National Conference Call: Citizens Climate Lobby
Please join the CCL when Co-Director of IPS’ Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN) is the featured guest speaker.
The Wisconsin Struggle: The Next Phase
Over the past year, a broad coalition of progressive forces came together in Wisconsin to build massive resistance to a conservative onslaught on worker rights and social programs. This movement has inspired millions across the country and the world. Please join leaders of this movement as they talk about lessons from the Wisconsin movement, and the next phase of the struggle.
Dedication of the Howard Zinn Room
Busboys and Poets is proud to name its newest event space in honor of esteemed historian, activist and educator, Dr. Howard Zinn. Dr. Zinn’s book “A People’s History of the United States” has become a staple in history and civics classes across the country. Join IPS and Busboys and Poets’ Hyattsville location will host a two part event to celebrate the formal dedication of its newest event space, the Howard “Zinn Room”.
Washington DC Poets Engage in “Walk of Shame” to Embassies of Countries Where Poetry is Banished
DC event is part of “100 Thousand Poets for Change” global event with over 600 poetry events across the world.
Energy Finance: Perspectives from the Experts
With a global climate crisis fueled by rising greenhouse gas emissions on one hand and 1.6 billion people lacking access to electricity on the other the global community faces a serious quandary: How do we increase energy access while ensuring that our growing energy supply is clean and renewable? How can we structure a financing regime that meets both our environmental and social goals?
Labor Lessons Through the Lens of Liberia
Attend this lunchtime briefing with Austin Natee, who heads the Firestone Agricultural Workers Union of Liberia (FAWUL). Under Austin’s leadership FAWUL has been fighting to end the abuse of child labor and advance the rights of the workers in Firestone’s operations in Liberia, West Africa. Earlier this year, FAWUL received the Iqbal Masih Award from the U.S. Department of Labor. The award was established by Congress to recognize the work of an individual, company, organization or national government to end the worst forms of child labor. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis said “This award recognizes the extraordinary efforts of the Firestone Agricultural Workers Union to combat the worst forms of child labor internationally.” Austin is here in the U.S. for the annual convention of the United Steelworkers which represents Firestone workers in the U.S. and has been working in solidarity with the workers in Liberia.
Benefit Concert with Simon Shaheen
The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is marking its 10th annual conference with a special benefit concert with world-renowned violinist and oud player, Simon Shaheen.
The Attack on the Gaza Flotilla: One Year On
This event will focus on the attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla in May 2010 and the ongoing, illegal blockade of Gaza. We will hear from Professor Ahmet Dogan, the father of Furkan Dogan, an 18-year-old American citizen killed during the brutal attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, and from advocates who will discuss the current situation in Gaza and their efforts to get answers about U.S. knowledge of, and response to, the attack.
Brown Bag Discussion: The Arab Spring Missing From Headlines
The Arab Spring continues – hopeful, dangerous, transformative all at the same time. Egypt’s new government struggles to craft new governance and a new foreign policy, including new relations with the U.S., Palestine and Israel. Palestinian refugees channel the Arab Spring through their Nakba Day marches to Israel’s borders to assert their international law-mandated right of return.
Economic Insecurity Continues and Communities Respond
Are you facing hard times or concerned about local and global “norms” of economic insecurity? Trends confirm the difficulties that lay ahead, yet deep, meaningful and hopeful communities of mutual aid and resilience are emerging. Join us to learn more about these new groups in Portland.
Solidarity in Hard Times
We shouldn’t have to face harsh economic realities all alone. Increasingly people are coming together in small groups known by various names: common security clubs, mutual aid groups, resilience circles, and unemployed support groups. Come learn about these new groups in Seattle
Resistance & Resilience: Coming Together in Hard Times
Join us to discuss the economic system meltdown, building a “New Economy,” and a local response for personal and community resilience with Common Security Clubs.
Brown Bag Discussion: Venezuelan Deputy Modesto Ruiz On Afro-Venezuelans
During the last decade, Afro-Venezuelan communities, historically marginalized and forgotten in Venezuela, have increasingly begun to organize themselves and effectively impact progressive policy measures. The Institute for Policy Studies’ Foreign Policy in Focus project invites you to a brown bag discussion with Venezuelan Deputy Modesto Ruiz Espinoza, President of the Subcommittee on Legislation, Participation, Warranties, Duties and Rights of African descendants in the Venezuelan National Assembly.
Ivory Coast at a Crossroads?
Please join us for a briefing on the turmoil in Côte d’Ivoire and its impacts on workers, as well as prospects for future development of workers’ organizations and democratic institutions.
Rural Livelihoods in a Globalizing World
Join us beforehand at 4:00pm for a screening of Strong Roots: The Landless Worker’s Movement in Brazil (Raiz Forte), a documentary that also covers the brutal massacre of 19 peasants in the northern state of Pará by Brazilian police on April 17, 1996.