Events
This is an 8-week course on Wednesdays from April 18 to June 6.
With occupiers camped around the country, same-sex marriage legalization efforts gaining ground, and debates about immigrant rights becoming a focal point of the 2012 elections, social justice advocacy is coming to the forefront of public attention.
Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) has decided he wants to play a big role in local DC affairs. Right now he is pushing for H.R. 3803, a bill that would ban almost all abortions in Washington, DC after 20 weeks of pregnancy. He is holding a hearing on the bill Thursday, May 17th.
If "Mayor" Franks is so eager to interfere in our community, let’s drop by his office to tell him what really needs fixing.
Come out to "Mayor" Franks' DC Constituent Services Day at 12 noon on Wednesday, May 23. So far, we are planning to let him know about:
-pot holes -broken street lights -broken traffic lights -issues with street signs -problems with trash/recycling pick-up -permit issues -problems with car registration -the need for bike lanes -any other problems you think the "Mayor" should worry about
Email rsvp@dcvote.org to RSVP for this event or call 202-462-6000 ext. 21
Bring pictures please. Props and creativity are HIGHLY encouraged.
Please join HIAS Young Leaders DC for our next regular meeting on Wednesday, May 23rd at 8:00pm in Columbia Heights (exact location TBD). We will learn about recent immigration and refugee policy updates, discuss ongoing events, and plan upcoming events and initiatives. Join us at CARECEN before the meeting (6:45pm) if you'd like. We will learn about recent immigration and refugee policy updates, discuss ongoing events, and plan upcoming events and initiatives such as the Jewish/Muslim forum on immigration and the HYL-DC Open House. And as always, newcomers are welcome to CARECEN and the meeting. Exact meeting location will be sent next week, prior to Wednesday.
Email/call/text Liza with any questions at liza.lieberman@hias.org or 202.821.6936. RSVP here.
This is an 8-week course on Wednesdays from April 18 to June 6.
With occupiers camped around the country, same-sex marriage legalization efforts gaining ground, and debates about immigrant rights becoming a focal point of the 2012 elections, social justice advocacy is coming to the forefront of public attention.
This is an 8-week course on Wednesdays from April 18 to June 6.
With occupiers camped around the country, same-sex marriage legalization efforts gaining ground, and debates about immigrant rights becoming a focal point of the 2012 elections, social justice advocacy is coming to the forefront of public attention.
This is an 8-week course on Wednesdays from April 18 to June 6.
With occupiers camped around the country, same-sex marriage legalization efforts gaining ground, and debates about immigrant rights becoming a focal point of the 2012 elections, social justice advocacy is coming to the forefront of public attention.
This is an 8-week course on Wednesdays from April 18 to June 6.
With occupiers camped around the country, same-sex marriage legalization efforts gaining ground, and debates about immigrant rights becoming a focal point of the 2012 elections, social justice advocacy is coming to the forefront of public attention.
This is an 8-week course on Wednesdays from April 18 to June 6.
With occupiers camped around the country, same-sex marriage legalization efforts gaining ground, and debates about immigrant rights becoming a focal point of the 2012 elections, social justice advocacy is coming to the forefront of public attention.
This is an 8-week course on Wednesdays from April 18 to June 6.
With occupiers camped around the country, same-sex marriage legalization efforts gaining ground, and debates about immigrant rights becoming a focal point of the 2012 elections, social justice advocacy is coming to the forefront of public attention.
This is an 8-week course on Wednesdays from April 18 to June 6.
With occupiers camped around the country, same-sex marriage legalization efforts gaining ground, and debates about immigrant rights becoming a focal point of the 2012 elections, social justice advocacy is coming to the forefront of public attention.
Are you - or do you know anyone who is - looking to volunteer and meet new people? Join HIAS Young Leaders DC on Wednesday, May 30th at 6:00PM at Bread & Brew (1247 20th Street NW) to learn more about our national corps of young professionals and graduate students who serve HIAS' longstanding mission through advocacy, fundraising, service, and outreach. You will have the chance to learn about ongoing initiatives, register for upcoming events, and hear about HIAS' programs around the world.
Click here to RSVP!
Long-vacant Hine School property in Eastern Market is coming to life. Meet with the developer, affordable housing consultants, and ANC 6B Commissioner Kirsten Oldenburg to discuss the Hine Junior High School project at the Eastern Market Metro station. The public land project will offer a significant amount of very affordable housing along with office, retail and market rate housing, and will rebuild C Street and use it for the flea market on weekends. It’s a great example of redevelopment that has already been approved by the Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB).
Next stop is the DC Zoning Commission on June 14. The catch is that despite its many supporters and HPRB approval, it also has some ardent critics. Join us for a field trip to Eastern Market to learn about this important project. Our goal is to support this project at the Zoning Commission so that it can deliver the promised amount of affordable housing and sensitively-scaled mix of uses and public spaces. Those of you who live on Capitol Hill are especially encouraged to participate.
This is an 8-week course on Wednesdays from April 18 to June 6.
With occupiers camped around the country, same-sex marriage legalization efforts gaining ground, and debates about immigrant rights becoming a focal point of the 2012 elections, social justice advocacy is coming to the forefront of public attention.
The DC Council will have its second vote on the FY 2013 DC Budget on June 5th.
The current budget cuts $5.7 million from affordable child care programs. This is on top of the over $22 million cut from child care over the past four years.
Hasn’t the Council heard? DC doesn't work without child care!
Join us for Council Visits on May 31st.
Please RSVP to childcare@empowerdc.org.
Can’t join? Email all Councilmembers at: dccouncilmembers@dccouncil.us
Tell them: Please make quality, affordable child care a priority this budget season! The market rate cost of child care in DC is $18,000 per year, per child - working people rely on the Child Care Subsidy to make it possible to go to work!
UFCW Local 400 and Respect DC activists will parade through downtown DC to highlight Walmart's damage to communities across the US while honoring the hard work of retail workers. "For the past 50 years Walmart has destroyed communities," UFCW Local 400 writes. "[They] drove standards of living into the ground, and lowered the wage standards that our members have fought so hard to achieve." The parade will start at 11am at 801 New Jersey Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. and it will end at Walmart D.C. Headquarters at 8th and G St. For more information and to RSVP email organizer@respectdc.org.
This is an 8-week course on Wednesdays from April 18 to June 6.
With occupiers camped around the country, same-sex marriage legalization efforts gaining ground, and debates about immigrant rights becoming a focal point of the 2012 elections, social justice advocacy is coming to the forefront of public attention.
This is an 8-week course on Wednesdays from April 18 to June 6.
With occupiers camped around the country, same-sex marriage legalization efforts gaining ground, and debates about immigrant rights becoming a focal point of the 2012 elections, social justice advocacy is coming to the forefront of public attention.
This is an 8-week course on Wednesdays from April 18 to June 6.
With occupiers camped around the country, same-sex marriage legalization efforts gaining ground, and debates about immigrant rights becoming a focal point of the 2012 elections, social justice advocacy is coming to the forefront of public attention.
This is an 8-week course on Wednesdays from April 18 to June 6.
With occupiers camped around the country, same-sex marriage legalization efforts gaining ground, and debates about immigrant rights becoming a focal point of the 2012 elections, social justice advocacy is coming to the forefront of public attention.
Over the past 14 years, what started as a small group of dedicated volunteers has flourished into an organization that has successfully built real power in the Washington DC region. Because of your passion and dedication, JUFJ has fought for higher wages, affordable housing, and immigrant rights. You've helped us become a leading Jewish voice for equality and justice in our city and region.
We are at a very exciting moment for JUFJ.
Come out and join your fellow JUFJers at our community meeting to hear about and share all of the great work you've been doing and learn how you can help lead us to more victories.
We'll have program updates on our campaigns and programs in Maryland and DC, mingle with some of the finest activists and leaders in town, and strategize together on how JUFJ can grow stronger and win.
And, of course, we'll be serving a light vegetarian dinner.
This is an 8-week course on Wednesdays from April 18 to June 6.
With occupiers camped around the country, same-sex marriage legalization efforts gaining ground, and debates about immigrant rights becoming a focal point of the 2012 elections, social justice advocacy is coming to the forefront of public attention.
On June 5, the AFL-CIO will feature an exhibit and reception with artist Christine Ashley as she debuts her "Immigrant Heart" exhibition.
Ashley, a member of UNITE HERE Local 217 and a permanent U.S. resident who has had her green card for 42 years, was arrested as she returned from a visit to the U.K. and spent a month wrongly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. During that month, she sketched portraits of other immigrant women detained with her. After her release, she turned those sketches into powerful paintings.
Ashley will discuss her experience and the injustices routinely inflicted upon immigrants at the reception.
NOTE: The exhibit is also open to the public on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., June 1-29.
How to use the media before it uses you!
Developing a clear, concise message is the key to effectively advocating for you issue in the media! Join Empower DC for our upcoming Emperment Circle on how to effectively create and use media. Liane Scott from out Grassroots Media project will lead this interactive training.
RSVP to Liane at Liane@empowerdc.org
This is an 8-week course on Wednesdays from April 18 to June 6.
With occupiers camped around the country, same-sex marriage legalization efforts gaining ground, and debates about immigrant rights becoming a focal point of the 2012 elections, social justice advocacy is coming to the forefront of public attention.
Thousands of new market-rate and affordable homes, stores, offices, and public spaces have grown up on vacant, under-used D.C. government-owned land over the past decade.
District schools and libraries have undergone a building boom, but they've been built as stand-alone facilities, rather than mixing housing, retail or other uses.
What is D.C.'s record on getting the most from private development of city land? Do these development projects meet D.C. residents' needs? How can public land deals deliver more affordable housing and other benefits for residents? What are the successes, disappointments, and future opportunities for city land redevelopment and joint development of these kinds of public facilities?
Join CSG at its latest forum, Public Land for Public Good: What D.C. Can Achieve with Mixed-Use Development on Public Lands, to discuss these questions with the city's leading actor and thinkers.
For more information, and to RSVP, click here.
Come join us in celebrating the wonderful interfaith work of Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb and Rev. Carol Flett. Enjoy delicious hors d’oeuvres from our caterer. Hear Judge Yoder reflect on civility in public dialogue.
Cost: $50 per adult/non-student; $40 per student or senior
For more information, please contact: Phone: (202) 234-6300 / Fax: (202) 234-6303 / Email: ifc@ifcmw.org
Please RSVP by Thursday, May 31, 2012.
Tikkun Leil Shabbat is a songful, soulful Shabbat service featuring a teaching about a social justice issue and followed by a potluck vegetarian dinner. Please bring a vegetarian dish to share.
For more information, click here .
Capital Pride is the District’s biggest and most colorful festival to celebrate gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender equality. The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism is organizing a group to march, and we'd love you to be there with us! This is a great family event, so bring the kids and the grandparents and the dog (in a rainbow t-shirt, of course).
Between 2:30PM and 4:30PM, join us at our offices to learn Torah and about why the fight for equality is a key part of Jewish tradition, and to make signs which we will be using in the parade.
Then, at 4:30PM, join us as we head over to the parade and march!
For more information and to register, please click here.
A four day and/or Shabbat professional development and learning opportunity for anyone interested in Jewish environmental education, organizing, gardening, camping and community building. The Seminar is an incredible conference where folks of all backgrounds come together to collaborate, learn from the leading Jewish environmental organizations and educators, and bring home a wealth of curriculum and resources. Organized by the Teva Learning Alliance, this is the seminar's 18th year.
Click here for more information and to register.
Welcome to Washington! It's tough to find a new crowd in a new city, so the RAC is making it easy for you. Join us for an opportunity to mingle with other Jewish college interns who are spending the summer in D.C. -- and eat free food while doing it!
Make your own s'mores, eat pizza and start your summer off with a few new friends. Spread the word!
As always former MKs and LAs are welcome to join us!
A four day and/or Shabbat professional development and learning opportunity for anyone interested in Jewish environmental education, organizing, gardening, camping and community building. The Seminar is an incredible conference where folks of all backgrounds come together to collaborate, learn from the leading Jewish environmental organizations and educators, and bring home a wealth of curriculum and resources. Organized by the Teva Learning Alliance, this is the seminar's 18th year.
Click here for more information and to register.
Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett will hold his latest “Virtual Town Hall Meeting” from 1 to 2 p.m. on June 13.
Residents may submit their questions to Leggett before or during the online discussion by clicking here.
Our Wednesday meeting takes place at a time of very important political developments, locally, nationally, and internationally. I hope you will able to attend and participate in the meeting as DC for Democracy attempts to address the meaning of these developments and how we as an organization will plan to deal with them over at least the next several months.
Among the topics we will take up are:
1) An open discussion of the implications of the Wisconsin recall election.
2) How DC for Democracy should conduct its endorsement process for the 2012 DC General Election, and for the Special Election to fill the Council Chair seat vacated yesterday by Kwame Brown’s resignation.
3) A proposal for endorsement of a presidential candidate at our July, 2012 meet up, and a discussion of the ways we might become involved in the election.
4) A brief wrap-up of our efforts to influence the Council’s FY13 budget decisions and, more importantly, a discussion of how we propose to further expand our efforts during the next year.
5) Status report on signature collection for Initiative 70.
Employees at the Veterans Health Administration – disproportionately veterans, women, and minorities – are, like public sector workers across the country, suffering arbitrary downgrades. Workers, represented by AFGE, will be joined by other union members and community allies for a rally in downtown DC to demand an end to the attacks on these federal employees.
“As public employees stand up for themselves, they also stand up for the public they serve,” said AFL-CIO President Richard Tumka. “Let’s stand with them!”
Click here for more info.
A four day and/or Shabbat professional development and learning opportunity for anyone interested in Jewish environmental education, organizing, gardening, camping and community building. The Seminar is an incredible conference where folks of all backgrounds come together to collaborate, learn from the leading Jewish environmental organizations and educators, and bring home a wealth of curriculum and resources. Organized by the Teva Learning Alliance, this is the seminar's 18th year.
Click here for more information and to register.
The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), a group of some of the biggest, richest developers and general contractors in the DMV, is suing the District in an attempt to overturn the recently re-worked First Source hiring law. This law is designed to make sure DC residents get hired to work on construction projects in DC. In a city with an unemployment rate that remains unacceptably high, we cannot let developers overturn this law. Join us at 10am, Show the ABC that DC residents support this law!
Members of La Unión de Trabajadores de DC (DC Workers' Union) have secured an agreement with the MPD and DOES to improve inter-agency cooperation on responding to wage theft complaints!
A four day and/or Shabbat professional development and learning opportunity for anyone interested in Jewish environmental education, organizing, gardening, camping and community building. The Seminar is an incredible conference where folks of all backgrounds come together to collaborate, learn from the leading Jewish environmental organizations and educators, and bring home a wealth of curriculum and resources. Organized by the Teva Learning Alliance, this is the seminar's 18th year.
Click here for more information and to register.
A four day and/or Shabbat professional development and learning opportunity for anyone interested in Jewish environmental education, organizing, gardening, camping and community building. The Seminar is an incredible conference where folks of all backgrounds come together to collaborate, learn from the leading Jewish environmental organizations and educators, and bring home a wealth of curriculum and resources. Organized by the Teva Learning Alliance, this is the seminar's 18th year.
Click here for more information and to register.
- Visit booths of over *60 exhibitors*. Vendors include local solar installers and green business owners who can help you green your home. There will also be community groups and representatives from a number of DC government offices.
- ·Hear from over *20 speakers* *and panel participants *about a variety of topics. Panels discussions include how to go solar, bringing green jobs to our communities, and how solar can help address challenges in our communities. Apostle Stephen E. Young Sr. and Tyrell Holcomb of Holy Christian House of Praise for All People will be giving the Keynote Speech on “Powering our Future for our Community.”
- Meet *local solar organizers, *including Dr. Daanen Strachan, Managing Partner of Alternatives Renewable Solutions, LLC and chair of the Ward 7 solar coop.
From the Labor Hall of Fame to Joe Hill’s ashes, worker’s history is around just about every corner in our nation’s capital, if you know where to look. This 2-hour walking tour of downtown DC reveals labor’s often-untold story of protest and resistance. The tour will be held Saturday, June 16th from 1pm to 3pm. Metro Washington Council Union Cities Coordinator Chris Garlock - who usually helps local and national activists make history on DC’s streets - leads the tour. Space is limited, so reserve your space now!
NOTE: the tour is an easy walk but please wear comfortable walking shoes and dress for the weather. Meet at Columbus Circle, Across from Union Station.
For more information contact Lillian at 202-543-1542 or Lillian@dcjwj.org. To sign up please click here .
A four day and/or Shabbat professional development and learning opportunity for anyone interested in Jewish environmental education, organizing, gardening, camping and community building. The Seminar is an incredible conference where folks of all backgrounds come together to collaborate, learn from the leading Jewish environmental organizations and educators, and bring home a wealth of curriculum and resources. Organized by the Teva Learning Alliance, this is the seminar's 18th year.
Click here for more information and to register.
Mt Pleasant Assembly Planning Committee, it's high time we had another planning committee meeting, don't you think?
Folks have been busy and it will be good to hear back on how things are going. An affordable housing committee was formed, the Meet Mt
Pleasant committee has started gathering surveys of neighbors, and
there's a big affordable housing tent city being planned for June 24th
in Lamont Park. If other things are in the works in the neighborhood,
we should know about them. Feel free to invite any other neighborhood
groups to join us. It will be good to hear about what else is going
on.
So let's come back together and check in!
For more info, please contact Janelle Treibitz at janellevyn@gmail.com.
D.C. is rethinking its outdated 1950s zoning code. The zoning update will help make the city more inclusive, livable, and walkable through some very important policies, such as accessory dwellings, corner stores, and removing outdated parking requirements. These changes will make it easier for older residents age in place, help newer residents afford to live and stay in D.C., encourage more retail, and make streets safer.
In the coming months, major battles over DC’s zoning code update will erupt, cutting to the heart of how people see the District’s future. These positive changes won't become a reality unless decision makers hear from residents who share the vision that the zoning rewrite will help D.C. grow, thrive, and become a more livable place for everyone.
Join us to hear from DC Office of Planning’s Director and national smart growth leader Harriet Tregoning, along with our own David Alpert, founder and editor in chief of the blog Greater Greater Washington, to discuss the proposed changes to the zoning rewrite and what it means for our city.
Please join us as we honor:
16th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
The Mysterious Rabbit Puppet Army is coming to DC on Thursday, June 21st with their newest puppet production, "Donny Quixote!" The show is a scathing critique of "green" capitalism and "green" technology told through a humorous adaptation of the story of Don Quixote. MRPA will present two other fun performances and travels with a distro of materials related to the content of the shows. All shows are rated PG.
For more information click here: mrpuppetarmy.wordpress.com
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