Here’s what’s coming up for Community Cinema DC at the Washington DC Jewish Community Center (the second venue is Busboys and Poets). You’ll want to be there and get involved. Find a Community Cinema screening near you — the season continues through June 2013. And there’s no admission fee – Read FREE – only a [...]
It’s been awhile since the last Eclectique Interview. This will be the second interview with a poet. That’s Sarah Browning, director of D.C. Poets Against the War and Split This Rock Poetry Festival. Sarah is also author of Whiskey in the Garden of Eden (The Word Works, 2007), and co-editor of D.C. Poets Against the [...]
I will not watch television, listen to the radio or engage in any media voyeurism for the 10th anniversary of September 11. Instead, I plan to come together with real live people coming together. It’s not just an occasion to remember, but to set a path forward from here. Here are some upcoming events in [...]
I want to be remembered as someone who used herself and anything she could touch to work for justice and freedom…. I want to be remembered as one who tried. Dorothy Height (1912 – 2010) Update: Funeral Arrangements for Dorothy Height Dear Friends and Colleagues, Below is the schedule of events for the celebration of [...]
Van Jones, co-founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland , CA. Van Jones, co-founder of ColorofChange.org. Van Jones, founder and president of Green for All. Van Jones, author of The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems. Van Jones, an Eclectique|916 Community Organizer Hall of Famer [...]
