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    Activate News August 16th, 2023 BostonRollingParties, SouthStationStabbing, $500M-IphoneSuit

    Activate News for Wednesday, August 16th, 2023

    Activate News is your independent source for news, free from the influence of corporations. We’re an all-volunteer radio station that originated at Occupy Boston, and we’re committed to bringing you the news that matters.

    Here are some of the stories we’re covering today:

    • Boston Police Crack Down on Rolling Parties
    • Boston Police Investigate Stabbing Outside South Station
    • Apple to Pay $500 Million to Settle iPhone Slowdown Lawsuit
    • EVENTS

    Tune in at the top of the hour on Activate Radio to hear the latest from Activate News. You can find us online at activatemedia.org.

    We hope you’ll join us!

    EVENTS

    TODAY AT 6 PM

    Ranked Choice Boston Launch Rally

    Boston City Hall Plaza  · Boston

    Event by Ranked Choice Boston

    TODAY AT 7:30 PM

    Late For Breakfast | Justin D. Davis | Forest Romm | WhoIAm

    Midway Cafe  · Jamaica Plain

    Event by Midway Cafe

    TODAY AT 9 PM

    Raavi / Mei Semones / Walk Me Home

    3 Harvard Ave,Allston,02134,US  · Allston

    TOMORROW AT 7 PM

    Caso

    Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub  · Cambridge

    THIS FRIDAY AT 7 PM

    Albee Al

    Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub  · Cambridge

    THIS FRIDAY AT 8 PM

    Underground Collective Presents: Reks

    Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub  · Cambridge

    THIS FRIDAY AT 8 PM

    Dred Buffalo// Glowbox// Lions and Lavender// Diip

    The Jungle Community Music Club  · Somerville

    Event by The Jungle Community Music Club

    THIS FRIDAY AT 9 PM

    The Outlourdes/Burrito Bowel/Horrible Earth/Blast Shield/Nest of Infection

    3 Harvard Ave,Allston,02134,US  · Allston

    THIS FRIDAY AT 9:30 PM

    The McGunks Turn 20!

    Midway Cafe  · Jamaica Plain

    Event by Midway Cafe

    SAT, AUG 19 – AUG 20

    13th ANNUAL AFRICAN FESTIVAL OF BOSTON

    Boston Common (park)  · Boston

    Event by AFRICAN FESTIVAL BOSTON

    THIS SATURDAY AT 11 AM

    Salem Jazz and Soul Festival 2023

    Salem Willows  · Salem

    Event by Salem Jazz and Soul Festival

    THIS SATURDAY AT 3 PM

    Mixed Generations | Couch Fort | Satch Kerans | EUSTIS

    Midway Cafe  · Jamaica Plain

    Event by Midway Cafe

    THIS SATURDAY AT 4 PM

    Queer stage at JP Porchfest feat Taína Asili!

    Event by Evan Greer

    THIS SATURDAY AT 7 PM

    The Nervous Eaters with special guest Girl With A Hawk

    Hopkinton Center for the Arts  · Hopkinton

    Event by Hopkinton Center for the Arts

    THIS SATURDAY AT 7 PM

    Don White, Tom Bianchi

    The Burren  · Somerville

    Event by 24 Hour Concerts

    THIS SATURDAY AT 7 PM

    Jay Critch

    Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub  · Cambridge

    THIS SATURDAY AT 8 PM

    Nate Perry & Ragged Company | AP Wray | Sand Machine | Matt Bishop

    Midway Cafe  · Jamaica Plain

    Event by Midway Cafe

    THIS SATURDAY AT 8 PM

    Sacramentum, Crossspitter, Black Sorcery

    Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub  · Cambridge

    THIS SATURDAY AT 8 PM

    Rougarou, Knock Over City, FEEP. $10

    Faces Brewing Co.  · Malden

    Event by Faces Brewing Co.

    THIS SATURDAY AT 8 PM

    The Electric Aces // Renegade Cartel// How We Burn // Blue Manic

    The Jungle Community Music Club  · Somerville

    Event by The Jungle Community

    Activate News August 15th, 2023 Trump, UAW, MASSHEALTH

    Activate News for Tuesday, August 15th, 2023

    Activate News is your independent source for news, free from the influence of corporations. We’re an all-volunteer radio station that originated at Occupy Boston, and we’re committed to bringing you the news that matters.

    Here are some of the stories we’re covering today:

    • Trump Indicted on State Charges in Georgia
    • UAW President Calls on Biden to Ensure Fair Wages and Conditions for EV Workers
    • MassHealth Data Breach Impacts Over 134,000 Individuals
    • EVENTS

    Tune in at the top of the hour on Activate Radio to hear the latest from Activate News. You can find us online at activatemedia.org.

    We hope you’ll join us!

    May Day 2023 – Boston Common

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

    Contact: Patrick Wilson – Boston May Day Coalition, Activate Media (617)506-9298 activatemedia01@gmail.com

    May Day 2023 – Come to the Boston Common, Parkman Bandstand!

    Boston, Massachusetts – Monday, May 1, 2023, at 5:00 PM

    May Day 2023 – Boston Common | Facebook

    On May 1st people, organizations, and unions around the world will celebrate International Workers’ Day, May Day, a day to commemorate our common struggles and to demand a better future for all.

    On May Day in Boston, we will mobilize for a better future! A better future not only for ourselves, but for our children, and our children’s children. We will turn out for our rights as working people to live lives with purpose, free of fear from economic exploitation, and social oppression. We seek to break down the barriers that separate us. We call on all folks to join us. We must stand up for our rights, for our communities, and for a better future.

    We live in a country where health care is rationed and denied to millions, where education is rationed and denied to millions, where affordable housing is a joke and homelessness is rampant and in evidence everywhere. Union busting is the norm throughout the country and labor rights are trampled on daily. Equal justice under the law does not exist for those from oppressed nationalities or working people generally. Those who are wealthy get the best justice money can buy, while LGBT folks are being demonized and denied their rights under the Constitution. Millions here seek immediate legal permanent residence to be able to work and live freely without fear of police repression. Reproductive rights are being decimated for millions and the world faces a climate catastrophe! Enough is enough! Time to unite!

    In downtown Boston, an International Workers’ Day celebration will be held at Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common on Monday, May 1st, 2023 at 5PM EDT. The event will feature speeches, music, food, a march, and of course fun. All are welcome to attend.We also stand in solidarity with our compañeras and compañeros in East Boston and Chelsea commemorating International Workers’ Day. For more information about that  event, please visit their page: https://fb.me/e/2KdideEBD

    Co-Sponsors for May Day 2023 – Boston Common include:

    Boston May Day Coalition, Green Rainbow Party of Massachusetts,
    Cambridge City Growers, New Democracy Coalition,
    United American Indians of New England, Refuse Fascism,
    Boston Education Justice Alliance, Jewish Voice for Peace,
    Revolutionary Blackout Network, Black Lives Matter Rhode Island,
    Massachusetts Nurses Association, Massachusetts Peace Action
    Workers World Party – Boston, North American Indian Center of Boston,
    Community Church of Boston, Encuentro 5, July 26 Coalition,
    FMLN – Massachusetts, Tecschange,
    African People’s Socialist Party, Anarchist Black Cross – Boston,
    Community Advocates for Justice and Equality, COS New England,
    DSA Socialist Feminism Working Group, Little Liberty,
    Progressive Labor Party, Natick Black Lives Matter,
    Independent Socialist Group, Red Strike Project,
    International Marxist Tendency, Inspiring Today’s Youth,
    Communities Responding to Extreme Weather, Boston South Asian Coalition,
    Julian Assange Defense – Boston, Boston Teachers Union,
    MassCOSH, Palestinian Youth Movement,
    Extinction Rebellion Boston, ActivateMedia.org,
    Battle First Aid Responder Services, Burhan Rebels.

    On May Day we have an opportunity to celebrate many examples of resistance to the employers’ offensive, and government attacks on our rights and interests.

    Around the world, Labor Day is celebrated on May 1st because internationally people remember the historic general strike which began on May 1, 1886. On that day in the US, 350,000 workers staged a nationwide work stoppage to demand the adoption of a standard eight-hour workday. The strike spread worldwide. Following the strike, four of the anarchist strike leaders were framed up and hanged for their role in the uprising and subsequently became known as Chicago’s Haymarket martyrs.

    On May Day, we will gather to recognize and celebrate the true international holiday of the working people, who have struggled, fought, and died in the ongoing class war. Unless we can stop them, the corporate elites are on course to destroy the very earth we stand on. History has demonstrated that we must all work together to build a unified workers’ movement that is intersectional and international in scope.  A movement that actively seeks to empower workers, unite with the oppressed in struggle, and defeat injustice in all forms, for as Dr. King said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

    For more information, please visit: May Day 2023 – Boston Common | Facebook

    18th Annual #FirstNight Against the Wars

    • Time: 12-5 PM, Saturday January 31st
    • Place: Copley Square, directly across the street from Community Church of Boston.
    • What: Rally, Demonstration, March, Food and Entertainment.
    • Everyone Welcome!
    • Bring: Free Food, Banners, Literature, Fliers, Stickers, Buttons

    The 18th Annual First Night Against the Wars is upon us! An all-day event that boasts multiple music concerts, puppets, an ice skating show, and two fireworks displays one at 7PM and another at 12:30 AM. Activist Groups for the past 18 years have gathered around multiple issues and many times march from Copley to Boston Common at the end of the parade.

    Groups are setting up at Copley Plaza at 11:30 AM and things get going at 12 noon. There is an Assange Defense Rally at 2 PM, and activist marching band BaBam will perform as well. Jill Stein and XR Solidarity will be marching from Copley Plaza to Boston Common at the end of the parade at 5 PM.

    Groups participating or sponsoring the event include:

    Message from the Event Page:Living today in a country perpetually at war, it is only fitting that this December 31 will mark the 18th annual celebration of First Night Against the Wars.Every year folks seeking an end to our permanent war culture gather in Copley Square to bring free food, banners, literature, fliers, stickers, buttons, and the antiwar holiday spirit to many thousands of First Night revelers who may long for peace.Your participation would contribute greatly to that spirit. Bring what you wish and join in the spectacle. So often the holiday festivities fail to celebrate the resistance coming from working people and the oppressed to the wars against women, oppressed nationalities, LGBT folks, the climate, the poor, and other countries.We will be setting up near the corner of Boylston and Dartmouth Streets. Look for our signs and banners. Please join us.Note: We may be in a slightly different location this year. They are moving the performance stage to the Old Library Entrance. We might have to set up directly across the street from the Community Church of Boston at 565 Boylston Street.For info: 857-272-6743

    *Note: While ‘First Night Against The Wars’ is not directly affiliated with ‘First Night Boston’, it has participated alongside for many years. First Night Against The Wars does not support Amazon as the corporate sponsor of ‘First Night Boston’. Amazon is involved in poor labor practices and union-busting activities. When Workers Rights Are Under Attack, What Do We Do? 

    In Discussing Putin

    By: Deborah Sirotkin Butler

    In discussing Putin, I make clear that I agree with former General Smedley Butler who wrote the book War is a Racket. Too often our own country used its armies in support of plutocrats. That being said, what the Nazis did when ruled by Hitler and the fascist Nazi ideology was fundamentally genocidal – which is also true as to treatment of Native Americans on the North and South American continents.
    As Putin’s War shows, there is enough of the dark desire for power and supremacy in the human heart that “never again” will take vigilance and determination.
    Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and raining of bombs and shells on civilians, hospitals, schools and apartment buildings proves that point, as do the mass abductions of women and children reported.
    What then? By prayer, fasting, transfer of war materials, and possibly boots on the ground this COULD be a time to draw the line. To say barbarism and genocide and treating others as sub human stops here.
    Putin, by his massive miscalculations and hubris has made the declaration of “this stops here.” …something being considered by many. His jealous hatred of what Ukraine, in its metanoeo was becoming, is so evident.
    Another more trained than I wrote:
    “To win at war, the military leader Sun Yat-sen said there were three things you must own: knowledge of the region, the people, and the situation on the ground.
    Putin has failed magnificently at all three, thinking NATO and the USA would be weak, that Ukrainians would flee in the face of the Russian army, or welcome them in as brothers upon entry.”
    YES. Putin misjudged the region, the people, and the responses from neighbors and in fact entire national populations. Putin is seen as a Hitlereque villain by what appear to be billions of people. So much so that even what is good from Russian culture such as its great musicians may be shunned as reeking of Putin!
    Will Putin multiply this odious result by being the second country to use nuclear weapons? Let us not forget that to our shame, the USA did this first.
    The way to honor for Putin is not through more war crimes. The true way to honor is heroic metanoeo – some might call this heroic repentance, and rather than behaving like a cornered rat, to be the one to heroically step back from the brink.
    As for the allegation of “Nazis”, sadly every country has Nazis. The USA has them, Russia has them, everywhere. These are the people who see other human beings as chattels, inferior, and subhuman. To me, currently, Putin’s behavior towards Ukraine and other Eastern Europeans is that of a Nazi.
    Really, the best thing I can do now us to call Putin to repentance to save his soul and the lives of many people and just hope that somehow he hears my words.
    Maybe #DmitriMedvedev will tell him. Chubais left and will not.

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