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Previous Events
Grassroots Use of Technology
lectures and workshops on technology in activism
Saturday, 16 April, 8:00AM - 7:00PM, Tang Center
Kendall/MIT, Bus 1, CT1, CT2
FREE FOR MIT STUDENTS !!
Keynote Speaker: Micah Sifry, Personal Democracy Forum
sessions include:
- Adopting Open Source Software in a Nonprofit Environment
- Online vs. Offline Organizing
- Using a Blog to Get Your Group's Message Out
- Innovative Technology for Labor Unions
- Distributed Activism: The Internet for Decentralized Campaigns
- CMS'es are like Chocolate Bars: They're Dessert not Disaster
full schedule:
8:00 am Breakfast 9:00 am Opening Remarks and Keynote, Micah Sifry 10:30 am Workshops, Session I 12:00 pm Lunch 1:30 pm Workshops, Session II 3:15 pm Workshops, Session III 4:45 pm Refreshments, Wrap-up Co-sponsored by UA Finboard
with Center for Reflective Community Practice, Organizer's CollabortiveView Flyer: gut.pdf
Health Care for All:
An Intro to Universal Single-Payer Health Care
Thursday, 29 April, 7:00 PM, MIT Room 4-149
- Learn and discuss how we can deliver health care to all Americans simply and inexpensively with a Single-Payer health care system.
- Presentation by the Mass. Campaign for Single-Payer Health Care.
Did You Know?
View Flyer: singlepayer.pdf
- 45 million Americans have no form of health insurance.
- Universal Single-Payer health care would guarantee coverage for every US citizen for the same cost or less than our current system.
- The US has the least percentage of people insured in the developed world, yet pays the most per capita for health insurance.
- Single-Payer health care is endorsed by Al Gore, Ralph Nader, Dennis Kucinich, Carol Moseley-Braun, and Al Sharpton.
From Freedom Fries to Freedom Fuel:
Vegetable Oil as an Alternative Fuel
Wednesday, 10 March, 7:00 PM, MIT Room 1-190
Do you know it's possible to run a diesel engine off vegetable oil? Joshua Tickell does, and has proved it! Josh drove across the United States in 1997-1998 in the famed "Veggie Van," powered off used vegetable oil from fast food restaurants and other places. Come hear Josh talk about this promising alternative to petroleum.
More information about biodiesel and Joshua Tickell
View Book Cover: tickell_book.jpg
Noam Chomsky: Iraq and US Foreign Policy
Friday, January 23, 7:00 PM, Kresge Auditorium
MIT, Kresge Auditorium
Professor Noam Chomsky details the current policy in Iraq in the context of US global hegemony. Why are we there? What is the historical underpinning to these policies? Where is it taking our country and the world? These and other questions will be discussed.
Sponsored by United for Justice With Peace
Donations: $10, $5 for students/seniros
View Flyer: chomsky.pdf
Getting Money Out Of Politics
Wednesday, January 7, 4:00 PM, Room 4-231
MIT, Room 4-231
Learn how we can get money out of politics by reviving the Clean Elections law in Massachusetts. Clean Elections reduces the influence of special interest money and provides a level playing field by offering qualified candidates a limited and equal amount of public funds.
Speakers:
- Federico Rivera, Massachusetts Voters for Clean Elections
- James Eldridge, Massachusetts State Representative and the only person to ever be elected under the Massachusetts Clean Elections law
Links:
View Flyer: cleanelections.pdf
Cape Wind
Monday, December 8, 7:00 PM, Room 4-163
MIT, Room 4-163
Save, clean energy? Loss of natural habitat?
What's the problem? What's so good about it?
COME FIND OUT!Arguments presented by:
- Jim Gordon, President, Cape Wind Associates
- Ernie Corrigan, Director of Communications, Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound
- MIT's Prof. William Shutkin, Urban Studies and Planning
- Mark Forest. Aide to Congressman Delahunt
Links:
View Flyer: capewind.jpg
The Monster That's Eating Massachusetts
Wednesday, May 7, 7:00 PM, Room 2-105
MIT, Room 2-105
How state and federal budget cuts undermine health, education, human services, housing, and the environment in Massachusetts.
Speakers:
- Chuck Turner, Boston City Councilor
- Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities
Links:
View Flyer: monster.pdf
Boston/Cambridge Collegiate March for Affirmative Action
Tuesday, March 18, 12:00 PM, MIT Student Center
Watch this space for more information or go to MIT Black Student Union.
Affirmative Action Teach-In
Thursday, March 13 and March 20, 6-7:30 PM Room 50-105
MIT, Room 50-150
Affirmative Action: What is it? Who's really benefiting? Why was it needed in the first place?
Sponsored by CCRR. Food will be served.
Two sessions to educate the MIT community. Come to both.
Instant Runoff Voting Forum
Thursday, February 27, 7:00 PM, Room 6-120
MIT, Room 6-120
Free your vote!
How can we become free to vote for a candidate we support without allowing a distasteful candidate into office? Why did Tolman and Reich lose to O'Brien in the Democratic primaries this year? Why did Michael Capuano secure himself the Democratic nomination to be our representative to U.S. Congress with a mere 23% of the vote? Why did the Florida vote come so close in 2000? The answer is that none of these elections used Instant Runoff Voting!
Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) is a new way of voting that may become the standard for some offices in Massachusetts as soon as the 2004 elections. In IRV, each voter ranks the candidates according to preference, choosing one candidate first, another second, and so on. In the event that no candidate has a majority of first choice votes, the lowest ranking candidate is eliminated and all candidates move up on those ballots.
Peter Vickery, Amherst Lawyer and author of two bills currently in the Massachusetts legislature, and State Representatives Byron Rushing and Alice Wolf, will present and IRV and its current legal status in Massachusetts.
View Flyer: irv.pdf
21st Century Politics, 18th Century Elections: Why our electoral process is not suited for modern-day America
Monday, February 3, 7:00 PM
Raytheon Amphitheater
The Egan Center at Northeastern University
120 Forsyth Street, Boston
Moderator:
Panelists:
- John Bonifaz, Esq. (National Voting Rights Institute)
For more information, see www.MassIRV.org.
- Steven Hill (author of Fixing Elections; Senior Analyst for the Center for Voting and Democracy)
- Professor Alexander Keyssar (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
- Dr. Jill Stein (Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities; 2002 candidate for Governor of Massachusetts)
Statewide Candidate Forum
Thursday, October 10, 7:00 PM, Room 1-190
MIT, Room 1-190
Massachusetts Green Party gubernatorial candidate Dr. Jill Stein and candidate for Treasurer James O'Keefe will speak about their campaigns and answer questions from the audience. This is a great opportunity those unfamiliar to learn about the Green Party.
View Flyer: candidates.pdf
Enron's Collapse:
What Happened, Why, and What You Can Do About It
Thursday, February 21, 7:00 PM, Room 4-163
MIT, Room 4-163
Tyson Slocum, Research Director at Public Citizen in Washington, will speak about the events, policies, and circumstances that precipitated the collapse of energy giant Enron.
View Flyer: enron.pdf
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