Upcoming Events

Monday, February 27th

1. Housing Justice Meeting
   • Where: JFREJ Office, 666 Broadway, Suite 500
   • Start time: 06:30pm
   • End time: 08:30pm
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Tuesday, February 28th

1. Meet the Change
   • Where: Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 236 E. 3rd St., New York, NY 10009
   • Start time: 07:00pm
   • End time: 09:00pm

   • How do you build a movement? What does it take to create a network that is changing discourse around the world?

     Join us to hear from people involved in Occupy Wall Street and the larger Occupy movement. Learn what its taking to build a consensus-based movement across gender, class, race, and political affiliations, and discuss how we can apply these tools to all our work for social change.

     The Occupy movement began on September 17th, 2011 at Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District. As a people-powered movement for social, economic and political change, it has spread to over 100 cities in the United States and 1,500 cities globally. The movement is inspired by, and based in, the growing income inequality between the wealthiest 1% of the United States and the rest of the population, the 99%. Come learn lessons from the rapid growth and development of this movement, and the consensus-based decision-making model it continues to utilize.

     What: Meet the Change, an event hosted by Pursue and JFREJ
     When: Tuesday, February 28, 7PM – 9PM
     Where: Nuyorican Poets Café, 236 E. 3rd St., New York, NY 10009
     RSVP: http://bit.ly/zWTheq

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Saturday, March 3rd

1. The Purim Ball!
   • Where: 220 36th St, Industry City, Brooklyn NY
   • Start time: 08:00pm
   • End time: 02:00am

   • Your Homentaschen Are Killing Me!
     A Purim Ball for the body, its resilience, its fragility, and its bounce!

     Presented by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

     https://www.facebook.com/JFREJNYC

     March 3rd, 2012
     220 36th St, Industry City, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
     D/N/R to 36th St
     8pm–late
     $20
     No one turned away for lack of cash or costume
     Food by Domestic Workers United

     The event is wheelchair accessible.
     Public Transportation directions to our venue at 220 W 36th St between 2nd and 3rd Avenues:
     Take the D/N/R to the 36th street stop in Brooklyn. The venue is a block and a half down 36th street. This stop is not wheelchair accessible.
     OR
     The B35 bus stops at 39th Street and 2nd Ave, 3 short blocks from the venue. MTA buses are wheelchair accessible.

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Friday, March 9th

1. JFREJ Shabbas at Kolot's Locally Grown Series
   • Where: Kolot's Locally Grown Series
   • Start time: 06:00pm
   • End time: 08:30pm
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Sunday, March 25th

1. Dis/ability Justice Training
   • Where: Great Small Works, 20 Jay St., Brooklyn, NY 11211
   • Start time: 11:00am
   • End time: 02:30pm

   • Join the Shalom Bayit Campaign as we deepen our analysis and build towards true intersectionality and collective liberation:

     What models do we have for understanding dis/ability? What histories do we inherit from the medicalization of dis/ability, from dis/ability rights, and from overlapping movements for racial, economic, gender and sexual justice? What is dis/ability justice, what can we learn from this framework, and what specific kinds of growth does it call for in our communities? What is ableism, and how does it show up in our justice movements, our organizing practices, and our approaches to realizing even the most radical visions for social change? How might we practice interdependence and carve out paths to alliance in our political work together? Please join Park McArthur, Akemi Nishida, and Lezlie Frye to explore these questions, build capacity within JFREJ, and grow our commitments to dis/ability justice from the inside out.

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Thursday, March 29th

1. Challenging Islamophobia: Panel Discussion
   • Start time: 06:00pm
   • End time: 08:00pm

   • Please join us at 7 PM on Thursday, March 29th
     for a panel and discussion on:

     Challenging Islamophobia

     We are very fortunate to be having this discussion with leaders in the community and representatives from groups organizing against Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism. We will have an opportunity to hear about the issues they are addressing--such as police surveillance, detention, infringements on civil and human rights, and issues facing young people--and to learn how we can participate more meaningfully in organizing against Islamophobia.

     Panelists:

     Amna Akbar, Attorney-in-Residence/ Adjunct Professor of Law in the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) project, at CUNY School of Law.

     Cyrus McGoldrick, Civil Rights Manager, Council on American Islamic Relations - New York (CAIR-NY)

     Linda Sarsour, representative, Muslim-American Civil Liberties Coalition and director of the Arab American Association of New York

     Representatives from Khadijah’s Caravan, an organization of Muslim youth that promotes spiritually-based activism through arts, education, and entrepreneurship

     Marjorie Dove Kent, representative of Jews Against Islamophobia and Director, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

     Moderator:

     Debbie Almontaser, founding and former principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy and currently board chair of Muslim Consultative Network.

     Location to follow (also will be listed on website below).
     The panel is hosted by Jews Against Islamophobia
     jewsagainstislamophobia.org

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Sunday, April 1st

1. Occupy Passover / Occupy Holy Week
   • Start time: 11:00am
   • End time: 03:00pm

   • Judson Memorial Church, The Shalom Center, Occupy Judaism, and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice are organizing an action in New York City for Sunday, April 1, to “Occupy Holy Week, Occupy Passover.”

     The action will begin with celebration of Palm Sunday at Judson Memorial Church (Washington Square South). Then the Palm-bearing procession will walk to five “pyramids of power” in the neighborhood, focusing with song, drumming, and chanting on demanding the remission of oppressive debt (e.g. home foreclosures, student-loan debt) as the Bible requires.

     The procession will then return to the church for a pre-Passover Interfaith Freedom Seder that is woven from the traditional symbols of Passover and applies them to the pharaohs and caesars of today. (Passover begins the evening of Friday, April 6.) The Seder will point to the oppressive and unaccountable 1% and Global Corporations that are responsible for the unholy triplets named by Dr Martin Luther King in his Riverside Church speech of April 4, 1967: racism, militarism, and poverty.

     The Interfaith Freedom Seder will celebrate using today the means of nonviolent “soul-force” in creating for the 99% the Freedom and the Beloved Community to which Holy Week, Passover, and Dr. King call us. The organizers intend to shape this action not as a one-shot moment but as part of the ongoing campaign for a spiritually-rooted society of justice, peace, and healing.

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