Upcoming events
- Youth Way Volunteer Night(event)(15 hours)
- TRU Campaign Committee Meeting(event)(16 hours)
- Solar Road Trip(event)(16 hours)
- Community Gathering and Screening of "Coal Country"(event)(2 days)
- Multimedia Art Evening(event)(5 days)
- President's Cancer Panel(event)(15 days)
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
Start: 11:00 am
Boston, one of New England's largest and most important cities is crammed full of spectacular landmarks and monuments. Enjoy a 2-hour narrated trolley tour that will highlight major works of art that feature the monumental ideas of protest and existence from the 19th through the 21st centuries. The tour will travel through downtown Boston, Beacon Hill, Roxbury, and Jamaica Plain and will include sculptures and murals that document the history of resistance. Rich with history, the tour will offer the understanding of the roles of public art and its power for community engagement, demonstration of civic and cultural pride and the rare discussion of the connections these artworks have to the expression of freedom and visual vocabulary manifested through the eyes of the artists. The trolley will accommodate 40 people. Participation for the tour requires registration.
Facilitator: L'Merchie Frazier works at the Museum of African American History and is a bank tenant. Call City Life to register at 617.524.3541, ext. 310.
Saturday, August 8 at 11 am.
Meet at the Boston Common, across the street from the State House.
If you have questions about the workshop, call or email the appropriate contact person listed above. Classes will fill quickly and space is limited. For more information, contact City Life/Vida Urbana at 617.524.3541, or by email at organize@clvu.org.
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
Come out to let the MBTA know your thoughts on fare increases and service cuts!
Monday, August 10, 2009
from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.
at the Gardner Auditorium in the State House
24 Beacon Street
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Come out to let the MBTA know your thoughts on fare increases and service cuts!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Garfield Elementary School
176 Garfield Avenue
Revere, MA
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Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Explore with other activists the role of spirituality in our social justice work.
Facilitator: Mary Wright, City Life tenant organizer
To sign up for a class, send an email to radicalorganizingconference@gmail.com.
Tuesday, August 11
from 6 pm - 8 pm,
at City Life/Vida Urbana
the Brewery, 284 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain
If you have questions about the workshop, call or email the appropriate contact person listed above. Classes will fill quickly and space is limited. For more information, contact City Life/Vida Urbana at 617.524.3541, or by email at organize@clvu.org.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Come out to let the MBTA know your thoughts on fare increases and service cuts!
Thursday, August 13, 2009
from 5:30- 7:30 p.m.
Somerville High School Auditorium
81 Highland Avenue
Somerville, MA
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Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
We will start with an interactive exercise to help us answer he question: what is solidarity economy? Then we will hear about real life solidarity economy efforts from right here in Boston and around the world We will also break into small groups to envision and discuss what we want Solidarity Economy to look like in Boston.
Panelists and Facilitators: Sarah Horsley, CLVU volunteer and member of the Boston Area Solidarity Economy Network (BASEN); Orion Kriegman, co-founder of PUEBLO land trust co-op housing project and member of BASEN; Julie Matthaei, member of the US Solidarity Economy Network and member of BASEN; Germai Medhanie, founder of Guramylay: Growing the Green Economy and member of BASEN.
To sign up for a class, send an email to radicalorganizingconference@gmail.com.
Thursday, August 13
from 6 pm - 89 pm,
at City Life/Vida Urbana
the Brewery, 284 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain
If you have questions about the workshop, call or email the appropriate contact person listed above. Classes will fill quickly and space is limited. For more information, contact City Life/Vida Urbana at 617.524.3541, or by email at organize@clvu.org.
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
Start: 12:00 pm
Talk about where people ge ttheir food and what are some ways that fresh, healthy food access needs to be and can be improved in our community. Then try out spme gardening at ReVision Urban Farm in Dorchester or possibly at one of the community gardens that the BWA has recently been involved in (pending me contacting these folks and seeing what they think might be possibly.
Contact: Joli Olivetti, jolivetti@gmail.com, 617.851.9356.
To sign up for a class, send an email to radicalorganizingconference@gmail.com.
Saturday, August 15
time to be determined,
at City Life/Vida Urbana
the Brewery, 284 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain
If you have questions about the workshop, call or email the appropriate contact person listed above. Classes will fill quickly and space is limited. For more information, contact City Life/Vida Urbana at 617.524.3541, or by email at organize@clvu.org.
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Start: 12:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Saturday, August 15
from 12 pm- 6pm
at Mary Hannon Park
Volunteers are needed for the committee which will meet on Tuesday, June 9th from 6-7:30pm at DSNI. All are invited! Call Jose Barros at 617 442 9670 x16 500 reads – more info
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Shirley Chisholm revolutionized America and became a revolutionary woman known around the world for bringing change to America and one of the top 10 most important women in the world/history. She constructed the foundation for a renewed and revolutionized American society. TODAY... Today, Barack Obama has been accepted/adopted and popularized by American media and society far ahead of getting any concrete facts and information of his presidential run. Leaders of the past, present and our future will be discussed and documented.
Facilitator: Joseph Edgecombe, F.A.C.T.S.-- Urban History Scholar
To sign up for a class, send an email to radicalorganizingconference@gmail.com.
Thursday, August 20
from 6 pm - 8:30 pm,
at City Life/Vida Urbana
the Brewery, 284 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain
If you have questions about the workshop, call or email the appropriate contact person listed above. Classes will fill quickly and space is limited. For more information, contact City Life/Vida Urbana at 617.524.3541, or by email at organize@clvu.org.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Come out to let the MBTA know your thoughts on fare increases and service cuts!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Grove Hall Community Center
51 Geneva Avenue
Dorchester, MA
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Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Come out to let the MBTA know your thoughts on fare increases and service cuts!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Roxbury Community College Media Arts Center
1234 Columbus Avenue
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Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
This course will offer ahnds-on training around electronic media, Web 2.0, still shot photography, and movie making, How can these crafts be used to visually document and built the movement? At our first meeting, we will set dates for getting together to learn, do field work, and create a final product.
Facilitators: Karin Parker (Web 2.0), KC Bailey (photography), Ernesto Morales (film), both bank tenants.
Space is limited! To register, contact Karin Parker at kparker@clvu.org.
Date and time to be determined,
at City Life/Vida Urbana
the Brewery, 284 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain.
If you have questions about the workshop, call or email the appropriate contact person listed above. Classes will fill quickly and space is limited. For more information, contact City Life/Vida Urbana at 617.524.3541, or by email at organize@clvu.org.
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Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Learn how to write an effective letter to the editor, to your mortgage company, to an elected official, or to the judge in your case. Bring drafts of letters you are working on, or just come and learn from the experience.
Facilitator: Cynthia Peters
To sign up for a class, send an email to radicalorganizingconference@gmail.com.
Tuesday, August 25
from 6 pm - 8 pm,
at City Life/Vida Urbana
the Brewery, 284 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain
If you have questions about the workshop, call or email the appropriate contact person listed above. Classes will fill quickly and space is limited. For more information, contact City Life/Vida Urbana at 617.524.3541, or by email at organize@clvu.org.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
August 27
from 5:30-7:30pm
at the Transportation Building
10 Park Plaza, Boston
Remember to bring your picture ID.
For more information, contact 619 reads – more info
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Start: 5:00 pm
If you're not already registered to vote, make sure to register by today to be eligible to vote in the upcoming primary elections on September 22, 2009.
Primary elections, voter registration deadline
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Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Mailing Party & Phone Bank
Come help with ACE's fall fundraising and ACE in the Hood outreach!
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
at the ACE Office.
Please RSVP to Holly so we know how much food to order!
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
If you are under- or unemployed or have CORI problems, please join our monthly membership meeting. Individuals seeking to become active members are required to attend! Join us to get an update on our campaign, get plugged into resources, and to become more involved in BWA.
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Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Mayoral Candidate Forum
Come to this forum to meet Boston's mayoral candidates.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Reggie Lewis Center, Roxbury.
Please visit
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Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Come hear the candidates for mayor square off and respond to questions about Boston's future.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
6:30-8:00 p.m.
Reggie Lewis Center, Roxbury
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Monday, September 7, 2009
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Labor Day comes every year, but the opportunity to cure our country's ailing health care system comes once in a lifetime! Join with community and labor allies from across the state in a march and rally to show our support for real health care reform. Come out to help send our elected officials back to work in Washington D.C. with a message from the people of Massachusetts: we want health care that puts people before profits, and we want it now!
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