Ongoing action/events:
 Through August 5th: "Home is...": Art Created by Children and Adults in SOME Housing, Washington D.C. THEARC (Town Hall Education Arts and Recreation Campus) 1901 Mississippi Ave. SE. For more information on this free community art show, visit http://www.some.org or email jheilman@some.org.
Every Saturday: Protest at the White House, Washington, D.C. Visit www.WhiteHouseProtest.org for more information and many pictures.
10:00AM - 12:00 PM Every Saturday: Anti-war rally, Mystic, CT. Downtown Mystic, Next to Bank Square Books
7:00pm Every first and third Monday: "Guerilla Poet Insurgency Lyrical Ambush," Washginton, D.C. Dupont Circle. Cross street: 19th and Connecticut., NW. Metro: Dupont CircleRed Line. An amplified poetry/spoken word/hip hop open mic held in a public space featuring voices, drums/musical instruments, sidewalk chalk, bubbles, and noisemakers, all available for public use. For more information, go to http://www.guerrillapoets.org.
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM Every Tuesday and Thursday : "Prison Book Program Volunteer Night," Boston, MA. 110 Arlington St. Join us to answer prisoners' letters and send books to them. Call 617-423-3298 for more information.
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM Every Sunday: "Books Through Bars: Sending free books to prisoners," New York City. ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington Street (between Clinton and Suffolk). Call (212) 254-3697, ext. 322 for more information.
Tuesday, July 24 - Sunday, July 29
Campus Pride Summer Leadership Camp. Campus Pride organizes the first-ever summer leadership camp for LGBT and Ally undergraduate student leaders from campuses across the country. More information at www.campuspride.org/camp.asp.
Wednesday, July 25
6:30 PM: "Palestine Blues" film screening, Washington D.C. The Palestine Center, 2425 Virginia Avenue, NW Washington, Foggy Bottom Metro
7:00 pm - 8:45 pm: DC Industrial Workers of the World General Membership Branch Bi-Monthly Meeting, Washington D.C. Martin Luther King Library, A10 Basement level. Call 202.321.8197 for more information.
Thursday, July 26
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm: Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild, New York City. NYRAG, 79 Fifth Ave, 4th Floor (between 15th and 16th St). Please join Demos, the Ms. Foundation for Women, the National Council for Research on Women, and the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership in welcoming Deborah Siegel, author of Sisterhood Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild.
Deborah Siegel will discuss how, contrary to clichés about the end of feminism, younger women are reliving the battles of its past, and reinventing it - with a vengeance. Drawing upon her lively and compelling look back at the framing of one of the most contentious social movements of our time in Sisterhood, Interrupted, Ms. Siegel will expose the key issues still at stake, and will outline how a twenty-first century feminist can reconcile the personal with the political and combat long-standing inequalities that continue today. Register online http://demos.org/events.cfm or call (212) 633-1405 x533.
Tuesday, July 31
5:30pm - 8:00pm: Happy Hour Fundraiser at The Front Page, Washington, D.C., The Front Page (1333 New Hampshire Ave., NW). Extended happy hour with half-price drinks and appetizers and raffle prizes at The Front Page (Red Line to Dupont Circle), the #1 destination for happy hour according to The Washington Post. Tickets are $10. All proceeds go toward the Tuthill Activist Fellowship to support the International Women's Democracy Center's program and projects. Call 202-530-0563 for more information.
Tuesday, August 2
7:00pm - 9:00pm: "Do-It Ourselves: Radical Urban Sustainability Skillshare Network," Boston, MA. Lucy Parsons Center, 549 Columbus Avenue. A meeting place for do-it-yourselfers with an anarchist bent and desire for community to share information, develop skills, and encourage each other in creating sustainable living systems for individual homes and small communities in an urban environment. Topics may include food production; foraging and scavenging materials; alternative water/waste/energy systems; carpentry/ plumbing/ electrical/ sewing skills; philosophical and political aspects of lifestyle decisions. Participants interested in working on particular projects may spin off from the main meeting. Contact Jules and Ellie at 617-492-2340 for more information.
Monday, August 6
7:00 PM: "Annual World Peace Vigil and Community Dedication to Peace," Bellport, NY. 25th World Peace Vigil and Community Dedication to peace held in Village of Bellport hosted by South Country Peace Group as commemorative for victims ofatomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, raise awareness of current US policy and actions related to nuclear arms and impact domestically and globally. Speaker Bob Keeler, musicians Sonny Meadows, Catherine Synan-Greene, poets, and more. Location: Village of Bellport, Suffolk County, Long Island NY 11713 commencing from Station Road, proceeding to Bellport Lane, Community Dedication to Peace presentations at Bellport Bay Memorial Park Great South Bay Meet on Station Road west side, just south of Head of Neck Road in Village of Bellport, on sidewalk adjacent to Woodland Cemetery Village of Bellport NY 11713.
Wednesday, August 8 - Tuesday, August 14
"West Coast Convergence for Climate Action," Portland, OR. 6 days of low-impact living and high-impact action near the mouth of the Columbia River in Skamokawa, Washington. More information at http://www.climateconvergence.org/west/
Thursday, August 9 - Friday, August 10
9:00 AM: "On the Edge: Transgression and the Dangerous Other," New York City. John Jay College and CUNY Graduate Center (and art exhibit, “Theatre of Cruelty” at White Box, 525 West 26th St). A conference of “intellectual and artistic transgression” featuring presentations/performances by Amiri Baraka, Jock Young, Carlos Arredondo, Tony Jefferson, Baba Israel, Grandmothers Against the War, Anthony Poppa and many others. For schedule and registration www.jjay.cuny.edu/ontheedge/ , for further information email ontheedge2007@gmail.com or ( 212) 237-8694.
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM: "Monthly Political Prisoner Letter Writing Night," Washington, D.C. Brian MacKenzie Infoshop, 1426 9th St. NW (Shaw/Howard Metro). Once a month (the second Thursday) we hold a casual get together where we write letters to political prisoners in the U.S. and discuss news, stories, and strategies regarding state repression of social justice and environmental struggles. Materials, bios of prisoners, and tips for writing prisoners will all be provided (but feel free to bring more, especially information on prisoners to support!) Visit www.dcinfoshop.org for more information.
Tuesday, August 14
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM: "Prison Book Program Volunteer Night," Boston, MA. 110 Arlington St. Join us to answer prisoners' letters and send books to them. Call 617-423-3298 for more information.
Thursday, August 16 - Saturday, August 19
"Think Outside the Bomb: National Grassroots Conference," CA. University of California, Santa Barbara. For more information and to apply for the conference, visit http://thinkoutsidethebomb.org/menu/apply/index.html
Saturday, August 25
12:00 PM: "The People's March for Peace, Equality, Jobs, and Justice," NJ. Lincoln Park, Newark. The purpose of the march is to demand an immediate end to the U.S. war on Iraq, redirection of funding for the war towards domestic needs, and the realization of racial equality, social and economic justice in the United States.
" Anti-War Rally and March," Kennebunkport, ME. Speakers: Cindy Sheehan and George Martin of United for Peace and Justice, others to be announced. FREE CAMPING for college students and people traveling from outside the region. Accommodations for Veterans for Peace in homes of other vets. Contact Jamilla El-Shafei (jamillaelshafei@yahoo.org, 207.439.5800) for more info. Organized by the Kennebunk PEACE Department and Global Network; sponsored by PEACE ACTION MAINE, NH PEACE ACTION, Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speak Out (Maine chapter) http://www.kportprotest.org.
Saturday, August 25 - Tuesday, August 28
"Second Katrina Survivors Assembly." New Orleans, LA. Organized by the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition. Contact phrfoc@gmail.com for more information.
Saturday, September 15
September 15 is the date that General Petraeus and the Bush Administration must report to Congress on the progress of the Iraq war and "surge." The eyes of the country and world will be focused on Washington DC. On September 15 people from every corner of this country will descend on Washington DC to demand: End the War Now! Click here for more information.
Octobery 26 - October 27
"2007 Gandhian Conference," Memphis, TN. Christian Brothers University. 650 E. Parkway. Contact Allison Glass (coordinator@gandhiinstitute.org) for more info.
2008
September 1 - September 4
Protest the Republican National Convention, St. Paul, MN.
Check out the following think tanks for public policy related events in Washington, DC:
American Enterprise Institute events
Center for American Progress events
Center for Global Development events
Center for Strategic and International Studies events
Brookings Institution events
Cato Institute events
RAND corporation events
Urban Institute events
Petitions:
Sign U.S. Labor Against the War's petition to stop the theft of Iraqi oil
Sign petitions to your Representative asking them to co-sponsor Rep. Dennis Kucinich's H.Res. 333 to impeach Vice President Cheney. And send letters to every Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, which must be persuaded to hold hearings on H.Res. 333.
Flood your local newspaper with letters to the editor explaining why you want your Congressional members to use their power to end the war now. Click here for talking points and more resources.
Contact your U.S. Senators and Representatives and ask them to show their commitment to women's health by supporting and co-sponsoring the Freedom of Choice Act.
Oppose California prison expansion
Tell the Department of Homeland Security and Congress that Americans reject the idea of a national ID.
Contact ABC here or here and encourage them to stop undercounting the number of Iraqi dead when reporting on the war.
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