WCES Calendar
Here you will find information about upcoming WCES Events,
WCES Task Force Meetings,
and Other Events (when applicable) you may be interested in.
WCES also maintains an email newsletter listing all meetings and events.
Messages are sent out approximately bimonthly.
Email us your contact
information to receive these regular updates.
WCES Events

- Life-Friendly Garden Tour
- Sunday, September 12, 12:30-5:00 PM
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Download the flyer
Kids and parents, friends and neighbors, garden lovers: Welcome to a celebration of
Earth's Bounty in Watertown!
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- All Aboard for 10.2.10
- Buses Leave Boston Area 10 PM Friday, October 1
- and return on the evening of Saturday, October 2

We have an unprecedented opportunity to forge new partnerships to end war,
stop global warming, and create millions of green jobs.
Our chance for high visibility and greater influence in the political process
starts on
10.2.10 with a massive mobilization in Washington, DC.
We have a promising new opportunity to facilitate profound, positive changes
both at home and abroad. This opportunity comes through
One Nation Working Together ,
an historic collaboration of powerful, progressive groups representing labor,
civil rights, the environment, and peace and social justice.
Organizations spearheading this effort include the NAACP, 1199 SEIU,
Green for All, United for Peace & Justice, the United States Student Association,
the National Council of La Raza, and the Center for Community Change.
On October 2, peace activists and environmentalists will march on Washington, DC
- joining civil rights, labor, immigrant rights, and other progressive organizations to demand:
- Green jobs and economic recovery
- Peace abroad and renewable energy at home
- Cuts in military spending to fund human needs
WCES has allied with the Majority Agenda Project to make it easy for your to get on the bus
and make sure your voice is heard on October 2 - and beyond.
The October 2 mobilization is intended to be the beginning of an ongoing progressive
coalition. With the reach, size, and political breadth of the organizing partners,
the 10.2.10 mobilization has the potential to be huge and the continuing efforts very powerful.
Click here to register for your seat on the bus.
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- Monthly Peace Vigil
- Third Saturday of each month
- Watertown Square
- 11:00 AM - 12 Noon
- Next Vigil:
- September 18
Let Us Remember and Respond! We are fighting two wars in which thousands of US
soldiers have died or been wounded and
hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have
been killed and wounded. We are spending BILLIONS on these wars while
teachers are not hired, houses are not built, and
families go without food, shelter, and healthcare; and
an economic depression brings more and more
unemployment, foreclosures, and despair.
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- Film Showing
- Scarred Land, Wounded Lives: The Environmental Impact of War
- Weds, September 29, 7:00 PM
- Watertown Free Public Library
- 123 Main Street, Watertown
This compelling and haunting documentary of war's "silent casualty" -
the environment - explores the under-reported, even ignored, ecological ramifications of war.
Weaving together scientific and eyewitness accounts from Vietnam and Afghanistan
to Australia and the Pacific Islands, supported by onsite and archival footage,
Scarred Lands, Wounded Lives vividly portrays the long-term damage to our
planet resulting from the testing and production of weapons through the array
of destruction from bombs, chemicals, guns and unexploded ordnance.
The film confronts the immensely broad environmental devastation of war:
pollution of our land, air and water and destruction of our biodiversity and
entire ecosystems.
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WCES Task Force Meetings
- Local Environmental Task Force (LETF)
- Meets at 7:30 PM on the second Monday of each month
- The new meeting place is 41 Bancroft Street, near the Middle School
- Climate Change Task Force (CCTF)
- Next Meeting: July 13, 2010, 7:00 PM
- Wainwright Bank, Community Room, One Church Street, Watertown
The Climate Change Task Force works solely on Global Warming.
WCES member Peter Brooks heads up this effort. For information about meeting dates and times, please
contact Peter.
Click here to see minutes of the latest meetings of both the Environmental and Climate Change Task Forces.
- Peace and Justice Task Force (PJTF)
- Meets the second Wednesday of the month at 7:15 PM
Please contact Tony Palomba
(617-279-2240 x 285) for location details and agenda items.
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Other Events of Interest to WCES members
Please watch this spot for listings!