24] Land claims in the
Amazon – Sept. 30
25] Film PRISON KIDS – Sept.
30
26] Save Affordable
Housing
– Sept. 30
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24] -- Amazon Watch and
the Amazon Conservation Team Invite You to a "Green-Bag Lunch"
Presentation: Indigenous Land Claims in the Colombian Andes-Amazon Transition
Region with Brian Hettler. Amazon Conservation Team, on Wed., Sept. 30 at 12:30
PM to 2 PM in the Amazon Watch / CIEL Conference Room, 1350 Connecticut Ave.
NW, #1100, (above Cosi, Dupont Circle South) , WDC.
25] -- At the
CAPITOL VISITOR CENTER, First Street Southeast Room, SVC 200-201, WDC, on Wed.,
Sept. 30 from 3 to 4 PM, Fusion is hosting a screening of the documentary “Prison
Kids” and a discussion on juvenile justice in America with Sen. Cory Booker,
Mark Holden (Koch Industries), Van Jones (#cut50), Jennifer Bellamy (ACLU),
Christine Leonard (Coalition of Public Safety), and Five Mualimm-ak (Incarceration
Nation Inc.). RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1l3LsMaPXCpdjD5ZNII6aAXqoUsuhtxbCKbMehV7istg/viewform.
26] -- On Wed., Sept. 30
from 4:30 to 6:30 PM, stand with the 302 families of Museum Square Apartments
who are fighting to preserve their Section 8 affordable housing units! On the
eve of the Section 8 contract expiring on October 1st, all DC residents who
care about affordable housing and diverse communities should come out in
solidarity with the Chinese & African-American families at risk of
displacement for a community rally and a short march through the neighborhood
to say loud & clear: "We Need to Preserve Affordable Housing in Washington
DC!"
In
alliance with the Museum Square Tenants Association, the National Alliance of
HUD Tenants, and the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community
Development, DC residents are calling for:
1.
Bush Companies to extend the Section 8 contract, stop the proposed demolition
of these 302 homes, and offer a fair price to the tenants to buy their homes
for the permanent preservation of Museum Square.
2.
The DC Council to pass permanent TOPA (Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act)
legislation that requires all property owners to offer a bonafide price to
tenants to buy their buildings to preserve their homes that includes Museum
Square, and the DC government to exercise DOPA (District Opportunity to
Purchase Act) and work with nonprofit developers to acquire Museum Square.
3.
HUD to require voucher landlords to issue form letters to tenants informing
them of their rights in their primary language, and to implement fines on
owners who violate rights, to prevent misleading and illegal tactics by landlords
to illegally push out low-income, immigrant and elderly residents.
The
Bush Companies owner of the building would like to demolish the building to
replace these families with 825 luxury condos and apartments only affordable to
the wealthy. Displacement of 200 Chinese immigrants & 100 African-American
residents, mostly seniors and children, and small businesses would cause
economic hardship, further isolation, decimate Chinatown even further, and
dramatically reduce the remaining affordable housing stock in DC.
Meet
in front of Museum Square, 401 K St. NW, WDC, for a rally at 4:30 PM, and for a
short march through the neighborhood at 5:45 PM to say: Save affordable housing
in DC! See https://www.facebook.com/events/1052524411438881/.
To
be continued.
Donations
can be sent to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD
21218. Ph: 410-366-1637; Email: mobuszewski [at] verizon.net. Go to http://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com/.
"The
master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought
the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while
the subject class has had nothing to gain and everything to lose--especially
their lives." Eugene Victor Debs
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