SOME EVENTS FOR PROGRESSIVES IN BROWARD AND PALM BEACH COUNTIES-293
Bob Bender
SOME EVENTS FOR PROGRESSIVES IN BROWARD AND PALM BEACH COUNTIES-293
Friday November 28, 12 noon Low Prices at What Cost? Rally on Black Friday
Join this national day of action to speak up for the rights of Walmart workers against corporate greed that often leaves them struggling in poverty. Their plight is a sad model of what is happening across our country as corporations, with their "right" to profit, suck the life out of human rights. Workers from the rally at the Hialeah Walmart store plan to join us just as they had in previous years. For more please see the links below.
Walmart Supercenter #2789
3200 Old Boynton Road
Boynton Beach 33436
http://www.blackfridayprotests.org
https://actionnetwork.org/events/low-prices-at-what-cost
http://pol.moveon.org/event/moveonaction/142616
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Saturday November 29, 11 a.m. Mass Rally in defense of the rights of the homeless; in protest against homeless criminalization laws across the United States; and demanding permanent housing and services for those in need.
Over the past seven months the Fort Lauderdale City Commission, led by Mayor Jack Seiler, has waged an unprecedented assault on the very existence of homeless persons within its borders. This mayor’s repeated claims about the existence of alternatives to the newly criminalized outdoor food sharing sites have been exposed as false by local media.
The icing on this bitter cake, which is layered with prohibitions against camping, publicly storing personal belongings and panhandling, has been Ordinance C-14-42, which effectively criminalizes public food sharing. More than a dozen summonses—including at least three given to 91-year-old “Chef Arnold” Abbott—have been issued since this law’s implementation on October 31. The backlash against this legal denial of human decency has attained global proportions, with condemnations ushering from thousands on social media and from mass media outlets on every continent (Antarctica excluded).
Homeless advocacy organizations both locally and nationally—e.g., the National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty—have condemned the criminalization of homelessness for decades as a non-solution and a bar to attaining the goal of ending homelessness. The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness concurs that providing permanent supportive housing and services to the chronically homeless, as opposed to criminalizing their life-sustaining activity, is both humane and cost-effective. Even Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel has decried laws which criminalize homelessness as wrongheaded.
Speakers/Endorsers (more TBA): Arnold Abbott, The Rev.
Canon Mark Sims,
Rev. Craig Watts, Rabbi Barry Silver, Rev. Gail Tapscott, Rev. Dwayne Black, National
Coalition for the Homeless, Broward Coalition to End Homelessness,
The Homeless Voice, Project Downtown Fort Lauderdale, REMAR USA, Broward
Homeless Campaign, Community Outreach Committee of the Unitarian Universalist
Church of Ft. Lauderdale
United States Federal Courthouse
299 East Broward Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale
To be followed by a march and food sharing, music, and speak-outs by homeless folk at Stranahan Park, 10 E. Broward Boulevard
Media Contacts:
Jeff Weinberger (Broward Homeless Campaign) 954-839-5376, broward...@gmail.com
Reverend Gail Tapsott
(Community Outreach Committee, Unitarian Universalist Church of
Ft. Lauderdale) 954-288-4245, RevGail...@aol.com
Facebook Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1532702446976326/
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Monday December 1, 1 p.m. Organizing for America: EPA Comment Delivery
We have an appointment and will be delivering more 19,000 of the 300,000 comments from Floridians to the EPA in favor of the President’s Clean Power Plan. We will ask Senator Abruzzo to take them to the Governor and the Department of Environmental Protection in Tallahassee.
Office of State Senator Joseph Abruzzo
12300 West Forest Hill Boulevard, Suite 200
Wellington 33414
RSVP :https://donate.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gs8sgd
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Thursday December 11, 4 p.m. Move To Amend Barnstorming Event
Move to Amend national spokesperson David Cobb, attorney and lifelong activist, is visiting Delray Beach this December in an effort to build connections, inspire activism, and reveal the origins of corporate power in America.
Move to Amend is a national coalition of over 375,000 people and organizations whose goal is amending the United States Constitution to end corporate rule by building a multiracial, cross-class democracy movement. David's presentations are part history lesson and part heart-felt call-to-action. Challenging Corporate Rule & Creating Democracy aims to help local folks understand how they can work to abolish corporate personhood and establish a government of, by, and for the people.
Gizzi's Coffee Shop
2275 S. Federal Highway #380
Delray Beach 33483
This event is free and open to the public. Move to Amend finances these tours through the generous donations of event attendees.
For more information
contact Ambrosia Danu, Move to Amend Barnstorming Coordinator,
at barnst...@movetoamend.org or call 707-269-0984.
Joni Albrecht albre...@earthlink.net
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Wednesday December 17, 7-8:30 p.m. If I Had a Hammer: The Life and Song of Pete Seeger
FAU-Jupiter Lifelong
Learning Society
Rosenthal Complex, Florida Atlantic University
5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter
(Donald Ross Road Exit off I-95, go east)
Tickets: $25/member;
$35/non-member (+$5 at the door)
Info 561-799-8547 or http://www.fau.edu/divdept/lifelong/LLSJupiter/forms/fall14_catalog_web.pdf
All of our programs have narration accompanied
by slides, and live music accompanied by lyrics for sing-along. We do programs for
private communities, if you think your HOA might be interested.