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SUMMARY:50th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award
DESCRIPTION:IPS invites you to our 50th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards! Come celebrate five decades of uplifting unsung human rights defenders and honoring our movement heroes together.  \nThe in-person event will begin with a catered reception at 5:30 pm ET. The ceremony will begin at 7:00 pm ET\, and will finish with a closing reception at 8:00 pm ET \nGet your ticket today! \nJoin us to uplift our incredible awardees\, Unidos MN and La Liga Sindical Obrera Mexicana. Both our Awardees represent communities that have built serious power to defend their rights. \n\nMinnesotans organized as Unidos MN to protect their community from ICE violence and inspired the whole country with their mass resistance.\nLa Liga is energizing the North American labor movement by mobilizing unions across Mexico to use their seat at the bargaining table and stand up to transnational corporations.\n\nWe are going all-out for our 50th and will have live musical performance by the world renowned pianist Janelle Gill\, the 2026 DC Jazz Festival Artist In Residence\, food and drinks\, memorabilia\, and lots of fanfare. We’re reaching far back to invite as many IPS alumni as possible for this milestone! We cherish these awards as a time to convene our community and celebrate our allies’ hard work\, so please extend this invitation to all who want to come together. \nWe offer a range of ticket prices to keep this event accessible to all who’d like to join. \nWe are also looking for co-sponsors to help make this event happen.
URL:https://www.ips-dc.org/event/lm50/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting of Washington\, 2111 Decatur Place NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20008-1912
CATEGORIES:Arts Event,Awards Dinner,Reception
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SUMMARY:Congo In Focus: A People’s Struggle for Their Land\, Resources\, Story\, and Future
DESCRIPTION:In post-colonial Africa\, one of the biggest challenges facing Africans is the imposition of neo-colonial leaders – those who serve foreign interests at the expense of the masses of Africans who are mostly youth. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a classic case of neo-colonial leadership that has forfeited the future of its sons and daughters. The 2025 strategic partnership minerals for security deal that the DRC signed with the United States that gave up much of its sovereignty over its spectacular mineral wealth is one such example. However\, Congolese youth are not sitting still\, they have declared that Congo is not for sale and are mobilizing and organizing to reinforce this stance. During the IPS’ Congo Week forum\, young Congolese will share the organizing and work that they are putting in to achieve a free\, liberated and sovereign Congo for the benefit of Congo and Africa as a whole. \nBreaking the Silence Congo Week is a week of activities that commemorates the millions of lives lost in the Congo conflict while celebrating the enormous human and natural potential that exists in the country. Communities throughout the globe join in partnership with Congolese each year during the third week of October to screen films\, hold teach-ins and forums\, organize rallies\, host fundraisers\, put on concerts and undertake many other activities to elevate the profile of the Congo throughout the globe. Students and community organizers initiated Congo Week in 2008. \nSPEAKERS: \n\nGaetan Dauphin Nzowo\, Friends of The Congo\,\nJessica Kanya-Ngambi\, Friends of The Congo\,\nKambale Musavuli\, Center for Research on the Congo-Kinshasa\n\nModerator: Netfa Freeman\, Pan-Africanist organizer and IPS Events Coordinator \nThis is a hybrid event with in-person or online options to attend. Please RSVP below. \nCo-Sponsors: Friends of the Congo\, Africa World Now Project\, Black Alliance for Peace\, and Institute for Policy Studies.
URL:https://www.ips-dc.org/event/congo-in-focus/
LOCATION:Institute for Policy Studies\, 1301 Connecticut Avenue NW\, 6th Floor\, Washington\, DC\, 20036
CATEGORIES:Brownbag,Panel Discussion,Webinar
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SUMMARY:We Must Never Forget: Book Talk for Art Against Brutality
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn about the 1981 massacre of one thousand innocent civilians\, many of them small children\, in El Mozote\, El Salvador\, and the1989 murder of six Jesuit priests\, their housekeeper and her fifteen-year-old daughter at the University of Central America in San Salvador. \nTo help us understand\, remember\, and teach our children and grandchildren\, come to hear Claudia Bernardi‘s story of sifting through the earth in El Mozote and finding small\, fractured\, frail bones\, “which resembled those of a small bird…the only evidence of a child robbed of his or her life and future.” \n“Claudia Bernardi\, the world-renowned painter\, has spent much of her life guiding people and communities in their search to recover from horrific violence. In El Salvador\, Argentina\, Guatemala\, Colombia\, and other damaged places\, Bernardi has made her home among communities of the traumatized… Art Against Brutality is an essential book.” \n—Mark Danner\, author of The Massacre at El Mozote \nSpeakers Will Include \n\nClaudia Bernardi\, Artist and Author\nRepresentative Jim McGovern\nProfessor Ana Patricia Rodriguez\, University of Maryland School of Languages\, Literatures\, and Cultures\nLilo Gonzalez\, Singer\, Songwriter\n\nSponsored by” Center for Latin American and Latino Studies\, American University\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, University of Maryland\, Busboys and Poets\, and Institute for Policy Studies.
URL:https://www.ips-dc.org/event/art-against-brutality/
LOCATION:Busboys and Poets – Takoma\, 234 Carroll Street NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20012
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