<div class="gmail_quote">Yesterday's notice omitted the location of tonight's event: encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, 5th floor, Boston, MA 02111 (see <a href="http://encuentro5.org/home/directions" target="_blank">http://encuentro5.org/home/directions</a> for directions). Tonight's event will be chaired by our board member, Kim Foltz and followed by a light wine & cheese-style reception.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br>Join our friends at Boston UNAC tomorrow for an important conversation with Vijay Prashad; also visit the <a href="http://www.encuentro5.org" target="_blank">encuentro 5 website</a> to learn about Saturday's "<a href="http://www.encuentro5.org/home/node/198" target="_blank">Pena Rebelde with Brazilian musician Katarina Polemi</a> and about our workshop on the <a href="http://www.encuentro5.org/home/node/199" target="_blank">Workers Center for Economic Justice later this month with Jeff Crosby and Carly McClain</a> (late July, date pending confirmation).<div>
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<strong style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Thursday, July 7th, 2011, 7:00 p.m. </strong> As millions of people across the Middle East and North Africa fight for freedom against tyrannical regimes, US warplanes bomb Libya with the stated aim of protecting civilians. But what are the real aims of our government's intervention? How do they relate to its wars and other policies in the Middle East? And what can those of us inspired by the democratic uprisings do to help?</p>
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<a href="http://www.bostonunac.org/home/" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Boston UNAC</a> is hosting speaker, educator and <a href="http://counterpunch.org/" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Counterpunch</a> contributor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Prashad" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Vijay Prashad</a> to speak to these questions. Dr. Prashad is professor and Director of International Studies at Trinity College, the author most recently of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Darker-Nations-Peoples-History-Third/dp/1565847857" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World</a> (winner of the Muzaffar Ahmed Book Prize for 2009), and the forthcoming co-edited collection Dispatches from Pakistan. He is soon to publish (in early 2012) The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. A $5 suggested donation is encouraged but all are welcome.</p>
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Suren Moodliar<br>Coordinator, Mass. Global Action</p>
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