Updates
In the Pursuit of Affordable, Sustainable Housing
June 30, 2019
At the ONE DC office in Shaw on a Tuesday evening, Right to Housing Organizer Patrick Gregoire carefully reads over a drafted email blast about the upcoming People’s Right to Housing Mini-Assembly. He edits...
Read More ShareWe are ready for change. Let's face it together
June 27, 2019
As the Resource Organizer for ONE DC, I’m writing to make an important and joyful announcement. This year, 2019, marks a truly unique year for ONE DC. It is year 13 since we began...
Read More ShareCollective Work & Cooperation
May 30, 2019
Co-Familia: Bilingual Childcare Development CenterBy Silvia Inez Salazar Organizing and buying our rent-controlled building in 2011 was a huge accomplishment that took 7 years. Our building used to be called the Norwood Apartments and...
Read More ShareOver 100 Community Members Show Support for Racial Equity in DC
May 30, 2019
On April 25th, more than 80 people testified, and over 100 community members came to the Wilson Building to show support for Racial Equity in DC. A wide variety of advocates and activists packed...
Read More ShareCommemorating Emancipation Day 2019
April 30, 2019
Tuesday, April 16th marked the 157th anniversary of the day that slavery was legally abolished in D.C., freeing over 3,000 enslaved people living in the District - a crucial turning point in the history...
Read More ShareMake Some Noise! - Resistance through Music
April 30, 2019
Long-time Shaw residents are accustomed to being greeted by the sounds of Chuck Brown, Rare Essence, or Mambo Sauce as they pass the intersection of 7th and Florida. Donald Campbell has been playing Go-Go...
Read More ShareBuilding Our Base
March 31, 2019
At ONE DC, our vision of community organizing is cooking up! Its hearty base derives from Ella Baker’s approach to organizing. Ella Baker understood that for far too long, those who were directly affected...
Read More ShareONE DC & the Global Land Movement
February 28, 2019
Sharecroppers in Eutaw, Alabama, 1930s ONE DC recognizes that because all basic necessities of human life come from the land, community control of the land is an essential element of liberation. Displacement and dispossession...
Read More ShareThe Home Stretch
February 11, 2019
The ONE DC Black Workers & Wellness Center (BWWC) has been an evolving project for over five years, and we cannot thank you enough for your support in making this dream a reality. After years of...
Read More ShareCoalition Updates
January 31, 2019
Clean Energy DC! In December 2019, after years of relentless community pressure by the DC Climate Coalition, the DC Council passed the Clean Energy DC Act: The District will be powered by 100% renewable...
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