1st Posted: 2012-03-16 13:02:00 I am teaching at the DC Social Forum -I have been invited to teach two classes at the DC Social Forum on April 5th and 12th, at 2pm each class, on Economic Democracy. (These classes went well, and I learned that the Friend’s Meeting House in DC was founded by the only Quaker president of the USA, Franklin Pierce.) and 2012-03-29 11:40:00 The Bible is not against Homosexuality, but against Torture [This is an abridged translation of my 25 March Spanish language post: http://shirad.livejournal.com/566987.html A friend and I were talking of the execution of Haman in Megilat Esther. Earlier translations say he was hanged on a gallows, but newer ones translate it as impaled on a stake. It is understanding the cultural context which leads to this different transltion. That brought up the topic of cultural context in Biblical translation and interpretation. To summarize my longer Spanish language post, two cases which come to mind are that of man shall not lie with man as with a woman, which, taken in the context of widespread use of rape as a means of punishing prisoners, and particularly the status of a free man, doing this to a man was not an act of sexuality nor one of desire, but simple torture and deliberate humiliation. Likewise with the prohibition of temple prostitution cults -many cities in the ancient world reputedly required all girls (and sometimes all boys also) to serve in the temple of the local diety until gaining at least one coin in the service of the patron god. This seems a rite of passage that forces a shared cultural experience, thus bonding each generation together in that society, but it is an incredibly damaging and insidious way to control the psychological development of the citizenry. Effective, but evil. Thus yet another form of torture is outlawed by the Bible. These were very progressive ideas 5000 years ago, curtailing violence both explicit and implicit in order to build a healthier culture leading to a society with growing equality, evidenced by commands to open your hand and give to the poor. Peace, Shira Dest Read, Write, Dream, Teach ! ShiraDest 24 February, 12016 HE
Dunbar history in 2012: DC Humanities Council
2012-12-07 11:59:00 Dunbar history last night: DC Humanities Council Several Dunbar (Classes of 55, 88 and 93) alumni met last night after the film showcasing, among others, history of the M Street School and Dunbar. Please see the Dunbar Alumni Association about joint reunions! Peace, Shira Destinie Jones, Dunbar class of ’88
(glad to have been there, and to have gotten an enthusiastic response from my Dunbar ’88 classmates about this post the next day…)
Read, Write, Dream, Teach !
ShiraDest
24 February, 12016 HE
2 proposals made, one forged ahead alone, but in community
2012-12-17 21:40:00 Watch Night service, anyone? (Unknown Black History still Lives…) If anyone would like to go with me to Mt. Zion UMC (my Great Grandmother's church, in Georgetown, and the oldest Black church in what is now the District of Columbia), we can take a J bus over to Friendship Hts and one of the 30 buses straight down Wisconsin, I imagine. It will certainly be historic and enlightening if anyone would like to keep me company. Shira Destnie 0 2012-12-19 15:46:00 strong Jewish Women needed to vol. for Burial Society, training 1 Jan. If you have strong arms, are not squeemish, and a willing heart, Jewish ladies, you are needed urgently, and I hope to see you there (meal and discussion at my place afterward if anyone wants to join me to process, or decompress by watching Muppet Treasure Island!) : On January 1st, the Chevra Kadisha of Greater Washington is running a training class for men and women on how to perform the mitzvah of taharat hamet. Rabbi Elchanan Zone, head of the Queens, NY Chevra Kadisha and preeminent in the field, will be training volunteers and answering questions. New volunteers are urgently needed and all are encouraged to attend.
Read, Write, Dream, Teach !
(I attended the training and performed Tahara: difficult but glad to have done so…) ShiraDest
23 February, 12016 HE
UDC personal statement Law School App.
Personal Statement: What attracts me to the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law
(Shira) Destinie Jones
There are two answers to the question of why I am interested in pursuing a legal education. The first answer speaks to the short-term needs of the most vulnerable here in the District of Columbia. The second looks farther along, into the longer term need for cultural change and ultimately to the kind of society we wish to hand down to posterity. It is my fervent hope that by becoming a public service advocate in the District of Columbia, I will be able to bring both some solutions to these immediate short-term needs together with helping to lay the foundations for longer-term goals of societal change. As for why I have chosen UDC´s David A. Clarke School of Law, as an education and history professional, I am attracted to the tradition of the Antioch School of Law, now part of UDC, for it´s history of immediate and concrete service to the local community, and for the high percentage of public service lawyers regularly graduated from this law school. I hope to be among classmates with whom I share ideals and a keen sense of dedication to public service.
In my business as a newly licensed Washington DC Tour Guide, I have begun giving walking tours of some Early Integration Neighborhoods of DC. My purpose in creating and leading these tours is to highlight cases of effective community cooperation to bridge the racial divide in key historical neighborhoods of the District of Columbia. I also teach and tutor remedial and high school level mathematics at both the secondary and the community college level. These two types of education, tours and classroom teaching, form a cultural complement to the more tangible form of community advocacy accomplished in the legal arena. I view education and cultural-historical awareness as a longer-term aspect of one crucial side of the community building coin. I see public service advocacy as a short-term aspect of the other side of this urgently needed community building coin. Public service advocacy linked to cooperative community involvement, as with the DC Youth Court, shows that both short term and long-term goals can also be effectively combined to achieve both immediate as well as longer term results. Indeed, whether addressed separately or together, both sides of the coin are equally necessary. Public legal advocacy is an immediate and practical application of the same community spirit which works to bind individuals and neighborhoods together in a spirit of common purpose. That common purpose is built over many years through education and inter-community cooperation. For me that purpose is ultimately to help amplify the voice of each person to enable full and meaningfully participation in our democracy, and to help as many people as possible build the knowledge and skills needed to reach their full potential as human beings.
My research degree, a Master of Philosophy in the area of economic social policy related to participatory decision-making in currency institutions, began as part of my long-term quest for ways to nurture kind and cooperative community as widely as possible. The specific social policy work stemmed from my desire to to render public service in a policy area which has a fundamental impact on the life of each person in our society. After some years of working on the dissertation, I came to understand that academic theory, while important, can be less immediately practical than on the ground legal work. Given the urgent need for legal advocates willing to work on behalf of the least fortunate, which I have seen at first hand recently through the eviction and medical-related trials being experienced by one of my neighbors, my experience as an activist drives me to work to help solve these pressing short-term problems while continuing to lay the groundwork toward longer-term ideals to which we can all aspire. I see that there are some problems which require the right credentials in order to be solved effectively that cannot wait for the long-term theoretical approaches to be fully operationalized. Thus, in order to attain the solid credentials and grounding in practical problem solving which I need in order to help solve immediate and pressing problems in my local community, I have chosen a law school with a history of prioritizing ideals and practical goals to which I also aspire.
Individual identity and community belonging have been key issues in my life from the start. My early childhood in New Jersey showed me the importance to single mothers like mine of programs and institutions such as school lunches and public libraries, which helped us not only to function but also to dream of possibilities. Yet these programs seemed to lack a way of binding individuals together as a community. My teen years in DC with my father showed me the importance of understanding identity in the context of community. I work to uphold both my individual and community values by building bridges through writing, giving tours, and singing in venues that bring communities together.
Thus, as a public service advocate in training at the UDC Antioch School of Law, I would hope to be in good company, preparing alongside like minded people, to serve the community via both short-term practical approaches and longer-term cultural-historical approaches, working to change both our ways of doing and ways of thinking, to make our democratic system work effectively for all members of society.
(Shira) Destinie Jones, Mphil, MAT, BSc
Shades of Injustice
Injustice Essay, UDC´s David C. Clarke Antioch School of Law
I must admit to finding this essay one of the most unsettling and emotionally difficult to write pieces in my writing career. While there are certainly more cutting incidents and more superficially significant incidents which I have experienced in my forty two years, I have chosen to share this event for two reasons. First, this incident strikes me as an example of the subtle damage done by fear, bias, and the perceptions and uses of power in the absence of mutual trust and full voice in decision-making processes. Second, this particular instance seems to have set in my consciousness a deep understanding of the need for cooperation not only between oppressed communities, but also of the need for each of us to understand the stories and ways of communicating of other people.
I was about seven years of age, a fair-skinned girl of African-American descent, riding through the Lincoln or the Holland tunnel in a car driven by a young Jewish woman, who happened to be both my mother´s roommate, and my defacto babysitter most of the time. As we came to the entrance of the tunnel, a pall of fear came over her face. We were being pulled over by a police officer, a barrel-chested white man, who appeared both unhappy and menacing as he got out of his car. Although I did not comprehend the issue at the time, she certainly felt that being pulled over was an injustice to her on the part of the police officer. She turned to me, the fear palpable in her voice, and said
“now look, this cop will think you are my daughter, and that means he will think that I am dating a black guy, so keep your mouth shut and don´t make any Smart Alec remarks.”
By that age, based on the treatment I regularly received from my classmates in school who took me for a mixed race child, I was well aware that interracial relationships of any kind were unacceptable, even in the New Jersey of 1976. I found myself as full of fear as my visibly nervous guardian. All I could do was to sit and watch, mouth clamped firmly shut, as the officer approached.
To this day, I have no recollection of the events after her fateful words to me, but I will always retain the memory of the chilling effect those words had on me, as I realized that not only my schoolmates, but even adults whom I would never meet, hated me for my mere appearance. I came to admire the courage and patience of this young Jewish woman who took the time to introduce me to both her culture and even to my own, as we listened alternately to Jewish music and to records by African musicians. She emphasized that I should learn about both my own heritage and about the heritages of others. She opened to me a world of possibility, while reminding me that I must always be cognizant of my own origins, and that no person´s origins were without both pain and responsibility. The damage of both self-hatred and discrimination caused by fear of and bias against those who appear to be different from ourselves can best be overcome through inclusive sharing of stories. That kind of openness between communities can create space for cooperative communication. Out of this process can emerge new and creative applications of shared power which enable all parties to safely contribute to building structures which both protect the dignity of all members of society and enable each person to rise to his or her full potential. These processes require high levels of both mutual trust and mutual respect which allow for the differences in power levels to be negotiated in participatory venues which deliberately include the voices of all who are affected by such decision-making processes. This inclusion both requires and generates cooperation between individuals and communities as first stories, and then problems, and then potential solutions, are shared and debated. While solutions must begin in the community, sometimes the end result of such discussion must be finalized in the legal system via reformulation of the legal codes, discovery of already existing codes, as in the case of DC´s “Lost Laws”, or simply providing voice for those who cannot make themselves heard. All of these processes require a sense of shared values and mutual respect. As citizens of a democracy, “we the people” must work together “to form a more perfect union” where the interests of all are protected and promoted equally.
Fear and distrust are most effectively dispelled by building upon our shared values, emphasizing the egalitarian ethos upon which our founding documents are based, and working to make those ideals a practical reality. Cooperative understanding of stories and concerns is a key part of the process needed to banish hatred and bias on the road to building full participation and voice for all. To paraphrase a song we sang frequently in school, our origins carry both a patient faith that the difficult past can be overcome, and a roll-up-your-sleeves type of hope that the present brings us ever more opportunities to repair this pain-filled world. As I reflect upon this incident, there is no way in which I could or even would have responded differently at that time, but I carry forward from thence a fervent faith and hope that through cooperation between communities we can help to lift every voice so that all are clearly heard. Through the kind of legal training provided at the UDC David Clarke School of Law, I hope to serve as a more effective facilitator of both short-term and long-term cooperative empowerment.
(Shira) Destinie Jones
Muppets rule! Do Not Be Afraid At ALL!! Articles, Movies and Tours! Oh, My!!!
2011-12-28 19:46:00 just had another article published: Leadership processes I just had an article published in the Tifereth Israel Menorah entitled "Chayei Sarah & Toldot: Authoritative vs. Organic Processes" http://www.tifereth-israel.org/sites/default/files/spiritweb/Menorah.Jan12.pdf?utm_source=Tifereth+Israel+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=a62587a683-Newsletter_08_17_118_17_2011&utm_medium=email 0 Imagine -John Lennon grateful strategy, personal goals and observations, economic justice 2205 2012-01-08 14:30:00 2nd Walking Tour: Early Integration Neighborhoods of DC -Shepherd Park We had great fun watching Muppet Treasure Island, and our locally procurred 4 year old informed us after the film that the main idea of the film was
Not to be scared!
I am almost as proud of him as if I were an aunt!!
2012-01-12 17:59:00 Tours and Seminars on DC History in the context of the Civil Rights era
Join us for Walking Tours and classroom sessions on the Early Integration Neighborhoods of Washington, DC in the context of DC’s legal history juxtaposed against civil rights related cases from southern states and the District of Columbia court systems. Contact SHIR to arrange tours or seminars!
…
and Teaching:
enjoyed teaching and more tours
My students seem more diligent this semester and I also hope to give mroe tours once the semester is settling in. Love to all,
Shabbat Shalom, Have a good weekend Everyone, Peace,
…
My students would likely benefit from a times table chart that they could drag to change the factors while keeping the product the same, to illustrate Area given different dimensions. A quick search turned up no such application, and I need to get back to threading my lip and plucking my eyebrows for tomorrow night´s reading of chapter 7 of Megilat Esther. I will be dressed as the Queen, and hopefully have more than half an eyebrown on each side when I am done with myself! Any volunteers to come over today and rescue me from my pincers are most welcome!
Shira
(trembling before pincers)
Shades of injustice while Not Passing
Injustice Essay, UDC´s David C. Clarke Antioch School of Law
I must admit to finding this essay one of the most unsettling and emotionally difficult to write pieces in my writing career. While there are certainly more cutting incidents and more superficially significant incidents which I have experienced in my forty two years, I have chosen to share this event for two reasons. First, this incident strikes me as an example of the subtle damage done by fear, bias, and the perceptions and uses of power in the absence of mutual trust and full voice in decision-making processes. Second, this particular instance seems to have set in my consciousness a deep understanding of the need for cooperation not only between oppressed communities, but also of the need for each of us to understand the stories and ways of communicating of other people.
I was about seven years of age, a fair-skinned girl of African-American descent, riding through the Lincoln or the Holland tunnel in a car driven by a young Jewish woman, who happened to be both my mother´s roommate, and my defacto babysitter most of the time. As we came to the entrance of the tunnel, a pall of fear came over her face. We were being pulled over by a police officer, a barrel-chested white man, who appeared both unhappy and menacing as he got out of his car. Although I did not comprehend the issue at the time, she certainly felt that being pulled over was an injustice to her on the part of the police officer. She turned to me, the fear palpable in her voice, and said
“now look, this cop will think you are my daughter, and that means he will think that I am dating a black guy, so keep your mouth shut and don´t make any Smart Alec remarks.”
By that age, based on the treatment I regularly received from my classmates in school who took me for a mixed race child, I was well aware that interracial relationships of any kind were unacceptable, even in the New Jersey of 1976. I found myself as full of fear as my visibly nervous guardian. All I could do was to sit and watch, mouth clamped firmly shut, as the officer approached.
To this day, I have no recollection of the events after her fateful words to me, but I will always retain the memory of the chilling effect those words had on me, as I realized that not only my schoolmates, but even adults whom I would never meet, hated me for my mere appearance. I came to admire the courage and patience of this young Jewish woman who took the time to introduce me to both her culture and even to my own, as we listened alternately to Jewish music and to records by African musicians. She emphasized that I should learn about both my own heritage and about the heritages of others. She opened to me a world of possibility, while reminding me that I must always be cognizant of my own origins, and that no person´s origins were without both pain and responsibility. The damage of both self-hatred and discrimination caused by fear of and bias against those who appear to be different from ourselves can best be overcome through inclusive sharing of stories. That kind of openness between communities can create space for cooperative communication. Out of this process can emerge new and creative applications of shared power which enable all parties to safely contribute to building structures which both protect the dignity of all members of society and enable each person to rise to his or her full potential. These processes require high levels of both mutual trust and mutual respect which allow for the differences in power levels to be negotiated in participatory venues which deliberately include the voices of all who are affected by such decision-making processes. This inclusion both requires and generates cooperation between individuals and communities as first stories, and then problems, and then potential solutions, are shared and debated. While solutions must begin in the community, sometimes the end result of such discussion must be finalized in the legal system via reformulation of the legal codes, discovery of already existing codes, as in the case of DC´s “Lost Laws”, or simply providing voice for those who cannot make themselves heard. All of these processes require a sense of shared values and mutual respect. As citizens of a democracy, “we the people” must work together “to form a more perfect union” where the interests of all are protected and promoted equally.
Fear and distrust are most effectively dispelled by building upon our shared values, emphasizing the egalitarian ethos upon which our founding documents are based, and working to make those ideals a practical reality. Cooperative understanding of stories and concerns is a key part of the process needed to banish hatred and bias on the road to building full participation and voice for all. To paraphrase a song we sang frequently in school, our origins carry both a patient faith that the difficult past can be overcome, and a roll-up-your-sleeves type of hope that the present brings us ever more opportunities to repair this pain-filled world. As I reflect upon this incident, there is no way in which I could or even would have responded differently at that time, but I carry forward from thence a fervent faith and hope that through cooperation between communities we can help to lift every voice so that all are clearly heard. Through the kind of legal training provided at the UDC David Clarke School of Law, I hope to serve as a more effective facilitator of both short-term and long-term cooperative empowerment.
(re-reading this essay, it occurs to me that it showed my interest in history and Cultural Change/Cooperation (sociology?) more than Law, which is actually an Adversarial System in our society…)
(Shira) Destinie Jones
Occupy K St, Washington, DC (3 separate Occupy camps, 1 circulating Community Currencies cooperation advocate trying to get them to talk to each other…)
2011-10-30 18:44:00 A lovely day at Occupy K… I went down to the Occupy K Street encampment at McPherson Square today for the teach-in session on Time Banking, presented by DC Time Bank coordinator Allison B. and Dr. Edgar Cahn, founder of the Time Banking Institute.
It was a lovely session, with good attendance and questions, and representation from another of DC’s complementary currencies, the Potomac. We discussed both mostly the economic benefits of Time Bank membership, while I added comments on the additional governance benefits, which seemed to attract quite a bit of interest. I hope to teach a session next week on Shared Monetary Governance (SMG) and how, as part of the Participatory Democracy umbrella, SMG increases access to economic decision-making processes, resulting in greater local inclusion, community empowerment, and more economic democracy. I found the Occupy K Street activists to be polite, helpful, very well-meaning, fairly well-organised, and pretty all around warm and friendly to boot. Teachers are most welcome, everyone is fed regularly, and although I was warned to be careful of a couple of shady types floating around, I felt quite safe there. The only thing I noticed was the lack of Spanish language signage. I would love to translate if I had time. If I did not have so much work that needs to be done indoors or at the College, I would bring my writing and loom and set up to work there with everyone, and sing once in a while when I take a break! Stay tuned for more, and encouragement is always welcome! Peace, Shira
Ojala que llueve cafe hungry dc, thesis, economic justice2011-10-30 18:46:00 Bonito dÃa en la Calle K Fui a la protesta para asistir al taller de los Bancos del Tiempo y para hablar con la gente. Estuvo muy bien. Paz 0 hungry 2194 2011-10-31 23:47:00 SMG = 1/2 P ! Occupy K Street article… Publiqué articulo: Gobernanza Participativa I have just had an article published by Gather the Jews in their series on Jewish Occupy DC…
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He tenido otro articulo publicado sobre el tema de la Gobernanza Participatoria del Dinero y como se puede empoderar a la comunidad, eso en en contexto de los protestas que están ocupando, o sea tomando, la Calle K en esta ciudad. Lo voy a traducir en cuanto puedo.
(mientras tanto, se puede traducir por Google Translate…)
Peace,
Shira
0 I woke up this morning with my mind set on freedom tired economic justice 2195 2011-10-11 23:59:00 draft of Occupy DC article -feedback wanted… I plan to submit this to Menorah as somone asked me for 700 words, and hope some of you friends have a moment to spare to cast a constructivly criitical eye over it for me please… “What the Occupy Wall Street Movement May be Missing” Shira Destinie Jones, October, 2011, Washington, DC. Recent demands to abolish the Federal Reserve may lack a solid grounding in the history of monetary governance, but have roots in a crucial right, taken for granted in every democracy. That is: the right of citizens to participate meaningfully in the key decision-making processes associated with the communities in which they live. J. Huber and M. Kennedy agree that the private ownership of the Fed, and its share in the seigniorage revenues associated with the Fractional Reserve Banking System and the debt-based creation of the US money supply, present problems for both social justice and long-term financial stability. Nevertheless, K. Polanyi´s works showed that the gold standard, which would perforce be necessary without The Fed, upheld a system of currency monopoly which was just as prohibitive of full economic participation in egalitarian democracies. One potential set of solutions involves a multi-layered approach which can allow greater flexibility for both local communities and multinational or large-scale investors. Given our globalized economy, Sir J. M. Keynes showed that governments must force circulation of the medium of exchange (MOE) by spending into the public sector, through borrowing if need be. This is the key benefit of fiat money, created from nothing. Yet, Keynes agreed with S. Gesell that modern money´s MOE function of conflicts with the Storage of Value (SOV) function, also filled by modern money, but previously filled by separate currencies, before modern national monetary monopoly became standard. I. Fisher likewise advocated different currencies for the MOE and SOV functions, allowing local communities to be insulated from the financial instability of the global monetary supply while simultaneously allowing access to both international and local economic participation. MOEs like Stamp Scrip and Ithaca Hours have worked as “multipliers” in local economies, while SOV currencies like Time Dollars, issued by E. Cahn´s Time Banks, allow local storage of work energy without inflation concerns. Such local currencies also allow for greater access by local citizens to monetary decision-making processes. A. Fung suggests creating links between institutions at various levels. A similarly linked three-tiered financial system arises as a logical policy recommendation that could potentially allow all monetary stakeholders a significantly increased level of access to monetary decisionmaking. First, each community having its own community-based MOE currency as well as multiple community Time Banks would allow more direct input from currency users, and more direct control over local economies. Those community currencies may need to be regionally connected to the national currency or to the currencies of neighbouring communities, allowing greater flexibility for local communities while coordinating financial concerns across several regions. At a second level, national currencies can continue to allow independent but connected financial structure across national and international boundaries. At a third level, the creation of a truly international currency, separate from any domestically used national currency, would provide international money users with a neutral and coordinated financial system for travel and international business needs. Participation in currency decision-making is important from several standpoints: economic, social and ethical. From an economic perspective, the more participation in decision-making and hence buy-in, a currency has, the more circulation, and the more support from users of that currency. From a social point of view, recalling the “Constitutional Consensus” spoken of by Huber, sharing the benefits of common resources, including money, increases the overall social good by consistently adhering to that consensus. Readers familiar with V. Zelizer´s “Pin Money” will recall her contention that money is a social construction. As such, money belongs within the social sphere, and clearly the political. In a democratic society, this entertwining of the economic with the social and political implies an inherent right to meaningful economic as well as social and political participation in decisions which affect society. Since money so deeply affects both society as a whole, and individual members of society, A. Sen´s assertion that communities have a right to control their own development means that communities must participate in monetary decision-making. Shared Monetary Governance, by devolving more economic decision-making to local levels, can increase that buy-in and social good which is not only the consensus in democratic societies, but also a basic human right. 0 Ojala que llueve cafe hungry economic justice 2196 2011-11-02 19:28:00 News from McPherson Square section of Occupy K Street, DC In between fighting for breaths of air amidst the cigarrette and other smoke, I spoke with many nice and interesting people in the tent city after teaching, as I caught the bus down just off the Metro on a whim and because I was too tired to do anything else. 1st: I would urge everyone to join tomorrow morning´s 11am ralley at Lafayette Park for a version of the Tobin Tax , a tax of around 2% (in most proposals) on large scale financial transactions either of brokerage types or of currency exchanges. 2nd: I joined in a small jam session just before the 6pm General Assembly. I arrived around 5:30, to find nothing at all going on, though a bajo player was warming up. So, I sang a bit of "I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom" -it really is not the same without a group to join in! It there seems to be a need for more music down there. We did get to sing a few Guthrie tunes and This Little LIght of Mine before running for my bus. 3rd: the teaching schedule is still in the air and I am still trying to contact the guy who organises. He promised by phone to give me a time by email but thus far, no email, so I see that there is a need for more patience with the timing. I personally would prefer having organisers for the various comittees on site rather than doing it all via email, as I find it rather exclusionary, but as I do not have time to volunteer organising myself, I cannot really complain. 4th: things are generally calm and cooperative, but if you can volunteer, pls do so. I hope to make it to part of the Tobin Tax rally tomorrow and to teach an umbrella session on SMG (Shared Monetary Governance), drawing various Community Currency folks together if they can make it. Peace, Shira
I woke up this morning with my mind set on freedom hungry economic justice 2197
2011-11-06 12:40:00 Teach-in Class on SMG: Sunday 13 November, Freedom Pz 11:30am and hopefully also 1pm, McPhereson Sq. I will be hosting a session for the Occupy DC Teach-In at Freedom Plaza (13th and Pennsylvania Ave, NW) next Sunday, Nov. 13th, at 11:30am on Economic Democracy (Shared Monetary Governance).
Dr. Edgar Cahn, founder of The Time Banking Institute, will be there, with coordinators of various Time Banks and scrip (paper) currencies here in DC as well, to explain their currencies and sign up new members.
I hope to schedule a follow-on session immediately after at nearby McPhereson Square for 1pm on the same topic with the same coordinators.
Damos clase sobre La Moneda Social con los Bancos del Tiempo y las monedas locales aca con la marcha en la Ocupación de la Calle K el domingo 13 de noviembre, a las 11:30 primero en Freedom Plaza y luego justo despues en el cuadrado, McPherson Square.
Hope to see you all there.
Peace, Shira D. (These Teach-ins led to my being invited to teach at the DC Social Forum 2012…)
Read, Write, Dream, Teach !
ShiraDest
23 February, 12016 HE
DC walking tours on Slavery
2011-10-27 19:11:00
“The Ghosts of Slave Pens Past!” walking tour of DC
Join me, licensed DC Tour Guide Shira D. Jones, as we walk past places that recall the Dickensionan horrors of Victorian era jails, but with inmates whose only crime was being born to the wrong mother -a slave.
This unique Black History related tour of downtown DC will focus on places long forgotten, but which should never be forgotten. Dress for the weather and to walk!
Tours on a sliding scale.
Peace!
(This tour drew very little interest…)
Read, Write, Dream, Teach !
an eval to remember
math journals do work…
