From calendar at dcpalestine.org Mon Oct 2 02:16:02 2006 From: calendar at dcpalestine.org (calendar at dcpalestine.org) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 05:16:02 -0400 Subject: [dawn-dc] Upcoming DC-Palestine Events: wk of 2006-10-2 Message-ID: <200610020916.k929G2kP006622@ebte.umd.edu> Visit our sister site: http://triptopalestine.com/ New photos and articles added from a recent visit 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 ========================= SATURDAY, October 07, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FILM: MAKE A WISH TIME: 8:00pm LOCATION: National Geographic Society Headquarters DIRECTIONS: The Grosvenor Auditorium 1600 M Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20036 +1 202 857 7700 CONTACT: 202 857 7700 As part of the annual All Roads film Festival, National Geographic will be showing to films dealing with the issue of Palestine. Saturday October 7, 2006 8:00pm Make a Wish* (Palestine/2006/12 min) Cherien Dabis Arabic with English subtitles. Mariam, an eleven year old Palestinian girl, begs her m ... ........................................................................ FILM: ZERO DEGREES OF SEPARATION TIME: 8:00pm LOCATION: National Geographic Society Headquarters DIRECTIONS: The Grosvenor Auditorium 1600 M Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20036 +1 202 857 7700 CONTACT: 202 857 7700 As part of the annual All Roads film Festival, National Geographic will be showing to films dealing with the issue of Palestine. Saturday October 7, 2006 8:00pm Zero Degrees of Separation (Palestine-Canada/2005/89 min) Elle Flanders English, Arabic, Hebrew with English subtitles. Ezra is against t ... ........................................................................ FILM: THE LAST SUPPER???ABU DIS TIME: 8:00pm LOCATION: National Geographic Society Headquarters DIRECTIONS: The Grosvenor Auditorium 1600 M Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20036 +1 202 857 7700 CONTACT: 202 857 7700 As part of the annual All Roads film Festival, National Geographic will be showing to films dealing with the issue of Palestine. Saturday October 7, 2006 8:00pm The Last Supper???Abu Dis (Palestine/2005/26 min) Issa Freij & Nicholas Wadimoss Arabic with English subtitles. Sumaya is a young woman w ... ........................................................................ ========================= N E X T W E E K ========================= FRIDAY, October 13, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DINNER: IFTAR DINNER TIME: 6:30pm-8:30pm LOCATION: The Palestine Center DIRECTIONS: 2425 Virginia Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20037 USA Tel. (202) 338-1958 (Jerusalem Fund) Tel. (202) 338-1290 (Palestine Center) Fax (202) 333-7742 Foggy Bottom Metro SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS: Palestine Center(The Palestine Center) ORGANIZED BY: Palestine Center CONTACT: 202.338.1290 rsvp at palestinecenter.org The Jerusalem Fund invites you to experience a traditional Iftar Dinner (with live Middle Eastern music!) Friday, 13 October 2006 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Tickets: $30.00 / adults ($15.00 / children under 12) Tickets may be purchased at (202) 338-1958 or by this form: http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/images/Tick ... ........................................................................ ==================== DETAILS OF THIS WEEK'S EVENTS =================== Film: MAKE A WISH As part of the annual All Roads film Festival, National Geographic will be showing to films dealing with the issue of Palestine. Saturday October 7, 2006 8:00pm Make a Wish* (Palestine/2006/12 min) Cherien Dabis Arabic with English subtitles. Mariam, an eleven year old Palestinian girl, begs her mother for the extra money she needs to buy a birthday cake at the local bakery. Her mother begrudgingly relents, but when Mariam arrives at the bakery, she learns that she still does not have enough money. Determined to get the cake, she sets out to brave the obstacles and land some cash, but her initial efforts are futile. In an act of desperation, Mariam enlists the help of her younger sister, and together, they come up with a scheme to try to raise enough money to buy the cake in time. In Make A Wish, what begins as a simple trip to the bakery turns into a journey that depicts not only the subtle tensions of a politically charged environment, but also illustrates the grief that can only result from growing up under occupation. US Premiere The Grosvenor Auditorium National Geographic Society Headquarters 1600 M Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20036 +1 202 857 7700 Festival Pass Members: $45 Nonmembers : $63 Individual Screenings Members: $6 Nonmembers: $8 12 and under: $4 ........................................................................ Film: ZERO DEGREES OF SEPARATION As part of the annual All Roads film Festival, National Geographic will be showing to films dealing with the issue of Palestine. Saturday October 7, 2006 8:00pm Zero Degrees of Separation (Palestine-Canada/2005/89 min) Elle Flanders English, Arabic, Hebrew with English subtitles. Ezra is against the occupation, yet he???s an Israeli. His partner Selim is a Palestinian whose protests against the occupation landed him in jail at the age of 15. Ezra is a simple plumber whose courage and cheek take on prophetlike proportions as he travels across the country risking his life to protest the walls, the fences, and the military checkpoints that divide these two nations. Edit and Samira, a lesbian couple, try to figure out how to bridge the divide between their cultures as injustices such as work visas and harassment strain their still hopeful and compassionate relationship. These stories are skillfully interwoven with haunting archival footage from Israel in the 1950s, to contrast the ideals at the birth of the ???holy land??? with the reality of the country today???an Israel mired in the rubble of occupation. DC Premiere The Grosvenor Auditorium National Geographic Society Headquarters 1600 M Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20036 +1 202 857 7700 Festival Pass Members: $45 Nonmembers : $63 Individual Screenings Members: $6 Nonmembers: $8 12 and under: $4 ........................................................................ Film: THE LAST SUPPER???ABU DIS As part of the annual All Roads film Festival, National Geographic will be showing to films dealing with the issue of Palestine. Saturday October 7, 2006 8:00pm The Last Supper???Abu Dis (Palestine/2005/26 min) Issa Freij & Nicholas Wadimoss Arabic with English subtitles. Sumaya is a young woman with a home in Abu Dis which looks out over the city of Jerusalem. She says goodbye to the city view and to her neighbors who will soon be on the other side of the wall that will border the West Bank. Sumaya and her neighbors express their opinions, and explain the changes taking place that are both physical and psychological. DC Premiere The Grosvenor Auditorium National Geographic Society Headquarters 1600 M Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20036 +1 202 857 7700 Festival Pass Members: $45 Nonmembers : $63 Individual Screenings Members: $6 Nonmembers: $8 12 and under: $4 ........................................................................ ====================== 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 at dcpalestine.org . Copyright (c) 2003, DCPalestine.org. All rights reserved. Designed and administered by Spidy.net - No one masters the Web like Spidy! From endviolence at carolmoore.net Mon Oct 2 13:04:14 2006 From: endviolence at carolmoore.net (Carol Moore in DC) Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:04:14 -0400 Subject: [dawn-dc] Upcoming DAWN Activities - Tuesday Meeting - Be there! Message-ID: <452170BE.4090502@carolmoore.net> First, for those of you who may be wondering what happened to DAWN discussion list. Because of problems with mutual aid we have moved back to Yahoogroups. So join up! email OR go to web page http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dawn-discuss-dc DAWNers were busy through much of September working on Camp Democracy and Sept. 26-27th demos and other actions. See my photos and video of these events at http://www.carolmoore.net/photos/dcpeaceprotests2006.html DC Antiwar Network http://dawndc.net Tuesday will be our first really focused meeting in a month, so PLEASE be there! We will be discussing upcoming DAWN activities like: **Saturday, October 28th Iraq War Protest/Halloween Party at Lafayette Park **Saturday, November 11 - IMPEACH BUSH/Protest Election Fraud Protest at White House. We'll be calling for impeachment no matter which parties win the election; if there are charges of election fraud we'll be protesting them too. **Iran War: Will there be an October Surprise? Can we stop that war? Let's brainstorm some ideas! **Bring your own proposals or projects. All participants can make proposals and vote! Tuesday, October 3, 2006 7:00 - 9:00 PM AFSC office, 2211 14th Street, NW near U Street/Cardoza on the Greenline From jsmacdonald at riseup.net Tue Oct 3 07:17:41 2006 From: jsmacdonald at riseup.net (Jim Macdonald) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 10:17:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [dawn-dc] Columbus Day Teach-In : The Real Day of Infamy Message-ID: <46740.jsmacdonald.1159885061.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> Columbus Day Teach-In : The Real Day of Infamy Monday, October 9, 2006 7PM Alfishawy Caf?, 4132 Georgia Avenue NW For the 2nd consecutive year, I invite you to a teach-in looking at the relationships between colonialism and the indigenous people of the Americas who have suffered under colonialism. Christopher Columbus in 1492 undertook a voyage that opened the doors to 500-plus years of genocide, 500-plus years in which 90-98% of indigenous peoples have died as a result of this genocide, including millions at the hands of Columbus alone. Last year, I gave a talk entitled, ?Genocide Against the American Indian, Destruction of the Buffalo, and Imperialism in Iraq." This year, we are going to build off of the ground began during last year?s Columbus Day educational event. With the organizing help of one of DC?s newest groups, Resistance and Solidarity, two others speakers will be joining me in presenting different aspects of the problem of colonialism as it relates to indigenous peoples. Either Gabrielle Tayac of the Piscataway Nation or John Steinbach will be talking about the people who were here before there was a District of Columbia (and who can miss the irony that the District of Columbia, whose residents suffer under a colonial status, is named after Christopher Columbus). Logynn, a graduate student at American University, will be sharing the story of indigenous peoples he has worked with in Ecuador. Finally, I will be talking about Yellowstone National Park, how indigenous peoples were wiped out of Yellowstone?s boundaries, and how the ideal of Yellowstone and other national parks are tainted by the history of colonialism, capitalism, and genocide. We will follow these presentations with an open discussion talking about the connections between the widely diverse subject matter and how we can pay more attention to colonialism in the context of living in and around Washington, DC. This event is free and open to the public. I hope you all can make it. Jim Macdonald Last year?s presentation: Genocide Against the American Indian, Destruction of the Buffalo, and Imperialism in Iraq at http://images.indymedia.org/imc/washingtondc/media/application/2/october12genocidedestructionandimperialismslideshow.pdf From johncoursey at hotmail.com Tue Oct 3 07:54:12 2006 From: johncoursey at hotmail.com (John Coursey) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:54:12 +0000 Subject: [dawn-dc] Public Meeting: Eyewitness from Venezuela Message-ID: Public Meeting: Hugo Chavez, Empire and Resistance An Eyewitness Report from Venezuela, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez set the airwaves on fire last week with his comments at the United Nations denouncing President Bush and the US' "War on Terror." Chavez has been a thorn in the side of Washington for his very public opposition to the military and economic goals of US empire. The Venezuelan people have also has energized resistance struggles around the world with their struggles for change and embrace of Chavez's call for "Socialism in the 21st century." Come to this public meeting and hear an eye-witness account of the Venezuelan struggle for social justice, and a discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of this movement. Wednesday, October 4th, 7:30pm La Casa, 3166 Mt Pleasant Street NW (near the Columbia Heights metro station) Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization for more info call (202) 609-8264 email iso_district at yahoo.com From endviolence at carolmoore.net Tue Oct 3 10:25:46 2006 From: endviolence at carolmoore.net (Carol Moore in DC) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:25:46 -0400 Subject: [dawn-dc] Town Hall Meeting-Health Consequences of Iraq War Message-ID: <45229D1A.3030301@carolmoore.net> HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR IN IRAQ & AT HOME Town Hall Meeting LIVE RADIO BROADCAST ON WPFW, 89.3 FM Be a participant! Thursday, October 5, 12 noon2:00 p.m. Gompers Room, AFL-CIO 815 16th Street, N.W., Washington, DC Barry Levy, M.D., co-editor of War and Public Health; Past- President, American Public Health Association (APHA); former Executive Director of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War; and a panel: ? Brooks Sunkett, Vice-President Public, Healthcare & Education Workers, Communications Workers of America, and a Vietnam vet ? Nancy Wohlforth, Secretary-Treasurer, Office and Professional Employees International Union; Co-convener of U.S. Labor Against the War ? Garrett Reppenhagen, Iraq Veterans Against the War, who served in Iraq as Cavalry Scout/Sniper with the U.S. Army's First Infantry Division ? Elizabeth Frederick, Military Families Speak Out, an organization of 3,000 military families who oppose the war in Iraq and have a loved one who served or serves in the military Moderators: Paul E. Almeida, President, Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO & Ron Pinchback, General Manager, Pacifica Radio WPFW 89.3 FM Program begins promptly at noon. Doors open at 11:45 a.m. Please Register: Contact Pamela Wilson, by phone: 202/638-6684 or email pwilson at dpeaflcio.org _ From nbloch at igc.org Tue Oct 3 18:48:01 2006 From: nbloch at igc.org (Nadine Bloch) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:48:01 -0400 Subject: [dawn-dc] NO Facilitators Skillshare:Thursday!! In-Reply-To: <44FE5A25.4020505@igc.org> References: <44E60673.9000000@igc.org> <44FC9912.5040404@igc.org> <44FE5A25.4020505@igc.org> Message-ID: <452312D1.4030701@igc.org> OCTOBER SKILLSHARE CANCELLED.. STAND- BYE for NOVEMBER Skillshare... > /please distribute widely/!****************************** > > ** Next WDC Ad-hoc Trainers' Collective Facilitator Skill Share:*** > ***Thursday, November 9th , 2006 */*note, 2nd Thursday!/* > 7:30--9:30pm > **American Friends Service Committee/DC** > 2211 14th St NW > Ust/Cardozo Metro > > ** Tentative TOPIC::::::: **MEETINGS from HELL: Real life FACILITATION > Situations and what to do......* > Desription will follow > * > > HOSTS: Adrenne and Marsi > > ****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:: > ********************************** > DEC:Theater for Facilitators (Playback) Host: Nadine/ TBD-Atieno? Other Ideas: Music/Singing (Ellen/Micheal) Emotional Release Work for Facilitators ( Bill) Anti-Oppression WOrk for Facilitators (Diane) Fun & Games ( Zahara & Ian) Dealing with Difficult People (ivor?) ************* if you would like to be on the SkillShare email list serve, please >>> send a note to : dctraining-subscribe at lists.riseup.net >>> (Very LOW traffic, >>> about 2/month) >>> >>> >>> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20061003/f7cc857a/attachment.html From endviolence at carolmoore.net Wed Oct 4 07:13:40 2006 From: endviolence at carolmoore.net (Carol Moore in DC) Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:13:40 -0400 Subject: [dawn-dc] Thurs Oct 5: World Can't Wait - Protest Bush at White House Message-ID: <4523C194.4010809@carolmoore.net> DAWN HAS ENDORSED THIS. They need volunteers: monitors, donation collectors, and people to gather names and contact information. ALSO NEED: Dawn speaker, people to read poetry, play music. Bring the orange jump suits, Abu Graib guy, etc. At least try to make it after work. Bring your REPEAL MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT!! signs ________________________________________________ October 5, Thursday, at Lafayette Park in Washington, across from the White House? * Noon, students will walk out of high schools, coming from Wilson, from School Without Walls, from universities, like American University, University of Maryland, Georgetown? thousands walk out of work, joining the students?from another direction come the faith groups?government workers?all converging on Lafayette Park, picking up reams of flyers, going back out into the streets, calling on thousands more to join them; * 4 p.m., testimony begins, indicting the Bush Regime for its crimes against humanity, loud and clear. * 5 p.m., all the people take part in a mass public declaration: the White House is a ?Crime Scene? with police tape. Loud and clear, one demand: Bring This to a Halt! Drive Out the Bush Regime! The World Can?t Wait! +++++++++ From a previous email: Why Everyone Needs to Be Part of Mobilizing for October 5th........ Daniel Ellsberg, at the SF organizing meeting for Oct. 5: Historical analogy here: the fact is that when people did march in October and November 1969 - without even realizing that a crisis was imminent, they just saw the war was going on - they in fact stopped a massive escalation of the war...We are in a crisis right now. It?s known to us, more than it was known to almost anyone outside the White House in 1969. A genuine crisis. We are looking at a very high likelihood, I believe, as I read the Seymour Hersh articles about a new war, a new attack on Iran which could involve nuclear weapons - it has been explicitly described as having the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons. The president, Rice, Rumsfeld - they have all been asked specifically: do we rule out nuclear weapons? They answer, ?All options are on the table, nothing is ruled out." ...What?s needed at home of course is people who will change their lives and risk their careers and their jobs and their relationships with their families, their bosses, with their church groups, whoever-- by taking a stronger stand than those people are ready to take. And by saying truths that those people don?t want to hear. Without that courage, policies like this can?t be changed. With it, they may not be changed, we may fail. But, without that kind of courage and that mass mobilization, there is no chance. Ralph Nader, from an article published on Counterpunch, 9/1/06: So, taking the lead in full page advertisements in The New York Times is a new group by the name of The World Can't Wait. They are not waiting for Congress to impeach Bush. They want a mass mobilization to make Bush/Cheney resign. Richard Nixon resigned and Vice President, Spiro Agnew, resigned for causes far less momentous than the crimes of these stubborn recidivists in control of our federal government. Ray McGovern, from an interview on Air America, 9/2/06: [October 5th] will be in Washington and New York of course, but we hope to raise up the whole country. You see, what happened in Germany they waited till the 'propitious time,' and it became too late. And if we know anything from history, we know, as Martin Luther King said once, there is such a thing as too late. There's quite enough evidence here to convict the president of war crimes and crimes against humanity, but if somebody doesn't rise up and say that -- out loud without any fear or favor -- we will be lost. And we can't depend on the Democrats and the Democratic Party. We need to give them a good boost and get them to speak for the people. Rev. Robin Meyers, in a statement written for World Can't Wait: Unfortunately, while millions of Americans are finally waking up to this nightmare, many of them still believe that just complaining about it, or signing a petition, or shuffling a few politicians, or writing a letter to a president who doesn't read will save the day. It won't. What I have called the first "Christian Fascist" regime in America is depending on all of us to think we have done something good just by saying, "Isn't it awful!" Ramsey Clark put it best. Has democracy become a "spectator sport," or "will we be players?" One organization in this country believes we should be players, and they believe in the "fierce urgency of now." The World Can't Wait: Drive Out the Bush Regime is calling us all to march again, to participate in the largest-ever anti-Bush rally on October 5. [Robin Meyers is a UCC minister and the author of Why the Christian Right is Wrong: A Minister's Manifesto for Taking Back Your Faith, Your Flag, Your Future] See the full statements and more from Gore Vidal and others at http://worldcantwait.org. +++ Local Contact: Washington, DC dc at worldcantwait.org 202-536-4313 511 C St., NE, Washington DC, 20002 The DC Chapter of WCW meets every Wednesday @ 7PM at our office, 511 C St., NE, Washington, DC. From david.etheridge at verizon.net Wed Oct 4 14:14:25 2006 From: david.etheridge at verizon.net (David Etheridge) Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:14:25 -0400 Subject: [dawn-dc] Peace vigil at the US Capitol on October 7 Message-ID: <05ab01c6e7fa$148b46b0$6500a8c0@Study> Please join us in a Peace Vigil at noon on Saturday October 7 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 at yahoo.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20061004/b3e804d0/attachment.html From atticlane at yahoo.com Thu Oct 5 06:35:40 2006 From: atticlane at yahoo.com (S Lane) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 06:35:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [dawn-dc] Take the Leash on torture law signing day Message-ID: <20061005133540.51516.qmail@web36511.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Anyone who wants to participate in our Take the Leash street theater on the day the bill legalizing torture is signed should emaill me at atticlane at yahoo.com. As far as we know the day is 9 October, next Monday, but that might change, and we don't have a time. Roles are still open. Steve __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From agentforchange at comcast.net Sun Oct 8 17:38:40 2006 From: agentforchange at comcast.net (Pat Elder) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 20:38:40 -0400 Subject: [dawn-dc] Torture Protest Message-ID: <20061009004122.D86EFBE98DE@catfur.mutualaid.org> Please join The Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture (WRRCAT) on Tuesday October 17, at 9:00 am in front of the White House to demonstrate profound opposition to the "Military Commissions Act." President Bush is expected to sign the bill into law during a ceremony at the White House. The law would fundamentally change American interpretation of the Geneva Conventions. We'd like to have a sizable number outside of the White House to convey to the American public that there are still some Americans who support Common Article 3, of the Geneva Convention that prohibits "cruel," "humiliating" and "degrading treatment" and "outrages upon personal dignity." President Bush and the US Congress contend that this language is vague. The President claims it doesn't give "clear" guidance about what is permitted and what is prohibited during interrogations. Common Article 3 has served humanity since 1950. The Military Commissions Act repeals much of the law enforcing the Geneva Conventions. The law also retroactively absolves administration officials of legal responsibility for past war crimes. Prisoners will be denied the right to challenge their captivity in court. This is pretty basic stuff that predates the Magna Carta of 1215. The Chimes of Freedom are dumb struck. Please join us. There has been no official announcement from the White House regarding this signing ceremony, although unofficial sources point to an October 17th signing. Please check the WRRCAT Web site, www.wrrcat.org for more information. - Pat Elder -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20061008/fe0f3c00/attachment.html From calendar at dcpalestine.org Mon Oct 9 02:16:04 2006 From: calendar at dcpalestine.org (calendar at dcpalestine.org) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 05:16:04 -0400 Subject: [dawn-dc] Upcoming DC-Palestine Events: wk of 2006-10-9 Message-ID: <200610090916.k999G2fO027049@ebte.umd.edu> Visit our sister site: http://triptopalestine.com/ New photos and articles added from a recent visit 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 ========================= FRIDAY, October 13, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DINNER: IFTAR DINNER TIME: 6:30pm-8:30pm LOCATION: The Palestine Center DIRECTIONS: 2425 Virginia Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20037 USA Tel. (202) 338-1958 (Jerusalem Fund) Tel. (202) 338-1290 (Palestine Center) Fax (202) 333-7742 Foggy Bottom Metro SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS: Palestine Center(The Palestine Center) ORGANIZED BY: Palestine Center CONTACT: 202.338.1290 rsvp at palestinecenter.org The Jerusalem Fund invites you to experience a traditional Iftar Dinner (with live Middle Eastern music!) Friday, 13 October 2006 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Tickets: $30.00 / adults ($15.00 / children under 12) Tickets may be purchased at (202) 338-1958 or by this form: http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/images/Tick ... ........................................................................ ========================= N E X T W E E K ========================= MONDAY, October 16, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DINNER: IFTAR DINNER TIME: 6:00pm LOCATION: The Regency at McLean DIRECTIONS: Party Room 1800 Old Meadows Road McLean, VA 22102 *attached to the Regency Sport & Health Club SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS: Imagine-Life CONTACT: 571.274.5197 Rihab at imagine-life.org Imagine-Life Cordially invites you to join an interfaith community united for a common good at our Iftar Dinner Where guests will be invited to become members of Imagine-Life, enjoying many tangible benefits, as well as contributing to a genuine effort toward global justice and prosperity. Monday, Oct ... ........................................................................ WEDNESDAY, October 18, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BRIEFING: RASHID KHALIDI TO DISCUSS THE PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE FOR STATEHOOD TIME: 12:00noon-1:00pm LOCATION: Heldref Publications DIRECTIONS: 1319 18th Street, NW Washington, DC 20036 SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS: The Middle East Institute and the Foundation for Middle East Peace CONTACT: 202-785-1141 mideasti at mideasti.org Rashid Khalidi to discuss the Palestinian struggle for statehood A Book Launch Featuring: Dr. Rashid Khalidi The Middle East Institute and the Foundation for Middle East Peace are pleased to welcome Dr. Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University, who will speak on his latest ... ........................................................................ SATURDAY, October 21, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CULTURE NIGHT: PALESTINIAN CULTURE NIGHT TIME: 6:30pm LOCATION: National Presbyterian Church DIRECTIONS: Stone Fellowship Hall 4101 Nebraska Ave. Washington, DC 20016 SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS: The Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation (HCEF) CONTACT: 301.951.9400 The Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation (HCEF) Palestinian Culture Night Saturday, October 21, 2006 6:30 PM National Presbyterian Church Stone Fellowship Hall 4101 Nebraska Ave. Washington, DC 20016 Arabic food & Palestinian traditional crafts, fashions, dancing, and music. Phone: 301.951 ... ........................................................................ ==================== DETAILS OF THIS WEEK'S EVENTS =================== Dinner: IFTAR DINNER The Jerusalem Fund invites you to experience a traditional Iftar Dinner (with live Middle Eastern music!) Friday, 13 October 2006 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Tickets: $30.00 / adults ($15.00 / children under 12) Tickets may be purchased at (202) 338-1958 or by this form: http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/images/Ticket%20Reservation%20Form.pdf The Jerusalem Fund invites people from all religious backgrounds and traditions to learn about the cultural customs associated with the holy month of Ramadan and to enjoy a variety of delicious foods in a festive atmosphere. Given that the month of Ramadan is traditionally marked by charity, proceeds from this event will benefit the Jerusalem Fund's ongoing support of two organizations in the West Bank: The Arab Women's Union of Ramallah, and the Atta Services to the Elderly. With the support of the Jerusalem Fund, the Arab Women's Union has renovated the bathrooms and exterior of their home for the elderly and has purchased much-needed wheelchairs. The Union also runs a center that teaches sewing to women in Ramallah and the surrounding villages. Also with the support of the Jerusalem Fund, Atta Services has set up eight day care centers in five major West Bank areas, has provided medical care, social activities and well-balanced hot meals to the home-bound, and has trained staff and volunteers to better respond to the urgent needs of the elderly. Seating is limited! Buy your tickets today! The Palestine Center 2425 Virginia Avenue, NW Washington, District of Columbia 20037 Tel. (202) 338-1290 www.thejerusalemfund.org/palestinecenter/index.php ........................................................................ ====================== 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 at 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 Sun Oct 8 06:45:35 2006 From: dchurchm at yahoo.com (Debby Churchman) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 06:45:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [dawn-dc] Protest signing of torture bill, Oct. 17 Message-ID: <20061008134535.31733.qmail@web56106.mail.re3.yahoo.com> We Mourn For Our Country A Protest at the Signing Ceremony for the "Military Commissions" Bill We will gather in front of the White House, facing Lafayette Park, at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 17--the day that the President holds the signing ceremony for the Military Commissions bill. We will protest with signs and banners, with speeches and songs. Bring flags with black streamers and other signs of mourning. More details will be posted here (http://www.wrrcat.org/lafayette%20park.html) as they become available. Note: The date and time are subject to change, since the White House schedule may not be definite. Please check back here for confirmation of the date and time. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From minorthreatsxepunk at yahoo.com Sun Oct 8 08:47:22 2006 From: minorthreatsxepunk at yahoo.com (bob) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 08:47:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [dawn-dc] Defend Oaxaca!!! Emergency Solidarity Picket Wednesday @ 3:30 Message-ID: <20061008154722.11308.qmail@web33206.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Wednesday, Oct.11, 3:30pm @ The Mexican Embassy, 1911 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Come out and show your solidarity with the courageous people of Oaxaca! Bring your signs, flags, and noise makers! (Called for by the DC Industrial Workers of the World) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In May of 2006, the state government of Ulises Ortiz viciously attacked with tear gas and riot batons striking teachers in Oaxaca, a state in Southern Mexico. The retaliation by the National Union of Education Workers Section 22 on the morning of June 14th piqued the interest of the general populace of Oaxaca. Waking up to a city filled with tear gas and violence, the populace collectively took charge of the situation. People were mobilized throughout the state by the teachers union and a mix of social and political organizations. Resentment towards the government grew as this mobilization organized five ?megamarches,? 300,000 people at the largest, one in ten people in the state. In a brilliant display of solidarity, the teachers' strike turned into a broader movement to oust the oppressive regime. A social movement of workers, peasants, students, women and others aligned with the teachers formed into Popular Assemblies of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) and literally kicked out the state government by blockading public buildings and repelled paramilitary style attacks by barricading the city. Radio stations occupied by protesters endlessly repeated the battle cry of Oaxacans: ?Ya Cay?, Ya Cay?, Ulises Ya Cay?? (He Has Fallen, He Has Fallen, Ulises Has Fallen). After years of mistreatment, poverty and the depopulation of rural communities due to migration, the general populace was ready for change. It has been months since the APPO rejected the Oaxacan state government, and Oaxacans are still living under siege. Should Ortiz and the PRI regain power, the brunt of the repression will fall on the people who rose up in joyous defiance against an unjust government, believing in their personal and collective capacity to affect change. "They know who we are. They know who has been helping," a Oaxacan woman told newspaper the Indypendent "If we don?t win, they will be coming for us." Remember 'the Earth is not dying, it is being murdered and the people murdering it have names and addresses' -- Utah Phillips ------------- "Executing McVeigh will not bring back the people he killed, but it will bring back the machinery of death. The federal government hasn't killed anyone in 40 years, and now they're trying to use McVeigh to bring the death penalty back. But don't make any mistake about it after McVeigh, the next person they kill won't look like him, he will look like me. He might be innocent like me, too." --Darby Tillis, an exonerated former Illinois death row inmate --------------- You cannot have daily democracy without daily citizenship- Ralph Nader -------------- Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. Kinky Friedman ------------- A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet. Bob Dylan ------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From jsmacdonald at riseup.net Mon Oct 9 05:24:21 2006 From: jsmacdonald at riseup.net (Jim Macdonald) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 08:24:21 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [dawn-dc] Columbus Day teach-in tonight, 7PM, Alfishawy Message-ID: <50635.jsmacdonald.1160396661.squirrel@mail.riseup.net> Columbus Day Teach-In : The Real Day of Infamy Monday, October 9, 2006 7PM Alfishawy Caf?, 4132 Georgia Avenue NW Speakers: Gabrielle Tayac: Piscataway Nation, talking about the original inhabitants of this area and their struggle today Logynn, AU Graduate Student, talking about indigenous peoples in Ecuador and their struggle against oil extraction Jim Macdonald: Resistance and Solidarity, talking about the whitewashing of American Indians from Yellowstone National Park and colonialism in the "national park" idea. Sponsoring Organization: Resistance and Solidarity For more information about Alfishawy's People's Media Cafe, see: http://dcradiocoop.org/apps/webcal/month.php?user=alfishawypublicevents This event is free and open to the public; an open discussion on the issues and how to organize against colonialism in the District of Columbia shall follow. From agentforchange at comcast.net Wed Oct 11 16:55:53 2006 From: agentforchange at comcast.net (Pat Elder) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:55:53 -0400 Subject: [dawn-dc] Last Message for DAWN-DC@lists.mutualaid.org Message-ID: <20061011235937.857B9BE7348@catfur.mutualaid.org> We're moving the dawn-dc list to Yahoo. DAWN voted recently to move the Announcement list from Mutual Aid to Yahoo. We would prefer not to change things, but Mutual Aid has been notoriously unreliable. The DAWN list is a well-known resource with 817 active email addresses and has been at the center of the antiwar movement in Washington, DC since our idiot President declared war on our rights and a large portion of our world more than five years ago. Most of you are already on the Yahoo list. If you were never part of the Yahoo list that we de-activated in September of 2005, we will be adding your name over the next few days. To visit the Dawn-Announce list online, see: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dawn-dc/ To post a message: dawn-dc at yahoogroups.com Can you take a few hours off work next Tuesday, October 17, to gather at the White House at 9:00 am? The idiot President Bush will be signing the Millitary Commissions Act into law. See the website of the Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture (WRRCAT) for more information. http://www.wrrcat.org/lafayette%20park.html Thank You, Pat Elder, DC Antiwar Network -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.mutualaid.org/pipermail/dawn-dc/attachments/20061011/489a6de5/attachment.html From dchurchm at yahoo.com Thu Oct 12 06:02:55 2006 From: dchurchm at yahoo.com (Debby Churchman) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:02:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [dawn-dc] Anti-Torture Vigil, Tuesday, Oct. 17--please forward Message-ID: <20061012130255.41921.qmail@web56105.mail.re3.yahoo.com> The Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture is sponsoring a counter-signing ceremony at the White House (side facing Lafayette Park) on Tuesday, October 17th at 9:00 A.M. The President will be holding a signing ceremony for the Military Commissions Act inside the White House at 9:35 A.M. We will have several speakers, a coffin representing the death of some of our most cherished values, and a large People's Signing Statement which says that we reject the Military Commissions Act which we will invite everyone to sign. We will also have banners and signs. Many of us will be dressing in black. We will also have a choir. The tone will be mournful and funereal. Several organizations are assisting/cosponsoring the demonstration. They include the National Religious Campaign Against Torture,Peace Action Montgomery, the Torture Abolition and Survivors Coalition International, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Rabbis for Human Rights. Please help us get the word out to your congregations, family, friends, and anyone else you think may be interested. Check the WRRCAT website on Monday, to make sure the date holds, since the White House could change the date and time at the last minute. Hope you can join us in this important expression of opposition to this legislation which does so much damage to our religious and democratic values. Please see the attached flyer that you can use to promote this event. Thank you. Linda Gustitus/ WRRCAT Chair. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com From katharinene at yahoo.com Wed Oct 25 08:14:36 2006 From: katharinene at yahoo.com (Katie Nelson) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:14:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [dawn-dc] This list has been moved to yahoo Message-ID: <20061025151436.8561.qmail@web32012.mail.mud.yahoo.com> The DAWN ANNOUNCE list has been moved to yahoogroups. If you were (and or are) on the DAWN ANNOUNCE list on mutualaird, then you have been automatically placed on the new yahoogroups list. No further action is required of you. 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