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PROTEST
THE LACK OF DEMOCRACY in DC by including a
letter to President [sic] Bush along with
your tax
form.
Mention Congress’s control over our legislation
and finances, the tyranny of bureaucracies
like the
Control Board, our second class citizenship
with no
representation in Congress, and our demand
for
self-determination, with the option of
statehood.
More
information: The Stand Up For Democracy in DC
Coalition,
202-232-2500,
http://www.standupfordemocracy.org
SEE PHOTOS
of the March 30 DC Democracy Seven Party at
Toutorsky
Mansion, courtesy of Carol Moore and her new
digital
camera:
http://www.carolmoore.net/03-30-01-photos.html
READ THE
LATEST draft of the International Green
Charter, to be negotitated further at the Global
Green
Conference in Canberra, Australia, April
14-16:
http://www.global.greens.org.au/Charter.html
Organizers
of the Global Green Conference will put
together a one-hour video of conference
highlights.
But they also need to raise some money to
defray the
audio/visual costs. Donations from individuals or
local chapters are welcome, but they mostly
want
orders for conference videos, in a minimum of
ten
videos per order, which costs $150 including
postage.
Contact
Lynne Serpe at Lynneserpe@aol.com and
read
more about
the conference at
http://www.global.greens.org.au
INFORMATION
ABOUT Democracy Summer, a historic
gathering
of multi-ethnic and cross-generational
alliance
of organizations and individuals committed to
building a
pro-democracy movement in the wake of the
Florida
vote scandal: contact DC organizers Tanya or
Sekou,
202-234-9382, sekou@sekou.com or visit
http://www.democracysummer.org
RECALL
THE MAYOR? If you’re interested in
joining the
effort to recall Mayor Williams, David
Barrows has
launched a recall campaign and has official
petitions.
Call him at 202-543-4244.
“THIS IS
INCREDIBLE. Look at the first line of this
bill
(Senate Bill S. 580, introduced by Senator Tim
Hutchinson
(R-AZ) on March 20)!... ‘CONGRESSIONAL
DIRECTION
TO COMMENCE CONSTRUCTION -- (1) Subject to
paragraph
(2), the Commission shall expeditiously
proceed
with the construction of the World War II
memorial
at the dedicated Rainbow Pool site in the
District
of Columbia without regard to the National
Environmental
Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et
seq.), the
Commemorative Works Act (40 U.S.C. 1001 et
seq.), or
any other law pertaining to the siting or
design for
the World War II memorial.’”—Mark
Richards, mark@bisconti.com in the April 1 themail,
DC
Watch
e-mail discussion group, http://www.dcwatch.com
SORRY,
KIDS... The Convention on the Rights
of the
Child, adopted by the General Assembly of the
United
Nations on 20 November 1989... Summary of Article 24:
Health
and health services. “The child has a
right to
the highest standard of health and medical
care
attainable. Nations shall provide special
emphasis on
the provision of primary and preventive health
care,
public health education and the reduction of
infant
mortality. They shall encourage international
cooperation in this regard and strive to see
that no
child is deprived of access to effective
health
services.”
The UN Convention on the Rights of the
Child has been ratified by every nation
except two:
Somalia
and the United States.
http://www.unicef.org/crc/crc.htm
Send your
announcements
(keep ‘em
brief; send ‘em early)
Scott
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DC
Statehood Green Party Steering Committee meeting, 7
pm, One Judiciary Square, 441 4th
Street NW, in room
700.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
More
information: Steve Donkin, who will
facilitate,
202-986-9438.
Update on
the Struggle for Justice in East Timor,
sponsored
by the East Timor Action Network, featuring
East
Timorese human rights activist Aniceto Das Neves
and R.
Brian Hendrix, lawyer who worked on the civil
damage
against Indonesian General Lumantang.
7:15 pm
at La
Casa, 3166 Mt. Pleasant Street NW. More
information:
544-6911, http://www.etan.org
Fair
Budget Coalition meeting, 9:30 am at the
Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless,
1800
Massachusetts Avenue NW, 6th
floor.
Anti-Sweatshop
Rally at GWU, 12:30 pm, outside Rice
Hall, Eye
Street NW, between 21st and 22nd Streets,
near the
Foggy Bottom Metro Stop. Demand that
the
George
Washington University ensure that its clothes
are not
made in Sweatshops. Join the GW Action
Coalition,
the DC Metropolitan Labor Council (an
AFL-CIO
affiliate representing 150,000 workers), the
Feminist
Majority Leadership Alliance, the GW College
Democrats,
Greens, Socialists, and Anarchists, and
other area
students and residents in a rally to
pressure a
reluctant GWU administration to join the
Workers’
Rights Consortium, a sweatshop verification
agency
representing over 75 US universities that
ensures
that clothes bearing the colleges’ logo are
not made
in sweatshops. More information: Todd
Tucker,
202-337-4719 or tnt@econjustice.net or
Dan
Calamuci,
202-223-4159 or mooch@gwu.edu or
http://www.econjustice.net/gwsweat.htm
FTAA
Organizing Meeting, 7 pm, SEIU Building at 13th
and L Streets NW. Organize the protests against the
Free Trade Agreement of the Americas
negotiations in
Quebec, Canada in April. More information:
mobilization
phone line at (202)756-4101 ext 1415,
e-mail mgj@onebox.com
(See also the list of web sites
under separate heading below.)
Monthly
meeting of the DC Statehood Green Party, 7 pm
at One Judiciary Square, 441 4th
Street NW near the
Judiciary Square Metro Stop, in room
700. Everyone is
invited; if you’re registered in the DC
Statehood
Green Party you can vote. Featuring a presentation by
David Schwartzman and Arturo Griffiths on “The
Challenge of the Growing Income Inequality in
the
District.”
With the release of the Mayor’s proposed
budget for fiscal year 2002, and the ongoing
funding
crises with DC General Hospital and other
aspects of
the human services safety net, the time is
right for
justice activists to educate themselves on
what the
city’s plans are for the poor, and how to
promote a
progressive alternative. Join us for this brief
discussion from 7 to 7:45 pm, followed by the
business
portion of the meeting. Have an agenda item? Notify
Steve Donkin, 202-986-9438, sdonkin@smart.net More
information about the DC Statehood Green
Party’s Tax &
Budget Working Group: 829-9063.
Rep.
John Conyers recently introduced a bill titled
“Working American Families Access to Health
Care Act
of 2001” or “Medi-Access Act of 2001” (HR
1142) which
would expand Medicaid coverage to most
Americans who
can’t afford health insurance. Rally in support of
the bill, East Capitol steps Thursday, 10 to
11:30 am.
Speakers: Reps Conyers, David Bonior, and
John
Tierney, Senator Paul Wellstone, Vincent
DeMarco, and
Dr. Quentin Young. The rally is co-sponsored by the
Congressional Universal Health Care Task
Force,
Congressional Black Caucus, and Congressional
Progressive Caucus. More information: Joel Segal,
Rep. Conyers’ staff member,
202-225-5126.
The DC
Environmental Network Brown Bag Luncheon and
Discussion on Urban Nature and the Potomac
Review.
Noon to
1:30 pm at the Friends of the Earth office,
1025
Vermont Avenue NW, 3rd Floor, near the McPherson
Square Metro
Stop. More information: Chris Weiss,
Friends of
the Earth, (202) 783-7400 ext 120,
Rally
against supermax prisons and the torture and
inhuman conditions inside of them, 2:00 pm at
the
Virginia State Capitol. More information:
People’s
Hearing on Affordable Housing, 6:30 - 8:30
pm, John Wesley AME Zion Church, 1614 14th
Street NW.
Why: So that tenants from all over the city
can
testify about their buildings, the problems
that
exist, and what they demand from the city to
protect
the dwindling supply of affordable housing in
DC. A
year ago, concerned about the crisis in
affordable
housing and the Mayor’s “hot properties”
list, the DC
Coalition for Housing Justice visited Mayor
Williams
and asked to have housing codes enforced,
buildings
repaired, and low-income families protected
from
eviction.
Instead, we’ve seen policies that displace
residents and destabilize neighborhoods. Tired of
waiting, the Coalition has organized its own
public
hearing.
Come and listen to the voices of those most
effected. More information: Linda Leaks, (Now Empower DC 202-234-9119 or leaks@empowerdc.org
or Janet Brown, 332-0789.
DC
Alliance for Democracy meeting: FTAA Discussion and
Action Monday, 6:30 to 8:30 pm at the
Josephine Butler
Center, 2437 15th Street NW, first
floor.
Presentations on the Free Trade Act of the
Americas
from Bob Naiman, Center for Economic and
Policy
Research; Ruth Caplan, Alliance for Democracy
National
Co-Chair on Globalization. In-depth discussion of
FTAA, which goes far beyond NAFTA in
anti-democratic
scope and power, and the FTAA summit in
Quebec.
Refreshments. More information: Tim Scanlon,
parcival@erols.com (See also the list of web sites
under separate heading below.)
Anacostia
Earth Day Clean-Up and Celebration,
including
a river cleanup of the tidal river at four
sites and
a Celebration with poetry jam and trash
sculpture
contest to be held at the brand new
Bladensburg
Waterfront Park in Bladensburg, MD.
More
information:
http://www.anacostiaws.org
Remembering
Josephine Butler: honor the memories of
fighters for social justice and DC democracy,
including Jo Butler, Julius Hobson, Winnie
Gallant,
Beth Ann Agostinelli, and others, featuring
the
presentation of the Jo Butler Award to the
Democracy
7, and the Paul Robeson Cultural Diversity
Tribute. 7
pm at UDC auditorium, Building 46, near the
Van Ness
Metro Stop.
Tickets: $25. More information:
Gail
Dixon, (202) 529-6525.
An DC
Earth Day event in the planning stages: The DC
Statehood Green Party has been invited to
have a table
at an East of the Park for Klingle Valley
event. The
Sierra Club has decided to hold its annual
Earth Day
celebration in Klingle Valley this year to
attract
attention to the valley and help save it
conversion to
use for traffic. There will be a clean-up (10-12),
picnic (11-4), guided nature walks (2 pm),
press
attention and more. Everyone is invited. More
information forthcoming.
Emergency
March for Women’s Lives, in DC.
Assemble 11
am in
Senate Park, at Constitution and Delaware
Avenues
NE. The march steps off at noon, with a
rally
on the
Washington Monument grounds at 1 pm.
Themes:
upholding
Roe v. Wade; reproductive freedom and
self-determination
for all women; saving the Supreme
Court. Organized by the National Organization for
Women. More information: 202-628-8669,
Location and more information: 202-297-4430,
pm at the Josephine Butler Park Center, 2437
15th
Street NW.
For more information on how to get good
food from markets, restaurants or farmers,
check out
http://dc.indymedia.org
for the Mintwood Hour Internet
Radio from the Heart of DC. Broadcasting courtesy of
DC Independent Media Center, the Mintwood
Media
Collective (http://www.mintwood.com)
sponsors a
political talk show. Co-hosts Lauri Apple, Adam
Eidinger, Kadd Stephens, and Karen Zamperini
take your
calls (the studio line is 202-797-1280) and
raise the
issues that the corporate media ignores.
Coalition (of which DCSGP is a member). 2nd and 4th
Tuesday of each month, 6:30 pm at National
Council of
Negro Women, 633 Pennsylvania Ave., NW,
Washington, DC
20001.
More information:
http://www.standupfordemocracy.org,
phone/fax
202-232-2500.
Columbia Heights Community Marketplace (CHCM)
at the
Butler Parks Center, 2437 15th
Street NW, at 7 pm.
CHCM will
combine a farmers market, flea market,
entertainment,
crafts, informational booths, cooked
food,
etc. Neighborhood activist Dave
McIntyre says
it’ll be “a
weekly celebration of the community” and
will
occupy a 27,500 square foot city parcel next to
the
Columbia Heights Metro Stop. The Grand
Opening
will take
place Saturday, June 2. More
information:
FIRST
WEDNESDAYS of every month: Fair Budget Coalition
of the District of Columbia, c/o Washington
Legal
Clinic for the Homeless, 9:30 am at the
Washington
Legal Clinic for the Homeless, 1800 Massachusetts
Ave.
NW, 6th floor. More information: (202) 872-8958,
(202) 872-1932 fax.
Web
sites with information about the Free Trade Area
of the Americas (FTAA), in preparation for the
April
actions in Quebec in protest of the FTAA summit.
“The
Last Frontier”
http://www.theecologist.org/lastfrontier.html
Public
Citizen’s website on the FTAA
http://www.citizen.org/pctrade/FTAA/ftaahome.html
“The
FTAA and the Threat to Social Programs,
Environmental Sustainability, and Social
Justice in
Canada and the Americas”:
http://www.canadians.org/campaigns/campaigns-tradepub-ftaa2.html
http://www.StopFTAA.org
<http://www.stopftaa.org/
Alliance
for Democracy
http://www.thealliancefordemocracy.org/
Alliance
for Global Justice http://www.afgj.org
Alliance
for Responsible Trade http://www.art-us.org/
Global
Exchange http://www.globalexchange.org/
Institute
for Policy Studies http://www.ips-dc.org/
Rainforest
Action Network http://www.ran.org/
On-site
logistics in Quebec:
Legal
questions legal@tao.ca or
Medical
questions clacmedical@hotmail.com
Flight
information http://www.expedia.com/ or
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DC Statehood
Green Party
http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org
DC
Statehood Green discussion list dcsgp@onelist.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcsgp
Association
of State Green Parties
Northern
Virginia Greens, (703) 818-0794
http://www.homestead.com/novagreens
The
Progressive Review (news & views you won’t find in
the
Post, courtesy of Sam Smith) http://prorev.com
Lots of
Green links
http://www.freespeech.org/dcstatehood/links.htm
Useful
links on Green organizing and fundraising
http://www.greens.org/cal-grow/greens/Organize.htm
Stand Up
for Democracy in DC Coalition
http://www.standupfordemocracy.org
DC Watch
(citizens’ watchdog reports on DC government)
The
Washington Peace Center
http://www.washingtonpeacecenter.org
20
Citizens (“Adams vs. Clinton”) DC
democracy
lawsuit http://www.dccitizensfordemocracy.org
DC-Independent
Media Center
Center for
Voting and Democracy (proportional
representation,
instant runoff voting, other election
reforms) http://www.fairvote.org
ONEDC.ORG
(network of local DC environmentalists)
Washington
Regional Network
http://www.washingtonregion.net
Good
Food DC and Community Harvest
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