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.
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
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
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
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