Schedule and Announcements for the week of November 17 - 23, 2014 Tuesday, Nov. 18th, 1:00pm, PA Gaming Board Public Meeting, Convention Center, Rm. 201, 1101 Arch Street Five years after the financial and internal implosion of Foxwoods Casino, the Gaming Board, along with the support of city officials, continues to expand predatory gambling. In the highest poverty large-city in the U.S. - where 39% of children live under the poverty line - Philadelphia needs development that works FOR the people, not off of the people. Theres time to make your voice heard! Write a letter to the editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer or the Philadelphia Daily News, attend the PA Gaming Board hearing and let them know that FIVE casinos in the Philadelphia region is five too many! Tuesday, November 18, 7:00pm, Education Under Occupation: Experiences from Palestinian College Students, University of Pennsylvania, Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall, Room 1206 Penn Students for Justice in Palestine and Amnesty International are hosting two students, Hala and Ahmad, from the Palestinian university, Birzeit, to speak about their experiences living and studying under Israel occupation. These challenges include movement restrictions, Israeli army attacks on the university, and arbitrary arrests and detentions of students. Hala and Ahmad will also address on-the-ground student resistance to the Israeli occupation, and how these efforts link up with efforts by university students in the U.S. resisting police brutality, mass incarceration, anti-black racism, and violence against immigrants and undocumented people. Wednesday, November 19, 3:00pm, City Council Hearing on Standardized Testing, Philadelphia City Council Chambers, Room 400, 4thFloor City Hall, 1401 JFK Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19107, *Enter at the NE Corner, Bring Photo ID Educators, parents, students and policy experts share their perspectives on how standardized tests like PSSAs and Keystones are changing teaching and learning in Philadelphia, its suburbs, and beyond. Bring a sign, bring a friend, and fill City Council chambers with people who believe in educating the whole child. Society shouldn’t label and sort children using an increasingly toxic standardized testing regimen. Please attend this hearing. Our children need us to speak out. Wednesday, November 19, 4:00pm, $15 Now in 2015: Rally & Press Conference. Philadelphia City Hall On Wednesday November 19th at 4pm, we will be holding a large rally and press conference to announce our plan to win $15/hour in Philadelphia in 2015. Many have told us its impossible to raise our citys minimum wage because of Harrisburg, but workers in the city arent buying it. We have a plan to win, and we will be publicly announcing our 2015 campaign on November 19th. We know. Doubling the minimum wage wont be easy, and it wont be won without aggressive challenges from big business and Harrisburg. Thats why we need to show our strength in numbers from the get-go on November 19th. Join us as we challenge city council to follow the lead of cities like Seattle, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland and call of a $15 an hour minimum wage! Wednesday, November 19, 6:30pm, Know Your Rights Training, Temple University, Anderson Hall room 14, 11th and Berks Sts. Know what to say and how to say it so you dont become a police victim. Brought to you by F(ilm) The Police! Committee of the Avenging the Ancestors Coalition and Up Against the Law Legal Collective. Thursday, November, 20, 4:00pm, Launching a Campaign for Sustainable Community Schools. Arch Street United Methodist Church, 55 N Broad St A movement is growing across the country and in our city that not only seeks to defend public education but make it better serve the communities that depend on it. Community schools mean engaging curriculum including art and music, quality teaching instead of high stakes testing, wrap around supports including health care, caring discipline and restorative justice, and engaging parents and neighborhoods in planning and running our schools. Many of us are already fighting for these things. Let’s come together and put forward our vision of what schools could be. And then let’s demand that, instead of privatizing or closing schools, those in power invest in this vision. A first step needs to be taking federal School Improvement Grants (SIG) and using them to establish community schools. This August Governor Corbett doled out this money to four charter operators and only one public school. The event will feature inspiring video recording the fights of the last year from Media Mobilizing Project and a panel of student, parent and community leaders. It is part of a national community school action in cities across the country. Thursday, November 20, 6pm - Friday, Nov 20th, 6am, Rally to raise Awareness for LGBT Homelessness, JFK Plaza, Philadelphia Join Change Philly Today: A Safe Haven for LGBT Youth and spend the night with Change Philly Today to experience what its like to be homeless. For more information contact: (rusty.doll@changephillytoday). Tuesday, November 25, 7:00pm, An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Wooden Shoe Books and Records, 704 South St, Philadelphia Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.” Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. Ferguson Grand Jury Emergency Response in Philly: It is anticipated that the Ferguson grand jury established to investigate charges against Darren Wilson, the cop who killed Mike Brown, will announce their decision some time this month. It could be a matter of days or weeks so be on alert. From information already leaked to the media we suspect that they will let the killer cop Darren Wilson off the hook. On the day of the announcement of the verdict of the Grand Jury, join with the people in Ferguson and across the U.S. COME TO PHILADELPHIA CITY HALL (15TH & MARKET STS) on the day the verdict is announced. Lets hold the space in solidarity with all those who resist police racism and terror! Bring signs and banners. Dress warmly and WEAR BLACK. Even if Wilson is indicted, we know better than to expect true justice from a capitalist, white supremacist, imperialist court. WE DEMAND PEOPLES JUSTICE! For info: PhillyIAC@gmail or 610-931-2615. On the day after the verdict is released, join us at 3:00pm at City Hall for a march up Broad St. to Cecil B. Moore for People Utilizing Real Power - PURPs demonstration: https://facebook/events/295619220627789 #BlackLivesMatter #BlackAndBrownLivesMatter Events listed here include Occupy Philadelphia related events as well as other social justice events.Your support is greatly appreciated!
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