From nbloch at igc.org Mon Jan 2 02:12:25 2006 From: nbloch at igc.org (Nadine Bloch) Date: Mon Jan 2 16:22:10 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] SKILLSHARE is BACK:: Jan 6th Message-ID: <43B88C09.60802@igc.org> /start the new year off skillfully!! PLEASE forward to all interested facilitators, workshop leaders, educators, and other interested parties! this will be a wonderful event.... please also RSVP if possible; the space may fill up! / > /*****************************/ > > ** Next WDC Ad-hoc Trainers' Collective Facilitator Skill Share:*** > ***Thursday, January 6th** > 7:30--9:30pm > **American Friends Service Committee/DC** > 2211 14th St NW > Ust/Cardozo Metro > > > **TOPIC::::::: **: Playback Theater for Facilitators *** > *//****HOSTS: Marianne Ross and others from "Shemama" Troupe// > **/NOTE: PLEASE RSVP, space is limited!!! email > /**//**nbloch@igc.org** //**/ to hold your > spot, we expect a large turnout.....!/** > > /Drama isn't just for actors!/ . If you liked Augusto Boal's > "Theater of the Oppressed" techniques, you'll probably love Playback > Theater. These improvisational theater forms can help groups build > awareness of personal needs and stories as well as their common group > stories. We will begin with some basic warmups with sound and motion > to get us out of our ordinary boxes before exploring "short forms" > that can help us listen, express and build on each other's sharing and > stories.In addition to being a powerful tool for listening, learning > and sharing, Playback participants can also create a kind of sacred > space through the form's ritualized process. How can we use this in > our own work? Join us for an evening of learning and sharing > together. > > > > Facilitators: > > Deborah Zavos was a co-founder of DC Playback Theatre Company which > was the first monthly performing company at DC Arts Centre in Adams > Morgan. She is the founder and Artistic Director of /ShemaMa!/, a > women's playback theatre company which performs widely in the area and > further afield.. > > Marianne Ross, a member of Shemama, is also director of /Concerts in > the Country/, a puppeteer, and political/peace activist with WAG. > > > ****this IS part of an ongoing series of trainers' skillshares, workshops > for the public and trainings for trainers!!! Feel free to pass this > invitation on to other facilitators, workshop leaders and trainers from > any discipline that would be interested in engaged skillshares and > building our collective resources. > > PROPOSED SCHEDULE:: > ********************************** > February, March: YOUR IDEA HERE! > > if you would like to be on the SkillShare email list serve, please > sent a note to : dctraining-subscribe@lists.riseup.net > (If you are not > on the list you may MISS announcements of skillshares if i forget to > include you on the extras list!!) (Very LOW traffic, about 2/month) > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060102/adfe46d4/attachment.html From calendar at dcpalestine.org Mon Jan 2 10:16:01 2006 From: calendar at dcpalestine.org (calendar@dcpalestine.org) Date: Mon Jan 2 16:22:11 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Upcoming DC-Palestine Events: wk of 2006-1-2 Message-ID: <200601021016.k02AG07i027963@ebte.umd.edu> NEW BOOKS ADDED to the DCP Book Page: www.dcpalestine.org (click on the books link on the right) This is a list of upcoming events in the DC Metro Area relating to Palestine. The list is automatically generated by the calendar engine at DCPalestine.org . For more details on each event, please visit www.DCPalestine.org, AND BE SURE TO CHECK IT BEFORE YOU ATTEND YOUR EVENT FOR LAST MINUTE CHANGES! ========================= T H I S W E E K ========================= SORRY. THERE ARE NO PALESTINE-RELATED EVENTS IN DC THIS WEEK WHY DON'T YOU ORGANIZE ONE? ========================= N E X T W E E K ========================= ==================== DETAILS OF THIS WEEK'S EVENTS =================== ====================== E N D O F E V E N T S ======================= If you wish to submit an event please contact your group's DCPalestine representative or e-mail events@dcpalestine.org . Copyright (c) 2003, DCPalestine.org. All rights reserved. Designed and administered by Spidy.net - No one masters the Web like Spidy! From nparry at mail.com Mon Jan 2 15:52:31 2006 From: nparry at mail.com (Nat Parry) Date: Mon Jan 2 16:22:11 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Town Hall Meeting on Iraq with Reps. Jim Moran and Jack Murtha - Jan. 5 Message-ID: <20060102155231.6E5E81CE304@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com> FYI - The Road Ahead: A Town Hall Meeting to Discuss the War in Iraq [IMAGE] Congressman Jack Murtha discusses the situation with troops in Iraq Join Representative Jim Moran for a Town Hall Meeting to Discuss the Road Ahead in Iraq with Special Guest, Congressman Jack Murtha January 5th, 2006 6:30-9:00PM National Rural Electric Cooperation Association 4301 Wilson Blvd Arlington, VA 22203 *Congressman Jack Murtha turned the debate over Iraq on its head last month when this decorated Vietnam Vet and one of the most respected pro-military members of Congress issued his call for a redeployment of US troops from Iraq. Come hear his reasons for that groundbreaking decision in person on January 5th in Arlington at a Town Hall on Iraq hosted by Congressman Jim Moran. NRECA Location: Across the street from the Ballston Metro Station and Ballston Mall; Glebe Rd. Exit off Rte. 66.Garage parking is available. Agenda: 6:30-7:00PM Registration 7:00-9:00PM Remarks by Rep. Moran and Rep. Murtha, Q and A to follow. -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060102/d69d0284/attachment.html From agentforchange at comcast.net Tue Jan 3 00:39:52 2006 From: agentforchange at comcast.net (Pat Elder) Date: Tue Jan 3 00:43:00 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Pat Humphries and Sandy O at St. Al's Friday Night Message-ID: <20060103004135.41BFEACB42C@catfur.mutualaid.org> Get the new year off to a rousing start! Emma's revolution/Pat Humphries & Sandy O award-winning activist musicians, John Lennon Grand Prize featured on NPR's "All Things Considered", Pacifica's "Democracy Now!" "the epitome of great contemporary political music" --SIng Out! Friday, January 6, 2006 8pm St. Aloysius Catholic Church 900 Block of North Capitol Street between I and K Streets, NW (3 blocks from Union Station & free parking at church) Tickets: $10/adult admission (no one turned away for lack of funds) Free refreshments will be served Info: Colleen McCarthy at (202) 360-2131 or csm91@hotmail.com http://www.emmasrevolution.com ABOUT EMMA'S REVOLUTION/PAT HUMPHRIES & SANDY O: With "soaring energy and beautiful harmonies," emma's revolution is the new duo of award-winning, activist songwriters, Pat Humphries & Sandy O. An uprising of truth and hope, their performances draw in diverse groups and transform them into a community motivated to create a just world. emma's revolution's music has been featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" and Pacifica's "Democracy Now!" Their songs, "Peace, Salaam, Shalom" and "Keep on Moving Forward" are sung at vigils, demonstrations and gatherings around the world and, since its feature on NPR, "Swimming to the Other Side" is being sung everywhere. Join the revolution! http://www.emmasrevolution.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060103/f6bbb2f9/attachment.html From jsmacdonald at riseup.net Tue Jan 3 17:07:11 2006 From: jsmacdonald at riseup.net (Jim Macdonald) Date: Tue Jan 3 17:09:01 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] DAWN meeting tonight; planning party this Saturday Message-ID: <50404.jsmacdonald.1136308031.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> DAWN is meeting tonight at the regular 7PM time (2211 14th Street NW) for its regular meeting and having a special planning party this Saturday at Alfishawy (see below). We'd love to have you! For the Saturday event, please RSVP. If you received an evite invitation, please answer that. Otherwise, please send any RSVPs directly to me at jsmacdonald@riseup.net. For other needs, please contact Becky at Catsambol@aol.com . Also, for those who can help, please come early and stay late so that we can help make Alfishawy a community activist space. See you tonight! *** DAWN Planning Party! Sat, Jan 7, 2006, 2:00 to 6:00 PM Al Fishaway Cafe, 4132 Georgia Ave NW, Washington DC (3 1/2 blocks north of Georgia Ave/Petworth Station near Taylor St.) Looking behind and ahead: DAWN Year in Review and 2006 Plans It's a new year and DAWN is having a planning party to look back at 2005 and to discuss strategies for 2006. Discussion at this party will help shape the overall objectives, focus, and strategy for 2006. We will discuss the past year and how to move forward in 2006 with DAWN's actions and activities. Your input is needed in this planning party and we hope you can come! This will be a fun and lively event! Please bring snacks, non alcoholic beverages, or food items if you can and if possible please send e-mail to Becky at Catsambol@aol.com and tell Becky what you plan to bring. We look forward to seeing you there! :) DC Antiwar Network (DAWN) http://www.dawndc.net From jsmacdonald at riseup.net Wed Jan 4 15:07:44 2006 From: jsmacdonald at riseup.net (Jim Macdonald) Date: Wed Jan 4 15:13:23 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] tasks for Saturday's meeting Message-ID: <21998.jsmacdonald.1136387264.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> Hi DAWN, I hope you can come to Saturday's planning meeting. If you plan on attending, please let me know, or answer the Evite that most of you got by email yesterday (anyone on dawn-dc received an evite, though I know there were glitches). We are meeting from 2-6 PM; we did talk about changing times at some length to coordinate with the other event at Busboys and Poets, but there turned out to be very little interest at the meeting in doing so and some resistance from a few people for whom an earlier or a later start would not work. So, in the end, the group voted to keep the 2-6 PM time. There will also be an action of some sort associated with the meeting; more details to come later. We do have some needs. We need people to bring food. Maybe Becky can say more about that. We need paper plates, paper cups, utensils, etc., perhaps a couple serving dishes. We also need more facilitators. We probably need about 3 other facilitators. I have volunteered and will send out a tentative agenda, but it would be very difficult for one facilitator to keep up the energy for an entire meeting; we could use a few other solid facilitators, of which DAWN has several. In terms of the meeting, we need big sheets of paper to write on; better permanent sheets than chalk or dry erase boards. We'll also need markers (though, I think I can bring some of those). It would help also to have an easel or a stand to put these on since there aren't good walls in the normal meeting space. If you can come and help fill those needs, please let me know. It should be a lot of fun; we'll be mixing socializing, art (DAWN is a friendly space for artists to doodle, sketch, or work as we meet, as well as a friendly space for musicians to express their thoughts in song), small group discussion, with serious dialogue about the future, as well as the aforementioned action. So, at worst, if brainstorming and strategizing come to nothing, at least we'll be taking action. If you can help or come, please let me know, or sign the evite (if you got one), Jim From malachykilbride at yahoo.com Wed Jan 4 17:48:21 2006 From: malachykilbride at yahoo.com (malachy kilbride) Date: Wed Jan 4 19:07:52 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Please help The Iraqi Shoe Project Message-ID: <20060104174821.86829.qmail@web32108.mail.mud.yahoo.com> The day before the State of the Union message, we hope to deliver 100 pairs of used children?s shoes to the U.S. Senate ? one pair per Senator ? with the following message attached: As you hold these shoes in your hands, please remember the children who are being killed in Iraq. Stop the killing. Bring the troops home. Arlingtonians for Peace Northern Virginians for Peace and Justice Codepink DC Anti-War Network/DAWN to donate children?s shoes (please!), or to volunteer to help match the messages to the shoes and/or deliver the shoes to the Senate, please contact: Debby Churchman at 202-362-8523, or dchurchmn@yahoo.com Location: US Senate offices, Washington, DC Metro: Union Station --------------------------------- Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060104/42a1a6a6/attachment.html From katharinene at yahoo.com Wed Jan 4 19:12:31 2006 From: katharinene at yahoo.com (Katie Nelson) Date: Wed Jan 4 19:17:04 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Iraq Town Hall Thursday. Meet John Murtha. Message-ID: <20060104191231.37805.qmail@web32003.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Tomorrow, Thursday January 5th, Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) will hold a town hall meeting in Arlington, VA. The meeting will feature Congressman John P. Murtha (D-PA) discussing the war in Iraq. Congressman Murtha turned the debate over Iraq on its head last month when he issued a call for redeployment of troops from Iraq. Murtha is a decorated Vietnam veteran and one of the most respected members of Congress on military matters. He had been a supporter of the war in Iraq since before the invasion in 2003 but now is the most visible advocate for troop redeployment. The town hall meeting is open to the public and Congressman Moran has extended a special invitation to MoveOn members in his district and nearby. What: Iraq Town Hall Meeting With Congressman Jim Moran: "The Road Ahead in Iraq Featuring Congressman John P. Murtha" When: Thursday, January 5th, 2005 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Where: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) 4301 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA 22203 NRECA is across the street from the Ballston Metro Station and Ballston Mall; Glebe Rd. Exit off Rte. 66. Garage parking is available. This is a good opportunity to show support for Congressman Moran and Murtha who are both leading the fight to bring our troops home from Iraq. --------------------------------- Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060104/6664b9bd/attachment.html From gael at codepinkalert.org Thu Jan 5 15:51:30 2006 From: gael at codepinkalert.org (Gael Murphy) Date: Fri Jan 6 15:58:00 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Jan 8 Iraqi filmmaker/activist screens films at Busboys 4 pm Message-ID: Sunday 8 January 4-6pm INDEPENDENT FILM AND TELEVISION COLLEGE of Baghdad with co-founder Maysoon Pachachi will show and discuss 3 films produced by current students. Baghdad Days (director: Hiba Bassem) (35 mins) Omar is My Friend (director: Mounaf Shaker) (15 minutes) Hiwar (Dialogue) (director: Kifaya Saleh) (12 mins) www.busboysandpoets.com In 2005 Maysoon also made, "IRAQI WOMEN: VOICES FROM EXILE" about her return to Iraq after the war. She co-founded Act Together, a UK-based anti-occupation group, formed in 2000 to campaign against economic sanctions. Www.acttogether.org From jsmacdonald at riseup.net Fri Jan 6 15:47:25 2006 From: jsmacdonald at riseup.net (Jim Macdonald) Date: Fri Jan 6 15:58:00 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] March against Wolfowitz Saturday following DAWN planning party Message-ID: <55256.jsmacdonald.1136562445.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> On Saturday evening, DAWN is organizing an action against World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, the architect of the war in Iraq. We will be gathering at 7:30 PM on Saturday, January 7th (this Saturday) at Chevy Chase Circle and mobilizing from there to Wolfowitz's house, located at 7401 Pinehurst Parkway, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, just off Western Avenue (he loves visitors anytime though really). Bring noisemakers, ie, pots and pans, spoons, musical instruments, or whatever else you'd like to let him and his neighbors know that we're there. Copies of a factsheet on Wolfowitz will be available for distribution. Parodies of songs about Wolfowitz will be sung, and everyone should bring their own great songs and chants. See you there! Also bring your pots and pans to DAWN's planning meeting from 2-6PM at Alfishawy Cafe. This will be a fun but important meeting as we plan the future. Expect numerous opportunities to interact, have fun, but work toward setting goals for the coming year. Clean those pots and pans after the meeting and join us as we take the party to Paul's house. Alfishawy Cafe 4132 Georgia Avenue, Washington, DC View Map When: Saturday, January 7, 2:00pm to 6:00pm DAWN Planning Party! Sat, Jan 7, 2006, 2:00 to 6:00 PM Al Fishaway Cafe, 4132 Georgia Ave NW, Washington DC (3 1/2 blocks north of Georgia Ave/Petworth Station near Taylor St.) Looking behind and ahead: DAWN Year in Review and 2006 Plans It's a new year and DAWN is having a planning party to look back at 2005 and to discuss strategies for 2006. Discussion at this party will help shape the overall objectives, focus, and strategy for 2006. We will discuss the past year and how to move forward in 2006 with DAWN's actions and activities. Your input is needed in this planning party and we hope you can come! This will be a fun and lively event! Please bring snacks, non alcoholic beverages, or food items if you can and if possible please send e-mail to Becky at Catsambol@aol.com and tell Becky what you plan to bring. We look forward to seeing you there! :) DC Antiwar Network (DAWN) http://www.dawndc.net From jsmacdonald at riseup.net Fri Jan 6 17:17:26 2006 From: jsmacdonald at riseup.net (Jim Macdonald) Date: Fri Jan 6 17:54:14 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] DAWN's Sat. Wolfowitz action fact sheet In-Reply-To: <55256.jsmacdonald.1136562445.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> References: <55256.jsmacdonald.1136562445.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> Message-ID: <49431.jsmacdonald.1136567846.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> Paul Wolfowitz: 7401 Pinehurst Parkway, Chevy Chase MD Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank and former Deputy Secretary of Defense, has made a lifelong career out of expanding the US Imperial agenda. Wolfowitz, with his extensive work in both the defense department and the World Bank, is a personal manifestation of the clear link between corporate profiteering and militarization. We are here at his door today to demand his immediate resignation. His Recent and Egregious past: ? 1985-1988 Paul served as the US ambassador to Indonesia during the height of the Suharto Regime in which upwards of hundreds of thousands of people were killed. Immediately following Paul?s tenure in Jakarta, the US embassy admitted to providing the military with names of civilians who were later rounded up and killed. ? 1989-1991, Paul served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy during which time he shaped the strategy for the first Gulf War. ? 2001-2005, Paul served as the Deputy Secretary of Defense and drafted the military strategy for the current War in Iraq in which to date, more than 30,000 people have been killed, including over 2,100 US soldiers. ? June 2005-present, Paul served as president of the World Bank, where he continues forcing the American-led, imperialist agenda on the rest of the world that he has helped propagate for decades. Recent loans by the World Bank Group to maintain control of Iraq?s economic infrastructure demonstrate that Paul is pursuing the very same agenda in the private sector that he began in the public sector. > On Saturday evening, DAWN is organizing an action against World Bank > president Paul Wolfowitz, the architect of the war in Iraq. > > We will be gathering at 7:30 PM on Saturday, January 7th (this Saturday) > at Chevy Chase Circle and mobilizing from there to Wolfowitz's house, > located at 7401 Pinehurst Parkway, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, just off Western > Avenue (he loves visitors anytime though really). Bring noisemakers, ie, > pots and pans, spoons, musical instruments, or whatever else you'd like to > let him and his neighbors know that we're there. Copies of a factsheet on > Wolfowitz will be available for distribution. Parodies of songs about > Wolfowitz will be sung, and everyone should bring their own great songs > and chants. See you there! > > Also bring your pots and pans to DAWN's planning meeting from 2-6PM at > Alfishawy Cafe. This will be a fun but important meeting as we plan the > future. Expect numerous opportunities to interact, have fun, but work > toward setting goals for the coming year. Clean those pots and pans after > the meeting and join us as we take the party to Paul's house. > > Alfishawy Cafe > 4132 Georgia Avenue, Washington, DC View Map > When: Saturday, January 7, 2:00pm to 6:00pm > DAWN Planning Party! > Sat, Jan 7, 2006, 2:00 to 6:00 PM > Al Fishaway Cafe, 4132 Georgia Ave NW, Washington DC > (3 1/2 blocks north of Georgia Ave/Petworth Station near Taylor St.) > > Looking behind and ahead: DAWN Year in Review and 2006 Plans > > It's a new year and DAWN is having a planning party to look back at 2005 > and to discuss strategies for 2006. Discussion at this party will help > shape the overall objectives, focus, and strategy for 2006. We will > discuss the past year and how to move forward in 2006 with DAWN's actions > and activities. Your input is needed in this planning party and we hope > you can come! > > This will be a fun and lively event! Please bring snacks, non alcoholic > beverages, or food items if you can and if possible please send e-mail to > Becky at Catsambol@aol.com and tell Becky what you plan to bring. We look > forward to seeing you there! :) > > DC Antiwar Network (DAWN) > http://www.dawndc.net > From malachykilbride at yahoo.com Fri Jan 6 20:03:38 2006 From: malachykilbride at yahoo.com (malachy kilbride) Date: Fri Jan 6 20:10:27 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] BEC ENDORSES THE WASHINGTON PEACE CENTER'S CPT LETTER Message-ID: <20060106200338.16075.qmail@web32112.mail.mud.yahoo.com> The Bi-weekly Executive Committee of the DC Anti-War Network has voted to sign a letter by The Washington Peace Center. The letter concerns the hostages held in Iraq who are a part of the Christian Peacemaker Team. Here is the letter: To those who hold the Christian Peacemaker Team Four in Iraq At the outset of a new year and the hope and promise it offers, we continue to > carry in our hearts the four Christian Peacemaker Team members still held > in Iraq by the resistance group, Sword of Truth. The Washington > Peace Center, which has initiated this appeal to you, has been a > long-standing presence in Washington, the capital of the United States > ??" standing for over 40 years to demand justice and peace from the > United States government on behalf of the people of our country and the > world. Additional organizations signing this appeal are likewise > dedicated to peace-making and oppose on principle the U.S. war on Iraq. > Those in the Christian Peacemaker Teams whom > you hold are our brothers in that struggle. We add our voice to > the many you have already heard imploring you to release them and > return them safely to their friends and family. Know that when you do, > they will continue to serve the cause of peace in Iraq along with others > of us by continuing to act against the violence and injustice the U.S. > government imposes on you and your people. We will all do so in every > way we know how, understanding that the Bush regime wages its vicious > war against your country against the wishes of our people and against > the laws of nations. There is much work to be done to > demonstrate the crimes of the powers that have invaded Iraq, and to > call them to account. That work needs you; it needs us; it needs Tom > Fox, Norman Kember, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden. Act > graciously and mercifully so as to give honor to Allah, and to > demonstrate the compassion and dignity of your nation??Ts people. Free > these four, so that they can continue to give honor and glory to the > Most High through their work for the people of Iraq. Then together we > can work for an Iraq free of foreign masters where all can live in > peace and unafraid. Washington Peace Center > --------------------------------- Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060106/b4aa5ad1/attachment.html From jsmacdonald at riseup.net Sat Jan 7 17:02:11 2006 From: jsmacdonald at riseup.net (Jim Macdonald) Date: Sat Jan 7 17:25:50 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Reminder: Wolfowitz protest tonight Message-ID: <2589.jsmacdonald.1136653331.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> After DAWN's planning party at Alfishawy on Georgia Avenue and Taylor St. from 2-6 PM (all are welcome; free food), we're going to protest Paul Wolfowitz. Come one, come all and join DAWN at the home of Paul Wolfowitz, the former Deputy Secretary for Defense and the current president of the World Bank. Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank and former Deputy Secretary of Defense, has made a lifelong career out of expanding the US Imperial agenda. Wolfowitz, with his extensive work in both the defense department and the World Bank, is a personal manifestation of the clear link between corporate profiteering and militarization. We will be there to demonstrate our opposition to his murderous past and present. Gather at Chevy Chase Circle at 7:30pm on Saturday, January 7th. Come with Pots, Pans, Musical Instruments, songs and chants. See you there! From jsmacdonald at riseup.net Sun Jan 8 16:42:42 2006 From: jsmacdonald at riseup.net (Jim Macdonald) Date: Sun Jan 8 16:56:18 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] DAWN Planning Party notes, 1/7/06 Message-ID: <2906.jsmacdonald.1136738562.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> DAWN Planning Party Meeting Notes January 7, 2006 2-6 PM Alfishawy Caf? Number of participants: 25 Facilitators: Jim M. and Katie N. 2:00 ? 2:20 Food and socializing 2:20 ? 2:30 Icebreaker ? Best action experience of 2005 (with a twist) 2:30 ? 2:45 Introductions/Roles (stack, notekeeper, time, vibes) 2:45 ? 3:00 Outline hopes for the session, clarify the meaning of external and internal goals 3:00 ? 3:10 Food break 3:10 ? 3:40 Small group breakouts working on lists of external and internal goals, as well as an answer to the question, ?Next year at this time, DAWN should have accomplished, above all else ? 3:40 ? 4:10 Groups share lists; discussion on the results. 4:10 ? 4:20 Food break 4:20 ? 4:30 Second icebreaker 4:30 ? 5:00 Return to small groups to craft proposal for goals based on feedback from larger groups 5:00 ? 5:30 Present, discuss, and vote on proposals (winning proposal will be recommended to DAWN on Tuesday) 5:30 ? 6:00 Brainstorm next steps in anticipation of Tuesday meeting 6:00 PM Cleanup, prepare for Wolfowitz action (clean your pots and pans!) Outline for hopes for session: Conversion of groups, Inclusive representation, Media/outreach, Lobbyingkular actions EXTERNAL Community work Iran Pentagon action Network more with other groups Small community actions Sustained siege at army recruiting stations Reach out to students Successful action/boycott of defense contractor Raising public awareness of issues Youth education Regular actions Ongoing presence at homes of bad people Connecting globalization issues/poverty/environment/with war and militarization Paying attention to points of unity Support students and labor Support local groups Complete halt to military actions in Iraq Increase visibility of anti war movement Increase counter recruiting actions expose government infiltration of DAWN connect issues of war w/ corporate America etc. better media outreach/ media training INTERNAL More than 1 DAWN group More accessible for disabled More diversity Less report backs More attendance More working groups/organizing Diversity working group More calendars of events accessible Constant contact with other groups FOIA expose government infiltration of DAWN DAWN clarification Separate action meetings Blog vs. listserve PROPOSALS: INTERNAL: 1 ? Meeting announcements include thr fact thet AFSC is disabled accessible 2 ? 1hr meeting w/ reportbacks and announcements at end 3 ? Following meetings, 1hr breakouts dedicated to working groups. 4 ? Monthly gatherings that are social and can be fundraisers and brainstorming/organizing meetings 5 ? each person in DAWN has a group that they stay in contact with, attend meetings, establishes a relationhip with etc. 6 ? DAWN book club Not a proposal ? DAWN should get more involved with WPFW which will help us to find out what is happening in the community and what issues DAWN can support community groups on. This will hopefully help with outreach and diversity. OUTREACH to: Public More informative/educational fliers Research people who will create informational flyers Clear definitions and better distribution of action plans Different groups Planning actions as a community event Press Media Trainings Have specific people doing extensive press work of ALL DAWN events (press to do list: press release , etc.) Rapid response to inaccurate coverage of DAWN events Team of people who do press calls Addendum to the Outreach section (the Outreach group didn?t consider these proposals but rather goals that the existing working group should work to implement): 1. OUTREACH TO ALLIED GROUPS a. Outreach to different groups by involving them in specific events - community planning - then do not present different events as DAWN events, but as DC Activist Community Events. b. Send representatives to special groups we especially want to work with extensively, like WPC and BVP. 2. OUTREACH TO THE PUBLIC - PUBLIC EDUCATION a. Develop better Public Education materials that: i. show historic perspective ii. make connections to other issues (connect the dots) b. Search Internet for materials developed by other groups (so we don't reinvent the wheel). c. Be willing to distribute materials from other groups. d. Develop our own materials on issues & links which we couldn't find on internet. e. Develop Regional Calendar linked to other regional calendars. 3. OUTREACH TO THE PRESS - PRESS RELATIONS a. Cooperate with Media Collective to generate good press coverage of DAWN events i. take Media Training ii. develop Press To-Do-List with Collective iii. volunteer to help Collective with follow-up Press calls b. Rapid Response Team to bad articles (inaccurate, bias, etc.) i. because DAWN lacks resources, we should only do this in relation to press coverage of our own events. 4. OUTREACH TO POLITICIANS ? LOBBYING a. None ?ran out of time 5. INREACH ? MEMBERSHIP a. Publish list of upcoming events. Ran out of time nothing else ACTIONS: 1 ? one action per week addressing one or more of following: Torture Military recruiting Militarization/war profiteering Environment Etc. Rationale: Consistency of action helps build the movement Is not exclusive to larger actions (e.g., the Pentagon action we are already working on) NEXT STEPS: Will follow-up on these proposals at Tuesday?s regular DAWN meeting, Tuesday, January 10, 2006, at 2211 14th Street NW (offices of AFSC) From calendar at dcpalestine.org Mon Jan 9 10:16:02 2006 From: calendar at dcpalestine.org (calendar@dcpalestine.org) Date: Mon Jan 9 12:11:41 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Upcoming DC-Palestine Events: wk of 2006-1-9 Message-ID: <200601091016.k09AG0hl022589@ebte.umd.edu> NEW BOOKS ADDED to the DCP Book Page: www.dcpalestine.org (click on the books link on the right) This is a list of upcoming events in the DC Metro Area relating to Palestine. The list is automatically generated by the calendar engine at DCPalestine.org . For more details on each event, please visit www.DCPalestine.org, AND BE SURE TO CHECK IT BEFORE YOU ATTEND YOUR EVENT FOR LAST MINUTE CHANGES! ========================= T H I S W E E K ========================= MONDAY, January 09, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FILM: IMPROVISATION TIME: 6:30pm-8:00pm LOCATION: The Palestine Center DIRECTIONS: 2425 Virginia Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20037 Foggy Bottom Metro Stop SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS: Palestine Center(The Palestine Center) ORGANIZED BY: Palestine Center CONTACT: 202-338-1290 info@palestinecenter.org The Palestine Center Presents a screening of the documentary film Improvisation Featuring a conversation with director Raed Andoni Monday, 9 January 2006 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Raed Andoni’s film, Improvisation, explores the conflict of identity faced by different Palestinian generations through the story o ... ........................................................................ ========================= N E X T W E E K ========================= WEDNESDAY, January 18, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BRIEFING: ABOUT THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION AND THE FUTURE OF THE PALESTINIAN STATE TIME: 8:00 PM LOCATION: Al-Hewar Center DIRECTIONS: Vienna, VA CONTACT: (703) 281-6277 alhewar@alhewar.com A converstion with Ambassador Afif Safieh, Head of the PLO Mission to the United States about "About the Israeli Occupation and the Future of the Palestinian State" (in Arabic). For more information or directions call (703) 281-6277. All events held at Al-Hewar Center are FREE FOR CENTER SUBSCRIBERS; $5 for non- ... ........................................................................ ==================== DETAILS OF THIS WEEK'S EVENTS =================== Film: IMPROVISATION The Palestine Center Presents a screening of the documentary film Improvisation Featuring a conversation with director Raed Andoni Monday, 9 January 2006 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Raed Andoni’s film, Improvisation, explores the conflict of identity faced by different Palestinian generations through the story of the Joubran family of musicians. The Joubran brothers have different personalities and opinions but are united in their passion for the traditional instrument, the 'oud, and Arab classical music. Their musical project, Le Trio Joubran, takes the viewer on a journey to the heart of Nazareth, then to Ramallah, a city under siege, and finally to Paris, where the youngest brother takes the stage in a debut performance. Throughout their journey, the brothers improvise their music and daily lives under the watchful eyes of their parents. Director and producer Raed Andoni has worked in independent film production in Palestine since 1988. His credits as producer include Live from Palestine (2002), Tahadi (2001) and The Inner Tour (2000). The screening is free and open to the public. No registration is required. The Palestine Center 2425 Virginia Avenue, NW / Washington, DC 20037 USA Tel. 202-338-1290 / http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/contactus.php The Palestine Center, formerly known as the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, is the educational program of the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development, a 501(c)(3)-registered non-profit. Established in 1991, the Center provides a Palestinian and Arab perspective for the DC-based political, academic and media establishments by hosting briefings and conferences and by publishing in-depth analysis on the relationship between the United States and the Middle East with particular emphasis on Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict. ........................................................................ ====================== E N D O F E V E N T S ======================= If you wish to submit an event please contact your group's DCPalestine representative or e-mail events@dcpalestine.org . Copyright (c) 2003, DCPalestine.org. All rights reserved. Designed and administered by Spidy.net - No one masters the Web like Spidy! From katharinene at yahoo.com Mon Jan 9 14:20:46 2006 From: katharinene at yahoo.com (Katie Nelson) Date: Mon Jan 9 14:23:54 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] 5TH ANNUAL BLACK VOICES FOR PEACE NATL MLK JR. COMMEMORATION Message-ID: <20060109142046.33311.qmail@web32012.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Please circulate widely 5TH ANNUAL BLACK VOICES FOR PEACE NATIONAL MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. COMMEMORATION: DR. KING'S BIG ORGANIZING WORKSHOP MONDAY, JANUARY 16TH, 2006 2:30 UNTIL 5:30 PM PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH 5301 NORTH CAPITOL STREET (NORTH CAPITOL & RIGGS ROAD) WASHINGTON, D.C. THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY, ECONOMIC JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND PEACE AT HOME AND ABROAD ACHIEVING JUSTICE FOR THE VICTIMS OF FEMA AND KATRINA, ENDING THE WAR IN IRAQ, AND MEETING HUMAN NEEDS AT HOME SPECIAL GUESTS: HEAR, WELCOME AND HONOR AFRICAN AMERICAN MOTHERS OF SLAIN SOLDIERS IN IRAQ (Remembering ALL Soldiers and Families As Well As Iraqi Casualties) Elaine Johnson; Columbia, South Carolina Evelyn Allen Shields Sonkia; Decatur, Georgia Patricia Roberts; Lithonia, Georgia Sandra Williams-Smith; Malberry, Texas REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS AND THE GULF COAST/FIGHTING FOR HUMAN NEEDS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. AND NATIONWIDE. SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Collette Battle; Louisiana Network Konsei Mawonaj; Cafe Mawonaj Other speakers (TBA) CULTURAL PERFORMANCES: John McHenry Elementary School Rainbow Warriors Band and Show Musical Tribute to Dr. King by Alan Price & Bliss Ananada Esther Iverem, Poet/Author Plymouth UCC-Choir ADMISSION IS FREE/DOORS OPEN AT 2:00 PM VOLUNTEERS TO HELP WITH OUTREACH/LOGISTICS URGENTLY NEEDED!!! FOR MORE INFORMATION: 202-232-5690/WWW.BLACKSFORPEACE.ORG --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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January 21 meeting ? not much progress...working group ultimately decided to push for a Tuesday evening meeting with core organizers to help build the meeting. DAWN will send 2 reps...(Dave and Jim) and will help make sure other groups can attend. It will be at Dynasty. January 7 meeting ? DAWN planning party at Alfishawy Caf? 2-6 PM. Need help setting up and cleaning up. Evite has gone out to talk about successes of 2005 and planning for 2006. Need for food, paper plates, cups, spoons, forks, etc. Need for facilitators. We discussed changing the time from 11-3 PM. It was proposed, but no one seconded it. Proposals: 1. Level 1 Support - Shoe Project. Northern Virginians for Peace propose, via Debbie C., propose support for taking 100 pairs of used shoes to give a pair to each Senator. The day before the State of the Union message, we hope to deliver 100 pairs of used children?s shoes to the U.S. Senate ? one pair per Senator ? with the following message attached: As you hold these shoes in your hands, please remember the children who are being killed in Iraq. Stop the killing. Bring the troops home. 2. Proposal to revoke endorsement of World Can?t Wait State of the Union activities. Friendly amendment to postpone until next week. Friendly amendment is accepted. Proposal is tabled. Arlingtonians for Peace Northern Virginians for Peace and Justice Codepink - to donate children?s shoes (please!), or to volunteer to help match the messages to the shoes and/or deliver the shoes to the Senate, please contact Debby Churchman at 202-362-8523, dchurchmn@yahoo.com. Passes Unanimously Breakouts: (met as 2 consecutive working groups of the whole) January 21 working group Wolfowitz house working group BEC: Nicole: alternate Genevieve, Oscar, Becky, David K., Malachy Facilitator: David B. and Nicole Greeter: was Jim (had to give up role in order to represent DAWN in a planning meeting) From jsmacdonald at riseup.net Mon Jan 9 18:14:05 2006 From: jsmacdonald at riseup.net (Jim Macdonald) Date: Mon Jan 9 18:16:49 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] DAWN meeting, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 7-9 PM Message-ID: <45311.jsmacdonald.1136830445.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> The weekly DAWN general meeting will be at the usual time and the usual place, this Tuesday, January 10, 7-9PM, at 2211 14th Street NW (offices of AFSC, near U Street Metro). The facilitators will be Nicole and David B. This meeting builds off of Saturday's very constructive planning party. Please see the notes from the planning party at http://www.dawndc.net/float.php?annc_id=307§ion_id=2 . Several proposals have come out of that meeting for votes on Tuesday related to 3 topical areas: internal goals, action goals, and outreach goals for 2006. All are welcome; we'd love to have you. The concrete proposals that we will consider involve the following (language is tentative and subject to change): INTERNAL 1 ? Make sure that all meeting announcements include thr fact thet AFSC is disabled accessible 2 ? 1hr meeting w/ reportbacks and announcements at end (This proposal in essence combines the report backs section of the meeting with the announcement section, puts both at the end of the meeting, and limits it to a maximum of 15 minutes) 3 ? Following meetings, 1hr breakouts dedicated to working groups. (Designed to make DAWN meetings more for working) 4 ? Monthly gatherings that are social and can be fundraisers and brainstorming/organizing meetings (this proposal commits DAWN to one of these a month) 5 ? each person in DAWN has a group that they stay in contact with, attend meetings, establishes a relationhip with etc. (Catarina has agreed to bottomline the logistics behind assigning and recording information gathered, if this proposal passes) 6 ? DAWN book club (biweekly or monthly, Jim has agreed to bottomline) ACTION 1 ? one action per week addressing one or more of following: Torture Military recruiting Militarization/war profiteering Environment Etc. Rationale: Consistency of action helps build the movement (this does not exclude larger actions or any other action that someone might want to work on, but it does commit DAWN to these actions and allows for decision-making on them to be handled through a working group). According to the presenter, there was hope in this working group that the existing Wolfowitz house action working group might evolve into this working group. OUTREACH (had several suggestions but no solid proposals - refer to notes for the details - this will be worked out in the existing outreach working group) From agentforchange at comcast.net Mon Jan 9 19:24:11 2006 From: agentforchange at comcast.net (Pat Elder) Date: Mon Jan 9 19:35:50 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Bremer at National Press Club Message-ID: <20060109192651.2A92BACF5B8@catfur.mutualaid.org> Jan. 12, 2006 Event Name: Paul Bremer Book Event Event Type: NPC Book Event Time: 6:30 PM Sponsored by: The National Press Club Event Location: Conference Rooms Details: An Eric Friedheim Library Book Event Thursday, January 12, 2006 6:30 PM Ambassador Paul Bremer My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope The Event is Free and all are invited to attend NOW ACCEPTING RESERVATIONS Call Jean at 202-662-7129 or send an e-mail to opus@press.org Please provide name, event name, and number of tickets. You are not confirmed until you receive tickets via e-mail or fax. E-mail requests will be answered first. This event includes a book discussion and Q&A session and book signing. Books will be provided for sale. This is a fundraiser to benefit the Eric Friedheim Library at the National Press Club -therefore, no outside books are allowed. Some background on Bremer -- http://www.harpers.org/LPaulBremer.html http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Bremer from Naomi Klein - http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0606-01.htm http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040419/klein http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0629-12.htm from Corpwatch http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11936 http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/19620/ News story about his new book: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06261100.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060111/3612cedd/attachment.html From malachykilbride at yahoo.com Wed Jan 11 13:30:29 2006 From: malachykilbride at yahoo.com (malachy kilbride) Date: Wed Jan 11 13:34:39 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] January 10 DAWN meeting notes Message-ID: <20060111213029.29140.qmail@web32112.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Roles: Nicole and David B. facilitators, Katie stack-keeper, Becky time-keeper, Malachy greeter. Report backs from: Bi-weekly Executive Committee(BEC) on DAWN's signing of a letter by the Washington Peace Center concerning the Christian Peacmaker Team hostages in Iraq, and The Wolfowitz Group's action at Wolfowitz's home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Proposals:(1) Jim's proposal to restructure the DAWN meeting to one hour with report backs at the end. Not Passed (2) DAWN will announce that it's meetings at AFSC are disabled accessable Passed Unanimously (2) Monthly gatherings that are socials and can also be fundraisers with brainstorming and organizing sessions. Passed Unanimously (3) Creation of a DAWN bi-weekly/bi-monthly book club. Passed Unanimously (4) Pete's Proposal to change the name on permits to DAWN's for March 2006 actions. Passed Unanimously (5) Karen's proposal (re-fashioned from Jim's proposal). The structure of the DAWN general meeting will be: (a) 20 minute discussion, (b) Reportbacks, (c) Proposals, (d) Announcements, (e) The balance of the meeting would be working groups and break-outs and more time can be voted on. Passed: 9 yes, 2 no, 9 abstaining (6) Creation of a working group for continuous and sustained actions (at least once per week) details to be posted soon. Passed Unanimously. (7) Next wee k's 20 minute discussion will be on the need for a level 1 trauma center in SE Washington, DC. Next weeks co-facilitators: Genevieve and Katie. Greeter: Malachy --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060111/de0c99d5/attachment.html From jsmacdonald at riseup.net Thu Jan 12 08:44:07 2006 From: jsmacdonald at riseup.net (Jim Macdonald) Date: Thu Jan 12 08:57:47 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Woflowitz/weekly action meeting tonight Message-ID: <22339.jsmacdonald.1137084247.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> Hey, those of you in DAWN wanting in on planning this week's action should come to Alfishawy tonight at 8:30 PM following the DC Community Action gathering (6:30 - 9 PM at same place - come if you are repping a group or otherwise want to network). Alfishawy is at Georgia near Taylor about 3 1/2 blocks north from the Petworth Metro Station. Come help us out. Last Saturday's action at World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz's house was a great action! Jim From katharinene at yahoo.com Thu Jan 12 11:05:53 2006 From: katharinene at yahoo.com (Katie Nelson) Date: Thu Jan 12 11:12:09 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] 5TH ANNUAL NATIONAL MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. COMMEMORATION Message-ID: <20060112190553.27599.qmail@web32005.mail.mud.yahoo.com> 5TH ANNUAL BLACK VOICES FOR PEACE NATIONAL MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. COMMEMORATION: DR. KING'S BIG ORGANIZING WORKSHOP MONDAY, JANUARY 16TH, 2006 SPECIAL FILM VIEWING: MLK/THE MAKING OF A HOLIDAY featuring Stevie Wonder- 1:30pm-2:30pm MAIN PROGRAM: 2:30pm-5:30pm PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH 5301 NORTH CAPITOL STREET (NORTH CAPITOL & RIGGS ROAD) WASHINGTON, D.C. THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY, ECONOMIC JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND PEACE AT HOME AND ABROAD ACHIEVING JUSTICE FOR THE VICTIMS OF FEMA AND KATRINA, ENDING THE WAR IN IRAQ, AND MEETING HUMAN NEEDS AT HOME I. WAR ON IRAQ PANEL: FEATURING AND HONORING AFRICAN AMERICAN MOTHERS OF SLAIN SOLDIERS IN IRAQ (Remembering ALL Soldiers and Families As Well As Iraqi Casualties) Elaine Johnson; Cope, South Carolina Evelyn Allen; Ellenwood, Georgia Patricia Roberts; Lithonia, Georgia Sandra Williams-Smith; Mansfield, Texas II. HURRICANE KATRINA PANEL: REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS AND THE GULF COAST/FIGHTING FOR HUMAN NEEDS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. AND NATIONWIDE Melanie Campbell; Executive Director/CEO National Coalition on Black Civic Participation Colette Pichon Battle; Co-Convener Operation Gulf Coast Concei Civela; Proprietor Cafe Mawonaj And Others SPECIAL REMARKS: Damu Smith, Founder/Co-Chair Black Voices for Peace; Dr. Ruby Sales, Founder/Director SpiritHouse;Hon. Afif Safiyeh, Palestinian Ambassador to United States, Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies and Others ALSO FEATURING CULTURAL PERFORMANCES: John McHenry Elementary School Rainbow Warriors Band and Show Musical Tribute to Dr. King: Alan Price & Bliss Ananda Poetic Tributes: Esther Iverem, Poet/Author & Carolyn Joyner, Poet Nana Frempong, Musician Plymouth Congregational UCC Choir ADMISSION IS FREE!!! FOR MORE INFORMATION: 202-232-5690/WWW.BLACKSFORPEACE.ORG --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060112/f441cd8e/attachment.html From jsmacdonald at riseup.net Thu Jan 12 19:25:06 2006 From: jsmacdonald at riseup.net (Jim Macdonald) Date: Thu Jan 12 19:41:01 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Friday 13th: Protest Rumsfeld Message-ID: <1487.jsmacdonald.1137122706.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> If we have to explain to you on such short notice why we should be protesting Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, then you probably aren't coming to our protest anyhow. It's been awhile since we went to Rumsfeld's house, and frankly, the situation hasn't changed. He needs to go. For those who want to make it to a protest at Rumsfeld's house on the night of Friday the 13th, meet the DC Anti-War Network at 8PM on Connecticut Avenue outside the Woodley Park Metro (Red Line). Then we will go to his home which is at 2206 Kalorama. See you in the streets... Please forward to all who might be interested. From agentforchange at comcast.net Fri Jan 13 03:36:27 2006 From: agentforchange at comcast.net (Pat Elder) Date: Fri Jan 13 04:03:57 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] RE: [dc-cluster] Friday 13th: Protest Rumsfeld In-Reply-To: <1487.jsmacdonald.1137122706.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> Message-ID: <20060113113922.74E68ACE46B@catfur.mutualaid.org> Why protest Rumsfeld? http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2444 What are we demanding? http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=1196 http://www.talkradionews.com/mediafiles/1125.mp3 -----Original Message----- From: Jim Macdonald [mailto:jsmacdonald@riseup.net] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:25 PM To: dawn-discuss-dc@lists.mutualaid.org; dawn-dc@lists.mutualaid.org; ccjp-list@leb.net; ufpj-dc@yahoogroups.com; dc-cluster@lists.riseup.net Subject: [dc-cluster] Friday 13th: Protest Rumsfeld If we have to explain to you on such short notice why we should be protesting Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, then you probably aren't coming to our protest anyhow. It's been awhile since we went to Rumsfeld's house, and frankly, the situation hasn't changed. He needs to go. For those who want to make it to a protest at Rumsfeld's house on the night of Friday the 13th, meet the DC Anti-War Network at 8PM on Connecticut Avenue outside the Woodley Park Metro (Red Line). Then we will go to his home which is at 2206 Kalorama. See you in the streets... Please forward to all who might be interested. From jsmacdonald at riseup.net Fri Jan 13 22:13:52 2006 From: jsmacdonald at riseup.net (Jim Macdonald) Date: Fri Jan 13 22:19:07 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Secret Service and Pentagon Police go the "extra mile" to protect Cheney from DAWN Message-ID: <1220.jsmacdonald.1137219232.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> comment also at http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/132095/index.php by Jim Macdonald On Friday, January 13, 2005, activists with the DC Anti-War Network (DAWN) called for an action at the home of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; however, when scouts for the action reported lights off, the group put in pre-arranged plans for a street meeting to choose a new location, which turned out to be the home of Vice President Dick Cheney, at the Naval Observatory, at 3400 Massachusetts Avenue. An adventure of cat and mouse ensued with Secret Service and Pentagon Police pursuing the DAWN protesters. Activists from DAWN met outside the Woodley Park Metro as Secret Service bike police and Pentagon police circled the group. As they circled, the group put in place pre-arranged plans to meet and change course. The group marched north on Connecticut Avenue. This confused the police, who expected the group to march south toward Rumsfeld?s home on Kalorama. One bicycle officer followed the group for a time on Woodley but tailed off when the group climbed a steep hill. From there, the DAWN group walked quietly to the home of Vice President Dick Cheney. At Cheney?s house, the DAWN group set up on the side of the street in front of his house, where they began making noise, banging pots, and yelling things like ?Jail Cheney!? and ?Impeach, Indict, Incarcerate!? It took 15 minutes for Secret Service to come out and confront protesters. When they did, the Secret Service asked the standard, ?Who is your leader?? Eventually, after a couple minutes, one protester chose to talk with police and recorded a conversation with them, which will be published. Protesters stayed for awhile to many cheers from motorists on the road. After awhile of loud yelling and noise, the group suddenly became quiet, lighting candles and singing traditional peace songs. This behavior baffled the Secret Service, who followed along, as protesters moved south down Massachusetts. There were at times upwards of 7 or 8 officers trailing the slow moving group that had switched from boisterous yelling to a period of quiet singing. At the edge of the Naval Observatory, another of the group began confronting the Secret Service asking why they were following us, what their names were, what their badge numbers were. He states in his report that he recognized the officer who had at one point been tailing us from Woodley Park. The protester asked who gave orders to follow us. There was some confusion among officers about what was happening. The secret service officer asked at one point, ?Do you have any permits?? The protester responded, ?I don?t need a permit.? He asked again, ?Do you have any permits!?? The response was, ?Don?t play that game with me; I know darn well that I don?t need a permit.? The officer said, ?I was just asking.? We continued down Massachusetts Avenue, and the Secret Service continued to follow. We went by the British Embassy and yelled, ?Jail Tony Blair!? and chants like that. At that point, two people on the inside of the fence came up to the fence. One of them gave a thumbs up to the chants. As we continued to march, the Secret Service tailed with 3 to 4 bicycles and at least one car completely on the sidewalk. Secret Service continued to follow the group as it turned off Massachusetts Avenue onto California and then onto Phelps. At this point, 3 cars were tailing the group on the dark side streets near Dupont Circle. As we headed down Phelps, the same protester who confronted the Secret Service at the Naval Observatory called the NBC-4 newsroom. As they talked, a car on a side street hit another car three times trying to get out of a driveway. The Secret Service made no attempt to do anything about it, claiming that the car was hitting the curb, which was totally untrue. They aren?t DC Metro police, but on the other hand, no one was breaking any law in our group, either. People walked on sidewalks, and there was never an intent to break the law. Sheer dissent is criminalized, or at most, is considered suspicious behavior. How dare someone protest public officials, reducing themselves to human megaphones, reduced to sound bytes and clich?s! As the interview continued for half a block, this protester walked up to the officers. It turned out one of the police tailing us was Pentagon Police. It?s not clear why Pentagon Police, who we had not seen since the very beginning of the action, were around for this part of it. The protester asked who he was and why he was there; the officer refused to say. Other offices covered up their badges. What was more baffling was that the person in NBC 4?s newsroom became frightened (or that?s the assumption) and would not say his name even though he was asked between 7 and 10 times, according to this protester?s report. At this point, still on Phelps, one of the Secret Service officers got out of his car, which led to a round of verbal sparring between the Secret Service and the protesters. The Secret Service officer at one point said that he was there to ?control? us. It?s not clear what he meant by that. He went on to say that he was giving us exactly what we wanted by giving us attention. In truth, we?d rather that Secret Service agents didn?t exist at all, but I suppose he was right. By overreacting to nonviolent protesters who merely were expressing dissent, they did expose the fear of dissent that exists in society. And, to that extent, highlighting the fear, highlighting what happens to people who speak out (and this has happened countless times), we did get exactly what we wanted. The Secret Service continued to tail protesters to Connecticut and Florida. At that point, protesters chose to meet up with someone in the media. A couple protesters on bicycles, including me, attempted to bike slowly to see if they would follow us. However, the Secret Service and Pentagon Police stopped following the group at Connecticut Avenue. The DAWN protesters felt the situation was rather ridiculous but felt empowered by the experience. The police were confused by the organizing, which was at once leaderless but versatile with different scenarios built into it. By overreacting to dissent, they made it easy to write this article, backing up a persistent thesis of DAWN activists that the government is at best very annoyed by the free practice of civil liberties and will use tactics of intimidation (tailing, asking misleading questions, taking a confrontational attitude toward protest) to try and shut up dissent. In fact, the use of these tactics by police convince many activists that reform of the system is impossible and that dissent must be resistance. So, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. If you criminalize dissent by treating it like a poison, you create a poison that is determined to resist until a better world happens. So, Rumsfeld, Cheney are warmongering torturers; we said a few things aimed at Cheney; and the system and ivory towers they have and the guards they have to protect them from unpleasant sounds outside their fortress showed again how thoroughly unappetizing it is. So, we will continue to show up, and as long as they continue to harass us, we will continue to speak the truth. And, their reign of fear will soon be over. From thefishinhole at gmail.com Sun Jan 15 17:45:07 2006 From: thefishinhole at gmail.com (chuck norris) Date: Sun Jan 15 18:24:22 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Weekly Action Working Group Meeting Message-ID: The weekly action (Wolfowitz) working group will meet as a break out during the tuesday night DAWN meeting to pick next weeks action! See you all there! Chuck From katharinene at yahoo.com Tue Jan 17 12:33:23 2006 From: katharinene at yahoo.com (Katie Nelson) Date: Tue Jan 17 12:39:23 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] TONIGHT: DAWN general meeting, 7-9pm Message-ID: <20060117203324.33347.qmail@web32012.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Please come share your ideas and get involved! The weekly DAWN general meeting will be at the usual time and the usual place, TONIGHT January 17, 7-9PM, at 2211 14th Street NW (offices of AFSC, near U Street Metro). The AFSC offices are handicapped accessible. We will open with a 20 minute presentation and discussion with Vanessa Dixon about the effort to open a trauma center in NorthEast. We have a lot we?re working on including building for the upcoming State of the Union (well protesting it anyway), planing activities around the third ?anniversary? of the war in Iraq coming up in march, ongoing creative weekly protests, and much more. The one hour business meeting will be followed by working group breakouts at 8pm. All are welcome; we'd love to have you. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos ? Showcase holiday pictures in hardcover Photo Books. You design it and we?ll bind it! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060117/a741ec7e/attachment.html From calendar at dcpalestine.org Mon Jan 16 02:16:02 2006 From: calendar at dcpalestine.org (calendar@dcpalestine.org) Date: Tue Jan 17 12:39:33 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Upcoming DC-Palestine Events: wk of 2006-1-16 Message-ID: <200601161016.k0GAG1ft000916@ebte.umd.edu> NEW BOOKS ADDED to the DCP Book Page: www.dcpalestine.org (click on the books link on the right) This is a list of upcoming events in the DC Metro Area relating to Palestine. The list is automatically generated by the calendar engine at DCPalestine.org . For more details on each event, please visit www.DCPalestine.org, AND BE SURE TO CHECK IT BEFORE YOU ATTEND YOUR EVENT FOR LAST MINUTE CHANGES! ========================= T H I S W E E K ========================= TUESDAY, January 17, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PUBLIC HEARING: PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS 2006: THE FUTURE OF PALESTINE TIME: 09:00am-11:00am LOCATION: U.S. Capitol Building DIRECTIONS: Room 207 “Mike Mansfield Room” (north side of the Capitol Building) Washington D.C. SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS: Council for the National Interest CONTACT: 202-863-2951 events@cnionline.org You are invited to attend a CNI Public Hearing PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS 2006: Politics and the Future of Palestine The postponed Palestinian Legislative Council elections will take place January 25 (providing that Israel allows Palestinians in East Jerusalem to vote), the first legislative council elections ... ........................................................................ WEDNESDAY, January 18, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BRIEFING: ABOUT THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION AND THE FUTURE OF THE PALESTINIAN STATE TIME: 8:00 PM LOCATION: Al-Hewar Center DIRECTIONS: Vienna, VA CONTACT: (703) 281-6277 alhewar@alhewar.com A converstion with Ambassador Afif Safieh, Head of the PLO Mission to the United States about "About the Israeli Occupation and the Future of the Palestinian State" (in Arabic). For more information or directions call (703) 281-6277. All events held at Al-Hewar Center are FREE FOR CENTER SUBSCRIBERS; $5 for non- ... ........................................................................ BRIEFING/BOOK SIGNING:ELIAS KHOURY: AUTHOR OF THE GATE OF THE SUN TIME: 6:30pm-8:00pm LOCATION: The Palestine Center DIRECTIONS: 2425 Virginia Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20037 Foggy Bottom Metro Stop SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS: Palestine Center(The Palestine Center) ORGANIZED BY: Palestine Center CONTACT: 202-338-1290 x11 rsvp@palestinecenter.org The Palestine Center Invites you to an evening briefing and book signing with Elias Khoury Author of the new release, Gate of the Sun Wednesday, 18 January 2006 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Elias Khoury’s new book, Gate of the Sun, is the result of years of researching and collecting stories from Palestinians bot ... ........................................................................ ========================= N E X T W E E K ========================= MONDAY, January 23, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TALK: THE PALESTINE HIDDEN FROM HEADLINES TIME: 6:45pm-8:45pm LOCATION: SALSA DIRECTIONS: 1112 16th St. NW, Suite 600 (Between L and M Streets) Washington D.C. SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS: the Social Action & Leadership School for Activist (SALSA) CONTACT: (202) 234-9382 info@hotsalsa.org SALSA Policy Forum Winter 2006 IPS’ Social Action & Leadership School for Activist (SALSA) presents: The Palestine Hidden from Headlines: A Talk with Phyllis Bennis Monday, January 23rd 6:45 - 8:45pm FREE! 1112 16th St. NW, Suite 600 (Between L and M Streets) It seems ironic that for Bethlehem thi ... ........................................................................ ==================== DETAILS OF THIS WEEK'S EVENTS =================== Public Hearing: PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS 2006: THE FUTURE OF PALESTINE You are invited to attend a CNI Public Hearing PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS 2006: Politics and the Future of Palestine The postponed Palestinian Legislative Council elections will take place January 25 (providing that Israel allows Palestinians in East Jerusalem to vote), the first legislative council elections to have been held since 1996. How will the outcome of this election affect the peace process, the relationship with President Mahmoud Abbas, and the future economic development of the West Bank and Gaza? This is Ambassador Afif Safieh’s first foray on Capitol Hill since being appointed the new Palestinian Representative to the United States. He is joined by Tim Rothermel, former head of the Uinted Nations Development Programme in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, who is well acquainted with conditions in the West Bank and Gaza from his many years’ service in the region. Moderator: Ambassador Robert Keeley, Chairman of the Council for the National Interest Foundation Speakers: Afif Safieh, Palestinian Representative to the United States Tim Rothermel, former UNDP Representative to the Occupied Territories Eugene Bird, President, Council for the National Interest Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 Time: 9:00 to 11:00 AM Place: U.S. Capitol Building, Room 207, “Mike Mansfield Room” (north side of the Capitol Building) To RSVP, please call 202-863-2951 or send an email to events@cnionline.org ........................................................................ Briefing: ABOUT THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION AND THE FUTURE OF THE PALESTINIAN STATE A converstion with Ambassador Afif Safieh, Head of the PLO Mission to the United States about "About the Israeli Occupation and the Future of the Palestinian State" (in Arabic). For more information or directions call (703) 281-6277. All events held at Al-Hewar Center are FREE FOR CENTER SUBSCRIBERS; $5 for non-Subscribers. ........................................................................ Briefing/Book Signing: ELIAS KHOURY: AUTHOR OF THE GATE OF THE SUN The Palestine Center Invites you to an evening briefing and book signing with Elias Khoury Author of the new release, Gate of the Sun Wednesday, 18 January 2006 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Elias Khoury’s new book, Gate of the Sun, is the result of years of researching and collecting stories from Palestinians both in refugee camps and exiled around the world. Winner of Le Monde Diplomatique’s Book of the Year and hailed by Ha’aretz as a “breathtaking epic,” Gate of the Sun is a momentous work of fiction from one of the world’s most troubled regions. The book was adapted by director Yousry Nasrallah's award-winning 2004 film, “The Door to the Sun.” The first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga, Khoury chronicles the passing of a beloved midwife in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, through which the reader enters the Palestinian world of displacement, fear and tenuous hope. Using the storyteller's intimate and haunting flights of memory like the famed Arabic epic A Thousand and One Nights, Khoury depicts a doctor telling stories to his comatose friend in an attempt to keep him alive. The patient, Yunes, is from Galilee, where he left Nahla, the love of his life. As the novel unfolds at Yunes’ bedside, Khoury tells the complex Palestinian story and empathetically sheds light on the turbulent history between Palestinians and Israelis. He reveals a territory where the categories of "us" and "them" are inextricably entwined, and takes the reader on an odyssey of love as much as horror. A leading Arab writer and intellectual, Khoury is the editor-in-chief of the cultural supplement of Beirut’s daily newspaper, Al-Nahar. Currently teaching at New York University, he is the author of eleven novels and several books of essays, which have been translated and published internationally. His visits to a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan at age 19 fostered a life-long commitment to Palestinian human rights, which he has advocated ever since through his writings and his work at the Palestine Research Center in Beirut. “Elias Khoury. . . is an artist giving voice to rooted exiles and trapped refugees, to dissolving boundaries and changing identities, to radical demands and new languages. From this perspective Khoury’s work bids Mahfouz an inevitable and yet profoundly respectful farewell.” – Edward W. Said “Because the world is the way it is, because whole groups of people can be maligned, neglected, ignored, for too many years, we need the voice of Elias Khoury—detailed, exquisite, humane—more than ever. Read him. Without fail, read him.” – Naomi Shihab Nye Registration is required to attend this book signing. Unregistered guests will not be admitted. To register, send your name and contact information to rsvp@palestinecenter.org or call 202-338-1290 (x11). Registration is required by 5:00 p.m., Monday, January 16. Books will be available for sale and signing by the author following the reading. The Palestine Center 2425 Virginia Avenue, NW / Washington, DC 20037 USA Tel. 202-338-1290 / Directions: http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/contactus.php The Palestine Center, formerly known as the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine, is the educational program of the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development, a 501(c)(3)-registered non-profit. Established in 1991, the Center provides a Palestinian and Arab perspective for the DC-based political, academic and media establishments by hosting briefings and conferences and by publishing in-depth analysis on the relationship between the United States and the Middle East with particular emphasis on Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict. ........................................................................ ====================== E N D O F E V E N T S ======================= If you wish to submit an event please contact your group's DCPalestine representative or e-mail events@dcpalestine.org . Copyright (c) 2003, DCPalestine.org. All rights reserved. Designed and administered by Spidy.net - No one masters the Web like Spidy! From malachykilbride at yahoo.com Tue Jan 17 20:03:24 2006 From: malachykilbride at yahoo.com (malachy kilbride) Date: Tue Jan 17 20:30:59 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] January 20 demonstration called by DAWN Message-ID: <20060118040324.96771.qmail@web32108.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Where: Foggy Bottom Metro (Street Level). When: 7PM. What: A demonstration against one or more of the neo-conartists of the Bush-Cheney Junta. Who: Come out and find out. In the last few weeks the DC Anti-War Network has demonstrated at the homes of warmonger and torture proponent Dick Cheney and neo-conartist Paul Wolfowitz. Last Friday's action was a successful action in which DAWN participants energetically chanted and banged pots and pans outside of the Veep's fortress. The previous week DAWN protested outside of former DOD war criminal and current World Bank president Pigowitz's home. His neighbors loved it, coming out of their homes and enthusiastically applauding the protest. This Friday, January 20, the anniversary of Bush's inauguration DAWN will continue with a march and demonstration to one of the places where a sinister figure(s) may be lurking for the evening . Bring your pots, pans, noise-makers, poster board and markers, and colorful and whimsical footware. Plans will be revealed on the sidewalk of the Foggy Bottom Metro at 7pm January 20. Resist and dissent! --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060117/2a51e92b/attachment.html From jsmacdonald at riseup.net Wed Jan 18 06:38:44 2006 From: jsmacdonald at riseup.net (Jim Macdonald) Date: Wed Jan 18 07:00:39 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] [Fwd: 9 Feb 06 DC CAN Meeting - New Location] Message-ID: <10224.jsmacdonald.1137595124.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: 9 Feb 06 DC CAN Meeting - New Location From: info@dccan.net Date: Wed, January 18, 2006 9:30 am To: "Shahid Buttar" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, everyone! The location for the next meeting has been finalized: We are scheduled for 6:30p at University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law 4200 Connecticut Ave., NW (above the Van-Ness / UDC stop on the red line) Building 39 Room 205 http://www.udc.edu/campus_map.htm Thanks, and see you then! The CAN Core. From jsmacdonald at riseup.net Wed Jan 18 12:16:49 2006 From: jsmacdonald at riseup.net (Jim Macdonald) Date: Wed Jan 18 12:19:16 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] [Fwd: Wed.1/25 "Empire in the Andes" Film Screening at Al-Fishawy Cafe] Message-ID: <4702.jsmacdonald.1137615409.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> Wed.1/25 "Empire in the Andes" Film Screening at Al-Fishawy Cafe **apologies for cross postings. Please stay tuned for updates!** Film Screening: ?Empire in the Andes: The War Against the Poor? When: Wednesday, January 25th. 7:30pm Where: Al-Fishawy Cafe (4132 Georgia Ave, NW) Discussion on Colombia and Am?rica Latina following film screening. Refreshments provided. Positive energy required. Hosted by: International Peace Observatory (www.peaceobservatory.org) For more information, contact: Nico 202-265-7930. elchiapanico@yahoo.com Synopsis of film: The documentary takes a critical look at the strategies and effects of US foreign and economic policy in Latin America, especially in Colombia and Ecuador. Since the introduction of Plan Colombia in 2000 and later the Andean Regional Initiative, billion dollar military aid packages with the public aims of reducing the trade in drugs and related violence, the Andean countries are becoming increasingly militarized and dangerous for local people, especially remote communities on the borders of Colombia with Ecuador and Venezuela. The film will trace how violence, and environmental degradation caused by fumigation of drug crops, are making people poorer while cocaine and heroin cultivation and trafficking continue. After September 11 2001 the focus of US policy shifted from fighting the War on Drugs to fighting the War on Terror. Still, the heart of the matter is that millions live in poverty in the Andean countries, and US-sponsored policies are failing to address the real problems. Rather they are driving small farmers and peasants out of resource-rich areas, allowing multinationals to control and exploit the land and terrorizing the wider progressive community. There is growing social opposition in the Andes to the implementation of neoliberal policies, although it has barely been covered by the corporate media. Neither military aid or the planned Free Trade Area of the Americas benefit the majority of local people, who are fighting to thrive and to build a lasting peace. http://www.barricadefilms.com From david.etheridge at verizon.net Thu Jan 19 05:29:55 2006 From: david.etheridge at verizon.net (David Etheridge) Date: Thu Jan 19 06:22:34 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Peace vigil at the US Capitol on January 21 Message-ID: <004501c61cfc$6fddc8e0$6400a8c0@Study> Please join us in a Peace Vigil at noon on Saturday January 21 on the West Lawn of the Capitol. Look for the blue banner with the message, "Seek Peace and Pursue It. --Psalms 34:14" The vigil lasts one hour and is silent except when one of us responds to the occasional questions about why we are there. For more information see http://www.quaker.org/langleyhill/seekpeace.htm or email seekpeacevigil@yahoo.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060119/e7055cbb/attachment.html From malachykilbride at yahoo.com Thu Jan 19 14:19:47 2006 From: malachykilbride at yahoo.com (malachy kilbride) Date: Thu Jan 19 14:35:47 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] RESIST AND DISSENT FRIDAY JAN 20 Message-ID: <20060119221947.72530.qmail@web32112.mail.mud.yahoo.com> A proposal developed at the January 7 DAWN Planning Party was proposed at the January 10 General Meeting. The proposal, which passed unanimously, folded the Wolfowitz Working Group into a new working group with the purpose of organizing and carrying out at least one action per week. The proposal passed by DAWN is as follows:The DC Anti-War Network will organize and participate in at least one action per week. The action should address a wide variety of issues pertaining to D.A.W.N.'s Points of Unity especially anti-war actions. The action(s) will address at least one of the following issues; military recruitment, people or organizations involved in the "military industrial complex" losely defined as government officials and others who promote the occupation-war plans of the US Government, actions connecting enviornmental issues and economic justice with the anti-war movement, and actions promoting and the abolition of torture including any torture violations committed by the United States or it's surrogates. By January 13 DAWN had demonstrated outside the homes of Vice President Dick Cheney and former Assistant Secretary of Defense and current World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz. See "Secret Service and Pentagon Police go the "extra mile" to protect Cheney from DAWN" in the Action Reports section of this web site for the full and dramatic report. On January 20 DAWN will continue it's weekly actions against another infamous target and perpetrator of lies for war, imperialism, and injustice towards the poor. COME JOIN US! RESIST AND DISSENT! Go to Foggy Bottom Metro (street level) at 7PM Friday, January 20 for our next action! Come out and find out. In the last few weeks the DC Anti-War Network has demonstrated at the homes of warmonger and torture proponent Dick Cheney and neo-conartist Paul Wolfowitz. Last Friday's action was a successful action in which DAWN participants energetically chanted and banged pots and pans outside of the Veep's fortress. The previous week DAWN protested outside of former DOD war criminal and current World Bank president Pigowitz's home. His neighbors loved it, coming out of their homes and enthusiastically applauding the protest. This Friday, January 20, the anniversary of Bush's inauguration DAWN will continue with a march and demonstration to one of the places where a sinister figure(s) may be lurking for the ev ening. Bring your pots, pans, noise-makers, poster board and markers, and colorful and whimsical footware. Plans will be revealed on the sidewalk of the Foggy Bottom Metro at 7pm January 20. Resist and dissent! --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos ? Showcase holiday pictures in hardcover Photo Books. You design it and we?ll bind it! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060119/0cbfd818/attachment.html From dchurchm at yahoo.com Fri Jan 20 06:58:16 2006 From: dchurchm at yahoo.com (Debby Churchman) Date: Fri Jan 20 07:09:58 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Vigil Against Torture, Jan. 31 Message-ID: <20060120145816.16270.qmail@web31510.mail.mud.yahoo.com> RELIGIOUS VIGIL AGAINST TORTURE Tuesday, January 31st (The night of the President?s State of the Union Address) 5:00 ? 6:30 P.M. Massachusetts Avenue and 34th Streets -- across the street from the Vice President?s House (The Naval Observatory) Sponsored by: River Road Unitarian Church Social Justice Council This will be our third vigil at the Vice President?s house against torture, and we hope we can double the number of people who attend. Please invite members of your religious community as well as friends and family. On December 21 and December 28 we had 50-60 people at the vigil, and the effect was significant. We would like to see 100 people come out for the night of the President?s State of the Union Address. As religious people, we feel it is critical that we speak out against this country?s torture policy and practices. We need to let our government, our country, and the world know, that we oppose torture, whoever commits it ? that the torture policy of this administration does not reflect the values of the American people. Vice President Cheney is the apparent leading voice with respect to torture in this administration, and we think it is appropriate to hold our vigil outside his home at the Naval Observatory. We will be demonstrating quietly and peacefully with candles, flashlights, and signs on the sidewalk across from the Vice President?s House. If you come by Metro, you will need to exit at Dupont Circle and transfer to an N2, N4 or N6 bus going up Massachusetts Avenue. Plenty of parking is available in the neighborhood, but we will also car pool from RRUC. As before, when you arrive, please take your place next to the last person in line, on the sidewalk, facing the Vice President?s House. We will create a line down Massachusetts Avenue as long as the number of people we have joining us. This is a vigil, and we ask that there be no shouting or chanting. However ? signs are important, and they need to be large in order for the drivers going by to see them. For further information, please contact Linda Gustitus at 202-363-3928 or linda.gustitus@yahoo.com. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From wepaste at yahoo.com Thu Jan 19 19:37:16 2006 From: wepaste at yahoo.com (Nani WePaste) Date: Fri Jan 20 07:10:27 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] RESIST AND DISSENT/Support and have fun FRIDAY JAN 20 In-Reply-To: <20060119221947.72530.qmail@web32112.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20060120033716.44646.qmail@web31512.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Also Friday night, don't forget the fundraiser for NCOR - National Conference on Organized Resistance - at the Blue Room on 18th Street, NW. NCOR is at American U the first weekend in February. Come party after the action. --- malachy kilbride wrote: > A proposal developed at the January 7 DAWN Planning > Party was proposed at the January 10 General > Meeting. The proposal, which passed unanimously, > folded the Wolfowitz Working Group into a new > working group with the purpose of organizing and > carrying out at least one action per week. > The proposal passed by DAWN is as follows:The DC > Anti-War Network will organize and participate in at > least one action per week. The action should address > a wide variety of issues pertaining to D.A.W.N.'s > Points of Unity especially anti-war actions. The > action(s) will address at least one of the following > issues; military recruitment, people or > organizations involved in the "military industrial > complex" losely defined as government officials and > others who promote the occupation-war plans of the > US Government, actions connecting enviornmental > issues and economic justice with the anti-war > movement, and actions promoting and the abolition of > torture including any torture violations committed > by the United States or it's surrogates. > By January 13 DAWN had demonstrated outside the > homes of Vice President Dick Cheney and former > Assistant Secretary of Defense and current World > Bank President Paul Wolfowitz. See "Secret Service > and Pentagon Police go the "extra mile" to protect > Cheney from DAWN" in the Action Reports section of > this web site for the full and dramatic report. > On January 20 DAWN will continue it's weekly > actions against another infamous target and > perpetrator of lies for war, imperialism, and > injustice towards the poor. > > COME JOIN US! RESIST AND DISSENT! > > Go to Foggy Bottom > Metro (street level) at 7PM Friday, January 20 for > our next action! > Come out and find out. In the last few weeks the DC > Anti-War Network has demonstrated at the homes of > warmonger and torture proponent Dick Cheney and > neo-conartist Paul Wolfowitz. Last Friday's action > was a successful action in which DAWN participants > energetically chanted and banged pots and pans > outside of the Veep's fortress. The previous week > DAWN protested outside of former DOD war criminal > and current World Bank president Pigowitz's home. > His neighbors loved it, coming out of their homes > and enthusiastically applauding the protest. This > Friday, January 20, the anniversary of Bush's > inauguration DAWN will continue with a march and > demonstration to one of the places where a sinister > figure(s) may be lurking for the ev > ening. > Bring your pots, pans, noise-makers, poster board > and markers, and colorful and whimsical footware. > Plans will be revealed on the sidewalk of the Foggy > Bottom Metro at 7pm January 20. Resist and dissent! > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Photos ? Showcase holiday pictures in > hardcover > Photo Books. You design it and we?ll bind it!> _______________________________________________ > dawn-dc mailing list > dawn-dc@lists.mutualaid.org > http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/dawn-dc > free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From klarant at aol.com Fri Jan 20 15:00:10 2006 From: klarant at aol.com (klarant@aol.com) Date: Sat Jan 21 00:48:41 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Feb. 18 Fundraiser for Young Women's Drumming Empowerment Project Message-ID: <8C7EC2C66065975-598-16EB@FWM-M13.sysops.aol.com> SAVE THE DATE!!! Feb. 18 - 3-6 p.m. - Busboys and Poets - 2021 14th St NW Fundraiser to benefit the Young Women's Drumming Empowerment Project. $10 - $20 at the door RAFFLE / PERFORMANCES / FUN Featuring outstanding female talent in drumming, poetry, song, and hip-hop including Deb Randall of Venus Theatre, the Princess of Controversy, YWDEP 2005's She Poets of the Rizing Moon, and the women of Sol y Soul's Spoken Resistance & the Guerrilla Poetry Insurgency. proceeds go to supporting the 2006 mentor program and purchasing drums. Let us know you're coming! RSVP: kristen@youngwomendrum.org More info online at www.youngwomendrum.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060120/f5c02902/attachment.html From calendar at dcpalestine.org Mon Jan 23 02:16:26 2006 From: calendar at dcpalestine.org (calendar@dcpalestine.org) Date: Mon Jan 23 04:59:49 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Upcoming DC-Palestine Events: wk of 2006-1-23 Message-ID: <200601231016.k0NAG0Oe014656@ebte.umd.edu> NEW BOOKS ADDED to the DCP Book Page: www.dcpalestine.org (click on the books link on the right) This is a list of upcoming events in the DC Metro Area relating to Palestine. The list is automatically generated by the calendar engine at DCPalestine.org . For more details on each event, please visit www.DCPalestine.org, AND BE SURE TO CHECK IT BEFORE YOU ATTEND YOUR EVENT FOR LAST MINUTE CHANGES! ========================= T H I S W E E K ========================= MONDAY, January 23, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TALK: THE PALESTINE HIDDEN FROM HEADLINES TIME: 6:45pm-8:45pm LOCATION: SALSA DIRECTIONS: 1112 16th St. NW, Suite 600 (Between L and M Streets) Washington D.C. SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS: the Social Action & Leadership School for Activist (SALSA) CONTACT: (202) 234-9382 info@hotsalsa.org SALSA Policy Forum Winter 2006 IPS’ Social Action & Leadership School for Activist (SALSA) presents: The Palestine Hidden from Headlines: A Talk with Phyllis Bennis Monday, January 23rd 6:45 - 8:45pm FREE! 1112 16th St. NW, Suite 600 (Between L and M Streets) It seems ironic that for Bethlehem thi ... ........................................................................ WEDNESDAY, January 25, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FILM: RANA'S WEDDING TIME: 7:30pm LOCATION: Georgetown University DIRECTIONS: White-Gravenor Hall 201A 37th and O Streets, NW Washington, DC 20057 SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS: The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies CONTACT: (202) 687-5793 ccasevents@georgetown.edu Rana's Wedding Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at 7:30pm Georgetown University White-Gravenor Hall 201A 37th and O Streets, NW Washington, DC 20057 These films are free, but to ensure adequate seating, we request you RSVP to http://www12.georgetown.edu/sfs/rsvp/index.cfm?Program=CCAS Shooting on location in ... ........................................................................ THURSDAY, January 26, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BRIEFING/BOOK SIGNING:RANDA KAYYALI AUTHOR OF THE ARAB AMERICANS TIME: 6:30pm-8:00pm LOCATION: The Palestine Center DIRECTIONS: 2425 Virginia Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20037 Foggy Bottom Metro Stop SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS: Palestine Center(The Palestine Center) ORGANIZED BY: Palestine Center CONTACT: (202) 338-1290 (ext. 11) rsvp@palestinecenter.org The Palestine Center Invites you to an evening briefing and book signing with Randa Kayyali Author of the new release, The Arab Americans Thursday, 26 January 2006 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Americans of Arab heritage have made major contributions to U.S. society. Randa Kayyali’s new book, The Arab Americans (G ... ........................................................................ FRIDAY, January 27, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PHOTO EXHIBIT: EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS BY RANIA MATAR TIME: 6:30pm-8:30pm LOCATION: The Palestine Center DIRECTIONS: 2425 Virginia Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20037 Foggy Bottom Metro Stop SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS: The Jerusalem Fund Gallery ORGANIZED BY: Palestine Center CONTACT: 202-338-1958 info@palestinecenter.org The Jerusalem Fund Gallery presents The Forgotten People The Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon An exhibition of photographs by Rania Matar Friday, 27 January 2006 Opening reception: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Artist presentation @ 7:30 p.m. There are an estimated 360,000 Palestinian refugees living in deplo ... ........................................................................ ========================= N E X T W E E K ========================= ==================== DETAILS OF THIS WEEK'S EVENTS =================== Talk: THE PALESTINE HIDDEN FROM HEADLINES SALSA Policy Forum Winter 2006 IPS’ Social Action & Leadership School for Activist (SALSA) presents: The Palestine Hidden from Headlines: A Talk with Phyllis Bennis Monday, January 23rd 6:45 - 8:45pm FREE! 1112 16th St. NW, Suite 600 (Between L and M Streets) It seems ironic that for Bethlehem this time of year the "Apartheid Wall" has brought greater than ever suffering there as well as elsewhere across the West Bank. As the media emphasizes Palestinian and Israeli elections, for ordinary Palestinians settlement-building is on the rise and the right of Palestinians to live a normal life is on the decline. Join SALSA for a talk with Phyllis Bennis who just returned from the occupied West Bank and will report-back on the current situation -- political and on the ground. Having spent a lot of time with UN people working on the ground, Phyllis reveals that there is a lot to learn that we will not get from the major sources of information Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and expert on Middle East affairs and the workings of the United Nations. Phyllis lectures worldwide and is author of several books and pamphlets on these subjects; including her most recent publication Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN Defy US Power. This event is free and open to the public but space is limited, so pre-registration is strongly suggested. You can register here: http://www.hotsalsa.org/index.php?cid=1000331 SALSA, the Social Action & Leadership School for Activist offers skills training in fundraising, communications, organizational development, on-line activism, and research as well as policy seminars, which combine political theory with policy critiques. To register, contact SALSA at 202/234-9382, ext. 229 or visit http://www.hotsalsa.org/. The tuition is generally $30/lecture or $18 for students, seniors, interns and unwaged persons. Pre-registration is requested. Workshops are held at our office at 1112 16th St. NW, Suite 600, W.D.C. SALSA is a program of the Institute for Policy Studies. ........................................................................ Film: RANA'S WEDDING Rana's Wedding Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at 7:30pm Georgetown University White-Gravenor Hall 201A 37th and O Streets, NW Washington, DC 20057 These films are free, but to ensure adequate seating, we request you RSVP to http://www12.georgetown.edu/sfs/rsvp/index.cfm?Program=CCAS Shooting on location in East Jerusalem, Ramallah and at checkpoints in-between, Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad (PARADISE NOW) sees the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the eyes of a young woman who, with only ten hours to marry, must negotiate her way around roadblocks, soldiers, stone-throwers, overworked officials ... and into the heart of an elusive lover. Shown every Wednesday at 7:30 pm, in White-Gravenor 201A, these films provide perspectives on contemporary Arab culture and society through the work of noted directors from throughout the Arab world and the US and Europe. This series is a mix of feature films and documentaries, and all are subtitled in English. All are welcome to attend. The information about the films is from http://www.arabfilm.com/ unless otherwise noted. ........................................................................ Briefing/Book Signing: RANDA KAYYALI AUTHOR OF THE ARAB AMERICANS The Palestine Center Invites you to an evening briefing and book signing with Randa Kayyali Author of the new release, The Arab Americans Thursday, 26 January 2006 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Americans of Arab heritage have made major contributions to U.S. society. Randa Kayyali’s new book, The Arab Americans (Greenwood Press, 2005), is a timely and unique overview of their immigration patterns, settlement, adaptation and assimilation. Written for a general audience, the book chronicles the first wave of Arab immigrants, mostly Christian men from Lebanon, Palestine and Syria, as they arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1925. The Arab Americans discusses their history and looks at successive waves of immigrants, including those who came after 1965, who have brought further diversity to the Arab-American community as well as the broader American demographic. Kayyali argues that the latest immigrants have included more Muslims and new communities from Egypt, Iraq and Jordan. The continuing interest in the Middle East, Islam and the Muslim way of life makes this a must-have source for students and teachers alike as non-Arab Americans come to better unders! tand current events and this important sector of the United States’ multicultural society. Randa A. Kayyali is a doctoral student in Cultural Studies at George Mason University with a focus on globalization, migrations and ethnography. She has worked in several non-profit organizations in the D.C. area, and as Executive Director for the Association of Arab-American University Graduates (AAUG). Kayyali holds a M.A. in Sociology/Anthropology from the American University in Cairo and a B.A. in International Politics from Oberlin College. Registration is required! To attend this book signing, register by e-mail to rsvp@palestinecenter.org or call the RSVP line at (202) 338-1290 (ext. 11). Unregistered guests will not be admitted. Books will be sold before and after this event and will be available for signing by the author following her briefing. The Palestine Center 2425 Virginia Avenue, NW / Washington, DC 20037 USA Tel. 202-338-1290 / Directions: http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/contactus.php The Palestine Center is the educational program of the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development, a 501(c)(3)-registered non-profit based in Washington, DC. Established in 1991, the Center provides a Palestinian perspective on current events and the relationship between the United States and the Middle East, with particular emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, through its briefings, lecture and film series, annual conferences, information papers, and in-depth publications. ........................................................................ Photo Exhibit: EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS BY RANIA MATAR The Jerusalem Fund Gallery presents The Forgotten People The Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon An exhibition of photographs by Rania Matar Friday, 27 January 2006 Opening reception: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Artist presentation @ 7:30 p.m. There are an estimated 360,000 Palestinian refugees living in deplorable conditions in refugee camps scattered around Lebanon. Their “temporary” status as refugees is becoming permanent as third and fourth generations are being born and raised and as the refugee camps pass the 50-year mark. Rania Matar’s collection of recent photographs was taken in a variety of Palestinian refugee camps throughout Lebanon. It is a photographic documentary of a forgotten people, leaving aside any political project or partisan solution to this very complicated issue. It intends to portray the humanity of the refugee population, document their lives and show them in their everyday situations: playing, working, talking, surviving. As such, it puts a human face on a long-forgotten people who remain in search of a home. "Matar's images work in large part because they are piercing. Her architectural training has given her a sharp eye for texture and light—literally, for the strange building stock of the camps themselves and more metaphorically, for the sinewy structures of domestic life established among people through their gestures. Matar's photographs get beyond the shock of destitution, beyond sympathy, beyond a palliative pat-on-the-back for a bourgeois viewer." ~ Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, The Daily Star This exhibit will remain on view in the Gallery through 3 March 2006. This event is free and open to the public. No registration required to attend the exhibit’s opening reception. The Jerusalem Fund Gallery 2425 Virginia Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20037 Tel. 202-338-1958 / Directions and parking information: http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/contactus.php The Gallery is the cultural program of the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development, a 501(c)(3)-registered non-profit based in Washington, DC, and established in 1977. ........................................................................ ====================== E N D O F E V E N T S ======================= If you wish to submit an event please contact your group's DCPalestine representative or e-mail events@dcpalestine.org . Copyright (c) 2003, DCPalestine.org. All rights reserved. Designed and administered by Spidy.net - No one masters the Web like Spidy! From dchurchm at yahoo.com Mon Jan 23 06:28:51 2006 From: dchurchm at yahoo.com (Debby Churchman) Date: Mon Jan 23 06:30:55 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Nonviolent Peaceforce, Tuesday, Jan. 24th Message-ID: <20060123142851.10606.qmail@web31504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) is a nonpartisan unarmed peacekeeping force composed of trained civilians from around the world. In partnership with local groups, NP Field Team Members apply proven nonviolent strategies to protect human rights, deter violence, and help create space for local peacemakers to carry out their work. We have 30 team members in Sri Lanka and will be soon begin recruiting a small early-warning team for Mindanao in the Philippines. We have 38 volunteers scheduled to be election monitors in Palestine next week and are exploring potential projects in Uganda/Sudan, Colombia, and Burma. For more info see nonviolentpeaceforce.org. The purpose of the meeting on 1/24 is to identify a few peace loving souls who are willing to help spread the message of Nonviolent Peaceforce in the DC area to local church and community groups, at various conferences and public events, and by talking with congressional staffers. We are gathering at Busboys and Poets on Tuesday, January 24th at 6:30 pm (14th and V St. NW, Metro: Green line U St./Cardozo). Anyone interested in attending should RSVP to Derek Mitchell at derekpm@gmail.com or 202-994-1416. If you can't come Tuesday but are interested in getting involved - please call or email Derek with contact info so he can keep you informed of opportunities. When: Tuesday, January 24th at 6:30 pm Where: Busboys and Poets (14th and V St. NW, Metro: Green line U St./Cardozo) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From adam at mintwood.com Tue Jan 24 10:25:05 2006 From: adam at mintwood.com (Adam Eidinger) Date: Tue Jan 24 10:27:09 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Help Organize an Operation Ceasefire event with Michael Franti to Mark 3rd Anniversary of the War Message-ID: <43D67101.9010904@mintwood.com> Attention Operation Ceasefire Volunteers, Peaceniks and Actionistas we are fast approaching the 3 year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. With over 100,000 lives, American and Iraqi, lost and over 200 Billion dollars wasted it is time for this nation to come together and force our government to listen to us. Last September 24 hundreds of thousands of Americans of all ages, colors, creeds and classes joined together in solidarity to say with one voice "get out NOW." The administration and the corporate media did all they could to pretend that we were not there or that we were just a few extremist fringe elements, but they failed. The country and the world saw that Americans want their troops out of Iraq, the world saw that Americans don't want their sons and daughters, sisters and brothers, to be aggressive occupiers. Now it is time to prove to the world that we mean it. We need to create another action to let the world know that the American people know that 3 years is 3 too many. I want to invite you to a planning session this coming Wednesday, January 25 at 6pm. We will be discussing another action centered around music and peace. This March we are planning on bringing Michael Franti and Spearhead to DC to premier Michael Franti's new movie about the human cost of occupation, /I Know I'm Not Alone/. We want to discuss how to build a larger city-wide action centered around this event. Please check out the movies website, http://www.iknowimnotalone.com/ and see that this is the perfect movie to remind people that war is not against faceless "enemies" but people. This event is not going to happen without a lot of help from the amazing people that made Op Ceasefire such a huge success, so please come and do your part to create the world that you want to be part off. What: Planning Session for March Peace Music Action Where: My Place 1954 Columbia Rd. NW apt 402, go to the Dupont Metro Stop and walk North up Conneticut until you can vear to your right onto Columbia my building is called the Schuyler Arms and is on your right hand side. I don't have a buzzer so you will have to call me at 847.219.8393 when you get there. Also please RSVP by email to me so I know how many people to expect. When: Wednesday January 25 at 6pm Why: Because this is our country, our money, our people, and our responsibility. FROM, Alex Lawson and Adam Eidinger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060124/2b906c02/attachment.html From jsmacdonald at riseup.net Tue Jan 24 11:29:33 2006 From: jsmacdonald at riseup.net (Jim Macdonald) Date: Tue Jan 24 11:37:07 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Ethiopia to be discussed tonight at DAWN meeting Message-ID: <59956.jsmacdonald.1138130973.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> Some people from Ethiopia will be at tonight's 7-8 DAWN meeting (followed by 8-9 PM working group meetings) at 2211 14th Street NW to talk about what is going on in Ethiopia, and perhaps about the movement of Ethiopians many of us have seen in DC's streets. Malachy and Paul B. will be facilitating. All are welcome to come and make proposals, share, and vote. DC Anti-War Network's meeting space is accessible to disabled persons (though be wary of some of the street construction on 14th Street between V and W); if you are disabled and plan to attend, please let us know. DAWN's meetings are also friendly for artists, who are encouraged to draw during meetings, as well as to musicians who are allowed to speak up in song or music, within the process of the meetings. We will be sharing this week's weekly action. The last two Friday's have involved adventures - see http://www.dawndc.net/reports/ under the Action Reports section for more. This week, the action will be on a Thursday - more details to come. Come share your ideas and get involved to take action against war, against torture, and for justice and civil liberties. From keren4L at comcast.net Tue Jan 24 16:08:50 2006 From: keren4L at comcast.net (keren4L@comcast.net) Date: Tue Jan 24 18:53:46 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Nonviolence Class in Arlington Message-ID: <012520060008.4371.43D6C1920007314B000011132200734830B4CB020A9D0A05@comcast.net> Jan. 22, 2006 *********Please distribute widely********** Nonviolence Class in Arlington: a new curriculum from Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service will begin Tuesday Feb. 7 from 7-9:30 PM, facilitated by Judith Kelly. The twelve-week series, "Engage --Exploring Nonviolent Living" will be hosted by Our Lady Queen of Peace Church, 2700 South 19th St. in Arlington. To register, call Gene Betit at 703-979-5580. Cost: $20 for the workbook. Come explore and learn nonviolent options for daily life that result in a more sustainable, just and peaceful world. The program is called Engage because it indicates action, response, involvement and an effort to address and solve problems. It draws upon its predecessor, "From Violence to Wholeness," but it has been expanded and revised to appeal to a general audience. Engage can be used in a wide variety of religious and nonreligious settings to bring the power and tools of nonviolent living to people throughout society. Pace e Bene's goal is to mainstream nonviolence as a worthy and effective option to violence or passivity. This is the first time the course will be offered in the metro DC area. Step up to Engage and please register today (so we can order enough workbooks!) For questions (or to register online), contact olqp.sjom@verizon.net -- "Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right." ~Martin Luther King, Jr. "I rebel, therefore we exist." ~ Albert Camus "We must not forget that this country owes its birth to disobedience to law." ~ Matilda Joslyn Gage "My aim is to agitate & disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling yeast." ~ Unamuno, wall graffiti from Paris, May 1968 "To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinking deeply. One of the rewards to deep thought is the hot glow of anger at discovering a wrong, but if anger is taboo, thought will starve to death." ~ Jules Henry "Walk gently, breathe peacefully, laugh hysterically." ~ Nelson Mandela -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060124/b27e123d/attachment-0001.html From lukekuhn at hotmail.com Tue Jan 24 19:12:38 2006 From: lukekuhn at hotmail.com (Luke Kuhn) Date: Tue Jan 24 19:13:17 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] THURSDAY-next DAWN "pots and pans" protest In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Thursday, Jan 26 at 6PM, DAWN will stage our fourth "pots and pans" protest. We will meet at Murrow Park(by the IMF and World Bank), protest there for a while, then march somewhere else. Why the World Bank? Because the IMF, World Bank, and armed occupations of other people's countries are but different tools in the same capitalist toolbox. We've seen this graphically in Iraq, where an IMF demand for quadrupling fuel prices(with more to come) has led to an intensification of the war. People who want to keep their homes, food, heat etc NEED YOUR HELP! Come on out and support those who must live under the iron boot of occupation-rather by the Pentagon or by the World Bank. Bring your pots and pans and spoons to bang them with-BRING THE NOISE!!! From agentforchange at comcast.net Tue Jan 24 19:41:08 2006 From: agentforchange at comcast.net (Pat Elder) Date: Tue Jan 24 19:51:36 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Raging Grannies, mad as hell, target Silver Spring Recruiting Station Message-ID: <20060125034235.AB2FFAD438C@catfur.mutualaid.org> Raging Grannies to vent outrage in Silver Spring! Raging Grannies will attempt to enlist in the U.S. Army at the Silver Spring U. S. Armed Forces Recruiting Center at noon on Valentines Day, Tuesday, February 14. Join us, or cheer us on, while grandmothers offer their bodies in place of those of the young soldiers now serving in Iraq. Grandma has had a wonderful, long life and she's willing to step in to replace our young people so they can come home! Please come out and join PeaceAction Montgomery in supporting our local Raging Grannies. Stop the military from recruiting our youth for this illegal and immoral war. On Valentine?s Day, let?s say, ?No more heartbreak.? WHAT: PeaceAction Montgomery and Raging Grannies will attempt to ENLIST, to replace the young soldiers in Iraq and bring them home. WHERE: Armed Forces Recruiting Center 8202 Georgia Ave. Silver Spring, Md. WHEN: Valentine?s Day, February 14, Noon WHO: People of all ages and genders who want to end the Iraq war NOW. We are especially appealing to seniors who will try to enlist and participate in an act of civil resistance?BUT you don?t have to be a granny or a ?senior citizen? or a woman to participate. CONTACT: info@PeaceActionMC.org The Recruiting Station is located three blocks from the Silver Spring Metro Station, on the west side of Georgia Avenue, about two blocks north of East-West Highway. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060124/c56af015/attachment.html From jsmacdonald at riseup.net Wed Jan 25 04:12:12 2006 From: jsmacdonald at riseup.net (Jim Macdonald) Date: Wed Jan 25 04:41:25 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] DAWN meeting notes, January 24, 2006 Message-ID: <1776.jsmacdonald.1138191132.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> DC Anti-War Network Meeting January 24, 2006 AFSC, 2211 14th Street NW 7-9 PM Facilitator: Malachy Number of Attendees: 17 Discussion Topic: Ethiopia, mass massacre, activism on the issue ? supporting CUDP ethiomedia.com , demonstration on February 950AM can try to get on the radio Report Backs: January 21 community meeting on spring actions ? 17 groups, 35 people action for the weekend of the 3rd anniversary (march, festival, and culminating with direct action at the Pentagon on March 20) next planning for that on January 30, 7-9 PM, next meeting of the broader set of actions is February 11. World Can?t Wait/State of the Union on January 31 ? permit revoked near Capitol when the government decided to increase the security perimeter; injunction pending, filed by WCW Canadian Embassy was offered several speakers; DAWN invited to speak on January 31 a larger action planned on February 4. Gen. Karpinski among the speakers on Feb. 4. Weekly action ? DAWN went to Condoleezza Rice?s home, the Kennedy Center, the Saudi Embassy, Mayor Williams? home, the IMF, the World Bank, and the White House on Friday; this week DAWN will begin at the World Bank (more specifically gathering at 18th and H) on Thursday at 6PM before going somewhere else. Proposals: 1. Cancel the January 31 DAWN meeting to give people in DAWN the opportunity to take action during Bush?s State of the Union speech. David K. will put a sign on the door saying that the meeting has been cancelled to give people the opportunity to go to State of the For 13 No 1 Abstentions 3 Proposal Passes 2. Request sweetly that treasurer if he cannot make it that he give that information to someone to present it (presented to Pat in a very sweet way pretty please, Pat) For 5 No 5 Abstain 7 Proposal Fails Facilitators (February 7): Jim and Carol Greeter: Becky Breakouts to follow until 9PM From chatareena at aol.com Wed Jan 25 06:47:13 2006 From: chatareena at aol.com (chatareena@aol.com) Date: Wed Jan 25 07:29:54 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] event tonight at plymouth congregational In-Reply-To: <1776.jsmacdonald.1138191132.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> References: <1776.jsmacdonald.1138191132.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> Message-ID: <8C7EFD55CB1555C-150-1807B@MBLK-M06.sysops.aol.com> Public Meeting: Live from Death Row > > What: A discussion with death row prisoner Vernon Evans > > When: Wednesday, January 25th at 7 PM > > Where: Plymouth Congregational Church (5301 N. Capitol NE) > > Who: Shujaa Graham (exonerated death row prisoner), > > Dr. Evangelist Bates (Vernon's sister), > > Julie Dietrich (Vernon's attorney), > > Sam Green (CEDP), > > Rev. Yearwood (President Hip Hop Caucus), and > > Vernon Evans. > > On the week of February 6th the State of Maryland > plans to kill Vernon Evans. This outrage is planned > despite evidence of Vernon's innocence, unfairness at his > trial, and the disturbing pattern of racism in who gets the > death penalty in Maryland. > > Join exonerated death row prisoner Shujaa Graham > and members of Vernon's family and legal team, and area > activists to discuss Vernon's case and we can do about this > injustice. > > The event will also feature an address by Vernon > Evans himself. > > Sponsored by the Campaign to End the Death Penalty. > > www.stopexecutionsinmaryland.org cedp_dc@hotmail.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060125/968245e3/attachment.html From dchurchm at yahoo.com Wed Jan 25 16:48:15 2006 From: dchurchm at yahoo.com (Debby Churchman) Date: Wed Jan 25 19:03:09 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Georgetown Law Students Message-ID: <20060126004815.46217.qmail@web31512.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Some law students at Georgetown apparently turned their backs on Alberto Gonzales today. See here for fabulous photos and a nice description. Go, Georgetown! http://insomnia.livejournal.com/652389.html?nc=2&style=mine Debby __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From jsmacdonald at riseup.net Thu Jan 26 07:43:13 2006 From: jsmacdonald at riseup.net (Jim Macdonald) Date: Thu Jan 26 07:48:38 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] DAWN protests the World Bank/IMF tonight, 6PM Message-ID: <5622.jsmacdonald.1138290193.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> DAWN has been taking weekly actions at the houses of neoconservative and neoliberal leaders, connecting the dots between war, imperialism, and economic and global justice. We started by going to the home of World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, and we've since gone to Vice President Cheney's place, Condoleezza Rice's home as well as the home of DC Mayor Tony Williams. Tonight, we are going directly to the World Bank and IMF before heading off somewhere else. We're meeting at 6PM in Murrow Park, across the street from the World Bank/IMF, meeting at 18th and H. Recently, the IMF has approved a major loan for Iraq, taking another step toward privatizing the Iraqi economy, giving power and resources to rich multinational corporations while simultaneously taking them away from the Iraqi people. This process goes on all over the globe in nation after nation, often with disastrous results. We can see examples throughout the Global South, most recently for many of us last evening in viewing the film "Empire in the Andes", which is about US and multinational intervention in Colombia. We saw how the war on drugs and now the war on terror feeds into the destruction of the livelihood of small farmers, which leads them to both grow coca and to join paramilitary or other armed forces, which feeds further repression. This is just one of many examples. Either way, let's take action, and let's keep making the connections, and let's keep making the people who put these policies in place uncomfortable in their own shoes for the crimes they are committing against the world and its poor, whether here in DC, or throughout the globle. See you tonight From fbp at igc.org Fri Jan 27 05:04:09 2006 From: fbp at igc.org (John M Miller) Date: Fri Jan 27 08:13:39 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] On Sale - WRL Music of Peace & Resistance Desk Calendar Message-ID: <7.0.0.16.2.20060127080308.0615fe40@igc.org> LAST CHANCE DRASTICALLY REDUCED! Peace-Loving Nations: Music of Peace and Resistance The War Resisters League 2006 Peace Calendar Edited by Ellen Davidson and Gene Glickman Cover art by Luba Lukova NOW ONLY $5! "War Resisters League has designed a beautiful singing calendar, and I'm very proud some of my songs have been included in it." Pete Seeger Two-thirds off the price of this beautiful date book containing the lyrics of 50-plus songs from across the globe, from Latin America to the Middle East plus the melody line for many of them, quotes about the significance of music in the fight for justice, and a directory of U.S. peace and justice organizations, publications, and international contacts. Bound so that date pages can be removed, leaving a timeless collection of music for a better world. 5 ? x 8 ? desk calendar, 128 pages; spiral bound. Now only $5 each. New York City and state residents include sales tax (8.375%). Order online at https://secure.serve.com/resist/cal2006.htm, fax your order with credit card number (Visa or MasterCard) to (212) 228-6193, mail check or money order to Calendar Order, WRL, 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012, or call (212) 228-0450 Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. From malachykilbride at yahoo.com Fri Jan 27 10:33:02 2006 From: malachykilbride at yahoo.com (malachy kilbride) Date: Fri Jan 27 10:57:15 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] UPDATE: IRAQI CHILDREN'S SHOE PROJECT Message-ID: <20060127183302.24638.qmail@web32103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> January 27, UPDATE: The Iraqi Shoe Project is active. However, due to the US Capitol Police's sudden reversal to allow the children's shoe to be delivered to the Senators' offices the date of February 14 has been chosen as the new delivery date to the senators. The US Capitol Police, without reason, will not allow the children's shoes to be delivered the day before the State of the Union speech. They will now be delivered on FEBRUARY 14, 2006at10AM. The day before (now scheduled for Feb. 14)the State of the Union message, we hope to deliver 100 pairs of used children?s shoes to the U.S. Senate ? one pair per Senator ? with the following message attached: As you hold these shoes in your hands, please remember the children who are being killed in Iraq. Stop the warfare. Bring the troops home. Arlingtonians for Peace Northern Virginians for Peace and Justice Codepink DC Anti-War Network/DAWN to donate children?s shoes (please!), or to volunteer to help match the messages to the shoes and/or deliver the shoes to the Senate, please contact: Debby Churchman at 202-362-8523, or dchurchmn@yahoo.com Location: US Senate offices, Washington, DC Metro: Union Station --------------------------------- Yahoo! Autos. Looking for a sweet ride? Get pricing, reviews, & more on new and used cars. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20060127/dc019845/attachment.html From keren4L at comcast.net Sat Jan 28 19:52:53 2006 From: keren4L at comcast.net (keren4L@comcast.net) Date: Sun Jan 29 00:34:39 2006 Subject: [dawn-dc] Pursue Justice, Seek Peace! DC Sabeel conference, March 3-4 Message-ID: <012920060352.14281.43DC3C150009F860000037C92209224627B4CB020A9D0A05@comcast.net> Pursue Justice, Seek Peace! That is the call for the conference on Palestine/Israel to take place March 3-4, 2006, at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, 1313 NY Avenue NW, in Washington, D.C. The interfaith conference is sponsored by local friends of Sabeel, a Palestinian Christian organization based in Jerusalem that advocates ending the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem through non-violent means and establishing a viable and democratic Palestinian state. There will be book signings, video showings, crafts and other displays, as well as cultural performances. Registration fee ($85 by February 14; $35 for students/limited income earners) includes a Middle Eastern dinner on Friday evening as well as Saturday lunch. Featured speakers include Rev. Naim Ateek of Sabeel Jerusalem; Jean Zaru, a Quaker peace activist from Ramallah; and Jeff Halper, Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. There will be many other speakers, including representatives of major faith denominations, on how they have sought to pursue the above call. For registration and co-sponsorship information, visit http;//www.wiamep.org/sabeel, email john.salzberg@verizon.net, or call 202-258-0569. -- "Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor p