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

Schedule
Pre-Registration

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

**June 7: A Day of Resistance against the Green Scare!**

On Saturday, June 7th people from all over North America will gather together on a single day to discuss the threat against the radical environmental movement, the Green Scare, and how we can prevent impending ecological collapse.

The live web-cast with Derrick Jensen will be an interactive experience where people from all over will be able to email questions to Derrick and participate in a webcast discussion among events in multiple cities.

This event will also be broadcast in multiple cities, including Portland, OR; Sacramento, CA; Chicago, IL; Minneapolis, MN; Bloomington, IN; Evansville, IN; Cincinnati, OH; Detroit, MI; Ann Arbor, MI; Lexington, KY; Washington, DC and New York, NY

Derrick Jensen is a ground-breaking and critically-acclaimed author speaking on civilization, violence, and resistance to ecological collapse. He is the author of A Language Older Than Words; Listening to the Land; The Culture of Make Believe; Endgame; and many other titles. Check out DerrickJensen.org for more information.

Marie Mason of Cincinatti, Ohio is a long time environmental and social justice activist and loving mother of two. On March 10th, she was arrested by FBI, Homeland Security and local police on charges related to two Earth Liberation Front actions that occured in Michigan, in 1999 and 2000.

Marie’s case is one of the latest developments in what many have dubbed the “Green Scare”, a recent wave of government repression aimed at disrupting and discrediting grassroots environmental activism and criminalizing dissent. For more information, go to Ecoprisoners.org or MidwestGreenScare.com.

If you would like to contribute a question to the Q & A, please send it to: emergencysolidarity /at/ gmail.com

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

Students and activist are starting to make plans for a summer of Tent City Protest to stop the U.S. attack on Iran, to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while showing that we can create world free from domination, coercion and violence. Thousands of people are making plans to set up a tent city outside the White House and Capital Buildings in Washington D.C, as soon as final exams are over this May.

Tent City Protests have been powerful. The tent city during the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine brought down the government. Camp Casey in Crawford, Texas, and the 600 day farmer’s action at the Bosnia and Herzegovina Square in Sarajevo had huge impact.

Activists are also planning to organize Tent City Protests outside military installations, federal buildings and U.S. embassies. All peace and social action groups are invited to join in the tent city protest.

There is a vigorous debate about what strategy might work to end the crisis caused by the “war on terrorism.” Rallies, marches and petitions haven’t done enough to stop torture, secret prisons, the use of cluster bombs against civilians, wire tapping and data collection, laws such as the Military Commissions Act and the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007.

At the same time actions to protect the environment, healthcare, education and housing haven’t been successful. One strategy that has proven effective at bringing positive social change has been the tent city protest.

We are facing an urgent crisis. Bush is talking of World War III against Iran using nuclear weapons, the global economy is failing for most, climate change continues to become more urgent and the U.S. empire is using every measure possible to protect its power. Join us in participating in the Tent City Protest.

Contact your local progressive groups and organize a meeting in your community!

Endorsed by: Code Pink DC, Food Not Bombs, The Iraqi Moratorium, Voices for
Creative Nonviolence
Please contact us to endorse.

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.

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

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.

For more information contact Johnny Barnes, Executive Director of the ACLU- NCA (National Capital Area) at 457-0800 ext. 120, or Johnny.Barnes@aclu-nca.org.

Before coming to the meeting, please contact your five councilmembers (ward, at-large and chairman). Since they all ask for your vote, give them your views by phone or personal visit. Ask each of them to either join us on April 5 or otherwise speak out against MPD’s home searches.

Following the meeting, we shall divide into three groups and begin the canvassing. Please plan to canvass as long as you can. Just some of the sponsoring organizations: ACLU National Capital Area, Metro Washington AFL-CIO, National Black Police Association, AYUDA, TENAC, Stand Up for Democracy, DC ACORN, Coalition for Housing Justice, and Dorchester House Tenants Association, with other organizations and individuals joining daily.

Remind the police and the people themselves that the US Constitution protects our homes here in DC, too: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

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!

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.

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

When Mexican paramilitary forces shot Brad Will in the chest in 2006, killing him, his camera fell from his hands. But it didn’t stop recording. It continued moving from hand to hand, telling Brad’s story, as well as the story of the movement of movements that he was a part of. From the squats of New York to the forests of Oregon, from the anti-globalization protests in Seattle, Prague, Quebec to the popular uprising in Oaxaca, Brad’s camera paints us a picture of what his life was about, and what so many of his friends continue to struggle for.

More Information

Brad Will (1970-2006) was a U.S. anarchist, documentary filmmaker and a journalist with Indymedia New York City. He was shot and killed on October 27, 2006 during the teachers’ strike in the Mexican city of Oaxaca.

“The parents of an American journalist slain in southern Mexico said Wednesday they were unsatisfied with the progress authorities have made in the case and will have outside investigators review video footage and forensic evidence.” Associated Press, Feb. 28, 2008

The Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least eighteen deaths and the occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca.

Check the website for schedule, workshop descriptions, rideboard and housing board, and more information.