51] Rent Party – July 31
52] ReThink the Leaf – July 31
53] Sustainable Seafood – July 31
54] Get on Bridge for peace – July 31
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56] Revolution Immortalized – July 31
57] Red Emma's Meeting – July 31
58] Pentagon Vigil – Aug. 1
59] Protest the death penalty – Aug. 1
60] Marc Steiner on WEAA – Aug. 1 – Aug. 4
61] DC CISPES Reportback – Aug. 1
62] Pledge meeting – Aug. 1
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65] Raise funds to fight cancer – through Aug. 21
66] Sign up with
67] Fund Our Communities campaign
68] Submit articles to Indypendent Reader
69] Donate books, videos, DVDs and records
70] Join Global Zero campaign
71] War Is Not the Answer signs for sale
72] Publish your peace article
73] Click on The Hunger Site
74] Fire & Faith
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51] – There is an Old Fashioned Rent Party for Asantewaa Nkrumah-Ture on Sat., July 30 at 6 PM at 4614 Central Ave. NE, WDC 20019 [1 ½ blocks east from Benning Rd. Metro Blue Line]. Long time community organizer and fighter for justice, Sister Asantewaa has recently been faced with severe financial challenges due to being laid off from work. Her close friends and comrades, Rick and Michele Tingling-Clemmons are inviting you to their home for food, music, videos, great conversation and fun . . . all for a worthy cause! RSVP at 202-388-1111.
52] – ReThink the Leaf is a benefit and silent auction with the proceeds going to NORML Women's
53] – Sustainable Seafood is the Summer Sunday Discussion on Sun., July 31 from 10
54] – Maryland Bridges for Peace welcomes you to stand for peace Sundays from noon (or thereabouts) to 1 PM on the
55] – Every Sunday, 4 to 5 PM, there is a Quaker Peace Vigil at Independence Mall, N. side of Market between 5th and 6th Sts.,
56] – Revolution Immortalized
57] – Red Emma's needs volunteers. Stop in to the weekly Sunday meeting at 7 PM at
58] – 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., Aug, 1, and it is sponsored by the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker. Call 202-882-9649.
59] – 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 Super Max Prison, at the corner of Madison Ave. and Fallsway in
60] – The Marc Steiner Show airs Monday through Thursday from 5 to 7 PM on WEAA 88.9 FM, The Voice of the Community, or online at www.weaa.org. The call-in number is 410-319-8888, and comments can also be sent by email to steinershow@gmail.com. All shows are also available as podcasts at www.steinershow.org.
61] – On Mon., Aug, 1, from 7 to 10 PM, you are invited to the DC CISPES Reportback at
62] – The Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore usually meets on Mondays at 7
63] – Participate in Baltimore's Hiroshima commemoration on Sat., Aug. 6 at Homewood Friends Meetinghouse, 3107 N. Charles St., beginning at 4
64] – Participate in Baltimore's Nagasaki commemoration on Tues., Aug. 9 from 5 to 6 PM at 34th & N. Charles Sts. with a vigil against the weapons contracts of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory--$846 million in FY 2010. At 6
65] – Susan Ingram is in training for the Iron Girl Columbia Triathlon set for Aug. 21 at Centennial Lake in Columbia. She is doing the race to help me recuperate and get back in shape after suffering a broken right arm/shoulder in January. She has registered to raise funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and is racing in honor of her mom and dad, Tom and Margaret Ingram. Both of my parents fought cancer. Mom survived. Dad did not. Susan is blogging at her newspaper
66] – The
67] – Fund Our Communities campaign – is a new grass roots movement to get support from local organizations and communities to work together with their local and state elected officials to pressure Congresspersons and senators to join with Congresspersons Barney Frank and Ron Paul, who have endorsed a 25% cut to the federal military budget. Bring home the savings to state and county governments to meet the local needs which are under tremendous budget pressures. Go to www.OurFunds.org.
68] – The new Indypendent Reader is seeking articles for its web site at http://www.indyreader.org. Submit an article.
69] – If you would like to get rid of books, videos, DVDs or records, contact Max at 410-366-1637 or mobuszewski at verizon.net.
70] – Join an extraordinary global campaign for the elimination of nuclear weapons
71] – 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.
72] – 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.
73] – 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.
74] – Go online for FIRE AND FAITH: The Catonsville Nine File. On May 17, 1968, nine people entered the Selective Service Offices in
75] – 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.
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