"I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours.
The initiative to stop it must be ours." -Martin Luther King Jr.
Friends, this list and other email documents which I send out are done under the auspices of the
The
1] Books, buttons and stickers
2] Web site for info on federal legislation
3] Join Nonviolent Resistance lists
4] Max must move out, needs housing
5] Buy Mankekolo’s book
6] Buy coffee through HoCoFoLA
7] Used stamps for humanitarian causes
8] Visit Ruppersberger’s office -- July 9
9] End occupation book signing – July 9
10] Sex workers unite film at Red Emma’s – July 9
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12] WIB Roland Park vigil – July 10
13] White House vigil – July 10
14] Support The
15] Silent vigil at
16] End War conference – July 10 - 12
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18] Film TROUBLE THE WATER – July 10
19] End the Occupation concert -- July 10
20] Vigil at Walter Reed – July 10
21] Ballroom dancing – July 10
22] CISPES Flea Market – July 11
23] Olney vigil to end the war – July 11
24] Peace vigil in
25] Peace vigil at Capitol – July 11
26] Harriet Tubman tour – July 11
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28] Drum for peace – July 11
29] African service – July 12
30] Bridge peace vigil – July 12
31] Help the Bedouins – July 12
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33] Film on Oppenheimer – July 12
34] Red Emma’s needs volunteers – July 12
35] Pentagon vigil – July 13
36] Human Rights on the Hill – July 13 — July 17
37] Hope for Israeli-Palestine peace – July 13 — July 17
38] Marc Steiner on WEAA – July 13 — July 16
39] Protest the death penalty – July 13
40] Pledge of Resistance meeting – July 13
41] New Security Challenges – July 14
42] Witness Against Torture vigil – July 14
43] Tuesday peace vigil – July 14
44] Ecolocity DC meeting – July 14
45] Free School courses – July 14
46] Peace vigil in
47] Peace vigil in W.
48] WIB
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50] NPT talk – July 16
51] Israel/Palestine roundtable – July 16
52] Nuclear Free Award – July 16
53] Film STANDING WITH
54] BUPJ meeting – July 20
55] Crabshell Alliance meeting – July 20
56] Death penalty meeting – July 28
57] Faith & Resistance Retreat – Aug. 5-9
58] First Thursday demo – Sept. 3
59] Peace Path – September 11
60] David Swanson’s book DAYBREAK available
61] Buy a red maple tree
62] Help available in buying a house
63] People are looking for work
64] Contribute to the
65] Join Global Zero campaign
66] War Is Not the Answer signs for sale
67] Publish your peace article
68] Become a member of the
69] Click on The Hunger Site
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1] – Buttons, bumperstickers and books are available. “God Bless the Whole World, No Exceptions” stickers are in stock. Call Max at 410-366-1637.
2] – To obtain information how your federal legislators voted on particular bills, go to http://thomas.loc.gov/. Congressional toll-free numbers are 888-818-6641, 888-355-3588 or 800-426-8073.
3] – THE ORGANIZING LIST will be the primary decision-making mechanism of the National Campaign of Nonviolent Resistance [NCNR]. It will be augmented by conference calls and possibly in-person meetings as needed. It will consist of 1 or 2 representatives from each local, regional, or national organization (not coalitions) that wishes to actively work to carry out the NCNR campaign of facilitating and organizing nonviolent resistance to the war in
To join the ORGANIZING List, please send your name, group affiliation, city and email address to donmuller@msn.com. Different local chapters of a national organization are encouraged to subscribe.
THE NOTICES LIST will include only notices of NCNR actions and related information and is open to any interested person to subscribe. It will be moderated to maintain focus & will include periodic notices about getting involved in NCNR national organizing. To join the NOTICES List, send an email message to ncnrnotices-subscribe@lists.riseup.net. You will get a confirmation message once subscribed. If you have problems, please write to the list manager at ncnrnotices-admin@lists.riseup.net.
4] – I have to move out of my current residence. If you have any leads for an available unfurnished apartment, please call me at 410-366-1637 or email at mobuszewski at verizon.net.
5] – Rev. Dr. Mankekolo Mahlangu-Ngcobo has returned to live in
6] – You can help safeguard human rights and fragile ecosystems through your purchase of HOCOFOLA Café Quetzal. Bags of ground coffee or whole beans can be ordered by mailing in an order form. For more details and to download the order form, go to http://friendsoflatinamerica.typepad.com/hocofola/fair_trade/index.html.
Be sure you indicate ground (G) or bean (B) for each type of coffee ordered. Make the check out to HoCoFoLA and send it with your order form to HoCoFoLA,
7] – Brad Hathaway spearheads an effort to sell donated used stamps to raise money for different humanitarian causes around the world. Go to www.mattapoisettquakers.org, and click the link for the stamp ministry. Carefully clip canceled postage stamps and send to Quaker Missions,
8] – The Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore will be visiting the office of Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger on Thurs., July 9 at 4:30 PM. Meet in the lobby at 4:15 PM at 375 W. Padonia Road, Suite 200 , Timonium , MD 21093 Afghanistan and Iraq Padonia Road
9] – There will be a lecture & book signing by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi on Thurs., July 9 from 6 to 8 PM at Busboys and Poets, 14th and V Sts. NW, WDC, hosted by the US
10] – On Thurs., July 9 at 8 PM @ Red Emma's,
11] – Women In Black sponsor a peace stand/vigil on Fri., July 10 from noon-1 PM at the
12] – There is also a noon vigil on Fri., July 10 at
13] – A peace vigil takes place every Friday from noon to 1 PM on Pennsylvania Ave., by the press gate to the White House. It is organized by the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker. Call 202-882-9649.
14] – There is a peace vigil to support the Congo every Friday, 4 to 6:30 PM at the Rwandan Embassy, 1714 New Hampshire Ave, NW. Call the Rwandan Embassy at 202-232-2882 and register your concern about
15] – There is a silent vigil on Fri., July 10 from 5 to 6 PM outside of
16] – Starting Fri., July 10 through Sun., July 12, the National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations, a national network of hundreds of peace groups, is holding its second annual meeting to discuss and formulate dates for mass actions in the coming year. At the conference at La Roche College in
The purpose of the National Assembly and the conference is to bring members of the peace movement together to democratically decide how to move forward together. Each participant in the conference will be voting on the action proposals: one person, one vote. Very reasonable overnight room rates, as low as $26/night at the college are available. Register for the conference at https://www.natassembly.org/.
17] – The Cuba Caravan dinner and speaker will be at the Meeting House (in the Oakland Mills Village Center), 5885 Robert Oliver Place, Columbia, Maryland 21045, on Fri., July 10. This is the 20th Pastors for Peace
18] – On Fri., July 10 at 6:30 PM, watch the Oscar-nominated film TROUBLE THE WATER at the Public Welfare Foundation, 1200 U St., NW. Following the film’s screening, Kimberly Rivers Roberts, the main character and a rising hip-hop artist, will join with ONE DC members to discuss unnatural disasters in the District and ways to prevent them. Call Gloria Robinson at 202.232.2915.
19] – The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation benefit concert featuring Ramzy Suleiman and Faud Foty is scheduled for Fri., July 10 at The Potter's House, 1658 Columbia Rd. NW, WDC, from 7 PM to midnight. Go to http://endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=2232
20] – SHED LIGHT ON US WAR CASUALTIES: FROM THE FRONT LINE TO THE BACK DOOR of Walter Reed Army Medical Center (North Gate), every Friday night, from 7 to 9 PM in the middle of the 7100 block of Georgia Ave., NW. Call 202-441-3265. Go to http://www.codepinkalert.org/Local_CODEPINKs_Washington_DC.shtml.
21] – There is an opportunity to participate in ballroom dancing, usually every Friday of the month, in the JHU ROTC Bldg. at 8 PM. Turn south on
22] – The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador [CISPES] is holding a summer yard sale on Sat., July 11 from 8 AM to 2 PM at 3168 17th St. NW, right near the Mt. Pleasant Farmers Market. Go to www.cispes.org or email sarkoog@gmail.com
23] – Friends House, 17715 Meeting House Rd., Sandy Spring, MD 20860, hosts a peace vigil every Saturday, 10:30 to 11:30 AM, on the corner of Rt. 108 and Georgia Ave. in Olney, MD. The next vigil is July 11. Call Chuck Harker at 301-570-7167.
24] – Each Saturday, 11 AM – 1 PM, Chester County Peace Movement holds a peace vigil in West Chester in front of the Chester County Courthouse, High & Market Sts. This vigil has been the target of counter-demonstrators and harassment from the "
25] – There will be a peace vigil on the West Lawn of the Capitol at noon on Sat., July 11. Look for the blue banner with the message, "Seek Peace and Pursue It.--Psalms 34:14." The vigil lasts one hour and is silent except when one responds to the occasional questions. Go to http://www.quaker.org/langleyhill/seekpeace.htm or email seekpeacevigil@yahoo.com.
26] – On Sat., July 11 at noon, SunShine Tours & Travel is going to the place in
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28] – Come drum for peace every second Saturday at the Unitarian Universalists of
29] – On Sun., July 12, the KALAFONG AME CHURCH invites you to a Prayer for Africa at 11 AM at the HISPANIC SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST DAY CHUCH, 5100 Edmondson Ave.,
30] – Maryland Bridges for Peace welcomes you to stand for peace Sundays from noon (or thereabouts) to 1 PM on the
31] – On Sun., July 12 at 1 PM., Bette Hoover will do a talk The Bedouins vs. the State of Israel: From Freedom to Fear, at the Howard County Central Library, Little Patuxent Pkwy. and
32] – Every Sunday until Nov. 3, from 4:30 to 6 PM at the corner of Woodmont and Bethesda Aves., near Barnes & Noble and the Landmark Theaters, there will be a peace vigil organized by
33] – The Brandywine Monthly Potluck Supper & Program is the 2nd Sunday of the month starting at 4:30 PM with a potluck dinner at University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut St.,
On Sun., July 12, there will be a special showing of THE DAY AFTER TRINITY: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb [1980]. The documentary focuses on the scientific head of the
34] – Red Emma’s needs volunteers. Stop in to the weekly Sunday meeting at 7 PM at
35] – There is a weekly Pentagon Peace Vigil from 7 to 8 AM on Mondays, since 1987, outside the Pentagon Metro stop. The next vigil is Mon., July 13, and it is sponsored by the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker. Call 202-882-9649.
36] – On Mon., July 13 starting at 9 AM through Fri., July 17 at 4:30 PM, take in the program 8th Annual Human Rights on the Hill. The theme is The
37] – New Hope For Peace: What America Must Do To End The Israel-Palestine Conflict is hosted by United States Institute of Peace, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1200 17th St. NW,
38] – The Marc Steiner Show airs Monday through Thursday from 5 to 7 PM on WEAA 88.9 FM, The Voice of the Community. The call-in number is 410-319-8888, and comments can also be sent by email steinershow@gmail.com.
You can listen to interviews by Steiner through his Center for Emerging Media podcasts. To hear the interviews, email Jessica@centerforemergingmedia.com. Go to http://www.centerforemergingmedia.org.
39] – There is usually a vigil to abolish the death penalty every Monday from 5 to 6 PM, outside the prison complex and across the street from Maryland’s death row, at the corner of Madison Ave. and Fallsway in Baltimore. The next vigil is scheduled for Mon., July 13. Call 410-233-0488.
40] – The Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore usually meets on Mondays at 7:30 PM at the AFSC,
41] – On Tues., July 14 from 8 to 9 AM, Gen. Robert Kehler, U.S. Air Force Space Command, will discuss "Deterrence, Space, Homeland Defense, Cyber: New Security Challenges," as part of the NDUF-NDIA seminar series. Kehler will speak at the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, WDC. RSVP by noon, July 13 to Elma Rhue at RhueE@ndu.eduby or at 202-685-3726.
42] – On Tues., July 14 at 5:30 PM, Witness Against Torture will continue its weekly vigil, each Tuesday, in Lafayette Park, H and 16th Sts., NW. Contact Helen Schietinger at h.schietinger at verizon.net.
43] – There is a vigil to say "War Is Not the Answer" each Tuesday since September 11, 2001 at
44] – There is a meeting of Ecolocity DC every Tuesday from 7 to 9 PM at the EMERGENCE COMMUNITY ARTS COLLECTIVE, 733 Euclid St. NW,
45] – The
46] – Each Wednesday from 4:30 - 5:30 PM, the House of Grace Catholic Worker holds a weekly vigil for peace in
47] – Each Wednesday in clear weather, there is a peace vigil from 5 to 6 PM outside the Unitarian Society of Germantown, 6511 Lincoln Drive (between Wayne & Hortter) in West Mount Airy, PA. The next vigil is July 15. Call 215-843-4256 or email nwgreens@yahoo.com.
48] – WIB
49] – Each Wednesday, there is a peace vigil from 7 to 8 PM outside the Borders Book Store, Germantown Ave. at Bethlehem Pike in
50] –Lewis Dunn, Science Applications International Corporation, and Jeffrey Fields, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, will address "Assessing the Effectiveness and Viability of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime" on Thurs., July 16 from 9 to 11 at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, 1111 19th St., 12th Floor, WDC. RSVP to Deborah Berman at NonproliferationReview@gmail.com or 202-842-3100, ext. 309.
51] – On Thurs., July 16, the WEEKLY ROUNDTABLE SEEKING A JUST PEACE IN PALESTINE/ISRAEL takes place from 12:30 - 1:30 PM at Potter's House, 1658 Columbia Road NW, WDC. Join a civil discourse which explores the history, issues, myths, realities, and truth of the conflict between
52] – The annual Josephine Butler Nuclear Free Future Award ceremonies are taking place on Thurs., July 16 at 6:30 PM at the Josephine Butler Parks Center, 2437 15th St. NW, WDC 20009 [Columbia Heights Metro]. The 2009 recipient is Acie Byrd. Contact John Steinbach at johnsteinbach1 at verizon.net or 703-822-3485.
53] – B'more for Palestine will show a short documentary STANDING WITH PALESTINE on Thurs., July 16 at 8 PM @ Red Emma's, 800 St. Paul St.. Afterwards there will be a discussion of how
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55] – The Crabshell
56] – The Coalition Against the Death Penalty will meet Tues., July 28 at 7 PM at the AFSC,
57] – The annual Faith and Resistance Retreat sponsored by Jonah House and Dorothy Day Catholic Worker - entering together into a praxis of reflection, action, reflection - is happening Wed., Aug. 5 through Sun., Aug. 9. The retreat will include reflections on two films - ORIGINAL CHILD BOMB, a documentary based on Thomas Merton's book by the same title, and ON PAPER WINGS, a documentary about
Contact the Jonah House at 410-233-6238 or disarmnow@verizon.net or DDCW at 202-882-9648 or artlaffin at hotmail.com. Go to http://www.jonahhouse.org.
58] – The Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore hosts an End the War! End the Occupation! rally on Thurs., Sept. 3 from 5 to 6:30 PM in
59] – Save the date. On Fri., Sept. 11, the Peace Path will form on
60] – David Swanson's new book DAYBREAK: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming A More Perfect
61] – I bought two red maple trees for $10 each as part of the Trees for
62] – A progressive-thinking realtor is indicating that people of modest incomes can get assistance from both the state and federal governments in purchasing a home. If you are interested in speaking with him about available programs, call Max at 410-366-1637.
63] – Brendan.Walls, who volunteers as a community outreach worker at the Hezekiah Movement, down by the
Paul Kawika Martin from Peace Action is trying to find a job for Brittany Gregory, a college student who is doing an internship with the peace group. Again if you have any leads, contact Paul at 301-565-4050 x 316 or pmartin at peace-action.org.
64] – Larry Egbert and Nick Sheridan are in
65] – 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.
66] – WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER signs from Friends Committee on National Legislation are again for sale at $5. To purchase a sign, call Max at 410-366-1637.
67] – Publish Your Peace Article. Daniel Frasier is soliciting peace articles for the biweekly series of commentaries Paths to Peace in the Frederick News Post Religion and Ethics section. For details, email path2peace07@yahoo.com.
68] – Become an active member of the
69] – The Hunger Site was initiated by Mercy Corps and Second Harvest, and is funded entirely by advertisers. You can go there every day and click the big yellow "Give Food for Free" button near the top of the page; you do not have to look at the ads. Each click generates funding for about 1.1 cups of food. So consider clicking.
70] – 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.
"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
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