A-Infos (en) US, NEFAC-New England e-Bulletin - Vol. 2, No. 18

ACTION ALERTS ---- 1) Actions for Health Care & Good Jobs (Rhode Island) ---- 2) March and 
Rally for Jobs and a Real Economic Recovery (Metro Boston) ---- 3) Take Action to Stop 
Insurance Company Crimes! (Metro Boston) -- 4) Connecticut IVAW Member Arrested & Detained 
in Pittsburgh ---- NEWS & VIEWS ---- 5) Roxbury Rally Demands Banks Let Foreclosed Tenants 
Keep Their Homes ---- 6) Quarantine Protest Against Bank of America ---- 7) Racist Tony 
Perkins Leads Anti-Gay Efforts in Maine and Beyond - 8) South Africa: Kennedy Road Murders 
Recall Terror of the 1980s ---- 9) Bourgeois Influences on Anarchism -- EVENTS -- 10) Free 
Screenings of "Capitalism: A Love Story" (Metro Boston) -- 11) Climbing Poetree: Hurricane 
Season (Rhode Island) ---- 12) Know Your Rights Workshop: Civil Liberties & the Police 
(Central Mass.)
13) Men with Guns (Metro Boston)
14) People's Forum on Healthcare (Vermont)
15) Capitalism: A Love Story (Vermont)
16) Fahrenheit 451 (Maine)
17) Food for Thought, Time for Action (Maine)
18) Workday: Making Food and Medicine Accessible (Maine)
19) Annual Harvest Supper (Maine)
20) At Home in Utopia (Northeastern Mass.)
21) Climbing Poetree: Hurricane Season (Western Mass.)
22) Trouble the Water (Metro Boston)
23) Climbing Poetree: Hurricane Season (New Hampshire)
24) Climbing Poetree: Hurricane Season (Connecticut)
25) Life on the Edge of a Bubble (Metro Boston)
26) Grassroots Use of Technology Conference X (Metro Boston)
27) An Intro to Anti-Fascist Work (Connecticut)
28) Capitalism Hits the Fan (Maine)
29) Slingshot Hip Hop (Metro Boston)


ACTION ALERTS

1) Actions for Health Care & Good Jobs

Thursday, October 1st
4-8pm
Info: (401)454-4766 / rijobswithjustice@gmail.com

4pm @ Brown University Green
75 Waterman St., Providence, RI
March to Whole Foods
601 N. Main St., Providence, RI

6:30 pm @ Providence City Hall
25 Dorrance St., Providence, RI

Two actions on Thursday, October 1st.
-4pm Health Care Reform Now! RALLY & MARCH, Meet at Brown University
-6:30pm Protect Good Jobs for Providence Hotel Workers, at Providence City
Hall.

Real health care reform will improve the quality of care for everyone,
hold employers accountable and help our economy and our communities get
back on track. This Thursday, let's make one loud unified voice across
Rhode Island, for Health Care Reform Now!

Brown Dining Service workers and students on campus are organizing to
ensure that access to affordable health care is part of Brown University's
promise to their workers. John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods has argued
that American workers do not deserve a health care system that is
accessible for everyone. Join us Thursday to connect these two important
campaigns to the broad and urgent call for Health Care Reform! Visit this
link for video of an inspiring recent Whole Foods Action in Oakland!

Sponsored by RI JwJ, SEIU 615, Brown SLA, UFCW Local 328, Ocean State
Action and community and labor allies.

6:30 pm Protect Good Jobs For Providence Hotel Workers!

6:30 pm Press Conference. Protect Good Jobs For Providence!

Providence City Council will vote on an ordinance to protect good jobs and
benefits for downtown Providence hotel workers. Providence area hotels are
threatening to turn good living wage jobs that support Providence families
and our local economy into poverty wage jobs. Join us!


2) March and Rally for Jobs and a Real Economic Recovery

Thursday, October 1st
4pm: Kickoff at the Massachusetts State House
4:30pm: March through downtown and the Financial District
5:30pm: Rally at the Federal Reserve Bank

Across Massachusetts jobs are being cut and thousands of workers laid off.
Profitable companies like Verizon are using the current recession as an
excuse to cut jobs. Universities and hospitals with fat endowments are
making cuts. Long overdue construction on state infrastructure is stalled
or moving too slowly. State and local government are slashing critical
public services and eliminating jobs -- just when we should be expanding
them. Those of us still working are just one paycheck away from a pink
slip.
One year after the federal government gave big business and the banks
hundreds of billions of dollars for the bail out, corporations aren't
creating the jobs that were promised.

We need jobs and we want to work. Let's put the heat on corporations doing
business in Massachusetts to provide the good jobs our communities need!

Join the fight against this jobless recovery and for an economy that works
for everyone.

Buses are being reserved from across the state. Motorcycle ride-ins to the
rally are planned.


3) Take Action to Stop Insurance Company Crimes!

Tuesday, October 6th
12pm
MA Association of Health Plans
40 Court St., Boston, MA
Info: (617)524-8778 or (617)541-0500

It's a crime that 64% of all bankruptcies are caused by medical debt. It's
a crime that every 12 minutes someone dies because an insurance company
denies them care. It's a crime that insurance companies are keeping
premiums and out of pocket costs high so that care is unaffordable even
for those who have insurance.


4) Connecticut IVAW Member Arrested & Detained in Pittsburgh

On September 25th, Iraq veteran and co-founded of the Hartford chapter of
Iraq Veterans Against the War, Army Sgt. Jeff Bartos, was arrested at the
G20 protests in Pittsburgh while giving medical attention to a protester
who had been tear gassed.

The evening of September 25, 2009, marked the end of week-long protests
against the Pittsburgh G20. Before returning home, a large group of
activists gathered in Schenley Plaza for what they had heard would be a
concert. Upon entering the park they were greeted, instead, with a number
of police. The police told the group to leave the Plaza, and the activists
cooperated; nevertheless, the group was forced into the Cathedral lawn and
surrounded.

Approximately 65 people, including veterans, students, medics and
journalists, were rounded up and arrested. Although most have reported
being released without charges around 7:30am this morning, Jeff Bartos
remains in custody, somewhere between the Pittsburgh SCI (where most of
the arrested were initially brought) and Allegheny County Jail (where they
are being held). Earlier this morning, we were informed that the plastic
cuffs Jeff was arrested in had cut off the circulation to his hands, which
began to turn blue, and that the police refused to loosen them.

Solidarity actions are taking place outside of the jail, but all of those
interested in contacting Jeff or to demand his release, try the following
numbers--

SCI Pittsburgh
(412)761-1955

Allegheny County Jail
Main line: (412)350-2000
Booking: (412)350-2010 or (412)350-2009

Pittsburgh Mayor's Office
(412)255-2626

For more info contact in Connecticut:

Christopher Hutchinson: (860)989-1884 / Christopher.hutch@gmail.com
Marissa Blaszko: (860)218-0566 / marissablaszko@gmail.com

In Pittsburgh

Jeff Panetierre: 203-543-6966


NEWS & VIEWS

5) Roxbury Housing Rally Demands That Banks Let Foreclosed Tenants Keep
Their Homes
by Jason Pramas (OpenMediaBoston.org)

Link: http://openmediaboston.org/node/942


6) Quarantine Protest Against Bank of America
by Truck D (electricrnb blog)

Link:
http://electricrnb.blogspot.com/2009/09/quarantine-protest-at-bank-of-america_26.html


7) Racist Tony Perkins Leads Anti-Gay Efforts in Maine and Beyond
by Mark Daniel Snyder (QueerToday.com)

Link: http://queertoday.ning.com/profiles/blogs/racist-tony-perkins-leads


8) South Africa: Kennedy Road Murders Recall Terror of the 1980s
by Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (Anarkismo.net)

Link: http://www.anarkismo.net/article/14576


9) Bourgeois Influences on Anarchism
by Luigi Fabbri (Anarkismo.net)

Link: http://www.anarkismo.net/article/14544

This text was originally written by Italian anarchist communist Luigi
Fabbri either before or during the First World War. In it he addresses
problems he sees as stemming from the stereotyping of anarchism in
bourgeois literature and media and the unfortunate feedback effect this
was having on some militants practice of anarchism and language. Long a
popular pamphlet, the absence of an online version in English has been a
lack until now. This English translation is the work of Chaz Bufe who has
kindly given permission for its use.


EVENTS

10) Free Screenings of "Capitalism: A Love Story"

Wednesday, September 30th

Link: http://massjwj.net/node/2973

Jobs With Justice is excited to help present advance screenings of the new
film by Michael Moore, "Capitalism: A Love Story". There are three
screening options available. Please RSVP to calsboston@hotmail.com with
your name, phone number, and which screening you would like to attend. If
selected, expect an email back with a confirmation of screening details by
5PM on Tuesday, September 29th. Writer director Michael Moore will be on
hand at all three screenings to answer questions immediately following the
film!


11) Climbing Poetree: Hurricane Season

Wednesday, September 30th
6:30pm
Mixed Magic Theatre
171 Main St., Pawtucket, RI
$12-25

Tickets are sliding scale $12-25 at the door. No one will be turned away
for a lack of funds!

Fresh off a successful run at the National Black Theater of Harlem, we
will present Climbing PoeTree's Hurricane Season on Thursday September 24,
2009 at our Villa Victoria Center for the Arts. Through a tapestry of
spoken-word poetry, video projection, dance, shadow art, and a sound
collage of personal testimonies, "Hurricane Season" is a two womyn
multi-media show, popular education tour, and national organizing
strategy that connects the issues that surfaced in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina to the unnatural disasters disenfranchised communities
are experiencing nationwide and worldwide on a daily basis. Will also
include discussion with local grassroots organizations through solution
cipher.


12) Know Your Rights Workshop: Civil Liberties & the Police

Wednesday, September 30th
7:30-9:30pm
Jefferson Building, Room 218, Clark University
950 Main St., Worcester, MA
Info: clarkssdp@gmail.com

Have you ever wondered what you should do when stopped by the police on
the street? In your car? At your house? When and what are the police
allowed to search? What are YOU legally allowed to do (or not do)?

Clark Students for Sensible Drug Policy, along with lawyers from the
American Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawyers Guild Street Law
Clinic, will lead a workshop that will give participants a better
understanding of their constitutional rights.

We will be discussing searches and seizures, civil disobedience, and how
your constitutional rights transfer to the Clark campus.

There will be a Q&A portion at the end of the event. This is your chance
to ask the speakers any question you may have regarding your rights. If,
for any reason, you do not feel comfortable asking your question at the
event, please email it to clarkssdp@gmail.com. You will remain anonymous!

Sponsored by: Clark Students for Sensible Drug Policy


13) Men with Guns

Wednesday, September 30th
7:30pm
Lucy Parsons Center
549 Columbus Ave., Boston, MA

A distinguished Latin American doctor is on a quest to locate his former
students, whom he trained and deployed throughout the disease-ridden rural
regions of their country. Soon, he realizes the depths of despair
villagers face, as gun-toting guerrillas ransack the countryside. Stripped
of his former idealism, he collects a group of pilgrims in search of a
legendary village untouched by men with guns. John Sayles directs.


14) People's Forum on Healthcare

Thursday, October 1st
7pm
Imani Community & Youth Center
294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, VT
Link: http://www.workerscenter.org/healthcare

This public forum with Chittenden County State Legislators will focus on
human right to healthcare and what we can do to change current state
healthcare policy. Interpreter services available upon request.


15) Capitalism: A Love Story

Friday, October 2nd
6:30pm and 9pm
Savoy Theater
26 Main St., Montpelier, VT

Vermont Workers' Center is sponsoring the debut screening of Michael
Moore's new film "Capitalism: A Love Story" at the Savoy Theater in
Montpelier.

Come by the Three Penny Taproom (whats up Wes?!) for discussion and beer
afterwards.


16) Fahrenheit 451

Friday, October 2nd
7pm
Penobscot Theatre
131 Main St., Bangor, ME

In conjunction with Banned Books week and the 3rd Annual Book Festival
which runs on Friday and Saturday the 2nd and 3rd in downtown Bangor,
there will be the showing of Fahrenheit 451 and a discussion on
censorship.


17) Food for Thought, Time for Action

Friday, October 2nd - Sunday, October 4th
College of the Atlantic
105 Eden St., Bar Harbor, ME
Info: (207)288-5015

The College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor is having a conference entitled
Food for Thought, Time for Action: A conference about sustainable food,
farming and fisheries for the 21st century with speakers on food politics.


18) Workday: Making Food and Medicine Accessible

Saturday, October 3rd
8am-4pm

Food and Medicine Solidarity Center
20 Ivers St., Brewer, ME
Info/RSVP: (207)989-5860 / steve@foodandmedicine.org

The EMLC and Food AND Medicine's workday begins at 8am! Yes,it is a chance
for volunteers to get together and pitch in at the Solidarity Center. The
focus of our activities will be the preparation of the ground for the
building of a wheelchair ramp as we make the building handicapped
assessable. At last we will be able to make the Center more open to more
people. But, as you all know, these things don't happen unless you are
willing to give a little time, solidarity and effort to make them so.Great
things happen when great people come together (plus we have some fun and
feed everybody too)! So please give us a call to help with the planning
and hope to see you here. Thanks!


19) Annual Harvest Supper

Saturday, October 3rd
6-8pm
Unitarian Universalist Church
170 Park St., Bangor, ME
Info: (207)942-9343

The Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine is having their Annual
Harvest Supper featuring potluck food, entertainment and awards at the
Unitarian Universalist Church.


20) At Home in Utopia

Saturday, October 3rd
4pm
Lawrence CommunityWorks
168 Newbury St., Lawrence, MA

What does it take to get housing that's good for our children? What does
it take to build a community where we want to live? Does it take a
movement? During the 1920s, thousands of immigrant factory workers managed
to build cooperative apartment houses that they owned and ran themselves.
When they were hit by the Great Depression, they fought alongside others
to win the social safety net that we are now in danger of losing. The film
At Home in Utopia tells their story.

We'll use the film to inspire a discussion about collective action in the
context of this economic crisis.

With:
Michal Goldman, Filmmaker
Bob Forrant, RESD Professor
Juan Bonilla, LCW Homeownership Center & more

Sponsored by Lawrence Community Works, Bread & Roses Heritage Committee,
Lawrence Heritage State Park, with Filmmakers Collaborative; made possible
by the Mass. Humanities and Puffin Foundation.


21) Climbing Poetree: Hurricane Season

Saturday, October 3rd
7pm
The Northeast American School of Dance
25 Main St., Northampton, MA
Info: hurricaneseasontour@gmail.com
$15-25

Fresh off a successful run at the National Black Theater of Harlem, we
will present Climbing PoeTree's Hurricane Season on Thursday September 24,
2009 at our Villa Victoria Center for the Arts. Through a tapestry of
spoken-word poetry, video projection, dance, shadow art, and a sound
collage of personal testimonies, "Hurricane Season" is a two womyn
multi-media show, popular education tour, and national organizing
strategy that connects the issues that surfaced in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina to the unnatural disasters disenfranchised communities
are experiencing nationwide and worldwide on a daily basis. Will also
include discussion with local grassroots organizations through solution
cipher.


22) Trouble the Water

Monday, October 5, 2009
6-9pm
Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants
42 Seaverns Ave., Jamaica Plain, MA
Info: (617)267-2949 / mmoreno@saveourhomes.org

(award winning documentary about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New
Orleans and its impact on the poor and displaced)

Commemorating International Habitat Day - Join us!!!

On Monday night, October 5, 2009, join us for the first of a series of
housing rights movies right here at Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants.

Our first screening, Trouble the Water, is a documentary made by Kimberly
Rivers Roberts and her husband along with the producers of Michael Moore
films about the flood aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

It is about the people who lost everything except for their strength and
determination. It is about how badly this country treats the poor and
dispossessed - the response to Katrina was bungled so amazingly badly with
racism and bias against the poor guiding the decisions that were made. But
it's also a story about resilience and heroism among New Orleans' (and
America's) poorest residents.

Popcorn!
Refreshments!
Donations welcome!

Sponsored by the National Alliance of HUD Tenants and Hosted by the Mass
Alliance of Hud Tenants

Tenants United to Save Our Homes!


23) Climbing Poetree: Hurricane Season

Monday, October 5th
6:30pm
Mabel Brown Room, Keen State College
229 Main St., Keene, NH
Info: (603)358-2768 / kgagne@keene.edu

Fresh off a successful run at the National Black Theater of Harlem, we
will present Climbing PoeTree's Hurricane Season on Thursday September 24,
2009 at our Villa Victoria Center for the Arts. Through a tapestry of
spoken-word poetry, video projection, dance, shadow art, and a sound
collage of personal testimonies, "Hurricane Season" is a two womyn
multi-media show, popular education tour, and national organizing
strategy that connects the issues that surfaced in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina to the unnatural disasters disenfranchised communities
are experiencing nationwide and worldwide on a daily basis. Will also
include discussion with local grassroots organizations through solution
cipher.


24) Hurricane Season

Wednesday, October 7th
6pm
Trinity on Main
69 Main St., New Britain, CT
$15-25

Opening reception featuring, music, art and photography by local artists,
tabling organizations and refreshments. Maurice Robertson and Zoraida
Lopez will be exhibiting photography. Margaux Hayes will be performing and
Dana Rondel will be reading.

Fresh off a successful run at the National Black Theater of Harlem, we
will present Climbing PoeTree's Hurricane Season on Thursday September 24,
2009 at our Villa Victoria Center for the Arts. Through a tapestry of
spoken-word poetry, video projection, dance, shadow art, and a sound
collage of personal testimonies, "Hurricane Season" is a two womyn
multi-media show, popular education tour, and national organizing
strategy that connects the issues that surfaced in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina to the unnatural disasters disenfranchised communities
are experiencing nationwide and worldwide on a daily basis. Will also
include discussion with local grassroots organizations through solution
cipher.


25) Life on the Edge of a Bubble

Wednesday, October 14th
7pm
Lucy Parsons Center
549 Columbus Ave., Boston, MA
Link: http://www.lifeontheedgeofabubble.com

Financial Crisis. Panic. Bailout. The current crisis appeared to
materialize out of nowhere. Even regulators and financial authorities
would have us believe that they were taken entirely by surprise. Dire
headlines demanded quick action to prevent the collapse of the financial
system. Politicians told us that we have to bail out Wall Street to keep
Main Street afloat. As many of us lose our savings, our jobs and our
homes, they tell us that we have to swallow hard and make sacrifices for
the good of
the country. The same political class tries to convince everyday Americans
that the reasons for the bailout are too complicated for us to understand,
so we must leave the solutions to the financial experts . . . the same
ones that didn't see this coming. At the same time, they give our
hard-earned money to Wall Street fat cats, without any strings attached,
turning a deaf ear to our intense and vocal opposition. They saddle us and
our children with an alarming debt burden as they expect us to passively
allow the greatest transfer of wealth in American history.

Life On The Edge of A Bubble challenges the prevailing view of the sudden,
unforeseeable and unique nature of the crisis by bringing to light the
unfamiliar historical pattern; in fact, each generation has found itself
precariously perched on the edge of a bubble. While the media focuses on
symptoms, this film addresses the root causes that politicians, lobbyists
and corporate executives conveniently avoid. The pattern unfolds for the
viewer in an entertaining and accessible blend of archival footage,
historical vignettes, and snapshots of current events, revealing the story
in a sometimes irreverent, often surprising manner.


26) Grassroots Use of Technology Conference X

Friday, October 16th
5:00pm
until
Saturday, October 17th
7pm
Northeastern University
Info: (617)720-6190 / suren@oc-tech.org
Link: http://www.grassrootstech.org

This year's conference is our 10th annual Grassroots Roots of Technology
Conference and brings together hundreds of grassroots and social change
organizers with media activists, writers, and techies from all over New
England.

This year, we have an array of workshops that focus on social media and
organizing work --geared towards both beginners and experts. Topics branch
out into: creating websites, building rapid response networks, using
databases and e-mail lists, fundraising and "micro" donations, community
art, virtual worlds, and more. Rather than offering a blind "techno-lust,"
the conference engages in levelheaded thinking about using the latest
technologies towards the strategic objectives of an organization for both
problem solving and empowerment.

Organized in tandem with the National Writers Union's Digital Media
Conference, it will feature programming that looks at the implications of
digital tech for content creation. GUT-C X is looking forward to a diverse
turnout from immigrants, communities of color, labor organizations, and
peace movement groups and will also act as a platform for regional work on
the Detroit 2010 US Social Forum!

Conference highlights will include a keynote address "Connecting the
Disconnected," by Professor Richard O'Bryant (Northeastern University) and
a lunchtime dialogue between techies and organizers coordinated by
smartMEME.

Sponsored in part by: Organizers' Collaborative, the John O'Bryant African
American Institute, Boston Neighborhood Network TV, the National Writers
Union, and Massachusetts Global Action. A full list of sponsors is
available from the conference website.


27) An Intro to Anti-Fascist Work

Saturday, October 17th
6-10pm
Peoples' Center
37 Howe St., New Haven, CT
Info: (860)416-4575 / circleamatt@gmail.com

A workshop with member(s) of Anti-Racist Action.

Organized bigots and fascists are increasingly bold as right-wing populism
in the United States increases. New Haven's neighborhoods have seen the
most of such activity in Connecticut, though they are by no means alone.

Fascism is not something you can reason with or ignore. It must be
confronted and stamped out by out-organizing and over-powering them with
popular power.

Anti-fascism is something we all need to do; queer folk, people of color,
women, working class folk, immigrants, people of faith, and anyone
committed to a free and equitable society. Don't wait until they're more
dangerous, STOP THEM NOW!

The workshop's time is still tentative, and will be followed by social
time and music.

Sponsored by: Queers Without Borders


28) Capitalism Hits the Fan

October 25th
Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine
170 Park St., Bangor, ME

Richard Wolff on the Economic Meltdown

This new film is a superb introduction allowing citizens to comprehend and
react to the current economic crisis. With breathtaking clarity, Wolff
breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, shows how it was
decades in the making and reflects failures within structures of
American-style capitalism itself. Wolff argues convincingly that more
fundamental change will be necessary than the current government bailouts,
stimulus packages, and increased market regulations.


29) Slingshot Hiphop

Wednesday, October 28th
7pm
Lucy Parsons Center
549 Columbus Ave., Boston, MA
Link: http://www.slingshothiphop.com

Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians living
in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and
employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and
poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms
and generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing
the borders that separate them.

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