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Thursday October 08, 2009

Check out the Congo in Harlem Film Festival from September 30 to October 25. For more details, click here.

Start: Oct 8 2009 6:30 pm
End: Oct 8 2009 8:30 pm

Join RAISE Hope for Congo on Thursday, October 8 at Stir Lounge for an evening to benefit Actions for the Welfare of Women and Children in South Kivu (ABFEK). ABFEK works to empower survivors of sexual violence and assists vulnerable children in receiving education.

Stir Lounge

705 G Street, NW

Washington, DC

Complimentary drink ticket and appetizers

$15 donation if you register online by October 7, $20 at the door

Purchase raffle tickets for $1 each, and enter to win:

- A two-night stay plus breakfast at the W Hotel DC

- 2 class pass for Tranquil Space Yoga Studio for the winner and a friend

- A table plus bottle of champagne at a Night Life Agency event

- 4 golf passes for the H Street Country Club

- $25 to La Tasca restaurant

Friday October 09, 2009

Check out the Congo in Harlem Film Festival from September 30 to October 25. For more details, click here.

Saturday October 10, 2009

Check out the Congo in Harlem Film Festival from September 30 to October 25. For more details, click here.

Sunday October 11, 2009

Check out the Congo in Harlem Film Festival from September 30 to October 25. For more details, click here.

Monday October 12, 2009

Check out the Congo in Harlem Film Festival from September 30 to October 25. For more details, click here.

Tuesday October 13, 2009

Check out the Congo in Harlem Film Festival from September 30 to October 25. For more details, click here.

Start: Oct 13 2009 6:30 pm
End: Oct 13 2009 9:00 pm
Presented by Art Works Projects

Art and Design for Human Rights

Please join in a conversation about photojournalism and its impact on domestic and international policy.

Panelists Include;

Ron Haviv, VII Photojournalist
John Prendergast, Co-Founder of the Enough Project
Noelle LuSane, Staff Director
 House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health

Moderated by Leslie Thomas, Executive Director Art Works Projects 

VII Gallery
28 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Please RSVP to mail@viiphoto.com
Cost- $10 ($5 Students)
 

 

Wednesday October 14, 2009

Check out the Congo in Harlem Film Festival from September 30 to October 25. For more details, click here.

Start: Oct 14 2009 7:30 pm
End: Oct 14 2009 10:00 pm

 

John Prendergast will lecture on peace success stories in Africa at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

 

 

Sponsored by STAND of Miami University, the Save Darfur Coalition, Diversity Affairs Council, UNIFAT, College Democrats, Miami Students for Israel, African School Advancement Program, EMPOWER, and AIESEC.

Thursday October 15, 2009

Check out the Congo in Harlem Film Festival from September 30 to October 25. For more details, click here.

Start: Oct 15 2009 5:30 pm
End: Oct 15 2009 7:30 pm

The RAISE Hope for Congo...On the ROAD Speakers' Tour will kick off its first event of the fall at Northern Illinois University!

The event will take place in the Regency Room at the Holmes Student Center at 5:30PM on October 15, 2009.

Speakers Include:

Candice Knezevic, RAISE Hope for Congo campaign manager

Omekongo Dibinga, artist and poet

Dr. Lee Ann De Reus, associate professor at Penn State

Start: Oct 15 2009 7:00 pm
End: Oct 15 2009 9:00 pm

The Howard Thurman Center will be hosting a lecture, discussion, and reception with John Prendergast.

 Thursday October 15, 2009 at 7:00 PM

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Metcalf Ballroom on the Second Floor of Boston University's George Sherman Union at 775 Commonwealth Avenue. 
 

Raul Fernandez, Assistant Director
The Howard Thurman Center at Boston University

Friday October 16, 2009

Check out the Congo in Harlem Film Festival from September 30 to October 25. For more details, click here.

Saturday October 17, 2009

Check out the Congo in Harlem Film Festival from September 30 to October 25. For more details, click here.

Start: Oct 17 2009 9:00 am
End: Oct 17 2009 12:00 pm





Join Women for Women International and stand up for women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by participating in a 2009 Run for Congo Women.  By signing up today, you will support Women for Women International’s program in Congo, in which women receive direct assistance, rights awareness and job skills training that make it possible for them to start their own micro-enterprises. You also allow them to provide for their family and to regain their role as an active member of their community.

 

Sunday October 18, 2009

Check out the Congo in Harlem Film Festival from September 30 to October 25. For more details, click here.

Monday October 19, 2009

Check out the Congo in Harlem Film Festival from September 30 to October 25. For more details, click here.

Tuesday October 20, 2009

Check out the Congo in Harlem Film Festival from September 30 to October 25. For more details, click here.

Start: Oct 20 2009 7:00 pm
End: Oct 20 2009 10:00 pm

Please join Eve Ensler, Whoopi Goldberg & the 2009 Planning Committee of Women of the Congo

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

W NEW YORK

7 p.m. through 10 p.m.

541 Lexington Avenue, New York

cocktails & hors d'œuvres

Art Show & Silent Auction

Music by Madeleine Peyroux

To buy a ticket or donate, please click here.

Learn more about the work of Women for the Congo.

Start: Oct 20 2009 7:00 pm
End: Oct 20 2009 9:00 pm

Join the RAISE Hope for Congo...On the ROAD for its second stop of the fall at Lewis and Clark College!

The event will take place at 6:00PM on October 20, 2009 in the *Council Chambers at Lewis and Clark College.

Speakers include:

Judy Anderson, HEAL Africa

RAISE Hope for Congo manager, Candice Knezevic

Run for Congo Women founder, Lisa Shannon

 * Venue was changed from the Chapel to the Council Chambers

Wednesday October 21, 2009

Check out the Congo in Harlem Film Festival from September 30 to October 25. For more details, click here.

Start: Oct 21 2009 6:30 pm
End: Oct 21 2009 9:00 pm

 

UCLA School of Law presents

The Reckoning

The Epic Story of the Battle for the International Criminal Court

Part of Human Rights Watch's Traveling Film Festival
 
 Followed with a panel discussion:   

Cesare Romano, Loyola Law School

Maximo Langer, UCLA Law School

John Prendergast, Co-Founder of the Enough Project

 

Prescreening reception begins at 6:00pm

James Bridges Theater

Thursday October 22, 2009

Check out the Congo in Harlem Film Festival from September 30 to October 25. For more details, click here.

Start: Oct 22 2009 7:00 pm
End: Oct 22 2009 10:00 pm

Thursday, October 22 | 7:00pm

Valley Beth Shalom, Encino

Worse Than War, an epic new documentary airing in primetime
on PBS in 2010, visits the sites of the worst mass slaughters of the
20th century with Holocaust scholar Daniel Goldhagen. Encounter
killers, survivors, witnesses, journalists and political leaders whose
stories provide powerful insights into the scourge of genocide.

GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES
CONTINUE TODAY– WHAT CAN WE DO?
After the 1 hour screening, join Jewish World Watch in a discussion
with Rabbi Schulweis, Rabbi Feinstein and Enough Project
co-founder John Prendergast, former Special Advisor at the US
Department of State. We will learn about the ongoing atrocities
in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how you can join the

JWW campaign to bring peace to the region.

RSVP at Jewish World Watch

Friday October 23, 2009

Check out the Congo in Harlem Film Festival from September 30 to October 25. For more details, click here.

Saturday October 24, 2009

Check out the Congo in Harlem Film Festival from September 30 to October 25. For more details, click here.

Start: Oct 24 2009 5:00 pm
End: Oct 24 2009 8:00 pm

The Come Clean 4 Congo winner, Matt Smith, will be announced at the Hollywood Film Festivals' first Human Rights Symposium.

Speakers include:

Emile Hirsch, actor

John Prendergast, co-founder of The Enough Project

Muadi Mukenge, Program director for Sub-Saharan Africa, Global Fund for Women

Sonya Walger, actress

To RSVP, click here.

 

Sunday October 25, 2009
Start: Sep 30 2009 11:00 am
End: Oct 25 2009 11:59 am

Check out the Congo in Harlem Film Festival from September 30 to October 25. For more details, click here.

Wednesday November 04, 2009
Start: Nov 4 2009 8:00 pm
End: Nov 4 2009 10:00 pm

"Stopping Rape as a Weapon of War: Congo and Beyond"

Lecture by John Prendergast

 

St. Mary's College of Maryland

Auerbach Auditorium 

8:00 pm

Reception to Follow at Muldoon River Center

Friday November 06, 2009
Start: Nov 6 2009 9:00 am

More than 1,000 leaders of the worldwide movement to end genocide will convene in Washington, D.C. on November 6-9th for the Pledge2Protect Conference.  

Saturday November 07, 2009

More than 1,000 leaders of the worldwide movement to end genocide will convene in Washington, D.C. on November 6-9th for the Pledge2Protect Conference.  

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