Category: Events

Occupy New England Day of Action

January 2nd, 2013 · Steve · Events Comments Off

by Aria

On January 26th, 2013, ONE (Occupy New England) and 350 New England are hosting a day of regional action for the environment in Portland Maine! Topics on the table include: fracking in the Pioneer Valley; the Northern Pass project; the Vermont Yankee power plant; and, of course, the infamous Trailbreaker tar sands pipeline! After the rally, we will be meeting to discuss this year’s events. The event might be catered by Food Not Bombs Portland, so come on an empty stomach!

For more details, see http://350ma.org/2013/01/350ma-takes-action.

First Night Anti-War Rally

December 30th, 2012 · Steve · Events Comments Off

by Linda

At SAA today, we decided to make banners & signs tomorrow to carry at the end (and maybe in the middle of!?!) the First Night Parade.

So come to Community Church (565 Boylston St) Mon Dec 31th at 2pm to make signs/banners and gather to go to the Anti-War Rally in Copley Square starting at 3pm. You’re invited to the Church too, which will be having snacks and karaoke and be a warming station for good friends united in social justice work.

Vigil to protest Delhi Rape and Violence against Women

December 30th, 2012 · Steve · Events Comments Off

by Aria

When – 5PM Tuesday Jan 1 2013

Where – Harvard Square Pit – Behind Redline T-Station Cambridge MA

Please join us for a candle-light vigil in memory of the student in Delhi, India who succumbed to injuries and trauma sustained during the rape attack on her on Dec 16 2012. We will also be assembling to express our stand against all forms of violence against women – whether by patriarchal attitudes, social hierarchies and institutions or by the state and its instruments.

About the incident – http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Delhi-gang-rape-victim-dies-in-Singapore-hospital/articleshow/17802192.cms

Facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/388890031203771/

Organized and supported by Boston South Asia Center

More Reports from the March for Homeless Families

December 14th, 2012 · Steve · Events, News and Announcements Comments Off

by Barbara Magnuson

Vern and I did go into Boston (State House) and it was terrific. We estimate about 200 people showed up. Talked with MA State Representative from Worcester and West Boylston, James J. O’Day (I believe, the ONLY legislator present) who started his career as a Social Worker and knows intimately the effects of good and bad policies enacted at the state level – genuinely concerned about homeless families! Also spoke with a director of a homeless shelter and he says that the state has hired more people to staff the DHCD – making more levels of bureaucracy- and it’s harder for him to get services for his clinics, rather than more efficient. We found out from him that the housing built at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod to house victims of Hurricane Katrina is now empty and not being used!! There are solutions available, but the state is not paying attention to this dire circumstance for homeless families. We were very glad we went!!

Here’s some video footage, courtesy of Bil Lewis:

Photos from March for Homeless Families

December 13th, 2012 · Steve · Events, News and Announcements Comments Off

by Kate Layzer

The march was called to protest new restrictive eligibility requirements for family shelter. According to activists, nearly 70 percent of homeless families who apply for shelter are denied, and many are forced to stay in unsafe conditions. The plan was to deliver a symbolic 51-A form to DHCD—in other words, to report them for child abuse, for denying children emergency shelter. About 150 of us gathered at the State House at noon and marched the short distance to the Department of Housing and Community Development on Cambridge St. We had a police escort, as usual. The march was very peaceful. There were no incidents.