ANA DC Days evening events, May 20-22

The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability is excited to announce its lineup of evening events during the annual DC Days. Please read on below. (It is still not too late to register to attend DC Days as well!)

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A special aspect of these evening events is the opportunity to invite friends and allies from the greater D.C. area to attend as well, so we can enjoy their fellowship and network with them. Please consider coming to one or more of these evening events as our guest!

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(If you do plan to attend one or more of these evening events, please RSVP with Kevin Kamps, ANA board of directors president, at [email protected], or (240) 462-3216, so we can keep count of how many guests to expect! Thanks!)

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PIZZA PARTY — 5:30 to 7:30pm ET, Monday, May 20, 2024, Quaker Welcome Center, 245 Second St. NE, Washington, D.C., 20002. (The Quaker Welcome Center is a part of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) office building complex, located just across the street from Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill.) Free pizza and soft drinks for ANA DC Days registrants, as well as invited allies from the local D.C. area, will be provided.* Our friends and colleagues from ANA member organization Kansas City PeaceWorks will perform a poetry presentation!

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AWARDS RECEPTION — 6:30 to 8:30pm ET, Tuesday, May 21, 2024, Busboys and Poets-Takoma, 235 Carroll St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20012. (Busboys-Takoma is located a short walk from the Takoma Metro Station on the Red Line, and is located on the border of Washington, D.C. and the nuclear-free zone of Takoma Park, Maryland.) The awards reception will be held in the special events room, The Guillén Room, named in honor of Cuban poet Nicolàs Guillén.** (Please be sure to go to the Takoma location — Busboys has eight separate locations across the entire D.C. region!)

FILM SCREENINGS/PANEL DISCUSSION — 5:30 to 7:30pm ET, Wednesday, May 22, 2024, Quaker Welcome Center, 245 Second St. NE, Washington, D.C., 20002. (Quaker Welcome Center is a part of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) office building complex, located just across the street from Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill.) Free light refreshments and soft drinks for ANA DC Days registrants, as well as invited allies from the local D.C. area, will be provided.* Excerpts from the documentary films “Downwind,” “Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island,” and “Containment” will be shown. Panelists will include: a representative from Georgia Women’s Action on New Directions (in person); the filmmaker Heidi Hutner (via Zoom) and technical consultant on radiation/health, Aaron Datesman (in person) from “Radioactive: The Women of T.M.I.;” and Ian Zabarte (via Zoom), Principal Man of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation, and Secretary, Native Community Action Council (via Zoom), and Mary Dickson (author, playwright, Utah Downwinder and RECA advocate), both featured in “Downwind,” as well as the filmmaker, Mark Shapiro. Denise Duffield from PSR-LA, an ANA member organization, will moderate the panel discussion.

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If you have any questions, feel free to contact ANA board of directors president Kevin Kamps, at [email protected], or (240) 462-3216. If you do plan to attend one or more of these evening events, please RSVP with Kevin, so we can keep count of how many guests to expect! Thanks!

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