Lula Mae Parker Harris Day

Lula Mae Parker Harris Day
Distribution Date: Saturday, September 6, 2025
Location: Throughout the City of Poughkeepsie

September 9, 2023—Dutchess County Proclamation in Honor of the late Lula Mae Parker Harris, Civil Rights Pioneer-Beloved Community Organizer: 

"She believed every person deserved respect and dignity. We carry her legacy forward through service and solidarity." 

A $25 contribution will provide a self-care package to someone experiencing housing insecurity. To donate or get involved: Monique Tyler: 301-254-8971 • Renee Galloway: 301-442-9995. Your support is an act of a promise kept.

Repression and radical resistance

“Since 1979, New Afrikans living in the American empire have used the month of August to draw attention to "the oppressive treatment of our brothers and sisters disappeared inside the state-run gulags and concentration camps America calls prisons." For the Afrikan peoples of the Diaspora, especially in the California prison isolation units where the commemoration practice started. Black August is a month of enormous historical significance. Black August, according to Mumia Abu-jamal, one of our most devoted New Afrikan Freedom Fighters, "is a month of divine meaning, of repression and radical resistance, of injustice and divine justice; of repression and righteous rebellion; of individual and collective efforts to free the slaves and break the chains that bind us."
 

- Find out more.

Upcoming events

ENJAN Members, 

 

We wanted to let you know about some upcoming events that are directly related to ENJAN's mission. We hope you are able to attend. Thank you.

 

The ENJAN Curators

 

Thursday, July 31st, 3:00 pm: Journalism Behind Bars

Virtual event via Zoom with incarcerated journalist Jeremy Busby

Click Here To Register

 

Friday, August 1st, 7:00 to 9:00 pm: A Meeting with Kevin Douglass Greene

Location: Lateef Islam Auditorium, 29 North Hamilton Street, Poughkeepsie

Kevin Douglass is a senior advisor with the Frederick Douglass Family Initiative

Click Here To Register

 

Saturday, August 2nd, noon to 3:00 pm: Frederick Douglass:Celebration

Location: College Hill Park, 149 North Clinton Street, Poughkeepsie

No registration required

 

Tuesday, August 5th, 5:00 to 8:00 pm: National Night Out

Location: Poughkeepsie City Hall

Open to the public free of charge

[ENJAN will be tabling]

 

Saturday, September 13th, 2:00 to 6:00 pm: Attica Community Remembrance Day BBQ

Location: Poughkeepsie Waterfront

[ENJAN will be tabling]

Upcoming Juneteenth events in the City of Poughkeepsie

 ENJAN Members,

We hope you can all attend the upcoming Juneteenth events in the City of Poughkeepsie:

Saturday, June 14th at 6:15 to 8:30 pm - Opening Celebration
Waryas Park Pavillion
Performance by BaseCamp 

Thursday, June 19th at 6:00 pm in Waryas Park, Celebrating the African Spirit will be unveiling a new CAS Memorial Marker in the park to "honor the legacy of enslaved African Americans and their role in the lives of Poughkeepsie today."  Learn more and contribute here: CAS Memorial Marker

Saturday, June 21st from 12:30 to 1:00 pm - Juneteenth Parade
Starting at Main Street and Market Street

Line up at noon

Saturday, June 21st from 1:00pm to 5:00 pm - Afternoon Celebration
Waryas Park
Vendors, Performers and Activities 

ENJAN will be tabling all afternoon 

We hope to see you there! Thank you.

The ENJAN Curators

Anthony Sims, freed after 25 years in prison

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: Anthony Sims, freed after 25 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, talks about anger, race, and how the Alternatives To Violence Program AVP helps inmates focus on how to make positive changes in their lives.  
https://ecbawm.com/news/anthony-sims-freed-after-25-years/

Activist Radio can be heard: Thursdays 8-9 am on KBOO 90.7 FM in Portland, OR; Thursdays 11-12 noon on WRFA 107.9 FM in Jamestown, NY; Thursdays 5-6 pm on WVKR 91.3 FM at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY; Thursdays 7-8 pm on WBDY 99.5 FM at The Bundy in Binghamton, NY; Fridays 4-5 pm on WEFR 1700 AM in Fairmont, WV; Saturdays 7-8 am on WOZO 103.9 FM in Knoxville, TN; Sundays 4-5 pm from WIOF 104.1 FM in Woodstock, NY; Sundays 5-6 pm from the Progressive Radio Network at PRN.live; Mondays 11-12 noon on WCAA 107.3 FM in Albany, NY; Mondays at 10-11 pm on KWSI in Grand Junction, CO; and finally on Tuesdays 1:00-2:00 pm on WESU 88.1 FM at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Past programs are available as a podcast, or anytime on the web at ClassWars.org.

10 year Anniversary

 

If you can't join us, please help us spread the word: tell your friends, share with other groups you're a part of, post on SM, write a letter to the local papers.

  And, either way, please support these reform campaigns:

  * The People's Campaign for Parole Justice including Fair & Timely Parole and Elder Parole

  * Communities Not Cages including the Second Look Act, Earned Time Act, and Marvin Mayfield Act

  * The Alliance to Protect Kalief's Law to stop the right from tearing apart our discovery reforms

Voices Beyond the Wall