Information, activism & resistance to U.S. militarism, war & corporate greed, linking with struggles against racism & oppression within the United States
Boston’s Haitian community and its supporters have begun a campaign to allow Boston teenager
Jenny Ulysse to return home from Haiti and for the right of all U.S. permanent residents to return to
their homes. They are also calling for medical treatment or evacuation for all in need of critical
medical attention. ..more..
Why is the largest military machine on the planet unable to
defeat the resistance in Afghanistan, in a war that has lasted longer
than World War II or Vietnam?
Afghanistan ranks among the poorest and most
underdeveloped countries in the world today. It has one of the shortest life
expectancy rates, highest infant mortality rates and lowest rates of literacy.The
total U.S. military budget has more than doubled from the beginning of this war in
2001 to the $680 billion budget signed by President Barack Obama Oct. 28. The U.S.
military budget today is larger than the military budgets of the rest of the world
combined. The U.S. arsenal has the most advanced high-tech weapons. ...
Black Educators’ Alliance of Massachusetts (BEAM); Work-4-Quality Schools; Boston
Parents Organizing Network (BPON); USW L. 8751 Boston School Bus Drivers; Councilors Chuck
Turner, Charles Yancey, and Sam Yoon; Minister Don Muhammad; Bail Out the People Movement;
Women’s Fightback Network; New England Human Rights Organization for Haiti; Bishop
Felipe Teixeira, OFSJC; Community Change; Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST); Union of Minority Neighborhoods
May 14, 2009 - Community Summit
Equity & Access to a Quality Education is a Right!
On May 14, 2009 approximately 200 hundred parents, students, teachers, community activists, and trade
unionists held a Community Summit at Roxbury Community College to discuss and organize a fightback against
the attempts by Menino and the Boston School Committee to re-segregate public schools in Boston. Called by
the Coalition for Equal Quality Education this Summit announced plans for a demonstration at the Boston
School Committee (26 Court St.) on June 3 at 5:30 pm to demand Equity & Access to a Quality Education is
a Right! Stop the Re-Segregation of the Boston Public School System! Excellence & Equity for all students
in all schools! Funding for Programs and Staff (no layoffs)!
The Coalition for Equal Quality Education includes: Black Educators’ Alliance of Massachusetts (BEAM);
Work-4-Quality Schools; Boston Parents Organizing Network (BPON); USW L. 8751 Boston School Bus Drivers;
Councilors Chuck Turner, Charles Yancey, and Sam Yoon; Minister Don Muhammad; Bail Out the People Movement;
Women’s Fightback Network; New England Human Rights Organization for Haiti; Bishop Felipe Teixeira, OFSJC;
Community Change; Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST); Union of Minority Neighborhoods
The International Action Center (IAC) was launched in 1992
by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and many
others who had worked together against the Gulf War.
Information, Activism, and Resistance to U.S.
Militarism, War, and Corporate Greed,
Linking with Struggles Against Racism and Oppression
within the United States
