Weekly Community Action and Social Justice Coalition email 9/23-30!
Community Action and Social Justice Coalition
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 24TH
Students for a Sensible Drug Policy General Interest Meeting
6PM in SIS Atrium
Students for a Free Tibet General Interest Meeting
MGC Corner Lounge at 9:30PM
Are you curious about Tibet? Do you like cupcakes? Are you interested in getting to know the Tibetan community in Washington, D.C.? Would you like to learn how to cook mo-mos? Are you curious about this year's Alternative Break to Dharamsala and Ladakh? Do you like festivals and dancing and happiness? Do you think the Dalai Lama is cool? If you answered YES to any of these questions then you should come to this meeting!
We will discuss semester goals, 10 Days for Tibet recap, 10 Days for Tibet 2013, and club structure. Currently we're meeting in the corner lounge in MGC behind the info desk and across from the Tavern. CUPCAKES!
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CAUS Pancake Dinner Part II
10PM Basement of Kay Spiritual Life Center
Join the CAUS on Monday to eat pancakes and learn more about the Student Union. This will not be held in the style of a boring meeting. We will serve the pancakes and then you are free to socialize.
We are vegan and gluten-free friendly, so do not let your dietary needs get in the way of getting to know other students who want their voices heard on campus! Bring your ideas, questions, frustrations, beautiful faces and your appetite.
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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH
African Student Organization General Body Meeting: African Taboos
7PM to 8PM in the Letts Formal Lounge
Hello all! Come out and participate in ASO's general body meeting as we discuss the topic of African taboos. From whether it's how to act in public, or just typical things that Africans are very particular about, we'll be going over all kinds of interesting things. It is sure to be a fun event, and as always, there will be snacks. We hope to see you all there!
https://www.facebook.com/events/262465527206954/#!/events/383196708415484/
First General Interest Meeting for Undocu-Equality Campaign at AU
8PM, location TBD
12 million people have been told to wait, but now refuse to do so. In the past two years over 100 undocumented youth activists have been arrested. Movements have started on college campuses on the West Coast protesting colleges that refuse undocumented students. This has been fueled by high school students refusing to give up their hold on the American Dream.
This is our turn. Education Not Deportation. G.P.A.s Not SSN #. We will be going over out plans for the semester and showing clips from undocumented youth activists. FREE FOOD! The location will be announced soon. Message us or email us auameri...@gmail.com for more info.
https://www.facebook.com/events/158263374311527/
AU Students for Choice General Interest Meeting
8PM in MGC 245
Welcome Back! AU Students for Choice is having our FIRST general interest meeting of the school year. We'll be talking about plans for the upcoming semester, open e-board positions, and what being pro-choice means to us, to our campus, and within the context of the upcoming election. We'll have snacks too! =D Invite your friends and see you then!
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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 26TH
INDIVISIBLE by Disability Rights Coalition
2PM to 5PM on the Quad
Indivisible. Adjective: Unable to be separated or divided
Let's celebrate the diversity of the disability community, recognize the many different kinds of disability - including invisible disabilities, learn about issues relevant to our community, and see what organizations at AU and beyond are doing to make our campus and our country more accessible! Join us for music, food, and community!
https://www.facebook.com/events/170789833057717/
Occupy AU Weekly General Assembly
7PM SIS Atrium
Alternative Break Trip Info Sessions
Missouri-Kansas Info Session: 8:00pm-9:00pm in Letts Formal Lounge
U.S. Corn Belt: Labor and Food Justice in the Agriculture Industry
This trip will focus on the wide reaching effects of conventional industrial agriculture in the U.S. Corn Belt, particularly impacts on farmers, the environment, and food access as well as the role that government, industry, civil society and consumers can have in creating a more equitable, healthy food system. Trip Dates: March 9- 17, 2013
CASJ Coalition Town Hall
8:30PM Location TBD
Hey Folks! This Wednesday CASJ is having its first coalition town hall of the semester, come join us as we talk about creating a more equitable and just campus, talk about what CASJ can do for you, what resources we have available, what clubs are on campus, get to know people from other groups, socialize with each other, play some ice breakers, eat some snacks, etc.
We know some of you have club meetings at this time but try to send a delegate from your group, please! Hope to see you there!
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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27TH
Pesticides, Politics… and Progress?
Join us for a day of dialogue and debate on health, justice, and ecology on the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s landmark Silent Spring.
Tragic Loss of Pollinators
Noon in the SIS Founders Room
Screening of the award-winning documentary Vanishing of the Bees filmed on four continents about the tragic consequences of the Colony Collapse Disorder, followed by a discussion with Prof. Eve Bratman
Breaking the Silence: A Half Century of Pesticide Injustice and Advocacy
2PM to 3:30PM in SIS Founders Room
A panel moderated by Prof. Garrett Graddy featuring Joe Parker and Gerardo Reyes-Chaves, Activists from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers; Heather White, Chief of Staff and General Council of the Environmental Working Group; Virginia Ruiz, Director of Occupational and Environmental Health with Farmworker Justice; and Jay Feldman, Executive Director of Beyond Pesticides
Chemicals and Public Health
5PM in SIS 300
Screening of the acclaimed documentary A Chemical Reaction about the health dangers of synthetic lawn chemicals and the inspiring initiative of a North American community to fight back, followed by a discussion.
Student Debt: A Borrow Future
Lunch at Noon, Discussion at 12:20
Part of the Kay Spiritual Life Center Table Talk Lunch Series. Featuring Brian Lee Sang, Director of Financial Aid at American University; Fanta Aw, Assistant Vice President of Campus Life at American University; Robert Borosage, Co-Director of the Campaign for America’s Future; and Caiden Jay Elemer, Kickass Student Activist at American University.
Alternative Break All Trip Info Sessions:
Thursday, September 27, 5:00 - 6:30 PM in MGC 203/205
AU Radical Queers General Meeting
7PM in the SIS Lobby
Alternative Break Trip Info Sessions
Pennsylvania Info Session: 7:00pm-8:00pm in MGC 245
Balancing Sustainable Economic Development and Human Rights in Pennsylvania
Travel to Pennsylvania to gain a better understanding of the motivations and reservations behind economic development and environmental sustainability in America, with a focus on hydraulic fracturing. Trip Dates: March 9- 17, 2013
Justice Not Jails Weekly Meeting
8:30PM Battelle Atrium
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29TH
2012 Stop Modern Slavery Walk
11:30AM at 15 St NW & Constitution Ave, Washington, DC (under the Washington Monument)
This 1-mile walk around the National Mall will bring people together to celebrate progress in the anti-human trafficking movement, raise awareness about trafficking, and raise funds for select non-profit organizations that are active in the anti-slavery movement. Register or donate at www.smswalk.org.
Schedule: Registration starts at 11:30am; Program starts at 1pm (featuring speakers and musical performances); Walk starts at 2:15pm. More information about our organization at www.stopmodernslavery.org
DC Detention Visitation Network Volunteer Training
In the face of record numbers of our immigrant sisters and brothers being harshly uprooted from their lives as they are put into detention and deportation proceedings, we invite you to consider participating in the compassionate response, together with the DC Detention Visitation Network, of visiting people in detention and extending to them the hand of friendship.
To this end we are conducting a training/workshop on Saturday, September 29th from 9am to noon at The Potter’s House, 1658 Columbia Rd. NW, Washington, DC. This will be for people interested in exploring the possibility of becoming a visitor/friend of immigrant detainees and going on DVN visits to a detention center in Virginia or Maryland once or twice a month for a period of at least four months.
Light breakfast with coffee provided between 8:30-9:00.
You can make a difference! To register, go to dcvisitationnetwork.wordpress.com, or for more information, contact Sean at Washingt...@gmail.com. Please help us spread the word by forwarding this message.
Amy Goodman Speaks at the Green Festival in DC
1PM to 2PM at the DC Convention Center, 801 Mt. Vernon Place NW, Washington, D.C.
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Amy Goodman, host of the daily, independent global news hour Democracy Now!, will speak and sign her latest book, The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope Saturday, on Saturday, September 29th at 1 pm. |
ROCCUPY FESTIVAL
Sat 9/29 to Sun 9/30 at Freedom Plaza
Two days of plays, music, art, political discussions, and general assemblies in Freedom Plaza, because Occupy loves you. Family-friendly, affirmative, and an example of what the 99% wants more of in the world. Panel discussions to discuss the Occupy movement and the election, kid-friendly games, comedy, meet-and-greet with other organizations, music performances, the Occuplay and other special performances. Two days of plays, music, art, political discussions, and general assemblies in Freedom Plaza, because Occupy loves you. Family-friendly, affirmative, and an example of what the 99% wants more of in the world. Panel discussions to discuss the Occupy movement and the election, kid-friendly games, comedy, meet-and-greet with other organizations, music performances, the Occuplay and other special performancesTwo days of plays, music, art, political discussions, and general assemblies in Freedom Plaza, because Occupy loves you. Family-friendly, affirmative, and an example of what the 99% wants more of in the world. Panel discussions to discuss the Occupy movement and the election, kid-friendly games, comedy, meet-and-greet with other organizations, music performances, the Occuplay and other special performances.
MONDAY OCTOBER 1ST
Alternative Break Trip Info Sessions
Tamil Nadu, India Info Session: 7:00pm-8:00pm in Hughes Formal Lounge
Dalit, Youth and Women’s Rights in Southern India
Increase your understanding of the caste system in India and how its rigidity has led to the discrimination of Dalits. Participants will volunteer at a summer camp working with Dalit children. Trip Dates: May 18, 2013- June 4, 2013
Shell Oil Supreme Court Protest
11AM to 12:30 PM EST, in front of the Supreme Court
Please come join us on October 1st in a show of solidarity with human rights victims whose case is heading to the US Supreme Court. This is a crucial moment for our movement, and we need your help.
The case is Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell), and accuses Shell Oil of financing, arming, and conspiring with the Nigerian military in the violent suppression of a peaceful protest movement, during the 1990s. The brutal crackdown resulted in awful human rights abuses, including torture, rape, crimes against humanity, and the execution of nine community leaders. Shell first argued that the case should be dismissed simply because they are a corporation, and now they are arguing that it should be dismissed because it happened overseas... they're basically looking for any excuse to avoid confronting the actual evidence in the case.
A win for Shell at the Supreme Court will set frightening precedent, undercutting other human rights cases against both corporations and individuals, and we can't let this happen. On October 1st, from 11am to 12:30 EST, we'll be gathering outside of the Supreme Court to let Shell and the Justices know that we believe corporations must be held accountable for human rights abuses. Can you help?
Community Action & Social Justice Coalition
http://www.aucasj.org/
Kay Spiritual Life Center
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WDC 20016
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