DC SDS is providing a student-run, reading and discussion-based radical summer school! The first topic we will be learning about will be anarchism.

Over the three week course, we will have 9 classes. Click the links below for each class' readings:

1. 7-9pm Monday, June 29th: Introduction
2. 7-9pm Wednesday, July 1: Capitalism & State
3. 2-4pm Saturday, July 4: Rural and Industrial US Anarchism
4. 7-9pm Monday, July 6: Spain in 1936
5. 7-9pm Wednesday, July 8: Insurgent Mexico
6. 7-9pm Monday, July 13: Latin American and African Anarchism
7. 7-9pm Wednesday, July 15: Russian and Asian Anarchism
8. 2-4pm Saturday, July 18: Alter-Globalization Movement
9. 7-9pm Monday, July 20: Contemporary Anarchism & Debrief

As you can see, we are skipping July 11. The SDS National Convention will be happening during that time. If you're not going, use that chance to catch up on your readings!

On Mondays and Wednesdays, the class will meet at Hillyer Art Space, which can be found at 9 Hillyer Ct. NW in Dupont Circle. The class will meet from 7pm-9pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.

On Saturdays, the class will meet at American University in the Kay lounge (downstairs in the Kay Spiritual Life Center). The class will meet from 2-4pm on Saturdays. The address is 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW. Look for a building with a dome that has a sculpture of a flaming cupcake.

For a complete syllabus in PDF form, click here

June 5th, 9PM. @ the corner of Morton & Georgia Ave. NW
Half-sheet Flyer in English and Spanish

Come enjoy a walk-in movie with popcorn and sweet tea! We'll be projecting the film onto the blank white wall of the house on the corner and discussing it in the parking lot of the grocery store right next door.

Plot summary:
Maya emigrates from Mexico and works as a janitor in Los Angeles. Her managers treat her poorly, and she feels powerless as an undocumented immigrant. But after a chance encounter with Sam, a union organizer who is evading the security guards in her building, she confronts her fears and her manager's mistreatment with a union drive.

As Maya unites with her coworkers to take back control of their lives from their bosses and the immigration officials, a love story blossoms between she and Sam. This film is rated R, and will be shown in English with Spanish subtitles.

Our location is quite metro accessible: 4 blocks south of the Georgia Ave/Petworth Metro station:

May 1st, 9PM. @ the corner of Morton & Georgia Ave. NW
Half-sheet Flyer in English and Spanish

Coverage

Articles:

• Student Protesters Arrested on Sixth Anniversary of Iraq War - Kansas City InfoZine

• Police Prepare for Weekend Protest - Fox 5 News
  

  *While we understand lies are par for the course for Fox News, this should be addressed. They claim bricks were thrown, this is patently false. They claim that persons were injured by the Funk the War, when the only people who were injured at our event were injured by the overzealous police. If, as they also claim, there was a cop who lost his baton to a protester, it was likely that the officer lost his grip on his baton as he was wildly swinging it into the crowd. Fuck Pigs. - Editor*

• World Bank offices stormed, AEI paint bombed in war demos - DC Indymedia (impressive damage stats in the comments!)
• Protesters, Police Meet in Dupont - DCist blog (willfully ignorant yuppie moron comments)

Pictures:

• Day In Pictures - BBC News (scroll to #7!)

• USA: Protests Mark 6th Anniversary Of War In Iraq - Getty Images (longest url ever!)

• Funk the War - 2009 - and-e's Flickr account
• Karol A's photostream / Tags / funkthewar - Karol A's Flickr account

Video:

• Police Prepare for Weekend Protest - Fox 5 News

• Funk the War - cell phone videos - DC Indymedia
• Funk the War and Metropolitan Police Department - NoVa Alternative
• FUNK THE WAR 7: Iraq 6th Anniv. Ed. - Alex Lotorto's Vimeo account

Audio:

• SDAC and SDS M19 Mix - WSQT Direct Action Radio 88.1 FM

It took (well, Daniel took) a long ass time to get this together, but it's finally done!
IMPORTANT: This video is best viewed fullscreen, with bumpin' speakers that have huge bass. Any less than that and your viewing pleasure will be impaired.

The third Funk the War took place on March 19th (the 5th anniversary of the War on Iraq) in Washington DC. Read more about it here

DC SDS is excited to help you organize students at your school. Whether you want to organize to kick recruiters off campus, for more environmental school policies, for socially responsible education, for accessible and affordable tuition; we would love to help.

We can help you start a chapter from scratch, even if you're the only person interested at your school right now.

Funk the War T-Shirts are now on sale on our website!
You've seen us rockin' 'em since March, and, if you didn't act quickly back then, you've not been able to get your grubby paws on them since. Well here's your chance!

The shirts are hand-silkscreened by DC SDS members, and purchased from Alternative Apparel, so they fit amazing, they're soft as a baby's bottom, and theoretically you don't have to feel guilty about sweatshops (though there was no mention of the word "union" on their website).

Check out the All New Support DC SDS page to get ahold of one, or buy seven and people will think you never change your clothes.

On Friday December 5th the Republic Windows and Doors factory was due to close at 10:00 AM. Republic Windows and Doors was forced to close after Bank of America, just weeks after taking $25 Billion in bailout money, turned its back on hundreds of workers making energy efficient doors and windows in Chicago by refusing to continue credit to the company. The company planned to move their plant to Iowa, a "Right-to-Work" state where workers will be paid half the wages and denied vacation.

Denied their own overdue paychecks and overdue vacation pay, facing the loss of their livelihood and the loss of jobs in their communities, the factory workers refused to let their fate be dictated by the company man: with the support of their union, UE Local 1110, they took over their factory, and refused to be moved. In a bold and inspiring move, the factory workers occupied their workplace.

As working people are pushed to the margins of society, the courage of these workers has electrified people around the country. Support for the occupation has blossomed from the most unlikely places: Chicago City Council threatened to temporarily sever ties with Bank of America until they accomodated the workers. Even Barack Obama voiced his support for the striking workers.

Across the country, solidarity demonstrations are being planned. Here in Washington DC, we will picket in front of the Bank of America closest to the Treasury Department, at Pennsylvania Ave and 15th st NW.

See you there!

Head-Roc is a local legend hip-hop act in DC, and he performed his single "Change in America" for the Funk the War on the Poor demonstration this past summer, recording our demonstration for the backdrop of his music video.

Thanks Heddy!
<3 DC SDS

Location: Murrow Park
Street: 18th & H streets NW

The word "crisis" has been big lately: The climate crisis, the energy crisis, the food crisis, the housing crisis. Flooding, fuel wars, food riots, and foreclosures have turned the news into one long obituary for "free market" ideas. They said "crisis is opportunity" but when the financial crisis finally came around, the geniuses that run the world woke up, shit their pants, and decided that maybe capitalism was on life support.

The G20 are coming to Washington, DC on November 15 to breathe life into their dying ideas. We're showing up to unhook the feeding tubes from the Monster of the Market and throwing the best funeral ever. Come out in your sunday best, throw flowers, say a eulogy, and beat your chest as we march away from the G20 morgue and towards the birth of new ideas and a new world.

It's a terrible thing when parents outlive their children, but it's a glorious thing when children outlive their tormentors. We call on the G20 to stop all heroic measures and let their patient die without dignity. This isn't a living will, it's the Will of the Living. We're bringing the leaders of the world a DO NOT RESUSCITATE order, 'cuz we got a baby on the way and it's going to be beautiful.

DC Students for a Democratic Society is joining with the newly formed GLOBAL JUSTICE ACTION, along with a coalition of local, national, and international organizations, for a weekend of events.