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Author Event: Sixteen for ’16; A Progressive Agenda For A Better America

Busboys & Poets - 14th & V 2021 14th Street NW, Washington, DC

Moderated by IPS Director John Cavanagh and featuring Fred Azcarate and Karen Dolan as respondents, this discussion and book signing with IPS Associate Fellow Salvatore Babones will focus on how to push the 2016 election debate from calls for empty reform to real progressive change.

Brown Bag: Inside Syria

IPS Conference Room 1301 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC, United States

Join IPS' Foreign Policy In Focus for brown bag discussion with Reese Erlich, foreign correspondent and author of a new book on, "The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect."

Revolutionary Cuba in New Period of Rapprochement with The U.S.

University of District of Columbia 4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Blg 41, Room A-03, Washington, DC, United States

Come hear a presentation about the normalization of relations between these to countries by Cuban solidarity activists who were organizers in the struggle to free the Cuban 5.

Film: Hands Up Don’t Shoot Our Youth Movement

University of District of Columbia 4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Blg 41, Room A-03, Washington, DC, United States

A screening followed by a bridge building discussion with filmmaker Ralph L. Crowder III and with a live Hip Hop performance by Son of Nun.

Poetry Database Launch Party and Silent Auction

Busboys and Poets - Brookland 625 Monroe Street NE, Washington, DC

The Institute for Policy Studies is a proud co-sponsor of Split This Rocks' celebration featuring DJ Phenomejon, poetry readings and performances, a demonstration of the database, and a silent auction!

Arts Event: Salsa not Sanctions

Bolivarian Hall of the Embassy of Venezuela 2443 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC, United States

A party with the live band El Sistema's Orquesta Latino Caribeña, at Venezuelan Embassy’s Bolivarian Hall to show our determination to have positive relations with our South American neighbors.

Social Entrepreneurship & Grassroots Development in Senegal

IPS Conference Room 1301 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC, United States

A seminar about Bégué Coco, a unique social enterprise that is creating jobs for youth, building the local, healthy living movement, and supporting environmental preservation.

Author Event: Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror: A Primer

A book launch party and signing of IPS fellow Phyllis Benniss latest Middle East primer, focused on ISIS and President Obama’s war, which is supposedly only against the violent extremists of ISIS, but is in fact being waged against whole populations in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya and beyond.

Film: Cabralista, A Documentary Trilogy

Busboys & Poets - 14th & V 2021 14th Street NW, Washington, DC

Join the Institute for Policy Studies and Africa World Now Project for the screening of a film inspired by the opus of Amilcar Cabral.

39th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Memorial Program

Sheridan Circle 23rd St and Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States

Please join us to remember Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt, who were assassinated on this site in 1976 by agents of the Pinochet dictatorship.

September Days Against the Blockade

Calvary Baptist Church 755 Eighth Street, NW, DC

Join and participate in presentations, performances, and discussions about completing the normalization of relations between the U.S. and Cuba and how you can help make it final.

People and Planet First Agenda

University of Baltimore 21 W Mt Royal Ave, Baltimore, MD, United States

Join us as we celebrate a movement designed to change the way we engage with our planet and each other!