Events & ACTIONS Oct 2024

Monthly Meeting

Opportunity to Amplify our Messages

on Watertown Cable Access TV

Wednesday Oct 16 7-8:300 PM

Watertown Cable Access Studios

Watertown Cable Access has multiple channels to get our messages out. et’s Use It!

Members of working groups and their allies are invited to the WATV studios for our next monthly meeting. WCATV will introduce us to the studios and tools that we can use and share samples of their programming outlets. Tod Gross will lead us in brainstorming with each other about how to amplify our messages resources, publicly using these resources. This is a great opportunity to inform the community about our WCPJE and the issues and actions of each working group.

information about WCATV can be found on their website: https://wcatv.org/.

Steering Committee Announcements

Watertown Citizens' Exploring how to Accommodate its charitable Activities and Continue its Lobbying and Advocacy

The Steering Committee of WCPJE has been exploring our tax exempt status and is recommending that a separate 501c3 organization be formed to partner with WCPJE on educational and charitable events and activities and increase the eligibility of these activities to receive grants and funding. If you would be interested in participating in the organizing committee for this organization please let us know. Contact Tony Palomba

Events from our Working Groups

Race Reels is Back!

Fall & Winter Season Line Up

OCTOBER LINE UP 1st Race Reels of the season on Thu. 10/10 with 2 films in October.

October 10 @6 PM Pia 6:30 film Politics of Beauty Film about Stuart Udall the first American public official to warn us about global warming. Cosponsored with Progressive Watertown and WFCC. Q & A with Britteny Jenkins Vice President, Environmental Justice, the Conservation Law Foundation. More Info

October 17 Good Trouble @ 5:30 Dawn Porter, filmmaker and Producer of John Lewis Good Trouble will introduce the film Good Trouble and share about the importance of voting.

Celebrate Indigenous People’s Day with Dinner at Branch Line

On Tuesday, October 8, Branch Line will serve a dinner of indigenous cuisine. This four course menu is curated by special guest Chef Sherry Pocknett of Sly Fox Den Too in Charlestown, RI, winner of the 2023 James Beard Award for Best Chef Northeast.

Four courses $65/person, price excludes Eventbrite fees, tax, gratuity, and kitchen admin fee.

More info here

James Beard Award Winner Chef Sherry Pocknett Serves Indigenous Cuisine

Watertown Celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day

Sunday, October 13th from 12:00 - 4:00 PM at the Hosmer Elementary School.

Events from our Friends

Help Plant Watertown’s first Miyawaki Forest!

Saturday Oct 26 10:00 am -3:00 pm

At Lowell School Orchard St and George St

Forests for Watertown invite you to the Watertown Miyawaki Forest Planting Day Festival!A unique collaboration of community, school, city, garden and tree groups is hosting a Planting Day Festival with all the tools, trees, instruction and refreshments needed for planting a seedling forest. Together, we'll plant 900 trees in 2000 square feet in the corner of the Lowell schoolyard to create a Tiny Forest (aka Mini-Forest, Miyawaki Forest) featuring an outdoor classroom. more info here

Calls to Action!

Weekly Vigil Peace and Common Security Working Group

Join us on Saturdays in Watertown Square from 12 noon to 1:00 PM under the banners - "Let Gaza Live" "Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine". Bring a sign or make one when you arrive. If it is raining or snowing we will not gather for the vigil.

more info

Signature Collections on Citizen's Petition to the City Council Calling for a Resolution on Nuclear Disarmament

The Peace and Common Security Working Group wants the City Council to support a call for the U.S. to lead a global effort to prevent nuclear war by, among other steps, actively pursuing a verifiable agreement among nuclear-armed states to eliminate their nuclear arsenal. A Citizen Petition requires the City Clerk to certify that 150 Watertown voters have signed the Petition. Our goal is to collect many more signatures than required and engage voters in a discussion about the existential threat of nuclear war. If you want to help please send an email to watertowncitizens@gmail.com more info here

Tentative date - Saturday, October 26 at 10:00 AM or at 2:00 PM. Meet at the parking lot door of the Watertown Free Public Library. Contact watertowncitizens@gmail.com if you can help!

Working Groups Meetings