Events
Workers' Rights Board hearing:
Wage Theft
Thursday, Feb. 18th
6-9pm
First Rising Mt. Zion Church
602 N Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20001
(Mt. Vernon Square metro)
More details to come! Save the date!
Party for Justice: a Fundraiser for Wings Strikers
Friday, February 19th from 8pm-1:00am
La Casa, 3166 Mount Pleasant St NW
Featuring music by DJ Alex
bachata, cumbia, merengue
snacks and drink will be provided
Suggested donation: $10-$25
Party for Justice: a Fundraiser for Wings Strikers
Friday, February 19th from 8pm-1:00am
La Casa, 3166 Mount Pleasant St NW
Featuring music by DJ Alex
bachata, cumbia, merengue
snacks and drink will be provided
Suggested donation: $10-$25
Training: How DC Government Works
Tuesday, Feb. 23rd
6:30-8:30pm
St. Stephen Episcopal Church
1525 Newton St NW
Columbia Heights metro, S2/S4 bus
Rally in Support of Transportation Security Officers
Tuesday, February 23rd
11:30 AM
AFL-CIO - 815 16th Street NW
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).
Represent'n At the US Social Forum
Wed, February 24, 2010 -- 6:45-8:45pm
SALSA
1112 16th St NW, Suite 60
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.
NORTHERN VIRGINIA HOTEL WORKERS RISING!
March for Justice for Hotel Workers!
Saturday, February 27th
Gather at the Hilton Crystal City
2399 Jefferson Davis Highway
March to the Sheraton Crystal City
1800 Jefferson Davis Highway
Contact; Tracy Lingo, UNITE HERE 301 717 1958, tlingo@unitehere.org
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."
Saturday, March 6th.
The Heritage Center, 701 Pennsylvania Ave NW (Navy Yard Metro)
3:30pm-5:30pm.
Feat. Director Esau Melendez
Sarahi Uribe, National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Mackenzie Baris, DC Jobs with Justice
Immigrant Nation!: The Battle for the Dream
Esau Melendez 2010
Run time: 105 min. | USA
Stand Up to Big Insurance!
Tuesday, March 9th
11:30am at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 22nd & M Sts, NW
(To march with the labor delegation, meet at 11am in front of AFSCME at 1625 L St NW)
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!
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?
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
Please join us for a special cultural evening:
"TUNES OF TRANSFORMATION: A Concert Supporting the US Social Forum,"
Friday, March 12, 2010 - 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Church of the Reformation, 212 East Capitol St., NE
$10 suggested;
Organizations invited to table ($25 per organization)
Know Your Rights under Secure Communities
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
6pm-7:30pm
CentroNÃa
1420 Columbia Road
¿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.
Stop "Secure Communities"
Friday, March 19th
10:45am
John Wilson Building
1350 Pennsylvania Ave NW rm 500
Metro DC CLUW
Presents a
Women’s History Month Celebration
“Writing Women Back Into Historyâ€
March 19, 2010 - 6:00–8:00 PM
AFL-CIO Gompers Room
815 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006
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So much is missed in women’s history.
Please join us as we listen to a panel of speakers talk about the challenges women of different backgrounds face
in the past and today.
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A Lite Dinner, Wonderful Speakers, and Camaraderie
What More Could You Ask?
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
6-8pm
Busboys and Poets
1025 5th Street, NW
Topics of discussion:
