Eighties Night: Learn about New Jewish Agenda
On Christmas Day 1980, over 1,200 progressive and radical Jews gathered to create New Jewish Agenda , picking up where the previous generation of Jewish anarchists, communists, socialists and other radicals had left off.
NJA was a national, multi-issue organization that practiced participatory grassroots democracy with over 45 local chapters and 5,000 members, organizing for peace and justice on local and global issues. Its five main campaigns revolved around economic and social justice, feminism, Middle East peace, worldwide nuclear disarmament and Central American solidarity.
NJA was a national, multi-issue organization that practiced participatory grassroots democracy with over 45 local chapters and 5,000 members, organizing for peace and justice on local and global issues. Its five main campaigns revolved around economic and social justice, feminism, Middle East peace, worldwide nuclear disarmament and Central American solidarity.
On Monday, June 25th, join us and GLBT Outreach and Engagement at the DC JCC for A History of New Jewish Agenda, presented by historian Ezra Berkley Nepon and former NJA leaders Rabbi Gerry Serotta and Reena Bernards. The talk will be based on Nepon's book Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue: A History of New Jewish Agenda, in which he gives us the inside scoop on New Jewish Agenda, both a clearinghouse for Jewish involvement in a range of progressive causes of the 1980s and a bulwark against the din of conservative voices in Jewish communities.
For more information, check out www.newjewishagenda.net .
