Events

« Thursday July 23, 2009 »
Thu
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm

On Thursday July 23, 2009 Chancellor Rhee, Deputy Mayor Victor Reinoso and Dr. Kerri Briggs (OSSE) will testify on student achievement and learning issues before the US Senate Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management in a hearing titled Taking Stock of Education Reform. We urgently need parents, community members, teachers and others who are willing to come out and protest tomorrow on about what is happening in our schools.

WHEN: July 23, 2009, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
WHERE: Dirksen Senate Office Building in Room 342. Meet at 2nd & Constitution Avenue.
Bring an ID with you.

Start: 6:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm

“Instead of respecting my hard work, Pizza Hut has thrown me on the street with nothing,” Leonidez Contreras, former Yum! Brands employee.

Stand in solidarity with hundreds of workers on Thursday, July 23rd at a dinnertime delegation and demonstration at KFC and Taco Bell on the corner of 14th and U St. NW (1934 14th St NW) at 6:30pm. Deliver a message to Yum! Brands to stop anti-immigrant firings of workers with social security's “no-match” letters!