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“It is disgraceful that a Congress that can vote upwards of $35 billion a year for a senseless immoral war in Vietnam cannot vote a weak $2 billion dollars to carry on our all too feeble efforts to bind up the wound of our nation’s 35 million poor. This is nothing short of a Congress engaging in political guerilla warfare against the defenseless poor of our nation…”
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., November, 1967
March on the Pentagon
Saturday, March 17, 2007 4th Anniv. of the U.S. Invasion & Occupation of Iraq |
 March 18, 2006 Boston anti-war protest called by Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Comm.
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End Poverty, Racism, Sexism & War!
Not One More Dollar for War and Occupation! Defund the Pentagon - $$ for AIDS, Jobs, Healthcare, Housing & Education! Bring ALL the Troops Home Now! |
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006 - 6:00 PM Boston City Council Hearing on School Bus Safety
Boston City Council Chamber, 5th Floor, City Hall
Hector Rivas, a mechanic for the Boston Public School busses and United Auto Workers (UAW) member, passed away on March 9, 2006. He was found unconscious at First Students Inc's Freeport Street yard after inhaling carbon monoxide while starting the school buses on a cold winter morning. First Student had been using gasoline powered jump starters that are located in an enclosed service truck. For over two years UAW local 1596, mechanics union, had urged First Student to ventilate the trucks at a cost of between 25-40 dollars a vehicle. Management refused! |
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Make December 1
Rosa Parks Human Rights Day |
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Friday, Dec. 1
1:00pm - Rally/March Dudley Square, Roxbury
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Dec.1, 2005 Rosa Parks Day
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December 1, is the 51st anniversary of the arrest of the honorable Mother Rosa Parks who stood up for all of us when she sat down and refused to give her bus seat to a white male in the segregated Jim Crow south of Montgomery, Alabama. This action resulted in the Montgomery bus boycott which ignited the civil rights movement. |
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The Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee, a coalition of labor,
elected officials, religious leaders, youth, community and cultural groups are calling
on the mayor of Boston once again to honor December 1st as Rosa Parks
Human Rights Day, and declare it a legal holiday for students and all city workers.
Last December 1, 2005, 2,000 people made Rosa Parks Human Rights Day a reality by embracing the legacy of Rosa Parks and taking the day off from work or school, refusing to shop and marched through the streets of Boston. As a woman of color, Rosa Parks serves as a bridge for many of the different struggles and movements that address issues that harm our lives and those of our communities. Katrina and the status of undocumented immigrant workers are glaring examples of the stress and disruptions in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. The violence and murders in our neighborhoods, where innocent children in their household get glazed by bullets is a mark on all of our souls. The on going war in Iraq is increasing the death toll and costing $2 billion dollars a week that is taken from social programs that could improve our communities. Instead of building housing affordable to the incomes of working people, Boston is building a bio lab that threatens the safety of our lives and neighborhoods. By her actions of resistance and civil disobedience, Rosa Parks has become a universal champion of human rights and human dignity worldwide. Join with us on Friday, December 1, 2006 to make this date Rosa Parks (Human Rights) Day, a legal Boston Holiday!
End Poverty, Racism, Sexism, Violence & War!
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Union mechanic found dead with 11 times the "permissible level" of Carbon Monoxide
Committee for Justice for Hector Rivas Formed |
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| Hector Rivas, a mechanic for the Boston Public School busses and United Auto Workers (UAW) member, passed away on March 9, 2006. He was found unconscious at First Students Inc's Freeport Street yard after inhaling carbon monoxide while starting the school buses on a cold winter morning. First Student had been using gasoline powered jump starters that are located in an enclosed service truck. For over two years UAW local 1596, mechanics union, had urged First Student to ventilate the trucks at a cost of between 25-40 dollars a vehicle. Management refused! --more-- |
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CORI Justice & Peace Day
Saturday, October 7
1-5pm @ Malcolm X Park (Washington St. & MLK Blvd.) |
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LEGAL, HEALTH, HOUSING & EMPLOYMENT RESOURCES - CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES,FOOD, MUSIC, SPEAKERS
If you’re unemployed, working two jobs & still not making it, can’t get a job because of your CORI, or just sick & tired of being “sick & tired,” join us for this festive day of unity, struggle, community and fun. Family & friends are welcome.
Including:
For more info contact Chuck Turner’s Office (617) 427-8100 |
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PROTEST CHENEY U.S. Out of Iraq Now
Friday, Sept. 8 - 4:00pm |
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Defund the Pentagon - $$$ for AIDS, Jobs, Housing, Healthcare & Education
On Friday, Sept. 8 Dick Cheney will be speaking at a $2,500 a plate Republican Party fundraiser at the Harvard Club in Boston.
Cheney is one of the principle architects of the criminal invasion and occupation of Iraq.
He is a strong supporter of the Patriot Act and has consistently worked to subvert the constitution and has been a
proponent of repression against Arabs and Muslims.
Cheney and Bush not only supported but encouraged Israel to brutally attack the people of Lebanon and Palestine.
As former CEO of Halliburton he is responsible for awarding lucrative no-bid contracts for the reconstruction of
Iraq as well as providing unconditional support to big oil and their ruthless pursuit of mega-profits. **more**
On Friday, September 8 join with the thousands who will be in the streets around the Harvard Club to demand: |
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International Action Center 617-522-6626 • iacboston@iacboston.org • www.iacboston.org Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Comm. 617-524-3507 • rosaparksday@brphrd.com Women’s Fightback Network 617-522-6626 • wfn@iacboston.org |
August 29th is the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. When Katrina hit it devastated the states of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. The images of New Orleans even shocked people from developing countries. When the levee broke and people were stranded, the U.S. government did nothing for 4 days, they just left poor, Black, Native Americans and Latino's there to die. This criminal negligence on the part of the government highlights how poor and oppressed people of color are treated less than human.
The reality is that all across this country, the conditions for poor, Black, Native Americans, Latino and other people of color are one in which our lives are Katrina-ized (criminally neglected). We can see this in the Immigration movement where undocumented immigrant workers receive ridiculously low wages, dangerous work environments, no health care and often unsafe overcrowded housing.
Endorsers:
Tony Van Der Meer, Prof. UMASS Boston*;
Chuck Turner, Boston City Council, District 7*;
Clemencia Lee, Co-Founder Cultural Cafe;
Dorotea Manuela, Puerto Rican Activist;
Askia Toure, Poet & Political Activist;
The Most Rev. Filipe Teixeira, OFSJC, Diocese of St. Francis of Assisi, CCA;
Boston Workers Alliance;
Encuentro Diaspora Afro;
International Action Center;
Women's Fightback Network;
QueerToday.com;
Survivors Inc.;
MOCAA@MAC;
Community Change, Inc;
Committee to Defend the Somerville 5;
New England Human Rights Organization for Haiti;
MLK Jr., Bolivarian Circle;
Ed Childs, Chief Shop-Steward Unite/HERE L. 26*;
United for Justice with Peace;
Boston Anti-Zionist Action;
Mystic River Green-Rainbow Action;
Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts;
The Lucy Parsons Center;
Diocese of Saint Francis of Assisi, Catholic Church of the Americas;
Greater Boston Stop The Wars Coalition;
Workers World Party;
Safety Net
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“All I felt was tired. Tired of being pushed around. Tired of seeing the bad treatment and disrespect of children, women, and men just because of the color of their skin ... tired of being oppressed.” - Rosa Parks
Against Poverty, Racism, Sexism & War
Over the course of the summer the Rosa Parks Committee is proposing the following activities:
July 29: Mass Flyer Distribution - Meet 11:00 am at the International Action Center, 284 Amory St. (the Brewery), JP
This summer the BRPHRDC is launching a “Summer of Organizing & Struggle” against Poverty, Racism, Sexism & War. This campaign, taken to the neighborhoods of Boston will make the connection between the local violence in the community and the U.S. War drive and economic crisis on the poor, working class and oppressed peoples, especially Black and Latin@s in Boston and the nation.
From the need to rebuild the Gulf Coast and compensate those displaced by Katrina/Rita as a result of the criminal and racist neglect of the government to the increased attempts to criminalize the immigrant communities & militarize the borders to the police occupation of our communities and the use of racial profiling & repression against Black and Latin@ youth to the use of CORI (Criminal Offender Record Information) to keep thousands, predominantly people of color, from obtaining jobs, housing, college, etc. to the attacks on reproductive rights for women to an increase in anti-LGBT bigotry to the attacks on our hard fought pensions and benefits and to the need for union jobs; quality, equal education; healthcare and housing we need to unite and fightback against poverty, racism, sexism & war. We call on community activists on the frontlines of the war at home to join with the Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Comm. and help plan and organize the "Summer of Organizing & Struggle".
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to discuss and help organize a
Summer of Organizing & Struggle Against
Poverty, Racism, Sexism & War
