FRI Nov. 15 through SUN. Nov. 17 Jobs With Justice Organizing and Leadership Training Program 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. all three days, location TBD — The annual DC JWJ training provides practical organizing skills, delivers a common organizing language and tools, and promotes a shared political and economic analysis regarding working people’s struggle for justice versus a corporate agenda. The fee for the training is $250.00 per individual. For more information or to apply please contact Sequnely Gray at
[email protected] or 202-674-2847.
SAT Nov 16 Deep Canvass with SURJ 11 AM – 5 PM by SURJ Northern Virginia and Showing Up for Racial Justice – SURJ – DC: The September canvass will be at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rockville, in Maryland.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2074787809286786/
SAT Nov 16, Emergency StreetMed Training. Noon-6 PM, 3845 S Capitol St SW, DC 20032 —
Hosted by Black Lives Matter DC:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1235934569924326/ with Ujima Medics. Response time saves lives!
SUN Nov. 17 Greater Baltimore DSA General Body Meeting at Homewood Friends, 3107 N. Charles St. Bmore 21218 , new member orientation at 1:30, meeting at 2.
See the agenda here.
MON Nov 18, ROC DC Monthly Meeting 1-3 PM Restaurant Opportunity Center DC, Second Floor, 1100 Florida Ave NW, Washington, DC 20009, USA. Come together and meet other restaurant and tipped workers in DC who want to build worker power!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2261435187446709/
MON Nov 18 Clínicas Legal // Legal Clinics: for Restaurant Workers! 6-8 PM at DC Bilingual Charter School, 33 Riggs Rd NE Hosted by
Restaurant Opportunities Center of Washington DC (ROC-DC):
https://www.facebook.com/events/1893144787451173/ RSVP:
tinyurl.com/ROCDClegalclinic
WED Nov 20 — Greensboro Massacre: 40 years later. 6-8 PM, Busboys and Poets at Takoma, 235 Carroll St. NW, Washington DC — Two survivors of the infamous November 3, 1979, killing of five young labor and community activists gunned down in broad daylight in Greensboro, North Carolina by KKK and neo-Nazis tell their stories. Survivors Rev. Nelson Johnson and Joyce Hobson Johnson and retired Attorney Lewis Pitts — who argued the successful civil suit that unearthed the local government’s role — will lead a panel discussion. The panel will be preceded by a 23-minute documentary/retrospective film about the attack.
WED Nov 20 Pack the Room–Dept Behavioral Health Public Oversight Hearing 5:30 – 8:30 PM — 3000 Pennsylvania Ave SE, Washington, DC 20020-3718 (Hearing has been rescheduled to Nov. 20) The city continues to fail patients at St. Elizabeth’s and we will continue to put on pressure to ensure that this failing pattern is reversed! Hosted by 350 DC and 5 others:
https://www.facebook.com/events/809308169506883/
THUR Nov. 21 and FRI Nov. 22, Continuing the Struggle: The ILO Centenary and
the Future of Global Worker Rights — Georgetown University | Washington, D.C. |
RSVP
a
conference to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the International Labor Organization (ILO). Speakers include Sara Nelson, Lance Compa and more. Various venues; follow link for details.
THURS Nov 28 Right to Housing Committee Meeting, 6:30 – 8 PM, 614 S St NW, Washington DC 20001 Hosted by ONE DC: ONE DC's Right to Housing committee supports long-time DC residents to fight against displacement, and for safe and affordable housing. Plan political education and power building, meeting every other Thursday.
https://www.facebook.com/events/501032130446334/?event_time_id=501032147112999
SAT Dec. 7 DC Labor Chorus Concert with songs about the labor movement, peace and justice at 7:30 PM at the Wesley United Methodist Church at 5312 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC. The event is free and open to the public, handicapped accessible and will have sign interpretation.
SUN Dec 8 Future of Healthcare Town Hall — 1:30 – 4 PM Miller Branch of Howard County Library System 9421 Frederick Road, Ellicott City 21042. Details at link.
SAT Dec 14 Progressive Maryland Statewide Annual Meeting 9 AM – 5 PM at the Episcopal Church of St. Michael and All Angels, 2013 Saint Paul St, Baltimore, MD 21218 — Network with chapter leaders from around the state and polish an issue agenda for the 2020 legislative session, co-governing strategies, power-building in the community and more.
Register here.
SAT Dec 14 Build and Mobilize a Stronger Union workshop at NoVA Labor — 4536 B John Marr Drive, Annandale 10 AM — 3 PM – Free seminar taught by Rutgers University Labor center faculty on how to build a stronger union and mobilize your members to take action. RSVP to
[email protected]
SUN, Dec 15 Maryland Legislative Summit — University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in Catonsville, 10 AM-5 PM. Legislative process, lobbying, agenda-setting and more.
Details at link.
TUES Dec 17 End Violence Ki Ki Ball 6- 10 PM, Eastern Market North Hall located at 225 7th Street S.E. Washington DC, 20003– info and tickets at link — “International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers” is not just about ending violence against people engaging in sex work—it’s also about ending violence against Trans people, against people of color, against people who use drugs, against people living with HIV, against people experiencing homelessness, and the communities who love and support sex workers. Ki Ki Ball (as seen on T. V. hit series Pose) will raise awareness about the violence our communities face and continue funding the expansion of our support services. To SUPPORT:
endviolencekikiball.com
AAAND is 2020 that close already?!:
THURS Jan 16, 2020 Book Launch: Kate Aronoff, Peter Dreier, and Michael Kazin – We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism–American Style, 7 PM at Politics and Prose, Union Market, 1270 5th Street NE Washington DC 20002 This event is free to attend with no reservation required. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis.
Click here for more information.
Emergency StreetMed Training
GOOD READS
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A longtime Sierra Club member notes a “commendable development from bourgeois lifestyle environmentalism to a more genuine red-green understanding” in the most recent issue of the club’s member magazine, in which the leadership states it is “time to fix the population fixation,” [and] they examine the interactions of population, climate change, and inequality.”
https://popularresistance.org/sierra-club-takes-a-commendable-turn-on-population-climate-change-and-inequality/
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Show Up, America!” urges Ralph Nader, pointing out that mass protest and rallies around the world are getting results – just as they have gotten results in the US in the past, such as the Vietnam Mobilization of 1967. They can put apparently ascendant causes like Trumpism on the back foot, as the first Women’s March did the day after Inauguration Day in 2017. But unlike other actions around the world, US progressives have been, in terms of mass action, quiet. “America’s streets and squares are waiting,” he writes – “massive rallies work.”
https://nader.org/2019/11/07/americas-streets-and-squares-are-waiting-massive-rallies-work/
>>What is the logic of history? Sort of a preoccupation with we socialists, thinking and rethinking Marxism and its descendant ramifications. Can an empirical approach support the inquiry? That’s been the method of “big data” exponents of historical analysis, as this account lays out in
very extensive detail. Historical events cannot, like the classic experiment, be replicated, but probabilities about outcomes can be stronger or less so, say historical data-crunchers like Jack Goldstone and, more recently, Peter Turchin. Be warned: When
The Guardian labels an article a “long read” they are not foolin’.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/12/history-as-a-giant-data-set-how-analysing-the-past-could-help-save-the-future/
>>A writer for the NYT “Upshot” fancy stats blog shows deep divergences in red and blue metro areas: The economic challenges of blue metros — unaffordability and inequality — are different than those of red metros, which face lower living standards and greater risks of job loss.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/upshot/red-blue-diverging-economies.html/
