Boston May Day 2011 at the Rose Kennedy Greenway Park

Let's commemorate International Workers Day this year with a rally at 12 noon at the Rose Kennedy Greenway Park, across from the Haymarket T Station, in the corner of Cross and Hanover streets in Boston. 

The United States has denied a travel visa to Malalai Joya, an acclaimed women’s rights activist and former member of Afghanistan’s parliament. Ms. Joya, who was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2010, was set to begin a three-week US tour to promote an updated edition of her memoir, A Woman Among Warlords, published by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

Chuck Turner with supporters after his arrest, November 2008

Chuck Turner Supporters will be rallying tomorrow Chuck's District 7 Office.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multi-national trade agreement that threatens internet freedom, labor rights, food safety, national law, and peace. Our panel will focus on how the TPP will affect us all.

Speakers:

Kyle Debeausset, MoveOn.org
20 years after NAFTA

John Ratliff, Jobs with Justice

Memorial March for Peace 

Rally begins at Lincoln Memorial at 8 a.m. followed by a march to the King Memorial.

A One-Day Conference about Building Networks of Solidarity in Defiance of NSA Spying & the Erosion of Democratic Rights

Recent dueling district court decisions on the legality of NSA cell phone spying guarantee that at least some of the Orwellian practices of the federal government will come before the Supreme Court relatively soon.   This provides the perfect opportunity to build relationships of solidarity among all those victimized by NSA spying, drones, COINTELPRO-type dirty tricks against the movements for social change, and other forms of systematic suppression of privacy and democratic rights.

Today Bradley Manning’s court martial opened at Fort Mead, MD. He has been charged with “aiding the enemy” and is facing life in a military prison. Manning’s real crime - exposing the war crimes committed by our government, in our name. 

The New England Muslim Bar Association and the South Asian Bar Association of Greater Boston are pleased to present, "Anti-Terrorism Law Post-9/11 and Its Impact on Civil Rights," a panel discussion on how changes in law since 9/11 have affected the domestic civil rights landscape.

Panelists:

Reflections from Behind the Wall

BOSTON-UNAC 
presents
a FORUM

STEPHANIE WEINER, Chicago antiwar/solidarity activist subpoenaed for grand jury re: false aiding terrorism charges

CHUCK TURNER, Roxbury community activist & City Councillor targeted by FBI

NANCY MURRAY, Director, Bill of Rights Education Project, American Civil Liberties Union of Mass.

LAILA MURAD, Tarek Mehanna Support Committee. Mehanna targeted by FBI when he refused to spy on Muslim community and now in solitary confinement

Originally Posted at Boston.com  

SYSTEMIC RACISM IN THE CRIMINAL “JUSTICE” SYSTEM
AND HOW TO COMBAT IT

PLUS ASHLEY CLERGE Political Science student at Northeastern University.  Member Leadership Committee, Boston Coalition for Police Accountability

 Co-Sponsored by the Northeastern and Suffolk Law School chapters of the 
National Lawyers Guild and the United for Justice with Peace coalition.