6:45 pm services; 8:15 pm veggie potluck

dvar tikkun Miriam Grossman, Center for Employment Training 

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Learn the basics of how DC government works, including who's who in DC politics, how a bill becomes a law, the budget cycle, and how to advocate for your issues! Part of the Gerry Brittain Education Project, is an initiative of DC Jobs with Justice designed to strengthen local organizing and build power among working people in the District of Columbia.

Pre-register online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=bdAvdFc2_2bP7TBKN2m08OLA_3d_3d
A donation of $10 is requested, but no-one is turned away.

Click here for full information about what to bring, and what to wear!

Directions here

Gothic building with large rainbow "welcome" banner on west side of 22nd St between P & Q Sts, NW. Enter around to the left side of the main entrance through the stairs down marked "Fellowship Hall."7:30 pm services

Join us at TLS' Erev Purim celebration. Please come in costume for a whimsical, instrumental maariv (evening) service, followed by a full Hebrew chanting of Megillat Esther. Plan now to spontaneously but unobtrusively liven up the reading with sound effects, visual gags, and other shtick! We'll have plenty of opportunities to celebrate, give tzedekah, and learn about important issues affecting DC residents.

Sundays, February 28, March 7, March 14

2/28 - The Visitor

3/7 - The 800 Mile Wall

3/14 - 9500 Liberty

The screenings are free and open to the public.

Sundays, February 28, March 7, March 14

2/28 - The Visitor

3/7 - The 800 Mile Wall

3/14 - 9500 Liberty

The screenings are free and open to the public.

Sundays, February 28, March 7, March 14

2/28 - The Visitor

3/7 - The 800 Mile Wall

3/14 - 9500 Liberty

The screenings are free and open to the public.

The American Civil Liberties Union of The Nation's Capital in cooperation with AYUDA, the Latino Federation of Greater Washington, the DC Latino Action Coalition, the Rights Working Group, the National Immigration Project of the NLG, and the National Day Labor Organizing Network invite you to a Forum on the Secure Communities Program
 

Featured Panelists: 

• David Harris, Professor of Law University of Pittsburg
• DC Councilmember Phil Mendelson (Invited)
• Ronald Hampton, Executive Director, National Black Police Association
• Cathy L. Lanier, Chief, Metropolitan Police Departement
• Dr. Michelle Waslin, American Immigration Council
• Rebecca Headen, National Fellow, Rights Working Group
• Paromita Shah, National Immigration Project of the NLG

We have also invited the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE)

For more information, contact Johnny Barnes at (202) 457-0800 or at Johnny.Barnes@aclu-nca.org

Our friends over at Sixth & I, in conjunction with Dvar Tzedek fellow Rachel Farbiaz, are organizing a three-part workshop investigating the meanings and methods of creative interpretation. They will explore what it means to interpret a central text, concept, or object. How do we use our interpretive faculties to make meaning in our lives? How can the interpretive traditions of religion and art inform each other and our creative and spiritual lives? In conjunction with Torah text study, we will engage with works of conceptual art and particularly the "instructional art" practiced by artists like Sol LeWitt.

Tuesdays March 2, 9 & 16 at 7:00 p.m. 

Sundays, February 28, March 7, March 14

2/28 - The Visitor

3/7 - The 800 Mile Wall

3/14 - 9500 Liberty

The screenings are free and open to the public.

Join Restaurant Opportunities Center and Rep. Donna F. Edwards in
looking at several reports on conditions for workers in the restaurant
industry.    

Sundays, February 28, March 7, March 14

2/28 - The Visitor

3/7 - The 800 Mile Wall

3/14 - 9500 Liberty

The screenings are free and open to the public.

Sundays, February 28, March 7, March 14

2/28 - The Visitor

3/7 - The 800 Mile Wall

3/14 - 9500 Liberty

The screenings are free and open to the public.

Each year the DC Council holds oversight hearings to hear from the public about how city agencies are performing. This Friday there will be hearings on both the Dept. of Employment Services - responsible for protecting workers - and the Office of the State Superintendent of Education - responsible for early childhood education.

Join the Union de Trabajadores in the 5th floor hearing room to demand that the city do more to protect workers and recover stolen wages OR join Empower DC on the 4th floor to speak out against proposed cuts to child care subsidies for working parents.    

Sundays, February 28, March 7, March 14

2/28 - The Visitor

3/7 - The 800 Mile Wall

3/14 - 9500 Liberty

The screenings are free and open to the public.

Take over the Heritage Center, celebrate independent films, and support the struggle for social justice over a cocktail or a beer at this year's Indie Film Dance Party.

Music, dance and an open bar. Drinks for all flavors...

* juice
* soda
* corona
* modelo.
* vodka
* scotch and tequila.

It's time to reclaim this building, take over their bunker!

$10-25, sliding scale. Proceeds will go to the DC Independent Film Festival and DC Jobs with Justice.

To RSVP or for further details, contact

Sundays, February 28, March 7, March 14

2/28 - The Visitor

3/7 - The 800 Mile Wall

3/14 - 9500 Liberty

The screenings are free and open to the public.

Take over the Heritage Center, celebrate independent films, and support the struggle for social justice over a cocktail or a beer at this year's Indie Film Dance Party.

Music, dance and an open bar. Drinks for all flavors...

* juice
* soda
* corona
* modelo.
* vodka
* scotch and tequila.

It's time to reclaim this building, take over their bunker!

$10-25, sliding scale. Proceeds will go to the DC Independent Film Festival and DC Jobs with Justice.

To RSVP or for further details, contact

Sunday, March 7
2:30 pm Snacks and Schmoozing
3 - 4:30 pm Weatherization Workshop

Are you a homeowner? Chances are that professional weatherization
could save you 15-35% in home heating costs!

Fabrangen, Ohev Sholom, Tifereth Israel, and three other area congregations have joined together to invite neighborhood homeowners to a Weatherization Workshop.

Learn how you can save energy, help create good jobs through a local Laborers' training program, and shrink your carbon footprint at the same time!

In particular, you'll have a chance to learn about Weatherize DC, a new organization that is working to integrate environmental justice, economic justice, and communal ownership of the environmental impact of our actions.

The Weatherize DC program coordinates efforts to ensure that green jobs training is made available to underserved communities, while simultaneously mobilizing communities of homeowners to create demand for weatherization, in turn creating jobs for those who need them most. (Learn more at www.weatherizedc.org)

A of former union coal miners from the United Mine Workers of America discuss the strikes they took part in and their current work to stop Mountain Top Removal, the destruction of environment, community, economy, and culture of Appalachia by blowing off mountaintops to extract coal.

Cosponsored by: DC Radical Space Collective, the RRENEW Collective, DC Rainforest Action Network    

Sundays, February 28, March 7, March 14

2/28 - The Visitor

3/7 - The 800 Mile Wall

3/14 - 9500 Liberty

The screenings are free and open to the public.

On April 11th, Jews United For Justice's Labor Seder will once again highlight a major economic justice issue in DC -- the protection of the social safety et.

This comes at a crucial time, as the DC government is contemplating deep cuts to essential services that help working families and low-income DC residents stay in their homes, keep their lights on, and keep food on the table. 

Help us make sure the economic downturn is not paid for by cutting services to DC's neediest!  Help us plan the largest event this spring focusing on DC's safety net. 

Sundays, February 28, March 7, March 14

2/28 - The Visitor

3/7 - The 800 Mile Wall

3/14 - 9500 Liberty

The screenings are free and open to the public.

Obscenely high rate hikes, hundreds of millions of dollars in profits sent to parent companies, 100's of executives earning $1 m+ salaries, millions more spent on lavish executive "retreats". This has to STOP!

AHIP, the big insurance lobby, comes to town next week to lobby Congress against health reform and for the right to continue to screw plan members. Join 5,000 union members, community activists, and faith leaders to tell big insurance "we're sick of it!"    

Interested in Community Organizing but Don't Know Where to Start? Find out how to build collective power to achieve your goals, how to identify targets and develop action plans, and learn about the role of the organizer.

Part of Empower DC's Empowerment Circles series. Special Guest Facilitator: Longtime DC community organizer and DC JwJ chair Roger Newell. RSVP to Linda at (202) 234-9119.

Sundays, February 28, March 7, March 14

2/28 - The Visitor

3/7 - The 800 Mile Wall

3/14 - 9500 Liberty

The screenings are free and open to the public.

In order to better educate the community about the Secure Communities
program and ensure that residents know their rights, DC Jobs with
Justice is co-sponsoring two trainings, one for advocates and
organizers, and another for the general community.

Sundays, February 28, March 7, March 14

2/28 - The Visitor

3/7 - The 800 Mile Wall

3/14 - 9500 Liberty

The screenings are free and open to the public.

JUFJ's next Fair Purple Line working group meeting will be Thursday, March 11 at 6:45 pm in downtown Silver Spring (location TBA).  We will debrief developments from the last few weeks (there are many of them!) and lay out a strategy for the next six months.

For more information or to RSVP, email rabbi@jufj.org. 

Sundays, February 28, March 7, March 14

2/28 - The Visitor

3/7 - The 800 Mile Wall

3/14 - 9500 Liberty

The screenings are free and open to the public.

Sundays, February 28, March 7, March 14

2/28 - The Visitor

3/7 - The 800 Mile Wall

3/14 - 9500 Liberty

The screenings are free and open to the public.

The Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO invites people to attend the annual Evening With Labor Awards Dinner-Dance - now in its 33rd year - honoring local labor activists for their outstanding contributions to workers and the labor movement. A cash bar will be open at 6:30P, followed by dinner commencing at 7:30P.

For more information, please email kmckirch@dclabor.org .    

Sundays, February 28, March 7, March 14

2/28 - The Visitor

3/7 - The 800 Mile Wall

3/14 - 9500 Liberty

The screenings are free and open to the public.

Training on the DC Metropolitan Police Department (DCMPD)'s
participation in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)'s
"Secure Communities" program. This training is particularly
important for advocates and organizers that work with D.C.'s immigrant
community. Participants will receive information about how ICE's
"Secure Communities" program operates, who among your
constituents may be affected, and where individuals can call to report
any civil rights violations related to DCMPD.

Shabbat is a powerful day -- we believe it can change the world. The AJWS-AVODAH Partnership encourages you to participate in a Shabbat dedicated to one of the most critical issues claiming lives in the world today.

Shabbat is a powerful day -- we believe it can change the world. The AJWS-AVODAH Partnership encourages you to participate in a Shabbat dedicated to one of the most critical issues claiming lives in the world today.

On Sunday, March 21, you can be part of history and help change the future for millions of out immigrant brothers and sisters. Join thousands of people of faith from across the U.S. for "March for America: Change Takes Courage and Faith." Between 11 and 12:30 EST, join others from the Jewish community to learn about We Were Strangers, Too Jewish immigration campaign and to make posters for the rally. At 1 PM there will be an interfaith prayer service in advance of the rally. At 2 PM EST gather with other immigrant advocates to send the message that now is the time to fix our broken immigration system.

Register for the rally" http://changetakesfaith.org/.

Register for the bagel brunch by emailing Juliana at JSchnur@rac.org