Anarchists in Washington, DC

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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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

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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.

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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.

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Please join us for a publication celebration for Jules Boykoff’s new AK Press book, Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States.

Friday, February 8 at 8:00 pm ~ free
Bridge Street Books
2814 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20007

Bridge Street is located in Georgetown next to the Four Seasons Hotel. Five blocks from the Foggy Bottom Metro (blue & orange lines). Call (202) 965 5200 for more information.

Jules Boykoff is the author of Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States, The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements (Routledge, 2006), Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge (Edge Books, 2006), and Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space (co-authored with Kaia Sand, Palm Press, forthcoming). He lives in Portland, Oregon and teaches political science at Pacific University.

Escape Empire Presents:

Friday, March 7th - doors 7:30 p.m. - show starts 8:15 p.m.

Ghost Mice (Plan-it-X Records)
Erik Petersen (of Mischief Brew)
plus two more to be announced!

St. Stephens Church
1525 Newton Street NW, Washington, DC 20010.

$5-10 sliding scale to benefit Briana Waters
sponsored by the Brian Mackenzie Infoshop

The night before the 2008 National Conference on Organized Resistance