Annual Reports

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Annual Report - May 2010-April 2011

Annual Report - May 2009-May 2010

Annual Report-  May 2008-May 2009

Highlights - 2011

Highlights - 2009

2010 - A Year of Building the Movement:

Coalition and Collaboration Building

  • In 2010, we coordinated an Iraq Anniversary action week in March, bringing together all the organizations planning events and actions to organize resource sharing, a communal outreach plan and a common calendar.
  • We worked as part of the core group organizing the Greater DC People’s Assembly in May, bringing together over 100 local organizers and activists on a wide range of issues to discuss the state of our local movement, provide a vision for its future and create a People’s Agenda as a guide for our work over the long-term that we brought to the US Social Forum.

Getting Heard in the Streets in 2010

  • If you were at an action in DC, chances are you’ve seen the Washington Peace Center’s sound systems, stages and bullhorns.  Over the past year, our action equipment have been used by over 30 actions organized by groups including DC Jobs with Justice, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, MOMIES TLC, Black is Back Coalition, Institute for Policy Studies, CISPES, We Are Family, WPFW, DC Fiscal Policy Institute, Empower DC and many more.
  • Seen great political flyers around town? We’ve provided thousands of discounted photocopies for flyers and full-color posters for local events and actions. 

Making a Difference Online in 2010

  • We continue to keep our online calendar up-to-date with about 40 new events a week, providing the community with the most comprehensive progressive calendar for the DC/MD/VA area.
  • Our online Resource Guide has been dramatically expanded and improved, with accurate and helpful information about how to get a permit in DC, where to hold a free event and much more.  Our updated, searchable Organization Directory now lists over 300 local progressive groups. 

Sowing the Seeds of Resistance for the Future

  • In 2010, we started a skills-based training series for local activists to raise the quality of work happening in the DC area.   We focused on outreach skills, including media plans, using social media tools and creating effective political posters. 
  • We provide fiscal sponsorships for over 20 groups and projects working for peace and justice, providing smaller groups with the needed administrative infrastructure to do their important work changing the world.   These groups included the Civilian-Soldier Alliance, CUAllies, Witness Against Torture and Girls Rock!DC. 

We’ve worked with over 50 groups in 2010.... including:

We worked with: ACLU-NCA; ANSWER Coalition; Appalachia Rising; Black is Back Coalition; Casa de Maryland; Chesapeake Climate Action Network; CHOICES; CISPES; Civilian-Soldier Alliance; CODEPINK: Women for Peace; CUAllies; DC Fiscal Policy Institute; DC Jobs with Justice; Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House; Ecolocity DC; Empower DC; Friends of the Congo; Funk the War; Girls Rock!DC; Grey Panthers of DC; Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Committee; Homeless Children Playtime Project; Ignatian Solidarity Network; IMF Resistance Network; Institute for Policy Studies (IPS); Iraq Veterans Against the War – DC and national; Labor Heritage Foundation; M.O.M.I.E’s TLC (Mentors of Minorities in Education’s Total Learning Cis-Tem); Monahan Brothers “Walk Across America for Democracy”; Native Youth Alliance; ONE DC; One World Education; Peace Action; Peace of the Action; Positive Force; Proposition One Committee; Puppet Underground; Quaker Initiative to End Torture (QUIT);  Safe Schools DC; Spill into Washington; Stand Up! For Democracy in DC; Students for a Democratic Society, DC & UMD; TASSC (Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International); Thrive DC; United for Peace and Justice; Veterans for Peace; Voters for Peace; We Are Family; Witness Against Torture; Witness for Peace; WPFW.