Events
The Partnership for Jewish Life and Learning and Maryland Hillel are excited to present the 3rd annual ROUTES: A Day of Jewish Learning, on March, 11, 2012, at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Girls Rock! DC will be putting on a benefit show this Sunday, spinning some classic lady tunes. Through electric guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, turntables, digital tunes or vocal instruction, this amazing org helps DC area girls boost confidence, stand up and rock out!
Join the Georgia Avenue Community Task Force as they host an At Large Candidate Forum. This will be an opportunity to hear the candidate's views on the issues important to the Lower Georgia Avenue community.
Throughout the course of the Purple Line project we have held many public meetings to educate the community and engage them in an ongoing dialogue about the project. These meetings range from our large-scale Open Houses to smaller meetings with communities on particular issues. The Purple Line Project will continue to hold these meetings as the study progresses.
Lyttonsville Station Area
Wednesday March 14, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Gwendolyn E. Coffield Community Center
2450 Lyttonsville Road
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Love hip hop, spoken word, murals and MC'ing? Want to explore the dynamic role of the arts in community transformation?
Mazi Mutafa, Bomani Armah, and Jason Nicholson of Words Beats & Life will share their experiences, and lead an interactive discussion around provoking fun, fresh, lasting change on campus and beyond.
For more information, click here.
Ward 4 Thrives is gearing up to stop the Walmart proposed for Georgia and Missouri Ave NW. Help them call the thousands of Ward 4 residents who have signed their petition to stop Walmart! For location details, contact Mike at organizer@respectdc.org or 202-255-7974.
We will be participating in a fun, energetic action targeting a high-up within Walmart. Details are secret, if you are able to participate, email organizer@respectdc.org or call 202-255-7974 for more information.
This rally and march for good jobs and against corporate greed, sponsered by Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, DC Jobs with Justice, Metro DC Labor Council, and many others, is a response to Verizon's corporate greed.
Please see the attached flyer for more informatio, and be sure to lend your support and fight for good jobs!
The Emergence Community Arts Collective (ECAC), a cultural arts and community center located in NW Washington, DC, will celebrate historical and present day women who have provided dedicated service to the Pleasant Plains and Park View (Lower Georgia Avenue) communities, with all proceeds benefiting ECAC's current programs. In Her Honor: The Second Annual Celebration Of the Service Of Women In Pleasant Plains and Park View will feature Dr. E. Faye Williams, Chair of the National Congress of Black Women as a keynote speaker on March 22, 2012 at 6:30 pm at the Howard University Blackburn Center. The event will also welcome Candy Shannon as the MC and performances by Ayanna Gregory and Douglas "DJ" Jordan.
Resistance is Fertile!
A group has formed to begin planning a May Day Festival as a celebration of community and the struggle for collective self-liberation!
May Day is symbolic for many reasons, all of which relate to bringing
people together, co-creating new possibilities and building solidarity. It is an ancient holiday marking the return of spring and a time of rebirth. Since the Haymarket Massacre of 1886, it has also been recognized globally as International Workers’ Day. And, even more recently, May Day has become an occasion to highlight the struggle for immigrant rights in the US.
In honor of this day and its many meanings, we hope to bring DC's activists
and organizers together across silos to work on this common project as a way for us to get to know and trust one another. We believe that a low-stakes festival will help create a good spirit among us as well as the base-line of trust, familiarity and solidarity needed to engage in more high-stakes struggles together further down the line.
Each year, the Labor Seder brings together greater DC's Jewish and progressive communities to celebrate and work for justice.
This year's seder will focus on immigration, highlighting our region’s diverse immigrant communities and the challenges they face. The seder will feature singing, storytelling, discussion, reflection, and action, as well as local workers, activists, rabbis, and an original haggadah.
Click here for more info and to register. Sign up now: this event sells out!
You can make a change in your community!
Interested in Community Organizing but you don’t know where to start? Please join Empower DC and DC Jobs with Justice as we present this informative training on the Basics of Community Organizing.
Facilitated by seasoned organizer Roger Newell.
On street parking available.
RSVP to Lillian at lillian@dcjwj.org or 202-543-1542. Childcare is available on request.
Come and enjoy a fundraiser to establish a Cooperative Movement for La Union de Trabajadores de DC. All proceeds will go to buying insurance to establish the cooperative. $10 requested donation.
Guests include:
- Workers in La Union de Trabajadores de DC
- Quique Aviles, a poet, actor and community activist whose work is dedicated to addressing social issues through performance and poetry
- Alex Iraheta, author and musician
- Ajowa Ifateyo, a coop expert and the co-founder of the Ella Jo Baker Intentional Community Cooperative, an affordable housing cooperative in DC
- Local coop movement builders sharing ways you can get involved
To learn more about this event and La Union de Trabajadores de DC, contact Arturo Griffiths at (202)-441-6399 or by email at arturo.griffiths@gmail.com
Tikkun Leil Shabbat is a songful, soulful Shabbat service featuring a teaching about a social justice issue and followed by a potluck vegetarian dinner. Please bring a vegetarian dish to share.
For more information, click here .
row seating, a capella
6:45 pm services, 8:15ish pm potluck dinner
Occupy Montgomery County formed recently to build community and amplify voices of the 99% in America's 12th richest county. In order to create a collective vision, plan actions, and mobilize resistance in the Montgomery County community, Occupy Montgomery County will be holding its first People's Assembly.
For more information or to sign up for email alerts visit www.occupymocomd.org or call (240) 424-5550.
Click this link to add the People's Assembly to your Facebook events, and invite your friends.
5:00 pm | Drinks and hors d'oeuvres
6:00 pm | Seder
Led by Rabbi Toby Manewith
Congregation Bet Mishpachah
Representatives from Occupy Faith DC would like to meet with progressive rabbis and those who have supported the Occupy movement in order to discuss the participation of the Jewish faith community in an Occupy Faith DC "Economic Inequality and Social Justice Weekend" on May 18-20th.
At this meeting we will cover the purpose of the weekend, talk about the options that Jewish houses of worship could possibly offer during this weekend, and talk about the larger effort to mobilize communities of faith to more effectively address economic inequality.
The 20th Annual Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. Lecture this year features a conversation with Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. An introduction will be given by Wade Hendeerson, President of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human rights and Joe Raugh, Professor of Public Interest Law.
Admission is Free and to RSVP click here
Freedom Riders is a documentary film that tells the story of a courageous band of civil rights activists who challenged segregation in the Deep South in 1961, simply by traveling side by side on buses and trains. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, hundreds of black and white college students risked their lives—and many were met with bitter racism, violence and imprisonment—sorely testing their belief in nonviolent activism. The film was directed by Stanley Nelson and made in 2011 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides.
We will have an informal potluck dinner and snacks beginning at 6:30 pm. Please bring something vegetarian to share. The documentary will be shown at 7:00 pm, followed by a short discussion.
Come hear from an exciting panel of speakers, including Bill Fletcher, Jr, author of Solidarity Divided, Robin Williams of UFCW, Kwame Boadi from DC Fiscal Policy Institute, Walmart workers, and more. There will be time for discussion about the impact Walmart is likely to have on DC and what we are going to do about it. Stay after to watch the returns come in from the DC primary elections.
Come hear a panel of speakers discuss the impact Walmart will have on DC if we do not force it to sign an enforceable, city-wide Community Benefits Agreement. Stay to watch the city council results come in!
Meet new people in a casual, social atmosphere, and help make DC healthier at the same time! Help us assemble safer sex kits for the wonderful local organization HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive)! HIPS' mission is to assist female, male and trandsgender individuals engaging in sex work in Washington, DC in leading healthy lives, and works to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS on the community. HIPS programs serve an estimated 2,000 sex workers a year on the streets and in their drop-in center. HIPS is an ally of JUFJ and was featured as a Tikkun Leil Shabbat d'var tikkun. HIPS will provide all supplies - plus some wine and treats! Please email halleyc@washingtondcjcc.org or call 202-777-3253 to RSVP.
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