NCEJN

Community Discussion on ‘Rock My Soul’ by Bell Hooks in Durham
2025-02-18 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Durham County Main Library, 300 N Roxboro St, Durham, NC, 27701
Community discussion on ‘rock my soul’ by bell hooks. Tuesday February 18, 6-7.30 pm. Durham Main Library. Register here.

Free Film Screening of ‘Our Movement Starts here’ in Warrenton
2025-02-18 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Warren County Senior Center, 435 W. Franklin St., Warrenton, NC, 27589, United States
Free film screening of ‘Our Movement Starts here’ to be held in Warrenton on Tuesday February 18, at 1 pm.

Webinar: No backsliding: Environmental justice, science & the role of academia.
2025-02-14 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | NC
No Backsliding: Environmental Justice,Science & the Role of Academia
Jalonne L. White-Newsome, PhD
CEO and Founder
Empowering A Green Environment and Economy, LLC
Feb. 14, 2025
12 P.M. – 1 P.M.
Virtual Only.

Webinar: Messaging for energy and environmental Executive Orders
2025-02-10 13:00 - 15:00 UTC | NC
Join the Environmental Polling Consortium for a presentation of the results from new message testing showing the most effective ways to respond to Trump’s executive orders on energy and the environment, including: -Withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement; -Opening up more public lands and waters for oil and gas drilling, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska; -Suspending new government permits and leases for wind energy projects; -Weakening vehicle emissions and efficiency standards; and -Repealing the government’s environmental justice programs. This work was conducted with the Sierra Club, GreenLatinos, and other partners. We will record this session and send out the materials to all registrants – if you cannot attend live, you can still register and receive the follow-up materials.

Join the rally in Durham. Defend Immigrant Rights
2025-02-09 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | NC
Join the rally in Durham. Defend Immigrant Rights. CCB Plaza (201 N Corcoran St, Durham) Sunday February 9, 4 pm

Support Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment
2025-02-08 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | NC
CAUSE (Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment) has been building shop-floor organization and power at Amazon’s RDU1 fulfillment center in Garner, NC over the last nearly 3 years.

CAUSE will be holding a UNION YES election rally on Saturday, February 8, at 4pm. Please see attached flier and share widely within your organizations, with coworkers, and beyond. The gathering point is 1205 Timber Drive East, Garner, NC, where shuttles will run to take folks to the rally location.

SHUTTLE DRIVERS NEEDED: If you have a car and are willing to help move folks between the parking location and the rally site before and/or after the demonstration, please complete this form to volunteer. This is an important role and support is needed from other workers and community members to make the rally a success: https://forms.gle/eHgDdBsghK5SM6A36

Webinar: Rights and Resistance Defending Immigrants.
2025-02-06 20:00 - 21:30 UTC | NC
Thursday February 6, 8 pm ET.
Join Guest Speakers to learn about legal rights, community organizing and building united action.

Whose 2025?
The Peoples’ 2025!

Join Our Guest Guest Speakers to learn about legal rights, community organizing and building united action
Professor Ana Lopez, student and community organizing at CUNY-Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY
Stephanie Alvarez-Jones, on legal rights, Southeast Regional Attorney at the National Immigration Project, National Lawyers Guild
and more!

Come and share your views and experience.

Organized by Women United Against Genocide

Webinar: Learn how to defend our communities!
2025-02-06 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | NC
Siembra is hosting this call – We Got Us – on Thursday, February 6, at 6pm on how to defend our communities and build power.
Here’s the link to register is tiny.cc/wegotuszoom

Webinar: Together we are stronger: Community conversation about schools and ICE/ Juntos Somos Poderosos: Conversación comunitaria sobre escuelas y la migra
2025-02-05 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | NC
Together we are stronger: Community conversation about schools and ICE/ Juntos Somos Poderosos: Conversación comunitaria sobre escuelas y la migra.
This meeting will provide a safe space for directly impacted community members, parents/guardians of children in school to share experiences, and perspectives, hear any questions related to this important issue, and learn our rights while on school grounds.

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Dear Partners please make sure directly impacted families register for this virtual meeting.

We invite you to a virtual meeting to hear and discuss concerns regarding the intersection of public schools and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities. This meeting will provide a safe space for directly impacted community members, parents/guardians of children in school to share experiences, and perspectives, hear any questions related to this important issue, and learn our rights while on school grounds.
This meeting will be held virtually on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, at 7pm via Zoom. The meeting is by invitation only and we ask that news outlets and/or journalists respect our privacy and not to try to join. To attend, please register using the meeting link below. You will need to download Zoom if you do not have it yet.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9NHlsptsSXKXlYqi4dN1nw#/registration
Some of the topics that we will be discussing are:

Know Your Rights while on school grounds

Mental Health impacts on immigrant families

Transportation barriers and what to do while on school buses

Virtual Learning or remote instruction

Prevention/Intervention programs and policies regarding bullying

Here is the list of community-based organizations working collectively on this effort because We Are Stronger Together/ Juntos Somos mas Fuertes:
Casa Azul de Wilson
Education Justice Alliance
ISLA
MOON
Muslims for Social Justice
Muslim Women For
People’s Power Lab
SAF

If your organization is interested in joining our efforts, please contact Fernando Martinez at Fernando@ejanc.org.

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RECORDATORIO
Estimados compañeros, asegúrense de que las familias directamente afectadas se registren para esta reunión virtual.

Les invitamos a una reunión virtual, para escuchar y discutir las preocupaciones sobre las potenciales actividades de la migra (ICE) en las escuelas públicas de Carolina del Norte. Esta reunión intenta crear un espacio seguro para que los miembros de la comunidad directamente afectada, padres y guardianes legales puedan compartir experiencias, perspectivas, queremos escuchar cualquier pregunta relacionada con este importante tema y también queremos aprender sobre nuestros derechos mientras estamos en los terrenos de la escuela pública.
Esta reunión se llevará a cabo virtualmente el miércoles 5 de febrero de 2025 a las 7pm a través de Zoom. La reunión es sólo por invitación y pedimos que los medios de comunicación y / o periodistas respeten nuestra privacidad y no traten de unirse. Para asistir, regístrese en el enlace de la reunión que figura a continuación. Si aún no dispone de Zoom, deberá descargarlo.
Regístrese aquí: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9NHlsptsSXKXlYqi4dN1nw#/registration
Algunos de los temas que trataremos son:

Conozca sus derechos mientras está en las escuelas
Impactos de salud mental en familias inmigrantes
Barreras de transporte y qué hacer en los autobuses escolares
Aprendizaje virtual o enseñanza a distancia
Programas de prevención/intervención y políticas relativas al acoso escolar

Aquí está la lista de organizaciones comunitarias que trabajan colectivamente en este esfuerzo porque We Are Stronger Together/ Juntos Somos más Fuertes:
Casa Azul de Wilson
Education Justice Alliance
ISLA
MOON
Muslims for Social Justice
Muslim Women For
People’s Power Lab
SAF

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Rally against Anti-immigration policies
2025-02-05 15:00 - 16:30 UTC | UNC Chapel Hill University, South Building Steps
Join the protest in Chapel Hill: We stand together. Join the rally against Anti-immigration policies! South Building Steps, UNC-Ch. Wednesday February 5, 3 pm.

Join us on the steps of South Building on 2/5 at 3 pm as we rally against Chancellor Lee Roberts! Students stand strong together against injustice! We will not be silent!

Webinar - IN ANOTHER'S LAND: War and Militarization
2025-02-05 08:00 - 09:30 UTC | NC
WEBINAR II In Another’s Land: War and Militarization
Date: 5 February 2025
Exploring dynamics of war, militarization and the influence of private companies and business interests in contemporary geopolitics; how it impacts world peace and how nonviolent movements organise in the midst of war.
NCEJN’s Co Director Rania Masri is one of the three speakers.
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WEBINAR II: Exploring dynamics of war, militarization and the influence of private companies and business interests in contemporary geopolitics; how it impacts world peace and how nonviolent movements organise in the midst of war.
Social justice movements worldwide navigate a complex terrain, facing multiple forms of violence; from war to oppression, surveillance to discrimination and beyond. How do people organise and resist in such realities? How can they succeed?
This six-part webinar series invites activists, scholars, policymakers, and the public to explore the complex roots, manifestations and dynamics of violence, and the transformative role of social movements in acheiving justice and building peace.
Strategic and sustained non-violent action has proven to be one of the most powerful tools for confronting state and institutional violence and addressing the underlying conditions that fuel conflict and oppression. Understanding the conditions that often lead to violence, and the many forms in which it manifests can help us to de-escalate and dismantle.
Each webinar will deliberate on the roots and manifestations of violence, and the strategic approaches that movements employ to resist and organize. Through the course of these deliberations, we aim to explore the practical and strategic dimensions of non-violent action, learn how to support and amplify these efforts, fostering broader solidarity and systemic transformation towards more just and peaceful societies.

Read about the other webinars here.

Emergency Community Assembly
2025-02-01 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Peace and Justice Plaza, UNC
“We reject the centering of the university in local organizing, but the continued harm and outright aggression against the community by UNC cannot be ignored. Bringing in hundreds of police officers into the community on April 30th, the coal plant which pollutes the air of surrounding black neighborhoods and the university’s plan to switch to PFAS pellets which would fill the air with forever chemicals, gentrification, and eager collaboration with ICE – the university continues to endanger our communities with no sign of stopping. The situation demands response. Show up smart.”
“We are tired of the university harming our communities.
The announcement that UNC will cooperate with ICE and hand over its own students represents a willful and callous continued commitment to racist police violence by the university. We invite the community and students to gather in assembly to discuss these developments.
We protect us.
Peace and Justice Plaza
6pm Saturday, February 1st
Mask Required
-No to ICE and UNCPD
-No to financial support for genocide, war, and apartheid
-No to PFAS pallets and coal
-No to gentrification and climbing rents”

Lumberton Energy Funds Meeting
2025-02-01 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | NC

Webinar: New Year, New Climate
2025-01-30 19:15 - 20:30 UTC | NC
How can we shape our future together in 2025? Join us for an engaging virtual panel discussion that addresses pressing climate and environmental issues affecting the Triangle and North Carolina! Learn about the fight for clean air, energy, and water, NCEJN’s advocacy for heat safety standards for workers in a warming world, and discover how you can get involved to make a difference. This is the time to connect–it’s not too late to take action!
There will be time for an interactive Q&A session and community dialogue.
Speakers:
– Barbara Foushee, Carrboro Town Mayor
– Amy Armbruster, Chief Sustainability Officer at the Town of Carrboro
– Bobby Jones, Down East Coal Ash Environmental and Social Justice Coalition
– Katarina Caskey, Organizing and Community Support Manager at the NC Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN)
Date: Thursday, January 30th
Time: 7:15 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: Virtual
RSVP Here

Join CCAEJ for the PCB Teach-in at NC State,
2025-01-30 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | NC
Join the Campus Community Alliance for Environmental Justice (CCAEJ) for the PCB Teach-in at NC State, taking place in Witherspoon Student Center Auditorium on January 30 at 6 pm. A panel of experts will explain the science of the toxic chemicals known as PCBs, the history of PCB contamination in North Carolina and on the NC State campus, and lay out where we go from here

PCBs and NC State were in the news a lot last year. Do you know the full story? Come learn from the experts about the history of PCB contamination in North Carolina, how these chemicals affect people’s health and communities, and where we go from here. Bring a friend (or make one here) and gain some knowledge.

Empowering Black Farmers: Networking & Knowledge Sharing Summit
2025-01-30 09:00 - 15:00 UTC | N.C. Rural Economic Development Center, 4021 Carya Drive #160, Raleigh
Tall Grass invites you to “Empowering Black Farmers: Networking & Knowledge Sharing Summit”, Empowering Black Farmers Summit, a gathering for our farmer community and ecosystem partners.
The day will be filled with valuable insights, new connections, and resources for black farmers and support partners in the agricultural ecosystem. This in-person event is an opportunity to network with fellow farmers, share experiences, and gain new insights to enhance your farming experience.

"First 100 Days: Tracking the Trump Agenda” Webinar,
2025-01-29 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | NC
Southern Vision Alliance invites you to “First 100 Days: Tracking the Trump Agenda” Webinar, Wednesday, January 29 at 07:00 – 8:30 PM— An important Movement Briefing with experts that are tracking Trump’s First 100 Days

We’ll hear a threat assessment of the first executive orders,
An analysis of the Trump immigration policy and learn about organizing for ICE raids and deportation defense,
Threats to workers rights and labor, and ways to organize and take action to block Trump’s initiatives

Webinar: Community Defender Training: Understanding Your Rights and Protecting Your Community Under the New Administration
2025-01-29 17:00 - 18:30 UTC | NC
Community Defender Training:
Understanding Your Rights and Protecting Your Community Under the New Administration
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Eastern Time
Zoom Webinar
Duration: 90 minutes Cost: Free
Program Description:
Join the National Immigration Project for a free webinar for community defenders, advocates, and impacted community members to go over the basics of what you can do to protect yourself and your community in the face of potential immigration enforcement. We’ll go over what immigration policies have changed in the first week of the Trump administration; a primer on your Fourth Amendment rights; and ways for families to prepare in case of an arrest by immigration officials. Our 1.5-hour program is meant to address your most burning questions and to remind you of the protections you already have. As policies change, we will continue to provide community defenders with the information and trainings they need to fight back and to keep their people ready to face whatever comes.
We will have simultaneous interpretation in Spanish and Haitian Creole during this webinar and we will consider requests for interpretation in other languages as we receive them.
Who should attend this program?
This webinar is intended for organizers, impacted community members, and other community defenders who are not lawyers.

Webinar: SPEAKING OF VIOLENCE: Mapping The Terrain
2025-01-29 08:00 - 09:30 UTC | NC
This webinar is the first in a series of webinars titled Towards a People’s Peace – A Global Webinar Series on The Transformative Role of Social Movements in Resisting Violence and Building Peace
WEBINAR I Speaking of Violence: Mapping the Terrain
Date: 29 January 2025
We introduce the series with a first webinar exploring different categories of collective violence and examining the roots and manifestations of this, and how these are understood and experienced by social movements.
Social justice movements worldwide navigate a complex terrain, facing multiple forms of violence; from war to oppression, surveillance to discrimination and beyond. How do people organise and resist in such realities? How can they succeed?
This six-part webinar series invites activists, scholars, policymakers, and the public to explore the complex roots, manifestations and dynamics of violence, and the transformative role of social movements in acheiving justice and building peace.
Strategic and sustained non-violent action has proven to be one of the most powerful tools for confronting state and institutional violence and addressing the underlying conditions that fuel conflict and oppression. Understanding the conditions that often lead to violence, and the many forms in which it manifests can help us to de-escalate and dismantle.
Each webinar will deliberate on the roots and manifestations of violence, and the strategic approaches that movements employ to resist and organize. Through the course of these deliberations, we aim to explore the practical and strategic dimensions of non-violent action, learn how to support and amplify these efforts, fostering broader solidarity and systemic transformation towards more just and peaceful societies.
Read more about other upcoming webinars below!

About The Series:

This six-part webinar series invites activists, scholars, policymakers, and the public to explore the complex roots, manifestations and dynamics of violence, while also understanding the transformative role of social movements in addressing these, of building global peace and amplifying justice.

Social movements worldwide navigate a complex terrain, facing multiple forms of violence, and employing a range of strategies from peaceful protests to armed resistance in order to confront them. Each webinar will deliberate on critical aspects of violence—its origins, forms, consequences and explore how social movements can challenge and transform systems of oppression and exploitation.

Through the course of these deliberations, we aim to explore the practical and strategic dimensions of non-violent action, empowering activists, policymakers, scholars, and citizens to foster more just and peaceful societies.

Also Coming Up:

Part II IN ANOTHER’S LAND: War and Militarization (Webinar) Feb 5 / 05.02

Part III THE VIOLENT STATE: Dealing with Repression (Webinar) Feb 19 / 19.02

Part IV UNCIVIL SOCIETY: Ending Violence in People vs. People Conflicts (Webinar) March 3 / 5.03

Part V THE PEACEFUL PLAY OF PEOPLE POWER: Violence, Nonviolence and Social Change (Webinar) March 19 / 19.03

Part VI TOWARDS A PEOPLE’S PEACE: Pathways to a Just and Peaceful World (Live, at The People Power Conference, Copenhagen) April 9/ 9.04

The Social Movement Webinar Series is hosted by MOVE: The Global Social Movement Centre, a collaboration between ActionAid Nigeria, MS TCDC, Tanzania, ActionAid Denmark and ActionAid Association, India.

Community Forum on Contamination in Parks (Durham)
2025-01-27 18:00 - 19:30 UTC | Walltown Park Recreation Center | 1308 W. Club Blvd., Walltown Park Recreation Center | 1308 W. Club Blvd.
Event is both in person and online.
Click here to register for in-person or virtual attendance: qrco.de/soils

Webinar: Zoning Basics and Community Organizing
2025-01-27 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | NC
Join Southern Coalition For Social Justice to learn how zoning decisions shape our communities and what we can do to influence them.

Zoning Primer: Anne Harvey, Chief Counsel for Environmental Justice at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, will explain zoning basics—what it is, how the process works, and how to get involved.
Community Organizing Insights: Denzel Burnside, founder of the NC Housing Table, will share actionable tips from his experience organizing for positive change.

To learn more about zoning in North Carolina, check out SCSJ’s North Carolina Zoning 101 Toolkit (also available in Spanish).

Health and Healthcare in Your Community (Charlotte): An Active Listening Session
2025-01-25 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Galilee Ministries, 3601 Central Ave.,, Galilee Ministries, 3601 Central Ave.,, Charlotte, 28205
Health and Healthcare in Your Community: An Active Listening Session
Saturday, January 25, 2025 from 2 – 4 pm
Galilee Ministries, 3601 Central Ave., Charlotte, NC 28205
The Reimagining America Project invites you to join us for an active listening session where your health and health care experiences in your community are listened to and heard. There will be caring, trained professionals and great listeners available one-to-one to hear your stories. Your input will help us to better understand the health and health care disparities that exist in too many of our communities. Those disparities are differences in health and health care between groups as a result of social and economic inequities.
According to the CDC, the health of Black Americans is worse than their white counterparts across many measures of health including infant deaths, pregnancy-related deaths, and deaths due to diabetes and cancer. Black people have a shorter life expectancy than white people and the gap only widened during the pandemic.
We know the statistics but we want to hear about your valuable lived experiences trying to be healthy and get health care in your community. Please share the attached flyer and participate in this important event!

ICE Watch Training - Durham
2025-01-25 14:00 - 15:30 UTC | 2823 N Roxboro St., Durham, 2823 N Roxboro St.,, Durham
Durham Beyond Policing and Siembra NC are calling you to get involved and find out how you can play a role in keeping your community safe so we can all live with dignity. #DefendandRecruit, Juntos podemos! This Saturday, January 25:

2 PM, 2823 N Roxboro St., Durham

Taxpayers Against Genocide - National Webinar
2025-01-25 13:00 - 14:30 UTC | NC
This webinar will provide information about how grassroots activists across 10 different counties in Northern CA organized and launched the Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG) class action lawsuit against their members of Congress. The webinar is the beginning of a nationwide network supporting taxpayer’s efforts to hold our elected officials across the US accountable for illegal use of our tax dollars that make us complicit in genocide.

ICE Watch Training - Raleigh
2025-01-25 10:00 - 11:30 UTC | 4 Blount St. Ste. 100, Raleigh, 4 Blount St. Ste. 100,, Raleigh
Durham Beyond Policing and Siembra NC are calling you to get involved and find out how you can play a role in keeping your community safe so we can all live with dignity. #DefendandRecruit, Juntos podemos! This Saturday, January 25:

10 AM, 4 Blount St. Ste. 100, Raleigh

Protest SB 678 with the BHS Broughton HS's Student Action for the Environment
2025-01-24 09:30 - 13:30 UTC | NC
Join BHS Broughton HS’s Student Action For the Environment (SAFE) club at the North Carolina Legislative Building on Jones Street to protest SB 678, which uses phrasing to imply that biomass, including burning wood pellets is “clean” and “renewable.” Friday, January 24 · 9:30 AM – 1:30 PM

Tell the Courts: "Our Votes Matter."
2025-01-23 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | NC
The fight against Jefferson Griffin’s baseless attempts to steal an election needs you! On Thursday, January 23rd at 6:30pm ET, Common Cause NC is hosting a statewide virtual town hall to share the latest updates on this case, hear from impacted voters, and find out what we can do next. Learn more, take action, and find out whether you or someone you know is on Griffin’s list by going to ccnc.me/WeMatter today.

Organized by Common Cause

MLK March and Rally in Greenville
2025-01-20 09:30 - 13:00 UTC | NC
Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, a radical who encouraged all to engage in many forms of “direct political action and tactics” beyond just voting during the election seasons.
MONDAY, JANUARY 20 @ 9:30am
Join Coalition Against Racism, North of the River Ass’n. and other human rights organizations at: Thomas Foreman Park (400 Nash Street – CM Eppes Gym)
We will safely and peacefully march, (or opt to follow in a vehicle caravan), to the Pitt Co. Courthouse (100 W. 3rd St.) for a rally on the steps.
There will be a “Peoples’ Feast” @ Moyewood Cultural & Community Center, 1710 West 3rd St., (In the public housing complex), following the march and rally
We won’t let anyone; not Trump, not the Right-wing, Conservatives who control the Legislatures in Raleigh, NC or Washington, DC, nor the Greenville officials who deny us quality, affordable rental housing in the name of “economic development”, stop us!
OUR PURPOSE IS JUSTICE, AND WE WILL NOT BE DENIED!
If Martin Luther King were alive today, he would be marching in the street and demanding the U.S. government immediately stop funding Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the rest of the Middle East. He would unite with us to build a movement against “the giant triplets” of racism, materialism, and militarism. He would say “CEASE FIRE NOW! and END THE BLOCKADE OF BOTH CUBA AND PALESTINE!
LET’S HONOR DR KING’S OPPOSITION TO WAR AND SUPPORT FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE!

For more info: Call Don (252) 258-1602

Mass Deportations & Far-Right Sheriffs,
2025-01-19 16:00 - 17:30 UTC | NC
Mass Deportations & Far-Right Sheriffs, Sunday, January 19 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm ET. This event will be livestreamed on Fire Storm Books YouTube channel (no registration required). Simultaneous interpretation will be provided for in-person participants

Triangle Festival of Resistance
2025-01-18 12:00 - 16:00 UTC | NC
Triangle Festival of Resistance January 18, 12-4 PM, 305 S. Dillard St., Durham, and Januray 19th 12-4 PM, 506 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill
