There are two really big events happening this weekend, and we’re hoping to see YOU there.

On Saturday, there’s a peace rally happening at 1:30pm at Park Street. This event is being organized by the United National Antiwar Coalition, United for Justice with Peace, the International Action Center, Veterans for Peace, and many other groups. This is a great opportunity to take a stand against war, against Islamaphobia, and against repression. Occupy Boston will gather at the base of Boston Common at Soldiers and Sailors Monument Hill at 1pm, and head over to the rally shortly before 1:30. Bring a sign, bring a banner, and come march with us!

For all you Villens out there, Somerville’s Honkfest parade is happening on Sunday (10/7), and Occupy Boston is marching with the bands. We’ll gather at 11:00 am Sunday, in the parking lots behind the CVS in Davis Square. Bring bandannas! Honkfest is a major festivity; if you’ve never been to Honkfest before, then you owe it to yourself to check out the parade, and the other activities happening in Somerville.

Finally, and after a long hiatus, Occupy Boston Community Gatherings are back! We’re having one on Monday Oct 8th, from 6-9:00pm in Copley Square. We’ll have food, a potluck, and a debrief of S17 (the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street) and S30 (the first anniversary of Occupy Boston).

Note: the location of the Oct 8th Community Gathering was previously listed as Community Church of Boston; we had to make a last-minute venue change, so we’re taking the event outside, across the street.

Solidarity!

Join us in a march and rally to protest the dangerous escalation in threats of military action against Syria and Iran and increased racist violence and repression at home.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1:30 PM
PARK ST.

Eleven years ago on October 7, the U.S. unleashed a war on Afghanistan, followed by the war on Iraq based on lies. While thousands of troops remain in these countries, U.S. drone missiles rain down on Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Now the government imposes sanctions and threatens to attack Syria and Iran. The U.S. sends troops and threatens to retaliate against anti-US protesters in the Middle East. These actions will escalate the nightmare of war in the Middle East, not end it.

To wage war abroad, they must wage war at home. The last decade has seen escalating repression and poverty at home. Islamophobia and scapegoating of Muslims leads to manufactured frame-ups and violence against the Muslim community. Civil liberties and the right to dissent are under siege with indefinite detention and extra-judicial assassinations now the law of the land.

Racism is a weapon of war. They use it against Muslims and immigrants. They’ve stepped up the war on Black and Latino youth, with racial profiling, stop and frisk, and harsh sentencing — resulting in police brutality, mass incarceration, military weapons in the hands of police, and a hugely profitable prison industry.

To pay for wars and to maximize the profits of the haves, they take more and more from the have-nots. We see cuts to the social safety nets, attacks on labor, huge unemployment, privatization of public services, neglect of infrastructure, and poisoning of the environment.

LET’S STAND TOGETHER IN UNITY AND SOLIDARITY. TOGETHER WE ARE POWERFUL!

HANDS OFF SYRIA AND IRAN! NO TO RACISM, RAIDS, AND REPRESSION! NO TO ISLAMOPHOBIA!

Source:
http://act-ma.org/pipermail/act-ma_act-ma.org/2012/006022.html