# Event Details - **Event Name**: Toxic Water, Neglected Communities & Need for Community Control in SE DC - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 22 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 22 Jul, 2026 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: Together, we'll examine why addressing toxic water requires more than infrastructure upgradesAbout this EventAccess to clean, safe water is shaped by political power—not chance—and decades of neglect have left many Black communities in Southeast DC to bear the costs of aging infrastructure and environmental injustice while DC Water remains largely insulated from community control. Join PACA for an interactive political education session -- Assata Shakur Popular Education (ASPE)-- exploring how decisions about water, infrastructure, and public investment are made, who benefits, and who is excluded. Together, we'll examine why addressing toxic water requires more than infrastructure upgrades—it requires a fundamental shift toward democratic community control over the institutions and resources our neighborhoods depend on. Food and refreshments will be provided, and all are welcome. Food will be provided!The ASPE are hybrid sessions with the option to participate via Zoom. To join via Zoom use this link -----------------------------------------------------Pan-African Community Action (PACA) is part of the historic and global movement for Pan-Africanism, or the liberation and unification of Africa and of African people on the continent and in the diaspora, under the economic system of scientific socialism. As part of the Pan-African movement, PACA is a grassroots group of African/Black people organizing for community-based power. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/washington/toxic-water-neglected-communities-and-need-for-community-control-in-se-dc/100001993635314894 - **Event Categories**: fitness - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 2 hours - Location: ONE DC Black Workers & Wellness Center - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Washington - **state**: DC - **country**: United States - **location**: ONE DC Black Workers & Wellness Center - **lat**: 38.8614442 - **long**: -76.99355609999999 - **full address**: ONE DC Black Workers & Wellness Center, 2500 Martin Luther King Junior Avenue Southeast, Washington, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Toxic Water, Neglected Communities & Need for Community Control in SE DC - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/84d2a82b1e426257bc4934117aec815aaf82a3bbfc6ceea26bf80c4f46cf6bb5-rimg-w686-h686-dc797976-gmir.jpg?v=1783776890 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Toxic Water, Neglected Communities & Need for Community Control in SE DC being held? - **A:** Toxic Water, Neglected Communities & Need for Community Control in SE DC takes place on Wed, 22 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Wed, 22 Jul, 2026 at 09:00 pm at ONE DC Black Workers & Wellness Center, 2500 Martin Luther King Junior Avenue Southeast, Washington, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Toxic Water, Neglected Communities & Need for Community Control in SE DC? - **A:** Toxic Water, Neglected Communities & Need for Community Control in SE DC is organized by Pan-African Community Action. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Toxic Water, Neglected Communities & Need for Community Control in SE DC", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/84d2a82b1e426257bc4934117aec815aaf82a3bbfc6ceea26bf80c4f46cf6bb5-rimg-w686-h686-dc797976-gmir.jpg?v=1783776890", "startDate": "2026-07-22", "endDate": "2026-07-22", "url": "https://allevents.in/washington/toxic-water-neglected-communities-and-need-for-community-control-in-se-dc/100001993635314894", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "ONE DC Black Workers & Wellness Center", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "2500 Martin Luther King Junior Avenue Southeast", "postalCode": "20020", "addressLocality": "Washington", "addressRegion": "DC", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "38.8614442", "longitude": "-76.99355609999999" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Together, we'll examine why addressing toxic water requires more than infrastructure upgrades", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-06", "availabilityEnds": "2026-07-22", "validFrom": "2026-09-06", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/washington/toxic-water-neglected-communities-and-need-for-community-control-in-se-dc/100001993635314894" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-06", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-09-06", "url": "https://allevents.in/washington/toxic-water-neglected-communities-and-need-for-community-control-in-se-dc/100001993635314894", "price": 0, "name": "Attending in-person" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-06", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-09-06", "url": "https://allevents.in/washington/toxic-water-neglected-communities-and-need-for-community-control-in-se-dc/100001993635314894", "price": 0, "name": "Participating via Zoom" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Pan-African Community Action", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/pan-african-community-action/24282816", "description": "Pan-African Community Action (PACA)is part of a historic and global movement for Pan-Africanism, or the liberation and unification of Africa, and of African people on the continent and in the diaspora, under the economic system of scientific socialism.As part of the Pan-African movement, PACA is a grassroots group of African/Black people organizing for community-based power.PACA undertakes to build community-led power through political education and participatory programs of action that avow and advance: 1) our human right to informed consent and self-determination and 2) collective community control over the elements of land, political systems, economic systems, systems of justice (such as police and judicial), social systems (such as education and culture), and ecological systems." } ] } ] ```