FRI September 20 MoCo Student Striker Kickoff Rally at Silver Spring Metro Station
at 9:00 AM: Support strikers heading for the 11:00 AM DC Climate Strike march at Freedom Plaza.
Details here. Details on the Global Climate Strikes are
here.
SAT Sept 21 -- Local Filipinx White House Rally commemorating the declaration of martial law by US-backed dictator Ferdinand Marcos – testimony linking the Marcos martial law era to the current US-backed dictator, Rodrigo Duterte. 2:30-4:30 PM
SAT September 21 Deep Canvass with SURJ 11 AM – 5 PM Sponsored by SURJ Northern Virginia and Showing Up for Racial Justice – SURJ – DC: at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rockville, in Maryland. The registration form is coming soon.
Follow link for more information.
SAT September 21 Maryland Trans Resilience Conference 9 AM-3 PM, Lord Baltimore Hotel, 20 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 an annual trans-led, trans-focused gathering to foster connection, healing, and education.
Details here.
SAT Sept 21 – NoVA Labor Canvass/Phone Bank – 9 am
Fairfax County Firefighters Local 2068 will sponsor our labor-to-labor canvass. We will be joined by Virginia AFL-CIO President Doris Crouse-Mays. Breakfast and lunch will be served.
4536 B John Marr Drive, Annandale.
SAT Sept 21 Brunch for Bernie -- a Bernie 2020 Plan to Win Party 10:00 am -- Noon at Brookland Busboys and Poets (625 Monroe St. NE) Andy Shallal and activist/author Medea Benjamin host a Brunch for Bernie as part of the Plan to Win parties. Come hear what it’s going to take to win the primaries and complete the political revolution.
Click here to sign up!
SUN Sept 22 -- Immigration, Legal and Illegal: What’s the Difference? A presentation by Professor Linda Rabben, UMD Associate Research Professor of Anthropology. 2 PM, Greenbelt Community Center Room 114, 15 Crescent Rd. Greenbelt
Sponsored by Friends of Prince George’s County Peace & Justice Coalition. For more information contact
[email protected].
TUES Sept 24 – Federal Employee Rally – Noon on Capitol Hill in DC
Show solidarity with federal workers at a “Fed Up - Rise Up” rally to demand dignity, fairness and respect for federal and D.C. government employees who are under attack by the administration.
Rally sponsored by AFGE, NFFE, IFPTE, and NTEU.
Capitol Hill below area 9 (across from the U.S. Supreme Court).
WED Sept 25 Book Talk on Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America 12:30-2 PM at AFL-CIO• 815 16th St., NW, Washington, DC 20006. Ian Haney Lopez
, law professor at UC Berkeley, says as the 2020 election approaches, research suggests it’s possible to defang the right-wing dog whistles and to build popular support for bold progressive agendas.
WED Sept 25 Listening Sessions: Are you in the know about Paid Family Leave 12:30– 2:30 PM at Restaurant Opportunity Center DC, Second Floor, 1100 Florida Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009 – a discussion on the upcoming Paid Family Leave benefit and how service industry professionals will be affected. Watch for more sessions around the city.
THURS Sept 26 DC Stand Up Against “RIA” Displacement at Brookland Manor 8 AM District of Columbia Government DC Court of Appeals 430 E Street, NW, Washington, District of Columbia 20001 Hosted by LinkUp and Brookland Manor/Brentwood Village Residents Association:
8 AM rally; 9:30 AM pack the courtroom to protest DC’s intrusive, tax-subsidized “Rhode Island Avenue” project and its potential for displacing Brookland Manor residents. More info:
linkupitsofficial.org/dc-stand-up
SAT Sept 28 – NoVA Labor Canvass with Sara Nelson – 9 am
Join the amazing Sara Nelson, President of the Association of Flight Attendants – CWA, for a labor walk/phone bank. Breakfast and lunch will be served.
4536 B John Marr Drive, Annandale
SAT Sept 28 Poor People’s Campaign Prince George’s Co planning meeting, 12-2 PM Oxon Hill Library 6200 Oxon Hill Rd, Oxon Hill, MD 20745
SUN Sept 29 –
The path to single payer health care in Maryland, 1:30 – 4:30 PM at Elkridge Library – 6450 Washington Boulevard, Elkridge, MD 21075 — Join Senator Paul Pinsky, Chair of the Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee in the Senate, and Delegate Terri Hill, of the Health and Government Operations Committee in the House, for a discussion of the road map to Single Payer in Maryland.
Follow link for more information. https://www.facebook.com/events/361641874764169/
MON Sep 30 ROC DC Monthly Meeting! 1-3 PM Restaurant Opportunity Center DC, Second Floor, 1100 Florida Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009
https://www.facebook.com/events/2261435187446709/?event_time_id=2261435204113374
Come together and meet other restaurant and tipped workers in DC who want to build worker power in order to improve wages and working conditions in the DC restaurant industry!
Follow link for more information.
THURS Oct 3 The Epiphany Power Hour: ONE DC 12:10-1 PM at The Church of the Epiphany 1317 G St NW, DC xxxxxx Claire Cook and Kelly Iradukunda of ONE DC teach us about organizing in our city. Hosted EVERY THURSDAY by The Church of the Epiphany and
ONE DC:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2543087422378554/
SAT Oct 5 Street Law 101: Know Your Rights Training 1-3 PM – Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, 3935 Benning Rd NE, Washington, DC 20019, Hosted by Black Lives Matter DC and Keep DC 4 Me:
https://www.facebook.com/events/705926619821385/
The people most targeted by police MUST have critical information about their rights during police interactions.
Follow link for more information.
SUN Oct 6– Eastern Shore Environmental Legislative Summit, 1- 4 PM (Doors open at noon) hosted at Washington College – 300 Washington Avenue, Chestertown, MD 21620
Explore the issues that face the Shore (and the state), what steps have been taken, and what obstacles we must overcome to defeat the existential crisis of Climate Change and other pressing environmental issues.
https://www.facebook.com/events/361641874764169/
THUR Oct 10 AROS Forum On New Funding Formula For Prince George’s Public Schools at LAUREL HIGH SCHOOL, 8000 Cherry Lane Laurel 20707 at 6:30 PM Parents, students and engaged community members are invited to hear about the Kirwan commission proposals and possibilities of well-funded schools — and make their voices heard. Also
WED October 23 at Bowie Performing Arts Center, 15200 Annapolis Rd. Bowie 20715, 6:30 PM:
WED November 12 at Prince George’s Community College, 301 Largo Rd. Largo 20774, 6:30 PM and
MON November 18 at OXON HILL HIGH SCHOOL 6701 Leyte Drive Oxon Hill 20745 6:30 PM.
Follow link for details. Marylanders – A coalition of advocates is presenting informational sessions on school improvement through the Kirwan commission proposals. You can see all the sessions listed in this article:
https://www.progressivemaryland.org/democrats_urge_full_funding_for_kirwan_education_proposals_as_advocacy_coalition_hosts_forums_around_state
Sun Oct 13 Cop Watch DC - October Training! 1-4 PM Mount Pleasant Branch DC Public Library Washington, District of Columbia -- get trained to watch the cops with Cop Watch DC! Together we'll talk about how we stay safe while we document interactions between cops and our neighbors/community members in order to reduce harm and build community power together. Hosted by The Future is Feminist and SURJ - DC:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1126985220840604/
Register
http://bit.ly/copwatchsignin
THUR Oct 17 Monthly Legal Clinics for Restaurant Workers! 1– 5 PM, 1100 Florida Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009 Hosted by Restaurant Opportunities Center of Washington DC (ROC-DC): RSVP HERE:
calendly.com/roc-dc/legal-clinic – get answers to your questions regarding your legal rights in the workplace – breaks, paid sick days, tips, harassment and more
SUN Oct 20 Deep Canvass with SURJ 11 AM – 5 PM Sponsored by SURJ Northern Virginia and Showing Up for Racial Justice – SURJ – DC: at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rockville, in Maryland. The registration form is coming soon.
Follow link for more information.
GOOD READS
>>Articles on the GM strike: here is
Labor Notes https://labornotes.org/2019/09/gm-strikers-say-no-more-tiers
Some touts from a roundup sent by
Build -- VOX links the GM strike to Medicare For All
https://www.vox.com/2019/9/18/20872116/general-motors-uaw-strike-medicare-for-all-biden-union/
Jane McAlevey in The Nation: ;
Kim Kelly in The Baffler;
In These Times writes
“The Strike Against General Motors is One Front Against a Much Larger Class War.”
>>Our local comrade David Schwartzman has published in
Climate & Capitalism on the opportunity – narrowing but still there – for China’s lead role in combating climate change. Contingency: the US threat to China forces redirection of the resources that could further that goal, as well as of our own.
https://climateandcapitalism.com/2019/09/17/china-and-the-prospects-for-a-global-ecological-civilization/
>>A Maryland version of the Green New Deal, tailored for the state, written by an officer of the Maryland Green Party and published in
Maryland Matters:
https://www.marylandmatters.org/2019/09/13/opinion-introducing-the-maryland-green-new-deal/
>>Here’s a second-bounce article on DSA’s insider labor strategy as perceived in NYC media, following on the mid-August
Politico article that had NYC DSA “quietly plotting” to insert themselves into the rank and file membership of a half-dozen local unions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/nyregion/labor-unions-democratic-socialist.html
>>Our comrade Dave Richardson forwards this article from Solidarity’s newsletter by Diane Feeley – “Some thought that for his second run Bernie would move to the “center,” but interestingly enough he is staking out a fuller social democratic program. His highlighting the need for an economic bill of rights has opened up an important discussion.”
https://solidarity-us.org/atc/202/bernies-campaign/
