[WardFive] Swearing-in ceremony invite and Kwanzaa celebration

Happy Holidays and a  good New Year to all.  

 

·       2016 marks the 50th anniversary of Kwanzaa, created by Maulana Karenga in 1966 during a time of great racial and social turmoil in our country.  Today December 30th, 2016 is the fifth day of Kwanzaa, and we celebrate the principle Nia (Purpose).  Please see below for list of the 7 principles of Kwanzaa and celebrate them by embodying them in your lives throughout 2017. 

 

·       You are invited to my 2017 Swearing-in ceremony taking place on Monday, January 2, 2017 at 2:30PM at the Washington Convention Center, West Salon (801 Mount Vernon Place, N.W., Washington DC).  See attached invite.  An earlier Swearing-in ceremony will also take place that day at the Convention Center at 10:00AM for the swearing-in of elected DC Councilmembers. 

 

I look forward to seeing you at the Swearing-in event and throughout 2017.

 

Thank you.

 

Franklin Garcia

US Representative (Shadow) for the District of Columbia

1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, C-09

Washington DC 20004 

franklin.garcia@dc.gov

202-727-9110 (Office)

 

Kwanzaa 2016 started on Monday, December 26 and will end on Sunday, January 1, 2017

• Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race. DAY 1
• Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define and name ourselves, as well as to create and speak for ourselves. DAY 2
• Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together. DAY 3
• Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together. DAY 4
• Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. DAY 5
• Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. DAY 6
• Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle. DAY 7