Events
02 / 17
Start: 6:41 pm
COME OUT AND SUPPORT THE WINGS WORKERS STRIKE. Prayer Vigil: Have a Heart for Wings Workers WE NEED YOUR HELP! | ||
02 / 18
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Workers' Rights Board hearing: Thursday, Feb. 18th More details to come! Save the date! | ||
02 / 19
Start: 8:00 pm
Start: 19 Feb 2010 - 8:00pm
End: 20 Feb 2010 - 1:00am
Party for Justice: a Fundraiser for Wings Strikers Featuring music by DJ Alex | ||
02 / 20
End: 1:00 am
Start: 19 Feb 2010 - 8:00pm
End: 20 Feb 2010 - 1:00am
Party for Justice: a Fundraiser for Wings Strikers Featuring music by DJ Alex | ||
02 / 21
| ||
02 / 22
| ||
02 / 23
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Training: How DC Government Works Start: 11:30 pm
Rally in Support of Transportation Security Officers Tuesday, February 23rd In the wake of September 11, 2001, the Congress created the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to protect airline passengers from future terrorist attacks. Unfortunately, one of the first acts of the Bush administrations TSA was to prohibit collective bargaining for 41,000 TSOs. Despite being denied the right to bargain collectively for the last eight years, over 12,000 TSOs have joined the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). | ||
02 / 24
Start: 6:45 pm
End: 8:45 pm
Represent'n At the US Social Forum The US SOCIAL FORUM (USSF) is a movement building process. It's not a conference but a space to come up with the peoples' solutions to the economic, social, and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next important step in our struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational, diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country and changes history. | ||
02 / 25
| ||
02 / 26
| ||
02 / 27
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm
NORTHERN VIRGINIA HOTEL WORKERS RISING! Gather at the Hilton Crystal City March to the Sheraton Crystal City Contact; Tracy Lingo, UNITE HERE 301 717 1958, tlingo@unitehere.org | ||
02 / 28
| ||
03 / 1
| ||
03 / 2
| ||
03 / 3
| ||
03 / 4
| ||
03 / 5
| ||
03 / 6
Start: 3:30 pm
End: 5:30 pm
This year DC JwJ is partnering with the award winning DC Independent Film Festival to bring you a series of short and full-length feature movies under the lense"This is America: Films on Immigration." Immigrant Nation!: The Battle for the Dream | ||
03 / 7
| ||
03 / 8
| ||
03 / 9
Start: 11:30 am
End: 1:00 pm
Stand Up to Big Insurance! Tuesday, March 9th 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! Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm
EMPOWER DC Empowerment Circles Series YOU CAN MAKE CHANGE! Interested in Community Organizing but Don't Know Where to Start? COMMUNITY ORGANIZING 101 "AN INTRODUCTION TO BUILDING POWER THROUGH COMMUNITY ORGANIZING" Special Guest Facilitator: Longtime DC Community Organizer Roger Newell Tuesday, March 9 6:30PM-8:30PM Brooks Mansion 901 Newton St NE Brookland Metro (Red Line) RSVP to Linda at (202) 234-9119 FIND OUT: How do you build collective power to achieve your goals? Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
As part of the "African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present" exhibition, the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum would like to invite you to join us: Tuesday, March 9th 7:00pm @ Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum COMMUNITY FORUM: BUILDING BLACK AND BROWN COALITIONS | ||
03 / 10
| ||
03 / 11
| ||
03 / 12
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Please join us for a special cultural evening: "TUNES OF TRANSFORMATION: A Concert Supporting the US Social Forum," $10 suggested; | ||
03 / 13
| ||
03 / 14
| ||
03 / 15
| ||
03 / 16
| ||
03 / 17
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Know Your Rights under Secure Communities Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 ¿Have YOU heard of DC Police’s participation in the Secure Communities program? *¿Do you know your rights if you are stopped, detained or arrested by the police in DC? Attend a Know Your Rights presentation to learn more. Presentation will explain Secure Communities program and inform individuals of their rights in the event that they are stopped, detained, or arrested by the police in Washington, D.C. and interrogated about their immigration status. | ||
03 / 18
| ||
03 / 19
Start: 10:45 am
End: 12:30 pm
Stop "Secure Communities" Friday, March 19th Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Metro DC CLUW March 19, 2010 - 6:00–8:00 PM So much is missed in women’s history. A Lite Dinner, Wonderful Speakers, and Camaraderie Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
In honor of the 7th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, the same weekend as a huge immigrant rights march in DC, come learn how militarization and the US military in particular affects oppressed populations. We'll discuss the experience of Iraqis after 7 years of US occupation and on the verge of US pulling out some of their troops; the experience of Latino immigrants in DC; and, making the local-global connection, the impact of over-policing that targets black communities in DC. Friday, March 19th Topics of discussion: | ||
