Boston Global Action Network

The Myth Making of Democracy and Prosperity
Free Market Globalism and Beyond with Professor Noam Chomsky

Thursday, January 11
Northeastern University Law School Room 97
(Northeastern T stop on green line)
6-8pm

Sponsored by Northeastern University Radical Front/National Lawyers Guild. For more information contact [email protected] (Gemelito) or [email protected] (Julian).

January 11-14
Screenings at the Coolidge Corner Theatre
Museum of Fine Arts, International Institute of Boston

A series of astonishing new films on international human rights issues with a strong focus on US struggles. Organized by Human Rights Watch and co-sponsored by Jobs with Justice, National Lawyers Guild, Centro Presente, and a host of other community groups.

Wednesday, January 17
Northeastern University Law School Room 97
(Northeastern T stop on green line)
6-9pm

Panelists will describe the FTAA's likely effect on labor, the environment, and people of color, especially immigrants. Informational and organizing workshops will follow the panelists.

For more information, contact Martha London 617-253-0402 (day); 781-338-2238 (evening)

January 20
Dupont Circle Metro Station (North Entrance)
Washington DC
9am

WE'VE BOUGHT THIS GOVERNMENT, AND WE'RE HERE TO CASH IN! More tax cuts, more corporate welfare, more deregulation, more power!

On January 20, 2001, the morning of the inauguration, President Clinton pardoned over 100 people, some of whom were involved in the White Water scandal that had dogged his administration since the beginning. Leonard Peltier was not on that list, thus depriving the political prisoner from further clemency considerations, now that the new administration has assumed power.

This is sad news for all the family and supporters of Peltier who have tried for over 20 years to gain his release. Our prayers are with them and our brother Leonard.

Thank you for all your work and phone calls to the White House. Please visit http://www.freepeltier.org for the latest news.

Wednesday, January 24
Northeastern University Law School
400 Huntington Ave. Room 202
(Northeastern T stop on green line)
6pm

BGAN's Coordinating Committee is now meeting quarterly to decide BGAN's focus for the next period. BGAN member organizations have decision-making power in the CC, but meetings are open to all. Save the date!

Thursday, February 1
Boston College Devlin Hall 101
(end of the Commonwealth Ave B green line T)
4:30 pm

with Professor Dessima Williams
Info: Linda MacKay at 552-0740 or www.bc.edu/gis

Friday, February 2
97 Cargill Hall, 400 Huntington Ave.
Northeastern University Law School
(Northeastern stop - E Green Line; Ruggles stop - Orange Line)
6pm

OUT: The Making of a Revolutionary, film about Laura Whitehorn, an out lesbian and one of six defendants in the Resistance Conspiracy Case. A short film about Critical Resistance will be shown before OUT.

Friday and Saturday, February 2-3
Boston Research Center
396 Harvard Street, Cambridge

Conference opens with keynote address by Walden Bello on "Crisis of Legitimacy: The Revolt against Corporate-Driven Globalization."

Panels featuring Naomi Klein, Charles Derber, Jia Ching Chen, Kim Freeman, and BGAN members will discuss the movement's structure, race and class issues, and viability.

$25 fee ($15 students/seniors) includes Friday reception, breakfast and lunch on Saturday.

Saturday, February 3
Cambridge Friends Meeting
5 Longfellow Park (off Brattle St)
Potluck dinner 6pm, talk begins at 7pm

A talk and informal exchange with Walden Bello, one of the world's leading critics of economic globalization and US economic, military and cultural hegemony, founder and president of Focus on Global South, based in Bangkok, Thailand.

Tuesday, February 6
UMass Boston, Wheatley Building, 4th floor student lounge
5-7 pm

Tim Costello, co-author of Globalization from Below; Jeff Crosby (IUE 201), Tess Ewing (Labor Extension Program), Ramona Hernandez (UMass Latino Studies) and Basav Sen (BankBusters). Sponsored by the UMass Labor Resource Center and the Harvard Trade Union Program. Light supper provided if you RSVP by Friday, Feb. 2 (617-287-7426).

Tuesday, February 13
Cambridge Public Library, 45 Pearl Street
(Central Square stop on red line T)
6:30-8:30pm

A presentation with slides by Professor Bob Ross, sweatshop expert at Clark University. Wheelchair accessible, food provided.

Thursday, February 15
UNITE! Bldg.
33 Harrison Ave. 4th Floor (Chinatown)
(Orange Line - Chinatown T-stop)
6-8pm

Temp agencies themselves are going global and fast becoming some of the largest employers in the marketplace. Come hear the FACTS about the "booming" jobs that this "New Economy" has to offer. Discuss the impact of global "free" trade agreements like the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (a.k.a.: "NAFTA on Steroids") on breeding contingent work insecurity. Come hear about efforts to fight back against this unnatural corporate imposition of insecure employment upon the world's workers.

Friday, February 16
97 Cargill Hall, 400 Huntington Ave.
Northeastern University Law School
(Northeastern stop - E Green Line; Ruggles stop - Orange Line)
6pm

Community forum featuring Howard Zinn, ex-prisoners, youth activists, community activists and other great speakers calling folks to action around prison issues and the upcoming Northeast Regional Strategy And Organizing Conference, March 9-11, 2001, Columbia Law School, New York City, http://www.criticalresistance.org/creast/mission.html

Friday, February 16
Spontaneous Celebrations
45 Danforth Street, Jamaica Plain
6:30-7:30pm India Dinner
7:30-9:30pm Lecture and Dance Performance

Members of SAHMAT, a memorial trust for a Street Theater artist murdered while performing in India, will give a lecture on "Arts and Social Change in India", followed by a free dance performance.

Donations encouraged for India earthquake victims. Dinner $5-$10.
Contact Judith Woodruff for more information at 617-232-4222.

Sunday, February 18
59 Amory St #103, Roxbury
(Jackson Square stop on orange line T)
9:30am - 3:30pm

Help Bikes Not Bombs pack a 40-foot container to CESTA, the Center for Appropriate Technology, which has been fighting for several years to reforest Las Colinas, one of the slopes that turned into a mud slide, killing hundreds. BNB also needs help collecting, sorting, and packaging the aid. Call 442-0004 or email [email protected].

Thursday, February 22
Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center, Epstein Building.
12:30 pm

Presentation by Ellen Israel Rosen. For info call Liane Curtis, 781-736-3042 or email [email protected]

17 people are still charged with serious felonies and more with misdemeanors. Demand that the charges be dropped. Call and fax Mayor John Street, (215) 686-2181, fax (215) 686-8024, and District Attorney Lynne Abraham, (215) 686-8701, fax (215) 686-8024. For info contact [email protected]. Thanks for your solidarity!

With keynote speaker Congressman John Tierney. Networking, workshops, and political action.

Saturday, February 24
UMass-Boston, McCormack Bldg.
3rd Flr., Ryan Lounge (JFK/UMass Red Line T Stop)
10am-5:30pm

Conference to launch the landmark Charter of University Workers Rights which will guarantee the rights of all campus workers, from work-study students to professors, to a living wage, fair benefits and decent working conditions.

To register call the University Organizing Project at 338-9966 or email [email protected].
$5 donation at the door.

The Challenges of Leadership: East Timor, an Impossible Dream Turned Reality

Wednesday, February 28
Wiener Auditorium, JFK School of Govt.
JFK Street (Harvard Square T on red line).
6:30pm

Public lecture by José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Laureate and Foreign Minister of the East Timor Transitional Administration.

Wednesday, February 28
Jackson/Mann Community Center
500 Cambridge St., Allston
7:30pm-9:30pm

Reportback by Fred Azcarate, national director of Jobs with Justice, with audience discussion and new Jobs with Justice video. Info: 524-8778.

Support cafeteria workers exploited by HMSHost, the world's largest provider of food, beverage, and retail concessions in travel venues. Protest the FTAA. (Convergence, action spokescouncil and housing available the night before). Info: Adam, 860-831-9856 or email [email protected]

Thursday, March 1
Suffolk Downs in East Boston
6pm Cocktails
7pm Dinner and Program

Honoring the Big Strikes of 2000. Keynote speaker: Larry Cohen of the CWA International union. Tickets $35 from Jobs with Justice, (617) 524-8778.

Join with experienced nonviolence trainers, community activists and college students for a weekend of nonviolence training for social change. Whether you're organizing against globalization, sweatshops, police brutality, or any form of injustice, this weekend is for you! Learn the skills to conduct nonviolent direct action workshops and increase your ability to build effective campaigns.

Advanced registration required. Email [email protected] or call Nancy Jodaitis at 508-791-1849 or Kate Donnelly at 860-455-0583.

Inside/Outside: Building Alliances with Women in Prison and Organizing Against the Prison Industrial Complex

Sunday, March 4
New Words Bookstore
186 Hampshire St., Cambridge (Central Square T on red line).
3pm-6pm

Inside/Outside contact: Erika Jones, Sojourner: The Women's Forum, 617-524-0415, [email protected]

Saturday, March 10
Boston Research Center
396 Harvard St. (Harvard stop on red line T).
9am-5pm

Juliet Schor, Rev. Eugene Rivers, and audience discuss consumerism, social movements, and strategies. $10, register at www.brc21.org or 491-1090.

The Corporation is meeting THIS MONDAY -- and we're going to find them! Will Larry Summers be the next president?

We didn't want a president chosen in secret -- and we've got a lot of concerns about the one that the search committee picked. Summers's record raises questions: for instance, while Chief Economist of the World Bank, he advocated moving toxic waste to under-developed countries, explaining, "I've always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted." (yes, a real quote)

WHOEVER becomes Harvard's next president -- Summers or anyone else -- we want him or her to set an example of progressive leadership by implementing a LIVING WAGE immediately. Harvard has put up over TWO YEARS of resistance; our community can't wait any longer.

Activist Winter: FTAA and Animal Rights: How will the expansion of free trade affect animals?

Thursday, March 15th
Lucy Parsons Center
549 Columbus Ave (Mass Ave stop on orange line T)
7pm

Dr. Michael Greger, vivacious and informative Mad Cow Disease researcher, will share his research on how global trade agreements and institutions such as GATT, NAFTA, and the WTO have affected animals, and will offer his understanding of what the Free Trade Area of the Americas (the proposed expansion of NAFTA) will mean to them. Animals, whose very bodies are staple commodities, hold a major stake in the restructuring of trade, as their interests are negated as barriers to trade and as animal-based industries spread. Vegan chocolate cake may be involved in this meeting.

Monday, March 19
United for a Fair Economy
37 Temple Place, 2d floor
7-9pm

How can you get your issue into the mainstream media? FTAA campaign as a case study. To sign up email [email protected].

Join environmentalists, labor rights activists and fair trade advocates for a day of public education about STARBUCKS's abysmal policies on genetically engineered food and fair trade coffee. Bring signs, banners, stickers etc. Tour de Starbucks through Boston's Financial District leaves at 4 pm.

Tuesday, March 20
Cambridge Public Library
45 Pearl Street, Central Square, wheelchair accessible
6:30-8:30pm

Food provided. A presentation and question and answer session with Kevin Murray, Executive Director of Grassroots International. The Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil brought grassroots activists and organizations from 60 countries to create an alternative model of globalization -- globalization from below -- that would put the wealth of the global economy at the service of ordinary people around the world. Info: 497-5273.

Wednesday, March 21
Community Church of Boston
(565 Boylston Street, Copley stop on green line T)
7pm

Staples, the largest office supply superstore chain in the world, continues to profit from the destruction of our forests to make the paper it sells. Plan Boston's part in the National Day of Action. Contact Matt at Forest Ethics at (617) 776-2238 or e-mail [email protected].

Thursday, March 22
Boston Research Center
396 Harvard Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
5:30pm-8:00pm

Lecture by Dr. Riane Eisler - Imagine a world where social institutions are based on partnership. Or an America where children receive early training in the "caring arts." How would our economic system change if children were educated differently? Please join us as Riane Eisler, author of Tomorrow's Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education in the 21st Century, outlines a sweeping vision of a caring society based on respect for human rights and an innovative approach to education.

Sunday, March 25
Middle East Club downstairs
480 Mass. Ave, Cambridge
(entrance around the corner)
1-4pm

Live Latin music, dancing, hot buffet lunch, cash bar, performances by RUMBANAMA and special guests. Also a benefit for medical aid for indigenous communities in Chiapas ($10 donation requested).

Meet at Staples at 25 Court St. in downtown Boston, march to Staples 31 Milk St.

Contact Matt at Forest Ethics at (617) 776-2238 or e-mail [email protected] for rally information.

City-Wide Teach-In
Jorge Hernandez Center
64 West Newton St. (Final Stop on Tour)

Activists throughout the hemisphere are organizing a day of action to demand that the negotiating text of the FTAA be made public. Join the Freedom for Sale Trail and visit the corporations that are selling off our democracy.

Two videos -- Prague 2000: The IMF & World Bank Under Siege and Not My President: Voices from the Counter-Coup, J20, 2001

Thursday, April 5
MIT 10-250
(Kendall Square red line stop or #1 bus to 77 Mass Ave in Cambridge)
7pm

Benefit screening for the Boston Independent Media Center. Info: 256-8920 or [email protected]

Thursday, April 12
Newton Community Service Center
492 Waltham St, West Newton
6pm

Benefit with Harum-Scarum, The Profits, Melee, Disaster Strikes, Pushover plus spoken word by Rich Mackin and Ransom Speak. (Green line D train to Woodland, turn R onto Washington St about a mile, Center is a big brick building visible from Store 24 parking lot on your left, or contact [email protected] or 281-8384).

Friday-Sunday, April 13-15
MIT Building 4, 2-190
Friday, 6:00pm - 9:15pm
Saturday, 9:00am - 10:30pm
Sunday, 11:00am (Brunch) - 4:00pm

Mexican human rights activist Carlos Beas Torres, the Call to Action Caravan from Portland Oregon, and others. Workshops on nonviolence, the FTAA, affinity group formation, and more.

Concerned citizens from all over New England will converge upon the Internal Revenue Service at noon and proceed to the Raytheon weapons plant, situated only 1*4 mile down the road. Come with affinity groups, props (wheelbarrows filled with monopoly money), signs and banners, musical instruments, drums, puppets. Coontact Greens at 978-688-3569 or e-mail [email protected].

The People's Agenda - Next Steps.

Monday April 30, 6:30-9 pm at Harriet Tubman House, 566 Columbus Ave. (Mass Ave T stop). Sum up the Northeast Global Alternatives forum series and see what projects and collaborations can emerge.

May Day of Action, Resistance and Carnival Against Capitalism.

Tuesday May 1, 11:30am at Copley Square (May Day Picnic), take to the streets at 1pm.

March will go through Boston's Financial District and join up with the March for Immigrant Amnesty at the State House at 2:45pm. Sponsored by Sabate Anarchist Collective, Barricada Collective, Boston Encuentro for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism, Industrial Workers of the World (Boston GMB), and the Lucy Parsons Center. Info: [email protected]

May Day March for Immigrant Amnesty.

Tuesday May 1, 3 pm on Boston Common opposite the State House and support justice for all immigrants! Stand up for an unconditional legalization of all undocumented immigrants, the right of all immigrants to organize for better working conditions, and the protection of human rights. We'll march around Boston Common and end up at the bandshell on the Tremont Street side.

Contact Sonia at Jobs With Justice, 617-524-8778.

Celebrating May Day through Film and Art.

Tuesday May 1, 7 pm at the Coolidge Corner Theater, 290 Harvard St, Brookline.

An evening of film, music, and speakers including Howard Zinn.

Free Trade or Global Takeover? NAFTA...WTO...and now the FTAA!

Wednesday, May 2, 7:30 pm at Bemis Hall, Bedford Rd, Lincoln (near the Lincoln Library, just off Route 2 at set of lights by Tracey's gas station).

6 pm: pay-by-the-slice pizza, juice, and coffee prior to the event. Come learn more about the FTAA and find out what happened in Quebec City. Info: 781-259-1173 or 508-358-2909.

The Truth from Youth: Teen Empowerment's 9th annual Youth Peace Conference.

Saturday, May 5, 10am-5pm. at John Hancock Hall (corner of Berkeley & Stuart Streets) 2 blocks from Back Bay T.

Tickets $3 - includes everything. A day of deep thought and discussion, great entertainment, great food Info: call the Peace Line 617-536-4266 x315

Fundraiser to stop the IMF and World Bank!

Saturday, May 12, 8 pm-midnight, Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth St, Jamaica Plain (Stony Brook stop on orange line). Bands TBA. $5-15. Help raise money for buses to this fall's IMF-World Bank protest in Washington, DC.

7th Annual Boston Mothers' March.

Saturday May 12, 11:45-3pm starting at the Boston Commons.

Come Honor the labor of our mothers, show solidarity with mothers struggling in poverty, illustrate our love for all mothers from Mother Earth to Mother Jones! Bring your mom, bring your children, bring your loved ones! Sponsored by City Life/Vida Urbana, Coalition for Basic Human Needs, Mass Welfare Rights Union, RESULTS, Sisters Together Ending Poverty, Working Massachusetts, Boston 9to5, SEIU Local 509. Info: Sharron @ 617-482-4471 x19 [email protected].

From Argentina to Alaska: Women's Resistance to Corporate Globalization in the Americas.

Sunday May 13, 4-7 pm at the Brattle Theater, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge (Harvard stop on red line).

Mother's Day Film Festival

Videos: "Amazon Sisters" (about the landless people's movement in brazil), "From the Mountains to the Maquiladoras" (a group of women from tennessee lose their jobs as their factory is moved to mexico and go visit their counterparts in mexico), "Zapatista Women" (interviews with zapatista women), footage from the Quebec City and possibly US/canada and US/mexico border protests against the FTAA.

Panel: Elizabeth Leonard (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom), Kim Foster (Boston Earth Action Network), Sara Cullinane (SCAM, a group opposing the MCAS), Additional panelists TBA.

$10 benefits the Boston Global Action Network's FTAA Task Force. Additional
information: 617-983-0089.

BGAN Quarterly Coordinating Committee Meeting

Monday, May 14, 7 pm at Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St (Copley stop on green line or Back Bay stop on orange line).

Come discuss BGAN's projects and structure as summer approaches, and the community and movement building process continues!

Boston Activist Defense Assoc. Meeting

Free the Germinal 5 and Amnesty for all those arrested in Quebec

Monday, May 14, 7 pm at the Lucy Parsons Center. Come help plan ongoing legal support for all those arrested and persecuted in the protests of 2000 and 2001.

People's Global Action Planning Meeting

Wednesday, May 16, 7 pm at 15 Paulina St. #1, Somerville (Davis Square).

Come join an ad hoc group of Boston area activists plan for the PGA Caravan tour slated to swing through Boston, May 28-30. Issues to be covered by the caravan are Plan Colombia with representatives of women's, peasants', indigenous, and black community organizations to brief North Americans about its disastrous effect on the Colombia people.

MCAS, Privatization and the FTAA: The Real Agenda Behind High Stakes Testing in our Schools

Tuesday May 22, 6:30-8:30 pm, Cambridge YWCA, 7 Temple Street, Cambridge (off Mass. Ave, Central Square stop on red line T).

A presentation and question and answer session with MIT Professor Jonathan King, a parent of public school students and a leader in the statewide movement against the MCAS. First in BGAN's monthly discussion series. Info: 617-497-5273.

CLASS ACTS political theater troupe new member orientation.

Tuesday May 22, 7:30 pm, Porter Exchange Building, 1815 Mass Ave, Room 403 (Porter Square stop on red line T).

Are you interested in using art as a force for social change? Do you feel that traditional demonstrations with speech after speech often need something to spice them up? Then join Class Acts political theater troupe! Info: Matt at 617-776-2238, Laura at 617-625-4268, or e-mail [email protected].

State House Hearing on the landlord-sponsored "rent escrow" bill.

Wednesday May 23, 10 am, room B-2, State House (Park Street T stop).

Come testify against this attempt to roll back tenants' rights.

Video show: footage from the September 2000 Prague demonstrations and Quebec.

Thursday May 24, 7 pm, MIT E51-315 (Kendall stop on red line T).

The event is a fundraiser for the IMC FTAA newspaper and the suggested donation is $5. Building E51 is located at 70 Memorial Drive but the entrance is on the corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets.

Radical Walking Tour: A Side of Boston You Were Never Supposed to See.

Monday May 28, noon sharp, meet in front of Park St. station, downtown Boston.

The tour will be hosted by Larry Lewis, a professional tour guide in Boston. It will cover parts of the Boston Common and Beacon Hill, highlighting aspects of Boston's history that are not taught in schools. $10. RSVP the International Socialist Organization, (781) 551-6649 or [email protected].

Rally to support the Charleston 5!

Tuesday May 29, 7:00 pm, Hotel Workers' Local 26, 52 Berkeley St , Boston.

Featured speaker: Ken Riley, President, Longshoremen's Local 1422, Charleston, SC. Introduction by Boston City Councillor Chuck Turner. Five dockworkers from Charleston are being framed on phony "rioting" charges by the state of South Carolina after six hundred police attacked the union's picket line. Info: 617-524-8778.

Alternatives to Corporate Globalization.

Tuesday May 29, 7:30 pm at Lincoln town office building (for rides from Lincoln commuter rail station

Four or five democratic models presented in 15 minutes at the monthly meeting of North Bridge Alliance for Democracy chapter. Call Lynn Gargill 781-259-1173 or Cynthia Ritsher 781-259-8104).

People's Global Action conference.

Friday-Sunday June 1-3 in Amherst, MA.

For info to register, email [email protected] or visit bostonglobalaction.net/PGA.

East Timor Today: The Continuing Crisis.

Saturday June 2, 7 pm at Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth Street (Stony Brook T station on orange line T).

Come hear Professor Noam Chomsky and refugee camp worker Winston Rondo report on the situation in the world's newest country. $10 donation requested. Info: [email protected], 617-524-3693.

Countryside in Crisis: Why the poor hate Market Fundamentalism.

Tuesday June 5, 6:30 pm, MIT building 4, room 231 (Kendall stop on red line T or #1 bus to 77 Mass Ave).

With P. Sainath, author of Everyone Likes a Good Drought. Sponsored by the South Asia Forum at MIT, Seminar ASHA, MIT AID.

Emergence as Convergence: Anarchism and the Movement to Critique Globalization.

Wednesday June 6, 7pm at Lucy Parsons Center, 549 Columbus Ave (Mass Ave stop on orange line T).

How has today's anarchism helped shape the movement against capitalist globalization? What are anarchism's own limitations as a political praxis? How might it move the movement forward? Talk by Cindy Milstein, sponsored by Sabate Anarchist Collective, 267-6272.

The Science and Politics of Genetically Engineered Food.

Thursday June 7, 7-9 pm (Refreshments from 6:30-7pm), Robbins Library 700, Mass Ave in Arlington (near Arlington Town Hall).

With Linda Setchell of Clean Water Action, sponsored by the Northbridge Alliance for Democracy and Arlington Health Foods.

Hit a home run against Forest Destruction!

Sunday June 10, 11 am outside Fenway Park.

Staples is having their annual shareholders' meeting in Boston soon. On June 10, activists have arranged for a plane to fly over the packed Red Sox game with a banner decrying Staples' environmental record. But thousands of fans will need information on what this is about! Join us for a fun publicity action outside the Red Sox game at Fenway park, as we hand out baseball cards featuring Staples CEO Tom Stemberg, complete with his hideous environmental stats! Meet at 11 sharp outside Uno's in Kenmore Square. For more details or information, call 617-776-2238 or e-mail [email protected]

Screening of "Lifting the Veil", a film that examines the effect of structural adjustment programs in India.

Tuesday June 12, 7:30 pm MIT 1-150 (Bus #1 to 77 Mass Ave. or Red line to Kendall/MIT. Building one found at http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?locate=bldg_1)

"Lifting The Veil " exposes the real role of the IMF and structural adjustment programs in India. Through dozens of interviews with community activists, street people, workers, politicians, and with illuminating footage, videographer Bose shows how India's ruling elites and the politicians they control are destroying whole communities and attacking the labor movement for the supposed "development" of India.

Sponsored by AID-BOSTON, Narmada Support Group, Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia, Sangam, and Bankbusters. For more info contact Payal Parekh at 617-441-0358 or [email protected]

Justice for Janitors Day.

Friday June 15, 3:15 pm at Boston City Hall Plaza (Government Center T stop).

This rally is to declare that cleaning workers deserve full-time work, better salaries, health care, job security, and amnesty for undocumented workers. Sponsored by the National SEIU Justice for Janitors campaign and SEIU Local 254. Info: Robert Sarason at 617-367-7360.

Stop Global AIDS Now! March and rally in New York City.

Saturday June 23, meet in Washington Square Park at 11 am and march to Bryant Park for speakers from the global South and HIV+ communities.

The march will call on the United Nations and the upcoming G8 Summit for billions of DOLLARS in grants, total cancellation of the DEBT of hard-hit poor countries, and affordable DRUGS including generics. For transportation info contact Kiaran Honderich at 617-876-4230, [email protected]. For information on the march, visit: www.stopglobalaidsnow.org

Radical Housing Conference.

Saturday June 16, 9:30 am - 3:30 pm at Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St (Copley Square or Back Bay T stops).

Private ownership and social ownership, rent control, connecting struggles. Spanish translation, childcare, handicap accessible. Send $5-15 registration made out to Radical Housing Conference with your name, address, email, and phone to 10 Laurel St #3, Cambridge 02139.

Clean Energy rally at the Energy Department's hearing on the Bush energy plan.

Tuesday June 19, 10:30am at Volpe Transportation Center, 55 Broadway, Cambridge (Red Line Kendall Square stop).

What's Happening to Our Country and What Can We Do About It?

Tuesday June 19, 7:30pm, First Parish Unitarian Church, Vernon St, Framingham.

Electoral reform, national health insurance, education reform, "free" trade and more. Featuring Ronnie Dugger (Alliance for Democracy). Info: 508-872-6137 or [email protected].

Clean Elections Rally with Granny D.

Wednesday June 20, noon-1pm at the State House.

Join GRANNY D at a Clean Elections Rally and tell our legislators to keep the clean elections law alive. Bring binoculars & telescopes (props will do) to send the message that we're watching the House-Senate Conference Committee that will determine the law's fate. Action hotline: 617-629-7350.

Solidarity rally to support Power One workers.

Wednesday June 20, 4-6pm, 20 Linden St. (corner of Cambridge St. next to the Mass. Turnpike bridge), Allston.

The Allston Power-One factory is closing this fall, leaving these mostly Chinese immigrant workers jobless while the company moves jobs to its other factories in Mexico and the Dominican Republic, and expands its operations in China. Workers are fighting for a decent severance package and the three months continued health coverage which reputable companies normally offer when they close plants. Info: Chinese Progressive Association, 617-357-4499, or Campaign on Contingent Work, 617-338-9966. (#64 bus from Cambridge, #66 bus from Dudley Square, #57 T bus from Kenmore Square, or "B" trolley line runs near the plant).

CISPES/City Life Workathon to Rebuild Communities from Boston To El Salvador.

Saturday June 23, 8:30am - 1:00pm.

Paint, plant gardens, and clean vacant lots while drawing attention to the affordable housing crisis in Boston. Collect pledges to support low income housing coops in Boston and earthquake relief for Salvadoran communities and social organizations that are fighting for economic justice. Support City Life's campaigns to stop gentrification and promote stable, diverse neighborhoods here at home. For a registration packet call CISPES (617) 576-1709 or City Life (617) 524-3541.

Day of Action against Plan Colombia.

Tuesday June 26, 11am press conference at State House, 3pm march from the Colombian consulate in Copley Square, past Senator Kerry's office at Cambridge and Bowdoin streets, to a 4:30-6:30pm action at Government Center with speakers, street theatre and performance by Colombian youth dance troupe Bajucol.

Globalization and the Merrimack Valley: a forum on the impacts of globalization and what we can do to resist them.

Thursday June 28, 7:30-9 pm, First Parish Unitarian-Universalist Church, Central Square, Chelmsford.

Featured speaker: State Rep. Byron Rushing. Info or directions: CPPAX, [email protected], 617-426-3040.