Out on the Town with Gandhi Brigade!

FIRST ANNUAL MIXED UNITY PEACE SUMMIT Saturday, October 10th 2009

Join MXD UNITY and learn more about how violence affects our lives and communities and ways to take action to stop it. GB staff Hawa Toure and Heather B. Kubo along with GB volunteer Shalin Basnayake will be heading the workshop titled "Darfur Distractions: Thinking Critically about the US & Genocide at home and abroad".

Registration starts at 9:30am and the program kicks off at 10am. Summit will take place at Montgomery College Takoma Park Campus.

See: http://www.gazette.net/stories/10072009/takonew181207_32526.shtml

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IIFEST in Downtown Silver Spring, October 17th 2009 Come check out our tent between 11am and 6pm to tock up on some handmade Gandhi Goods and learn more about GB! See, http://iifest.eventbrite.com/

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FREEDOM SCHOOL, October 17th 2009 Join a critical discussion with Professor Alis Sandosharaj from George Mason University as we take a critical look at experiences of race and racism in the US

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COMMUNITY SERVICE DAY, October 17th 2009 Join us as we help Pyramid Atlantic paint a mural at their Georgia Ave. site OR come door-knocking with us with IMPACT Silver Spring for MC Community Service Day! Contact Hawa Toure at (301) 588-1399 or hawa@gandhibrigade.org to get involved!

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CROSSING BORDERS Film Screening

Friday November 6th, 2009, 6:30pm-8:30pm

Cafritz Arts Buildling, Montgomery College Takoma Park Campus

Join us for a special screening of four documentaries produced during Gandhi Brigade's Crossing Borders summer media exchange program. Each short-form documentary was created by a production team of youth from El Salvador and Silver Spring during a 10 day exchange in Suchitoto, El Salvador in August 2009. The screening will be followed by a video-conference discussion with the audience and the youth producers from El Salvador and the United States.

Please contact Heather Bradley-Kubo for more information (301) 588-1399 or heather@gandhibrigade.org

See, http://www.gazette.net/stories/08192009/burtnew210038_32533.shtml

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PARTY TIME! DECEMBER 5th at 7pm, Location TBA Join us for our Winter Formal where we will screen 16 new GB youth productions, a series of photo essays covering local stories and people, and an awards ceremony with refreshments.

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