Gather around the campfire every Wednesday evening for community, stories, bits of music breaking out, stories… and s’mores!

Chuck Collins discusses his provocative new novel, Altar to an Erupting Sun, that explores current and future social movements to navigate ecological catastrophe and the culpability of the fossil fuel industry. Collins is co-editor of <ahref="http://www.inequality.org/" >Inequality.org at the Institute for Policy Studies and author of numerous books including Born on Third Base, <a " href="http://www.wealthhoarders.com/">The Wealth Hoarders, and Economic Apartheid in America.

Every Friday, bring your song, poem, skit, stand-up routine, strange-but-beguiling act, instrument, dance, juggling, etc., to entertain and amuse. All ages, all acts… all love it every Friday!

Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of both CODEPINK and the international human rights organization Global Exchange. How do we move to a place where negotiations can take place re Ukraine in order to end this war? Medea compares Europe to the political scene in D.C and activism in the US, and draws from her recent book, "War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict" in a search for solutions. Medea will be joined by Rob Shetterly, the creator of…

David and Jacob Bernz are a father-son team of folksingers and songwriters hailing from New York State’s Hudson Valley region. David has been performing for over forty years and had a close relationship with the late Pete Seeger, earning two Grammy Awards for producing “Pete Seeger, at 89” (Best Folk Album 2008) and “Pete Seeger and the Rivertown Kids – Tomorrow’s Children” (Best Children’s Album 2010). His own performance ensembles have included “Dave, Perry, Rande, “Stone Soup” and “Work o’…

What does it mean for 10,000 people to lose their homes, without prior notice and with extreme violence, through voluntary government action in the space of a day? What does it mean for this kind of action to happen repeatedly over decades in a peace-time democracy with near-total impunity? Megan Chapman and Andrew Maki share experiences from supporting urban poor communities through this kind of mass forced eviction in Lagos and Port Harcourt, Nigeria: the strategies used to support communities…

Cooperative work in teams; competition between teams. Use what you know; learn what you don’t. Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy!; will they make the difference? Categories about things you care about; snack bar prizes for winning teams. Participants from teens to seniors; will there be generational advantages and disadvantages?  Where else would you get Jeopardy! with a peace and justice twist?

Leslie Fine is a union organizer with the Communications Workers of America Local 1180 and has helped workers win dozens of union campaigns. “If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life.” Then why are so many passionate dedicated nonprofit workers at a breaking point? Union organizing among non-profit workers has surged in recent years as workers attempt to make their jobs, organizations, and movements more sustainable through collective power. We’ll discuss what that looks…