friends on FACEBOOK\n\n \n\n\nFor more information contact anny@ips-dc.org.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/todd-miller-storming-the-wall-climate-change-migration-and-homeland-security/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Class Consciousness: Talking to Kids\, Schools and Parents
DESCRIPTION:First Church JP | in the Parish Hall\n  \n\nOne of the most toxic and unspoken ways in which children and teens are shamed or bullied or simply made anxious has to do with social class. Talking about privilege or economic struggle could—and perhaps should–start at home\, but parents often don’t have the tools with which to explain our country’s vast inequalities and the ways they may impact school culture. Education is supposed to be the great equalizer but teachers don’t always have a framework for open discussions either. Meanwhile\, some public school districts “lunch shame” students whose parents can’t manage to pay the fee.” with “Basic things such as lunch\, book fairs\, extracurricular activities and field trips already begin tow widen the class divide as early as kindergarten.\n\n\n \n\n\nHow do we as either teachers or parents walk the line between\n\n\ntruth-telling and enlightening our kids and shielding them from the difficulties of the world? How do we bridge class divides in the classroom? And what role does race play in the conversation? What are the benefits of understanding class early in life? And what help can kids\, parents\, advocates and experts who cover the issue provide?\n\n \nAlissa Quart is the executive editor of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and co-founded its present incarnation. She is also the author of several acclaimed books including\, Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers\, Hothouse Kids\, and the forthcoming Squeezed: The High Price of the American Family. She currently writes the Outclassed column for The Guardian and has written for many other publications\, including The New York Times. Her multimedia projects include the Emmy-nominated The Last Clinic. She has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism\, among other universities\, and was a 2010 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. [Photo by Charlie Gross]\n  \nAnne Phillips is the Executive Director of Class Action\, an organization inspiring to end classism. Anne was born and raised in a working-class family in Minnesota with the benefit of great public schools. She was a first-generation college student who earned a B.S. in Communication Studies at the University of Texas. She went on to become a community organizer and then fundraiser on behalf of many different causes including transportation\, the environment\, reproductive rights\, worker rights and healthcare. She is currently the Executive Director of Class Action and a board member for Democracy Brewing\, a new worker-owned cooperative brewery in Boston. Her passions (in no particular order) include bicycling\, swimming\, building community\, racial justice\, and her cat. \n  \nSophia Boyer taught middle and high school for fifteen years before venturing into instructional coaching. As an instructional coach Sophia works in a variety of schools whose administrators have requested coaching services or professional development supports for teachers. Sophia is experienced in humanities instruction\, ESL teaching\, program administration\, teacher training\, curriculum development\, professional development and program planning and evaluation.  Sophia was born in Haiti\, educated in the U.S. and currently resides in Cambridge. She earned her undergraduate degree in Sociology/History from Regis College\, postgraduate degrees in Human Development and Urban Education from Wheelock College\, and is currently pursuing her EdD in Higher Education Administration from Regis College. \n  \nWe will also be joined by a young person from Boston Mobilization’s Sub/Urban Justice Program. A group that  brings together young people who are living in or connected to the suburbs with young people from cities to build a stronger network for change. \n  \n  \n\nModerator:\n\nPhillip W.d. MartinSince joining WGBH in the spring of 2010\, Phillip Martin has reported on immigration\, national security\, gangs\, human trafficking in southern New England and Asia\, the Boston Marathon bombing\, Whitey Bulger\, carbon offset schemes\, police shootings\, training and race\, the Occupy movement and the fishing industry in New England\, among other topics. \nOn WGBH-TV\, he is a regular panelist for Basic Black\, a weekly public affairs program focused on issues of particular concern to people of color.  He is a Senior Fellow with the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and a 2012 International Center for Journalists Ford Foundation Fellow. \nHe has received numerous journalism honors\, including several awards in 2017\, among them a national Clarion Award\, a NABJ Award\, a regional Edward R. Murrow and a New York Festival’s International Radio Program Awards. \n\nThis program is free and will serve light refreshments to all. \nShare and Invite your Friends on Facebook. \nFor more information\, please contact anny@ips-dc.org
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/class-consciousness-talking-to-kids-schools-and-parents/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events 2017
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SUMMARY:Insights on the Affordable Care Act
DESCRIPTION:Come hear John McDonough and Rep. Liz Malia at the JP Forum\nOctober 17th 6:30 pm \nFirst Church JP | in the Parish Hall \nCo-hosted with Addams Richards Tubman Institute \n  \n\n\n\nWe welcome back former Jamaica Plain State Representative John McDonough\, the champion of the Massachusetts health care system\, which served as a national model for the Affordable Care Act. John and current State Representative Liz Malia will reflect on two decades of working to expand quality health care coverage. They will be joined by Boston City Councilor Matt O’Malley and other special guests.\n\n\n \n\n\nThe cuts being proposed by our administration would have especially devastating consequences for nearly 40 million women who rely on the Affordable Care Act. Women will suffer a harsh\, dissproportionate impact from the proposed healthcare cuts. Women make up the majority of Medicaid beneficiers\, are primary utilizers of family planning and maternity care benefits and are much more likely to use the healthcare support long-term as they age. Even private health insurance would see cuts because it would allow states to opt out of the ACA’s Essential Health Benefits (EHB standard)\, leaving many women with out affordable access – or any access to maternity coverage. \n\n\n \n\n\nHow can we help secure the crucial healthcare so many Americans have come to depend on? Is the Medicare-for-All Bill Sen. Sanders (with 15 Co-Sponsors) proposing possible?\n\n\n\n\n\nEvery great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember\, you have within you the strength\, the patience\, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. -Harriet Tubman \n\n  \nFor more information\, please contact fredericklawolmsted@yahoo.com or info@jamaicaplainforum.org \n\n \n\n\nThis program is free and open to all.\n\n We request you RSVP through Eventbrite.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/john-mcdonough-rep-liz-malia-health-humanity-environment/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events 2017
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SUMMARY:RESIST: Charlie Derber & DACA Activist Katherine Asuncion
DESCRIPTION:Come hear Charlie Derber and other contributors discuss the new book Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times.\nSept\, 28th 7pm-9pm \nFirst Church JP | in the Parish Hall \n  \n\n\nCharlie Derber author of the new book\, “Welcome to the Revolution” with Katherine Asuncion\, Dreamer and DACA Activist will talk about their vision and strategy to resist Trumpism and extractive capitalism. The authors argue that a new universalizing wave\, a progressive and revolutionary “movement of movements\,” can counter the world-universalizing economic and cultural forces of intensifying corporate and far-right power. \n\n\n \n\n\nVivid and highly accessible\, this book is for activists\, students\, and all citizens concerned about the erosion of justice and democracy. It thoroughly illuminates the rationale\, theory\, practice\, humanism\, love\, and joy of the social transformation that we urgently need.\n\n\n \n\n\n\nIn a guide to the new era of organizing that has emerged in response to Trump’s presidency\, Charles Derber argues that movements must come together to counter corporate and far-right power. Featuring “interludes” from Medea Benjamin\, Noam Chomsky\, Ralph Nader\, and Truthout’s own Maya Schenwar and Alana Yu-lan Price\, this book is for everyone concerned about the lack of justice and democracy in the United States.\n\n\n  \nInsightful Panel of Speakers: \n  \nCharlie Derber\, Professor of Sociology at Boston College and has written 20 books – on politics\, corporations\, capitalism\, climate change\, war\, the culture wars\, culture and conversation\, and social change. He writes for and has been reviewed in the NY Times\, the Washington Post\, the Boston Globe\, Truthout\, and other leading media. His books are translated into Chinese\, Korean\, Tamil\, German and Polish- and he is a bestseller in South Korea\, done extended book tours in German bookstores and blues coffee houses\, and has lectured in Italy for seven years. Derber is a public intellectual – shortlisted in 2006 for best book in current affairs – who believes that serious ideas should be written in an accessible and entertaining style. In addition to Welcome to the Revolution\, his most recent books include Sociopathic Society: A People’s Sociology of the United States; Capitalism: Should You Buy It?; and The Disinherited Majority: Capital Questions – Piketty and Beyond. \nKatherine Asuncion\, Dreamer and leader of the Student Immigrant Movement  \nMike Prokosch\, an organizer\, carpenter\, calligrapher\, and popular economics educator who co-founded Dorchester People for Peace and the short-lived New Priorities Network to move money from the Pentagon to our communities. \nModerator: Suren Moodliar\, coordinates encuentro5 [http://encuentro5.org] in downtown Boston. He is also the vice-president of the Liberty Tree Foundation [http://libertytreefoundation.org] and incoming editor of Socialism and Democracy [http://sdonline.org]. With co-author\, Joseph Nevins he is writing\, A People’s Guide to Greater Boston; he is also a contributor to Charlie Derber’s Welcome to the Revolution [http://UniversalizingRes \n\n\n \n\nLight refreshments will be served and let us know your coming here.\n\n \n  \n“Let us imagine the prospect… of a population united for fundamental change… It would be a new kind of revolution\,  \nthe only kind that could happen…” –Howard Zinn \n  \n  \nThis program is free and open to all. \nFor more information\, please contact Anny at anny@ips-dc.org or info@jamaicaplainforum.org \n  \n 
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/resist-charlie-derber-daca-activist-katherine-asuncion/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:On your Own But Not Alone
DESCRIPTION:Co-hosted by JP@ HOME \n \nOlder adulthood presents unique challenges. Nancy Goldner (Ph.D\, LICSW) sh her clinical and personal experience identifying the resources and signature strengths that sustain physical and emotional wellbeing for those of us who live alone. \nAs we enter later life\, meeting these challenges requires single people to tap our remarkable human capacity to adapt to a life circumstance that may not have turned out as we expected. At the Forum\, JP resident Nancy Goldner (Ph.D\, LICSW) will draw on insights and practical suggestions gained both from her clinical experience and from being a single person for many years. She will identify the signature strengths and resources that sustain physical health and emotional wellbeing for those of us who live on our own. We will hear a brief presentation from Nancy and there will be plenty of time for discussion. \nDr. Goldner is an active member of JP@Home\, an organization that works to keep JP women and men in their homes as long as possible through social networks\, information and services. In her presentation\, she will note the role that a “village” like JP@Home plays in promoting emotional and physical health.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/on-your-own-but-not-alone/
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SUMMARY:Boston’s Future Buildings: How Do We Get To Net Zero?
DESCRIPTION:Second part of our mini-series TRANSITION TO GREEN LIVING covers sustainable ways to retrofit the energy and space of our buildings.\nShare on Facebook \n  \n  \n\nBostonians have a tremendous opportunity to show how our state and our nation can accelerate this transition by maximizing energy efficiency and local\, renewable sources of energy. \n  \nCo-hosted by Boston Clean Energy Coalition. \n  \nThe dynamic panel of speakers include: \nMatt O’Malley—Boston City Council Chair\, Environment & Sustainability Committee (Moderator) \nCammy Peterson—Director of Clean Energy\, Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) \nJoan Fitzgerald—Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs\, Northeastern University \nJohn Cleveland—Executive Director\, Boston Green Ribbon Commission \nStephanie Horowitz—Managing Director\, ZeroEnergy Design\n \nHenrietta Davis—former Mayor of Cambridge \n\nThe most effective work to create a clean energy future needs to happen in our cities and towns. We can be more nimble\, targeted\, and successful than the federal government and move our country forward by taking steps locally to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Boston has a tremendous opportunity to show how our state and our nation can accelerate this transition by maximizing energy efficiency and local\, renewable sources of energy. The initial Imagine Boston 2030 report describes a major construction boom but does not call for the state-of-the-art efficiency requirements essential to keeping this development from locking us into new fracked- gas infrastructure to power new buildings and decades of dependence on fossil fuels. \nWe urgently need net-zero carbon requirements for all new buildings in Boston. This forum asks the question: How do we make net-zero carbon construction happen in Boston? There are certainly technical\, financial\, legal\, and political challenges\, but how do we get to YES?\nBoston Clean Energy Coalition (BCEC)\nBCEC is currently comprised of leaders from the groups below. We hope to accelerate the transition to a clean\, green economy by fostering collaboration among sectors that include city development\, community development\, architecture\, finance\, academia\, labor\, environmentalists\, and faith-based organizations. We seek strong\, democratic political leadership and a process that develops sound public policy—both of which must have a constant and concerned eye on our future.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/bostons-future-buildings-how-do-we-get-to-net-zero/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Retrofitting Our Residences: Beyond Fossil Fuels
DESCRIPTION:First part of our mini-series TRANSITION TO GREEN LIVING covers sustainable ways to retrofit the energy and space of our homes.\n \n  \nCo-hosted by our very own social innovators\, Mother’s Out Front. \n  \nBoston’s Climate Action Plan includes the ambitious goal of cutting our collective carbon footprint 80% by 2050. How will this be possible? Since most of the buildings that will be in use in 2050 are already built\, we will not be able to meet this goal without dramatically rethinking how we heat and power our existing homes and other buildings. \n  \nHow is an 80% reduction in emissions by 2050 possible? \nWhat technological breakthroughs would we need (and expect) to see to achieve reductions of this scale? \nWhat can homeowners do today\, within the next few years\, and as a longer term plan to sharply reduce their use of fossil fuels? \nWhat is the role for tenants? \nWhat are some of the most exciting opportunities on the horizon that will help speed a more rapid transition to a fossil fuel-free future? \nWhat city and state legislation and policy initiatives must we actively support? \n  \n*Remember to bring your own set of questions. \n  \nA panel of experts on how to save energy and reduce the carbon footprint of your home —while helping achieve the Boston Climate Action Plan. \n  \nPaul Eldrenkamp: founder of Byggmeister\, a Boston-area home remodeling company. \nEdith Buhs: Mothers Out Front\, consultant with AchieveMission. \nJohn Dalzell: Senior Architect at the Boston Planning and Development Agency \nEugenia Gibbons: Director of Clean Energy Programs at MA Energy Consumers Alliance. \n  \nHospitality of drinks and snacks will be provided. \n  \nPlease\, note no RSVP necessary.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/retrofitting-our-residences-beyond-fossil-fuels/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Disrupting the System - The Valve-Turners Direct Action Panel
DESCRIPTION:On October 11\, five climate activists shook the North American energy industry by closing the emergency shut off valves on all five pipelines bringing Canadian tar sands oil into the US. It was an unprecedented act of non-violent direct action that shut down 15% of US crude oil imports for nearly a day. \n  \nNow\, the “Valve Turners” face felony charges with sentences of up to 90 years in prison and hundreds of thousand of dollars in fines and legal fees. Come hear three of the “Valve Turners” Ken Ward\, Annette Klapstein\, and Emily Johnston discuss why they felt morally compelled to take this action and risk their freedom. \nLearn more HERE \n  \nAlso joining us\, from Climate Disobediance is Marla Marcum and Jay O’Hara. We will hear from them on the crucial and intricate role that organizing and continuing to educating the public plays in the fight for environmental justice. \n  \n\nKen Ward: co-founder of U.S. PIRG\, Environment America and Fund for Public Interest Research.\nAnnette Klapstein: retired attorney and Valve Turner\nEmily Johnston: environmentalist and Valve Turner\nMarla Marcum: co-Founder of both Better Future Project and 350 Massachusetts\nJay O’Hara: founder Climate Summer & co-­founder Young Adult Friends Climate Working Group\n\n  \nOur collective commitment to nonviolent civil disobedience is the most powerful force on the planet. \n 
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/disrupting-the-system-the-valve-turners-direct-action-panel/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kate Raworth on Economics as if People and the Earth Mattered
DESCRIPTION:Come hear Kate Raworth discuss her new book Doughnut Economics at the JP Forum.\n\nMay 7th 7pm-9pm\nFirst Church JP | in the Sanctuary\n\n\n\nUK Economist Kate Raworth\, author of Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist \n\n\nWe cannot hope to address extreme inequality\, racial divisions\, and ecological destruction without a new worldview. We cannot use the economic models that caused our crises to solve them. \nIn Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist\, Kate Raworth of Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute reminds us that economic growth was not\, at first\, intended to signify wellbeing. The aim of economic activity\, she argues\, should be “meeting the needs of all within the means of the planet”. Instead of economies that need to grow\, whether or not they make us thrive\, we need economies that “make us thrive\, whether or not they grow”. This means changing our picture of what the economy is and how it works. \nKate Raworth is “the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st century: by reframing the economy\, she allows us to change our view of who we are\, where we stand\, and what we want to be.” –George Monbiot\, The Guardian
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/kate-raworth-think-like-21st-century-economist/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thomas Shapiro on Toxic Inequality
DESCRIPTION:Come hear Thomas Shapiro discuss his new book Toxic Inequality at the JP Forum! \nThursday\, April 20th | 7pm-9pm\n First Church JP \nRSVP on Facebook\n \nSince the Great Recession\, most Americans’ standard of living has stagnated or declined. Economic inequality is at historic highs. But inequality’s impact differs by race; African Americans’ net wealth is just a tenth that of white Americans\, and over recent decades\, white families have accumulated wealth at three times the rate of black families. In our increasingly diverse nation\, long-time LP resident and sociologist Thomas M. Shapiro argues\, wealth disparities must be understood in tandem with racial inequities-a dangerous combination he terms “toxic inequality.” \nToxic Inequality reveals how these forces combine to trap families in place. Following nearly two hundred families of different races and income levels over a period of twelve years\, Shapiro’s research vividly documents the recession’s toll on parents and children\, the ways families use assets to manage crises and create opportunities\, and the real reasons some families build wealth while others struggle in poverty. The structure of our neighborhoods\, workplaces\, and tax code-much more than individual choices-push some forward and hold others back. A lack of assets\, far more common in families of color\, can often ruin parents’ careful plans for themselves and their children. \nRacialized pandering in the current political climate mobilizes support for racist policies and detracts from fundamental causes. \nToxic inequality may seem inexorable\, but it is not inevitable. America’s growing wealth gap and its yawning racial divide have been forged by history and preserved by policy\, and only bold\, race-conscious reforms can move us toward a more just society.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/thomas-shapiro-on-toxic-inequality/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170216T190000
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SUMMARY:The Revolution Where You Live: Local Power in the Age of Trump
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Van Gelder \nYes! Magazine Co Founder and Editor\nThe Revolution Where You Live: Local Power in the Age of Trump \n \nThe election of Donald Trump is taking us into uncharted territory. Local action is where we can resist the dangers\, reconnect to each other and to the earth\, and re-conceive the world we want. \nYES! Magazine co-founder and editor at large Sarah van Gelder drove 12\,000 miles\, living in her tiny truck camper\, interviewing people on Native reservations\, in rust belt cities\, Appalachian hamlets\, and southern cities. Her book\, The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12\,000 Mile Journey Through a New America\, tells the stories of broken economies\, devastated ecosystems\, and communities divided by racism and conflicting worldviews. But the focus of her sharing is on the extraordinary work of ordinary people who are transforming their communities\, even in the places that seemed to have run out of hope. Find details here: https://revolutionwhereyoulive.org/the-book-the-revolution-where-you-live/ \nIn her talk\, van Gelder will tell stories and show photographs from her road trip and from her reporting trips to Standing Rock\, the unprecedented gathering of Native peoples fighting to prevent the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/the-revolution-where-you-live-local-power-in-the-age-of-trump/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161021T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Party: “Born on Third Base” by Chuck Collins
DESCRIPTION:Featuring special guests!\nCome join a book launch party and reading to celebrate the publication of JP resident Chuck Collins’ new book Born on Third Base. Books provided by Papercuts JP. \nWith the heart of an agitator and the soul of a storyteller\, JP resident and inequality expert Chuck Collins upends our assumptions about America’s deep wealth divide—one that\, for the first time in recent history\, locks the nation’s youth into a future defined by their class and wealth at birth; limits our ability to address crises like climate change; and creates a world that no one\, not even the rich\, will ultimately want to live in. In Born on Third Base\, Collins busts the myths that define our views of rich and poor\, and offers bold new solutions for bridging the economic divide and re-engaging the wealthy in rebuilding communities for a resilient future. \nPraise for Born on Third Base\n“I have never read a story remotely like the one Chuck Collins has to tell. Born to the one percent\, he grew an outsized conscience and gave up his inherited wealth for a life of fighting the vicious inequality that is destroying our country. Somewhere along the way\, he came to understand that the rich can be part of the solution instead of the problem and started organizing them to join in the struggle for a fair economy. The result is an electrifying challenge to the affluent as well as the one percent. —Barbara Ehrenreich\, author of Nickel and Dimed \n“A call to action for America’s wealthy and a warning shot across the bows of their yachts if they fail to act\, Born on Third Base offers a clear and compelling case for why the privileged and powerful must act to reverse widening inequality of income\, wealth\, and political power in America.” —Robert B. Reich\, former US Secretary of Labor \n“Born on Third Base explodes the myth of the self-made man\, but it also celebrates true achievement in the classic American sense. …Collins has thought seriously about what it means to be a citizen\, and to be a patriot. . . . This book would give Ayn Rand nightmares.” —Nick Hanauer\, coauthor of The True Patriot   \n“What Collins does even better than describing the challenge is outlining significant and specific solutions. . . . Wherever readers fall on the economic scale\, this is a worthwhile book to read\, digest\, and share.” —Publishers Weekly
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/book-party-born-on-third-base-by-chuck-collins/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: On Your Own But Not Alone
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n \nThis event unfortunately had to be CANCELLED due to an unexpected non-life threatening dental emergency. We hope Dr. Goldner makes a speedy recovery and will be able to reschedule.  \n  \n  \nAs we enter later life\, being single has its own unique challenges and opportunities. Meeting these challenges requires single people to tap our remarkable human capacity to adapt to a life circumstance that may not have turned out as we expected. At the Forum\, JP resident Nancy Goldner (Ph.D\, LICSW) will draw on insights and practical suggestions gained both from her clinical experience and from being a single person for many years. She will identify the signature strengths and resources that sustain physical health and emotional wellbeing for those of us who live on our own. We will hear a brief presentation from Nancy and there will be plenty of time for discussion. \nDr. Goldner is an active member of JP@Home\, an organization that works to keep JP women and men in their homes as long as possible through social networks\, information and services. In her presentation\, she will note the role that a “village” like JP@Home plays in promoting emotional and physical health.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/on-your-own-but-not-alone-enhancing-health-and-well-being-in-later-life/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Viking Economics: Life Lessons from the Nordic Countries - With George Lakey
DESCRIPTION:RSVP on Facebook \nWe’ve heard that the Scandinavian countries – Denmark\, Finland\, Sweden and Norway – have a better quality of life and less inequality than the United States. \nWhy is this so? And how did this “Nordic model” come about? What is relevant to a U.S. context? In his new book\, Viking Economics\, veteran organizer George Lakey explores the history of Nordic social movements that reduced poverty and inequality and the policies that foster such livable societies. Come meet Lakey and learn valuable lessons for the United States. \nSee a review of Viking Economics by Chuck Collins here. \nxxx \nxxx \nxxx \nAbout George Lakey\n \nGeorge Lakey\, 78\, recently retired from Swarthmore College where he was Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor for Issues in Social Change and managed the Global Nonviolent Action Database research project (nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu). Each of his nine published books has been about change and how to get it. He received the Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, Peace Award\, the Paul Robeson Social Justice Award\, the Ashley Montague Conflict Resolution Award\, was named the Peace Educator of the Year in 2010\, and received the Giraffe Award for Sticking his Neck out for the Common Good. \nHe is a Quaker\, a gay man with four great-grandchildren\, and plays Broadway tunes for sing-alongs. His first arrest was for a civil rights sit-in\, he has served as an unarmed bodyguard for human rights defenders in Sri Lanka\, and recently walked 200 miles to protest mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. He has founded a number of social change organizations including Training for Change and\, most recently\, Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT.org). \nHe is a columnist for WagingNonviolence.org where he often shares lessons learned from leading over 1500 social change workshops on five continents.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/george-lakey-viking-economics/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160817T190000
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SUMMARY:How New England Can Feed Itself: Part II
DESCRIPTION:An update with the Food Solutions New England network\nCo-sponsored by the Boston Food Forest Coalition \nRSVP on Facebook! \n \n \nMany of us in JP and beyond are concerned about our food system. From unsustainable farming techniques to food deserts to widespread poor nutrition\, the problems can be overwhelming. The good news is that Food Solutions New England (FSNE) has presented us with a Vision\, A New England Food Vision for a regional food system that is sustainable\, equitable and resilient. And\, we all have a part to play in bringing this Vision to life. \nIn Fall 2014 the JP Forum hosted “Can New England Feed Itself” in order to explore the Vision in depth with folks from the FSNE network. Click here for a summary of the Vision and that conversation (including some recorded remarks). This summer on August 17\, we will check in with Karen Spiller from the FNSE network to learn about a systems strategy- a “pathway” for realizing the Vision. \nThis food system work continues to call for a diversity of contributions to transform our current system. What contribution will you or your organization make to collective change? Join us on August 17 to learn more and discuss how we can all create sustainable and equitable food system for New England. \nThe Food Solutions New England Vision: A Refresher\nIn case the details about the Vision are a little hazy in your memory\, check out these refresher materials before heading over to the event! \n\nNew England Food Vision website\nExplore the Vision\nVision (Full)\nVision (Executive Summary)\nVision Webinar
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/how-new-england-can-feed-itself-part-ii/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160730T130000
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SUMMARY:Biking Party\, Summer Gear Swap & Ice Cream Social
DESCRIPTION:Located at the Festival Garden\nIn the Southwest Corridor Park across from the Stonybrook T\nRSVP on Facebook! \nThe JP Time Exchange is organizing a meet-up and swap for anyone interested in biking or ice cream! \n\nExperienced bikers will be on-hand to answer your biking questions and offer tips about bike maintenance and biking in the city\nBring summer gear you want to swap – outdoor toys\, bikes\, bike gear\, or sports equipment\nLearn about the Time Exchange – and sign up if you haven’t yet!\n\nThis is a bring-what-you-can\, take-what-you-like event. Feel free to just come and chat with neighbors\, enjoy some ice cream\, or jump into one of the activities. \nLet us know if you are an experienced biker and can offer tips – you will earn JP Time Exchange hours. Contact sarah@localcircles.org if you have any questions. \n— \n— \n \nThe Festival Garden is located in the Southwest Corridor Park across from Stonybrook T stop\, near Boylston Street in JP. It is a free-picking-for-the-public garden by the basketball court\, maintained by community effort and by JP neighbor Jennifer Jones.
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/biking-party-summer-gear-swap-ice-cream-social/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160716T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160716T210000
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SUMMARY:Sacred America\, Sacred World: Fulfilling our Mission in Service to All
DESCRIPTION:RSVP on Facebook \nOn Saturday\, July 16th\, the JP Forum will host an exciting event with Stephen Dinan\, the founder of The Shift Network\, that brings our spirituality and our citizenship together in important new ways. \nStephen’s new book is called Sacred America\, Sacred World and it’s winning rave reviews from left and right because it charts a more unified path into a brighter future. It’s both visionary and practical. \nIn a year in which so our country is being torn apart by politics\, this finally offers a unifying vision. \nFor the event\, which will be much more than a typical author event\, we’ll gather from 7-9 pm for a combination of inspiration\, kirtan\, dialogue\, poetry\, and lifting our spirits to make our highest contribution to the world. Sacred Music will be provided special guests Kaeza Fearn\, Shakti Rowan and Tom Lena. \nLet’s create an amazing evening together and build energy for the American Evolution to help our country fulfill its promise!
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/the-american-evolution-an-important-book-launch/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160619T190000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can't Change - With Director Josh Fox
DESCRIPTION:RSVP on Facebook \n \nJoin Director Josh Fox (GASLAND) at the JP Forum for a screening of his new film! \nIn How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can’t Change\, Oscar Nominated director Josh Fox (GASLAND) continues in his deeply personal style\, investigating climate change – the greatest threat our world has ever known. Traveling to 12 countries on 6 continents\, the film acknowledges that it may be too late to stop some of the worst consequences and asks\, what is it that climate change can’t destroy? What is so deep within us that no calamity can take it away?
URL:https://jamaicaplainforum.org/event/film-screening-how-to-let-go-of-the-world-and-love-all-the-things-climate-cant-change/
LOCATION:First Church JP\, 6 Eliot St\, Jamaica Plain\, 02130\, United States
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