Anarchists in Washington, DC

The International Day of Solidarity With the Palestinian People is November 29th, and on the 30th the D.C community will show their solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people against occupation and repression by marching from American University to the Israeli embassy a short distance away. Bring flags, banners, drums and water.

Date: Monday, November 30, 2009
Time: 2:30pm - 6:00pm

Location: American University - meet on the Main Quad
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC
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Be part of the largest mass civil disobedience for the climate in U.S. history.

You know there is a climate crisis. You know we have to solve it. It’s time to take our action to the next level.

With a new administration and a new Congress, we have a window of opportunity. But we have to open it — together.

On March 2, join thousands of people in a multi-generational act of civil disobedience at the Capitol Power Plant — a plant that powers Congress with dirty energy and symbolizes a past that cannot be our future. Let’s use this as a rallying cry for a clean energy economy that will protect the health of our families, our climate, and our future.

This will be a peaceful demonstration, carried out in a spirit of hope and not rancor. We will be there in our dress clothes, and ask the same of you.

It’s time to take a stand on global warming. We can’t wait any longer for the changes we KNOW we can, and must, make today.

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Via an email from the Self Described Anarchist Collective (SDAC)

Six years of war and occupation of Iraq have come and gone. Lives left tattered amongst the ruins. The US armed forces and their co-conspirators in the military-industrial complex, along with their friends on Wall Street and K Street, continue to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan with impunity. Meanwhile, Obama mania has rendered much of the left fixated on electoral politics.

Clearly, we are at a crossroads in the US anti-war movement: we can put our faith in the newly selected President and hope for change, or take direct action to stop the war machine and send the message that we will not tolerate mass murder and occupation.

The Self Described Anarchist Collective (SDAC), a newly formed collective of anarchists and anti-authoritarians from across the eastern seaboard, is calling for two days of action against the war on March 19th and March 21st. On March 19th, the DC SDS will hold a Funk the War protest in the streets of Washington, DC. On March 21st the ANSWER Coalition, the authoritarian front group for the Party for Socialism and Liberation, is holding its semi-annual national march to end the war in Iraq. But ANSWERS’s dog and pony show will do little, save a 30 second sound bite on the evening news, to send a message to the men and women who continue to bring us death and deception in the name of US imperialism.

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Behind the Mask: The Story of People Who Risk Everything to Save Animals
Film Screening and Discussion with the Director AND Vegan Ice Cream Sundaes

Date: Friday, August 15
Time: 7:30 PM
Cost: $5 for Movie
$10 for Movie and Ice Cream
Benefits the Brian MacKenzie Infoshop

Join us for vegan ice cream sundaes and a screening of Behind the Mask followed by a discussion and Q&A with Director Shannon Keith.

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Come to DC June 13-15 to for an Unconventional East Coast Convergence. Months before the Republican and Democratic National Conventions we will be hosting a massive training, convergence, and platform for regional consultas for any anti-authoritarian organizers planning to attend the DNC/RNC.

Date: June 13-15
Location: Washington, DC on the Campus of American University
Cost: $20 with housing, $10 without housing, meals provided

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Saturday - June 7, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.

Solidarity is a Weapon!
A benefit for Marie Mason in Washington, D.C.

DERRICK JENSEN - Live! via webcast speaking on impending Ecological Collapse, the Green Scare and the Radical Environmental Movement.

At St. Stephen’s Church
1525 Newton Street NW (On the corner of 16th and Newton)
Washington DC 20010

$10 - 20 sliding scale donation to benefit Marie Mason
No one turned away for lack of funds.

For further information on this event, go to: DCInfoshop.org

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Tent City Protest Planning Meeting
Monday, May 26, 2008 at 7:00 PM

At the CODEPINK DC House
712 5th St NE between G & H Sts.
(5 blocks from Union Station Metro - Red Line)

Help set the date and logistics of this important action. Please attend this meeting and forward this announcement to as many interested people and organizations as possible.

Tent City Protest - Summer 2008

Build the World We Know is Possible - Washington DC

Peace, healthcare, education, food, housing, a safe environment, and democracy.
End the Occupations and Stop World War III

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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.

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