Boston MOBE membership meeting Wed April 13

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BOSTON MOBILIZATION MEMBERSHIP MEETING:

WEDNESDAY APRIL 13th
6:30 pm
971 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston 02215

Dear Friends of Boston Mobilization –

Every year Boston Mobe holds a membership meeting. You are eligible to attend if you have contributed time, energy, goods, talent, interest or money to Mobe – in other words, people who are involved with us in any way!

This will be an open board and staff meeting. As many of you know, Mobe has been through a great many changes over the past year or so. At this meeting we will discuss our work and our direction for the future. We also use this opportunity to nominate and elect new Board Members.

This year we want to fling our doors wide open!

What do you think of what we have been doing?
Don’t know, and want to find out?
What should we include that we are not?
Help shape our long-range vision!
Want to become more involved?

I know this is short notice for some, and if you cannot attend, please feel free to ask or answer any of these questions to me personally. But please make an effort to attend, if you possibly can, because there is nothing like meeting face to face!

Looking forward to seeing you!

-Eve

PS Congrats to the Harvard Students who succeeded with their divestment of Sudan campaign!

For More info on what we can do about the genocide in Sudan go to:
http://www.genocideinterventionfund.org/

See today’s Boston Globe article (printed below)
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/04/06/who_says_student_activism_is_dead/

BOSTON GLOBE 4/6/2005

THE CYNICS of our time should heed two striking events that occurred
this week in relation to the ongoing atrocities in Darfur. First, for the only time since the tobacco cases and the apartheid era, Harvard
University has acted on purely moral grounds, divesting itself of shares in a company that supports the government of Sudan. Second, a mechanism has been launched enabling private citizens to take action to stop genocide if their governments don't. The driving force behind such unprecedented occurrences? A bunch of 20-year-old students who believe we must make real our promise of ''never again" to protect civilians in Darfur.

On Monday, Harvard announced that despite the ''strong presumption
against divestment for reasons unrelated to investment purposes" it would take the rare step to divest itself on moral grounds of the $4.4 million worth of shares it held in PetroChina. Citing a recent report to the British Parliament that estimates the death toll in the Darfur region of Sudan to be at least 300,000, the Harvard Corporation stated that its decision reflected deep concerns about the extensive role of PetroChina's closely affiliated parent company, China National Petroleum Corporation, as a leading partner of the Sudanese government in the production of oil in Sudan.

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