Schedule and Announcements for the week of November 3 - 9, 2014 Tuesday, November 4, 7:00pm, From Ferguson to Philadelphia – Resistance to Police Terror, 48th & Baltimore (Calvary Church) The grand jury ruling on whether to indict Ferguson police office Daniel Wilson for the murder of Mike Brown may be coming down any day now. A series of planned “leaks” of information from this secret panel seem designed to cushion news that this court may not indict this murderous cop. Folks need to be ready to respond regardless of the decision from the grand jury. Meanwhile come to this important meeting to hear from Philly area activists and others who participated in the Oct. 10-13 National Convergence in St. Louis and Ferguson against police brutality. Hear from Participants who participated the Oct. 10-13 National Convergence in St. Louis and Ferguson, Activists against police brutality and mass incarceration, Organizers in the fight vs PA Gov. Corbett’s attempt to silence Mumia Abu-Jamal and all prisoners. Join in the conversation led by Imani Henry, an anti-gentrification activist and member of Workers World Party National Committee. Light refreshments will be served. For more information contact PhillyIAC@gmail, [email protected], or call 215-724-1618 Saturday, November 8, Capital Campaign Walkathon, Calvary Center, 801 S. 48th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19143 The Calvary Center For Culture and Community (CCCC) is a vital home to a number of neighborhood non-profit organizations and religious congregations. The Wyncote Foundation has challenged CCCC to match a generous donation of $100,000. To date, CCCC has managed to raise $80,000 of this. On Saturday, November 8th a 5K walkathon will take place to help us raise the remaining $20,000. Won’t you participate or sponsor a participant to help us on our “raise the roof” campaign. Please sign up today! Saturday, November 8, 2014 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Walk starts at Calvary Center at 10 AM (801 S 48th St, Philadelphia, PA 19143). If you have any questions, please contact the CCCC office: [email protected] Saturday, November 8, 12:00pm, Philadelphia March Against Corruption, Thomas Paine Plaza, 1401 John F Kennedy Blvd, Philadelphia This year were taking it up a notch, youtu.be/nTy4sMzNYSs In lieu of an actual March, we are inviting speakers from a variety of organizations to share their own stories of how corruption impacts them. Expect speakers from the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, Food and Water Watch, the Media Mobilizing Project--and several others yet to be confirmed. After the speakers, organizations will have the opportunity to table and everyone is invited to engage in an Open Space Discussion. If youre not familiar with open space, heres a simple breakdown of how it will go down on November 8th: - It starts with a discussion focus question and here the question is: How Does Corruption Affect Us & What Can We Do To End It? - Both organizational leaders and attendees may lead or join a discussion, and engage in a conversation about current problems, possible solutions, and viable next steps to confront corruption within their issue. - At the start of this event, blank paper and markers to submit discussion topics will be available on a large board. - The board will indicate a map and timeslots for where and when each discussion topic is happening. - Depending upon the number of discussion topics submitted, we will determine the suggested timeslots and # of rounds of discussions. - There is only 1 rule: if anyone finds themselves in a situation where they are neither learning nor contributing, they must check out another discussion. - Each discussion group is encouraged to elect a notetaker, to allow report backs of the conversations - When all discussions are done, well hold an open mic for reflections on what was said, what was learned, and how we can keep momentum in this fight. Tuesday, November 11, 6:00pm, Net Tuesday - Connecting Causes and Coders: Civic Hacking with Code for Philly, Friends Center, 1501 Cherry St. Were switching things up for our November meetup in a joint event with Code for Philly. Not a coder? No problem. Dont want to learn to code? Thats fine too. This is an opportunity for the people designing and building projects for civic good to meet with the people who will use the projects, or start their own. Participants with all levels of tech knowledge are welcome. Civic hacking is a new way for private citizens, social change agents, and government to come together and use technology to make the places we live better. Our local group of civic hackers, Code for Philly, meets weekly to work on projects on everything from biking to education to public health. And its not just programmers - effective projects involve community members, subject matter experts, data specialists, designers, and others. Join us to hear about Code for Phillys current projects (some of which might be useful for you right now), to learn how to get involved in a project related to your cause, or even to find out how to get started on a project of your own. If you want to get your hands dirty, a laptop is recommended - although, of course, youre always welcome to participate with or without a computer. If you want to learn how to code, we can point you to some resources to get you started. If youve got an idea, we can help you talk it through. If you have some specific skills youd like to lend to a project, we can help you find one. If you just want to see what these kinds of working meetings look like, we can help you find a seat. Additional information can be found at meetup/phlnet2/events/194343282/ Friday, November 14, 7:00pm, Why Your Student Debt Could Spark the Next Mass Movement, A-Space Anarchist Community Center, 4722 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19143 Join Strike Student Debt for a workshop and discussion about the U.S. student debt crisis and how to build a mass movement for debt abolition and free higher education for all! Agenda: Intros, Defining the Problem - why your student debt is a political creation to repress youth rebellion, and how it disproportionately affects youth of color and working class youth, Imagining a Mass Movement Against Student Debt, and Discussion / Announcements. Well bring FOOD and INSPIRATION! You bring IDEAS and OUTRAGE! Thursday, November 20, 7:00pm, Rory Fanning and Anand Gopal on Afghanistan: Book Launch and Signing!, District 1199C, National Union of Hospital & Health Care Employees; 1319 Locust Street, Philadelphia 19107 Rory Fanning and Anand Gopal, two powerful writers with unique viewpoints on the USs war in Afghanistan, are coming to Philadelphia for one special event. Anand Gopal, journalist and author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes (Henry Holt, 2014) has traveled extensively throughout Afghanistan. His book follows a Taliban commander, who rises from scrawny teenager to leading insurgent; a US-backed warlord, who uses the American military to gain personal wealth and power; and a village housewife trapped between the two sides, who discovers the devastating cost of neutrality. It is a finalist for the National Book Award. Rory Fanning, author of Worth Fighting For: An Army Rangers Journey Out of the Military and Across America Haymarket Books, 2014), served in the Army Rangers with Pat Tillman and completed two tours of duty in Afghanistan before becoming a conscientious objector. He then spent nine months crossing the United States on foot to raise money for the Pat Tillman Foundation. His book will be released on Veterans Day, November 11, 2014. Fanning and Gopal will discuss the 13-year Afghanistan conflict from perspectives you havent heard before and celebrate the launch of Worth Fighting For, take questions, and sign books. Please join us at the District 1199C auditorium for this incredible event. Suggested donation of $5 goes to the Pat Tillman Foundation (Official). 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. Events listed here include Occupy Philadelphia related events as well as other social justice events. Your support is greatly appreciated!
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