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SUMMARY:Dance for World Community Conference
DESCRIPTION:Conference Registration is now open!\nJune 5-8\, 2025\nHarvard Square\, Cambridge MA\n \nConcern about climate change and its disproportionate impact on under-resourced or otherwise disadvantaged communities continues to grow. After decades of persistent advocacy and activism to advance social and environmental justice\, recent destabilizing orders from top US government officials are brazenly countermanding advances in climate science\, public health\, education\, diversity\, inclusion\, equity and other areas. It is no wonder why\, in today’s environment\, independent artists and arts organizations are looking to expand their role as advocates and activists\, to support creative and rational solutions to the critical global issues that ultimately affect us all. \nFrom the muralist who mobilizes an entire community to paint uplifting images in a depressed urban space\, to the composer who writes a symphony to evince the destruction that humanity is inflicting on the planet’s ecological systems\, artists of all media and forms continue to respond to the urgencies of our age. \n \nDance for World Community\, initiated in 2009 by a ballet organization in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, proposes that dance is particularly well suited to effective advocacy and activism. Inherently social\, dance is universally understandable\, has great potential to bring diverse people together across cultural divides and can quickly build trust and community cohesion. \nPowerful as it is\, dance is one of the most under-resourced sectors in America and is underrepresented in many institutional settings. In spite of the steady increases in the number of training and performance centers\, established schools and companies are notoriously insular and inward-looking. The sector lacks the inclusive\, unified voice it needs to respond to the challenges that now all the arts and other industries are facing in 2025. \n \nHow will we as dancers — performers\, instructors\, choreographers\, administrators\, scholars\, independent dance artists and aficionados — respond to the critical social and environmental crises that can no longer be ignored by any of us? \nIn this conference\, we will examine different initiatives and models\, exchange ideas and begin to build the necessary networks to strengthen our efforts to make a difference. Through this shared process\, we will rouse the advocate and activist in each of us. 
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/dance-for-world-community-conference/
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture
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SUMMARY:Free David Huerta\, End ICE Raids!
DESCRIPTION:Emergency Rally: Free David Huerta!\nMonday\, June 9\nBoston City Hall – Circle Plaza\nGather at 1:30 PM\nRally from 2 PM-3 PM\nOn Friday the president of SEIU California\, David Huerta\, was assaulted and arrested while peacefully protesting ICE raids in downtown Los Angeles. While he has been released from the hospital after being treated for his injuries\, he remains in custody. \nDavid is an LA native\, a labor leader who has fought tirelessly for immigrant communities\, and he is one of thousands of people of good conscience across the country who are standing up for what’s right: an end to ICE raids that are tearing our communities apart. \nSEIU locals across the country are doing everything they can to support David and call for his immediate release – just like they did for our union sister who was detained earlier this year. It’s crucial that we make our voices heard. \nAlong with other SEIU Massachusetts State Council locals\, we’re anchoring an emergency rally tomorrow in Boston in solidarity with our union brother. Please join us if you’re able. \nIf you can’t make it to tomorrow’s rally\, there is a solidarity request to uplift SEIU California’s statements on social media. Please share their posts here and here. \nWhen they come for one of us all\, they come for all of us. From California to Massachusetts\, labor will not back down in the face of injustice.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/free-david-huerta-end-ice-raids/
LOCATION:Boston City Hall Plaza\, Government Center\, Boston
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SUMMARY:GLOBAL ECO-RESTORATION AND POWER DYNAMICS: Critical Ecosystems in Brazil\, Senegal and the US
DESCRIPTION:Climate disruption is increasing and with it so is polarization\, both within the US as well as among nation states. Now more than ever it is incumbent upon us to highlight successful efforts to create a more sustainable\, just\, and peaceful world. \nImportant initiatives in regenerative agriculture\, agroforestry\, soil restoration\, and related practices are making significant contributions to climate adaptation\, often contributing to the resilience of communities and international collaboration. \nThis webinar\, a joint project of the MAPA Peace & Climate group and of Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4Climate)\, will focus on locations outside the US where regenerative practices largely based on local initiatives have been successful on a significant scale. \nOur panelists will address a number of issues including the following: \n\nWhat aspects of these projects worked well and less well?\nHow were local communities engaged\, especially those from marginalized groups?\nWere there any significant collaborations with organizations in the Global North—and if so\, are these collaborations continuing during the second Trump administration?\nAre there any impacts within these regions of US foreign/military policy\, e.g. local US military bases?\n\nSpeakers: \nBeck Mordini (moderator)\, Executive Director of Bio4Climate. She has worked on protecting biodiversity at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and protecting undocumented workers in Washington State. \nJohn Leary\, Founder and Executive Director of Mother Trees\, is an advocate for sustainable agriculture with 20+ years experience in the field. He has dedicated his life to helping communities around the world and designing and implementing landscape restoration programs that rehabilitate farms and restore forest ecosystems. \nOusmane Aly Pame\, PhD\, is distinguished professor of literature at the Université of Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar\, Senegal and the founder and President of REDES (Réseau pour l’Emergence et le Dévelopement des Ecovillages au Sahel). A respected regional community leader and former mayor of the eco-town of Guede Chantier\, Dr. Pame has been instrumental in fostering sustainable development in the Sahel region. \nRob de Laet\, is a Dutch entrepreneur\, climate strategist and project lead at Cooling the Climate. Together with Peter Bunyard and others\, Rob is developing the Cooling Climate Chaos project aimed at rapid restoration of the earth’s water cycles and regeneration of the biosphere. Their book Cooling the Climate: How to Revive the Biosphere and Cool the Earth Within 20 Years was published in November 2024. \n \nRegister for this event.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/global-eco-restoration-and-power-dynamics-critical-ecosystems-in-brazil-senegal-and-the-us/
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CATEGORIES:Peace and Climate
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SUMMARY:Cuba: Land of Culture\, Community\, and Promise
DESCRIPTION:An evening of short films and discussion with people who travel to Cuba: Tuesday\, June 11\, 5-7 pm\, Forbes Library\, Northampton MA \nRegister to attend. \n \nPor Primera Vez\, 1967\, the new Cuban Film Institute brings its mobile cinema truck to rural Cuba to show a film to farm families who have never seen a movie\, have never had electricity\, bringing them into the hopes and promises of the Revolution. \nRecent shorts\nWhat is going on in Cuba now\, more than 50 years later?\nThe War on Cuba\nHow Palestinians Are Becoming Doctors in Cuba For Free\nU.S. sanctions prevent Cuban farmers from getting prosthetic legs \nWhat is Cuba like? What’s it like to travel there? What are the effects of the US Embargo\, in place in 1961? \nTalk with people who have just spent time in Cuba\, having gone in a variety of different ways\, for different reasons and with different experiences.  They’ll talk about their experiences and what they found in the Cuba they spent time in. Learn yourself about how you can travel through a 5 minute video and questions answered by our panel. \nCan We Help Cuba Deal with the US Blockade?\nYes! Learn how we can donate medicines and medical supplies\, and donate! There will be Cuba posters to buy and donation boxes for different groups sending humanitarian assistance to Cuba. \nRegister to attend.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/cuba-land-of-culture-community-and-promise/
LOCATION:Forbes Library\, 20 West St\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060
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SUMMARY:No War with Iran - Emergency Rally
DESCRIPTION:Israel has struck Iran in an unprovoked attack on its civilian infrastructure in an attempt to drag the US into their senseless and dangerous wars in the Middle East. \nThe Israeli government has claimed this is a “preemptive” action\, but Iran was not attacking\, nor was it building a nuclear weapon. This strike was UNPROVOKEDand ILLEGAL under international law. It has needlessly put many innocent people in mortal danger. \nOn June 13th\, we will rally at the JFK Federal Building to demand an end to US and Israeli aggression for a return to diplomacy over military confrontation.   \nSponsors: National Iranian American Council\, Jewish Voice for Peace Boston\, Boston Coalition for Palestine\, Massachusetts Peace Action\, and more \n 
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/no-war-with-iran-emergency-rally/
LOCATION:JFK Federal Building\, Cambridge St at Sudbury St\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Middle East Wars
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SUMMARY:No Kings\, No War\, on Pride Day
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, June 14th\, former President Donald Trump will spend at least $100 million of our taxpayer dollars on a military parade—a spectacle meant to glorify power and project strength\, even as vital social services like Social Security\, SNAP\, and Medicaid face relentless cuts. \nOn the same day\, you and I must raise our voices in response. On June 14\, there will be a nationwide mobilization\, a grassroots day of protest to reject this corruption\, abuse of power\, and the creeping normalization of authoritarianism and militarism. \nTrump’s obscene event is not just a wasteful party at your and my expense. It is a deliberate embrace of militarism and strongman authoritarianism\, both of which threaten peace around the world and erode the foundations of democracy and civil rights here at home. History teaches us that military parades are not harmless displays; they are the pageantry of authoritarianism\, designed to intimidate dissent and normalize the idea that might makes right. \nThere will be hundreds of No Kings protests nationwide on June 14\, including over 130 in Massachusetts.   Find an event near you and bring your peace\, Palestine\, and Pride signs! \nIn Boston\, No Kings Day coincides with Pride Day on June 14.   We will amplify Pride by marching with our peace\, Palestine\, and Pride flags.We will not stand idly by while our queer and transgender brothers\, sisters and nonbinary siblings are erased by this administration. \nLogistics: MAPA supporters will assemble outside the CAVA restaurant on Boylston St\, between Dartmouth and Exeter St\, at 10:00am.  Bring Palestine and peace flags\, wear keffiyehs.  We will leaflet the crowd\, then join the parade which is supposed to start at 11:00.  The parade will last from approximately 11am-1pm. The festival in the Common will run from 12pm-3pm. Check out the official Boston Pride website for more specific information and timing of events. If you would like to volunteer directly with Boston Pride for the People\, please click here. \nWe’re fighting for democracy. Let’s make them listen.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/no-kings-no-war-on-pride-day/
LOCATION:Copley Square\, Boylston St and Dartmouth St\, Boston\, MA\, 02115
CATEGORIES:Democracy
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SUMMARY:Father's Day Concert: for the Children of Gaza
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URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/fathers-day-concert-for-the-children-of-gaza/
LOCATION:Pulaski Park\, 240 Main St\, Northampton\, MA\, 01060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture,Palestine/Israel
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