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Activist Calendar for Washington, DC, September 25–30, 2002
September 18, 2002 - 2:46pm -- jim
Activist Calendar for Washington, DC, September 25–30, 2002
More than 40 events for this long weekend are listed below. Please click on the "read more" box.Street Medic Training
Friday 20 September 5pm
Beginning of a three day training on the basics of being a street medic - Full Description
Located at: At St. Alouisius Church, 900 N Capitol (North Capitol & I Streets, NW, near Union Station Metro)
Contact: Ace Allen, 315.884.1071
Sponsored By: North East Action Medics Association
LOCAL STRUGGLES - GLOBAL VISION: A PEOPLE'S SUMMIT ON SOCIAL JUSTICE
Sunday 22 September, Noon-5:30pm
Guest Speakers Include: Starhawk & Dennis Brutus - Free Workshops on: The Ongoing Struggle in Palestine, War In Iraq, Resistance in Colombia, Earth Summit, Fair Trade, Privatization in D.C., Anarchism, Corporate-led Globalization - Final Plenary: Debates In The Movement: Where Do We Go From Here? Also: Information on the protests, teach-ins & trainings to protest the IMF/World Bank Meeting & Bush’s planned war on Iraq.
Located at: University of the District of Columbia
4200 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Building #3
Contact: Mark Cimino, Natalie Patrice, 202.722.1392
Sponsored By:
Demand Justice for Workers in DC!
Tuesday 24 September 3:30pm
Rally to support the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Local 25 organizing drive - Full Description
Located at: Ronald Reagan International Trade Center
13th St. & Penn. Ave. NW (Across from Freedom Plaza)
Contact: HERE Local 25 202.737.2225
Sponsored By:
DC Jobs with Justice
Mobilization For Global Justice (MGJ) Welcome Center
Wednesday 25 September 9am - 9:30pm
Start your convergence experience at the WELCOME CENTER! The place to check in, get orientated, find trainings, find out about affinity groups, volunteer to help with kitchen, security, you name it. To date, workshops & trainings in the following areas have been scheduled: Nonviolence Preparations Handling the Media Puppet Construction Legal Briefings Dancing for Activists Street First Aid WB/IMF Issue Forums Anti-Oppression Consensus/Facilitation Communications Peacekeeping/Traffic Magic for Activists Community Organizing and MORE!!!
9am to 11pm - Childcare - provided at or near the Convergence Site as volunteer coverage permits.
Yummy vegan & vegitarian food will be served, as volunteers & donations allows. Sign Language & Translation will be provided as requested. WE NEED $$$$$! Suggested donation $20/day, (sliding scale of $5-50/day). No one turned away for lack of funds.
7-9:30pm - Informational Spokes Council
Located at: Saint Stephen's Church 1525 Newton St. NW. On the corner of 16th and Newton. In the basement. Directions from Colombia Heights metro on the green line: Walk two blocks east on Irving to 16th St. Take a right on 16th and walk aprox. 5-6 blocks until you get to Newton. Church is on the right. Wheelchair accessible.
Contact: Mark Cimino, (202) 271-7990
Sponsored By:
Anti-Capitalist Convergence (ACC) Welcome Center
Wednesday 25 September 10am - 9pm
Exists to disseminate & share information on the People's Strike Actions & Convergence, as well as to share logistical information. Street Medic, Legal/Know Your Rights, & Direct Action Preperation Trainings as well as Educational Events on a variety of issues. Contact us for specifics. Come here to plug in, help out, & get involved.
Scenario orientations - Every two hours, starting at 11am
6:30pm - SpokesCouncil
Located at: Casa Del Pueblo, 1459 Columbia Rd NW
(between 14th & 15th Streets - Columbia Heights Metro, Green Line)
Contact: 202.306.3636 (from 23-28 September), Info
Sponsored By: The Anti-Capitalist Convergence (ACC)
End Corporate Rule Global Struggles Against the IMF & World Bank
Wednesday 25 September, Time TBD
Teach-In
Sponsored by:
Mobilization For Global Justice (MGJ) Welcome Center
Thursday 26 September 9am - 9:30pm
Start your convergence experience at the WELCOME CENTER! The place to check in, get orientated, find trainings, find out about affinity groups, volunteer to help with kitchen, security, you name it. To date, workshops & trainings in the following areas have been scheduled: Nonviolence Preparations Handling the Media Puppet Construction Legal Briefings Dancing for Activists Street First Aid WB/IMF Issue Forums Anti-Oppression Consensus/Facilitation Communications Peacekeeping/Traffic Magic for Activists Community Organizing and MORE!!!
9am to 11pm - Childcare - provided at or near the Convergence Site as volunteer coverage permits.
Yummy vegan & vegitarian food will be served, as volunteers & donations allows. Sign Language & Translation will be provided as requested. WE NEED $$$$$! Suggested donation $20/day, (sliding scale of $5-50/day). No one turned away for lack of funds.
6-9:30pm - Action SpokesCouncil (followed by Facilitators Meeting for People's Assemblies)
Located at: Saint Stephen's Church 1525 Newton St. NW. On the corner of 16th and Newton. In the basement. Directions from Colombia Heights metro on the green line: Walk two blocks east on Irving to 16th St. Take a right on 16th and walk aprox. 5-6 blocks until you get to Newton. Church is on the right. Wheelchair accessible.
Contact: Mark Cimino, (202) 271-7990
Sponsored By:
Anti-Capitalist Convergence (ACC) Welcome Center
Thursday 26 September 10am - 9pm
Exists to disseminate & share information on the People's Strike Actions &
Convergence, as well as to share logistical information. Street Medic, Legal/Know Your Rights, & Direct Action Preperation Trainings as well as Educational Events on a variety of issues. Contact us for specifics. Come here to plug in, help out, & get involved.
Scenario orientations - Every two hours, starting at 11am
6:30pm - SpokesCouncil
Located at: Casa Del Pueblo, 1459 Columbia Rd NW
(between 14th & 15th Streets - Columbia Heights Metro, Green Line)
Contact: 202.306.3636 (from 23-28 September), Info
Sponsored By: The Anti-Capitalist Convergence (ACC)
Trojan Horse Rally! World Bank out of Fossil Fuels
Thursday 26 September 11am
LAY SEIGE TO THE WORLD BANK! GIANT TROJAN HORSE vs. BIG OIL & BIG BANK - Tell the World Bank to Stop Financing Oil, Gas and Mining! Rally for Clean Energy! - Full Description
Located at: World Bank HQ 1818 H Street, NW
Contact: Patrick Reinsborough, 202-234-9382 x 215 or Jaya Ramesh, 202-319-2462
Sponsored By: Sustainable Energy & Economy Network, Sierra Student Coalition, Friends of the Earth, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Greenpeace USA andnd Rainforest Action Network
A Global Workers Forum
Thursday 26 September 2:30-4:30pm
with AFL-CIO President John Sweeney - Full Description
Located at: AFL-CIO Headquarters, 816 16th St. NW - Rally to follow, location TBA
Sponsored By: AFL-CIO, Jobs with Justice, & the DC Metro Labor Counci
Clean Energy Rally
Thursday 26 September Day
Jubilee Interfaith Service & Vigil
Thursday 26 September
Hear the Poor & Heal the Earth
7pm Prayer service: Metropolitan AME Church, 1518 M Street, NW
10pm ALL-NIGHT vigil at the US Treasury Department
Contact: Mara Vanderslice, 202.783.0129
Sponsored By: Jubilee USA Network
The People's Strike:
A Day of Non-Compliance and Resistance
Friday 27 September
Working Scenario Plan!
Autonomous Actions
Starting between 6 & 7am - Form an Affinity Group, Plan an Action (Plug
in at the Welcome Center & SpokesCouncil Meetings!) Shut Down Business
as Usual! Take Back the Freedom to Control our Lives!
Planned Actions
7am Snake March to Put the Squeeze on Capitalist Greed
Meet at Franklin Square Park (14th & K Sts NW)
7:30am The Bike Strike! Bike Against Big Oil
9am Beat the Anti-War Drums: Percussion Protest Against the War on Iraq
10am Civil Disobedience Die-In - Freedom Plaza (14th & Penn NW)
Contact: 202.306.3636 (from 23-28 September), Info
Sponsored By: The Anti-Capitalist Convergence (ACC)
Mobilization For Global Justice (MGJ) Welcome Center
Friday 27 September 9am - 9:30pm
Start your convergence experience at the WELCOME CENTER! The place to check in, get orientated, find trainings, find out about affinity groups, volunteer to help with kitchen, security, you name it. To date, workshops & trainings in the following areas have been scheduled: Nonviolence Preparations Handling the Media Puppet Construction Legal Briefings Dancing for Activists Street First Aid WB/IMF Issue Forums Anti-Oppression Consensus/Facilitation Communications Peacekeeping/Traffic Magic for Activists Community Organizing and MORE!!!
9am to 11pm - Childcare - provided -at or near the Convergence Site as volunteer coverage permits.
Yummy vegan & vegitarian food will be served, as volunteers & donations allows. Sign Language & Translation will be provided as requested. WE NEED $$$$$! Suggested donation $20/day, (sliding scale of $5-50/day). No one turned away for lack of funds.
5-9:30-pm - Action SpokesCouncil
Located at: Saint Stephen's Church 1525 Newton St. NW. On the corner of 16th and Newton. In the basement. Directions from Colombia Heights metro on the green line: Walk two blocks east on Irving to 16th St. Take a right on 16th and walk aprox. 5-6 blocks until you get to Newton. Church is on the right. Wheelchair accessible.
Contact: Mark Cimino, (202) 271-7990
Sponsored By:
Anti-Capitalist Convergence (ACC) Welcome Center
Friday 27 September 10am - 9pm
Exists to disseminate & share information on the People's Strike Actions & Convergence, as well as to share logistical information. Street Medic, Legal/Know Your Rights, & Direct Action Preperation Trainings as well as Educational Events on a variety of issues. Contact us for specifics. Come here to plug in, help out, & get involved.
Located at: Casa Del Pueblo, 1459 Columbia Rd NW
(between 14th & 15th Streets - Columbia Heights Metro, Green Line)
Contact: 202.306.3636 (from 23-28 September), Info
Sponsored By: The Anti-Capitalist Convergence (ACC)
Toward a Fair & Orderly Resolution to Debt Crises
Thursday 26 September 10am-Noon
Discuss proposals to replace the Paris Club 'approach' with a formal
mechanism for restructuring developing countries' debt - Full Description
Located at: World Bank Building J, ground floor (1050 18th St, between G & H)
Contact: Jamie Baker, 202.496.1320; Aldo Caliari, 202-635-2757 x123
Sponsored By:New Rules for Global Finance Coalition, CIDSE/Caritas, &
Center of Concern
We'd Rather Wear Nothing Than Wear Gap!
Friday 27 September 2-3pm
In coordination with the IMF/WB mass protests & the CEO Summit, we present: A protest of environmental destruction & worker exploitation at the doors of a poster-child of corporate greed: Gap, Inc. A mini PEOPLE'S SUMMIT will kick off the event, starting with STARHAWK (Why We're in The Streets of DC), MARINA SITRIS, Global Justice for Garment Workers Campaign of UNITE (stopping sweatshops), RAQUEL SALAZAR, Salvadoran Gap sweatshop worker & union organizer (situation in El Salvador), ANTONIA JUHASZ, International Forum on Globalization (deforestation & world water crisis, water privatization & Cochabamba), American Lands Alliance (unconfirmed, national public forestland policy, the effects of IMF/WB on global ecology), Mary Bull, Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap Campaign (redwood deforestation, the consumer pressure campaign). In between each of the speechlets -- which will be limited to a RIVETING 5 minutes apiece -- a CHORUS of REDWOOD TREES & GIANT SEWING MACHINES will lead us in SONGS & CHANTS from our TERRIFIC anti-corporate/anti-Gap repertoire. Speakers will use our GIANT FISHER REDWOOD STUMP as a STAGE. The GRAND FINALE will be a strip action, in which we'll invite people to come up and ***STRIP for REDWOODS & WORKERS RIGHTS!!!*** Gaptivists planning to participate in the strip, might consider writing your message in body paint on your stomach, such as, "Save Our Forests!" "Workers Rights!" "A Living Wage!" "Earth Is Sacred!" & so on! (Some women at the G8 wore redwood trees & anti-G8 pasties; in DC in April 2000, Joan -- in her seventies -- stripped down to a green bra she'd made out of her tear-gas bandana!) As we strip, we chant, "We'd Rather Wear Nothing Than Wear Gap!" Every time we say "Gap," we throw down another article of clothing, starting with a cap (visible or invisible), then each shoe (kick em off one at a time), then pants; then shirt (shirt is last). The topper, after everyone is stripped & still chanting, is a call & response Gap anti-cheer: Give me a G! GGGGG! Give me an A! AAAAAAA! Give me a P! PPPPPP! What does it spell? CLEARCUTS!!! What Does It Spell? SWEATSHOPS!!!! What Does It Spell? GAPSUCKS!!!! WHAT DOES IT SPELL???? BOYCOTT THE GAP!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we all CHEER, get dressed, talk with media, & leaflet. ***Be advised: In April 2000, the DC cops said they would arrest anyone who stripped further than underwear, and they did arrest an activist who was wearing a grass skirt without underwear.*** We are asking activists not to engage in cd at this particular action!
Located at: Georgetown Gap, 1258 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Contact: Mary Bull 415.731.7924, Mary Pjerrou 707.877.3405
Sponsored By: Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap, & UNITE's Global Justice for Garment Workers Campaign
Venezuela & the Emergence of Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization in Latin America
Friday 27 September 6pm
Panel Discussion - Full Description
Located at: Josephine Butler Parks Center, 2437 Fifteenth St., NW Ballroom (East side of Malcolm X Park; Closest intersection: 15th & Euclid; Closest Metro: Columbia Heights)
Contact: Marya Murray Diaz, 202.293.5380 ext 208
Sponsored By: Fundacion Venezolana para la Justicia Global
Teach-in for Catholic Activists: Toward a Globalization of Solidarity
Friday 27 September 1-5pm
Geared to student & young adult activists coming from or working in the Catholic tradition (all folks are welcome of course). Two presentations from campaigns active around issues at the heart of the globalization debate – Jubilee USA & the World Bank Bonds Boycott. Final presentation will be a reflection & discussion on “Spirituality & Globalization: In Whose Image?” centering on cultivating a faith-based vision that critiques corporate globalization & moves us toward a globalization of solidarity.
Located at: St. Aloysius Catholic Church
(North Capitol & I Streets, NW, near Union Station)
Contact: Johnny Zokovitch, 352.271.6941
Sponsored By: Pax Christi USA
Mobilization For Global Justice (MGJ) Welcome Center
Saturday 28 September 9am - 1pm
Start your convergence experience at the WELCOME CENTER! The place to check in, get orientated, find trainings, find out about affinity groups, volunteer to help with kitchen, security, you name it. To date, workshops & trainings in the following areas have been scheduled: Nonviolence Preparations Handling the Media Puppet Construction Legal Briefings Dancing for Activists Street First Aid WB/IMF Issue Forums Anti-Oppression Consensus/Facilitation Communications Peacekeeping/Traffic Magic for Activists Community Organizing and MORE!!! Yummy vegan & vegitarian food will be served, as volunteers & donations allows. Sign Language & Translation will be provided as requested. WE NEED $$$$$! Suggested donation $20/day, (sliding scale of $5-50/day). No one turned away for lack of funds.
Located at: Saint Stephen's Church 1525 Newton St. NW. On the corner of 16th and Newton. In the basement. Directions from Colombia Heights metro on the green line: Walk two blocks east on Irving to 16th St. Take a right on 16th and walk aprox. 5-6 blocks until you get to Newton. Church is on the right. Wheelchair accessible.
Contact: Mark Cimino, (202) 271-7990
Sponsored By:
Anti-Capitalist Convergence (ACC) Welcome Center
Saturday 28 September 10am - 9pm
Exists to disseminate & share information on the People's Strike Actions & Convergence, as well as to share logistical information. Street Medic, Legal/Know Your Rights, & Direct Action Preperation Trainings as well as Educational Events on a variety of issues. Contact us for specifics. Come here to plug in, help out, & get involved.
Located at: Casa Del Pueblo, 1459 Columbia Rd NW
(between 14th & 15th Streets - Columbia Heights Metro, Green Line)
Contact: 202.306.3636 (from 23-28 September), Info
Sponsored By: The Anti-Capitalist Convergence (ACC)
Fight Global AIDS March
Saturday 28 September, 11am
Join hundreds of people for a Fight Global AIDS & Drop the Debt march to coincide with protests against the IMF/WB -- institutions responsible in large part for the misery being experienced by countries hard hit by HIV/AIDS. Begin at the US Treasury -- investors in the IMF/WB & architects of its policies -- end at the Ellipse where thousands of people will be gathered for a rally organized by the Mobilization for Global Justice (MGJ). IMF/WB policies have denied people living with HIV/AIDS access to affordable health care due to high costs from forced policies of privatization and "user fees" for essential services. Additionally, by refusing to cancel poor countries' onerous debt, the IMF/WB stand responsible for untold deaths due to money being spent on debt repayment instead of essential services like health care.
Located at: US Department of Treasury (15th & G Streets NW) to Ellipse.
Contact: Kris Hermes, 215.334.9454
Sponsored By: ACT-UP Philly, Health GAP, Jubilee USA Network, SGAC, & GAA
Mobilization for Global Justice Rally and March
Saturday 28 September
11 am - Feeder rally/march(s) - currently only the AIDS march is scheduled
Noon ***RALLY & MARCH*** This is it. The big event to cap off a week fighting for global justice. Demand the World Bank/IMF meet the demands of people over profits - Rally/Concert includes ECO-bloc/Earth march delegation & potentially other self-organizing contingents.
Located at: Gather on Ellipse
2pm - Permitted March Begins
4pm - March returns to Ellipse & Rally/Concert continues into the evening
4:30pm **QUARANTINE** Enforcement Actions at the police perimeter - Join this direct action to quarantine the World Bank/IMF -- two institutions infecting the world with policies & practices that create more poverty, more environmental & social destruction, less democracy & more human misery.
Located at: TBD (Affinity Groups Invited to Direct Action SpokesCouncil)
Full Description
Contact: Patrick, 202-234-9382 x 215
Sponsored By:
Rythyms of Revolution - Protest In Song
Saturday 28 September - Time TBA
Performances by David Rovics, Jim Page, Blow Back, & more TBA. $5 to benefit the People's Strike & Convergence & Community Programs at Casa Del Pueblo.
Located at: Sanctuary Theatre/Casa Del Pueblo, 1459 Columbia Rd NW
(between 14th & 15th Streets - Columbia Heights Metro, Green Line)
Contact: 202.306.3636 (from 23-28 September), Info
Sponsored By: The Anti-Capitalist Convergence (ACC)
Teach-in & Training
Sunday 29 September 9am - 1pm
Sessions will be held about the history and current situation in Iraq and the skills needed to organize in opposition.
Located at:TBA
Contact: Mark Cimino, (202) 271-7990
Sponsored By:
March Against the War on Iraq
Sunday 29 September 2pm
Located at:Starting in Dupont Circle, (Massachusetts & Connecticut Aves., NW), going north on Massachusetts, stopping at key embassies (Britain, Japan, Turkey, Egypt), and ending with a rally outside Vice President Dick Cheney's house at the
Naval Observatory.
Contact: Mike Zmolek,
Sponsored By:National Network Against War in Iraq
People's Assemblies/Asamblea popular
Sunday 29 September 11am - 2pm
Expanding the Realm of Direct Action into strategy & movement building.
Gatherings of activists & others to discuss & strategize about how we build our movements for a better world - Full Description
Located at: Farragut Square (17TH & K Sts NW)
Contact: Patrick, 202-234-9382 x 215
Sponsored By:
Lobby Day Against the War on Iraq
Monday 30 September 30 - Time TBA
Press Congress to vote against this war. Lobby preparation & training in the morning.
Located at: TBA
Contact: Eric Gustavson, (202) 543-6176
Sponsored by: Education for Peace in Iraq Center
Activist Calendar for Washington, DC, September 25–30, 2002
More than 40 events for this long weekend are listed below. Please click on the "read more" box.Street Medic Training
Friday 20 September 5pm
Beginning of a three day training on the basics of being a street medic -
Located at: At St. Alouisius Church, 900 N Capitol (North Capitol & I Streets, NW, near Union Station Metro)
Contact:
Sponsored By:
LOCAL STRUGGLES - GLOBAL VISION: A PEOPLE'S SUMMIT ON SOCIAL JUSTICE
Sunday 22 September, Noon-5:30pm
Guest Speakers Include: Starhawk & Dennis Brutus - Free Workshops on: The Ongoing Struggle in Palestine, War In Iraq, Resistance in Colombia, Earth Summit, Fair Trade, Privatization in D.C., Anarchism, Corporate-led Globalization - Final Plenary: Debates In The Movement: Where Do We Go From Here? Also: Information on the protests, teach-ins & trainings to protest the IMF/World Bank Meeting & Bush’s planned war on Iraq.
Located at: University of the District of Columbia
4200 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Building #3
Contact:
Sponsored By:
Demand Justice for Workers in DC!
Tuesday 24 September 3:30pm
Rally to support the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Local 25 organizing drive -
Located at: Ronald Reagan International Trade Center
13th St. & Penn. Ave. NW (Across from Freedom Plaza)
Contact:
Sponsored By:
Mobilization For Global Justice (MGJ) Welcome Center
Wednesday 25 September 9am - 9:30pm
Start your convergence experience at the WELCOME CENTER! The place to check in, get orientated, find trainings, find out about affinity groups, volunteer to help with kitchen, security, you name it. To date, workshops & trainings in the following areas have been scheduled: Nonviolence Preparations Handling the Media Puppet Construction Legal Briefings Dancing for Activists Street First Aid WB/IMF Issue Forums Anti-Oppression Consensus/Facilitation Communications Peacekeeping/Traffic Magic for Activists Community Organizing and MORE!!!
9am to 11pm - Childcare - provided at or near the Convergence Site as volunteer coverage permits.
Yummy vegan & vegitarian food will be served, as volunteers & donations allows. Sign Language & Translation will be provided as requested. WE NEED $$$$$! Suggested donation $20/day, (sliding scale of $5-50/day). No one turned away for lack of funds.
7-9:30pm - Informational Spokes Council
Located at: Saint Stephen's Church 1525 Newton St. NW. On the corner of 16th and Newton. In the basement. Directions from Colombia Heights metro on the green line: Walk two blocks east on Irving to 16th St. Take a right on 16th and walk aprox. 5-6 blocks until you get to Newton. Church is on the right. Wheelchair accessible.
Contact:
Sponsored By:
Anti-Capitalist Convergence (ACC) Welcome Center
Wednesday 25 September 10am - 9pm
Exists to disseminate & share information on the People's Strike Actions & Convergence, as well as to share logistical information. Street Medic, Legal/Know Your Rights, & Direct Action Preperation Trainings as well as Educational Events on a variety of issues. Contact us for specifics. Come here to plug in, help out, & get involved.
Scenario orientations - Every two hours, starting at 11am
6:30pm - SpokesCouncil
Located at: Casa Del Pueblo, 1459 Columbia Rd NW
(between 14th & 15th Streets - Columbia Heights Metro, Green Line)
Contact: 202.306.3636 (from 23-28 September),
Sponsored By:
End Corporate Rule Global Struggles Against the IMF & World Bank
Wednesday 25 September, Time TBD
Teach-In
Sponsored by:
Mobilization For Global Justice (MGJ) Welcome Center
Thursday 26 September 9am - 9:30pm
Start your convergence experience at the WELCOME CENTER! The place to check in, get orientated, find trainings, find out about affinity groups, volunteer to help with kitchen, security, you name it. To date, workshops & trainings in the following areas have been scheduled: Nonviolence Preparations Handling the Media Puppet Construction Legal Briefings Dancing for Activists Street First Aid WB/IMF Issue Forums Anti-Oppression Consensus/Facilitation Communications Peacekeeping/Traffic Magic for Activists Community Organizing and MORE!!!
9am to 11pm - Childcare - provided at or near the Convergence Site as volunteer coverage permits.
Yummy vegan & vegitarian food will be served, as volunteers & donations allows. Sign Language & Translation will be provided as requested. WE NEED $$$$$! Suggested donation $20/day, (sliding scale of $5-50/day). No one turned away for lack of funds.
6-9:30pm - Action SpokesCouncil (followed by Facilitators Meeting for People's Assemblies)
Located at: Saint Stephen's Church 1525 Newton St. NW. On the corner of 16th and Newton. In the basement. Directions from Colombia Heights metro on the green line: Walk two blocks east on Irving to 16th St. Take a right on 16th and walk aprox. 5-6 blocks until you get to Newton. Church is on the right. Wheelchair accessible.
Contact:
Sponsored By:
Anti-Capitalist Convergence (ACC) Welcome Center
Thursday 26 September 10am - 9pm
Exists to disseminate & share information on the People's Strike Actions &
Convergence, as well as to share logistical information. Street Medic, Legal/Know Your Rights, & Direct Action Preperation Trainings as well as Educational Events on a variety of issues. Contact us for specifics. Come here to plug in, help out, & get involved.
Scenario orientations - Every two hours, starting at 11am
6:30pm - SpokesCouncil
Located at: Casa Del Pueblo, 1459 Columbia Rd NW
(between 14th & 15th Streets - Columbia Heights Metro, Green Line)
Contact: 202.306.3636 (from 23-28 September),
Sponsored By:
Trojan Horse Rally! World Bank out of Fossil Fuels
Thursday 26 September 11am
LAY SEIGE TO THE WORLD BANK! GIANT TROJAN HORSE vs. BIG OIL & BIG BANK - Tell the World Bank to Stop Financing Oil, Gas and Mining! Rally for Clean Energy! -
Located at: World Bank HQ 1818 H Street, NW
Contact:
Sponsored By:
A Global Workers Forum
Thursday 26 September 2:30-4:30pm
with AFL-CIO President John Sweeney -
Located at: AFL-CIO Headquarters, 816 16th St. NW - Rally to follow, location TBA
Sponsored By: AFL-CIO, Jobs with Justice, & the DC Metro Labor Counci
Clean Energy Rally
Thursday 26 September Day
Jubilee Interfaith Service & Vigil
Thursday 26 September
Hear the Poor & Heal the Earth
7pm Prayer service: Metropolitan AME Church, 1518 M Street, NW
10pm ALL-NIGHT vigil at the US Treasury Department
Contact:
Sponsored By:
The People's Strike:
A Day of Non-Compliance and Resistance
Friday 27 September
Autonomous Actions
Starting between 6 & 7am - Form an Affinity Group, Plan an Action (Plug
in at the Welcome Center & SpokesCouncil Meetings!) Shut Down Business
as Usual! Take Back the Freedom to Control our Lives!
Planned Actions
7am
Meet at Franklin Square Park (14th & K Sts NW)
7:30am
9am
10am Civil Disobedience Die-In - Freedom Plaza (14th & Penn NW)
Contact: 202.306.3636 (from 23-28 September),
Sponsored By:
Mobilization For Global Justice (MGJ) Welcome Center
Friday 27 September 9am - 9:30pm
Start your convergence experience at the WELCOME CENTER! The place to check in, get orientated, find trainings, find out about affinity groups, volunteer to help with kitchen, security, you name it. To date, workshops & trainings in the following areas have been scheduled: Nonviolence Preparations Handling the Media Puppet Construction Legal Briefings Dancing for Activists Street First Aid WB/IMF Issue Forums Anti-Oppression Consensus/Facilitation Communications Peacekeeping/Traffic Magic for Activists Community Organizing and MORE!!!
9am to 11pm - Childcare - provided -at or near the Convergence Site as volunteer coverage permits.
Yummy vegan & vegitarian food will be served, as volunteers & donations allows. Sign Language & Translation will be provided as requested. WE NEED $$$$$! Suggested donation $20/day, (sliding scale of $5-50/day). No one turned away for lack of funds.
5-9:30-pm - Action SpokesCouncil
Located at: Saint Stephen's Church 1525 Newton St. NW. On the corner of 16th and Newton. In the basement. Directions from Colombia Heights metro on the green line: Walk two blocks east on Irving to 16th St. Take a right on 16th and walk aprox. 5-6 blocks until you get to Newton. Church is on the right. Wheelchair accessible.
Contact:
Sponsored By:
Anti-Capitalist Convergence (ACC) Welcome Center
Friday 27 September 10am - 9pm
Exists to disseminate & share information on the People's Strike Actions & Convergence, as well as to share logistical information. Street Medic, Legal/Know Your Rights, & Direct Action Preperation Trainings as well as Educational Events on a variety of issues. Contact us for specifics. Come here to plug in, help out, & get involved.
Located at: Casa Del Pueblo, 1459 Columbia Rd NW
(between 14th & 15th Streets - Columbia Heights Metro, Green Line)
Contact: 202.306.3636 (from 23-28 September),
Sponsored By:
Toward a Fair & Orderly Resolution to Debt Crises
Thursday 26 September 10am-Noon
Discuss proposals to replace the Paris Club 'approach' with a formal
mechanism for restructuring developing countries' debt -
Located at: World Bank Building J, ground floor (1050 18th St, between G & H)
Contact:
Sponsored By:
We'd Rather Wear Nothing Than Wear Gap!
Friday 27 September 2-3pm
In coordination with the IMF/WB mass protests & the CEO Summit, we present: A protest of environmental destruction & worker exploitation at the doors of a poster-child of corporate greed: Gap, Inc. A mini PEOPLE'S SUMMIT will kick off the event, starting with STARHAWK (Why We're in The Streets of DC), MARINA SITRIS, Global Justice for Garment Workers Campaign of UNITE (stopping sweatshops), RAQUEL SALAZAR, Salvadoran Gap sweatshop worker & union organizer (situation in El Salvador), ANTONIA JUHASZ, International Forum on Globalization (deforestation & world water crisis, water privatization & Cochabamba), American Lands Alliance (unconfirmed, national public forestland policy, the effects of IMF/WB on global ecology), Mary Bull, Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap Campaign (redwood deforestation, the consumer pressure campaign). In between each of the speechlets -- which will be limited to a RIVETING 5 minutes apiece -- a CHORUS of REDWOOD TREES & GIANT SEWING MACHINES will lead us in SONGS & CHANTS from our TERRIFIC anti-corporate/anti-Gap repertoire. Speakers will use our GIANT FISHER REDWOOD STUMP as a STAGE. The GRAND FINALE will be a strip action, in which we'll invite people to come up and ***STRIP for REDWOODS & WORKERS RIGHTS!!!*** Gaptivists planning to participate in the strip, might consider writing your message in body paint on your stomach, such as, "Save Our Forests!" "Workers Rights!" "A Living Wage!" "Earth Is Sacred!" & so on! (Some women at the G8 wore redwood trees & anti-G8 pasties; in DC in April 2000, Joan -- in her seventies -- stripped down to a green bra she'd made out of her tear-gas bandana!) As we strip, we chant, "We'd Rather Wear Nothing Than Wear Gap!" Every time we say "Gap," we throw down another article of clothing, starting with a cap (visible or invisible), then each shoe (kick em off one at a time), then pants; then shirt (shirt is last). The topper, after everyone is stripped & still chanting, is a call & response Gap anti-cheer: Give me a G! GGGGG! Give me an A! AAAAAAA! Give me a P! PPPPPP! What does it spell? CLEARCUTS!!! What Does It Spell? SWEATSHOPS!!!! What Does It Spell? GAPSUCKS!!!! WHAT DOES IT SPELL???? BOYCOTT THE GAP!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we all CHEER, get dressed, talk with media, & leaflet. ***Be advised: In April 2000, the DC cops said they would arrest anyone who stripped further than underwear, and they did arrest an activist who was wearing a grass skirt without underwear.*** We are asking activists not to engage in cd at this particular action!
Located at: Georgetown Gap, 1258 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
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Venezuela & the Emergence of Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization in Latin America
Friday 27 September 6pm
Panel Discussion -
Located at: Josephine Butler Parks Center, 2437 Fifteenth St., NW Ballroom (East side of Malcolm X Park; Closest intersection: 15th & Euclid; Closest Metro: Columbia Heights)
Contact:
Sponsored By: Fundacion Venezolana para la Justicia Global
Teach-in for Catholic Activists: Toward a Globalization of Solidarity
Friday 27 September 1-5pm
Geared to student & young adult activists coming from or working in the Catholic tradition (all folks are welcome of course). Two presentations from campaigns active around issues at the heart of the globalization debate – Jubilee USA & the World Bank Bonds Boycott. Final presentation will be a reflection & discussion on “Spirituality & Globalization: In Whose Image?” centering on cultivating a faith-based vision that critiques corporate globalization & moves us toward a globalization of solidarity.
Located at: St. Aloysius Catholic Church
(North Capitol & I Streets, NW, near Union Station)
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Mobilization For Global Justice (MGJ) Welcome Center
Saturday 28 September 9am - 1pm
Start your convergence experience at the WELCOME CENTER! The place to check in, get orientated, find trainings, find out about affinity groups, volunteer to help with kitchen, security, you name it. To date, workshops & trainings in the following areas have been scheduled: Nonviolence Preparations Handling the Media Puppet Construction Legal Briefings Dancing for Activists Street First Aid WB/IMF Issue Forums Anti-Oppression Consensus/Facilitation Communications Peacekeeping/Traffic Magic for Activists Community Organizing and MORE!!! Yummy vegan & vegitarian food will be served, as volunteers & donations allows. Sign Language & Translation will be provided as requested. WE NEED $$$$$! Suggested donation $20/day, (sliding scale of $5-50/day). No one turned away for lack of funds.
Located at: Saint Stephen's Church 1525 Newton St. NW. On the corner of 16th and Newton. In the basement. Directions from Colombia Heights metro on the green line: Walk two blocks east on Irving to 16th St. Take a right on 16th and walk aprox. 5-6 blocks until you get to Newton. Church is on the right. Wheelchair accessible.
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Anti-Capitalist Convergence (ACC) Welcome Center
Saturday 28 September 10am - 9pm
Exists to disseminate & share information on the People's Strike Actions & Convergence, as well as to share logistical information. Street Medic, Legal/Know Your Rights, & Direct Action Preperation Trainings as well as Educational Events on a variety of issues. Contact us for specifics. Come here to plug in, help out, & get involved.
Located at: Casa Del Pueblo, 1459 Columbia Rd NW
(between 14th & 15th Streets - Columbia Heights Metro, Green Line)
Contact: 202.306.3636 (from 23-28 September),
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Fight Global AIDS March
Saturday 28 September, 11am
Join hundreds of people for a Fight Global AIDS & Drop the Debt march to coincide with protests against the IMF/WB -- institutions responsible in large part for the misery being experienced by countries hard hit by HIV/AIDS. Begin at the US Treasury -- investors in the IMF/WB & architects of its policies -- end at the Ellipse where thousands of people will be gathered for a rally organized by the Mobilization for Global Justice (MGJ). IMF/WB policies have denied people living with HIV/AIDS access to affordable health care due to high costs from forced policies of privatization and "user fees" for essential services. Additionally, by refusing to cancel poor countries' onerous debt, the IMF/WB stand responsible for untold deaths due to money being spent on debt repayment instead of essential services like health care.
Located at: US Department of Treasury (15th & G Streets NW) to Ellipse.
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Mobilization for Global Justice Rally and March
Saturday 28 September
11 am - Feeder rally/march(s) - currently only the AIDS march is scheduled
Noon ***RALLY & MARCH*** This is it. The big event to cap off a week fighting for global justice. Demand the World Bank/IMF meet the demands of people over profits - Rally/Concert includes ECO-bloc/Earth march delegation & potentially other self-organizing contingents.
Located at: Gather on Ellipse
2pm - Permitted March Begins
4pm - March returns to Ellipse & Rally/Concert continues into the evening
4:30pm **QUARANTINE** Enforcement Actions at the police perimeter - Join this direct action to quarantine the World Bank/IMF -- two institutions infecting the world with policies & practices that create more poverty, more environmental & social destruction, less democracy & more human misery.
Located at: TBD (Affinity Groups Invited to Direct Action SpokesCouncil)
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Rythyms of Revolution - Protest In Song
Saturday 28 September - Time TBA
Performances by David Rovics, Jim Page, Blow Back, & more TBA. $5 to benefit the People's Strike & Convergence & Community Programs at Casa Del Pueblo.
Located at: Sanctuary Theatre/Casa Del Pueblo, 1459 Columbia Rd NW
(between 14th & 15th Streets - Columbia Heights Metro, Green Line)
Contact: 202.306.3636 (from 23-28 September),
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Teach-in & Training
Sunday 29 September 9am - 1pm
Sessions will be held about the history and current situation in Iraq and the skills needed to organize in opposition.
Located at:TBA
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March Against the War on Iraq
Sunday 29 September 2pm
Located at:Starting in Dupont Circle, (Massachusetts & Connecticut Aves., NW), going north on Massachusetts, stopping at key embassies (Britain, Japan, Turkey, Egypt), and ending with a rally outside Vice President Dick Cheney's house at the
Naval Observatory.
Contact: Mike Zmolek,
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People's Assemblies/Asamblea popular
Sunday 29 September 11am - 2pm
Expanding the Realm of Direct Action into strategy & movement building.
Gatherings of activists & others to discuss & strategize about how we build our movements for a better world -
Located at: Farragut Square (17TH & K Sts NW)
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Lobby Day Against the War on Iraq
Monday 30 September 30 - Time TBA
Press Congress to vote against this war. Lobby preparation & training in the morning.
Located at: TBA
Contact: Eric Gustavson, (202) 543-6176
Sponsored by: Education for Peace in Iraq Center