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This weekend, let’s stand up to the pro-Israel lobby and corrupting influence over American foreign policy and domestic politics.

Democracy’s nemesis, The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), is coming to Boston for a summit of its 1% donors (only supporters who have more than $3,600 annually can attend!).  AIPAC’s government lackeys – including Deval Patrick and Scott Brown – will be on hand to pledge their loyalty to its agenda of endless war, Israeli occupation and apartheid, and rampant Anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia.

But never fear, we’ll be there, too, to give AIPAC an appropriate reception: colorful, loud, classy protests, brooms to ‘sweep’ them out of our town. Join us for three days of education and activism as we stand up to the Israel lobby at the Expose AIPAC Summit.  Join us!

On Saturday, October 13, we’ll gather for a teach-in featuring noted speakers, including Steven Walt, (co-author of The Israel Lobby), Jamal Abdi, Policy Director, National Iranian American Council, Representative Denise Provost, and Kristen Szremski of American Muslims for Palestine. We will meet at the Palestine Cultural Center for Peace at 41 Quint Avenue in Allston, from 3:45-7pm.

On Sunday, October 14, we’ll bring our message directly to AIPAC and its biggest donors as they convene at the swanky Boston Seaport Hotel,  located at 200 Seaport Boulevard. We will meet at nearby Eastport Park 12pm for a picnic, music, and to get ready for the protest. The protest itself will begin at 1pm.

On Monday, October 15, at noon, we’ll give AIPAC a “Get Out of Our Town Party” they’ll never forget.

Why Expose AIPAC?

With AIPAC-led sanctions on Iran already causing massive hardships for Iranian civilian, the Israel lobby is now drumming up American support for an attack on Iran.  AIPAC has spent millions of dollars to persuade American politicians of the need to support another aggressive war abroad, creating a climate in an election season where politicians are afraid to oppose AIPAC for fear of being denounced as anti-Israel.

Meanwhile, AIPAC consistently lobbies on behalf of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, facilitating the transfer of over $3 billion a year from the US government to Israel and ensuring the diplomatic protection that allows Israel to maintain separation walls and the siege of Gaza, and to engage in numerous other brutal methods of collective punishment deemed illegal under international law.

Shockingly, most of  the American public is not aware that US foreign policy on the Middle East is being largely set in Israel, by way of AIPAC and the larger Israel lobby. Additionally, the Israel Lobby’s promotion of Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism have created an atmosphere in which billions of American dollars can be used to launch wars in the Middle East and to enforce a system of racial apartheid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories without Americans realizing the true human cost of American support for war and aggression.

It’s time to defy AIPAC and demand an American policy in the Middle East based on respect for human rights and democracy- not on endless war. We refuse to accept AIPAC’s corrupting influence over our domestic politics and its attempts to get America bogged down in yet another war.

It’s time to Expose AIPAC.

For more information and a complete schedule of events, please click here.
You can find the Facebook event here.
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Join us for a debrief for the celebrations and actions associated with
our anniversary:

S17 & S30 Debriefing – Community Gathering Everyone WELCOME!

Mon, October 8, 6pm – 9pm
Outdoors at Copley Square, Boston

Food provided/pot luck additions encouraged.

Also, you may want to join Community Forum, Occupy Boston’s discussion
email list:
https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/community_forum

Action Announce list:
https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/ob_action_announce

FSU, Free School University:
https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/fsu-announce

Decolonize to Liberate Working Group:
https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/decolonize

This is what DEMOCRACY looks like!

There are two really big events happening this weekend, and we’re hoping to see YOU there.

On Saturday, there’s a peace rally happening at 1:30pm at Park Street. This event is being organized by the United National Antiwar Coalition, United for Justice with Peace, the International Action Center, Veterans for Peace, and many other groups. This is a great opportunity to take a stand against war, against Islamaphobia, and against repression. Occupy Boston will gather at the base of Boston Common at Soldiers and Sailors Monument Hill at 1pm, and head over to the rally shortly before 1:30. Bring a sign, bring a banner, and come march with us!

For all you Villens out there, Somerville’s Honkfest parade is happening on Sunday (10/7), and Occupy Boston is marching with the bands. We’ll gather at 11:00 am Sunday, in the parking lots behind the CVS in Davis Square. Bring bandannas! Honkfest is a major festivity; if you’ve never been to Honkfest before, then you owe it to yourself to check out the parade, and the other activities happening in Somerville.

Finally, and after a long hiatus, Occupy Boston Community Gatherings are back! We’re having one on Monday Oct 8th, from 6-9:00pm in Copley Square. We’ll have food, a potluck, and a debrief of S17 (the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street) and S30 (the first anniversary of Occupy Boston).

Note: the location of the Oct 8th Community Gathering was previously listed as Community Church of Boston; we had to make a last-minute venue change, so we’re taking the event outside, across the street.

Solidarity!

Join us in a march and rally to protest the dangerous escalation in threats of military action against Syria and Iran and increased racist violence and repression at home.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1:30 PM
PARK ST.

Eleven years ago on October 7, the U.S. unleashed a war on Afghanistan, followed by the war on Iraq based on lies. While thousands of troops remain in these countries, U.S. drone missiles rain down on Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Now the government imposes sanctions and threatens to attack Syria and Iran. The U.S. sends troops and threatens to retaliate against anti-US protesters in the Middle East. These actions will escalate the nightmare of war in the Middle East, not end it.

To wage war abroad, they must wage war at home. The last decade has seen escalating repression and poverty at home. Islamophobia and scapegoating of Muslims leads to manufactured frame-ups and violence against the Muslim community. Civil liberties and the right to dissent are under siege with indefinite detention and extra-judicial assassinations now the law of the land.

Racism is a weapon of war. They use it against Muslims and immigrants. They’ve stepped up the war on Black and Latino youth, with racial profiling, stop and frisk, and harsh sentencing — resulting in police brutality, mass incarceration, military weapons in the hands of police, and a hugely profitable prison industry.

To pay for wars and to maximize the profits of the haves, they take more and more from the have-nots. We see cuts to the social safety nets, attacks on labor, huge unemployment, privatization of public services, neglect of infrastructure, and poisoning of the environment.

LET’S STAND TOGETHER IN UNITY AND SOLIDARITY. TOGETHER WE ARE POWERFUL!

HANDS OFF SYRIA AND IRAN! NO TO RACISM, RAIDS, AND REPRESSION! NO TO ISLAMOPHOBIA!

Source:
http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2012/006022.html