The Thunderbolt 211006 — No Thunderbolt This Week
Dana Walker
The Thunderbolt
News — Commentary — Calendar of Activist Events — Dumb Jokes
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No Thunderbolt This Week
I warned you that this might happen; please understand that I am sort of like someone with a brand new lover who is having trouble concentrating upon anything else. Rather than my head exploding over some recent political outrage, I instead spent this week pulling all the seats out of a school bus.
One thing I will mention on that: I was kind of worried about the fact that after purchasing the bus I had very limited funds with which to fix it up — and in fact I was thinking that I didn't have nearly enough and that I was going to have to do some fairly serious borrowing — but I spent the years 1998-2000 working on another bus project that was aborted by six years in prison, and when my friend who was working on that project for me heard that I had a new bus he let me know that he had saved all of the stuff that I bought back then! (This was back in the 'good ole' days' when I was a rich pot dealer.) It turns out that I already have most of the appliances that I will need — including a 12-volt on-demand hot water heater, a luxury I couldn't even dream of now — and I will also have a brand new 20-year old still-in-the-box stereo system that was absolute top-of-the-line back in 1999! Complete with 12" woofers!
I’m telling you, People: Magic happens.
Anyway, there is one event that you may be interested in checking out — though it starts today, so you’d better get on it if you’re going to…
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Washington Low Income Housing Alliance Conference on Ending Homelessness Featuring Ibram X. Kendi
October 6th thru 8th on Zoom
This message came from the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance:
We are thrilled to announce that Ibram X. Kendi, nationally-recognized author, historian, and activist, will be giving the opening keynote at this year's Conference on Ending Homelessness!
Dr. Kendi is a National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of seven books. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and the Founding Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. Dr. Kendi is also a contributor writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News Racial Justice Contributor.
This year's conference will take place virtually over three days on October 6, 7, and 8, and early bird registration is now open!
We have a limited number of scholarships available for people living on low incomes and for service providers whose agencies have limited training budgets. To get an email notification when scholarship applications open, drop us your email address here, or just keep an eye on wliha.org/conference.
As always, Housing Alliance members receive a special discounted rate on conference registration. Learn more about member benefits and joining the Housing Alliance at wliha.org/membership.
Hope to see you at COEH!
Teresa
Teresa Clark
Deputy Director
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Anyway, that’s it for this week.
I’ll try to come up with something for next week — but no promises…
Peace.
Dana