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Activist Awards Grassroots Gala 2011

Washington Peace Center

Thursday, December 8, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)

Washington, DC

Activist Awards Grassroots Gala 2011

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Join us for the activist party of the season! This December, the Washington Peace Center will host the 7th annual Activist Awards Grassroots Gala where we celebrate DC activists' hard work and successes in creating a more just and peaceful world.

Dust off your tutu and party shoes because there will be great music and performances, fun dancing, free food, cash bar and lots of inspiring progressive activists who deserve a night to party.  Pull out your 80's tux, prettiest cocktail dress or favorite pair of jeans, because this is a Grassroots Gala.  Please join us!

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Announcing... the Activist Award Winners for 2011!

Earline Budd, Transgender Health Empowerment
Demissie Abebe,
Director of Torture Abolition and Survivor Support Coalition
Jon Liss,
Director of VA New Majority, former Director of Tenants and Workers United
Kristen Kane-Osorto,
Luther Place, Steinbruck Center for Urban Studies
Leslie Salgado,
Howard County Friends of Latin America
Netfa Freeman,
IPS, SALSA, WPFW, Empower DC
Sylvia Robinson,
Emergence Community Arts Collective, Georgia Ave Task Force, Diverse City Fund
Vasudha Desikan,
former Left Turn and NCOR, active in INCITE and at Occupy DC
Michael Kemp, 
Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop, the school to prison pipeline
The Walter Reed Vigil

 Congratulations to all our impressive awardees!

Entertainment bPuppet Underground, local activist puppeteers extrodinaire, and DJ Domo, keeping things exciting and danceable.

 

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Have you been to all six previous Activist Awards? Click here to see the impressive awardees from the Activist Awards from the past five years.

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When & Where


All Soul's Church
1500 Harvard Street NW
Washington, DC 20010

Thursday, December 8, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (EST)


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Washington Peace Center

The Washington Peace Center is an anti-racist, grassroots, multi-issue organization working for peace, justice, and nonviolent social change in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area since 1963.

We provide education, resources and action for peace and social justice.

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