EVENT: 10/1 Citizen's Lobby Day, DC

Citizen's Lobby Day

If you are planning on attending the One Nation March for Peace, Jobs and Justice or you can't be there, come out for the Citizen's Lobby Day.

From 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM--drop by anytime to pick up a packet before you drop-in to visit your representative. Register beforehand so they can plan ahead, but registration is not required.

Find the lobby packet and more information here: https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/309/thanks.asp?formid=meet&c=6573382

When Friday, October 01, 2010
9 AM - 3 PM

Where Rayburn House Office Building
Room 2226
Capitol Hill
Washington, DC 20515-0907

9/17: Pakistan Flood Teach-In & Planning Meeting

The Urgent Need for Solidarity With Pakistan’s Flood Victims
Teach-In and Planning Meeting
Friday, September 17th
6:30 pm, Brecht Forum
451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets, New York, NY

Even as Americans revisit the lingering destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, half a world away Pakistan is experiencing one of the most calamitous disasters in recent memory.

Nearly 20 million people have been directly affected. More than 8 million need urgent aid. 800,000 people are stranded. A full 14 million people across the country are now homeless. The country’s infrastructure, already in disrepair, has been simply washed away.

As with so many natural disasters we’ve seen in recent years, this tragedy too is carved out of a history of unsustainable policies. Years of neoliberal economic policies and militarism have stripped the Pakistani State of its capacity to meet the people’s needs.

Pakistan’s elites—both civilian and military—have much to answer for, but so do U.S. elites and the Obama administration, whose ratcheting up of the “war on terror” has made a bad situation worse. Likewise, harsh conditions attached to Pakistan’s external debt by institutions like the IMF share much of the blame for the scale of the social and economic crisis.

Meanwhile, international aid has been reluctantly offered and slow to arrive, perhaps because for years now, politicians and the media, particularly in the U.S., have encouraged a view of Pakistan as nothing but a crucible for “terrorism,” thus obscuring the humanity of its people. The U.S. has spent $33 billion on the recent surge in Afghanistan—nearly three times what Pakistan will need for its reconstruction, and some 165 times the amount the US has pledged for flood relief. But the American military wasted no time in exploiting the floods to airbrush its own public image in the region.

In response, progressive activists in Pakistan are launching a national campaign against the servicing of foreign debt and the squandering of enormous resources on the military.

Here in the U.S., similar awareness and activism is sorely needed. We need to hold this government and institutions like the IMF accountable for the negative role that they continue to play in the region. Please join us to build solidarity with ordinary Pakistanis and raise badly-needed funds for grassroots flood-relief.

For more information, or to get involved:

email: Pakistan.Solidarity.NYC@gmail.com

blog: PakistanSolidarity.posterous.com

Link: http://brechtforum.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=11766

NYC School Call to Action

Ø Half of NYC students are below grade level in English Language Arts (ELA) and Math

Ø There are 369 schools where 2 out of 3 students are NOT on grade level in English Language Arts

Ø The number of students way below grade level (Level 1) in ELA jumped from12,000 to 63,000 citywide this year

THIS IS AN EDUCATIONAL EMERGENCY

JOIN US

As we call on the NYC Department of Education to:

. Implement a plan for intensive academic services for all students who test in Level 1 and Level 2
. Provide strong, comprehensive supports for all struggling schools
. Stop all high-stakes decisions based on test scores and establish a new accountability system

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 at 11:00 am

NYC Department of Education, 52 Chambers St .


For more information, call 917.309.5742, emailnyccej@gmail.comor go towww.nyccej.org

9/14: VOTE IN THE PRIMARY ELECTIONS

You can find your poll site location by:

-Searching the online poll site address locator

-Call the voter Phone Bank at 1-866-VOTE-NYC

EVENT: The South in the '60s: Women in the Civil Rights Movement

The South in the '60s: Women in the Civil Rights Movement

9/16/2010

7:00 PM

The Graduate Center
Elebash Recital Hall
365 Fifth Avenue

212-817-8215

The Graduate Center continues its Civil Rights Movement programming this fall with a discussion about the contribution of women of the movement.

The program features women who were active in the Civil Rights Movement, including Dorothy Zellner, Martha Noonan, and Judy Richardson. Professor Blanche Wiesen Cook of the Graduate Center and John Jay College will moderate the discussion.

Click the e-VENTS online reservation icon; for more information call 212-817-8215. Unclaimed reservations will be released to a standby line at the event on a first-come, first-served basis.

ADMISSION: Free, reservations required
http://bit.ly/9ABzLI http://gc.cuny.edu/events http://bit.ly/b2gFnU

EVENT: 10/2 One Nation, Working Together: Peace, Jobs and Justice Now!

Peace, Jobs and Justice Now!

Oct 2 - One Nation Working Together, Washington DC

Don't Hope for Change - Create It!
Get Your Feet in the Streets! Act Now for Peace!
One Nation Working Together

On October 2, peace activists will again march on Washington, DC. We will join thousands of civil rights, labor, immigrant rights, environmental and other progressive organizations in a united action. One Nation Working Together is an historic coming together of movements for peace and justice, including the NAACP, 1199 SEIU, National Council of La Raza, Green for All, Center for Community Change, United States Student Association, the AFL-CIO, SEIU, RainbowPUSH, USAction and a growing list of more than 150 organizations. Together, we are marching for:

* Jobs and sustainable economic recovery
* Cuts in military spending to fund community needs
* An end to the US war and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan
* Peace abroad and renewable energy at home

Check out OneNationWorkingTogether.com and PeaceandJustice.org for more information.

MEETING: Fort Greene Peace 9/7

The next general meeting of Fort Greene Peace
--Tuesday, September 7, 7pm--
--Tillies (DeKalb & Vanderbilt.)--

All are welcome!

If you plan to attend please drop us an email at fortgreenepeace@gmail.com so we know how many to expect.

-The tentative agenda includes:
-Summing up the Potluck and deciding where(if anywhere) it leads us.
-Responding to Towns' new pro-Afghan war position--should we start a new petition drive?
-Work on pushing for the NYC Council anti-war resolution (intrtoduced by Tish James.)
-Work on the national "peace and justice" demonstration in DC scheduled for Oct 2 http://www.onenationworkingtogether.org/main.aspx
-Working with the FG/CH branch of the Brooklyn Food Coalition on their "Good Food Fest" on September 12--which we have endorsed. The Coalition was a partner in our Potluck. http://brooklynfoodcoalition.ning.com/forum/topics/bfc-good-food-fest-call-for