Join us as we plan the next steps for JUFJ's day laborer justice work -- including how to take our message into synagogues during Labor on the Bimah! All are welcome.

This meeting has been cancelled.  If you were planning on attending, please contact us at 202-408-1423 or info@jufj.org.

Join JUFJ's Fair Purple Line working group as we plan our next steps to preserve communities and affordable housing along the proposed purple line route in Maryland. All are welcome. Please contact linz.morris@gmail.com for more information, or to RSVP.

Homelessness among singles and families is on the rise in the District of Columbia. Well after hypothermia season has ended, there are no vacancies in the individual women's emergency shelter system, and the few vacancies in the men's system are far removed from people and supportive services. People with no place to go are being denied shelter and forced to stay in unsafe places. Family homelessness in the District has risen 25% since last year, and over 200 families remain on the wait list for emergency shelter. Meanwhile, the number of available units at D.C. General family emergency shelter is continuously decreasing and the shelter is currently down to 35 units from the 75 it was operating during hypothermia season. This shelter is slated to close even as families report that they are being turned away due to a lack of capacity in the system.

circle seating, with instruments

dvar tikkun Rabbi David Saperstein
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

6:45 pm services; 8:15 pm veggie potluck
Directions here.

More about Tikkun Leil Shabbat here.

Greater Washington Allies In Reconciliation, An Interfaith Antiracism Alliance, presents its 2nd Annual Community Conference.

Speak Out by uninsured and under-insured patients, doctors, nurses, political & community leaders including Rev. Hagler and Audri Scott Williams. Music and performances. Sponsored by Labor Campaign for Single-Payer, Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO, Healthcare-Now, and Spirit of Truth Foundation.  For more info visit www.Healthcare-Now.org.

Join Jews United for Justice and Interfaith Worker Justice of Greater Washington for a creative, interactive discussion about the problem of wage theft and how our religious communities can stand in solidarity with day laborers and other workers in DC. You will:

• Join local faith leaders in exploring our faiths' traditional responses to wage theft
• Create art and stories that help to illustrate those connections
• Meet others from a variety of faith traditions who are committeed to social and economic justice

To learn more, or to RSVP, please contact shira@jufj.org.

Join JUFJ's working group as we work to bring justice to day laborers who live and work in Washington, DC. All are welcome, and snacks will be provided.

RSVP to Nathaniel at ndb22@cornell.edu . 

Interested in improving your facilitation skills? Want to learn more about the tenets and techniques of popular education? Think your organizing would benefit from an education program? Join DC Jobs with Justice for a workshop on educating for social change.

Training is free and open to the public, pre-registration required. To register click http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=bdAvdFc2_2bP7TBKN2m08OLA_3d_3d. Snacks will be provided. Come ready to participate!

This training is offered as part of the Gerry Brittain Education Project, an initiative of DC Jobs with Justice designed to strengthen local organizing and build power among working people in the District of Columbia.

Stand with workers at the Sheraton Crystal City hotel as they demand the reinstatement of fired union activist Ferdi Lazo and a free and fair process for deciding about unionization. More info:http://www.heiworkersrising.info

Stand in solidarity with the hotel workers of Northern Virginia this Thursday, July 30th from 4:30-6:30pm at a rally and picket at the Sheraton Crystal City.  Workers at this hotel are fighting back against the hotel management company HEI in response to reduced hours, layoffs, increased workloads, and the recent firings of union supporters, one who was fired five days after leading a delegation to the hotel manager.

Please come and support the hotel workers this Thursday!  The Sheraton is located at 1800 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA.  The closest metro stop is Crystal City.    With further questions, please call DC Jobs with Justice at 202-974-8281.