Events
Flyering to support Tar Heel, North Carolina Smithfield workers' fight for justice. The flyering is part of a summer-long Smithfield "Packaged with Abuse" campaign to encourage Metro DC consumers to choose alternatives to Smithfield products this summer.
Tuesday, July 22nd
7:30am-9am
Eastern Market Metro
More info at www.smithfieldjustice.org
Click here for full leafletting schedule.
Join Jews United for Justice, Interfaith Worker Justice of Greater Washington, and the DC JCC for
An Evening of Workers' Rights, Community,and Interfaith Dialogue
Tuesday, July 22nd
7-8:30pm
DC Jewish Community Center
1529 16th St, NW
Washington, DC 20036
*Hear from a panel of Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Hindu faith leaders
*Join your neighbors for a thought-provoking discussion
*Find out how you can make a difference
Free and open to the community
Light snacks provided
Please join the Stop Firestone Coalition THIS WEDNESDAY at noon for a rally in front of Public Strategies! Public Strategies is the public relations firm that does all of the media work for Firestone and is helping them to gloss over their exploitation of workers and the environment on their rubber plantation in Liberia. This is a very important time for us to show our solidarity with the Firestone workers, because they are currently in a fight with company management over improving wages for the workers. Please come and show your support for the workers!
Flyering to support Tar Heel, North Carolina Smithfield workers' fight for justice. The flyering is part of a summer-long Smithfield "Packaged with Abuse" campaign to encourage Metro DC consumers to choose alternatives to Smithfield products this summer.
Friday, July 25th
5-6:30pm
Eastern Market Metro
More info at www.smithfieldjustice.org
Click here for full leafletting schedule.
Flyering to support Tar Heel, North Carolina Smithfield workers' fight for justice. The flyering is part of a summer-long Smithfield "Packaged with Abuse" campaign to encourage Metro DC consumers to choose alternatives to Smithfield products this summer.
Tuesday, July 29th
7:30-9:00am
Columbia Heights Metro
More info at www.smithfieldjustice.org
Click here for full leafletting schedule.
Tell Bain Capital to Put Kids First!
Thursday, July 31st
11:30am
1111 Pennsylvania Ave, NW (Federal Triangle metro)
Bright Horizons, the third largest child care center company in the US, had been bought by Bain Capital, a corporate buyout firm that makes money for its investors by buying companies and loading them with debt. More than 70,000 children depend on Bright Horizons child care. SEIU is joining parents and child care providers to tell Bain Capital that they won't accept cost cutting measures or changes that put children and families at risk.
Flyering to support Tar Heel, North Carolina Smithfield workers' fight for justice. The flyering is part of a summer-long Smithfield "Packaged with Abuse" campaign to encourage Metro DC consumers to choose alternatives to Smithfield products this summer.
Friday, August 1
5:00-6:30pm
Columbia Heights Metro
More info at www.smithfieldjustice.org
Click here for full leafletting schedule.
Neighbor to Neighbor: Building Alliances Across Cultures
Sat, August 9th
1-4pm
Reeves Center Community Room
2000 14th St, NW 2nd flr
For many years, Latinos, African Americans, and people of African descent have lives in the same communities, residing in the same apartment buildings, working the same types of jobs and sharing the same American struggle!
Yet too often our language, nationality, and ethnicity is used by those who benefit from divided communities to prevent us from coming together to fight common challenges and bring about positive change for everyone.
Fair Budget Coalition
Ward 8 City Council Candidates’ Forum
Tuesday, August 12th
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Thurgood Marshall Academy
2427 Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave., SE
Come hear what candidates are saying about issues that affect your neighborhood!
Audience members will be allowed to ask questions!
Fair Budget Coalition
Ward 2 City Council Candidates’ Forum
Wednesday, August 13th
12 noon - 2:00 pm
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
1333 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
The Washington Room,
Come hear what candidates are saying about issues that affect your neighborhood! Audience members will be allowed to ask questions!
This is a brown bag lunch event, drinks and dessert provided.
Please support SEIU and the Kids First campaign by participating in this National Call in Day.
WHAT: Make a call to Bain Capital Managing Director, Josh Bekenstein and tell him that Bain Capital must "Put Kids First"
WHEN: Wednesday, August 13th & Thursday, August 14th
HOW: Call Josh Bekenstein at (617) 516-2000.
Please support SEIU and the Kids First campaign by participating in this National Call in Day.
WHAT: Make a call to Bain Capital Managing Director, Josh Bekenstein and tell him that Bain Capital must "Put Kids First"
WHEN: Wednesday, August 13th & Thursday, August 14th
HOW: Call Josh Bekenstein at (617) 516-2000.
Day of Action: Protest Mercedes/Daimler's Predatory Lending Scheme at the Ports
The Livelihood of Tens of Thousands of Port Drivers Is at Stake
Daimler Financial is intent on offering unsustainable loans to minority port truck drivers at Long Beach, CA to buy "green trucks". The leafleting will bring to the attention of the public the problems related to the "sub-prime" approach of Daimler.
When: 11:00 am, August 20, 2008 (and will last approximately one hour)
Where: German Embassy, 4645 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC, 20007
Fair Budget Coalition At-Large Candidate Forum
Weds, Aug. 20th
6-8pm
True Reformer Building
1200 U Street, NW
Come hear what candidates are saying about the issues that affect your neighborhood! Audience members will be allowed to ask questions.
For more info, contact Martina Gillis Massey at 202-328-5513
Fair Budget Coalition Ward 4 Candidates' Forum
Thursday, Aug. 21st
6:30-8:30pm
Takoma Park Library
416 Cedar St, NW
Come hear what candidates are saying about the issues that affect your neighborhood! Audience members will be allowed to ask questions.
For more info, contact Martina Gillis Massey at 202-328-5513
