Category: Education
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Examining Institutional Responses to Muslim Survivors of Sexual Violence
Via HEART Women & Girls We need your help! HEART Women and Girls and the Muslim American Women’s Policy Forum have partnered on an important survey to examine what resources and services are available to victims of sexual violence.are fielding a survey concerning sexual violence. If you know anyone who works at an organization or…
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Press Release: ‘We are the Miner’s Canary’: Indigenous Organizations Call for Clean Up of ‘Homegrown’ Radioactive Pollution Crisis
For Immediate Release Friday, January 29, 2016 Contact: Klee Benally Clean Up The Mines, organizer cleanupthemines@gmail.com http://www.cleanupthemines.org 15,000 Abandoned Uranium Mines Protested at DC EPA Headquarters ‘We are the Miner’s Canary’: Indigenous Organizations Call for Clean Up of ‘Homegrown’ Radioactive Pollution Crisis Editors: High-resolution photos and B-roll available. attached photos by Eli Laliberte, Konnected.tv. EPA…
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No Nukes Protest at EPA – Indigenous Delegation Resisting Radioactive Pollution
Indigenous representatives from the Northern Great Plains & Southwest are traveling to DC for meetings and presentations to address radioactive impacts in their communities. Radioactive pollution is an invisible national crisis with millions of people in the United States being exposed as Nuclear Radiation Victims on a daily basis. Exposure to radioactive pollution has been…
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Washington, DC: 20 Hr Street Medic Training
DC’s Food, Clothing & Resistance Collective is hosting a 20-hr street medic training January 29-31 on Friday from 5pm-9pm and Saturday and Sunday from 9am-6pm with medics from Katuah Medics, Mutual Aid Street Medics, the Philly Medic Collective, and others. This course is a complete introduction to action medical knowledge and skills. Street medics have…
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#StopGentrification
Attention, For those living in #Brookland area of #DC. Tomorrow (November 2nd, 2015) there is a #community only meeting from 7 pm to 9 pm. At Ross auditorium, Providence Hospital. Topic: Trying to stop the potential development of 140 – 240 townhouses on the Josephite seminary property. Located at 1200 Varnum Street NE. ANC, a development company is trying…
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LMHR Presents: #FTP – Confronting Fascism with Music
Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) was set up in 2002 in response to rising levels of racism and electoral successes for the Nazi British National Party (BNP). Love Music Hate Racism – USA is a movement adopted from the UK and Ireland. Join us as we kick it off in the US! November 14th,…
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DC Trans Power Drops Banner During Rush Hour Traffic
Washington, DC — Friday, August 21st, 2015 — DC Trans Power – a collective of transgender activists and their allies – gathered in DuPont Circle this morning during rush hour to bring attention to the recent spate of violence against transgender individuals. Just this year, there have been 20 reported murders of transgender people, the…
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#022 Planning Meeting
October 22, is the annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation, is less than a couple months away. The question is: Are we going to stand up and loudly say NO MORE to these horrors, or will they be allowed to continue? Come join us…
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DC Free Store – July 2015
= Saturday, July 25, 2015 at 5 PM – 9 PM Ground Rules -All hygiene/toiletry items must be sealed in original packaging -No used undergarments/underwear -No ripped or torn clothes -When taking clothes turn in all hangers to free store volunteers -Please wash clothing items prior to drop off -When dropping off clothes please place…
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DC Free Store: No Trade Saturdays
Since we’re receiving a lot more items for the free store and the community wants more consist events like this we’re launching “No trade Saturday’s.” Which will happen every second Saturday of each month. No Trade Saturday’s consists of ZERO exchanges. Only items that are currently at the free store may be taken. Whatever you…