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Tuesday, Oct. 6 |
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Thursday, Oct. 8 at 6 pm Ralph Nader Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us |
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Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 6:30 pm Joseph Riippi Do Something! Do Something! Do Something! |
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Monday, Oct. 12 |
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Wednesday, Oct. 14 |
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Thursday, Oct. 15 |
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Monday, Oct. 19 |
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Tuesday, Oct. 20 |
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Friday, Oct. 23 at 6 pm Marshall Ganz Why David Sometimes Wins |
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Tuesday, Oct. 27 |
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Sunday, Nov. 1 at 7 pm Malalai Joya Woman Among Warlords |
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Thursday, Nov. 5 at 6 pm Alia Malek A Country Called Amreeka |
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Saturday, Nov. 7 at 6 pm David Finkel Good Soldiers |
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Monday, Nov. 10 at 6:30 pm James Loewen Teaching What Really Happened |
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Tuesday, Nov. 11 at 6:30 pm Hasan Kwame Jeffries Bloody Lowndes |
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Monday, Nov. 16 at 6:30 pm Joel Schalit Israel vs. Utopia |
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Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 6:30 pm Dave Zirin A People's History of Sports in the United States |
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Monday, Nov. 30 at 6 pm Amy Goodman Breaking the Sound Barrier |
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Wednesday, Dec. 2 at 6:30 pm Barbara Ehrenreich Bright-Sided |
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Wed., Jan. 6
at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman The Forty Years War |
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Mon., Jan. 11 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Peniel Joseph Dark Days, Bright Nights |
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Fri., Jan. 15 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Naomi Klein The Shock Doctrine |
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Mon., Jan. 18 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Dr. Richard Wilkinson The Spirit Level |
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Wed., Jan. 20 Location: 14th & V at 6:30 pm Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie Slow Death by Rubber Duck |
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Wed., Jan. 20 at 6 pm Location: Shirlington Michael Fox Venezuela Speaks |
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Thurs., Jan. 21 at 6 pm Location: 5th & K Michael Fox Venezuela Speaks |
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Mon., Jan. 25 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Jacqueline Edelberg How to Walk to School |
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Tues., Jan. 26 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Amy Bach Ordinary Injustice |
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Wed., Jan. 27 at 6 pm Location: 14th & V Phyllis Bennis Ending the US War in Afghanistan |
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Thurs., Jan. 28 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Dean Baker False Profits |
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Sun., Jan. 31 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Jeffrey Haas The Assassination of Fred Hampton |
FEBRUARY 2010
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Mon., Feb. 1 |
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Tues., Feb. 2 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Michelle Alexander The New Jim Crow |
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RESCHEDULED FOR MAR. 6 Sat., Feb. 6 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th &V Rawn James Root and Branch |
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Wed., Feb. 10 |
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Sat., Feb. 13 at 6 pm Location: 14th & V Gerald Boyd My Times in Black and White |
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Tues., Feb. 16 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Kristine Huskey Justice at Guantanamo |
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Tues., Feb. 16 at 6:30 pm Location: 5th & K Ytasha Womack Post Black |
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Wed., Feb. 17 at 6 pm Location: 14th & V Shola Lynch and Scott Simpson Unbought and Unbossed |
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In-Focus Series Film Thurs., Feb. 18 at 6 pm Location: 14th & V Produced by Judy Richardson and Bestor Cram Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968 |
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Fri., Feb. 19 |
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Mon., Feb. 22 at 6 pm Location: 5th & K Robert Pierre and Jon Jeter A Day Late and a Dollar Short |
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Mon., Feb. 23 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Canyon Sam Sky Train |
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Wed., Feb. 24 at 6 pm Location: 14th & V Eve Ensler I am an Emotional Creature |
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MARCH 2010
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Wed., Mar. 3 at 6 pm Location: 14th & V Sam Chaltain American Schools |
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Off-Site Event Thurs., Mar. 4 at 8 am-3 pm Location: George Washington Univ. Beth Harry Melanie, Bird with a Broken Wing |
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Sun. Mar. 7 at 4 pm Location: 14th &V Rawn James Root and Branch |
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Mon., Mar. 8 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Mark Greek Washington, DC Protests |
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Mon., Mar. 8 |
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Wed.-Sat. Mar. 10-13 Various locales Split This Rock Poetry Festival |
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Mon., Mar. 15 at 5:00 pm Location: 14th & V Annie Leonard The Story of Stuff |
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Wed., Mar. 17 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Damian Platt Culture Is Our Weapon |
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Off-Site Event Sat., Mar. 20 10 am-5 pm Location: UDC Feminist Majority Foundation Nat'l Young Feminist Leadership Conference
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Off-Site Event Sat., Mar. 20 10 am-4 pm Location: NYC New York Collective of Radical Educators NYCORE Conference |
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Sun., Mar. 21 at 4 pm Location: 14th & V Andrea Carter Brown The Disheveled Bed/Totem |
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Mon., Mar. 22 at 6 pm Location: 14th & V Sonia Sanchez Morning Haiku |
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Tues., Mar. 23 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Charlotte Dennett The People v. Bush |
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Tues., Mar. 23 at 7 pm Location: 5th & K Mac McClelland For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question |
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Sun., Mar. 28
View Book Trailer |
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Tues., Mar. 30 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Helene Jorgensen Sick and Tired |
APRIL 2010
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Thurs., Apr. 1 at 6:30 pm Location: 5th & K Josh MacPhee Paper Politics |
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Sat., Apr. 3 at 4 pm Location: 5th & K Vandana Shiva Staying Alive |
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Tues., Apr. 6 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V David Corbett Do They Know I'm Running? |
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Tues., Apr. 6 at 7 pm Location: 5th & K Steven Ashby and C. J. Hawking Staley |
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Wed., Apr. 7 at 6 pm Location: 14th & V Moby and Miyun Park Gristle |
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Wed., Apr. 7 at 6:30 pm Location: 5th & K Denise Chong Egg on Mao |
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Fri., Apr. 9 at 8:30 pm Location: 5th & K Staughton Lynd From Here to There |
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Sat., Apr. 10 at 6 pm Location: 14th & V Ellen O'Grady Outside the Ark |
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Mon., Apr. 12 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Cliff Conner A People's History of Science |
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Mon., Apr. 12 at 6:30 pm Location: 5th & K Paul Loeb Soul of a Citizen |
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Tues., Apr. 13 at 6 pm Location: 14th & V Malaak Compton-Rock If It Takes a Village, Build One |
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Wed., Apr. 14 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Alice Walker Overcoming Speechlessness and The World Has Changed |
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Sun., Apr. 18 at 4 pm Location: 14th & V John Murillo Up Jump the Boogie |
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Sun., Apr. 18 at 5 pm Location: 5th & K Deanna Fei A Thread of Sky |
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Tues., Apr. 20 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Bruce Rich To Uphold the World |
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Fri., Apr. 23 at 6 pm Location: 14th & V Norman Finkelstein This Time We Went Too Far |
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Sat., Apr. 24
*with special appearances from the editors of But Some of Us Are Brave |
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Thurs., Apr. 29 at 7 pm Location: 14th & V Sanford Gottlieb and Congressman Chris Van Hollen Red to Blue |
MAY 2010
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Sun., May 2 at 5 pm Location: 5th & K Carolyn Dungee Nicholas Hilda |
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Tues., May 4 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Robert Kuttner A Presidency in Peril |
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OFF-SITE Thurs., May 6 pm 5:30 pm Location: Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law Michelle Alexander The New Jim Crow RSVP by Wed, May 5, 12 noon |
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Sun., May 9 |
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Tues., May 11 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Amanda Marcotte Get Opinionated |
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Sun., May 16 at 4 pm Location: 14th & V David Gewanter and Aracelis Girmay War Bird/Teeth |
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Mon., May 17 at 6 pm Location: 14th & V Steven Hill Europe's Promise |
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Tues., May 18 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Stephanie Cooke In Mortal Hands |
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Tues., May 25 at 6:30pm Location: 14th & V William Powers Twelve by Twelve |
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Wed., May 26 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Heather Rogers Green Gone Wrong |
JUNE 2010
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Off-Site Event
Tues.-Sat.June 1-5 Location: National Harbor, MD National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education Conference |
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Tues., June 1 at 6:30 pm Location: 14 & V Nadine Cohodas Princesse Noire |
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Tues., June 8 at 6:30pm Location: 14th & V Kristen Clarke, et al. Barack Obama and African American Empowerment |
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Sun., June 13 at 5 pm Location: 5th & K David Korten Agenda for a New Economy |
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Mon., June 14 at 6:30 pm Location: 14 & V Ira Sukrungruang Talk Thai |
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Off-Site Event Tues., June 15 Location: Brookings Institute, SETA Foundation, AHSNA Stephen Kinzer |
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Wed., June 16 at 6:30pm Location: 14th & V Paula Shelton Young Child of the Civil Rights Movement |
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Sat., June 19 at 6:30 pm Location: 14 & V E. Ethelbert Miller The 5th Inning |
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Mon., June 21 at 6:30 pm Location: 14 & V Keith Gilyard John Oliver Killens |
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Tues., June 29 at 6 pm Location: 14 & V David Schwartz Consuming Choices |
JULY 2010
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Tues., July 6 at 6:30pm Location: 14th & V Gwynne Dyer Climate Wars Sponsor: The Sierra Club |
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Wed., July 7 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V W. Joseph Campbell Getting It Wrong |
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Mon., July 12 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V damali ayo Obamistan! Sponsor: Friends Meeting Washington Working Group on Racism |
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Mon., July 19 at 8:00 pm Location: Marvin Center at George Washington University Dwayne Betts A Question of Freedom |
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Wed., July 28 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Dave Zirin Bad Sports Sponsor: Sports Fans Coalition |
AUGUST 2010
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Wed., Aug. 11
at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Nikolas Kozloff with Larry Birns, Matt Finer, and Paulina Garzón No Rain in the Amazon Sponsor: Amazon Watch |
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Sun., Aug. 15 at 4 pm Location: 14th & V Michaeal Luis Medrano Born in the Cavity of Sunsets |
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Mon., Aug. 16 at 6:30 pm Location: 5th & K Paul Street The Empire's New Clothes |
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Wed., Aug. 18 at 6:30 pm Location: 14th & V Philippa Strum Mendez v. Westminster Sponsors: MALDEF, La Raza, and the Wilson Center |
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Thurs., Aug. 19 at 6 pm Location: 14th & V Akbar Ahmed Journey Into America |
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Tues., Aug. 24 at 6:30 pm Location: 5th & K Manal Omar Barefoot in Baghdad |
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Tues., Aug. 24 6-8 pm Location: 14th & V HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOWARD A night of poetry and performance in memory of Howard Zinn |
