Mark-your-calendar Monday returns

Eight events that caught my eye

• [NATIONAL/VIRTUAL] This Wednesday, 6/4 ➡️ The Top 10 Most Effective Actions to Meet this Moment. Nonviolence experts Maria Stephan and Rivera Sun will "look at efforts including boycotts, quiet resistance, mass protests, and other ways to stop harm. This webinar will put them into strategic context and include suggestions about how people can show up most effectively and strategically." Free/donations welcome.
• [WASHINGTON, DC] This Friday, 6/6 ➡️ Unite for Veterans, a march on the Mall at 2pm. And that night is the "Free Andry" Big Gay Live Show. "Celebrate Pride, vent, pre-game, commiserate, laugh, vent some more, and raise money for the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, which represents Andry Hernandez Romero and others being held in El Salvador without so much as a hearing." Only $63 balcony tickets remain.
• [CHICAGO] Saturday, June 7 (IRL) and/or Wednesday, June 11 (virtual) ➡️The Public Health & Safety Campaign invites folks to a "training to kick off our summer of organizing...$300 million dollars per year are going to police vacancies and an overtime slush fund, and we know that instead those funds can protect and expand what we need for real public health & safety - Public Mental Health Clinics, Youth Jobs, and more!" Sign up here.
• [VIRTUAL] Tuesday, June 10 ➡️ Power Jenga: Campaign Strategies to Shake the System, from The Organizing Center and Training for Change. "As we cross the 100-day mark of the new administration, and take stock of the thousands of protests and marches, we think it’s time to evolve our strategies particularly against corporate and institutional targets (like universities) to focus on creating a crisis for key decision-makers." Free!
• [VIRTUAL] Tuesday, June 17 Understanding Antisemitism: A Training for All, from T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. "In this training, we will work to create a shared vocabulary around antisemitism, provide clear examples of what is and what is not antisemitism — including in the context of Israel — and deepen knowledge about how antisemitism is linked with other forms of bigotry and discrimination." Free, I think.
• [VIRTUAL] Thursday, June 19 aka Juneteenth ➡️ Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden. "Hear from author Camille T. Dungy about her seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominantly white community of Fort Collins, Colorado, which limited what residents could plant in their gardens." Free.
• [VIRTUAL] Sundays, June 22 and 29 ➡️ Radical Genealogy 2025, a online training from Comrades Education for people of European descent. "Together, as descendants of those who were stripped of their inherited traditions and socialized to become 'white,' we will explore how to use genealogical study to develop a renewed and rooted sense of self that can power our efforts for collective liberation." Sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.

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