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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><FONT size=4><B><SPAN id=lw_1271810963_0 class=yshortcuts><SPAN style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand" id=lw_1272076466_0 class=yshortcuts>April 24th</SPAN></SPAN>, Free Tarek! Benefit Show & CD Release Party!</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><FONT size=2>**Please Forward Widely**</FONT><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></DIV></DIV><B><BR>FREE TAREK! BENEFIT SHOW: </B>Join us for <B>food, raffle & live music</B> to celebrate <SPAN>the</SPAN> <B>release of <SPAN>the</SPAN> Free Tarek! Compilation CD</B>, an educational fundraising project to help free our brother Tarek and all <SPAN id=lw_1272076466_1 class=yshortcuts>political prisoners</SPAN>!<BR><B><BR><SPAN id=lw_1271810963_1 class=yshortcuts><SPAN style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; CURSOR: hand" id=lw_1272076466_2 class=yshortcuts>SATURDAY, APRIL 24th, 2010<BR>6:00pm</SPAN></SPAN> @ Spontaneous Celebrations</B><BR><SPAN id=lw_1271810963_2 class=yshortcuts><SPAN style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; CURSOR: hand" id=lw_1272076466_3 class=yshortcuts>45 Danforth Street, Jamaica Plain, MA</SPAN></SPAN> (Stoneybrook T-stop on <SPAN>the</SPAN> Orange Line)<BR><FONT size=2><B>**GET THERE EARLY. SHOW WILL SELL
OUT!**</B></FONT><BR><BR>$10 - 30 sliding scale suggested donation.<BR>Any donation over $15 gets you a FREE CD with entrance!<BR>There will be food, raffle, etc for sale.<BR>All Ages! <SPAN id=lw_1271810963_3 class=yshortcuts><SPAN style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed; CURSOR: hand" id=lw_1272076466_4 class=yshortcuts>Wheelchair</SPAN></SPAN> Accessible. No alcohol, please.<FONT size=2><B><BR><BR></B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: small" class=Apple-style-span><B><SPAN>Event on <SPAN id=lw_1272076466_5 class=yshortcuts>Facebook</SPAN>: <A href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113164248695124&ref=ts" rel=nofollow target=_blank><SPAN id=lw_1272076466_6 class=yshortcuts><FONT color=#0000ff>http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113164248695124&ref=ts</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN></B></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2><B><BR></B></FONT>Featuring a combination of hip hop, soul and r&b performances in support of Tarek by 8 artists featured on <SPAN>the</SPAN> CD! <BR><B><BR><FONT size=2>NATURAL BLISS</FONT></B><FONT size=2> (<A href="http://www.myspace.com/naturalbliss" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN id=lw_1272076466_7 class=yshortcuts>http://www.myspace.com/naturalbliss</SPAN></FONT></A>)<B><BR>BROADCAST LIVE</B> (<A href="http://www.myspace.com/broadcastlive" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN id=lw_1272076466_8 class=yshortcuts>http://www.myspace.com/broadcastlive</SPAN></FONT></A>)<BR><B>SPIRITCHILD</B> (<A href="http://www.myspace.com/spiritchildmentalnotes" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT color=#810081><SPAN id=lw_1272076466_9 class=yshortcuts>http://www.myspace.com/spiritchildmentalnotes</SPAN></FONT></A>)<BR><B>SISTAH MIA</B> (<A href="http://www.myspace.com/sistahmia" rel=nofollow
target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN id=lw_1272076466_10 class=yshortcuts>http://www.myspace.com/sistahmia</SPAN></FONT></A>) <BR><B>L.O.S.T.</B> (<A href="http://www.myspace.com/lastofsoldierstaken" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN id=lw_1272076466_11 class=yshortcuts>http://www.myspace.com/lastofsoldierstaken</SPAN></FONT></A>)<BR><B>STEPHANIE ROOKER</B> (<A href="http://www.myspace.com/srooker" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN id=lw_1272076466_12 class=yshortcuts>http://www.myspace.com/srooker</SPAN></FONT></A>)<BR><B>MAJESTY</B> (<SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: verdana"><SPAN><A href="http://www.myspace.com/majesty360" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN id=lw_1272076466_13 class=yshortcuts>www.myspace.com/majesty360</SPAN></FONT></A></SPAN>)</SPAN><BR><B>ABU NURAH</B> (<A href="http://www.myspace.com/abunurah" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN id=lw_1272076466_14
class=yshortcuts>http://www.myspace.com/abunurah</SPAN></FONT></A>)<BR><BR></FONT>For more information about Tarek's Case and what you can do to help: <A href="http://www.freetarek.com/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN id=lw_1272076466_15 class=yshortcuts>www.freetarek.com</SPAN></FONT></A><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=3 face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px" class=Apple-style-span><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> "act-ma-request@act-ma.org" <act-ma-request@act-ma.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> act-ma@act-ma.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Fri, April 23, 2010 3:00:03 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> act-ma Digest, Vol 39, Issue 29<BR></FONT><BR>Send act-ma mailing list submissions to<BR> <A href="mailto:act-ma@act-ma.org" ymailto="mailto:act-ma@act-ma.org">act-ma@act-ma.org</A><BR><BR>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<BR> http://act-ma.org/mailman/listinfo/act-ma_act-ma.org<BR>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<BR> <A href="mailto:act-ma-request@act-ma.org" ymailto="mailto:act-ma-request@act-ma.org">act-ma-request@act-ma.org</A><BR><BR>You can reach the person managing the list at<BR> <A
href="mailto:act-ma-owner@act-ma.org" ymailto="mailto:act-ma-owner@act-ma.org">act-ma-owner@act-ma.org</A><BR><BR>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<BR>than "Re: Contents of act-ma digest..."<BR><BR><BR>Today's Topics:<BR><BR> 1. 4/22 - 4/29 impt, scary Video: 'Food, Inc' - on & streaming<BR> at PBS (pf soto)<BR> 2. 4/29 John Ross - Rebel Journalist (encuentro 5, 7:00 p.m.<BR> Thursday) (Charlie Welch)<BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 1<BR>Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:38:13 -0500<BR>From: pf soto <<A href="mailto:pfsoto@mynas.com" ymailto="mailto:pfsoto@mynas.com">pfsoto@mynas.com</A>><BR>Subject: [act-ma] 4/22 - 4/29 impt, scary Video: 'Food, Inc' - on &<BR> streaming at PBS<BR>To: ACT-MA
<<A href="mailto:act-ma@act-ma.org" ymailto="mailto:act-ma@act-ma.org">act-ma@act-ma.org</A>><BR>Message-ID: <<A href="mailto:4BD0CFD5.5020906@mynas.com" ymailto="mailto:4BD0CFD5.5020906@mynas.com">4BD0CFD5.5020906@mynas.com</A>><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed"<BR><BR>http://www.pbs.org/pov/foodinc/<BR><BR><BR> Synopsis<BR><BR> In *Food, Inc.*, filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our<BR> nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly<BR> that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of<BR> our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's<BR> food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that<BR> often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the<BR> American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.
We<BR> have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop,<BR> insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go<BR> bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli --- the harmful<BR> bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans<BR> annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among<BR> children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.<BR><BR> Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser ("Fast Food<BR> Nation"), Michael Pollan ("The Omnivore's Dilemma") along with<BR> forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms' Gary<BR> Hirschberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, *Food, Inc.* reveals<BR> surprising --- and often shocking truths --- about what we eat, how<BR> it's produced, who we have become as a nation and
where we are going<BR> from here.<BR><BR> *Food, Inc.* will be accompanied by /*Notes on Milk*/, a short<BR> variation of the 2007 feature documentary /Milk in the Land: Ballad<BR> of an American Drink/. Ariana Gerstein and Monteith McCollum, whose<BR> /*Hybrid*/ aired on POV in 2002, take a quirky and poetic look at<BR> some lesser-known aspects of America's favorite drink: the<BR> industry's spiritual underpinnings, politics and the struggle of<BR> independent farmers.<BR><BR>to watch online, click the *Watch Now* button at <BR><A href="http://www.pbs.org/pov/foodinc/" target=_blank>http://www.pbs.org/pov/foodinc/</A><BR><BR>*"Food, Inc.* will be streaming online in its entirety through next <BR>*Thursday, April 29, 2010*. "<BR><BR>Also showing April 29th at Suffolk Univ, Boston; see rule19 calendar
<BR><http://rule19.org/ActionCalendar/index.asp?size=large><BR><BR><BR>-- <BR><BR>pf soto<BR><A href="http://rule19.org/" target=_blank>rule19.org</A> <http://rule19.org><BR><A href="http://upandout.org/" target=_blank>UPandOUT.org</A> <http://upandout.org><BR><A href="http://azapoi.org/" target=_blank>AZAPOI.org</A> <http://azapoi.org><BR><BR> <BR><BR><BR>-------------- next part --------------<BR>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<BR>URL: <http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/attachments/20100422/9af81d35/attachment-0001.html><BR>-------------- next part --------------<BR>A non-text attachment was scrubbed...<BR>Name: not available<BR>Type: image/jpeg<BR>Size: 14568 bytes<BR>Desc: not available<BR>URL: <http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/attachments/20100422/9af81d35/attachment-0001.jpe><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 2<BR>Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:30:15
-0400<BR>From: Charlie Welch <<A href="mailto:cwelch@tecschange.org" ymailto="mailto:cwelch@tecschange.org">cwelch@tecschange.org</A>><BR>Subject: [act-ma] 4/29 John Ross - Rebel Journalist (encuentro 5, 7:00<BR> p.m. Thursday)<BR>To: <A href="mailto:act-ma@act-ma.org" ymailto="mailto:act-ma@act-ma.org">act-ma@act-ma.org</A><BR>Message-ID: <<A href="mailto:4BD192D7.7040607@tecschange.org" ymailto="mailto:4BD192D7.7040607@tecschange.org">4BD192D7.7040607@tecschange.org</A>><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed<BR><BR><BR> *April 29, 2010 7:00 p.m. John Ross on Mexico City @ encuentro 5*<BR> 33 Harrison Ave, 5th floor, Boston, MA 02111<BR><BR><BR> *Rebel Journalist: John Ross*<BR><BR><BR>*A Story of Mexico City*<BR><BR>**Thursday, April 29, 2010, 7:00 p.m.** Join renowned journalist John <BR>Ross for an evening connecting the people of Latin
America and the <BR>United States... Nor ordinary scribe, Ross? writing and presentations <BR>blend beat generation poetry with magical realist prose all while rooted <BR>in concrete social struggles and real politics... Ross leaves his <BR>audiences inspired to action and craving social change...<BR><BR>Here's Nation Books on his latest book: "John Ross?poet, journalist, and <BR>globetrotting troublemaker?has lived in what the Aztec-Mexicas described <BR>as "the umbilicus of the universe" since the great Mexico City <BR>earthquake of 1985 crushed out as many as 30,000 lives. Over the years, <BR>he has watched the city?El Monstruo?pick itself up, bury its dead, and <BR>come battling back. But he is filled with a gnawing unease that Mexico <BR>City's days as the most gargantuan, chaotic, crime-ridden, toxically <BR>contaminated urban stain in the Western world is doomed, that the <BR>monster he has grown to know and love through a quarter of a century of
<BR>reporting on its foibles and tragedies and festering blight will be <BR>globalized into one more McCity.<BR><BR>"Covering 4,000,000,000 years of history from the primal broth that <BR>first spewed out the monster to the Aztec-Mexica oblivion through <BR>centuries of rapine and revolution all the way to the Great Swine Flu <BR>Panic of 2009, //El Monstruo// is a phantasmagoric retelling of the <BR>story of Mexico City, with which Ross's own history has become <BR>hopelessly entwined.<BR><BR>"In the tradition of Suketu Mehta's //Maximum City//, Roberto <BR>Bolano's//The Savage Detectives// and Joseph Mitchell's //Up At The Old <BR>Hotel//, Ross's //El Monstruo// is a unique exploration of the mother of <BR>all mega-cities. Never before has anyone told from ground level the <BR>gritty, vibrant histories of this left city of 23 million faceless, <BR>fearless souls, listened to the stories of those who have not been <BR>crushed by the Monster,
deconstructed the Monstruo's very monstrousness <BR>and lived to tell its secrets."<BR><BR><BR><BR>Here's how John describes his current tour: "I am on a low-rent book <BR>tour with my new cult classic El Monstruo - Dread & Redemption In Mexico <BR>City <http://www.nationbooks.org/book/195/El%20Monstruo>. For the next <BR>three months, I will stumble across this land from sea to stinking sea <BR>probing the underbelly of Obama's America. " Prepared to be probed! More <BR>seriously, however, here's what the press has to say about Ross' latest <BR>book:<BR><BR>*/Truthdig/*<BR>?An impassioned and melancholy history of Mexico?s most complex, <BR>boisterous, and exhilarating city.?<BR><BR>*/San Antonio Express-News/*<BR>?Meticulously researched and imaginatively reported, "El Monstruo" is <BR>not your typical history book. No dry, crinkly prose here. As it does in <BR>Ross' journalism, Mexico erupts, like Popocat?petl, from the page.?<BR><BR>*/San
Antonio Express-News/*<BR>?Like having the world?s best guide show you around.?<BR><BR>*/The Indypendent/** *<BR>"Ross? book is part people?s history, part Gonzo journalism, with a wry <BR>and humorous style."<BR><BR>*/Denver/**/ Post/*<BR>?El Monstruo is a valentine to place and useful chronicle of an epoch <BR>that has seen Mexico?s people find their voice?Ross? quarter-century as <BR>witness does us the invaluable service of putting events to come in a <BR>context to understand them.?<BR><BR>*/Ft. Worth Star-Telegram/*<BR>?Vividly impressionistic survey of a fascinating urban panorama, El <BR>Monstruo makes for addictive reading.?<BR><BR>*/Kirkus Reviews/** STARRED REVIEW*<BR>?Monstrously entertaining and tenderhearted??<BR>??a brave, stirring love letter, cautionary tale and travelogue??<BR><BR>*Mike Davis, author of /City of Quartz/ and /Planet of Slums/*<BR>?From a window of the aging Hotel Isabel, where he has lived for almost <BR>a quarter of a
century, John Ross sings a lusty corrido about a great, <BR>betrayed city and its extraordinary procession of rulers, lovers and <BR>magicians.?<BR><BR>*Iain Sinclair, author of /Lights Out for the Territory/ and /London <BR>Orbital/*<BR>?Coruscating and necessary. Here is one of those rare books that <BR>convinces from the first sentence: a writer embedded in his writing, <BR>wholly present in the subject, leading us with savage grace to the heart <BR>of the beast.?<BR><BR>*Jeremy Scahill, author of /Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most <BR>Powerful Mercenary Army/*<BR>"John Ross is uncompromising in his dedication to the poor, the <BR>downtrodden and the victims of empire. He is not welcome on the <BR>television talk show circuit frequented by journalistic elites and <BR>political players, nor is he invited to the cocktail parties of the rich <BR>and powerful. He is most at home among the people in the slums and <BR>barrios of the world. John Ross
is the personification of the peoples' <BR>reporter, a troubadour for justice who has chosen to cast his lot of <BR>conscience with those who have the will to live and the heart to resist <BR>against all odds. Simply put, John Ross is the Robin Hood of journalism."<BR><BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>act-ma mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:act-ma@act-ma.org" ymailto="mailto:act-ma@act-ma.org">act-ma@act-ma.org</A><BR>http://act-ma.org/mailman/listinfo/act-ma_act-ma.org<BR><BR><BR>End of act-ma Digest, Vol 39, Issue 29<BR>**************************************<BR></DIV></div><br>
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