Lessons From the 60s: Traveling Hopefully
The series to promote intergenerational discussion will address what it take to save a neighborhood these days.
On D.C.’s U Street, Can’t We All Just Swagger Along?
Restaurants along U Street are meant to be community cultural hubs that preserve the legacy and history of the District and uplift racial and cultural connections.
Brown Bag: We Are Family In DC
As gentrification and economic development rapidly change neighborhoods across the District of Columbia, thousands of low income households are being pushed to the margins. Through a radical vision of community service and an extensive volunteer network, “We Are Family” brings groceries and provides basic assistance to 600 low income seniors in Columbia Heights and the North Capitol area each month. Please join its co-director, Mark Anderson, and American University Professor of Sociology Michael Bader, for a discussion about the innovative methods used by scholars to study urban poverty – and the creative activism by community organizations addressing it.
Film: Wal-Mart; The High Cost of Low Price
Walmart has plans to establish four stores in DC by 2012. Notorious for threatening small businesses, causing the loss of more jobs, and bringing lower wage standards for all workers to communities, concerned District of Columbia citizens and social justice advocates are coming together to spread the news and resist the potentially disastrous implications for the District of Columbia.
Tan Morgul
Turkish journalist Tan Morgul discusses Turkey’s Kurdish population, and describes a new Turkey born of changes in politics and regional immigration.