Category: Education
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New Location, Same Projects!
Comrades, Friends and Family, We have finally moved to a new location in the Brookland area of DC! (4219 12th Pl. NE, Washington, DC, 20017). We’re in the process of collecting non-perishable food items for the homeless and low income housing areas of northeast and southeast DC through our program “Working Poor DC (WPDC).” Which…
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Concepcion Picciotto & The Peace House DC EVICTED?!
Concepcion Picciotto & The Peace House DC EVICTED?! December 10th, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE After a long battle within this court system trying to get The Peace House DC house up to code. December 10th, 2014 at 1 pm the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) will come to the Peace House to secure…
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Hearing on Order to Close or Vacate The Peace House DC
Hearing on Order to Close or Vacate The Peace House DC FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26th, 2014 On November 26th, 2014, we filed an appeal on the Order to Vacate dated November 21st, 2014. Which was approved since it was within five (5) calendar days of the service of the order. We have a court…
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The Peace House DC – Ordered to Vacate?!
The Peace House DC – Ordered to Vacate FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 22nd, 2014 After almost a year of fighting an eviction and asking for housing codes violations to be corrected by our landlord Ellen Thomas; a peace and anti-nuclear activist. The Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) has decided to punish the residence…
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Protest Against Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation – Washington DC
October 22nd is apart of a whole Month of Resistance called by the Stop Mass Incarceration Network. Our resistance MUST happen across the country and around the world with powerful demonstrations nationwide. Ezell Ford EXECUTED by the LAPD Eric Garner EXECUTED by NYPD Mike Brown EXECUTED by Ferguson PD Cleman Sweptson Jr. EXECUTED by Washington…
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Taking Actions Day 2014
Days of Taking Actions, Please join this event. Post one of your amazing acts of kindness and help a nominated group or charity receive a dollar for your act of kindness. We also would like to add that the Peace House was nominated as well! Background: Taking Actions was founded on October 16, 2010. Our…
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World vs. Bank DC
Global day of action! Each year, the World Bank is systematically impoverishing millions through the implementation of draconian policies in order to enrich multinational corporations. World Bank’s “Doing Business Rankings” forces countries to compete with one another in order to maintain an “ease of business” for wealthy corporations. Failure to do so results in a…
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Radical Mycology: Fungi For Human Health
The Peace House is bringing the Radical Mycology Collective to DC! Join the Radical Mycology Collective for a presentation on the uses of fungi for covering the history of medicinal mushrooms, a variety of medicinal mushroom species and their uses, and methods of properly preparing your own medicinal mushroom products. Radical Mycology is an organization…
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URGENT: ISM volunteers in Gaza need your help
At 19:00 Beit Hanoun Hospital was hit by an Israeli tank shell. Inside the hospital are 61 medical staff, civilians, three patients and two ISM volunteers Charlie Andreasson and Fred Ekblad, both from Sweden, who are all trapped inside. Israeli soldiers are in the area, approximately 150 meters behind the hospital. Gunfire can be heard…