Events
03 / 3
(all day)
Start: 02/28/2010 - 1:00pm
End: 03/14/2010 - 3:00pm
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. Start: 9:30 am
End: 11:00 am
Join Restaurant Opportunities Center and Rep. Donna F. Edwards in | |||
03 / 4
(all day)
Start: 02/28/2010 - 1:00pm
End: 03/14/2010 - 3:00pm
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. | |||
03 / 5
(all day)
Start: 02/28/2010 - 1:00pm
End: 03/14/2010 - 3:00pm
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. Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
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. | |||
03 / 6
(all day)
Start: 02/28/2010 - 1:00pm
End: 03/14/2010 - 3:00pm
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. Start: 10:00 pm
Start: 03/06/2010 - 10:00pm
End: 03/07/2010 - 2:00am
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 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 rcastel@dclabor.org |
| ||
03 / 7
(all day)
Start: 02/28/2010 - 1:00pm
End: 03/14/2010 - 3:00pm
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. End: 2:00 am
Start: 03/06/2010 - 10:00pm
End: 03/07/2010 - 2:00am
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 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 rcastel@dclabor.org |
Start: 2:30 pm
Sunday, March 7 Are you a homeowner? Chances are that professional weatherization 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) Start: 5:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
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 | ||
03 / 8
(all day)
Start: 02/28/2010 - 1:00pm
End: 03/14/2010 - 3:00pm
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. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
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. | |||
03 / 9
(all day)
Start: 02/28/2010 - 1:00pm
End: 03/14/2010 - 3:00pm
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. Start: 11:30 am
End: 1:30 pm
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!" Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:00 pm
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. | |||
03 / 10
(all day)
Start: 02/28/2010 - 1:00pm
End: 03/14/2010 - 3:00pm
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. Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:30 pm
In order to better educate the community about the Secure Communities | |||
03 / 11
(all day)
Start: 02/28/2010 - 1:00pm
End: 03/14/2010 - 3:00pm
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. Start: 6:45 pm
End: 8:30 pm
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. | |||
03 / 12
(all day)
Start: 02/28/2010 - 1:00pm
End: 03/14/2010 - 3:00pm
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. | |||
03 / 13
(all day)
Start: 02/28/2010 - 1:00pm
End: 03/14/2010 - 3:00pm
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. Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
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 . | |||
03 / 14
End: 3:00 pm
Start: 02/28/2010 - 1:00pm
End: 03/14/2010 - 3:00pm
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. | |||
03 / 15
| |||
03 / 16
| |||
03 / 17
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Training on the DC Metropolitan Police Department (DCMPD)'s | |||
03 / 18
| |||
03 / 19
Start: 12:00 am
Start: 03/19/2010 - 12:00am
End: 03/20/2010 - 12:00am
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. | |||
03 / 20
End: 12:00 am
Start: 03/19/2010 - 12:00am
End: 03/20/2010 - 12:00am
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. | |||
03 / 21
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
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 | |||
03 / 22
| |||
03 / 23
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Learn tools for having "the best meeting ever." 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 | |||
03 / 24
| |||
03 / 25
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:30 pm
Columbia Sussex, a national hotel owner with several hotels in the At each of these hotels the Company has declared impasse after months At each of these hotels workers have called on the public to boycott | |||
03 / 26
| |||
03 / 27
| |||
03 / 28
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
What is it like doing the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent the year working alongside Latino immigrants, who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. He stooped over lettuce fields in Arizona and worked the graveyard shift at a chicken slaughterhouse in rural Alabama. He dodged taxis-not always successfully-as a bicycle delivery "boy" for an upscale Manhattan restaurant, and was fired from a flower shop by a boss who, he quickly realized, was nuts. Combining personal narrative with investigative reporting, Thompson shines a bright light on the underside of the American economy, exposing harsh working conditions, union busting, and lax government enforcement-while telling the stories of workers, undocumented immigrants and desperate US citizens alike, forced to live with chronic pain in the pursuit of $8 an hour. | |||
03 / 29
| |||
03 / 30
| |||
03 / 31
| |||
04 / 1
| |||
04 / 2
| |||
Jews United for Justice shares information about events & opportunities sponsored by JUFJ allies, or information about local Jewish or inter-faith events and opportunities which concern local social justice issues, local anti-poverty work, or religious teachings about social justice issues.
It is up to our discretion whether or not to list a particular event or opportunity. No events will be listed which take place outside of the greater DC area, or which focus primarily on international issues. We may choose not to publicize events which take place on Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath - from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday), or on Jewish holidays.
To submit an event or opportunity for consideration to be listed on our website please email us a one-paragraph description.
