Bread & Roses is a monthly labor series that features a variety of events focused on workers and organized labor. Each month brings a new topic through interactive discussions, film screenings, and performances. The hope for these events is that attendees walk away with a greater understanding of organized labor, its role in shaping history (more…)

Why so serious?! If you are like us, you have found it hard to find things to laugh about. Working to change the world is grueling and daunting work, but the pursuit of happiness is what we are fighting for! So we are making time to LAUGH! Come out to Shirlington and get your ribs tickled, (more…)

Takoma Park Mobilization and Busboys and Poets welcomes you to the Wednesday Climate Action Coffee Breakfast Happy Hour Every Wednesday 7:30am-9:30am Listen to youth climate leaders Understand the Green New Deal Build resiliency and sustainable food systems Organize for climate justice Build local economy that supports drawdown of greenhouse gases in our Potomac Valley watershed (more…)

Jointly sponsored by Bread & Roses and ACTORPanel discussion with Rev. Nelson Johnson and Joyce Hobson Johnson (both survivors of the massacre) and retired Attorney Lewis Pitts who represented the widows and survivors of the Massacre in their successful civil suit against the KKK, the Nazis, and the City of Greensboro. The panel will be (more…)

Busboys and Poets and Citizens’ Climate Lobby Present: OVERHEATED! Hot Takes on Climate Change, a new partnered series of discussions and exhibitions about climate change, climate activists, and climate voters.Please join us Wednesday, November 20 at 6pm at 450 K Street for this month’s event: “Crossing Borders – Climate Disruption and Immigration”From detention camps, ICE raids, (more…)

As always, Busboys and Poets is your community go-to place for politics.   Ten Democratic candidates will debate in the fifth primary face-off, which has increasing importance, with Presidential hopefuls set to face voters in fewer than three months.Candidates who met the polling and fundraising requirements set by the Democratic National Committee are:  Former Vice President Joe (more…)

As always, Busboys and Poets is your community go-to place for politics.   Ten Democratic candidates will debate in the fifth primary face-off, which has increasing importance, with Presidential hopefuls set to face voters in fewer than three months.Candidates who met the polling and fundraising requirements set by the Democratic National Committee are:  Former Vice President Joe (more…)