<b>This weekend <a href="http://www.encuentro5.org">encuentro 5</a> hosts two very diverse events: <a href="http://encuentro5.org/home/node/267">Manuel Santos & Bambule</a> joins us for a soulful performance on Saturday night (starting at 8:00 p.m.) and then, on Sunday (at 2:00) the <a href="http://www.encuentro5.org/home/node/268">Budget for All referendum</a>--to End the Wars, Stop the Cuts, Invest in Jobs, & Tax the 1%--will hold its kick-off event. We're working feverishly on the <a href="http://www.Budget4AllMass.com">referendum website</a> to be ready for the launch. See below for more on both of these events. Note: encuentro 5 is based at 33 Harrison Ave, 5th floor, Boston, MA 02111 (see website for directions).</b><div>
<br></div><div>Three other notes: (1) see this <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_lehrer?printable=true¤tPage=all">interesting <i>New Yorker</i> article</a>, "Groupthink: The Brainstorming Myth" by Jonah Lehrer which speaks to the kind of serendipitous connections between movements that encuentro 5 encourages. See also our notes on theory here: <a href="http://encuentro5.org/home/node/191">Networks, Open Spaces and the Social Forum Process</a>. (2) Visit <a href="http://bostonmayday.org/">the Boston May Day Committee's website</a> for speeches from Tuesday's May Day celebration. This includes a message from our imprisoned hero Chuck Turner and an anarchist perspective by James Herod. Also, Sunday at 11:00 a.m., Sergio Reyes will continue the May Day theme <a href="http://www.communitychurchofboston.org/home/">his address to the Community Church of Boston</a>, "The International Nature of Migrant Workers' Struggles." (3) This past week saw <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/01/tomas-borge-martinez-obituary_n_1466452.html">the passing of Tomas Borge</a>, the last living founder of the Sandinistas. We'll be working on a program to appreciate and appraise his contributions to our movements; <a href="mailto:info@massglobalaction.org">feel free to contact us if you have any suggestions for this event</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.twitter.com/encuentro5">Follow e5 on Twitter</a> and <a href="http://facebook.com/encuentro5">"like" us on Facebook</a>!<br><div><br></div><div><font size="6"><b>1. <a href="http://www.encuentro5.org/home/node/267">This Saturday May 5th! Encuentros Musicale5 with Manuel Santos</a></b></font></div>
<div><div class="node"><div class="content"><p><img alt="" align="right" src="http://encuentro5.org/home/sites/default/files/manue5.JPG" width="300" height="164">Manuel Santos & Bambule play LIVE!</p><p><strong>Saturday, May 5th, 2012<br>
8pm to late</strong><br>Suggested Donation: $10-$5</p><p>"Un amigo del vivir antes que nada, de la creacion y de la interpretacion, con un mensaje personal, rescatando el recuerdo de poemas y canciones de conciencia y tradicion, despertando el sentimiento y la sencibilidad.</p>
<p><em>A friend of life above all, of creativity and performance with a personal message, rescuing the memories of poems and song, conscience and tradition,<br>awakening feelings and sensibility...</em></p><p>Este es un desarrollo poetico que busca cantar el patrimonio de nuestros pueblos.donde la tierra (la "PachaMama") y el pan amanecen cotidianos y generosos.</p>
<p><em>This is a poetic endeavor that attempts to express the patrimony of our people in song, where the earth ( "Pachamama" ) and the bread rise each dawn in abundance and generosity </em>[<a href="http://encuentro5.org/home/node/267">read on...</a>] [<a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/372566182780763/">Facebook RSVPs, click here</a>] </p>
<p></p><h1><a href="http://www.encuentro5.org/home/node/268"><font size="6">2. Campaign Kickoff: Budget for All Referendum</font></a></h1><div class="node"><div class="content"><h2>Calling All Peace & Social Justice Activists!</h2>
<p><strong><input align="right" src="http://encuentro5.org/home/sites/default/files/vote_logo.jpg" type="image">Sunday, May 6, 2012, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.</strong> Now is the time to join together with 24 labor, peace, housing and community groups across the state to put our message before the public this election year. Place the “Budget for All” referendum question on the ballot in Massachusetts this November: “Troops home from Afghanistan now; Reduce the Military Budget; No cuts to Social Security, Housing assistance, Medicaid; Invest in Jobs and Renewable energy; tax large corporations”</p>
<p>We need you to help collect signatures to place the referendum on the ballot in your state representative district? Here’s something we can all do together.</p><p>For Information call Paul Shannon at AFSC: 617-661-6130 ext. 123</p>
<p><br></p><p>For Mass. Global Action and encuentro 5,</p><p>Suren</p><p><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Suren Moodliar<br>Coordinator, Mass. Global Action<br>
33 Harrison Ave, 5th floor, Boston, MA 02111<br>(w) 617-482-6300 (f) 888-400-1225<br><br><a href="http://www.MassGlobalAction.org">http://www.MassGlobalAction.org</a> <a href="http://www.encuentro5.org">http://www.encuentro5.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.ColorOfWater.org">http://www.ColorOfWater.org</a> <br><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:suren@fairjobs.org">suren@fairjobs.org</a><br><br></p></div></div><p></p></div></div></div></div>