Calendar - Part 2

15] Hiroshima Day demo at Lockheed Martin – Aug. 6

16] WIB Frederick vigil – Aug. 6

17] White House vigil – Aug. 6       

18] WIB Inner Harbor vigil – Aug. 6

19] WIB Roland Park vigil – Aug. 6    

20] Justice for Palestine/Israel vigil – Aug. 6

21] Hiroshima-Nagasaki commemorations – Aug. 6 & 9

22] Homewood vigil – Aug. 6

23] Vigil at Walter Reed – Aug. 6

24] Film WHITE LIGHT, BLACK RAIN – Aug. 6

25] Ballroom dancing – Aug. 6

26] W. Baltimore Farmers Market – Aug. 7

27] Anti-torture meeting – Aug. 7

28] Olney vigil to end the war – Aug. 7                           

29] Peace vigil in Chester, PA – Aug. 7

30] Crisis of Global Capitalism – Aug. 7 & 8

31] Peace vigil at Capitol – Aug. 7

32] Report back from U.S. Social Forum – Aug. 7

33] Gimme Shelter – Aug. 7

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15] – On  Fri., Aug. 6 from 8 AM to noon, join a Hiroshima Day demonstration at Lockheed Martin, Goddard Boulevard off Mall Boulevard, Valley Forge, PA. (behind the King of Prussia Mall and across from the United Artist King of Prussia movieplex).  Join the cry for peace from Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Peace…Abolish Nuclear Weapons!  Commemorate the 65th Anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by vigiling and tolling a bell for peace.  Those risking arrest should call the Brandywine Peace Community at 610-544-1818.  At 11 AM, there will be an on-site meeting for those risking arrest.    

 

16] – WIB holds a silent vigil mourning all violence, the first Friday of the month.  The next vigil is Aug. 6 from 12 noon to 12:30 PM, War Memorial Park, intersection of W. 2nd & N. Bentz Sts. in Frederick.  Please dress in black; no additional signs.  Call 301-834-7581 or email wibfrederick@mizmail.com.

 

17] – A peace vigil takes place every Friday from noon to 1 PM at Lafayette Park facing the White House.  Join the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker and friends. Contact Art Laffin: artlaffin@hotmail.com.   

18] – Every Friday from noon to 1 PM, Women in Black, Baltimore, host a vigil at Pratt and Light Sts. in the Inner Harbor. Peace signs and flyers about the siege will be available. See http://www.peacepath911.com/ or write wibbaltimore@hotmail.com or call 410-467-9114

19] – There is also a noon vigil, weather permitting, on Fri., Aug. 6 at Roland Park Place at 830 W. 40th St.  Call 410-467-9114.

20] – A vigil for Justice in Palestine/Israel (now in its 8th year) takes place every Friday from noon to 1 PM at 19th & JFK Blvd., Philadelphia (across from Israeli Consulate.  It is sponsored by Bubbies & Zaydes (Grandparents) for Peace in the Middle East. Email cswartz@pil.net. Go to http://phillyjewishpeace.org/.

21] – Participate in Baltimore’s annual Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemorations.  For the 26th year, the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee and Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility will remember the atomic bombings of Japan on August 6 & 9, 1945, which killed more than 200,000 people. 

 

Join us for the HIROSHIMA COMMEMORATION on Friday, Aug. 6 at 34th & N. Charles Sts. from 5 to 6 PM for a vigil against the weapons contracts of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory--$620 million in FY 2007. At 6:15 PM, march to the Bufano Sculpture Garden on the Home wood campus for a remembrance ceremony. Dr. Margaret Flowers and others will perform music.  Dave Eberhardt will read his poetry; anti-nuke activists will read from John Hersey’s HIROSHIMA and do a rendition of a Japanese survivor’s account.  Afterwards, we will have dinner at a nearby Japanese restaurant.

 

The NAGASAKI COMMEMORATION will be on Mon., Aug. 9 at Homewood Friends Meeting, 3107 N. Charles St. Doors will open at 7 PM.  At 7:15 PM, Dr. Margaret Flowers et al. will engage the audience with music. At 7:30 PM Kathleen Hellen and Robin Gould will read poetry. At 8 PM, Dr. Art Milholland will do a presentation: "Hiroshima -- Yesterday and Today.” At 9 PM, there will be more music and poetry. Contact Max at mobuszewski at verizon.net or 410-366-1637.

 

22] – Generally, there is a silent vigil on Fri., Aug. 6 from 5 to 6 PM outside of Homewood Friends Meeting, 3107 N. Charles St., in opposition to war in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. Placards say: "War Is Not the Answer." The silent vigil is sponsored by AFSC, Homewood Friends and Stony Run Meetings.  On Hiroshima Day, though, the vigil will be at 34th & Charles Sts.

 

23] – 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. The vigil calls for peace, care for the wounded, and full benefits for all veterans.  Contact Bruce Wolf - Haunteddog@aol.com.

 

24] – On Fri., July 2 watch WHITE LIGHT.BLACK RAIN  [2007], which is being shown as part of the "JUST-REEL” First Friday Free Film Series at the Peace Center of Delaware County, 7 PM, 1001 Old Sproul Road, Springfield, Delaware County, PA. The evening will include light refreshments and an after-film discussion. It is co-sponsored by the Brandywine Peace Community. Call 610-544-1818. Go to www.delcopeacecenter.org.

 

The film is about the Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki presents an unblinking look at the first time nuclear weapons were used in war, August 6 - 9, 1945.  The film features interviews with fourteen atomic bomb survivors (known as Hibakusha), many who had never spoken publicly before, and four Americans intimately involved in the bombings. Survivors (85% of victims were civilians) not vaporized during the attacks (140,000 died in Hiroshima, 70,000 in Nagasaki) continued to suffer from burns, infection, radiation sickness and cancer (another 160,000 deaths). As Sakue Shimohira, 8 years old at the time, says of the moment she considered killing herself after losing the last member of her family: "I realized there are two kinds of courage -- the courage to die and the courage to live."

 

25] –  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 San Martin Dr. from the intersection of Univ. Parkway and 39th St.  Drive on campus by taking the third left turn. The next dance will be Aug. 6. Call Dave Greene at 410-599-3725.

26] – Citizens Planning and Housing Association is urging you to shop at the W. Baltimore Farmer's Market on Sat., Aug. 7 from 8 AM to noon and every Saturday through Nov. 20. The market is located at the West Baltimore MARC train station parking lot (400 block of Smallwood St. between Franklin and Mulberry). CPHA provides technical assistance to WBMTTI. Call 410-539-1369 or email info@cphabaltimore.org.

 

27] – On Saturday morning, Aug. 7, the Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture will have a reorganization meeting for two hours at the home of Jean Athey in Brookeville, MD.  WRRCAT's new chairperson, Moya Atkinson, will facilitate the meeting to discuss plans for the future. If you would like to attend, contact Moya at moyaatk@yahoo.com.  .

28] – 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 Aug. 7. Call Chuck Harker at 301-570-7167. 

29] –  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. Go to www.ccpeace.org. Email ccpeacemovement@aol.com.

 

30] –  Fault Lines and Subduction Zones The Slow Motion Crisis of Global Capitalism is an autonomous research seminar co-organized by Brian Holmes, the Baltimore Free School, and the Baltimore Development Cooperative from 11 AM to 6 PM on Sat., Aug. 7 and Sun., Aug. 8 at the Baltimore Free School, 1323 N. Calvert St. Email john@redemmas.org. Go to http://occupyeverything.com/features/fault-lines-subduction-zones/ or

http://faultlines.redemmas.org/.

 

31] – On Sat., Aug. 7 from 11 AM to 3 PM at the Plymouth Congregational UCC, 5301 N Capitol St. NE, WDC 20011-2495 (Fort Totten Metro), hear from folks who attended the US Social Forum in Detroit. Help develop an action plan for the Metro DC area.

 

32] – There will be a peace vigil on the West Lawn of the Capitol at noon on Aug. 7. 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.

 

33] – Gimme Shelter Productions continues to do consciousness/fundraising events about the plight of the homeless and for the shelters that serve them. On Sat., Aug. 7 at 5 PM, there will be a night of poetry and music featuring Alan Barysh, Ron Williams, Heather Joi Baker, In the Clear, Jasaga and Brian Baker.  Attendees are asked to make a five-dollar donation. The event will take place at Minas Gallery, 815 W. 36^th St. Call 443-869-4515. Go to www.awareandoutraged.wordpress.com.  Donations of non-perishable foods, packets of seeds and pedialite will be gladly accepted.

 

To be continued.

 

Donations can be sent to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD 21218.  Ph: 410-366-1637; Email: mobuszewski [at] verizon.net

 

"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and everything to lose--especially their lives." Eugene Victor Debs