June 13, 2020. D.C. Ward 7 & 8 Interfaith Leaders. Most Vulnerable Wards in D.C.

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June 13, 10:00 a.m. Ward 7 & 8 Interfaith Leaders are combining their monthly meeting for the first time to discuss the role of clergy in the wake of mass protest. Faith in the systems explores the question for the community and houses of worship. Join us Saturday, June 13 at 10:00 a.m. via zoom (details below).

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The Anacostia Coordinating Council (ACC) invites you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Ward 7 & 8 Faith Leaders Meeting Saturday,  June 13, 2020,  10:00 AM Join Zoom Meeting Online https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88559497129?pwd=Y1dhQ2JYVUxGYktEYU0rcCtETkZmUT09 Meeting ID: 885 5949 7129 Password: 5LwkDL Or Call In +13017158592,,88559497129#,,1#,466972#

Robbenberry Fellowship. Deadline. June 18, 2020

Your voices and plans for change are more important than ever! There is one week left to apply for the 2021 Roddenberry Fellowship. All innovators, organizers, and activists supporting vulnerable communities are welcome to apply. Join a community of activists and leaders urgently working to change our country!

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Application Deadline is Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 5 pm Pacific

The Roddenberry Fellowship   The 2021 Roddenberry Fellowship offers:   $50k in funding One-on-one coaching and development opportunities Ongoing support A community of peers allies who share resources, expertise, and support.  *Please note: Given the extraordinary demands placed on US communities because of COVID-19, the Foundation is raising the organizational budget restriction to $3M. Entities with a budget of $3M or less may now apply.

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Application Deadline is Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 5 pm Pacific

U.S. International National Interest\Foreign Policy. Rise Up to Shut Down AFRICOM. June 2020

Rise Up to Shut Down AFRICOM

June 16 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Online Zoom Event

“Today, U.S. bases, as well as military-to-military relations between 53 out of the 54 African countries and the United States, characterize the aggressive strategy of the U.S. to preserve the interests of the Pan-European, white supremacist colonial/capitalist project on the African continent,” says Netfa Freeman, IPS Events Coordinator and member of Black Alliance for Peace’s Coordinating Committee.

Join the Black Alliance for Peace for this online symposium, “Rise Up to Shut Down AFRICOM,” as part of our ongoing U.S. Out of Africa: Shut Down AFRICOM campaign. This will be a multimedia event that will include panelists from the heart of Africa. The organizational arm of the campaign, the U.S. Out of African Network (USOAN), calls on Africans throughout the continent and the Diaspora as well as anti-imperialists everywhere to mark June 16th, Soweto Day, with actions in the spirit of the African youth who rose up against the white supremacist South African government on June 16, 1976. We call for all to “Rise Up to Shut Down AFRICOM.” Registration required.

SPEAKERS

• Margaret Kimberley, Black Alliance for Peace and United National Antiwar Coalition
• Affiong L Affiong, Moyo Wa Taifa Pan Afrikan Women’s Solidarity Network (Nigeria)
• Martin Bunziga Azaboyi, Coordinator, Telema Youth Movement (DRCongo)
• Aziz Fall, Group for Research and Initiative for the Liberation of Africa (GRILA) (Egypt/Canada)
• Elias Amare, from the only African country with no AFRICOM (Eritrea)

There will be English/French interpretation.

The militarization of African by the U.S. colonial state is the flip side of the militarization and violence imposed on the African/Black communities and working class in the U.S. To oppose both, we must forge a powerful Pan African resistance with support from anti-imperialists everywhere.

Registration required.
On social media use the hashtag #RiseUpToShutDownAFRICOM

Co-sponsors: AfroResistance and Pan-African Community Action (PACA).

Other co-sponsors: Ujima People’s Progress Party, Black Workers for Justice, Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases, United National Antiwar Coalition, Institute for Policy Studies, Stop the Machine! Create a New World, All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP), Africa World Now Project, All African People’s Revolutionary Party – New Mexico, Zimbabwe Movement of Pan African Socialists

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Climate Crisis. June 2020

IPS Webinar Series: No Warming, No War: Interdependence of Militarism and the Climate Crisis

June 25 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Online Zoom Event

In the face of both COVID-19 and the climate crisis, we urgently need to shift from a culture of war to a culture of care. Funneling trillions into the military to wage endless wars and project military dominance isn’t keeping us safe. In fact, it’s preventing us from investing in true security and cooperation. In a new primer from the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, No Warming, No War: How Militarism Fuels the Climate Crisis and Vice-Versa, we lay out how militarism and the climate crisis are deeply intertwined and mutually reinforcing. During this session, we’ll discuss why true climate solutions must have antimilitarism at their core.

“No Warming, No War: How Militarism Fuels the Climate Crisis and Vice Versa” is part of the IPS webinar series, Progressive Politics and the Time of Pandemic: Registration is required.

RACISM. Systematic with Internal and External components.

• Dr. Welsing states that, for the sake of Black mental health and for Black intelligence, all people of color must understand the dynamics of racism/white supremacy, what it is and how it works, so that they can have an appropriate, self-respecting response to racism/ white supremacy. Dr. Welsing further states that, once the collective people (non-white), understand this fundamental issue (racism/ white supremacy), the ultimate organizing of all the appropriate behaviors necessary to neutralize this great injustice of the white supremacy system, it will only be a matter of time.

The Definition of Racism

               By Frances Cress Welsing, M.D., Psychiatrist, Washington, D.C. 

RACISM (white supremacy), is the 

• local and global power system and dynamic, structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white, 
• whether consciously or subconsciously determined, 
• which consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as 
• conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labour, law, politics, religion, sex and war); 
• for the ultimate purpose of white genetic survival and to prevent white genetic annihilation on planet earth – 
• a planet upon which the vast majority of people are classified as non-white (Black, Brown, Red and Yellow) by white skinned people, 
• and all of the nonwhite people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic recessive white skin people.”

• People who classify themselves as White, who wish to be taken seriously, and who are righteous and responsible, will only talk about ending White Supremacy (Racism) and replacing it with Justice.

For further understanding, read "The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy)", 1970. 

Also, "The Isis Papers (The Keys to the Colors)", Frances C. Welsing, Third World Press, 1990.