Weekly Jan 28th

[Community Action and Social Justice Coalition]

Hey friends!

 

Its that time of year again - the semester has started and CASJ is back in action. Aside from all the general awesomeness going on this week, be sure to check out CASJ's very own discussion panel this wednesday, focused on the intersection between social justice and religion. Cool talk with some amazing religious figures from the DC community. https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/408550942563287/declines/ The panel will be this wednesday at 5:30 PM in the Butler Board Room. We got the corporate room, so bring your expensive champagne (please don't).

 

On another note, our wonderful friends at the Kay Chapel have another entry in their table talk series, this time focusing on the massively oversized and universally detested (if only) US Defense Budget. Funnily enough, its the same date as our Religion Panel, though thankfully earlier in the day at noon. Check out the entry farther down for more details (you will need to register).

 

Enjoy the week and take comfort in solidarity.

 

Onwards comrades!

 

CASJ

 

 

Monday, January 28^th

Workers' Rights Campaign – ONE DC

January 28, 2013

6:30pm at ONE DC

http://www.onedconline.org/

 

Green Corps Activist Training Workshop

Monday 7PM MGC 247

Want to effectively recruit and train new members for your group?

How about build political power to make a difference on environmental and social justice issues?

Join Green Corps, EcoSense, DC Students Speak, and the AU Dems for an ACTIVIST TRAINING WORKSHOP Monday, January 28^th 8:00 to 10:00 PM in MGC 247

https://www.facebook.com/events/364453040318899/?ref =2  for an ACTIVIST TRAINING WORKSHOP Monday, January 28th 8:00 to 10:00 PM in MGC 247. for an ACTIVIST TRAINING WORKSHOP Monday, January 28th 8:00 to 10:00 PM in MGC 247.

 

Wednesday, January 30^th

US Defense Budget: Too Big to Fail?

Part of the Kay Table Talk Lunch Series

Kay Spiritual Life Center Lounge: Wednesday, January 30^th

Lunch at 12, Discussion at 12:20

Dr. Stuart Johnson
Director of International Studies at RAND Corporation
Associate Adjunct Professor at in School International and Public Affairs , Columbia University

Dr. Gordon Adams
US Foreign Policy Professor at the School of International Service, American University

RSVP - KS...@american.eduby Tuesday, January 29th

 

Discussion Panel: Social Justice and Religion

The Community Action and Social Justice coalition and the Muslim Student Association will be having a panel to discuss the connections between religion and social justice. Our panelists will be discussing their experience working and organizing for social justice within communities of faith. They will also be discussing how their own faith has guided their work for social justice and why thy social justice is important to them from the perspective of their faith.

The panelists are,
Ilana Alazzeh
Rev. Michael Vanzant, outreach pastor for Faith Temple

Monica Kamen, an organizer from Jews United for Justice

https://www.facebook.com/events/408550942563287/?ref=2

 

 

General Interest Meeting – AU American Dream

8:15 PM Ward 106

Why you should come: If you want to advocate and educate on behalf of and working with a vulnerable minority that our country has failed. If you have a personal connection or a lack of knowledge. If you are passionate about social justice or if you want free food. If you were involved last semester or if you have never heard of this group but want to learn more.

https://www.facebook.com/events/471051216290433/?ref=2 ael Vanzant, outreach pastor for Faith Temple
Monica Kamen, an organizer from Jews United For Justice

 

Thursday, January 31^th

 

DC Jobs Coalition -- First Source Enforcement and Clawback Legislation Campaign

January 31, 2013

12:00 p.m. at ONE DC

http://www.onedconline.org/

 

Understanding the Pentagon Budget -- and How to Move the Money
Webinar with Chris Hellman, National Priorities Project
Thursday, January 31, 2:00 PM Eastern
Register for this free webinar now.

Pentagon spending, which has increased 50% since 2001, has moved from relative obscurity to center stage. Activists have the opportunity of a generation to achieve real and lasting decreases to military spending.

Learn how and where to get the Pentagon spending facts you need to shape the national debate. The next six weeks are critical, but your knowledge will also support the long-term effort to reorient national priorities.

This free webinar with analyst, researcher and experienced workshop leader Chris Hellman will help you understand better the mammoth Pentagon budget, how to find and use the information you need to campaign for changed national priorities, and develop skills for what will be a long-term struggle to shift those priorities.

Chris Hellman is a policy analyst with the National Priorities Project. He previously served with the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, the Center for Defense Information, and as a congressional staffer. Last year he co-led several day-long trainings on how to "Move the Money" together with Peace Action. This is part of a series of Militarism Watch webinars on strengthening skills to research militarism to serve activism, organized by the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Register now for "Understanding the Pentagon Budget -- and How to Move the Money" on Thursday, January 31.

 

Campus Progress Millenial Discussion

Campus Progress and the Roosevelt Institute invite you to join us on January 31^st for a panel discussion about our generation's collective vision for democracy in the 21^st century.

Millennials across the country have collaborated to design their vision and reject the idea that our system is too broken, too stagnant, and too outdated. They have identified the parts of the system that need to be fixed while articulating what a true democracy should look like.

Join us as we present the report's findings, to be followed by a reception.

Center for American Progress
1333 H Street, NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Thursday, January 31^st, 4-7 PM

 

Fossil Free AU General Meeting!

Butler Conference Room 8-9PM

NOTE: This meeting is now on Thursday Jan 31. Join as at our second general meeting of the semester! We'll be discussing our progress this past week and the steps we need to take going forward. If you weren't at our first meeting, don't worry, we'll catch you up! Bring your friends, professors, and other members of the AU community -- Fossil Free AU aims to promote a movement based on community involvement. We'd love to hear your voice and recognize your concerns.

https://www.facebook.com/events/465802726814859/?ref=2

 

Tuesday, February 5^th

The State of Rights and Resources 2012-2013: Landowners or Laborers?

A panel on the rural development choices facing leaders of developing countries

February 5, 2013; 10 a.m.

The Royal Society - Kohn Center

6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London

 

The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) and the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP)

are pleased to invite you to a panel discussion on the current state of rights and resources around the world, and new analyses on the mounting risks of local land rights insecurity for investment and development.

Panelists

Li Ping - Senior Attorney, Landesa, China

Alfred Brownell - Executive Director, Green Advocates, Liberia

Samuel Nguiffo - Director, Center for Environment and Development, Cameroon

Maung Maung Than - Project Coordinator/Consultant (Capacity Building Program for Community Forestry in Myanmar), RECOFTC - The Center for People and Forests

Joji Carino - Coordinator of the IIFB Working Group on Indicators, Tebtebba, Philippines

Saskia Ozinga - Campaign Coordinator, Climate Change, Export Credit Agencies & Forest Peoples, FERN, UK

Jeffrey Hatcher -Director, Global Programs, RRI, US

Moderated by

Fred Pearce -Journalist and author of The Land Grabbers

 

More information on this event can be found here.

Please RSVP by Jan. 31

We look forward to seeing you there. Please forward this invitation to all those interested.

 

Wednesday, February 6^th

Film Screening: The Interrupters

AU's Chapter of React to Film presents: The Interrupters, a Sundance recognized film that focuses on inner-city violence in Chicago.

From producer/director Steve James and author-turned-producer Alex Kotlowitz, The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising story of three “violence interrupters” in Chicago who with bravado, humility and even humor try to protect their communities from the violence they once employed.

It will take place Wednesday, February 6th at 7:00 in the Wechsler Theater in MGC. Attached is a trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC1EOm4o_0A

 

Friday, February 15^th

YDS Student Conference

"Students Fighting Austerity: The Future of Democratic Socialism in Neoliberal America"

February 15-17 at St. Francis College: 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn Heights NY 11221

Register now to get discount prices on registration and half off your YDS membership before February 1st!

It's 2013, and President Obama already compromised with the Tea Party, trading away his best bargaining chip--taxes on the super wealthy. Now lawmakers are making plans to cut programs we all depend on. We must raise our voices against austerity, student debt, and undemocratic work environments; join us to build a youth movement that addresses the social and economic needs of everyone.

Community Action & Social Justice Coalition
http://www.aucasj.org/
Kay Spiritual Life Center
4400 Mass. Ave, NW
WDC 20016
Phone: 202 885 3333
Fax: 202 885 3317


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