Monday Dec 2 Public Forum on Sanctuary and Safety 6:30 – 8:30 PM Josephine Butler Parks Center, 2437 15
th St NW, Washington DC 20009 Join community members fighting for safe streets, safe schools, and a way to do their important work free from police violence. Vendors are under attack and subjected to a permit moratorium. Childcare and a snack will be provided. Call Megan at 618-722-8880 for more information, or email at
[email protected] --
Hosted by
Many Languages One Voice and
2 others:
https://www.facebook.com/events/459097164584039/
Monday DEC 2 7 PM
Climate change to immigrant justice
Join us at St. Stephens church, 1525 Newton St NW, for a collective dialogue about the intersections of climate change and migration. We’ll hear from a panel of local organizers fighting for immigration justice, we will have small group breakout sessions to explore the connections between climate justice and justice for immigrants, and we will discuss how we can all work together to show mutual aid and solidarity when we’re in the streets with comrades who may experience more risks while engaging in direct action.
Thursday DEC 5 12:30 – 2 PM
Ideas@Work: Cas Mudde: The Far Right Today
The far right is back with a vengeance. Leading global expert on political extremism Cas Mudde provides a concise overview of the fourth wave of postwar far-right politics in this timely book. Talk is at the AFL-CIO, 815 16th St NW. RSVP online.
Thursday DEC 5 7 PM
Progressive Cheverly forum, The School to Prison Pipeline
Exploring the school-to-prison pipeline’s nature, impacts and solutions with experts Karen Dolan, IPS director studying Criminalization of Race and Poverty who explains zero tolerance effects and restorative justice remedies; and Dana Coles of Key Bridge Foundation Center for Conflict Resolution currently working in Prince George’s for alternatives to criminalization of behavior. Multipurpose Room of Gladys Noon Spellman Elementary School, 3324 64th Avenue in Cheverly.
Thursday, DEC 5 - 6:30 PM
Right to Housing Committee Meeting
614 S Street NW, ONE DC Office
ONE DC's Right to Housing committee supports long-time DC residents to fight against displacement and for safe and affordable housing. At ONE DC, we believe in the universal right to housing and land, regardless of income or wealth. Join us in building power across the District to achieve community control over land and housing. Join us to strategize, create and share popular and political education, conduct outreach to the community and take bold direct actions to build and secure community controlled alternatives like limited equity co-op housing and community land trusts. Food is served and all ages are welcome!
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Thursday Dec 5 8-9:30 PM
Webinar on linked climate justice issues with journalist/activist Naomi Klein, , Greenbelt Community Center Room 114, 15 Crescent Road, Greenbelt. Klein will analyze relations between Palestinian liberation, white supremacy and climate justice. Discussion will follow. Webinar sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace; local event, open to the public, by Greenbelt Climate Action Network and Prince George’s Peace and Justice Coalition.
Friday DEC 6 7:30 AM
World Bank Shutdown
Join Extinction Rebellion DC and the
#ShutdownDC Coalition on December 6 as we take to the streets around the UN World Bank Headquarters in DC. We will create massive gridlock during morning rush hour and bring business-as-usual to a standstill, making the consequences of inaction real for those in power. Meet at University Yard, George Washington University, H Street NW between 20th and 21st streets NW.
Friday DEC 6 11:00 AM
#ShutDownDC: Mobilize for Climate Justice and Immigrant Rights
On December 6th, we’re going to shut down business-as-usual for the financial institutions that profit off of the climate crisis and immigrant detention. Meet us at 11 AM in Franklin Square (14th St. and I St. NW, Washington, DC xxxxxx) for a rally featuring Jane Fonda and Fire Drill Fridays along with Saket Soni, the Executive Director of the National Guestworker Alliance, GreenFaith, the Franciscan Action Network and other climate, faith and migrant justice organizers. At 12 noon we’ll march through the streets of DC to visit the banks and financial institutions in DC that are profiting off of the climate crisis and immigrant detention.
Saturday DEC 7 7:30 PM
DC Labor Chorus Concert
The chorus will share songs about the labor movement, peace, and justice at the Wesley United Methodist Church at 5312 Connecticut Ave., NW. The event is free and open to the public, is handicapped accessible, and will have sign interpretation.
Saturday DEC 7 Noon – 2:30 PM
Public De-Escalation Training
Hosted by DMV De-escalation Collective at Luther Place Memorial Church, 1226 Vermont Ave, NW (Thomas Circle). This public de-escalation training is open to everyone! De-escalation skills equip us to identify and interrupt potentially harmful situations. We aim to create moments of pause in which people can make choices about their own safety. We also provide resources (emotional support, companionship, money, food, etc) that increase access to safety, especially for marginalized people. “Calming people down” and ending conflicts is part of this work, but not all of it!
RSVP here.
Sunday DEC 8 7 – 9 PM
Talking to Friends and Family About Racism
In time for the holidays: join SURJ Northern Virginia at UUCF, 2709 Hunter Mill Rd., for a facilitated meeting where we will discuss and practice initiating and sustaining conversations about systemic racism. If you’ve ever struggled to help connect with friends and family while advancing anti-racist ideas, this event is for you! We will also be decorating holiday cards for incarcerated folx through
Black and Pink’s holiday program.
Sunday DEC 8 1:30 – 4 PM
Future of Healthcare Town Hall
Meeting will be held at the Miller Branch of the Howard County Library System, 9421 Frederick Road, Ellicott City, 21042.
Tuesday, December 10 - 6:00 PM
ONE DC Member Orientation
614 S Street NW, ONE DC Office
We welcome all supporters of ONE DC, whether long-time members or new volunteers, to join us for our next Member Orientation, where you will learn about: ONE DC Mission, Vision, & Values; our organizing model and principles; our history, shared leadership model, and organizational structure; and what it means to be a ONE DC member.
Click here to RSVP
Saturday DEC 14 10 AM — 3 PM
Build and Mobilize a Stronger Union workshop at NoVA Labor
Free seminar taught by Rutgers University Labor center faculty on how to build a stronger union and mobilize your members to take action. Workshop to be held at 4536 B John Marr Drive, Annandale, VA. RSVP to
[email protected].
Sunday DEC 15 10 AM — 5 PM
Maryland Legislative Summit
Legislative process, lobbying, agenda-setting and more at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in Catonsville.
Tuesday DEC 17 6 — 10 PM
End Violence Ki Ki Ball
“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. Eastern Market North Hall located at 225 7th Street SE, Washington DC, 20003 – info and tickets at link.
GOOD READS
>>“To rebalance our democracy and economy, a real system of economic checks and balances must exist to ensure that working people have power in their workplaces.”
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/new_forms_of_worker_organization_to_free_democracy_from_corporate_clutches
>> “As distinct as the protests seem, the uprisings rocking Bolivia, Lebanon, and scores of other countries all share a common theme.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/global-rebellions-inequality/
>> “Worker centers’ organizational purposes are more like nonprofits, than labor organizations,” this article argues. But the Trump DOL is moving to classify worker centers like JWJ and ROC that way, making them vulnerable.
https://onlabor.org/why-the-dol-should-keep-its-hands-off-of-worker-centers/
>>And this, history from
Labor Notes https://portside.org/2019-11-26/twenty-years-later-remembering-battle-seattle
>>And “Democracy Now” had some good retrotakes this week on the Battle in Seattle as well
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/27/1999_wto_protests_20_years_later
>>Walmart humanizing? You knew it was a truthless spin, and here’s the unsurprising outcome
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/27/walmart-thanksgiving-workers-holiday-staff-pay/
>>From EPI’s Josh Bivens, refutation of the claim that taxing the rich more will slow economic growth (wait, was growth what we wanted anyway?)
https://www.epi.org/blog/analyses-claiming-that-taxes-on-millionaires-and-billionaires-will-slow-economic-growth-are-fundamentally-flawed/
>>Uh-oh. Capitalism is not in crisis – it is larger and in charge-er, mainly because the next phase of commodification of previously unpriced activities and practices is well under way. Branko Milanoviƈ makes an unpleasantly plausible case.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/27/crisis-of-capitalism-europeans-gig-economy/
