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Weekly events
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Calendar
Monday, February 6, 6 pm Pioneers of the Civil Rights and Labor Movement Mass. Jobs with Justice Labor and Worklife Public Forum A forum in honor of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, with William Lucy & Norman Hill. Co-sponsored by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice Ames Court, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, 1563 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge
Tuesday, February 7, 5 pm Translation as Terror: Tarek Mehanna's Lawyers Speak The trial of Tarek Mehanna in a Boston federal court this fall sparked intense interest nationwide and raised new questions about freedom of speech in the post-9/11 era. Charged with material support for terrorism in part for translating public documents from Arabic to English, 29-year old Mehanna had a dream team of Boston defense lawyers: JW Carney, Janice Bassil, John Oh and former OPIA attorney advisor Sejal Patel. In their first public discussion of the trial since the guilty verdict, the team will speak at the Harvard Law School about the experience of handling a “terror” trial in federal court. Harvard Law School, 1563 Masachusetts Ave., Wasserstein Hall, Room 2012, Cambridge
Thursday, February 9, 4 pm Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker Mass. Jobs with Justice, Jerry Wurf Memorial Forum She Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker Room 2036, Wasserstein Hall, Harvard Law School, 1563 Mass, Ave., Cambridge
Tuesday, February 14, 11 am Valentines Day Action with Just Communities Come and support our Just Communities campaign! Supporters: Find out more about the Just Communities / Comunidades Justas Campaign Boston City Hall, Boston
Wednesday, February 15, 6 pm Kick-off Meeting of Boston-area TIAA-CREF CAMPAIGN for academics Jewish Voice for Peace will be organizing a campaign with faculty, staff, and students from many Boston-area universities to get TIAA-CREF to divest from companies profiting from Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine. The first meeting of university-based activists from around the city to strategize for this campaign will be held. First Church Cambridge, 11 Garden Street. Harvard Sq T-stop, Cambridge
Wednesday, February 29, 7 pm Drones: the New Frontier of Warfare and Spying – How Should We Respond? U.S. use of drones for warfare and spying has become routine. The use of drones has increased dramatically under the Obama administration. Pentagon funding for drones is scheduled to increase by up to 60 percent while other programs are being cut. Drones have been used for targeted killings in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen. One in three U.S. warplanes are now drone piloted. Drones have also been used for surveillance in the U.S. Kept under a cloak of secrecy, this new tool for international warfare and domestic surveillance, has far-reaching legal, financial and social ramifications. Learn more about this new instrument of war and plan together about how we can respond. Speakers: For more information visit boston.wilpf.org or call 617-244-8054. Cambridge Friends Meeting House at 5 Longfellow Park, Brattle St., Cambridge
Upcoming Events
March 2 – 21 Buddhist friends in the northeast are organizing peacewalks starting at two different nuclear facilities on March 2 and ending together at Vermont Yankee March 21st (that plant's relicencing date). On the anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, March 11, one walk will be at Indian Point (NY), the other at Plymouth (MA). For details and video: http://nomorefukushimaswalk.tumblr.com/
March 29 – 30 Women Making Democracy International panels of activists, journalists, and academics will analyze women’s roles in "Arab Spring" and compare their experiences with those of women engaged in democratic struggles elsewhere in the world, including Eastern Europe, Latin America, and South Africa. Learn more about the conference and speakers. Registration will open in February. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
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