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Author Event: The Black History of the White House

Author Event: The Black History of the White House

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

Official histories of the United States have ignored the fact that 25 percent of all U.S. presidents were slaveholders, and that black people were held in bondage in the White House itself. And while the nation was born under the banner of "freedom and justice for all," many colonists risked rebelling against England in order to protect their lucrative slave business from the growing threat of British abolitionism. These historical facts, commonly excluded from schoolbooks and popular versions of American history, have profoundly shaped the course of race relations in the United States.

Stormy War Clouds: A Briefing on The Crisis in Ivory Coast (Cote-d’Ivoire)

Stormy War Clouds: A Briefing on The Crisis in Ivory Coast (Cote-d’Ivoire)

National Press Club 529 Fourteenth Street, NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC, United States

Experts describe Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) as Africa’s biggest news story of 2010. Its disputed November 28 run-off and its tense aftermath constitute a secondary crisis. This situation was indeed born out of unresolved primary Ivorian dilemmas and crises: the epicenter of FranceAfrique or French neocolonialism across Africa. Global capital, neoliberalism and foreign economic domination are the price of “stable” dictatorship.

Common Security Clubs: A Facilitator Training Workshop

Festival Center 1640 Columbia Road, NW, Washington, DC, United States

What is a Common Security Club? It’s a new way for group leaders and trainers to help people help themselves in these troubled times.

These are challenging times for all of us. The economic meltdown and concerns about the health of the planet have left people isolated, vulnerable and afraid. Common Security Clubs are a way to find connection, information, and avenues to a new kind of security—one based on mutual aid and support. Participants learn about the causes of economic and ecological changes, overcome isolation and strengthen community ties.

12 Years Of People’s Democracy In Venezuela

12 Years Of People’s Democracy In Venezuela

Festival Center 1640 Columbia Road, NW, Washington, DC, United States

Feb. 2 marks the 12 year anniversary of the inauguration of President Chavez and the beginning of the Bolivarian Revolution. Some of Venezuela’s most impressive achievements that we want to celebrate include: A reduction in poverty by 44% between 1998 and 2008 according to the United Nations Development Programme and the OAS, a fall in unemployment from 16.8% in 2003 to 7% in 2010, an increase by 10 places on the Human Development Index of the United Nations from 1998 to 2008, and the near obliteration of illiteracy.

Town Hall Meeting: Egypt on the Brink

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

Egypt is the most important strategic Arab ally for the United States. However, events in Tunisia have started a domino effect in the Arab world.

Writers Against War & Occupation In Afghanistan & Iraq

Writers Against War & Occupation In Afghanistan & Iraq

Lafayette Park 16th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, United States

Come to a critical mass gathering for a show of unity in opposition to U.S. Wars and Occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. A minute of silence will be observed for each year of each war (sixteen minutes), followed by our simultaneous reading of lines of poetry (probably lines from Whitman).

Floricanto in Washington: A Multicultural Reading in Response to SB 1070

True Reformer Building 1200 U Street, NW, Washington, DC, United States

Join us as over 20 poets lend their energy and language to a group reading in response to Arizona Senate Bill 1070 and in resistance to the atmosphere of national xenophobia under which the bill (and its emerging counterparts) were created.

Gulf Tolls: A Poetry Reading

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

Split This Rock and Poets for Living Waters are partnering to offer a poetry tribute to the Gulf of Mexico and the surrounding regions. There is a $5 suggested donation but no one will be turned away.

Emerging Issues in Ending Violence Against Immigrant Women

Emerging Issues in Ending Violence Against Immigrant Women

Rayburn Building, Room 2456 45 Independence Avenue SW , Washington, DC, United States

Hear the testimonies of survivors of violence and advocates who will share their stories demonstrating the need for legislation protecting women from violence, and on the dangerous impacts of ICE Access programs on immigrant women and their families.

Economic Crisis, Unending War, and Rightwing Resurgence

Pleasant Street Congregational Chuch 75 Pleasant Street, Arlington, MA, United States

Noam Chomsky and Phyllis Bennis will discuss the current wars and the forces driving them. They will examine together the implications of the economic crisis and the right-wing resurgence for new initiatives by the peace movement. Following their conversation, there will be time for brief comments and questions from the audience.

Film: The Dark Side of Chocolate

Film: The Dark Side of Chocolate

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

Join Tiffany Williams, Advocacy Director for IPS' Break the Chain Campaign and Emira Woods, Co-Director of  IPS' Foreign Policy In Focus project as we present a screening of The Dark Side of Chocolate, a documentary film by Miki Mistrati and U. Roberto Romano about the continued allegations of trafficking of children and child labor in the international cocoa industry.

Film: Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story

Film: Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story

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

Cyntoia Brown was an average teenager in an American town.  But a series of bad decisions led the 16-year-old into a situation that ended with her killing a man who had picked her up for sex.  She was sentenced to life in a Tennessee prison. In her case, a life sentence means she will serve a minimum of 51 years behind bars. This film challenges our assumptions about violence and explores how factors such as biology and family history can doom some young people from the start.

Hill Briefing: How Would You Spend $1 Trillion?

Capitol Visitors Center, Room SVC 210 First & East Capitol Streets, NE, Washington, DC, United States

At this congressional briefing and screening view two four-minute compelling videos which chronicle how the filmmakers – and the people they interview – would spend the more than $1 trillion already spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The filmmakers will also offer brief introductions to their work and to life in their communities.

Film: Wal-Mart; The High Cost of Low Price

Film: Wal-Mart; The High Cost of Low Price

Plymouth Congregational Church 5301 North Capitol Street, NE, Washington, DC, United States

Walmart has plans to establish four stores in DC by 2012. Notorious for threatening small businesses, causing the loss of more jobs, and bringing lower wage standards for all workers to communities, concerned District of Columbia citizens and social justice advocates are coming together to spread the news and resist the potentially disastrous implications for the District of Columbia.

A Talk With Wendy Navarro

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

Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) and Foreign Policy In Focus are excited to announce a public talk with Wendy Navarro, an independent art critic and curator currently based in Barcelona, Spain. Since the mid 1990s, Navarro has been an active curator at the Visual Art Development Center (CDAV) in Havana, Cuba, while working as an editor of the magazine ArteCubano, and lecturing about Cuban contemporary art at the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) and Havana University.