55] Climate Strikes vs. Chase Bank – Jan. 15
56] Food Rescue – Jan. 15
57]
White
House vigil – Jan. 15
58] Women in Black VIGILS
FOR PEACE on hold? – Jan. 15
59] Commemorate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – Jan. 15
60] Students’ views on their future in medicine – Jan. 15
61] Fire Drill Friday – Jan. 15
62] Peace and justice vigil – Jan. 15
63] Celebrate
Julian Bond – Jan. 15
64] Americans
for Democratic Action --
Jan. 15 – 17
65] Peace seeker -- Jan.
16
66]
Join the Slavery Archive Book Club – Jan. 16
67]
Film
HUNGER WARD – Jan. 16
68]
FEED THE PEOPLE – Jan. 16
69] Indivisible Montgomery Meeting – Jan. 16
70]
Online tax workshops – Jan.16
71]
Mass organizing meeting – Jan. 16
72] Shabbat dinner – Jan. 16
73] Winter Homelessness Support event – Jan. 16
74] War Tax Resistance – Jan. 16
75] Nuclear Weapons are illegal – Jan. 22
76] Read Dave Eberhardt’s book "For All the Saints- a Protest
Primer"
77] Ted Glick
has written a book
78] New Book: “Confessions of a Radical Academic”
79] Two
Berrigan Books still in print
80] Contribute to the Lin
Romano Peace and Justice Scholarship
81] Do you need a doctor?
82]
Emergency Demonstration against an attack on Venezuela or Iran
83]
Donate books, videos, DVDs and records
84]
Do you need any book shelves?
85] Join the Global Zero campaign.
86] Peace Park
Antinuclear Vigil
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55] – On
Fri., Jan. 15 from 9 AM to 9 PM, get with the Climate Strikes vs. Chase Bank
Every Friday! Flatten the climate pollution curve together! Help run an online
climate strike at Chase Bank--the #1 investor in fossil fuels of any bank in
the world--every Friday until further notice. You can post your own virtual
climate strike on social media in 4 easy steps: https://www.climatefirst.us/calendar. Contact
Ted at tconwell@climatefirst.us/ (301) 589-7598 (mobile). Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/3398894953477457/.
56] – On Fri., Jan. 15 from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM EST, come to Grace Baptist Church, 3201 The Alameda to get some food, hosted by Food Rescue Baltimore. This will continue each Friday until March 26, 2021. Bring a bag, bring a friend, and take delicious, nutritious, free rescued food. Look at https://www.facebook.com/foodrescueday/.
57] – The Dorothy Day Catholic Worker will host a peace vigil at the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, WDC, on Fri., Jan. 15 at noon. Contact the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker: 202-882-9649 or artlaffin@hotmail.com.
58] – It is unclear if there will be any Women in Black VIGILS FOR PEACE on Fri., Jan. 15 from noon to 1 PM. The one at the Inner Harbor seems to be suspended. One is at Roland Park Place, 830 W. 40th St., Baltimore. Free Parking is available. There will be NO LUNCH. If it doesn't rain, vigil. If it rains, the vigil will be cancelled. If you arrive for the vigil and don't see someone else, please don't leave. Other folks are on the way. Email awyattbr@gmail.com.
The other is in Chestertown, Kent County on the Eastern Shore in Memorial Park at Cross Street & Park Row. This will be a safe-distanced stand for Peace with Justice & No to War. Email wibbaltimore@peacepath911.org.
59] – Join the Southern Poverty Law Center [info@southernpovertylawcenter.org] virtually at the Civil Rights Memorial Center on Fri., Jan. 15 at noon ET for a panel discussion commemorating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Click here to register, https://splcenter-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ix41mftsR6qKghquODG7YA. The event – The March Continues: Building Collective Power to Impact Policy and Dismantle Systems of Oppression in 2021 and Beyond – will feature activists and public servants from across the Deep South and beyond, and will include a special message by civil rights activist Sheyann Webb-Christburg, named by Dr. King as the “Smallest Freedom Fighter” and co-author of the book Selma, Lord, Selma.
60] – How has the pandemic impacted those who are the future of our health care system, the medical students? On Fri., Jan. 15 at 1 PM EST, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) will host a discussion on how the pandemic has affected the medical school experience and students’ views on their future in medicine. Medical students from PHR’s Student Advisory Board will discuss changes in both pre-clinical education and clinical training, how the pandemic has altered medical practice, and how the shift from intense, hands-on and in-person education to virtual learning has created new opportunities for students and – perhaps – changed their own view of future practice opportunities. Visit https://phr-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_elyqMdp6S9Sw1Sp1fYJKrA?utm_campaign=613975_FY21%20January%20COVID-19%20Webinar%20Invitation%2017_01082021&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Physicians%20for%20Human%20Rights&dm_i=4GV7,D5QV,1TO2EP,1DGMA,1.
61] – As part of Fire Drill Friday, on Jan. 15 at 2 PM ET, discuss an executive action to end new fossil fuel leasing on public lands and waters. Hear from frontline activists Quannah Chasinghorse and Jayeesha Dutta, who know first-hand the impacts the threat of drilling has on their communities in the Arctic and in the Gulf of Mexico. They'll share why it’s so important that Biden takes action within his first 100 days in office to prevent climate chaos, end fossil fuel racism, and improve well-being for millions of people. Sign up at https://greenpeace.zoom.us/webinar/register/2416103814071/WN_wvH_3WnRTq6GawB7F9mFPQ?emci=ae258b1b-bf55-eb11-a607-00155d43c992&emdi=0565065b-cd55-eb11-a607-00155d43c992&ceid=1705696.
62] -- There is usually a Quaker Vigil for Racial Justice on Fridays, from 5 to 6:30 PM, hosted by the Baltimore Quaker Peace and Justice Committee (BQPJC) outside the Homewood Friends Meetinghouse, 3107 N. Charles St. The next scheduled vigil is on Jan. 15. From 6 to 6:30 PM strategize. Black Lives Matter. Stop the Killing. Physical distancing applies. Wear your face mask. Email homewoodfriends@gmail.com or call 410-235-4438. Quaker values call us to speak truth and to seek equality for all people. We aim to follow Bayard Rustin’s wisdom that “we need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers” and John Lewis’s call to “make good trouble.” See https://www.facebook.com/events/311508100243529/?event_time_id=311508113576861.3&akid=18263%2E3302379%2Ez6bJVQ.
63] – On Fri., Jan. 15 from 6 to 7 PM EST, celebrate Julian Bond with Jeanne Theoharis, Pam Horowitz, & Vann Newkirk, hosted by Politics and Prose Bookstore. Go online at eventbrite.com https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrating-julian-bond-with-jeanne-theoharis-pam-horowitz-vann-newkirk-tickets-131112439837?fbclid=IwAR3W_QF-vGBGQEoiXXDfvvBUA8GE2iKh44ynEAmQxzpsxm_LN2MLywhgKds. Celebrate Julian Bond's TIME TO TEACH, a masterclass in the civil rights movement from one of the legendary activists who led it. Horace Julian Bond (1940-2015) was a leader in the civil rights movement, a politician, professor, writer, and activist. A founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, he went on to serve as president of the Southern Poverty Law Center from 1971 to 1979. He served ten years in the Georgia House and six terms in the Georgia Senate. From 1998 to 2010, Bond was the board chairman of the NAACP. He taught at several universities, including the University of Virginia, where he spent twenty years as a professor in the history department. He is the author of A Time To Speak, A Time To Act.
64] – Starting on Fri., Jan. 15 at 8:30 PM EST through Sun., Jan. 17 at 5 PM EST, get over to the National Convention & Legislative Action Conference of Americans for Democratic Action. Sign up at act.myngp.com. Help develop an action plan for a progressive political agenda.
65] – Sat., Jan. 16 from 10 AM to 2 PM ET and Thurs., Jan. 21, Fri., Jan. 22 and Sat., Jan. 23 from 10 AM to 3 PM EST, check out peace seeker, an installation by Katie Addada Shlon at the Arcadia-Beverly Hills Historic District. Get tickets at calendly.com/theshedbaltimore/peace-seeker. This is hosted by The Shed. Through their latest installation, Katie Addada Shlon asks visitors to consider how use changes what is possible. Presenting object/instruments that have been made from second hand materials, Shlon encourages visitors to touch the sculptures gently while listening for harmony in the sounds made by the interactions. They explain, “Things may fall or break with the gentlest touch, but even that will make a sound worth listening to! People should be advised that there are sharp edges on broken ceramics and metal strings… hopefully no one gets hurt!” Despite the fragility and potential risk present in the works, the experience of this installation is conducive to a meditative state.
66] – On Sat., Jan. 16 from 1 to 3 PM ET, join the Slavery Archive Book Club — The Brutish Museums by Zoom, hosted by the Howard University Graduate School. See www.danhicks.uk/talks/slaveryarchive-book-club. This is convened by Professor Jessica Johnson (Johns Hopkins University) and Professor Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University). Register at https://zoom.us/.../tJEud-GsqjsjH9Ff1s-_eJD4srK-TS_CkGyY.
67] – Watch a Virtual Film Screening of HUNGER WARD on Sat., Jan. 16 from 2 to 3 PM ET. Filmed from inside two of the most active therapeutic feeding centers in Yemen, HUNGER WARD documents two women health care workers fighting to thwart the spread of starvation against the backdrop of a forgotten war. The film provides an unflinching portrait of Dr. Aida Alsadeeq and Nurse Mekkia Mahdi as they try to save the lives of hunger-stricken children within a population on the brink of famine. The film will be immediately followed by a discussion including special guests Rep. Ro Khanna (U.S. Member of Congress) and Rt. Hon. Andrew Mitchell (U.K. Member of Parliament) as well as other experts on the crisis. Go to https://gathr.us/screening/31710 to register for your free virtual ticket to the event. The Zoom meeting link for the panel discussion will be sent before the event.
68] – On Sat., Jan. 16 from 2 to 3 PM EST, join the Coalition Against Prejudice with their FEED THE PEOPLE event outside the Westminster Branch Library, 50 E. Main St., Westminster 21157. This will continue each Saturday through Jan. 30. See https://www.facebook.com/CoalitionAgainstPrejudice/. Donate canned goods, non-perishable food items, and hygiene products to help keep Westminster's Little Free Food Pantry stocked. A free lunch will be available for anyone in need of a meal.
69] – Get over to an Indivisible Montgomery Meeting with MoCo Councilmember Evan Glass on Sat., Jan. 16 at 3 PM. Glass will present the group with a commendation from Montgomery County for its work in preserving American democracy. Welcome new Executive Director Steve Pressman, who will take the helm of Indivisible Montgomery on Jan. 20. Discuss the focus and actions of Indivisible Montgomery during the forthcoming Biden presidency. Registration is required to receive the login information. RSVP at https://forms.gle/ombgpL9Bj73Bx5Nb8.
70] – The Immigration Outreach Service Center is holding online tax workshops on Sat., Jan. 16 and Sat., Jan. 23 at 3 PM. Anyone who attends both sessions is eligible to have their 2020 tax return prepared for free by a certified tax preparer. To enroll, contact Cynthia Keenan: cynthia@ioscbaltimore.org or (443) 494-9371.
71] – In this moment of reckoning, the Women's March [info@womensmarch.com] recognizes that there is still a lot of work ahead of us to address our country’s legacy of white supremacy and repair the damage done by Trump’s administration. Can we work together, across movements and place? On Sat., Jan. 16 from 3 to 6 PM ET, Women’s March is joining groups like the Movement for Black Lives and leaders including Rep. Ayanna Pressley for a mass organizing meeting to discuss the path forward. RSVP at https://act.womensmarch.com/signup/forward-together-rsvp/?source=em20210114-911&t=2&akid=911%2E508952%2EMMLJ7n.
72] – On Fri., Jan. 15 from 5 to 6:30 PM EST, gather with Repair Baltimore and One Table Gather for Shabbat dinner for learning, celebrating, and remembering MLK. You get to pick which “table” (breakout room on zoom) you want to sit at where you will engage in discussions around: “Honoring the Legacy of Coretta Scott King”, “The Real, the Radical MLK”, “Jews, Allyship & Civil Rights”, “The Future of Racial Reckoning”., and “Essential Renters’ Rights.” Join the Bolton St. Synagogue’s virtual services where Sean Johnson will be sharing his story about his experience growing up in the US as a Black man. All participants who register by the day before the event will receive a $10 gift card to subsidize and elevate their Shabbat dinner. Look at https://jufj.org/event/turn-the-tables-mlk-shabbat/?emci=f2be3d93-1e51-eb11-a607-00155d43c992&emdi=821e4a72-dd51-eb11-a607-00155d43c992&ceid=3403859.
73] – On Sat., Jan. 16, 23 and 30 from 5 to 6 PM EST, get with a Winter Homelessness Support event with MakeSpace at McPherson Square. Go to makespacehelps.funraise.org. Help distribute sleeping bags and hygiene kits to the homeless in D.C. Please donate 50 hygiene kits. Donation link is under the "tickets" link. Meet at the statue in McPherson Square located between I street and 15th street in D.C. Email info@imakespace.com.
74] – Milwaukee Catholic Worker Lincoln Rice (also Coordinator for the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee) will speak about war tax resistance for the Chicago group College of Complexes (https://www.collegeofcomplexes.org). All are welcome to check it out on Sat., Jan. 16 at 6 PM by Zoom. To Join the Zoom Meeting, see https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81216467150. The passcode is 094136, and the Meeting ID is 812 1646 7150.
75] – This is A PLEA TO CONVINCE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY TO OBEY INTERNATIONAL LAW. The world will reach a historic milestone on January 22, 2021: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons [TPNW] will enter into force and become binding international law -- https://www.icanw.org/the_treaty.
Prevent Nuclear War/Maryland has called attention to the growing danger of nuclear war and the outrageous $1.7 trillion dollars we are spending to modernize our nuclear arsenal. We helped the Baltimore City Council and the Montgomery County Council pass Back from the Brink [BFTB] resolutions and join 53 other municipalities, state legislative bodies and two states to demonstrate broad support for the five fundamental changes in US nuclear weapons policy. The ultimate goal is abolition; BFTB will reduce the risk but TPNW is the blueprint for abolishing nuclear weapons.
On July 18, 2017, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, a U.S. Navy - affiliated research center received a seven-year, $92 million contract to continue its systems engineering and research-and-development services for the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center. Help convince JHU to renounce nuclear weapons contracts. Contact the president, Ron Daniels, to urge him to reject all nuclear weapons contracts: Office of the President, 242 Garland Hall, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Maryland 21218. Call his office at (410) 516-8068 or email president@jhu.edu.
76] – David Eberhardt was a member of the Baltimore Four with Father Philip Berrigan, Tom Lewis and Rev. James Mengel. The group poured blood on draft files on October 27, 1967. They would be convicted and sentenced to prison. Dave has written a book "For All the Saints- a Protest Primer"- documenting the Baltimore Four action and many others up to and including the most recent Plowshares action – Kings Bay Plowshares 7. Phil Berrigan’s wife, Elizabeth McAlister, is a member of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7.
Dave just printed the 5th edition of the book which is available for $25 by sending him a check: Dave Eberhardt, 4 Hadley Square North, Baltimore, MD 21218. You can contact him at mozela9@comcast.net. He prefers that you DO NOT order the book from Amazon.
77] – Ted Glick has written a book about his years of active draft resistance during the Vietnam War, and published by PM Press! It’s entitled “Burglar for Peace: Lessons Learned in the Catholic Left’s Resistance to the Vietnam War. The book is part history, part autobiography and may be a valuable source of ideas and inspiration for today’s organizers against injustice, oppression, war, ecological devastation and the bad guys! Frida Berrigan has written a wonderful intro. The paperback book, all 220 or so pages, will cost $20, but if you order it now, you can get a 20% discount if you use the code “Burglar” when you do so. Go to: https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1093 and click 'Add to Cart'. In the coupon code area be sure to put: Burglar to get the discount.
78] – Check out a New Book: “Confessions of a Radical Academic: A Memoir by Fred L. Pincus,” now available from Adelaide Books (https://adelaidebooks.org/collections/latest-releases/products/confessions-of-a-radical-academic) or from Amazon. Fred taught sociology at UMBC for more than 40 years and is on the board of Research Associates Foundation. His memoir details his struggles to have a successful career while keeping true to his radical principles and activism. One major theme is his struggle with race and racism both on and off campus. Go to www.fredlpincus.com.
79] –Two books by Fred Wilcox are still in print. The first one is “Fighting the Lamb's War Skirmishes with the American Empire” by Philip Berrigan and Fred A. Wilcox with a FOREWORD by Tripp York. It can be purchased by Wipf and Stock: https://wipfandstock.com/fighting-the-lamb-s-war.html. It is a Memoir in paperback/ISBN: 9781532660078/240 pages/republished 8/21/2018/ Retail Price: $26.00/and Web Price: $20.80.
The second one is “Uncommon Martyrs The Berrigans, the Catholic Left, and the Plowshares Movement” by Fred Wilcox, who profiles members of this anti-war movement, whose Christianity compels them to acts of civil disobedience against the military industrial complex. The ISBN is 0201522314/$6.50 for a hardcover, and it can be purchased at Powell's Books. See https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews/view/7094/uncommon-martyrs.
80] – Consider making a donation to a scholarship in her honor that would be most welcome. Contributions to the Lin Romano Peace and Justice Scholarship can be made online via https://www.ndm.edu/lin-romano-peace-and-justice-scholarship or by check made out to Notre Dame of Maryland University (Memo line: Lin Romano Peace and Justice Scholarship) and mailed to Notre Dame of Maryland University, Office of Institutional Advancement, 4701 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210.
81] – Yousef Zarbalian [mailto:yzarbali@gmail.com] started his own medical practice in December before the pandemic hit. It is called East-West Medicine and Rheumatology, and its website is EastWestMD.com. Yousef is licensed in Maryland and Virginia. He is doing primary care as well as rheumatologic care (focusing on joint problems and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and sjogren's). He is offering telemedicine visits, and he has very reasonable rates for uninsured individuals. He makes use of herbs (which can be sent directly to patients from the herbal dispensary) as well as prescribing medications to their local pharmacy if needed.
82] – The Trump Administration is again beating the war drums. Most recently, the target is Iran. Should the Trump administration initiate an act of war against Iran, consider joining us. It is a violation of U.S. law for the Trump Administration to attack a country that has not attacked us, as only Congress can declare war. The Trump administration is nevertheless beating the war drums for war against Iran and Venezuela. Should a war criminal, John Bolton, convince Trump to attack either of these countries, such a military strike would demand an immediate and unequivocal response from us to show that we will not tolerate his abuse of power.
Let's mobilize to show that we the people will not tolerate another military adventure, which would be bound to have profound negative consequences. If a military strike against Iran or Venezuela takes place, then meet at 33rd and N. Charles St., Baltimore 21218. If the attack is before 2 PM local time, then the event will begin at 5 PM, local time. If the attack occurs after 5 PM local time, then the event will begin at 5 PM, local time, the following day. Contact Max at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net.
83] -- If you would like to get rid of books, videos, DVDs, records, tarps and table cloths, contact Max at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at comcast.net.
84] -- Can you use any book shelves? Contact Max at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at comcast.net.
85] -- Join an extraordinary global campaign for the elimination of nuclear weapons: http://www.globalzero.org/sign-declaration. A growing group of leaders around the world is calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons and a majority of the global public agrees. This is an historic window of opportunity. With momentum already building in favor of Zero, a major show of support from people around the world could tip the balance. When it comes to nuclear weapons, one is one too many.
86] – A Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil takes place every day in Lafayette Park, 1601 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 24 hours a day, since June 3, 1981. Go to http://prop1.org; call 202-682-4282.
Donations can be sent to Max Obuszewski, Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Apt. 206, Baltimore, MD 21212. Ph: 410-323-1607; Email: mobuszewski2001 [at] comcast.net. Go to http://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com/.
“One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better" - Daniel Berrigan
