Program

Speakers

Zoya, member of the Foreign Committee of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)

Matthis Chiroux, military resister and member of Iraq Veterans Against the War

Peter Knowlton, President of District 2 of the United, Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE); active in US Labor Against the War.

Sergio Reyes works with the Boston May Day Committee.  He is an activist for migrant workers’ rights, human rights, social justice, and radical social change.

Charles Derber, professor of sociology at Boston College and author of Greed to Green: Solving Global Warming and Remaking Our Economy

John Schuchardt, member of Veterans for Peace, North Shore Coalition for Peace and Justice, and the Peace Pagoda, and founder of the House of Peace in Ipswich, Mass.    He has been a peace activist since 1975 including the Plowshares Eight, and served 2 years for direct action to dismantle nuclear weapons.

Sarah Roche-Mahdi, Scholar, writer, longtime women’s reproductive rights activist, and organizer of Greater Boston Code Pink. Traveled to Gaza in March and Israel/Palestine in June as Code Pink delegate. On Student Outreach and International Networking committees for the Gaza Freedom March, she is just back from meetings with French leaders of Palestinian rights organizations.

Jim Brooks, a life long civil rights advocate, was born and raised in South side of Chicago, moved to Boston in 1976.  Cofounder of Disabled Peoples Liberation Front, which after a 7 year struggle won accessibility requirement for theaters in Boston, one of first cities in US to have this requirement.   Jim was a paralegal at the Disability Law Center and worked at Boston City Hall under Ray Flynn.  He currently works for City Life, the housing rights advocacy organization, assisting with its program of blockading evictions and occupation of foreclosed houses. City Life/Vida Urbana is a grassroots community organization in Boston committed to fighting for racial, social, and economic justice and gender equality by building working class power through direct action, coalition building, education and advocacy.

Angela Kelly, representative of the Fund our Neighborhoods, Cut Military Spending coalition from Dorchester and of Dorchester People for Peace

Sarah Fuhro is the mother of a soldier deployed in Afghanistan over the past 14 months and is a member of MilitaryFamilies Speak Out.

Tito Meza, the Coordinator of Proyecto Hondureño, will speak on the current crisis in Honduras.

Performers

Mista Mayday with Above/Below, hip-hop/jazz ensemble from New London, CT

Bojah and the Insurrection of Boston.   Fusing soul, funk, rock, and hip hop, they create anthems that reverberate in your head, that you can sing to, that say something.

The Constitution Brass Band from Boston and Vermont

Thanks! to Eric Kilburn of Wellspring Sound, for providing sound production support at the event.

Masters of Ceremonies

Roy Zimmerman, satirical singer-songwriter.  Roy offers funny songs about war, ignorance and greed.

Marilyn Levin is a national coordinator of the National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations.   Locally, she is active in United for Justice with Peace, its Palestine Task Force, and New England United.   She has a long history of activism and building mass movements in the civil rights movement, women’s rights movement, and anti-Vietnam War movement.