[act-ma] 12/04 “The Intersectionality of Racism, Oppression,,and Anti-Semitism”,with Rev. Irene Monroe and more
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*CCB SUNDAYS & More*
*December 4 2022 - February 12 2023,
11 AM *(EST)
*12/4:* “The Intersectionality of Racism, Oppression, and Anti-Semitism”
with*Rev. Irene Monroe*
*Sunday, December 4th at 11 AM:*
*“The Intersectionality of Racism, Oppression,
and Anti-Semitism”
with Rev. Irene Monroe*
*/• Rev. Irene Monroe/**//*(she, her, hers) can be heard on the podcast
and standing Boston Public Radio segment ALL REV’D UP on WGBH 89.7 FM.
Monroe is the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail
and History UnErased. Also, Monroe’s syndicated religion columns appear
in Bay Windows, Cambridge Chronicle, Dig Boston, Curve, and in several
cities across the country and in the U.K., and Canada.
Music by*Beatrice Greene
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*Sunday, December 11 at 11 AM:*
*“Children of Our Environments:
US-Cuba Solidarity”
with Calla Mairead Walsh*
Having just returned from the historic US-Cuba Youth Friendship Meeting
in Havana, Calla will discuss her experiences in Cuba fighting the US
blockade and building solidarity between US and Cuban youth, as well as
the role of the Cuban Revolution in raising her own political
consciousness to revolutionary anti-imperialism.
*/• Calla Walsh/**//*is an 18-year-old student, organizer, and writer
from Cambridge, MA and based in Montréal, Québec. She has been published
in Mondoweiss, Multipolarista, The Irish Times, and Teen Vogue, and
featured in The New York Times, Al Jazeera, CGTN, The Boston Globe.
Calla is on the board of Mass Peace Action and active in Palestine
solidarity movements and July26.org.
*Music by Emma's Revolution*
*Sunday, December 18th, 2022 at 12 Noon
/(Note: program is at 12 noon and not 11 am)/
The Community Church of Boston presents:*
*The 2022 Sacco and Vanzetti Memorial Award to
SURVIVORS Of The USA’s WAR ON TERROR:*
with*The Holy Land Foundation Five and Sami Al Arian*
*/Featuring:/*
Miko Peled, Children of the HLF, Sami Al Arian (from Qatar),
Leena Al Arian, Abdulrahman Odeh
The Holy Land Foundation, during the ‘90s, became a very successful US
Muslim charity. Their main beneficiaries were children in the West Bank
and Gaza. In the hysterical anti-Arab aftermath of 9/11, the HLF was
promptly shut down. Its principals were arrested and indicted, and after
a truly unfair and biased farce of a judicial process, were sentenced to
long hard federal prison time. Three of them, fifteen years hence, are
still in prison.
Sacco and Vanzetti, in the thick of a similar anti-immigrant hysteria,
were afforded a similar epic miscarriage of justice, and were executed
in 1927. The connection between these two cases, a century apart, is
stunning, with one important difference: The cry to save Sacco and
Vanzetti became an enormous worldwide cause, whereas now, a decade and a
half after the conviction of the Holy Land Foundation Five, their case
is almost unknown, even by Palestine activists. We will hear from Miko
Peled, whose book, “Injustice, The Story of the Holy Land Foundation
Five”, has eloquently brought this case to the world’s attention. We
will be joined virtually by our other recipient, Prof. Sami Al Arian,
who teaches in Istanbul, but joins us from Doha, Qatar, after the World
Cup's final game!! His case was almost a mirror image of the HLF’s case.
We will hear from the daughters of the HLF principals, and from Sami’s
daughter, Leena Al Arian, whose organization, Coalition for Civil
Freedoms, has worked tirelessly on behalf of political prisoners in this
country. Powerful music will be heard for the cause of Palestine, and
for justice for the HLF. FREE THE HOLY LAND FOUNDATION FIVE!!!
*Music by David Rovics, Garth Hewitt, Dean Stevens*
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*Sunday, January 8th at 11 AM:*
*“Remembering Howard Zinn”*
*with Jeff Zinn*
Howard Zinn, the late iconic radical historian and author of “A People's
History of the United States", spoke many times at Community Church of
Boston during a span of over 30 years. His informative, passionate and
funny talks are preserved on cassettes in our archives. We are
digitizing and making them available on our YouTube Channel. Jeff Zinn,
Howard’s son, will join us with commentary as we hear excerpts from
these recordings.
*/ • Jeff Zinn /*is an American director and actor who has appeared in
the film Zabriskie Point, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and in
several films by Jay Craven. In theatre, Zinn played Danny in the
off-Broadway production of Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet,
and Trety in the Broadway production of The Suicide by Nikolai Erdman
starring Derek Jacobi.
*Music by CommUnity Voices*
*Sunday, January 15th at 11 AM:*
*“Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
with Letta Neely*
*/• Letta Neely/* is originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, she is a
Black lesbian playwright, performer, poet,
mother, teacher and community activist who has been involved in
progressive, anti-racist and queer liberation movements all her adult
life. Her work focuses on the connections and intersections of
queerness, Blackness, and awareness. Letta is also a co-artistic
director for Fort Point Theatre Channel. She is the editor and
scriptwriter of Ife Franklin's "The Slave Narratives of Willie Mae"
(book and film). Letta hosts FireWater Poetics (a hybrid open mic w/
feature) at Emerson College each month. Letta has received a host of
awards as well as roles in award winning productions. She is currently
the Associate Director of Programs at Apprentice Learning. She, along
with Greg Allen, are in the process of creating a one-person show,
“Pulling It All Into The Current”.
*Music by CommUnity Voices*
*Sunday, January 22nd at 11 AM:*
*“The Challenges of Writing About a Revolutionary Who Was Also a Poet:
The Case of Roque Dalton”
with Jim Iffland*
*/• Professor James Iffland/* has written on a wide variety of topics
related to the Spanish Golden Age, centering mainly on Cervantes and
Quevedo. Work in progress in this area includes a forthcoming book
entitled /Usos y abusos: ensayos sobre el destino social del/
“Quijote”. A secondary field of interest is contemporary Central
American literature. Among the courses he teaches are those on
Cervantes’s Don Quijote, Golden Age prose fiction, poetry, and drama,
and literature and social change in Latin America. He is also a faculty
member in the Center for Latin American Studies Program at the Pardee
School of Global Studies at Boston University.
*Mùsica en español por Dean Stevens*
*Sunday, January 29th at 11 AM:*
*“The Sickness is the System:
When Capitalism Fails to Save Us”
with Richard Wolff*
The 2022 midterm elections will be a milestone in the fight for
democracy. But that fight is far from over. All progressives must now
build a winning strategy to establish and consolidate a permanent
progressive majority. (Note: that is subject to change as circumstances
change.)
*/• Richard D. Wolff/* is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program
in International Affairs of the New School University, NYC. He is the
founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated
show Economic Update. His latest book is /The Sickness is the System:
When Capitalism Fails to Save Us/ from Pandemics or Itself, which can be
found along with his other books Understanding Socialism and
Understanding Marxism at www.democracyatwork.info.
*Music by David Rovics*
*February 5 at 11:00 AM: "TBA"*
*Sunday, February 12th at 11 AM:*
*"CCB, Diego Mendoza Lacán, and
the Sanctuary Movement”
with Rady Roldán-Figueroa*
This presentation is based on Rady's research of archival materials at
Community Church of Boston. It offers a narrative of CCB's involvement
in the Sanctuary Movement and Diego Mendoza Lacán's (AKA Manuel) role
will be emphasized as a de facto refugee activist.
*/• Rady Roldán-Figueroa/* is Associate Professor of the History of
Christianity at Boston University School of Theology. He does research
in the early modern period and is very interested in the history of
global Roman Catholicism, Christian spirituality, Baptists, and radical
Christianity.
*Music by CommUnity Voices*
/*“Holiday Songs You'll Never Hear at the Mall!”
with Dean Stevens and Magpie*/
/*Virtual Concert: **Thursday, December 22nd, 2022 at 7 p.m.*/
Come hear Dean Stevens and MAGPIE (!). All three, for many decades, have
loved the songs of the season, songs about transformation, songs about
struggle, about the circle of time. Join us as we plunge into the depths
of winter darkness with light, song, wackiness, hope and joy!
The concert is *FREE,* on *Zoom* and *YouTube*, but do buy a ticket on
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