Trendy new restaurant The Reserve owes former employees nearly $10,000 in back wages. Owner Moe Hamdan has not only ignored summons by the DC Office of Wage and Hour, but has called to police on workers who try to collect their pay. Sign up for a shift leafleting to let customers know to boycott this restaurant:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8JTWGLF

Your questions, their answers. 

Ward 1 Councilmember Candidate Forum

Jim Graham (incumbent)
Jeff Smith
Bryan Weaver 

Thursday, July 29, 2010

6:00-8:30p.m.

(Program will start promptly at 6:30p.m.)

True Reformer Building, Lankford Auditorium, 1200 U Street NW

(One block from U St metro station)

The forum is free and open to the public. Audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions.

Childcare and accommodations, including sign language interpretation, provided upon request by Friday, July 23^rd.

Please contact Ben at ben@empowerdc.org, 202-234-9119, ext. 4 

Defeat Poverty DC invites you to join us at a Community Forum 

A Conversation with the Leading Candidates for Mayor and Council Chair -

Mayor Fenty, Council Chair Gray, Councilmember Brown, and former Councilmember Orange

In Co-sponsorship with The Bar Association of the District of Columbia, the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law, the D.C. Appleseed, D.C. Vote, Consortium of Universities, the ACLU-NCA, the NAACP, the D.C. Consortium of Legal Services Providers, andthe Access to Justice Commission

Speakers:       Adrian Fenty (invited)
                        Vincent Gray (confirmed)
                        Kwame Brown (confirmed)
                        Vincent Orange (confirmed) 

Trendy new restaurant The Reserve owes former employees nearly $10,000 in back wages. Owner Moe Hamdan has not only ignored summons by the DC Office of Wage and Hour, but has called to police on workers who try to collect their pay. Sign up for a shift leafleting to let customers know to boycott this restaurant:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8JTWGLF

Come to Tikkun Leil Shabbat!  For details, go to http://tikkunleilshabbat.blogspot.com/

The Jewish community invites all District residents to a mayoral debate with candidates Mayor Adrian Fenty and DC Council Chairman Vincent Gray. Mayor Fenty and Chairman Gray will share their vision for the District, discuss issues affecting the Jewish community, and answer your questions. They will address general concerns ranging from affordable housing, immigration, and economic development to education, social service programs, and civil and voting rights.

This program is co-hosted with the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington. Sponsoring organizations include Adas Israel Congregation, American Jewish Committee, American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, American University Hillel, Anti-Defamation League, Bet Mishpachah Congregation, Hillel at The George Washington University, Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation's Capital, Jews United for Justice, National Jewish Democratic Council, Ohev Shalom - The National Synagogue, Temple Sinai, Washington DC Jewish Community Center, Washington Hebrew Congregation, Yachad Non-Profit Housing Organization.    

The DC League of Women Voters invites all women and men to join a demonstration  on Thursday,  August 26, 2010, to commemorate the 90^th anniversary of the 19^th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States which gave women in the U.S. the right to vote.
 
This all-day action in front of the White House and Lafayette Park will also seek to draw national attention to the lack of full voting representation and autonomy for citizens of DC.   Participants are welcome at any time and are encouraged to wear white.
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To indicate your intention to join us that day and the approximate time:  email the League at this special temporary email address: lwvdc826@aol.com  
 
Groups that wish to join us will be acknowledged.  

The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education.

Concrete workers organizing with United Construction Workers (UCW) will rally with community allies at the Consolidated Forensic Laboratory jobsite at 6^th and E Sts. SW, Washington D.C. to protest Southland Concrete's unsafe practices, unfair layoffs and poor working conditions, and to demand respect, dignity, and the right to a voice on the job at Southland Concrete.  Elected officials from the D.C. government will respond to workers' calls to commit to pursuing a full investigation of allegations of workplace abuse.