Schedule and Announcements for the week of November 10 - 16, 2014 Monday, November 10, 4:00pm, Fue el estado! hay miles de 43, Protest at the Mexican Consulate in Philadelphia, 5th & Market at the Bourse Building. Fue el Estado! Hay miles de 43 – It was the State ! There are thousands of 43. The disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa, Guerrero is the last straw in the state and cartel violence against the Mexican people. In solidarity with our families and friends who suffer from the brutality of the state and the drug cartels, the Mexican community in Philadelphia and its surroundings will demonstrate in front of the Mexican Consulate. Join us and our allies to demand justice. It’s time for us to come together and publicly condemn the Mexican government’s abuse of the Mexican people. We demand accountability and justice, from the government and President Enrique Peña Nieto, otherwise we ask for his immediate resignation Many of us live in the U.S. as a direct result of the violence, insecurity and unemployment in our country. We are millions of Mexicans who have been displaced and would like to return to a better country. Let’s come together for a Mexico without violence. STOP THE BLOOD! JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE! La desaparición de los 43 estudiantes normalistas de Ayotzinapa, Guerrero es el mas reciente de los estragos causados por la violencia del estado y el narcotráfico en contra del pueblo Mexicano. En solidaridad con nuestras familias y amigos que sufren por la brutalidad del estado y el narcotráfico, la población Mexicana de Filadelfia y sus alrededores nos uniremos frente a la institución representativa de nuestro gobierno, El Consulado Mexicano. Donde: 111 South Independence Mall E #310, Philadelphia, PA 19106 Cuando: Lunes, 10 de Noviembre a las 4:00 pm. Ven y únete a la población Mexicana y a nuestros aliados para exigir justicia. Es hora de condenar públicamente y en unión el abuso de el gobierno Mexicano ante nuestras comunidades. Exigimos responsabilidad y acción directa en crear justicia, por parte del gobierno y del presidente Enrique Peña Nieto, o de lo contrario pedimos su inmediata dimisión Muchos de nosotros radicamos en los Estados Unidos debido a la violencia, a la inseguridad y al desempleo en nuestro país. Abemos millones de Mexicanos que hemos sido desplazados y que desearíamos regresar a encontrar un mejor país. Unámonos por un México sin violencia. ALTO A LA SANGRE! JUSTICIA PARA EL PUEBLO! Tuesday, November 11, 7:00pm, Ferguson Grand Jury: Philadelphia Response, 48th & Baltimore (Calvary Church basement). Philly Workers World Party and the International Action Center also invite everyone to join in ongoing discussions to build a movement to take on police terror and more. Providing the verdict has not already been announced we will also use the time and space to make signs and banners. Tuesday, November 11, 6:00pm, Net Tuesday - Connecting Causes and Coders: Civic Hacking with Code for Philly, Friends Center, 1501 Cherry St. Were switching things up for our November meetup in a joint event with Code for Philly. Not a coder? No problem. Dont want to learn to code? Thats fine too. This is an opportunity for the people designing and building projects for civic good to meet with the people who will use the projects, or start their own. Participants with all levels of tech knowledge are welcome. Civic hacking is a new way for private citizens, social change agents, and government to come together and use technology to make the places we live better. Our local group of civic hackers, Code for Philly, meets weekly to work on projects on everything from biking to education to public health. And its not just programmers - effective projects involve community members, subject matter experts, data specialists, designers, and others. Join us to hear about Code for Phillys current projects (some of which might be useful for you right now), to learn how to get involved in a project related to your cause, or even to find out how to get started on a project of your own. If you want to get your hands dirty, a laptop is recommended - although, of course, youre always welcome to participate with or without a computer. If you want to learn how to code, we can point you to some resources to get you started. If youve got an idea, we can help you talk it through. If you have some specific skills youd like to lend to a project, we can help you find one. If you just want to see what these kinds of working meetings look like, we can help you find a seat. Additional information can be found at meetup/phlnet2/events/194343282/ Ferguson Grand Jury Emergency Response Philadelphia: It is anticipated that the Ferguson grand jury established to investigate charges against Darren Wilson, the cop who killed Mike Brown, will announce their decision some time this month. It could be a matter of days or weeks so be on alert. From information already leaked to the media we suspect that they will let the killer cop Darren Wilson off the hook. On the day of the announcement of the verdict of the Grand Jury, join with the people in Ferguson and across the U.S. COME TO PHILADELPHIA CITY HALL (15TH & MARKET STS) on the day the verdict is announced. Lets hold the space in solidarity with all those who resist police racism and terror! Bring signs and banners. Dress warmly and WEAR BLACK. Even if Wilson is indicted, we know better than to expect true justice from a capitalist, white supremacist, imperialist court. WE DEMAND PEOPLES JUSTICE! For info: PhillyIAC@gmail or 610-931-2615. On the day after the verdict is released, join us at 3:00pm at City Hall for a march up Broad St. to Cecil B. Moore for People Utilizing Real Power - PURPs demonstration: https://facebook/events/295619220627789 #BlackLivesMatter #BlackAndBrownLivesMatter Friday, November 14, 7:00pm, Why Your Student Debt Could Spark the Next Mass Movement, A-Space Anarchist Community Center, 4722 Baltimore Ave. Join Strike Student Debt for a workshop and discussion about the U.S. student debt crisis and how to build a mass movement for debt abolition and free higher education for all! Agenda: Intros, Defining the Problem - why your student debt is a political creation to repress youth rebellion, and how it disproportionately affects youth of color and working class youth, Imagining a Mass Movement Against Student Debt, Discussion / Announcements. Well bring FOOD and INSPIRATION! You bring YOUR STORY and OUTRAGE! Saturday, November, 15, 1:00pm, 15th annual Peoplehood Parade and Celebration, Paul Robeson House to Clark Park Peoplehood is a joyful and festive demonstration that we as people can come together, grapple with the issues of the day, and respond meaningfully in the streets. A time for community and movement building, a time for self expression, a time to walk the streets with friends, allies, and giant puppets. Bring your art, visions, parade style, and people or join in ours! NOON, Parade lines up at the Paul Robeson House (50th and Walnut), 1PM Parade Step-off, around 2PM Performances in the park Join the parade! GROUPS - Groups can bring their own banners or artwork or arrange to join a section of Spiral Q puppets and flags. Slots are also still open for performances in Clark Park after the parade. Register your group at https://docs.google/forms/d/1F2aDM0SyGhsw_QPpy_EcMAs2w55M5YvkzRujKwpMo28/viewform OTHERS - Individuals, friends, and families can drop in and join us in the parade no registration necessary. Just meet us at 50th and Walnut at NOON for parade line-up. More information at spiralq.org/peoplehood Wednesday, November 19, 6:30pm, Know Your Rights Training, Temple University, Anderson Hall room 14, 11th and Berks Sts. Know what to say and how to say it so you dont become a police victim. Brought to you by F(ilm) The Police! Committee of the Avenging the Ancestors Coalition and Up Against the Law Legal Collective. Thursday, November 20, 6pm - Friday, Nov 20th, 6am, Rally to raise Awareness for LGBT Homelessness, JFK Plaza, Philadelphia Join Change Philly Today: A Safe Haven for LGBT Youth and spend the night with Change Philly Today to experience what its like to be homeless. For more information contact: (rusty.doll@changephillytoday). Tuesday, November 25, 7:00pm, An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Wooden Shoe Books and Records, 704 South St, Philadelphia Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.” Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. 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