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There will be a D.C. Really Really Free Market on Saturday, May 10 from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm in Dupont Circle.
People can take anything they’d like and can bring anything they’d like; clothes, bikes, patches, songs, food, seeds, books, records, skills, etc. No money!
Coordinated by the D.C. Really Really Free Market Collective.
SiCKO! AT THE AFL-CIO
815 16th Street, N.W.
NOON - 2:15 p.m.
Friday, April 25
Join us for a special screening of Michael Moore’s Academy Award-nominated film that investigates the American health care system, focusing on its for-profit health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, and the patients they fail. The film compares the U.S. system to the universal and non-profit systems of Canada, the UK, France, and Cuba. More than just a film, this documentary has become a stunningly effective organizing tool as health care advocates have used it to enrage, educate and mobilize activists across the country.
John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), author of H.R. 676, “The United States National Health Insurance Act,” or “Expanded & Improved Medicare for All,” has been invited to introduce the film; Donna Smith, who is featured in the film, will be there to comment. Plagued with health problems, she and her husband were forced to sell their home and move into the storage room of their daughter’s house because they couldn’t cope with health costs, despite being insured. Ms. Smith is now a Communication Specialist in the Chicago office of the California Nurses Association/National Nurse Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC).
Screening co-sponsored by: DC Labor Film Fest, AFL-CIO, California Nurses Association, Coalition of Labor Union Women, AFL-CIO Department for Professional Employees, Office and Professional Employees International Union, and the United Steelworkers.
Admission is free and open to the public. Bring your lunch!
Please spread the word to others who may be interested.
Questions? Call 202/974-8153 or 202/638-0320, ext. 12
ACLU, DC ACORN, and coalition partners launch a day to educate the community with a training session and community canvassing providing key information in English and Spanish. On Saturday, April 5, there will be training from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at The St. James Episcopal Church, 222 8th Street, NE, between the Red Line’s Union Station and Blue/Orange’s Eastern Market Metro stops. Neighborhood canvassing will take place from 1:30-5:30 p.m.
MPD says officers will go to Eckington, Columbia Heights, Washington Highlands, and possibly other neighborhoods to ask residents’ permission to search their homes. They will ask residents to sign a consent form, which answers some questions but not others. But even though the form says that someone could be charged with a crime as the result of the search, too many people may not understand what is written or take the time to read the form carefully.
Our job is to ensure that residents really understand the consequences of agreeing to a search and that they have an absolute right to refuse, without retaliation of any kind. At our training session, we’ll give you what you need to talk to residents about their rights. After that we’ll go into the neighborhoods and help people decide for themselves whether to have their homes searched.
YOU ARE INVITED!!…
To attend the 8th annual Visions in Feminism Conference!!
WHEN?- Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Breakfast at 9 AM
Keynote Speech ends at 5:15 PM
Come and go as you please (see full schedule on website)
WHERE?- American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20016
vif@visionsinfeminism.org
COST?- $10 in advance, $15 at the door
And Introducing this year’s 2008 Keynote: Phyllis Young
We’re proud to announce our 2008 keynote speaker, Mni Yuha Naginwin, Phyllis Young, coming all the way from North Dakota. She is one of the co-founders of Women Of All Red Nations and has been active in work among Native American people and the Lakota secession movement for over 35 years! (for more info, check website)
WORKSHOPS- (Include, but not limited to) A Critique of Western Feminism from the lens of Indigenous Women’s Movements in Latin America, Not Your Average Tea Party: the Tactics of the National Woman’s Party, Sports, Feminism and Title IX, and Masculinities and the Gender Binary.
THEME- “Crossing Borders.” Our hope is to challenge the fixed notions, meanings, and practices in which many of us take comfort. We want to elaborate terms of struggle that not only account for, but embrace difference, contingency, and even contradiction; crossing an array of borders, exploring the landscapes of the borders themselves, and honoring the vulnerability that such journeys demand.
Tables are still available for groups that would like to table!
Questions? Email: jesshalldc@gmail.com
Presented in partnership with the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at American University.
The conference will be followed by a night of music, burlesque, poetry, belly dancing, and art, starting at 10 pm at The DC Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW with a $12 donation to benefit HIPS. Come and celebrate!
Critical Mass: Kick the Oil Addiction that Fuels the War.
We will ride around the city focusing on specific areas that support the war as well as riding by
other actions to show our solidarity.
We will meet in Dupont Circle at 8:30 am
and leave around 9:00 am. Please come with costumes or signs about no oil.
Please join us on Sunday, March 16 at Black Cat DC for a screening of the new film Brad, One More Night at the Barricades. Brazilian filmmaker and media activist Miguel will be on hand to discuss his documentary tribute to a fallen friend.
WHEN: Sunday March 16 at 9:00 pm
WHAT: Film screening of Brad, One More Night at the Barricades (55 min)
WHERE: Black Cat (backstage)
1811 14th Street NW
Washington, DC
$5 donations will go to help filmmaker Miguel continue his tour. DVDs will also be on sale.
Co-sponsored by the The Brian MacKenzie Infoshop
The National Conference of Organized Resistance is an annual event that brings together people from all backgrounds for a weekend of learning and discussing local and international social justice issues through workshops, panel discussions, and skillshares. NCOR is held on the main campus of American University in northwest Washington, DC.
Check the website for schedule, workshop descriptions, rideboard and housing board, and more information.
Helping to Organize the DC Metro Area to Mobilize and Shut Down the Democratic and Republican National Conventions
The inaugural meeting of DC’s Unconventional Action chapter will be hosted to talk about the response, mobilization, transportation, presence and – most importantly – action of people from DC and the surrounding areas.
*WHEN*: Sunday, March 16th at 2:00pm
*WHERE*: Mt. Pleasant Library
3160 16th Street, NW
(downstairs big meeting room)
close to Columbia Heights Metro
What is Unconventional Action:
Unconventional Action is an emerging network aiming to complement the work of local organizers in Denver and the Twin Cities with regional organizing throughout the rest of the country. Our goal is to build a horizontal, inclusive framework for protests that will disrupt the upcoming Democratic and Republican National Conventions. We are currently organizing meetings, propaganda, and consultas in our communities and encourage those in other regions to do the same.
via DC Anarchist email list
On February 28 in Lane County Circuit Court the re-sentencing hearing for Jeffrey Luers took place in front of Judge Billings. This followed an Oregon court of appeals ruling in February 2007 that Luers original sentence of 22 years 8 months by Judge Lyle Velure was illegal, and the appeals court remanded the case back to Lane County Circuit Court for re-sentencing. Following the appeals court decision, negotiations have resulted in the decision today to reduce Luers sentence to 10 years, bringing his release date to late December 2009.
Stop Using the Phony "War on Terrorism" to Criminalize Free Speech!!
An Injury to One is an Injury to All!!
Jamie "Bork" Loughner, a housing activist, and disabled worker, who has relied on public housing for safe and affordable shelter, was arraigned on a politically inspired charge of possessing a false explosive device in Orleans Parish Criminal Court on January 29th, 2008. The Orleans Parish District Attorney filed the felony charge against Loughner in response to her participation in the December 19th protest that temporarily halted demolition of public housing apartments at the B.W. Cooper Housing Development in New Orleans. The demolition work at Cooper is part of an ongoing plan by HUD, the New Orleans City Council and the New Orleans Mayor — and the real estate and other corporate interests they represent — to destroy 4,500 easily made habitable public housing apartments in storm devastated New Orleans.