[act-ma] 3/21 LANI BLECHMAN - "Reproductive Justice and the Debate Over Women's Bodies"

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THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON
SUNDAY SPEAKERS FORUM presents...

Sunday, March 21, 2010
11:00am

LANI BLECHMAN
"Reproductive Justice and the Debate Over Women's Bodies"

What do abortion rights have to do with disability, economic, environmental,
gender, and racial justice? How do abortion rights fit into queer liberation
and youth empowerment? What's the connection between the right to have
children, the right to not have children, and the right to healthy families
and communities? Lani Blechman will join us in exploring these questions
through a Reproductive Justice framework, by examining our values, and
beginning to translate them into action.

Lani, hails from Miami and lives in Northampton where she thinks about
dealing with class privilege and oppression, global feminisms, queer dance
parties, dismantling racism, and heat and humidity. Lani fell into
Reproductive Justice in 2005 when she was a student organizer of CLPP's
annual conference for community and student activists. She is currently a
collective member of Translate Gender, on the advisory board of The Prison
Birth Project, and Operations Assistant at the Civil Liberties and Public
Policy Program (CLPP). Her past hats include substitute teacher, youth
worker, and blogger. You can read her musing at
http://www.amplifyyourvoice.org/u/love-and-organizing.


Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston St. (Copley Square)
www.communitychurchofboston.org


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JOIN US ON SUNDAYS

10:00am 'Truth & Justice Radio' live w/ coffee, tea and bagels
11:00am Sunday Speakers' Service/Forum (2nd floor)
12:45pm Luncheon


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NEXT WEEK'S COMMUNITY CHURCH FORUM (3/28)

LEE FICH
"Libertaion Seder"


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LUNCH ON SUNDAYS, 12:45PM

On Sunday after our morning programs, we have lunch with one another in the
Guatemala Room (3rd floor), prepared by our cook Luis Alonso Guzman. Enjoy a
delicious lunch with friends! A small contribution is requested to help
cover lunch expenses.


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DIRECTIONS/PARKING

The Community Church is located at 565 Boylston Street in Copley Square,
between Dartmouth and Clarendon Streets.

Parking is available on Sunday mornings at the Back Bay Garage (entrances on
Clarendon Street or St. James Ave.). We can provide a sticker to affix to
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By public transportation, take the Green line to Copley or take the Orange
line to Back Bay station. Community Church is a 2-minute walk from either
station.


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The Community Church of Boston is a free community united for the study and
practice of universal religion, seeking to apply ethical ideals to
individual life and the democratic and cooperative principle to all forms of
social and economic life.


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Jason Lydon, Congregational Director
Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
(617) 266-6710
(617) 266-0449 (fax)
info at commchurch.org
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