Revolution can start now, it can start with
each of us... if we want it to.
Benefit Concerts
Benefit concerts are done approximately once or twice a month to assist organizations that are working to provide basic needs and/or bring progressive/revolutionary change. We have organized close to 300 benefits since 1985, raising over $200,000 as of January 2000. See Flyers from various concerts in the past »
Bethany's Place Womens Shelter
Every third Sunday of each month, Positive Force prepares and serves lunch to the women at Bethany Women's Center which is part of N Street Village located at 1333 N Street NW Washington DC. We start at 10:30 am and usually end at 1:00 pm.
Free grocery delivery
In co-operation with "We Are Family" we deliver groceries to low-income, inner-city elderly one Saturday morning a month. 9:30am -1 pm. Here is an article in Sojourners website about PF's work with seniors.
Prevention Works
Positive Force Members volunteer on the second and forth mondays of each month with Prevention Works! to label needles and to create safer shooting kits for D.C.'s only needle exchange program. 6pm-8pm
Creative Protests
Creative protests such as postering or punk percussion, done either alone or within larger actions.
Self-Education
Self-education through discussion or films at our meetings, teach-ins and literature at our events.
Moving and cleaning help
provided for free to needy low-income or elderly people.
Provision of Space
Provision of space in our (now non-existent) communal house. In the past, this has included groups such as Riot Grrrl, Food Not Bombs, Simple Machines and Torque Records and the Anti-Sexist Men's Project. Currently we are collaborating with the DC Area Books to Prisoners Project, The Brian MacKenzie Center Infoshop and WATTS (women advocates to terminate sexism.)
State of the Union
Shudder To
Think's "Let It Ring"
This benefit compilation has raised in excessof $15,000 for CCNV and The American Civil Liberties Union to help feed, clothe and shelter the homeless and also to protect freedom of speech in the USA.
Available for $9 postpaid from Dischord Records, 3819 Beecher St. NW, WDC 20007.
Order online »
You Can Do It! Booklet
The You Can Do It! was put together to help others form their own activist groups, with tips on putting on benefits, putting out records, etc. While still being a useful manual, we envision a PF project to revise and update it so please let us know if you'd like to help!
All Our Power Concert Series
All Our Power is an on-going campaign of Positive Force DC, designed to support organizations that meet basic human needs, bridge diverse communities, and organize grassroots power. Our ultimate aim is to help build a majority progressive movement in the USA. Over the months to come, we will be sponsoring monthly concerts for groups such as Empower DC, the Washington Free Clinic, We Are Family/NWSH, ONE DC, Jobs With Justice, the Latin American Youth Center, the Community Coalition for Justice and Peace, Neighbors Consejo, Urban Village, the Fair Budget Coalition, Youth Action research Group, Project South and beyond. We will be seeking to not only raise money and educate, but to creatively engage and activate our audience. We want participants, not simply spectators; people of all ages willing to join in the bridge building and community empowerment process, generating the relationships across boundaries that make a movement possible. We will have a special -- but not exclusive -- focus on the neighborhood directly adjacent to our new meeting place at St. Stephens Church, which will also be the site of many of our upcoming concerts and other events.
We could use your energy and ideas to do this and more!
Be More Than A Witness
