Poverty in Boston 101
Horace Small Union of Minority Neighborhoods
Thu Jan 21, 12-02:00pm, W20 Coffee House
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Join the discussion with renowned local community organizer Horace Small from the Union of Minority Neighborhoods to learn more about the concrete realities of poverty here in our Boston neighborhoods, to hear about which issues in our local neighborhoods are particularly urgent, and to find out about effective ways to get involved. Light lunch will be provided.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/tac
Contact: Amy McCreath, W11.007, x3-2983, mccreath@mit.edu
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Reading Club on Violence Against Women
Sharmeen Browarek, Abha Sur, Marianne Tierney
Thu Jan 14, 21, 28, 05-07:00pm, 1-215
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 21-Jan-2010
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Please join us this IAP for a reading club on different topics surrounding violence against women (continues through Feb. 4th). There will be various articles, as well as some short film screenings every Thursday. Email end_violence@mit.edu to let us know you're coming and go to http://web.mit.edu/end_violence/bookclub.html to download articles.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/end_violence
Contact: Yoda Patta, ypatta@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Dean for Graduate Education (ODGE)
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Social Justice Social
Mary Beth Mills-Curran
Thu Jan 21, 06-08:00pm, The Friendly Toast
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Care about social and economic justice? Concerned about poverty, whether local or global? Interested in getting involved in exciting activism or service work right here in Boston? Come to the Social Justice Social, at the Friendly Toast (1 Hampshire St. in Kendall Square). We'll be gathering at one of Cambridge's most character-filled restaurants to meet people with similar interests and exciting ideas, discover new opportunities for engagement--and have a good time!
Web: http://web.mit.edu/tac
Contact: Amy McCreath, W11.007, x3-2983, mccreath@mit.edu
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