Medea Benjamin at Boston College
Sunday, September 18, 7:00PM
McGuinn Hall 121 on the main BC campus
Medea Benjamin, a powerful and charismatic force in human rights activism, has struggled for social justice in Asia, Africa and the Americas for over 20 years. She is the Founding Director of the human rights organization Global Exchange. Benjamin is a leading activist in the peace movement in the United States and helped bring together the groups forming the coalition United for Peace and Justice. She is also the co-founder of Code Pink: Women for Peace, a women's group that has been organizing against the war in Iraq and pushing for a reorientation of budget priorities in the US to focus on heath care, education and housing, not war.
Ty DePass , longtime peace and anti-racism activist and founding member of Chuck Turner's District 7 Roundtable Advisory Committee will be appearing with Medea. He will be talking about the consequences of war on our communities here at home.
McGuinn Hall is on Beacon St. near the corner of Beacon and Hammond St in Newton, just up Beacon St. from Cleveland Circle. Accessible by T - the last stop on B Green Line
Sponsored by: the BC Global Justice Project, BC AHANA, BC Sociology Dept, Boston Mobilization, Brookline Peaceworks, Coalition Against Election Fraud, Code Pink - Boston, Mass Peace Action, Progressive Democrats of America, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Activist Brainstorming meeting with Medea Benjamin
Local activists and students will hold a brainstorming circle with Medea on Sunday from 12:00 - 2:00. If you are interested in attending, please contact Bruce Taub at: brt@brucetaub.net
web:
http://www.bostonmobilization.org