Join us for a conversation about histories of queers and trans communities in DC and their relationships and resistance to gentrification and displacement. Topics of conversation will include gay clubs closed in Southeast and opened in Shaw, policing and public safety, housing, grassroots organizing and more. Facilitated by Darby from New Avenues for Youth, presented in collaboration with Different Avenues.

This workshop will feature a panel from HIPS and others to discuss various factors that contribute to different levels of substance use while addressing the specific lived realities and needs of substance using communities. Utilizing a harm reduction model, we will discuss ways to support each other with respect to empower self-determination and health. Bring candy to benefit HIPS.

For location, please e-mail queerandtransjuly@gmail.com 

A reflection on the past month's events, what we've learned and where to go from here. 

Welcoming Reception for the Hibakusha survivors on Monday, August 4, 6:30 pm. The reception is at the Mott House, 122 Maryland Ave. NE, on Capitol Hill near the Supreme Court. We will greet Mr. Akinori Hara, Hiroshima survivor, and Ms. Yasuko Ota, Nagasaki survivor. We also will be presenting the annual Josephine Butler Nuclear Free Future Award to local activists Joe and Rose Marie Flynn, and there will be light refreshments after the program.

Sixty-three years ago, over Hiroshima, Japan, at 8:15 am, (7:15 pm in Washington, DC) the United States dropped the bomb that brought the world into the nuclear age. This year, for the first time, this annual commemoration will be held at the World War II Memorial on the National Mall. Join speakers, musicians, activists against nuclear annihilation, and our honored Hibakusha guests (Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb explosions) to acknowledge the awesome responsibility of that event, consider our role in it and in the subsequent arms race that still threatens the continued existence of life on Earth today, remember those innocent victims who perished in the conflagration, and reflect on ways we can work to make sure it never happens again.n

Wednesday, August 6th
At Franklin School Shelter
925 13th St., NW
(At 13th and K Sts, NW)
At 7:30 PM
In Dining Hall

Last week some residents had been told not to return to Franklin on August 1st. It was determined that this would’ve caused some of them to be put out with nowhere to go. The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless called a meeting at franklin on Tuesday, July 29th. They gathered affidavits from some of those who would’ve been adversely affected by this decision and filed them with the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH). When DHS heard about this, they reversed their decision to put the men out.

Please join Reverend Phil Wheaton, the DC Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee, and our honored delegation of Hibakusha guests for a service of awareness and reflection considering the lessons of the tragedy, and what we can do to make sure the bomb over Nagasaki, sixty-three years ago, is the last time atomic weapons are ever used on Earth.
After the service (9:30 pm), there will be a short candlelight procession to the White House, and a vigil through the moment of the explosion (10:02 pm Eastern Daylight Time).

Come to the Girls Rock! DC Camper Showcase
 
Girls Rock! DC, an entirely volunteer-run collective, is holding the DC Metro Area's first all-girl rock camp from August 11-15, 2008!  We'll have instrument instruction on electric guitar, electric bass, drums, keyboards, turntables, and vocals.  Campers will form bands, write an original song and perform at DC's 9:30 Club on Sat. Aug 16. 
 
Don't miss your chance to see DC's newest young rockers take the stage!
 
Saturday, August 16, 11:00am-1:00pm
Early show at the 9:30 Club: 815 V St. NW, corner of 9th and V.
 
For tickets and more info: www.girlsrockdc.org or info@girlsrockdc.org.

Food, music, crafts, and fun

for the whole family